<p>On New Year&#8217;s Eve, left-wing journalist and New York Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald wished &#8220;pain &amp; misery&#8221; on Republicans and said that he wants to find an &#8220;antimasker&#8221; and &#8220;beat them to death.&#8221; During the volatile rant, Eichenwald also scolded alleged &#8220;anti-mask&#8221; &#8220;F***ING &#8216;Christians&#8217; who preen about God saving [them] from COVID,&#8221; claiming they are who &#8220;Jesus condemns.&#8221;</p>
<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&#8220;I have so much hate in my heart tonight. My sister, widowed by COVID, has Covid because of antimaskers,&#8221; he wrote on Thursday. &#8220;About 4,000 died today; GOP says nothing. [Republican Sen. Josh Hawley] </span>&amp; his ilk are working to harm America. I wish them &amp; their loved ones all the pain &amp; misery they inflicted on this country.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have so much hate in my heart tonight. My sister, widowed by COVID, has Covid because of antimaskers. About 4,000 died today; GOP says nothing. <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HawleyMO</a> &amp; his ilk are working to harm America.  I wish them &amp; their loved ones all the pain &amp; misery they inflicted on this country.</p>
<p>&mdash; Kurt &quot;Masks Save Lives&quot; Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344508798581559297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In another tweet, which has been <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344495022301917184">removed</a> from the platform for violating its terms of service, Eichenwald wrote: &#8220;It&#8217;s at a moment like this that I want to find an antimasker and beat them to death. Since they believe they have the right to kill others, they have surrendered any right to object. #CategoricalImperative.”</p>
<p>The author later tweeted that he&#8217;s “not planning to kill anyone,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Just, as the misery descends on our family again, it is hard not to contemplate violence against those who don’t care if they kill.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">..no, I’m not planning to kill anyone. Just, as the misery descends on our family again, it is hard not to contemplate violence against those who don’t care if they kill.</p>
<p>&mdash; Kurt &quot;Masks Save Lives&quot; Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344495667289485312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Antimaskers did this? How do people who wear masks get it then?&#8221; one Twitter user responded to Eichenwald, who in turn posted: “Bec[a]use you F***ING MORON, masks primarily protect other people. And since 40% of the infected are asymptomatic, the ones without masks are spreading the disease because they don’t give a S*** about killing others. You are either STILL uninformed or too stupid to care.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">BecAuse you FUCKING MORON, masks primarily protect other people. And since 40% of the infected are asymptomatic , the ones without masks are spreading the disease because they don’t give a SHIT about killing others. You are either STILL uninformed or too stupid to care.</p>
<p>&mdash; Kurt &quot;Masks Save Lives&quot; Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344516479719452673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In another post, Eichenwald said he does not &#8220;care&#8221; if folks&#8217; children are left orphans if those people don&#8217;t take the COVID precautions he would like them to take.</p>
<p>&#8220;If someone is willing to leave the children of innocents without parents, I don’t care if their own kids are orphans. Reap what they sew [sic]. It shouldn’t just be the innocent that suffer,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If someone is willing to leave the children of innocents without parents, I don’t care if their own kids are orphans. Reap what they sew. It shouldn’t just be the innocent that suffer.</p>
<p>&mdash; Kurt &quot;Masks Save Lives&quot; Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344497290183135232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He also lashed out at &#8220;F***ING &#8216;Christians'&#8221; who will &#8220;burn in hell&#8221; for their COVID-related &#8220;selfishness&#8221; and &#8220;hypocrisy.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You F***ing &#8216;Christians&#8217; who preen about God saving you from COVID so you don&#8217;t need masks. You&#8217;re what Jesus condemns,&#8221; Eichenwald wrote. &#8220;You kill with hypocrisy. Read Matthew 25:41-46. If you realize the Bible is about more than hating gays, you&#8217;ll realize: For your selfishness, you&#8217;ll burn in hell.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">You FUCKING &quot;Christians&quot; who preen about God saving you from COVID so you dont need masks. Youre what Jesus condemns. You kill with hypocrisy. Read Matthew 25:41-46. If you realize the Bible is about more than hating gays, you&#39;ll realize: For your selfishness, you&#39;ll burn in hell</p>
<p>&mdash; Kurt &quot;Masks Save Lives&quot; Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344490442167967746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Glad to see Kurt Eichenwald is having a normal one,&#8221; snarked Jordan Lancaster, captioning screenshots of the journalist&#8217;s meltdown.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">glad to see kurt eichenwald is having a normal one <a href="https://t.co/iGKVz5JHZf">pic.twitter.com/iGKVz5JHZf</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jordan Lancaster (@jordylancaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/jordylancaster/status/1344517631206952960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;These people are genuinely nuts,&#8221; remarked The Blaze&#8217;s Sara Gonzales.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">These people are genuinely nuts. <a href="https://t.co/CXBUGc20Hp">pic.twitter.com/CXBUGc20Hp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1344532810317635584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Rational Ground founder Justin Hart posted, &#8220;400 yrs ago when a real plague hit Italy it was thought that foreign invaders went around brushing city walls with plague-infested water. When an older gentleman was seen brushing off a pew to sit on accusations flew. He was taken out and beaten to death. I guess we’re there now.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">400 yrs ago when a real plague hit Italy it was thought that foreign invaders went around brushing city walls with plague-infested water. When an older gentleman was seen brushing off a pew to sit on accusations flew. He was taken out and beaten to death.</p>
<p>I guess we’re there now <a href="https://t.co/W6byWxN8Gs">pic.twitter.com/W6byWxN8Gs</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1344526351991066626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/12/31/kurt-eichenwalds-covid-freakout-i-want-to-find-an-antimasker-and-beat-them-to-death/">H/t</a> Breitbart</em></p>


