A JOURNALIST WITH THE OBSERVER
REACHED OUT TO MILO YIANNOPOULOS TO GET SOME COMMENTARY ON A
MANHATTAN RESTAURANT THAT HE GOES TOO OFTEN IN THE RESPONSE
HE GOT IS PRETTY TERRIFYING. HE SAYS THE FOLLOWING, AND
THIS IS BASED ON WHAT THE JOURNALIST TWEETED, HIS NAME IS
DAVID RICHARDSON. HE SAYS: OKAY. WHO WAS UNCIVIL AGAIN? I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER, WAS AT
THE LEFT OR THE RIGHTS? YOU REMEMBER WHEN FIGURES ON THE
LEFT ASKED FOR JOURNALISTS TO BE GUNNED DOWN ON THE STREETS
BY VIGILANTE THUGS? RIGHT, I DON'T, IT HAS
CONSISTENTLY BEEN THE RIGHT WING THAT HAS PUSHED FOR
VIOLENCE AND THAT HAS COMMITTED VIOLENCE IN PLACES
LIKE CHARLOTTESVILLE AND UNSURPRISING THAT MY LOW-END YET
ANOTHER DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO SEEK ATTENTION GIVES THIS
QUOTE TO DAVIS RICHARDSON AND OKAY, CONGRATULATIONS,
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. NOW WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU
STAND AND WHERE YOUR FELLOW ALT RIGHT GUYS STAND ON ISSUES LIKE
THIS. SPARE ME YOUR CROCODILE TEARS
ABOUT MAXINE WATERS. EXACTLY GOT IT IS A WAY OF
INTIMIDATING ANYONE WHO OPPOSES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
FROM SPEAKING OUT BECAUSE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO
STEP BACK AND TAKE IT. MILO YIANNOPOULOS HAS A
HISTORY OF SAYING RIDICULOUS OUTRAGEOUS THINGS AND PEOPLE
GIVE HIM A PLATFORM. PEOPLE ONE OF HIS OPINIONS,
THAT IS THE REASON WHY THIS OBSERVER REPORTER REACH OUT TO
HIM ON A COMMENT ON A MANHATTAN RESTAURANT. I DO NOT KNOW THE CONTEXT OF THE
STORIES I DON'T TO BE TOO CRITICAL, BUT DO NOT GIVE
THIS GUY A PLATFORM AS A LEGITIMATE INDIVIDUAL WHO SHOULD
PROVIDE COMMENTARY FOR A STORY. HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON AND BY
THE WAY, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME HE CALLED FOR VIGILANTES TO
GUN DOWN JOURNALISTS. THE SAME MESSAGE WAS SENT TO THE
DAILY BEAST WILL SUMMER WHO HAD BEEN COVERING UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY. I GET IT, JOURNALISTS ARE IN
A NO-WIN SITUATION HERE. MILO HAS BEEN DRIVEN FROM
RESTAURANTS SO THE REPORTER LOGICALLY THINKS ANSWER TO
OTHERS TO REACH OUT, HEY, IN THE MIDST OF RIGHT-WINGERS BEING
DRIVEN OUT OF RESTAURANT, MAYBE I SHOULD TALK TO MY LOAD. YOU ARE PLAYING A DIFFERENT GAME
THAN HE IS, YOU ARE PLAYING A LEGITIMATE GAME, I AM A
REPORTER, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT PEOPLE'S REACTIONS. THEY ARE PLAYING A GAME OF I DO
NOT CARE ABOUT THE RULES, I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE A MEMBER
OF THE PRESS OR THE FIRST AMENDMENT, IF WE GET IN CHARGE,
WE ARE GOING TO PUT ON SOME BROWNSHIRTS AND COMMIT VIOLENCE. AT LEAST MILO IS UN-SAVVY OR
DESPERATE ENOUGH TO MAKE IT PLAIN, CLEAR AND OBVIOUS WHERE
HE COMES FROM AND WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO. RIGHT, AND REMEMBER ONE OF
THE ISSUES THAT KIND OF PUT HIM OUT IN THE PUBLIC AS, I
WOULDN'T SAY A HOUSEHOLD NAME BUT AS A PUBLIC FIGURE, I
GUESS, WAS HIS DISDAIN FOR MUSLIMS AND HIS MESSAGING
REGARDING HOW MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS AND WE SHOULD FEAR
THEM AND THEY ARE HORRIBLE. YOU ARE ADVOCATING FOR
VIGILANTES TO GUNNED DOWN JOURNALISTS. IM DEFINITELY MORE CONCERNED
