Conservative Denise McAllister fired from The Federalist after attacking gay journalist

Domenech is married to Meghan McCain, with whom McAllister tussled via Twitter last week resulting in McCain’s much-cited retort: “You were at my wedding Denise.”

Hours before her firing, McAllister, 52, incited vigorous backlash with a flurry of tweets focused on Yashar Ali, a journalist who last week accused the managing editor of politics for NBC and MSNBC, Dafna Linzer, of trying “to bully me on behalf of the” Democratic National Committee. Specifically those tweets focused on the fact that Ali is gay.

“A gay man commenting on a heterosexual relationship is just. Sad. Pathetic really,” she said in one tweet late Saturday that has since been deleted.

“I think @yashar has a crush on me. Maybe I’m making him doubt his love of penis,” she said in another.

“Oh so sad. @yashar is lost. He doesn’t know his purpose as a man. He doesn’t know his purpose as a human being. He doesn’t know his purpose as an Individual. So he wallows and tries to find himself in another man’s asshole. Sad,” she added.

Ali shared screen shot of McAllister’s “lost” tweet and explained how he is proud of who he is in the face of bullying.

“I was bullied for being Iranian as a kid. But I never felt ashamed of my ethnicity. I came out on 8/17/2001 & while it hasn’t always been easy, I have always been proud of who I am. I’m Iranian, gay, and Catholic. Perhaps an odd combo, but I wouldn’t change who I am for the world,” he said.

McAllister faced a torrent of backlash, including from fellow conservatives.

“Oh my. I criticized ONE gay dude because he attacked me and my respect for real masculinity. Burn me at the stake. I’m quivering. And laughing at all of you,” she said in a deleted tweet.

She also went after fellow conservative S.E. Cupp.

“Define rageful homophobe, SE,” she said in response to one of S.E. Cupp’s criticisms of her tweets.

“Consider this @secupp A gay man criticizes my relationship with my husband in which I honor his masculine space, but no one criticizes the gay guy’s bigotry toward me. I counter his lack of self awareness in the context of his own sexuality yet I’m the bigot. Please explain,” she said in another deleted tweet.

In one of her tweets, McAllister said she was lashing out because of Ali’s tweets about her and her husband.

Ali had reacted to McAllister’s days-old tweet about how her husband treats her.

Acknowledging that she was booted from The Federalist and apparently The Daily Wire – edited by Ben Shapiro – McAllister railed against what she said was a double-standard that led to her being “fired.”

“The minute Ben Shapiro DMed me that I was no longer welcome bc I had criticized a gay man the way I did despite the times I’ve been threatened for standing for conservative principles, the right of women to vote contrary to the feminist herd, and support of masculinity, I quit,” she said in a deleted tweet.

“You either care about your brand. Or you care about principles, morality, and truth. Choose. God will judge,” she said in one last tweet that was deleted.

Last week, McAllister got into a exchange with Domenech’s wife Meghan McCain, co-host of “The View” and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain. McCain’s “clap back” went viral, leading to lots of people getting in on the sly comeback.

“Can someone explain to me the purpose of The View?” McAllister said in a tweet Monday along with an article about the show with a photo of McCain. “It seems to me to be a roundtable of delusional mental midgets ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation.”

In a rejoinder that went viral, McCain said: “You were at my wedding Denise….” McCain and Domenech got married in November 2017.

Reacting to all the social media attention, McCain said the line was her “gift to the Internet.”

In a response to McCain, McAllister argued her comment wasn’t meant to target McCain specifically. “I think the photo on the story made it look like this was personally directed at you, Meghan. My comment was directed at The View and the mental midgets who surround you. I don’t even know how you do it daily and my hat is off to you for standing strong in the midst of crazy,” she said.