“The Informant” New York Premiere Benefit

Journalist: ‘I Want To Find An Antimasker And Beat Them To Death’; ‘You F***ing Christians’ Are What ‘Jesus Condemns’

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Kurt Eichenwald

<p>New York Times best-selling author and journalist Kurt Eichenwald has some strong opinions on Joe Biden&#8217;s sexual assault accuser Tara Reade. In an angry Twitter tirade over the weekend, &#8220;The Informant&#8221; author denounced Reade as a &#8220;liar,&#8221; telling her to &#8220;rot in hell.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is going to be an ugly, angry thread,&#8221; Eichenwald begins in his lengthy post. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be about rape, written by someone who was violently raped in the early 1980s. Tara Reade is a liar. I&#8217;m now certain of that beyond a reasonable doubt. Her attention-seeking or corrupt performance has demeaned people who have been actual victims. The willingness of Bernie Bros and Republicans and Russians demonstrates that this vicious, violent crime to be just something to exploit as a political tactic.”</p>
<p>&#8220;I gave this a lot of time, absorbing each new detail,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I listened. I waited. NOW I am angry as hell. These people keep pushing those like me back into our trauma by lying and games playing. For every Tara, there will be a million actual victims who will not come forward because she will have undermined all credibility.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eichenwald then clarified that Tara Reade is different than Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, even though the latter could not produce a single corroborative witness while Tara Reade has reportedly produced several.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is different than Ford – it is not &#8216;what party are they attacking? OK, that decides who I believe,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I have never ever ever believed this &#8216;If someone accuses, believe them&#8217; crap. If someone accuses, *respect* them, listen, wait. But don&#8217;t let frauds like Tara do this.&#8221;</p>
<p>For several more posts, Eichenwald then recalled his own brutal experience with rape in the 1980s, emphasizing how he remembered every detail (something Christine Blasey Ford could not do) and the way he dealt with trauma. He contrasted his experience with that of Reade’s, while trashing aspects of her story, and repeating talking points that she is somehow an asset of Putin. As to why her accusation has ballooned into a national sensation, Eichenwald blamed it on the media.</p>
<p>&#8220;I literally hate Tara Reade,&#8221; he said in the post. &#8220;I do not know what motive or mental illness she has that led to this nonsense, but I know she is aware that this is a lie. And I hate the media on this.”</p>
<p>&#8220;This has gone on too long, and it upset me too much,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;I will get to why this is different than Ford tomorrow. But Bernie types and GOPrs and Russians, I want you to know, you disgust me. Actual victims are not playthings for your political games. Drop it. You are not human. And as for you Tara, please know: You will be getting the attention you so dearly crave, and hopefully it will be when you have your perp walk for filing a false police report recently. Real victims are also not toys for you to gain attention or political goals. Rot in hell.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is going to be an ugly, angry thread. It&#39;s going to be about rape, written by someone who was violently raped in the early 1980s.</p>
<p>Tara Reade is a liar. Im now certain of that beyond a reasonable doubt. Her attention seeking or corrupt performance has demeaned people who../1</p>
<p>&mdash; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1256699827628511232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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Author Kurt Eichenwald Loses It: ‘I Literally Hate Tara Reade,’ ‘ Rot In Hell’

