Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

Erick Erickson Is Sorry About Some of the Things He Has Said

Erick Erickson, the right-wing radio host and pundit who made a career of online provocation, is now holding back.
October 29, 2016
Erick Erickson, the forty-one-year-old right-wing radio host and political pundit whom The Atlantic described in 2015 as “the most powerful conservative in America [ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/is-the-most-powerful-conservative-in-america-losing-his-edge/383503/ ],” has made a career of online provocation. He became the editor-in-chief of the influential conservative blog RedState in 2006, a position he held for nearly a decade. In a 2008 blog post, he dubbed Michelle Obama a “Marxist harpy [ http://www.erickerickson.org/blog/2008/03/13/is-obama-shagging-hookers-behind-the-medias-back/ ].” In a 2009 tweet, he called the retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter “a goat fucking child molester [ http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/04/30/redstateorgs-erickson-on-reports-of-justice-sou/149726 ].” Later that year, Erickson argued that President Obama won the Nobel Prize because of an “affirmative action quota [ http://www.redstate.com/diary/Erick/2009/10/09/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/ ].” The 2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Texas, Wendy Davis, was, in due time, “Abortion Barbie [ http://www.redstate.com/erick/2014/10/20/abortion-barbie-wendy-davis-is-a-truly-horrible-person-but-we-already-knew-that/ ].”
Last August, when Donald Trump said that Fox News’s Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” Erickson decided that the comment was “a bridge too far [ http://www.redstate.com/erick/2015/08/07/i-have-disinvited-donald-trump-to-the-redstate-gathering/ ].” He disinvited Trump from the influential RedState Gathering, a forum for conservative power brokers. Liberal commentators called out Erickson for hypocrisy, pointing to sexist comments of his own [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/seth-meyers-calls-out-erick-ericksons-sexist-hypocrisy/ ]. Trump’s followers, meanwhile, singled out Erickson with attacks that have yet to cease: Twitter trolling, public condemnation, death threats.
“The worst came when a guy told my radio call-screener that he was going down to Macon to kill my family while I was on the radio,” Erickson told me recently, at an Atlanta coffee shop, where his khakis and polo shirt stood out among the tattoos and skinny jeans. The screener told the caller that she wasn’t to going to put him on the air. “And he said, ‘Fine. I just want you to let him know that, when he gets home, his family will be dead.’ This was in March. Homeland Security actually got involved. This guy claimed to be a Muslim offended that I was insulting the Prophet Muhammad. But he was a Trump supporter.”
[...]
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/erick-erickson-is-sorry-about-some-of-the-things-he-has-said

---

(linked in):

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126015682 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126087078 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126147539 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126147791 and preceding and following,
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126162954 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126148319 and preceding and following

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126148406 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126148486 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126148667 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126152439 and preceding (and any future following)

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126156288 and preceding and following