RE: I take 45s comments Press personally OP/ED
July 2, 2018 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2018 at 1:37 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(July 2, 2018 at 1:35 pm)henryp Wrote:(July 2, 2018 at 1:20 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: This isn't normal. It's not what countries not sliding towards authoritarianism do. And, I mean, let's not be naive here. His alt-right stewards are even more forceful in their comments about the press, including encouraging people to start gunning down journalists on sight (https://observer.com/2018/06/milo-yianno...ists-down/ ... no, I don't buy his lame 'explanation' of simply trolling, and, regardless, in the current climate, encouraging violence is the last thing anyone should do, jokingly or not).
Milo texts that in response to being asked for a comment on a story, presumably by people he doesn't like. He didn't encourage anyone, as it was a text message to a single person. That reporter of course prints the statement, and frames it as a call to violence, even though Milo had no audience until the reporter gave the statement one.
He's a despicable person, but this is a bullshit story. And this is normal. Where things are shifted just enough so that they are now just 'based on a true story.'
Thanks for the clarification HenryP.... Kind of amusing given the context!
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