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<p>Former MSNBC contributor Kurt Eichenwald is on a mission to prove that Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland student activist who is pro-Second Amendment, is attempting to conduct a media takedown of him and others by unfairly accusing media personalities like himself of attacking Parkland survivors. Eichenwald&#8217;s theory comes amid backlash from &#8220;trolls&#8221; and &#8220;bots&#8221; for his regrettable exchange with Kashuv on Friday.</p>
<p>Last week, Parkland gun control activist David Hogg, with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28897/left-wing-groups-team-take-down-laura-ingraham-james-barrett">enthusiastic support </a>of Media Matters, targeted Fox News host Laura Ingraham&#8217;s advertisers, a routine that has become familiar, particularly from the Left. As the boycott campaign was revving up, Eichenwald responded to a tweet by Kashuv by slamming him as &#8220;trafficking in fantasies.&#8221; Eichenwald eventually deleted the tweet and explained that he thought he was responding to someone else. Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28896/playing-lefts-rules-msnbc-contributor-attacks-ben-shapiro">wrote up</a> the incident and rhetorically suggested it was time to boycott Eichenwald if we&#8217;re &#8220;playing by the Left&#8217;s rules.&#8221; Shapiro ended the piece by slamming politically-motivated boycotts. &#8220;The strategy of boycotting political opponents is an ugly one. And the more the Left embraces it, the worse our political discourse will get,&#8221; he concluded.</p>
<p>In a bizarre email sent to Shapiro Tuesday morning, Eichenwald laid out a conspiracy theory about Kashuv, whom he described as having psychological problems and whom he accused of attempting to conduct a smear campaign with the help of conservative media. Eichenwald said he talked to a psychologist friend about his &#8220;disturbing&#8221; exchanges with Kashuv; his friend, said the journalist, suggested that Kashuv had psychological issues. On Twitter, Eichenwald spelled out his conspiracy theory about the conservative student and explained what he was doing about the &#8220;bots&#8221; and &#8220;trolls&#8221; targeting him.</p>
<p>Below are the emails Shapiro posted Tuesday, followed by some of the tweets Eichenwald blasted out to his followers about the alleged conspiracy, Russian bots, and the real story behind that unfortunate &#8220;tentacle porn&#8221; incident:</p>
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<p>I just received this from <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kurteichenwald</a>. There are no words for how wild this email is. <a href="https://twitter.com/VanityFair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanityFair</a> is apparently an odd place.I just received this from <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kurteichenwald</a>. There are no words for how wild this email is. <a href="https://twitter.com/VanityFair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanityFair</a> is apparently an odd place. <a href="https://t.co/Ik1bfjoKyl">pic.twitter.com/Ik1bfjoKyl</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/981221585410449408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Welp. <a href="https://t.co/XpWV4sh5fb">pic.twitter.com/XpWV4sh5fb</a></p>
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<p>And now this. <a href="https://t.co/B2HMlFQzqh">pic.twitter.com/B2HMlFQzqh</a></p>
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<p>Anyone sending <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kurteichenwald</a> strobes is a complete POS. Don&#8217;t do it, obviously. But blaming me for such nonsense is utterly insane.</p>
<p>&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/981224668462923776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>And here are some of the tweets posted by Eichenwald:</p>
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<p>Needs to be disclosed. A conservative Parkland survivor is trolling people he considers liberals and, when they respond not knowing who he is, claims he is being abused. The conservative media then jumps on it and demands Ingraham boycott to end. He suckered me. Dont fall for it.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/981204799042580482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>1.This is PART 2 of my theme today &#8211; I have awoken from my naiveté.</p>
<p>For parts 3 and 4 &#8211; dissecting the conservative and liberal information bubbles &#8211; I have to address online lies that those bubbles have created. Those will not be the focus of 3 &amp; 4, but theyll be referenced&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980865825409204230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>2. Again, if you wish to say &#8220;I don&#8217;t care!&#8221; or &#8220;Welcome to twitter, idiot!&#8221; or &#8220;How arrogant are you that you think we care??!&#8221; or &#8220;We know the truth! Stop lying!&#8221; or &#8220;What an idiot to respond!&#8221;&#8230;don&#8217;t bother and please leave. I can no longer see you in my notifications&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980866193644048385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>3..&#8230;because Im open to all policy considerations, &amp; don&#8217;t have a &#8220;this is the good side&#8217;s checklist&#8221; Ive been roundly attacked with lies. Conservatives call me a socialist. Progressives call me alt-right. Anti-semites attack, as do supporters of Trump, Sanders and Clinton&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980866453162352640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>4.&#8230;because hate, insults and lies are the go-to for many Americans and pundits, I have been transformed online into someone unrecognizable to those who know me: A pedophile who loves tentacle porn, wants Republicans to die and supposedly attacked a conservative Parkland kid&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980866707861528576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>5&#8230;.so let&#8217;s talk truth. And yes, if you think it is absurd to talk truth, to counter the bogus narratives of the internet, if it makes you laugh that someone is actually responding to false allegations, then please: Leave&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980867082320580609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>6.&#8230;In all of my career, I am most proud of this: I saved 100s of kids from molesters and child pornographers through my work. 100s of pedophiles were locked up. I testified in some of the prosecutions. My work was the subject of Congressional hearings, and was applauded&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980867337954975744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>7..