Meghan McCain's pundit husband apologizes for calling Seth Myers an 'untalented piece of s**t' in a furious Twitter rant after comedian's tense interview with his wife
- Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, made the remarks early Wednesday
- Domenench deleted his tweets and posted an apology hours later
- 'I love my wife,' he said in the tweet. 'I apologize for rage tweeting about how Seth Meyers treated her. I don't like him, I think he's a hack'
- He raged on Twitter at NBC late night host Seth Meyers over interview with wife
- The View co-host Meghan McCain appeared on Meyers' show on Tuesday night
- Meyers grilled McCain for remarks accusing Rep. Ilhan Omar of 'anti-Semitism'
Meghan McCain's husband has apologized for 'rage tweeting' at Seth Meyers after the comedian's uncomfortable interview with his wife.
Pundit Ben Domenech branded the Saturday Night Live alumni an 'unfunny cuck' and 'untalented piece of s**t' in a series of angry tweets after Meyer's interview with McCain aired on Tuesday.
Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, deleted the angry tweets a few hours later, and has since posted an apology tweet.
'I love my wife,' he said in the apology on Wednesday. 'I apologize for rage tweeting about how Seth Meyers treated her. I don't like him, I think he's a hack, but I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry to anyone I offended.'
The incident unfolded several hours after McCain, co-host of ABC's The View, appeared in the 11-minute interview.
During the interview, Meyers said McCain's criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar as 'anti-Semetic' was 'dangerous' and put the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota at risk of death threats.
McCain, co-host of ABC's The View, appeared in an 11-minute interview on Meyers' show on Tuesday night, which turned uncomfortable when he grilled her on criticism of Ilhan Omar
Ben Domenech, seen above with wife Meghan McCain, tore into Meyers on Twitter in a foul-mouthed tirade, which he quickly deleted and apologized for
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Hours later, Domenech unloaded on Twitter with a homophobic trope: 'I see that @sethmeyers, the untalented piece of s**t who only has his job because he regularly gargled Lorne Michaels' balls, went after my wife tonight with his idiotic anti-Semitic bulls**t.'
'Seth is an awful person who is known in the industry for how terrible he is. He is a monumental a**hole who is utterly unfunny. He deserves the mockery he receives from all the people who laugh at him,' Domenech said in another tweet, according to the Daily Beast, which took screenshots before they were deleted.
He continued: 'Here is proof that white men get ahead despite their obvious lack of talent. It's @sethmeyers, who would beg for a third of the viewers at @TheView. He's awful, untalented, and a perfect definition of a cuck.'
'Cuck,' a reference to cuckoldry, is an insult that originated among hardliner right-wing circles, who accused moderates of being 'cuckservatives,' but has seeped into broader usage as a term to disparage men as weak and spineless.
Domenech went on: 'But the best thing is how much all the people around @sethmeyers talk about what a sh***y person he is. Because oh, it is sad. So terrible, But he deserves all of it.'
During Meyers' interview with McCain, he brought up McCain's commentary following the synagogue shooting at the Poway, California that left one dead last month.
McCain had referred to Omar's controversial prior tweets, saying that both Democrats and Republicans have to tackle anti-Semitism within their own parties.
When Meyers asked if there is a way to criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic, McCain advised against talking about 'Jews hypnotizing the world' and saying U.S. foreign policy is 'all about the Benjamins', in reference to Omar's remarks.
'You do keep bringing up the two tweets she apologized for,' Meyers told McCain, 'and I think it's a little unfair to her, especially because...'
'Are you her publicist?' McCain shot back. 'Are you her press person?'
Meyers accused McCain of putting Omar (above) in danger by criticizing the congresswoman's remarks on Israel and accusing her of 'anti-Semitism'
'No,' replied Meyers. 'I'm just someone who cares about the fact that there's someone out there who is in a minority, who has had death threats against her, and I think we should all use the same language that you're asking her to be careful about her language. And I would ask that everyone be careful about theirs.'
For Domenech's publication The Federalist, senior editor David Harsanyi published a more nuanced rebuttal to Meyers on Wednesday.
'McCain condemned Omar’s words. She didn’t concoct a smear,' Harsanyi argued.
He called Meyers' argument that Omar should be given a pass from criticism because she is Muslim and has received death threats 'a transparent tactic to chill speech.'
'The idea that McCain put her in danger, as Meyers suggested, is just a way to try and shut people up,' he wrote.
