![]() It just takes nuance and close attention to understand what I’m really getting at.” “Everything I say in there is completely defensible with proper context and explanation. ![]() But yesterday afternoon he was sorrowful and self-pitying as he tried to explain himself. A recent short music video that he posted on YouTube showed him and some shirtless men building a wall on what purported to be the Mexican border. He is usually brash and outrageous, leaning on his partly Jewish background and the fact that he is gay as a shield to justify his insults. I never imagined that I would become famous,” Yiannopoulos told me. Obviously, if I had known I was going to have the media profile I have now, I would have been cautious about this stuff. “Things sometimes tumble out of your mouth on these long late-night live streams, when everyone is spitballing and had a couple of drinks, that are not completely expressed and not exactly what you intend. A group calling itself the Reagan Battalion had scoured the Web and assembled a highlight reel of Yiannopoulos’s most offensive statements, including an endorsement of having sex with thirteen-year-olds. Over the weekend, interviews in which he discussed underage sex and Jewish influence on the media and finance had circulated on social media. On Monday afternoon, shortly before he learned that he had been disinvited from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, that his book deal with Simon & Schuster had been cancelled, and that his fellow-employees at Breitbart News were threatening to quit if he wasn’t fired, Milo Yiannopoulos calmly explained to me that he wasn’t a pedophile or an anti-Semite. ![]() ![]() Editor’s note: on Tuesday afternoon, Milo Yiannopoulos resigned as an editor at Breitbart News. ![]()
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