&#8230;then some crazy leftists &amp; child pornographers &#8211; as I was warned would happen &#8211; attacked. Through their twisted lens, I was the villain. Online, I was accused of crimes against kids I saved. When one kid publicly testified I saved him, he was mercilessly attacked for years&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980867543693971456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>8.&#8230;after the pedos were locked up, all went dormant. Then, before the election, I wrote about Russia &amp; trump links &#8211; the first major piece on that. Russian hackers took down Newsweek site. Then a writer for a Russian propaganda site launched the &#8220;ur a pedophile&#8221; attack again&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980867684781916160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>10&#8230;this spread first among Russian bots and then was picked up by Trump supporters and Bernie fanatics. Now, there is a huge faction of conservatives who are, unknowingly, picking up arguments created by far lefters who support pedophiles, to attack someone who rescued kids&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980867914277576704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>11. &#8230;the &#8220;attack dissenters&#8221; internet even transformed a goofy evening with my family into evil. My ADULT sons and I were teasing my wife about Rule 34 (look it up.) She could not believe cartoon tentacle porn existed. We started a search on the internet to prove it&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980868180879998976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>12&#8230;.then my phone rang and we dropped the search. The next day, I tweeted a photo of a horrifically anti-semitic image included in a death threat to my home. (I receive many threats.) My computer screen was visible. Someone saw I hadn&#8217;t closed the tab we used the night before&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980868530961895424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>13&#8230;suddenly, I was trending on twitter. REAL journalists (supposedly) began ranting about me and tentacle porn. When I replied, &#8220;this is nothing&#8221; and explained why, I was attacked for denying the accusation. One REAL magazine belittled me for trying to excuse the indefensible&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980868659911458816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>14&#8230;from there, the lies grew. Suddenly, it became I was sharing tentacle porn with my underage children. One of my ADULT sons tweeted that everything I was saying was true but I told him to delete the tweet &#8211; the mob, I warned him, would come after him&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980868921199820801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>15&#8230;No matter. They did anyway. They have come after all of my kids and my wife. My feed has been bombarded with tentacle porn. Prominent people declared the lies were true, based on nothing. Last week, <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a> tweeted to her followers that the lie about me was true&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980869397169496064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>16&#8230;in response to my pointing out the hypocrisy of an argument she made attacking David Hogg. <a href="https://twitter.com/Mediaite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Mediaite</a> reported her tweet, implying once more that the lie was true. I decided this had to stop. So, I know I will be attacked for responding to the mob, for telling the truth&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980869787868958720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>17&#8230;for not &#8220;confessing&#8221; to the mob&#8217;s beliefs. That will happen on social media and on legitimate news pages. To which i say: Grow up. Since when has fact and response no longer been relevant in discussion?..</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980870115905409025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>18&#8230;finally, the &#8220;I attacked a Parkland kid&#8221; fantasy. I never heard of this kid. He appeared on my feed, unprovoked, railing about tentacle porn. He never mentioned guns, Parkland, or politics. Just &#8220;tentacle porn.&#8221; His followers swarmed me, tweeting pornography and strobes&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980870819822952454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>19&#8230;which have been used by people who know I have epilepsy to trigger a seizure. Another high schooler with a podcast and a large following had been demanding I respect him and debate him. He also railed about tentacle porn, setting off attacks, a few weeks earlier&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980871262280081414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>20&#8230;and so I thought it was the same person. And this is why I replied to someone who tweeted &#8220;tentacle porn!&#8221; at me, thinking he was the one who kept demanding my respect, &#8220;this is why I didn&#8217;t respect u.&#8221; 3 minutes later, I realized this was a Parkland kid, deleted the tweet&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980871527838240770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>21&#8230;&amp; apologize. (Note: I apologized for my having responded to an insult. Again, he made no political arguments, no indication of who he was. Just &#8220;u like tentacle porn&#8221; lies) Then the swarm started. People I respect, including <a href="https://twitter.com/Montel_Williams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Montel_Williams</a> chastised me for attacking a&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980872289662259203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>22&#8230;a Parkland kid for disagreeing with me, when all I knew about this person was he believed the tentacle porn lies. And the conservative media was all over it, claiming that unknowingly responding to someone uve never heard of saying &#8220;tentacle porn!&#8221; is the same as an&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980872662149976064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>23&#8230;unprovoked attempt to denigrate a specific kid, ANOTHER Parkland survivor, simply because he disagrees with you. The only thing I know I disagree with the kid who went after me is, the tentacle porn nonsense is a lie. I STILL have never heard anything political from him&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/980873023501799426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>On his Twitter page, Eichenwald describes himself as a &#8220;contributing editor&#8221; at Vanity Fair. After he floated the conspiracy theory, a Vanity Fair spokesman issued a statement saying that Eichenwald is not a contributing editor at the magazine.</p>


