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    Arch-Troll Milo's Mini Apology Tour

    The provocateur at the center of the controversy that engulfed the right this weekend offers a qualified mea culpa.
    by Rosie Gray Feb 21, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    NEW YORK — Milo Yiannopoulos has a new mode, and it’s contrition.

    Yiannopoulos appeared before reporters on Tuesday in a rented Soho loft to announce his resignation from Breitbart News and apologize to abuse victims for over-a-year-old remarks on pedophilia that incited a political firestorm over the weekend. Wearing a conservative navy blue suit and sunglasses, which he switched to regular glasses shortly into the conference, Yiannopoulous read a prepared statement in which he said he had been the victim of sexual abuse between the ages of 13 and 16. Yiannopoulos said he was “partly to blame” for the remarks on the tape and that he was “certainly guilty of imprecise language.”

    “I haven’t ever apologized before,” Yiannopoulos said. “I don’t anticipate ever doing it again. Name-calling doesn’t bother me, misreporting doesn’t bother

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