GOP consultant Rick Wilson has been in a flame war with Breitbart.com recently over the website’s editorial support for GOP candidate Donald Trump. The battle got so ugly that Wilson eventually alleged he received rape threats towards his daughter.
The most recent feud took off after Wilson said on CNN that approximately 25% of Republicans were “low information voters,” to which, Breitbart wrote a response suggesting that antagonizing such voters is not how the GOP could win elections. In the midst of questions regarding whether Wilson sought the advice of the police and whether putting this notice online was a good idea, Wilson went on a blistering Twitter rant, blaming the conservative news site for the threats of its readers and defenders:
Wilson later took the tweets down and conceded that Breitbart’s John Nolte wasn’t responsible for his trollish readers:
And on Tuesday, Wilson went on the offensive again after Ann Coulter tweeted the initial story and called his “meltdown” over the rape accusations “hilarious”:
Hilarious public meltdown: THEY'RE THREATENING TO RAPE MY DAUGHTER! http://t.co/rTYn8QRDgW #RickWilsonIsAGirlInAPinkPartyDress
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 18, 2015
Needless to say, Wilson did not take that well:
@AnnCoulter Does Trump pay you more for anal?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 18, 2015
Coulter later told Breitbart that Wilson’s only remaining way forward would be to “[use] the Anthony Weiner ‘MY TWITTER ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED!’ defense.”
UPDATE – 6:56 PM E.S.T Wilson took to Twitter later in the day to express his regret for his tweet to Coulter. He apologized while saying that he failed to hold himself to his own standards, and that his comment was a combination of parental anger and his reaction to the vitriol:
1/ In the course of today, and in response to an vile tweet from @AnnCoulter, I failed to maintain the standards I set for myself.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 18, 2015
2/ I tweeted a reply based on parental anger, and with vitriol that made the already ugly divisions on Twitter uglier. I reduced myself to
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 18, 2015
3/ by dropping to her level. My comment was shocking to many of you, and for that I offer a sincere apology.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 18, 2015
4/ I'm more sorry for the people this impacted in my family, and my circle of friends.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 18, 2015
[h/t Breitbart]
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