Conservative commentator Erick Erickson mocked his former Fox News colleague Greta Van Susteren, a Scientologist, after she criticized him for a comment he made about self-identified feminists.
Wednesday on Twitter, Erickson responded to feminist author Jill Filipovic, who said Republican Karen Handel’s win the previous night in the heated House race in Georgia amounted to “vindictive voters willing to elect hateful bigots.”
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“Another reminder that feminists tend to be angry women jealous at other women’s successes,” Erickson wrote in response to Filipovic.
Van Susteren, who now has a show at MSNBC, shared Erickson’s tweet and said, “What is wrong with Erick Erickson?! This is not his first awful comment about women. (At Fox I did segment about his boorish behavior.)”
In a separate reply, Erickson mocked Van Susteren as a well-known member of the Church of Scientology.
“Uh-oh, someone is going to sic Xenu on me,” he said in a tweet, referring to an extraterrestrial figure found in Scientology teachings.
The Washington Examiner has requested comment from Van Susteren.
