Kelly's legacy remains divided. On one side, he is remembered as a journalist who "stood for truth, and died for his beliefs." But he has been criticized for his vocal support for the invasion of Iraq, now widely seen as a failure partially attributed to a press that was not critical enough. Combined as it was with his support of Stephen Glass during his scandal, Gawker editor Tom Scocca said that Kelly had the "distinction of an active role in two of the worst failures of journalism in a generation." As Scocca said, "It's not simply that Kelly was wrong, nor that he was wrong about important things. It's that he was aggressively, manipulatively, and smugly wrong."