ABOUT YOU HERE IN THE UNITED STATES THAN I AM ABOUT
MUSLIMS WHO MIGHT WANT TO COME IN FOR TRAVEL OR FOR
IMMIGRATION, WHATEVER REASON THAT THEY WANT TO COME
IN. YOU ARE THE PERSON WHO KEEPS
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES AND KEEPS ADVOCATING FOR VIOLENCE. YOU INCITE VIOLENCE AND THEN YOU
HAVE THE AUDACITY TO POINT TO OTHER PEOPLE AND CLAIM THAT
THEY ARE VIOLENCE? PART OF THE REASON WHY HE HAD
BECOME AS BIG AS HE WAS IS BECAUSE THE MEDIA JUST KEPT
HAVING HIM ON. THEY KEPT GIVING HIM A PLATFORM
AND SO I WANT TO ADDRESS ONE OTHER THING BECAUSE I THINK
IT IS IMPORTANT. MEDIA JOURNALISM, ALL OF THAT
IS IMPORTANT AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT WE
DO. I THINK IT IS INCREDIBLY
IMPORTANT TO FACT CHECK THE PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE ON YOUR
SHOW AND THAT IS NOT BECAUSE I AM A FAN OF ARGUING OR
DEBATING WITH YOUR GUESTS, IT IS JUST IMPORTANT THAT IF YOU
HAVE A PLATFORM AND YOU ARE ALLOWING SOMEONE TO SAY WHATEVER
THEY WANT TO SAY, YOU DO NOT WANT HALF-TRUTHS,
MISINFORMATION, LIES TO GET OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC, BUT THERE
IS THIS WHOLE NOTION NOW THAT IT IS A VERY INTELLECTUAL THING
TO JUST ALLOW PEOPLE TO COME ON YOUR SHOW AND SAY WHATEVER THEY
WANT WITHOUT CHALLENGING THEM. THAT IS WHAT REAL JOURNALISM IS. THAT IS A REAL INTELLECTUAL. NO, IT IS LAZY. IT IS BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW
ANYTHING, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN AN
INTELLECTUAL LIGHTWEIGHT AND A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT IS
DAVID RUBEN. I HAVE BEEN QUIET ABOUT HIM
FOR YEARS BUT I KNOW HIM PROBABLY BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE
IN THIS COMPANY BECAUSE WE WERE VERY CLOSE FRIENDS. WENT TO DINNER AT HIS HOUSE
EVERY WEEKEND UNTIL ALL OF A SUDDEN HE IS NOT LIBERAL
ANYMORE. ALL OF A SUDDEN AFTER GETTING
SOME FUNDING FROM THE KOCH BROTHERS, HE IS NO LIBERTARIAN. WE WILL GET TO DIANA SECOND BUT
THE REASON WHY I HAVE SUCH A BIG PROBLEM WITH HIM IS BECAUSE HE
HAS HAD MILO YIANNOPOULOS ON A SHOW TWICE, HOUR-LONG INTERVIEWS
AND MILO WAS ABLE TO SAVE ANYTHING HE WANTED TO SAY
WITHOUT ANY PUSHBACK, INCLUDING ANTI-SEMITIC REMARKS. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE. THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE, WHAT
REMAINS THE BIG TO BE DOING SOCIETY WHICH IS ANTI-SEMITISM. MOST OF THE GENERATION TRUMP,
THE OLD RIGHT PEOPLE LIKE ME, THEY'RE NOT ANTI-SEMITES. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT JEWS. THEY MAY HAVE SOME ASSUMPTIONS
ABOUT THEM OR PREJUDICE, THE JEWS RUN EVERYTHING, WE DO. THE JEWS WHEN ALL THE BANKS, THE
JEWS RUN THE MEDIA, WE DO. THEY ARE RIGHT ABOUT ALL THAT
STUFF. WE DO. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO
START WITH THAT JUST GO. IT IS JUST A FACT, THIS IS
NOT A DEBATE, IT IS A STATISTICAL BACK DODGES
COMPLETELY ARE VASTLY OVER REPRESENTED IN THESE FIELDS. IT
IS NOT ANTI-SEMITISM TO POINT OUT STATISTICS BUT YOU HAVE
MISSED, WHAT YOU AGREE WITH ME ON FEMINISM, IT IS NOT SEXIST
TO POINT OUT STATISTICS, IT IS NOT ANTI-SOMATIC TO POINT OUT
THAT THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. THAT IS NOT REMOTELY TRUE, THAT
