Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces
Source: Daily Beast
Will Sommer
Published 08.26.19 11:16PM ET
The conservative op-ed website Quillette announced Monday night that controversial right-wing writer Andy Ngo is leaving his job as an editor at the site, an announcement that comes on the same day that a Portland newspaper published a story revealing that Ngo witnessed a far-right group planning violence but never reported it.
Ngo, a photographer who was until recently a sub-editor at Quillette, became a celebrity on Fox News and other pro-Trump media outlets after he was attacked by left-wing demonstrators at a Portland political rally in June. Ngo then became prominent as an opponent of political violence, with most of his criticism aimed at the left.
But footage taken by an undercover liberal activist in May and described on Monday by the Portland Mercury showed Ngo witnessing activists from the far-right group Patriot Prayer planning a violent confrontation at a bar associated with left-wing activists. Ngo never reported on what he had seen the Patriot Prayer members planning, and some of the people involved in the attack at the bar now face felony riot charges.
Hours after the Portland Mercury story ran on Monday, Ngo removed his Quillette job from his Twitter profile. Shortly after that, Ngos name disappeared from the masthead at Quillette, a self-described platform for free thought that has become a hub for the right-wing Intellectual Dark Web movement.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears
majdrfrtim
(317 posts)Thoughts and prayers.
Mike Nelson
(9,951 posts)... stage a comeback by getting himself beat up by violent Elizabeth Warren protesters at a Trump rally? Or, he can start his own news site - Quilletiquette.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)"violent Elizabeth Warren protesters"
NBachers
(17,098 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)rmm311
(13 posts)It's dark? There might be some spider webs? Intellectual Dark Web!
ck4829
(35,042 posts)"Let's organize to beat all the people different than us!" is the most networking they do
Initech
(100,060 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,366 posts)Thousands of synapses were destroyed, trying to process that.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)You replied with a coherent sentence - I was gobsmacked by that phrasing.
3Hotdogs
(12,366 posts)marble falls
(57,063 posts)Coventina
(27,093 posts)Reason #1 for being targeted by the Antifa:
You're a fascist.
PatSeg
(47,370 posts)Strange name for a group planning and promoting violence.
maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)But they LOVE Amurka, and they LOVE praying.
"Proud Boys" is also a strange name for a group planning and promoting violence, but such is the perversity of the PNW.
In an effort to maintain some sanity, I'm afraid have to tune a lot of the crazy out these days.
I remember there used to be a Facebook page that was an odd mix of guns, the American flag, bibles, and half naked women. Absolutely bizarre and rather frightening. They got so many complaints due to the violent overtones, they had to go private.
I can't picture any of these freaks actually praying.
ck4829
(35,042 posts)PatSeg
(47,370 posts)that movie has popped in my head. Often more prophetic and than spoof.
ck4829
(35,042 posts)maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)marking for later to send to my Fox-watching Dad.