'I regret nothing I said': Milo Yiannopoulos defends call to shoot journalists as a 'joke' ...

[DonViejo]

‘I regret nothing I said’: Milo Yiannopoulos defends call to shoot journalists as a ‘joke’ — then doubles down on ‘vermin’ reporters

Milo Yiannopoulos
2 hrs ·

You’re about to see a raft of news stories claiming that I am responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists. The bodies are barely cold and left-wing journalists are already exploiting these deaths to score political points against me. It’s disgusting. I regret nothing I said, though of course like any normal person I am saddened to hear of needless death.

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, “Fuck off.” They then published it. 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.

Headlines soon appeared claiming that I was “inciting” people to murder journalists. This is wholly false. The only people whipping up hysteria about killing reporters this week were Will Sommer at the Daily Beast and Davis Richardson at the New York Observer.

If there turns out to be any dimension to this crime related to my private, misreported remarks, the responsibility for that lies squarely and wholly with the Beast and the Observer for drumming up fake hysteria about a private joke, and with the verified liberals who pretended they thought I was serious.

It is a demonstrable fact that the Open Society Foundation and other wealthy left-wing organizations have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (maybe it’s millions!) disrupting my talks, beating up my audiences and spreading malicious rumors about me. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this shooter — just like the last one at YouTube — is another demented left-winger. Let’s hope it’s another transgender shooter, too, so the casualties are minimal.

The Left celebrated the shooting of Scalise and regularly incites violence against Trump supporters. They are secretly delighted by the domestic terrorism of Antifa and they cheer on Maxine Waters when she threatens consequences for Trump administration staff going about their business in public.

I made a private, offhand troll to two hostile reporters, who breathlessly publicized it and like vermin their fellow journalists swarmed to remind the world how much they hate Milo. If the Left was truly horrified by violence against journalists, they would have shown it in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo. As you all know, they didn’t.

P.S. — You guys should decide whether you think I’m “disgraced, irrelevant and over” or “so dangerous I inspire mass shootings.” I can’t be both.

https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/1194490660688827

[radius777]

1. alt-right terrorist, lock him up. /nt

[blueseas]

13. +1001

n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Forgot about that guy. I assumed he was someplace splitting a malted with Oily Taint or something.

[gratuitous]

3. Of course you can be both "over" and "dangerous" Milo

You're not nearly as smart as you fancy yourself, are you?

You put your poison out in the public sphere, knowing that it was likely to seep into the heart of someone particularly susceptible to it in this atmosphere at this time in this country. You got just what you wanted: More dead bodies to gloat over while you denied any culpability for inspiring it. Some people have rightfully fingered you for your involvement in today's shooting, and you would now like to pretend it was a joke. You would like to indulge a whirlwind of whataboutery. You would like - for once - that the focus not be on you.

The blood on your hands is so unbecoming; your denials and rationalizations are truly ugly.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Milo should have stayed under his slimy rock.

Is he shopping around for another book deal? I am sure his "jokes" will really get tons of publishers knocking on his door now.

[unblock]

5. Prosecutors call the the mob boss defense

Hey, I was just joking when I said it would be a shame if this scumbag's restaurant burned down! It's not my fault someone went and did it of their own free will! But I will say the guy deserved it!

[SHRED]

6. Ya...real funny

[struggle4progress]

7. Here's a fun new internet meme: "Shoot Milo Yiannopoulos on sight!"

Isn't that a scream?

Bonus bogus Milo quote: "Stop! You're killing me!"

[CurtEastPoint]

8. I don't believe he's a US citizen. His skinny ass needs to be removed from this country.

[Corgigal]

9. Still pissed he lost his book contract.

He's not physically safe in America right now, and boy does he love himself....only.

[oberliner]

10. The Left celebrated the shooting of Scalise??

Where does he get that one from?

[GoCubsGo]

14. He pulled it out of his ass.

Just like everything else he spews.

[sarcasmo]

11. Trump uses this tactic too, say something stupid then "I was just joking."

[fishwax]

12. poor little Milo, trying to be relevant again

[Baitball Blogger]

15. Note to Milo. You have to be a special kind of stupid to think that private defamatory

or threatening statements to journalists are going to remain private.

[Cha]

16. Rot in your own hell Fucking milo you stupid fucking

shite for brains.

[radius777]

17. can't shout 'fire' in crowded theater

and then say 'kidding', as such an act has real world consequences to real people.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

18. A joke about a bomb when getting on a plane is really hilarious, too nt.

[Mariana]

19. This is how RWers demonstrate personal responsibility for their actions. nt.

[Generic Brad]

20. Couldn't Milos be considered a journalist of sorts?

Just saying.

[Leith]

21. That Whole Screed Was Just More Lies

Nobody is spending millions to attack him. Nobody celebrated when Scalise was shot. The left does not incite violence against chumpy's supporters.

He's Ann Coulter without the penis.