IS NOT A STAT OR A FACT, AND IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW SOMEONE
CHALLENGES THAT DEEPLY ANTI-SEMITIC TROPE, WATCH MY
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID DUKE WHERE I SHRED HIM AND EVERY TIME HE
MENTIONS A JEWISH BANKER I MENTIONED A NON-JEWISH BANKER
BECAUSE I'D DECIDED TO DO MY HOMEWORK AND I KNOW THAT DAVID
DUKE IS A MONSTER AND IF YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH
HIM, YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY REBUT WHAT HE SAYS AND COMES WITH
ACTUAL FACTS AND WHAT DOES DAVE RUBIN DO? I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT
THAT, JUST GO TALK IT IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN
THAT. DAVE RUBIN SELLS IT AS I AM FAR
MORE INTELLECTUAL AND AS A RESULT, I REFUSE TO ENGAGE IN A
DEBATE OR AN ARGUMENT. I ALLOW PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR
CASE ON MY SHOW. NO, HE'S LAZY. HE WAS LAZY WHEN HE WORKED
HERE NEEDS LAZY NOW IT IS RIDICULOUS SHOW WHERE HE PROVES
TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING AND WHY
DO I KNOW HE IS LAZY? WHY DID HE REALLY LEAVE THE
YOUNG TURKS, CAN I PLEASE FINALLY TELL THAT YOU REQUESTED
HE WANTED TO MAKE A SIX FIGURE SALARY TO HOST A 30
MINUTE WEEK SHOW WHEN EVERYONE HERE, BECAUSE WE WORK
FOR AN INDEPENDENT NEWS COMPANY WAS GETTING PAID FAR
LESS WHILE WORKING 12 HOUR DAYS. THAT IS WHY HE LEFT THE COMPANY
AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN HE IS GETTING FUNDED BY THE KOCH
BROTHERS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HIS OPINIONS ARE VERY
DIFFERENT. HE HAS NO POLITICAL IDENTITY. HE IS NOT AN HONEST ACTOR, HE IS
NOT AN INTELLECTUAL. HE IS A FRAUD, PLAIN AND SIMPLE
AND HE IS GIVING PLATFORMS TO PEOPLE LIKE MILO YIANNOPOULOS ON
HIS CRAPPY SHOW. THAT IS WHO HE IS. IN THE SECOND PART OF THAT
STORY FROM TODAY, JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING, IF HE HAS
GONE FULL NAZI, HE WAS ATTACKING A PERSON WHO
WORKED AT THE NEW YORKER AND THEN AFTER SHE LEFT TO THE
ORGANIZATION, MILO YIANNOPOULOS SENT $14.88 TO HER. THAT SEEMS LIKE A CURIOUS
FIGURE, WHY IS HE EVEN SENDING HER MONEY? BY THE WAY, SHE IS JEWISH. IT'S KNOWN TO BE A COMBINATION
DIGITS PROPERLY USED BY WAS THE PREMISES AND NEO-NAZIS. 14 TO REPRESENT THE INFAMOUS 14
WORDS, THE MANTRA ABOUT SECURING A FUTURE FOR WHITE CHILDREN AND
88 REPRESENTS HAIL HITLER. CLASSY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT
THAT, JUST GO. ONE THING I WILL SAY IS THERE
WAS A HUGE PANEL DEBATE ON THIS SHOW YEARS AGO WHERE WE TALKED
ABOUT, THERE WAS ANOTHER FLAREUP IN VIOLENCE BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND
PALESTINIANS AND THERE WAS A HUGE DEATH TOLL INVOLVING
PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS AND WHEN WE WERE DEBATING IT, THE ISSUE
OF BOMBING PALESTINIAN SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS CAME UP. EVERYONE ON THE PANEL WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF DAVE RUBIN DISAGREED WITH THAT AND DAVE
RUBIN WAS ANGRY THAT NO ONE DEFENDED HIM AND HIS POINT OF
VIEW. WE DID NOT DEFEND HIM BECAUSE HE
WAS WRONG. YOU DO NOT BOMB SCHOOLS AND
HOSPITALS, YOU JUST DON'T ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE ON THE
