Kurt Eichenwald Says He’s No Longer With MSNBC After Kyle Kashuv Calls For Network Boycott

The big media story this week has been Parkland survivor David Hogg’s call for advertisers of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program to pull out after Ingraham publicly mocked the 17-year-old for getting rejected by colleges. While Ingraham apologized for the remarks, Hogg has rejected her apology and continued the push for a boycott, leading to numerous companies pulling their ads from Ingraham’s show.

In that vein, fellow Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor Kyle Kashuv — whose views on gun control run contrary to Hogg and other outspoken students — took issue with what he felt was a personal attack by writer Kurt Eichenwald. And Kashuv decided that what was good for the goose was good for the gander, and called for a boycott of MSNBC over Eichenwald’s tweets.

MSNBC and @kurteichenwald feels it’s okay to attack Parkland survivors. As we know, that calls for a boycott! @smiledirectclub@jeep@proactiv@officedepot@cadillac@trivago@sleepnumber@omahasteaks pic.twitter.com/IIybDEzuRs

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 30, 2018

Kashuv called on the MSNBC boycott because Eichenwald noted he was an MSNBC contributor in his Twitter profile. After Kashuv tagged some of the network’s advertisers and claimed MSNBC felt it was OK to attack survivors, Eichenwald tweeted out a lengthy apology in which he claimed he meant to go after someone else during the original tweet thread. He also revealed he is no longer with MSNBC after others like Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro jumped on board the call for a boycott.

I owe an apology to @KyleKashuv. I have no idea how many times I have commented to him. There is a high school kid who has a podcast who keeps challenging me to debates with insults. I mixed up their names. Please ignore every tweet Ive sent. They were written for someone else.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

…for those of you calling me a liar. Go down my feed. You will find this back and forth after I said I wanted to debate a conservative who complained no one would debate him, provided it was not just invective and straw men. 100s of people came on saying I should debate….

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

…this kid whose name I don’t remember. Apparently, he has a large fan base. The kid’s entire feed was “libtard” and other name calling, and when he came on board, he started name calling. I told him this was not debate, and that he was showing himself not to be mature enough…

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

…to meet the challenge of no invective.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

For those – like @benshapiro – who are taking my entire situation with @KyleKashuv to push a lie (I thought he was someone else) – stop going after @MSNBC. My contributor contact with them expired more than a month ago. Not with them. Need to edit my profile.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed to Mediaite that Eichenwald is not associated with MSNBC and he has not been a network contributor since February of this year.

Kashuv did accept Eichenwald’s apology and stated that others should be just as forgiving to Ingraham.

On a more serious note, Kurt: If you made a mistake and you’re truly sorry, apology accepted. We should all be more forgiving — including you (and others) of Laura Ingraham.

When will you and MSNBC do the same for Laura? https://t.co/x8W5mkD85T

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 30, 2018

Eichenwald has had a tough go of it on Twitter of late. Recently, he got into it with The View’s Meghan McCain for criticizing Hogg’s use of profanity. After Eichenwald highlighted that she has #FuckCancer on her Twitter profile, McCain shot back and referenced an embarrassing online moment for Eichenwald.

“Whatever you say, Mr. weirdo tentacle porn,” McCain tweeted.

Oof. Maybe Kurt should take some time off of Twitter.

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