Posted on 06/28/2018 4:03:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“You’re about to see a raft of news stories claiming that I am responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists,” Yiannopoulos wrote in a Facebook post. “The truth, as always, is the opposite of what the media tells you.”
“I sent a troll about 'vigilante death squads' as a *private* response to a few hostile journalists who were asking me for comment, basically as a way of saying, 'F---k off.' They then published it,” he continued. “Amazed they were pretending to take my joke as a 'threat,' I reposted these stories on Instagram to mock them – and to make it clear that I wasn’t being serious.”
Yiannopoulos's comments Thursday came shortly after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md., leaving at least five people dead and several others seriously injured. Authorities have taken a suspect into custody, but have not yet released an identity or motive.
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Yeah...Milo says lots of stupid things. It’s his right.
There’s no way to explain his way out of that comment though.
Now....(I’m one to talk...especially after a few adult beverages, but)....maybe think a little bit before it all comes spewing out next time.
It still wouldn’t be his fault.
Pray for him.
Be careful what you troll for. It might come true.
He seems to have a knack for stepping in it.
I really don’t care one whit about this. The media, mostly, are scumbags.
One of the reasons I “unfriended” him - along with endless shots of him posing like a pretty girl.
They were not pretending. Leftists do not understand even humorous jokes from conservatives, and your joke was not funny. The MSM response was easily predictable.
Milo, you should have learned not to step into these holes.
None of these young people respect privacy. It is amazing to see private conversations all over the place. What the heck drugs are they giving them ?
Exactly - he was our Millennial connection...now not so much.
I’ve read tweets where Trump called for people to attack reporters. Luckily, people responded that he called it fake news. Amazed at the amount of support Trump’s getting on Twitter today. I think people are starting to realize how messed up the anti-Trumpers are.
He likes the attention
Put the pearls down
There are a lot of lie packed into this article. I wonder why he has such a antagonistic relationship with journalists.
Milo is being systematically destroyed by the left. He’s an Extrovert, so he tends to shoot from the lip (or in this case, the keyboard), and there’s no doubt he should be more careful about what he says. However, he wouldn’t have to be if the left weren’t engaged in an all-out effort to gag, smother, and otherwise suppress free speech by the right. Leftists can say anything they want—and unlike Milo, they mean every word—and there are no repercussions. But Milo, a conservative gay Catholic of Jewish descent who’s married to a black man and is a huge supporter of President Trump, violates many of the left’s stereotypes, and is extremely effective at reaching young people with his conservative, free-speech message. He must therefore be destroyed, and the left is engaged it in full-time.
Let’s not help them. In fact, I think we should be defending him.
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