Kurt Eichenwald Emails Ben Shapiro . . . And It’s Wild

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<p>On Friday, former MSNBC contributor Kurt Eichenwald took time out from defending the boycott against Laura Ingraham over her supposedly massive cruelty toward Parkland survivor David Hogg to attack Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv. After reading this piece I wrote about the nastiness of boycotts designed merely to demonize political opposition, Eichenwald tweeted in defense of the boycott:</p>
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<p>There is not a 1st Amen right to advertising.</p>
<p>As usual, Ingraham used her platform to denigrate. But thats free speech.</p>
<p>The kids used THEIR free speech to respond.</p>
<p>The advertisers left. Behavior has consequences. &#8220;The party of personal responsibility&#8221; needs to stop whining.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979769008802103296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Then he proceeded to attack a Parkland survivor, Kyle Kashuv.</p>
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<p>Now, as we all know from the last 48 hours, this means that MSNBC&#8217;s top advertisers must all be boycotted. Them&#8217;s the rules. Kashuv pointed it out:</p>
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<p>MSNBC and <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kurteichenwald</a> feels it&#8217;s okay to attack Parkland survivors. As we know, that calls for a boycott! <a href="https://twitter.com/smiledirectclub?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@smiledirectclub</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Jeep?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeep</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Proactiv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@proactiv</a><a href="https://twitter.com/officedepot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@officedepot</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Cadillac?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cadillac</a><a href="https://twitter.com/trivago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@trivago</a><a href="https://twitter.com/sleepnumber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sleepnumber</a><a href="https://twitter.com/OmahaSteaks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@omahasteaks</a> <a href="https://t.co/IIybDEzuRs">pic.twitter.com/IIybDEzuRs</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/979781761692561408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>When called on it, Eichenwald apologized.</p>
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<p>I owe an apology to <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KyleKashuv</a>. I have no idea how many times I have commented to him. There is a high school kid who has a podcast who keeps challenging me to debates with insults. I mixed up their names. Please ignore every tweet Ive sent. They were written for someone else.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979778523480117248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8230;for those of you calling me a liar. Go down my feed. You will find this back and forth after I said I wanted to debate a conservative who complained no one would debate him, provided it was not just invective and straw men. 100s of people came on saying I should debate&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979780742938054656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8230;this kid whose name I don&#8217;t remember. Apparently, he has a large fan base. The kid&#8217;s entire feed was &#8220;libtard&#8221; and other name calling, and when he came on board, he started name calling. I told him this was not debate, and that he was showing himself not to be mature enough&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979781126175772672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8230;to meet the challenge of no invective.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979781288205979652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> &#8211; if u actually READ what happened &#8211; it&#8217;s on the twitter feed you selectively quote &#8211; I mixed up <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KyleKashuv</a> with another kid who has been insulting me in a challenge to a debate &#8211; one I invited you to do with me. Remember? I have apologized to kyle for the mixup. <a href="https://t.co/Ssuga6D2AU">https://t.co/Ssuga6D2AU</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/979781729337692160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
<p>But, as we have learned from David Hogg, such apologies mean nothing, as I pointed out:</p>
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<p>But, <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kurteichenwald</a>, your apologies mean nothing, as we have recently learned from <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidhogg111</a>. <a href="https://t.co/rdGMQl96IO">https://t.co/rdGMQl96IO</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/979781988700667904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
<p> Kashuv, being a decent human being, was more forgiving:</p>
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<p>On a more serious note, Kurt: If you made a mistake and you&#8217;re truly sorry, apology accepted. We should all be more forgiving &#8212; including you (and others) of Laura Ingraham.</p>
<p>When will you and MSNBC do the same for Laura? <a href="https://t.co/x8W5mkD85T">https://t.co/x8W5mkD85T</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/979782766534553600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>But once again, the double standard has been illuminated. How many members of MSNBC brass will speak out against Eichenwald? How many advertisers will drop him?</p>
<p>The strategy of boycotting political opponents is an ugly one. And the more the Left embraces it, the worse our political discourse will get.</p>


