Washington Free Beacon staff writer Elizabeth Harrington appeared on "Fox News @ Night" Wednesday to discuss the use of Hillary Clinton's recent sharp words about Donald Trump voters in a campaign ad and the fracas over Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data harvesting.
Clinton's recent inflammatory remarks in India about 2016 Trump voters, including that they were against black people getting rights or that white women were pressured by their husbands to vote for Trump, led to swift blowback from Democrats, some of whom expressed desire for her to exit public life.
Among the vulnerable red-state Democrats to condemn the comments was Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.), who called Clinton's comments "fighting words." However, she found herself the subject of a recent attack ad from GOP candidate Josh Hawley, using Clinton's words and McCaskill's endorsement of Clinton for president against her.
Harrington told host Shannon Bream the ad was "very effective" and Clinton was fair game for Republicans as long as she continued to not let go of the 2016 election.
"It's smart for Hawley to try to connect Mccaskill to these Hillary comments, because they are attacking her voters directly," Harrington said. "It's so insulting. it's not just you're deplorable, you're irredeemable, you're also a racist, a bigot, a homophobe. You didn't contribute enough to GDP. This isn't exactly a winning message for Democrats in 2018 ... If Hillary won't go away, they should never stop bringing her up, because it's a good weapon for them."
Earlier in the program, the panel also broke down the news about the pro-Trump firm Cambridge Analytica's harvesting of 50 million Facebook accounts' data and the subsequent deluge of criticism on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Harrington wrote a piece Thursday describing similar practices by the Barack Obama campaign in 2012 that received adulation from the media for its technical savviness.
Harrington said it was humorous to see the criticism of a liberal figure like Zuckerberg from entities who aren't able to process the 2016 election result.
"It's so hypocritical and a double standard," she said.