Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday insisted that he "wasn't being serious" when he recently told two reporters that he cant wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists.
Yiannopoulos's comments Thursday came shortly after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md., leaving at least five people dead and several others seriously injured. Authorities have taken a suspect into custody, but have not yet released an identity or motive.
Youre about to see a raft of news stories claiming that I am responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists, Yiannopoulos wrote in a Facebook post. The truth, as always, is the opposite of what the media tells you.
I sent a troll about 'vigilante death squads' as a *private* response to a few hostile journalists who were asking me for comment, basically as a way of saying, 'F---k off.' They then published it, he continued. Amazed they were pretending to take my joke as a 'threat,' I reposted these stories on Instagram to mock them and to make it clear that I wasnt being serious.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/394715-milo-yiannopoulos-my-call-for-shooting-journalists-was-just-a-troll
Fug Milo...You said. You meant. You lie!