VF Distances Itself From Eichenwald After He Rips Parkland Student

Vanity Fair distanced itself from journalist Kurt Eichenwald on Tuesday after he called a Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor and gun control opponent "desperate" and "in need of psychiatric help."

In emails to conservative commentator and radio host Ben Shapiro, Eichenwald criticized student Kyle Kashuv — and then tried to determine if Shapiro was using Kashuv to "advance an agenda" regarding Fox News host Laura Ingraham, whose criticism of Parkland survivor David Hogg triggered a boycott.

Shapiro posted the back-and-forth with Eichenwald on Twitter, where the editor of the "The Daily Wire" has 1.29 million followers.

But it was Eichenwald's description of himself as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair that caught the magazine's attention.

Eichenwald has not appeared on the magazine's masthead for more than a year, with his last piece for the publication running online in 2014, The Hill reported, citing an unnamed source.

"Kurt Eichenwald is not a contributing editor at Vanity Fair," a spokesperson for the magazine told The Hill.

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