PLAYING BY THE LEFT’S RULES: Former MSNBC Contributor Attacks Conservative Parkland Survivor. That Means It’s Time For A Boycott, Right?

<p>On Thursday night, in response to the odd <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17323/weird-happenings-kurt-eichenwald-and-tentacle-porn-amanda-prestigiacomo">uncovering</a> of <em>Newsweek </em>writer and MSNBC contributor Kurt Eichenwald&#8217;s anime porn fetish and his even more bizarre &#8220;tentacle porn&#8221; cover-up story, Fox News host Tucker Carlson begged media higher-ups to &#8220;help&#8221; Eichenwald, whom he labeled a &#8220;troubled man.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carlson has had a previous run-in with Eichenwald &#8212; well, more specifically the <em>Newsweek </em>writer had a meltdown of epic proportions on a <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi7KeVYrtUg">appearance</a> months ago. Ironically railing at Carlson&#8217;s show, Eichenwald accidentally posted a photo of his computer to Twitter which exposed his fetish for hardcore, animated Japanese pornography. In a bizarre cover-up attempt, Eichenwald said he and his children were merely surfing the web for some &#8220;tentacle porn&#8221; so he could prove to his wife that it exists. How he ended up on anime &#8220;schoolgirl uniform&#8221; porn is still a little murky, to say the least. </p>
<p>Carlson reported what happened and then made the case that Eichenwald was being exploited by his employers, pleading for them to &#8220;help&#8221; the writer instead. </p>
<p>&#8220;For real, this is a troubled man,&#8221; said the Fox host. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t help Kurt Eichenwald to pretend he is okay. He is not okay. He should not be on Twitter, he needs help.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carlson continued: &#8220;Newsweek gets clicks, MSNBC gets viewers. It&#8217;s awful. They&#8217;re exploiting him. It&#8217;s cruel. So these supposedly news organizations, a plea, for real: Stop Kurt Eichenwald before he tweets again. He will thank you later for that if you do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Watch:</p>
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WATCH: Carlson Weighs In On Eichenwald’s Anime Porn Fetish/’Tentacle Porn’ Cover-Up

