5/28/2023 0 Comments Erick erickson twitter![]() ![]() The screener told the caller that she wasn’t to going to put him on the air. “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. Trump’s followers, meanwhile, singled out Erickson with attacks that have yet to cease: Twitter trolling, public condemnation, death threats. Liberal commentators called out Erickson for hypocrisy, pointing to sexist comments of his own. 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.” He disinvited Trump from the influential RedState Gathering, a forum for conservative power brokers. ![]() In a 2008 blog post, he dubbed Michelle Obama a “ Marxist harpy.” In a 2009 tweet, he called the retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter “ a goat fucking child molester.” Later that year, Erickson argued that President Obama won the Nobel Prize because of an “ affirmative action quota.” The 2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Texas, Wendy Davis, was, in due time, “ Abortion Barbie.” He became the editor-in-chief of the influential conservative blog RedState in 2006, a position he held for nearly a decade. 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,” has made a career of online provocation. ![]()
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