ISRAELI SIDE AND YOU HAVE DEFENSE CAPABILITIES THAT THE
PALESTINIANS CLEARLY DO NOT HAVE. AND SO HE WAS ANGRY WITH US
BECAUSE WE WERE AGAINST BOMBING THOSE SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS BUT
NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN HIS MIND HAS CHANGED TO THE POINT WHERE HE IS
OKAY WITH SOMEONE COMING ONTO HIS PROGRAM AND SPREADING
RIDICULOUS ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES. LET'S SHOW THE CLIP BECAUSE
HERE'S A GUY WHO SAYS HIS MAIN CLAIM TO FAME IS HE DOES NOT
CHALLENGE ANYTHING BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT IS REALLY AGGRESSION,
HE DOES GET QUITE WORKED UP. IF YOU ARE AN ANTI-SEMI, GO, BUT
HEY, ISRAEL DOES SOMETHING WRONG -- THERE ARE RULES TO WORK, WE
CAN INTELLECTUALIZE THAT BUT THEY'RE NOT RULES. EVERYTHING HAMAS DOES IS
AGAINST ALL THE RULES OF WAR BY SHOOTING FROM CIVILIAN AREAS AS
CIVILIAN AREAS, SO THEY ARE DOING A DOUBLE WAR CRIME BUT
THERE ARE NO RULES TOWARD. THAT IS NOT REAL DAIKON, IT IS
AN INTELLECTUAL EXERCISE. THAT WAS HIS RESPONSE TO
THE ISRAELI SIDE ATTACKING SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS WITH
CIVILIANS IN THEM. THAT WAS HIS RESPONSE TO IT AND
HE WAS OUTRAGED THAT NO ONE DEFENDED HIM. THAT IS WHO DAVE RUBIN IS. THE RIGHT WING LOVES HIM NOW
BECAUSE HE IS A PUPPET FOR THEM. AGAIN, HE IS FUNDED BY THE KOCH
BROTHERS. I AM NOT JUST MAKING THAT UP. SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 RUBIN AND
LEARNED LIBERTY ANNOUNCED A PARTNERSHIP TOGETHER. WHAT IS LEARNED LIBERTY? IT IS PART OF THE INSTITUTE
FOR HUMAN STUDIES WHICH IS LARGELY FUNDED BY CHARLES KOCH. CHARLES COKE HAS DONATED $12.4 MILLION TO THE ORGANIZATION
BETWEEN 2008 AND 2012. HE IS LIVING THE LIFE, HE ALWAYS
WANTED TO MAKE MONEY, HE IS FINALLY DOING THAT BUT IF YOU
WANT TO GET A SENSE OF HOW LITTLE HE REALLY KNOWS, JUST
CHECK OUT HIS LATEST EPISODE WITH JOE ROGAN. IT WAS FANTASTIC AND ALSO
CHECK OUT HIS REDDIT ASK ME ANYTHING WHERE PEOPLE SIMPLY
ASKED HIM QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS OWN POLITICAL IDENTITY AND
HE COULD NOT ANSWER. HE BOMBED SO BADLY THAT HE JUST
DITCHED THE ASK ME ANYTHING. IT WAS LOVELY. WHEN HE WAS HERE, WE LET HIM
SAY ANYTHING HE WANTED AND HE GOT TO REPRESENT ANY POSITION
TO HIS HEART'S CONTENT AND THAT TIME HE WAS SAYING THE
RIGHT WING POSITION. I GUESS THAT WAS HIS REAL
IDEOLOGY ALL ALONG BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE, HE PRETENDED TO
BE A LIBERAL AND NOW HE STILL PRETENDS TO BE A LIBERAL WHILE
TAKING KOCH BROTHERS MONEY AND GIVING PLATFORMS TO WELL-KNOWN
ANTI-SEMITES, BUZZFEED DID A GIGANTIC ARTICLE ABOUT MILO
YIANNOPOULOS, WHEN MILO WAS SINGING AND HE DID NOT
REACT POORLY TO THAT AT ALL AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON OF
THE THINGS THAT MILO HAS DONE AND FOR A GUY THAT CLAIMS
HE CARES ABOUT ISRAEL, WHEN THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING
MONSTROUS, HE IS HAPPY TO DEFEND THEM BUT WHEN YOU
ACTUALLY HAVE A REAL ANTI-SEMITE RIGHT IN FRONT OF
YOU SAYING THESE OUTRAGEOUS THINGS ABOUT JEWISH PEOPLE IN
AMERICA, NOT A WORD. NOT A PEEP. I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHO IS
PAYING YOU, RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. ALL RIGHT, BACK ON THE YOUNG
