The University of California Berkeley student paper yesterday published a piece the headline of which states conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos had “threatened” campus administrators regarding events related to last summer’s campus “Free Speech Week.”
The Daily Californian headline reads “Released emails show Milo Yiannopoulos threatened campus administrators, accused them of ‘pot-stirring’ before ‘Free Speech Week,’” yet nothing in the piece actually backs up the headline.
In email correspondence between Yiannopoulos and Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof, Milo states that he was going to return to the campus “come hell or high water,” and he “expressed contempt” toward administrators for leaking to the media a list of pending conservative speakers.
“What would happen to a university official who leaked information to the press about a high-profile speaking event, knowing his actions would likely lead to more violence and destruction of property than would otherwise have occurred, and perhaps even result in serious physical injuries or — God forbid — even loss of life?” Yiannopoulos wrote in one message.
If the (leftist) reaction to Milo’s past appearances wasn’t sufficient for the Daily Californian to draw the logical conclusion about this email, then a subsequent Milo message certainly makes it clear:
“Yiannopoulos told Mogulof that providing the media with a list of speakers was ‘reckless in the extreme,’ adding that including Steve Bannon’s name ‘served no purposes except to rile up violent far-left groups’” (emphasis added).
Yiannopoulos stated that Mogulof’s “unconscionable” communication with media had provided antifa and other violent groups with time to “plan disturbances” that they would not have had otherwise.
“Let me be understood clearly: this four-day event will proceed,” Yiannopoulos said in the email. “We will liaise with all the appropriate federal authorities and law enforcement to ensure that this is so.”
In response to Yiannopoulos’ concerns, Mogulof stated in an email the next day that the campus had corrected the information released to reporters upon learning that not all the speakers were confirmed.
“We don’t perceive that discussing individual speakers created any additional security risk after your public announcement of your planned event, your promise to include ‘every speaker banned [sic] from Berkeley in the last year’ and your earlier public statement that you would bring ‘an army’ to Berkeley,” Mogulof said in the email addressed to Yiannopoulos.
Do the right thing, DC. Change your headline.
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