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<p><em>Newsweek </em>and <em>Vanity Fair </em>contributor Kurt Eichenwald is apparently into animated Japanese pornography, specifically &#8220;schoolgirl uniform&#8221;-type stuff. This was exposed when the contributor with a longstanding battle with the alt-right journalist posted a photo on Twitter which accidentally captured some of the open tabs on his laptop, including one with Hentai porn. </p>
<p>But the cover-up is even better than the crime: Eichenwald claims he was only looking at Hentai porn because he was trying to prove that &#8220;tentacle porn&#8221; exists. Seriously. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start from the top. </p>
<p>The columnist took a photo of an anti-Semitic pamphlet which he allegedly received from an alt-right troll and posted it to Twitter. It was quickly spotted that one of the tabs read in part: &#8220;8 chiku [english, uncensored, 212 pictures], with two pages.&#8221; </p>
<p>[Note: This is the second photo Eichenwald posted of the flyer, proving it&#8217;s authenticity.] </p>
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<p>Yah, crappy photoshop Max. Unfortunately, no, this is what I got today. <a href="https://t.co/jmi1U4wLUd">pic.twitter.com/jmi1U4wLUd</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872661171576467456">June 8, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After a quick Google search, Eichenwald&#8217;s foes posted what they found &#8212; that the columnist is into anime porn &#8212; and savaged him for the tweet. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a censored shot of what Eichenwald was apparently browsing: </p>
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<p>And what tags he had posted: </p>
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<p>So, being on the defensive, brilliant Eichenwald decided to ignore all the laws of public relations and pile onto the disaster with an absurd cover-up: He only had anime porn on his screen because he and his sons were trying to prove to his wife that &#8220;tentacle porn&#8221; exists. </p>
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<p>&#8230;some to show her it was real. But I couldn&#8217;t find any &#8211; &amp; ended up w/ this. My family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872859546280230916">June 8, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Of course, simply searching &#8220;tentacle porn&#8221; would have done the trick. </p>
<p>Eichenwald continued to dig deeper the hole in which he was now standing: </p>
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<p>&#8230;diff would it make? Seriously, while I don&#8217;t see the appeal of cartoon parn, porn is a multi-billion industry. Pple obviously look at it.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872861382894653440">June 8, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He even posted an alleged phone conversation in the hope for exoneration:</p>
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<p>No one hacked my account. We were searching to prove to my wife tentacle porn exists. See text convo. I only removed names and drug names. <a href="https://t.co/EMHYlYKcPf">pic.twitter.com/EMHYlYKcPf</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872862858073296897">June 8, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The embattled journalist ended the debacle with the following tweet:</p>
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<p>Ive got nothing left to say about this. Believe what I say or dont. Think my family has odd conversations (we do) or don&#8217;t. So it goes.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/872870062851575808">June 8, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Journalism in 2017 sure does involve a lot more porn than we all anticipated. </p>


The Weird Happenings Of Kurt Eichenwald And ‘Tentacle Porn’

<p>After the House Republicans passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Thursday, <em>Newsweek</em>&#8216;s Kurt Eichenwald wrote a series of tweets indicating that members of the GOP and their family members should die. He deleted many of these tweets, but <em>The Daily Caller</em>&#8216;s Peter Hasson <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/06/kurt-eichenwald-i-want-republicans-to-watch-their-families-lose-insurance-and-die/">managed</a> to capture many of them.</p>
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<p>While Eichenwald rephrased his words to not sound completely unhinged and irrational, he managed to commence a blocking spree on anyone who criticized him for his poor choice of words.</p>
<p><em>Follow Elliott on <a href="https://twitter.com/ElliottRHams">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ElliottRHams/">Facebook</a></em></p>


