{"id":90471,"date":"2017-02-20T21:27:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90471"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:27:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:27:44","slug":"yiannopoulos-responds-to-video-posted-by-conservative-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/20\/yiannopoulos-responds-to-video-posted-by-conservative-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Yiannopoulos responds to video posted by conservative site"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90472\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16177502_830787857059111_5799679106165901427_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90472\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16177502_830787857059111_5799679106165901427_o.jpg\" alt=\"Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was trying to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men after a conservative site posted a collection of edited video clips that set social media abuzz. (Photo: Milo Yiannopoulos\/Facebook)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16177502_830787857059111_5799679106165901427_o.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16177502_830787857059111_5799679106165901427_o-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16177502_830787857059111_5799679106165901427_o-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16177502_830787857059111_5799679106165901427_o-1024x608.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was trying to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men after a conservative site posted a collection of edited video clips that set social media abuzz. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/myiannopoulos\/photos\/p.830787857059111\/830787857059111\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=AbpqYCo6sRlzIYC1L2V_mMWIGipfAjhCrSpJiu9qqTjueinpW1KqvPZcOWAnXbLNZwZd-L0Y40rA7OO-yi4P6GOUrMSlRLRWqZR6ReRnnuBVOFfPGp-_7C6GuynylBTzIRhWqiuNO5l6LOPFq2Y61SnqaJDyuKJcARYWs2ddUT7T_8G436b0LVGAYOQYQlYY_tJQF073ZLu2QMes9oIm_tTb10y3VCvS7dhPcLpW07430mzm6MB0JayGWkAMUqtf1XOt7HVQIVzuFf23wbXJc4hfhV7iqhztboR_DybUjvpnXJgbGvbgHL3KDIdLx7RBOhS9uZanWWlGDQFbhyZZ_R9XjTsxmIHnJxo65Z97CIUZpeBujCWzSvIfgYylBD5eQKD9hRhpAW3ChzrFGljv6bVv3pELwZnxJgEvgxe21_TYiw&amp;theater\">Milo Yiannopoulos\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was trying to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men after a conservative site posted a collection of edited video clips that set social media abuzz.<\/p>\n<p>After the polarizing Breitbart News editor was invited this weekend to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference sparked a backlash, the Reagan Battalion tweeted video clips Sunday in which Yiannopoulos discusses Jews, sexual consent, statutory rape, child abuse and homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Yiannopoulos wrote on Facebook blamed deceptive editing and his own \u201csloppy phrasing\u201d for any indication he supported pedophilia.<\/p>\n<p>The British author says he spoke of his own relationship when he was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the U.K. is 16.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear who edited the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Yiannopoulos writes for Breitbart News, considered by many a platform for the so-called \u201calt-right\u201d movement, an offshoot of conservatism that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism.<\/p>\n<p>The Reagan Battalion is a blog that describes itself as \u201cnews, information, commentary, from a conservative perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was trying to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men after a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[14265],"class_list":["post-90471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-milo-yiannopoulos","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}