TURKS. A LOT OF COMMENTS HERE, I AM
GOING TO TRY TO KEEP IT SHORT. "ANA DESERVES A STANDING
OVATION FOR THIS SEGMENT." ON YOUTUBE SUPER CHAT, AND WE DO
HAVE OPPOSING OPINIONS AND DISCUSS THEM AND HAVE REAL
CONVERSATIONS. THEY WRITE IN, "YOU ARE GIVING
HIM A PLATFORM RIGHT NOW." ABOUT MILO. "HE IS A PATHETIC TROLL, IGNORE
HIS DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO REMAIN RELEVANT WITH THESE
COMMENTS." I HEAR YOU AND WE HAVE THIS
DEBATE INTERNALLY AS WELL BUT UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE FIGHTING A
LOSING BATTLE AGAINST THE MEDIA THAT FINDS ALL OF THAT STUFF
CATNIP, SO IT IS TIME TO STRIKE BACK AND GET IN THE GAME AND SO
THAT IS THE DIRECTION WE WENT. ON YOUTUBE SUPER CHAT, "ALL I
CAN AFFORD CURRENTLY," REFERRING TO THE $10 THAT HE GAVE THEIR YOUTUBE SUPER
CHAT, WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. "YOU GUYS DESERVE IT FOR FINALLY
CALLING OUT DAVE RUBIN. YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE SAM OR
MICHAEL FROM THE MAJORITY REPORT TO SPEAK ON HIS FUNDING." THEY TALK ABOUT THAT ALL THE
TIME SO YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT FOR THAT PURPOSE. I JUST WANT TO JUMP IN ON
THAT. HE WAS A REALLY GOOD FRIEND OF
MINE DOCUMENT A LOT TO ME. I WAS AT HIS HOME EVERY WEEKEND
WITH MY NOW HUSBAND AND WHEN ALL OF THIS WENT DOWN, IT
TOTALLY BLINDSIDED ME AND IT WAS SUPER HURTFUL AND IT TOOK
A LONG TIME FOR ME TO KIND OF DEAL WITH IT AND GET OVER IT. BUT I REFUSE TO BADMOUTH HIM
ON AIR EVEN THOUGH HE WAS BADMOUTHING US ON CRAZY. HE WENT ON ROGAN SHOW AND
BADMOUTHED US THERE. IT WAS HURTFUL. EVERY APPEARANCE HE
BADMOUTHED US. EVERY ONE AND WE HELD BACK UNTIL
NOW. ANYWAY, LOOK, I DO NOT MEAN TO
CUT YOU OFF. I WANTED TO BE THE BIGGER
PERSON AND JUST NOT ATTACK HIM PUBLICLY, BUT I JUST KEEP
SEEING HIM DECEIVE PEOPLE AND THEN PROP HIMSELF UP AS THIS
INTELLECTUAL AND HOW WHAT HE DOES IS SO IMPORTANT. WHAT HE IS DOING IS DISRUPTIVE
AND HE DESERVES TO BE CALLED OUT. IT IS A JOKE.
Obviously, TYT is far from unbiased, and I'm not exactly an avid fan of theirs, but this video has been making the rounds and I found that it perfectly applied to Ethan Klein, the "centrist" who always gives the benefit of the doubt to the right and lets anyone (Jontron, Boogie, Jordan Peterson) come on his show and spew their anti-left rethoric unchallenged. He's only against rightwingers getting offended.
If you allow people to come on your show and be given a platform without any sort of criticism then you are a propagandist.
The most cringy thing ever was when Ethan had Martin Shkreli on his podcast. Shkreli was straight up lying and contradicting himself and they just agreed with him the whole time.
I thought this sub was about meming people who claimed to be better than either side because they are centrist
Now this sub is just people shitting on people who dont show their political bias
Other videos in this thread:
Watch Playlist ▶
I'm a bot working hard to help Redditors find related videos to watch. I'll keep this updated as long as I can.
Play All | Info | Get me on Chrome / Firefox
ana kasparian is possibly the one single dumbest public person in all of politics/news