Conservative Websites Fire Writer Denise McAllister After Homophobic Twitter Rant on Gay Journalist

Two right-wing websites have cut ties with conservative writer Denise McAllister after she went on a homophobic tirade on Twitter against a gay journalist, The Huffington Post reports.

The Federalist and The Daily Wire will no longer be working with McAllister after she targeted Yashar Ali, who writes for New York magazine and The Huffington Post.

The moment came when Ali, who is openly gay, commented on McAllister's tweet, which reads: "Trying to talk to my husband while Carolina is playing. He looks at me and says, 'Woman, you know better than this. The game is on.' He's right. I slipped. Commercial comes on. I fetch him a beer. He grabs me. Deep kisses. Patience and timing, ladies. That's the lesson."

His response sparked McAllister to go off in a series of problematic tweets.

"I stand up for men being free in their masculinity. Respected for their masculinity. I'm attacked by gay men and their female sidekicks. What do you men think about this?" she wrote. "We live in a society that wants to rob men of their manhood. Are you going to sit by and take it? Or fight?"

"Oh so sad. [Ali] 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."

Ali commented on that tweet with a powerful message about identity.

HuffPo reports that less than an hour after her tweets, Ben Domenech, the editor-in-chief of The Federalist, tweeted that he spoke with McAllister and that she "will not be writing for us at The Federalist any more."

"She wasn't technically fired because she was never on staff," Domenech added to HuffPo in a statement. "We have hundreds of freelance contributors. She won't be one of them going forward."

McAllister then tweeted she was fired from the website because criticized "a gay man who mocked my heterosexual relationship."

Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, told The Washington Post he also contacted McAllister to request that she remove the publication from her Twitter bio due to her tweets, which he said he found "gross" and "self-explanatory beyond the boundaries of decency."

In another deleted tweet, McAllister claimed she quit The Daily Wire but Shapiro told The Post she was never an employee and only contributed to articles over the years. He also told HuffPo in an email that The Daily Wire has "no plans" for McAllister to write for the publication.

McAllister finally apologized in a tweet.

McAllister became a Twitter meme last week when Meghan McCain, who is married to The Federalist's Domenech, clapped back at her. McAllister posted an article criticizing "The View," the talk show McCain cohosts, which featured a photo of McCain.

"It seems to me to be a roundtable of delusional mental midgets ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation," McAllister said of "The View."

"You were at my wedding, Denise..." McCain responded, earning nearly 25,000 likes.

McAllister wrote back to McCain: "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."