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<p>On Friday, leftist journalist Kurt Eichenwald, who is epileptic, tweeted that the FBI had arrested the man who had tweeted a strobe-light .gif at Eichenwald, prompting him to have a seizure.</p>
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<p>After a 3 month investigation, the FBI this morning arrested the man who assaulted me using a strobe on twitter that triggered a seizure.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842753050464915456">March 17, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He currently faces federal charges &amp; is expected to also be indicted by the Dallas District Attorney on different charges in next few days.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842753533778841600">March 17, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Identifying information about every person who sent me strobes after finding out about the assault is currently in the hands of the FBI.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842754146067496961">March 17, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>More than 40 ppl sent strobes once they found out they could trigger seizures. Details of their cases are with the FBI. Stop sending them.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842754912249434112">March 17, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>I want to thank Dallas Police, Dallas DA, US Attorney in Dallas, the FBI &amp; the Dept of Homeland Security who all played a role in this case.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842755500517347328">March 17, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The FBI confirmed to <em><a href="https://heatst.com/culture-wars/fbi-arrests-man-who-allegedly-gave-kurt-eichenwald-a-seizure-over-twitter/?mod=sm_tw_post">Heat Street</a></em> that an arrest has been made.</p>
<p>The incident in question occurred in December, when someone calling themselves <a href="http://twitter.com/@jew_goldstein">@jew_goldstein</a>, who was later suspended by Twitter, replied to one of Eichenwald&#8217;s tweets with a .gif of a strobe light.  According to <em><a href="https://heatst.com/politics/an-internet-troll-deliberately-caused-writer-kurt-eichenwald-to-have-a-seizure/">Heat Street</a></em>, &#8220;The .gif said something along the lines of &#8216;You deserve a seizure for that post.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Eichenwald&#8217;s wife replied to his tormentor on Twitter:</p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jew_goldstein">@jew_goldstein</a> This is his wife, you caused a seizure. I have your information and have called the police to report the assault.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/809616876011749376">December 16, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Eichenwald, a vehement opponent of Donald Trump, had reportedly been <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/07/trump-supporters-harass-newsweek-reporter-with-epilepsy.html?via=desktop&amp;source=copyurl">targeted</a> with strobe-light tweets before.</p>
<p>As CBS News<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/epilepsy-site-hacked-with-seizure-images/"> reported</a> in 2008, hackers &#8220;bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation&#8217;s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get seizures when they&#8217;re exposed to flickering images, a response also caused by some video games and cartoons.&#8221;</p></p>


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<p>Robert Reich has doubled down on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZdlOiyiSA">his suggestion</a> that Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News had conducted a false flag operation to shut down a speaking event at a California university in order to portray the left as criminally violent.</p>
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<p>On Wednesday evening, left-wing rioters <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13072/tolerance-yiannopoulos-speech-cancelled-after-robert-kraychik">shut down</a> a Yiannopoulos-hosted event with threats, criminal violence and vandalism at the University of California, Berkeley.</p>
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<p>On Thursday evening, Reich claimed with certainty that the left-wing rioters (many of whom were masked) were not UC Berkeley students. As a professor at the university, he insinuated personal familiarity with the majority of the school&#8217;s nearly forty thousand students.</p>
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<p>In an <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-who-sent-thugs-berkeley-552577">article published in <em>Newsweek</em></a> &#8211; a left-wing and Democrat-aligned news and opinion outlet that presents itself as objective and nonpartisan &#8211;  on Saturday, Reich restated his suspicions while claiming not to &#8220;want to add to the conspiratorial musings of so many about this very conspiratorial administration:&#8221;</p>
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<p>Hmmm. Connect these dots:</p>
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<p>(1) Yiannopoulos writes for Breitbart News, which Steve Bannon &#8211; Trump&#8217;s strategy director &#8211; ran before joining Trump.</p>
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<p>(2) Before Yiannopoulos speaks at Berkeley, Breitbart publishes an article saying that Yiannopoulos will call for the withdrawal of federal grants and the prosecution of university officials who endanger their students with their policies.</p>
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<p>(3) Berkeley opens its doors to Yiannopoulos, but campus police have to cancel the event because of masked agitators.</p>
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<p>(4) Hours later, Trump issues a misleading tweet, accusing the university of not allowing free speech and promoting violence against innocent people with different views and threatening to withhold federal funds.</p>
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<p>(5) The next night, Yiannopoulos on Fox News says the incident proves that universities like Berkeley don&#8217;t deserve federal grants by cracking down on free speech.</p>
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<p>(6) That same night, on CNN, I raise the possibility that Yiannopoulos and Breitbart could have been collaborating with the agitators &#8211; saying &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t bet against it.&#8221; This generates a belligerent column in Breitbart with a misleading headline calling me a liar for claiming that Breitbart News organized the riots.</p>
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<p>Reich formerly served as secretary of labor during the Clinton administration.</p>
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<p><em>Newsweek</em> published an op-ed on Saturday, in which Kurt Eichenwald &#8211; who <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/kurt-eichenwald-further-explains-his-claim-that-trump-was-institutionalized/">claimed to have proof</a> of President Donald Trump having been &#8220;institutionalized in a mental hospital in 1990 &#8211; argues that the president may be incapable of &#8220;[discerning] between reality and what he wishes was true.&#8221;</p>
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<em>Follow Robert Kraychik on <a href="https://twitter.com/kr3ch3k">Twitter</a>.</em></p>


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