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.