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Breitbart Employees Threaten Walk-Out Over Milo
Washingtonian ^ | 20 Feb 17 | Elaina Plott

Posted on 02/21/2017 5:22:42 AM PST by elhombrelibre

All is not well at Breitbart News.

A senior editor at the right-wing publication tells Washingtonian that “at least a half-dozen” employees are prepared to leave the company if Milo Yiannopoulos is not promptly fired. A second Breitbart source confirms this estimate.

Yiannopoulos, himself a senior editor at Breitbart, was booted from his speaking slot at this week’s Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC), following taped revelations in which he appears to endorse pedophilia.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonian.com ...


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Clearly, some conservatives have lost their way. Situational ethics seems to have crossed over from the Democrats to the Republicans and the conservatives.

"Why Conservatives Fell for Milo Yiannopoulos"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/20/why-conservatives-fell-for-milo-yiannopoulos.html

1 posted on 02/21/2017 5:22:42 AM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

How he got to be a senior editor is beyond me.


2 posted on 02/21/2017 5:28:00 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: All
You Know The Drill
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3 posted on 02/21/2017 5:29:22 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: elhombrelibre

This human talks a conservative line, but he’s not, he’s a male queer, and male queers rim and gerbil and spread diseases to little boys. He is tarnishing the decency of normal Americans.


4 posted on 02/21/2017 5:30:14 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: elhombrelibre

This is a fake news site with canned news content. Set up to look real to convey a leftist agenda.

Do not fall for this, do not let Milo get Alansky-ed

Saul Alinsky’s Rules from Rules for Radicals

Saul Alinsky describes 24 rules in Rules for Radicals. Of those 24 rules, 13 are rules of “power tactics”:

1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy
thinks you have.”

2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.”

3. “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the
enemy.”

4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

6. “A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.”

7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and
actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing
itself.”

10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of
operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”

11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will
break through into its counterside.”

12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative.”

13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

The remaining 11 rules Alinsky describes are concerned with “the ethics of means and ends”:

1. “One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue … Accompanying this rule is the parallel one that one’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s distance from the scene of conflict.”

2. “The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.”

3. “In war the end justifies almost any means.”

4. “Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.”

5. “Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.”

6. “The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.”

7. “Generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.”

8. “The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.”

9. “Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.”

10. “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”

11. “Goals must be phrased in general terms like ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,’ ‘Of the Common Welfare,’ ‘Pursuit of Happiness,’ or ‘Bread and Peace.’”


5 posted on 02/21/2017 5:30:32 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: nuconvert

Yes, it seems that it really is beyond you.


6 posted on 02/21/2017 5:31:22 AM PST by SarahPalin2012
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To: elhombrelibre

The ones who are piling on Milo being very prominent among them.


7 posted on 02/21/2017 5:31:29 AM PST by madprof98
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To: elhombrelibre
Yiannopoulos questioned age-of-consent laws and suggested that minors as young as 13 were “sexually mature” enough for relations with adults. In it, Yiannopoulos said:

Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty.

I've never been comfortable with Milo and if he actually said this then there is no place for him at Breitbart and I completely agree with the Breitbart editors.

8 posted on 02/21/2017 5:33:24 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Whatever who really cares what these employees do other than those wanting their jobs but come on now is this “Walk-Out” crap the trend of “17”.


9 posted on 02/21/2017 5:33:52 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: elhombrelibre

Does anyone have a link to the audio that is the basis for the accusations?


10 posted on 02/21/2017 5:33:57 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016)
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To: Chickensoup

So it’s fake because Milo didn’t say it or its fake because you don’t like that it got reported or because you think it’s okay for him to say what was said?


11 posted on 02/21/2017 5:34:07 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

I don’t. I thought it was linked in one of the two articles.


12 posted on 02/21/2017 5:34:49 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: madprof98

I get it. You’re a Milo man.


13 posted on 02/21/2017 5:40:06 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Cue in the FR Milo-worshippers to his defense in 3..2..1..


14 posted on 02/21/2017 5:42:26 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: elhombrelibre
The first time I heard of Milo was on Louder With Crowder. He stated unequivocally that gays should NOT be allowed to adopt. He has also outed 3 pedophiles in his columns.

If you're really interested there's this: I Was An Abuse Victim. Laughter Is How I Cope.

15 posted on 02/21/2017 5:44:04 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: elhombrelibre

So it’s fake because Milo didn’t say it or its fake because you don’t like that it got reported or because you think it’s okay for him to say what was said?

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The site is fake because it is a conveyance of one targeted story. It is not a news site, it is a manipulation of the internet.


16 posted on 02/21/2017 5:44:14 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

This is the statement from Milo’s Facebook Page:
“I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.
I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors. I am horrified by pedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers. I’ve outed three of them, in fact — three more than most of my critics. And I’ve repeatedly expressed disgust at pedophilia in my feature and opinion writing. My professional record is very clear.
But I do understand that these videos, even though some of them are edited deceptively, paint a different picture.
I’m partly to blame. My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, “advocacy.” I deeply regret that. People deal with things from their past in different ways.
As to some of the specific claims being made, sometimes things tumble out of your mouth on these long, late-night live-streams, when everyone is spit-balling, that are incompletely expressed or not what you intended. Nonetheless, I’ve reviewed the tapes that appeared last night in their proper full context and I don’t believe they say what is being reported.
I do not advocate for illegal behavior. I explicitly say on the tapes that I think the current age of consent is “about right.”
I do not believe sex with 13-year-olds is okay. When I mentioned the number 13, I was talking about the age I lost my own virginity.
I shouldn’t have used the word “boy” — which gay men often do to describe young men of consenting age — instead of “young man.” That was an error.
I am certainly guilty of imprecise language, which I regret.
Anyone who suggests I turn a blind eye to illegal activity or to the abuse of minors is unequivocally wrong. I am implacably opposed to the normalization of pedophilia and I will continue to report and speak accordingly.”


17 posted on 02/21/2017 5:49:08 AM PST by exbrit
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Cue in the Never-Trump wannabes (they are sort of pro-Trump, but are nothing like actual Trump) in 3-2-1 . . .


18 posted on 02/21/2017 5:50:03 AM PST by SarahPalin2012
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To: pgkdan

Yiannopoulos questioned age-of-consent laws and suggested that minors as young as 13 were “sexually mature” enough for relations with adults. In it, Yiannopoulos said:
Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty.
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Actually there is a difference between the prepubescent attraction and the post-pubescent attraction.

Humpbert Humperbet in Lolita is a prime example of a pedophile, he had no interest in Lolita after she achieved puberty.

I don’t have a problem with men or women becoming sexually involved with post pubescent adolescents. I was married at age 16.


19 posted on 02/21/2017 5:50:31 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: pgkdan

Milo also said he agreed with the current age of consent laws. If Milo is going to be condemned then condemn him for his entire statement NOT some cherry picked quote.


20 posted on 02/21/2017 5:50:59 AM PST by Scottishlibertarian
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