Sabo, Right-Wing Street Artist, Claims Responsibility for Defacing WeHo Bike Signs

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Post on Sabo’s Twitter account.

Sabo, the Los Angeles right-wing street artist known for his signs attacking Democrats and liberals, is claiming responsibility for defacing signs for the City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Pedals bike share program with promotions of a new book by controversial right-wing propagandist Milo Yiannopoulos.

“Let’s just say I’ve been busy this weekend,” Sabo said in a post on his @unsavoryagent Twitter page along with a photo showing WeHo Pedals bicycles bearing signs promoting Yiannopoulos’ “Dangerous,” a book scheduled for release on July 4.

The signs, wrapped about the bicycle baskets, use the “milo” brand. Some have appropriated the humorous and slightly risqué slogans of the WeHo Pedals program (“Ride Me. I’ll make you happy.”) Others directly promote “Dangerous” as “the book that will save Western civilization.”  While Sabo hasn’t explained his reason for targeting West Hollywood, its identity as an overwhelmingly liberal and Democratic city is likely a major factor.

A city spokesperson said this morning that the WeHo Pedals crew is already at work removing the images.

Sabo’s website describes his mission as “running around, creatively kicking liberals in the teeth.”

“I believe the Right has a great message, sadly the only people telling it are those on the Left and they do a damn fine job making us look like ass holes and what do Republicans do about it, NOT A DAMN THING!!!” Sabo says in an introduction to the website. … My aim as an artist is to be as dirty, ground level, and mean as any Liberal artist out there, more so if I can. Use their tactics, their methods, appeal to their audience, the young, urban , street urchins with a message they never hear in a style they own.”

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Sabo’s work includes a poster titled “Hillary Rotten Clinton,” one calling for the impeachment of Congresswoman Maxine waters and various images and videos attaching Barack Obama.  He has refused to reveal his real name and in various interviews has insisted that he be filmed from behind so that his face cannot be shows. However images of him, such as the one below, exist online.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Yiannopoulos, who is a gay Englishman and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, himself has been somewhat of an expert in self promotion. A former senior editor for Breitbart News, the alt-right news website, he describes himself as a “cultural libertarian.” He has been a critic of everything from Islam, to social justice to feminism and especially of the pushbacks against bigotry that he has described as “political correctness.”

Yiannopoulos’ self-promotion has come with some negative consequences. He lost his job at Breitbart In February 2017 after a controversy over a video of him saying sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be positive and “perfectly consensual” experiences for boys.

Yiannopoulos lost his contract with Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions for “Dangerous” after more than 100 authors said they no longer would do business with the publisher. That was an exceptional reaction given that Threshold Editions, whose vice president and editorial director, Mitchell lvers, is a gay man, has published books by former vice president Dick Cheney and broadcasters Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Ivers also edited bestselling books by Donald Trump, Michelle Malkin, Tom Fitton, Jose Rodriguez, James O’Keefe, Ben Shapiro, Jason Mattera and John Stossel.

Mattera, who Ivers recruited as a writer, received national attention in September 2003 when, as editor of a student newsletter for college Republicans at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, he wrote an attack on the mother of Matthew Shepard, a college student who was beaten and murdered for being gay. Mattera accused her of “preying on students’ emotions and naivety’ [sic] so that she could become ‘a mascot for the homosexual agenda.” He also published a “lurid description of the homosexual rape of a young boy and threw in a joke about ‘pedophiles nationwide’ who condemned the FDA’s food pyramid as ‘bigoted’ and ‘hateful’ because ‘anus’ and ‘penis’ were not listed as separate food groups.”

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Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford
7 years ago

WEHO published this article because it’s not a mouthpiece for the Townscape Three that speak with forked tongue. So called liberal hypocrites out of one hand and selling pay for play out of the other.

Randy
Randy
7 years ago

icurbs90069, precisely. And I still don’t get why Wehoville published this article in the first place. This article only promotes Yiannopoulos’s agenda.

Anticom Luke
Anticom Luke
7 years ago

SABO is an awesome artist with a zany mind and a patriot’s heart.

icurbs90069
icurbs90069
7 years ago

It is so pathetically obvious how many of these comments are posted by the same person using multiple aliases. Do you really think anyone with an ounce of intelligence is going to believe this article is being read and commented on by one Milo fan after another within minutes of each other. Someone has wayyyy too much time on their hands. Probably someone with a childhood nickname known as Sabo.

Robert Muniz
7 years ago

Sabo is a criminal and Milo is a pedophile. Such great role models right wing idiots pick…

Jimmy Smartest
Jimmy Smartest
7 years ago

Let’s trot out the corpse of ol’ Matthew Shepard again. Fabulous.

Pete
Pete
7 years ago

Go SABO!!!!!

Ranjit
Ranjit
7 years ago

SABO is a legend!

C.C.
C.C.
7 years ago

SABO is awesome.
keep up the great work!!!
(Love The Faction, too!!)

Tom Smart
Tom Smart
7 years ago

Not only is he And this action incredibly LAME but the city should charge him with defacing city property, ordered to pay a huge fine for the clean-up and demand an additional donation to Planned Parenthood.

Abe Froman
7 years ago

“Yiannopoulos’ self-promotion has come with some negative consequences. He lost his job at Breitbart In February 2017 after a controversy over a video of him saying sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be positive and “perfectly consensual” experiences for boys.”

And yet renown predator Harvey Milk is held in high esteem in some circles, regardless of his “preferences”.

Brad
Brad
7 years ago

Love LOVE Milo!! Liberals hate when LGBTQ are conservative. Sabo is endlessly brilliant & amusing. Keep up the excellent work guys 🙂