Justin Miller, a senior editor at the Daily Beast, apologized on Tuesday for tweeting “fuck you” to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
“Today I am getting my booster vaccine,” Paul tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “Wonder how the liberal media will misreport this.”
“Fuck you,” Miller shot back.
A spokesperson for Paul told Politico that the remark was “completely unacceptable for a journalist to be tweeting these type of comments.”
Miller later apologized in an email to the site.
“I replied from my personal account to what I felt was spin after Senator Paul said factually incorrect things about vaccines,” he said. “It would’ve been better to respond with facts than an obscenity, and I deleted the tweet so it wouldn’t reflect on the Beast. I’m sorry for the insult.”
Miller may have deleted the tweet, but he has a history of using that particular construction liberally on Twitter. In October, he retweeted a story about protestors in Ferguson, Mo. burning a flag, adding “fuck them.”
He also once tweeted about then-Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), saying “fuck him.”
Below is an incomplete list of Miller’s variations on the theme:
fuck them RT @katz: “Burn, baby, burn” chanted as American flags set afire in STL http://t.co/zJkx7qqRBv pic.twitter.com/xQGbRqFOQJ
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) October 14, 2014
Fuck these kids RT @AFP: Children wearing masks participate in a annual Halloween party in central Pristina pic.twitter.com/Xo6vt4UPwe
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) October 31, 2013
Fuck him MT @rebeccagberg: Eric Cantor: “I think this town should be about finding common ground.”
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) June 11, 2014
Fuck the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner http://t.co/QCBCWnuMIN
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 26, 2013
Fuck this industry RT @BoingBoing: pic.twitter.com/IHBBY7WAuh
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) August 12, 2014
RT to fuck terrorism http://t.co/7SHjMeJ0iD pic.twitter.com/TSMMnxz0Ya
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) January 7, 2015
Fuck, it’s nice outside
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) July 25, 2014