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swag

(26,486 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 01:52 AM Aug 2019

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, Ngo’s 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

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Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces (Original Post) swag Aug 2019 OP
Thoughts and prayers, Andy! majdrfrtim Aug 2019 #1
Maybe he can... Mike Nelson Aug 2019 #2
"Quilletiquette" not fooled Aug 2019 #12
LOL ck4829 Sep 2019 #24
I hear there are career openings in the itinerant farm labor or meat processing trades, Andy! NBachers Aug 2019 #3
K&R ck4829 Aug 2019 #4
What is intellectual about beating up people at a bar? Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2019 #5
Maybe they violently debated. rmm311 Aug 2019 #6
Not for normal people it isn't, but for far right degenerates, it sure is ck4829 Aug 2019 #7
Nothing intellectual about getting hit with a pool cue! Initech Aug 2019 #17
"Right wing" and "Intellectual" in the same sentence. 3Hotdogs Aug 2019 #8
Thank you! Delphinus Aug 2019 #13
You mean, I did somthing good? 3Hotdogs Aug 2019 #14
Ha ck4829 Sep 2019 #20
The same net that brings these idiots up, tears them down. Bye Andy! marble falls Aug 2019 #9
Can we now finally dispose of his alleged "victim-hood"? Coventina Aug 2019 #10
+1 ck4829 Sep 2019 #21
"Patriot Prayer" group? PatSeg Aug 2019 #11
First time hearing that? Yes, it is. maxsolomon Aug 2019 #16
Yes PatSeg Aug 2019 #19
People in Idiocracy finally found that "Time Masheen" ck4829 Sep 2019 #25
I can't count how many times PatSeg Sep 2019 #26
Also, they're a bunch of like, what, 40 year old men still calling themselves "boys" ck4829 Sep 2019 #23
Indeed ck4829 Sep 2019 #22
But but but Antifa... maxsolomon Aug 2019 #15
So the cement milkshakes were pre-planned? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!!! Initech Aug 2019 #18
my my How the mighty do FALL! riversedge Sep 2019 #27

Mike Nelson

(9,951 posts)
2. Maybe he can...
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 04:40 AM
Aug 2019

... 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.

ck4829

(35,042 posts)
7. Not for normal people it isn't, but for far right degenerates, it sure is
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 07:44 AM
Aug 2019

"Let's organize to beat all the people different than us!" is the most networking they do

3Hotdogs

(12,366 posts)
8. "Right wing" and "Intellectual" in the same sentence.
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 08:04 AM
Aug 2019

Thousands of synapses were destroyed, trying to process that.

Coventina

(27,093 posts)
10. Can we now finally dispose of his alleged "victim-hood"?
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 09:01 AM
Aug 2019

Reason #1 for being targeted by the Antifa:


You're a fascist.

maxsolomon

(33,284 posts)
16. First time hearing that? Yes, it is.
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 12:44 PM
Aug 2019

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.

PatSeg

(47,370 posts)
19. Yes
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 06:26 PM
Aug 2019

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.

PatSeg

(47,370 posts)
26. I can't count how many times
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 09:24 AM
Sep 2019

that movie has popped in my head. Often more prophetic and than spoof.

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