Milo ... Threatens to Sue The Observer Over His 'Gun Down Journalists' Threat: 'Your Life is Over'
Source: Mediaite.com
Milo Yiannopoulos is threatening to bring a lawsuit against The Observer after his recent anti-journalism rhetoric was connected to yesterdays deadly attack on the Capital Gazette.
The political provocateur recently drew a lot of attention after he told Observer reporter Davis Richardson that he cant wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight. He took this up a notch when Mediaites Amy Russo asked him to elaborate on his remarks, and he responded by warning that journalists who critique President Trump did this to yourselves, and you deserve whats coming.
When the Capital Gazette came under attack yesterday, there was a great deal of public outcry as people accused Yiannopoulos and others of encouraging violence towards reporters. The firebrand defended himself in a Facebook post, saying he doesnt regret his comments, that it was supposed to be a private joke, and that the media was concocting hysteria over his troll remarks.
Now The Wrap media editor and Mediaite alum Jon Levine has learned that Yiannopoulos is threatening vengeance on The Observer and Richardson over the outrage coming his way.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/milo-yiannopoulos-threatens-to-sue-the-observer-over-his-shoot-journalists-comments-your-life-is-over/
GusBob
(7,286 posts)aint it?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,113 posts)They always make threats and then say "Can't you take a joke" when caught. It doesn't hold water. Only Trumpanzees can't see what they are doing.
Bengus81
(6,944 posts)knightmaar
(748 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 29, 2018, 11:27 AM - Edit history (1)
The left doesn't hunt down and shoot abortion doctors, politicians and journalists the way the right does.
We're civil that way, thank fuck.
RoBear
(1,188 posts)Can't make it track in my head... Should that last "left" be "right"?
knightmaar
(748 posts)Fixed it.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)We've got unhinged people on our "side", as well. Sorry to say.
sinkingfeeling
(51,514 posts)Dulcinea
(6,712 posts)Call the WAHHHHmbulance!
FakeNoose
(33,002 posts)A lot of these lawsuits were started by the orange asshole. He's initiated many of them in retaliation.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)Gotcha.
christx30
(6,241 posts)Maybe he and his ilk can try not saying inflammatory crap, if they dont like being called out for it. Theyre never sorry for saying it.
Botany
(70,697 posts)Milo is just a younger version of Ann Coulter or Bill O'Rielly who sees stirring up
shit as his path to fame and fortune.
marble falls
(57,841 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)marble falls
(57,841 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The Observer-article does not report that Milo claims that his remarks was merely "trolling".
ronatchig
(575 posts)that when I hit a bully in the mouth (in early grade school) the first words out of his mouth were "I was only kiddin". His second were I'll hit u later. He never did. He grew up to be a cop.
Augiedog
(2,552 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,746 posts)And another threat.
rurallib
(62,508 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)We have been dealing with this outright violent rhetoric and offensive, abusive talk for a decade, at least. IT'S TIME. It's time to be a warrior, to quit operating on the "we're the civil side," "we're so polite," and "we play by the rules...they should, too."
C_U_L8R
(45,052 posts)with his tweet rants and bogus lawsuits
Bengus81
(6,944 posts)Wow...Mr Tough GUY,just like his buddy Trump.
Aristus
(66,587 posts)WhiteTara
(29,740 posts)malthaussen
(17,250 posts)Let the sucker rot in well-deserved obscurity.
-- Mal
Glorfindel
(9,756 posts)for threatening American citizens on American soil?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,442 posts)joining the UK Independence Party. Rather than saying "yes", "no" or "no comment", he did the "shoot journalists" bit, and now acts outraged that when they asked him for a quote and he gave them one, they used it.
I really think someone should be checking his immigration status. He's been sacked from employment.
treestar
(82,383 posts)in that he does not support the Constitution and Laws of the United States.
Though of course Orangeman would not deport someone saying that even with the power to do so!
jmowreader
(50,614 posts)Milo claims he cant wait until journalists start getting gunned down. In the same week journalists get gunned down. Its going to be damn hard for Milo to prove the two arent connected.
SunSeeker
(51,898 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)Javaman
(62,546 posts)yeah, milo, sure, you'll win. go for it.
My hope is at the end of all of this, he's living in a cardboard box.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
One small comfort is that Milo is one more person who will probably never dine on a restaurant meal that doesn't contain saliva.
magicarpet
(14,258 posts).... to make it fathomable. A special favorite concoction from the chef's international menu specially made for you.
Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)He'll cut you up exquisitely in a live blog from his hair and nail salon, though.
It's as if Rohm got knocked out on the street by an anti-nazi German, and woke up thinking he was Hedda Hopper.
Plus, he's a big border jumper. I'm losing track of which country he's doing his goose stepping Paris hilton impression from. A most undesirable foreign national alien.
pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)Hateful words have consequences and I for one am tired of people using horrible rhetoric and then trying to pass it off as a "joke". First it is not funny and second 5 people are dead after Milo said some hateful things. Man up, Milo! You now have blood on your hands.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)They could claim to be a new comedy team
Initech
(100,174 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,540 posts)Since he's been cut off by PayPal and VenMo he needs a new source of income.
Milo is billed as a "provocateur"; commonly "a writer, artist, political activist, etc. whose works, ideas, or activities are regarded as a threat to accepted values or practices", but another definition is "An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts."
https://www.mediaite.com/online/milo-yiannopoulos-threatens-to-sue-the-observer-over-his-shoot-journalists-comments-your-life-is-over/
Charles Manson died in prison, and he didn't physically murder people. He only provoked other people to do so.
KPN
(15,692 posts)is the only thing he's got.
F-you asshole! I can't "wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning [for you]" ... [You] did this to yourselve[s], and you deserve whats coming.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,262 posts)If he still lives here DEPORT HIS ASS!
Nitram
(23,050 posts)die without it. Let's not post anything about him. We know who and what he is. We aren't going to learn anything new about him.
riversedge
(70,588 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,922 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)because he condones pedophilia.
"Milo Yiannopoulos has resigned from Breitbart News, the website that brought him fame and infamy in the U.S., just one day after Simon & Schuster canceled a lucrative book deal with the conservative provocateur. Last weekend, the Conservative Political Action Conference also disinvited Yiannopoulos from an upcoming conference in Washington, D.C.
These parting of ways came after recordings of multiple podcasts resurfaced where Yiannopoulos, 33, appeared to condone or, at least, make light of pedophilia".
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/simon-schuster-cancels-book-deal-with-breitbarts-milo-yiannopoulos-2017-02-20
treestar
(82,383 posts)showed up in the Observer!
As to his "trolling" he should move to a tinpot dictatorship somewhere. How unpatriotic to suggest that journalists get into any trouble for critiquing anyone at all, let alone the POTUS, let alone the so-called POTUS known as the Orange Toxin.
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