Milo Yiannopoulos tapped to speak at CPAC? Super!

[guacamole]

You can't even write this stuff...

http://cpac.conservative.org/speakers/

I'm not even sure about the angle to take on this one? The pedo angle? The prostitution of the Church angle? Someone help a brother out. What argument are pro-Milo and pro-CPAC apologetes supposed to take on this one?

LOL.
guacamole

[Sparko]

er what? Guac, are you saying Milo is a pedophile? He is gay.

You don't think gay people can be conservative and republican? I have a friend who is gay and he is more right wing than I am. He is even against gay marriage.

[guacamole]

He's in the record on video talking about a pedophilic relationship he's had with a priest, refusing in fact to give up the predator's name, among other insane assertions. I won't post a link here because if it didn't violate tweb's terms, it should. Google will be instructive though. Joe Rogan show, fwiw.

Anyway, he's been disinvited now:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...os-tape-235204

[Sparko]

He's in the record on video talking about a pedophilic relationship he's had with a priest, refusing in fact to give up the predator's name, among other insane assertions. I won't post a link here because if it didn't violate tweb's terms, it should. Google will be instructive though. Joe Rogan show, fwiw.

Anyway, he's been disinvited now:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...os-tape-235204

huh. I hadn't heard about that.

In the article you link to he says:

In a statement posted on Facebook on Monday afternoon, Yiannopoulos said he “deeply regret[s]” the way his comments were interpreted, and stressed that he is “horrified by pedophilia” and said he has “devoted large portions of my careers as a journalist to exposing child abusers.”

“I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim,” he wrote. “My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, ‘advocacy.’”

Still, he insisted that the tapes were “edited deceptively” and that he does not “advocate for illegal behavior.”

“I am certainly guilty of imprecise language, which I regret,” he wrote.

Wonder if this is another smear campaign by the left? They seem out to get him.

But since I have no information, that is just pure suspicion.

[guacamole]

huh. I hadn't heard about that.

In the article you link to he says:

In a statement posted on Facebook on Monday afternoon, Yiannopoulos said he “deeply regret[s]” the way his comments were interpreted, and stressed that he is “horrified by pedophilia” and said he has “devoted large portions of my careers as a journalist to exposing child abusers.”

“I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim,” he wrote. “My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, ‘advocacy.’”

Still, he insisted that the tapes were “edited deceptively” and that he does not “advocate for illegal behavior.”

“I am certainly guilty of imprecise language, which I regret,” he wrote.

Wonder if this is another smear campaign by the left? They seem out to get him.

But since I have no information, that is just pure suspicion.

Yeah, no. I have, unfortunately, watched the video in question. His attempted excuses are ridiculous. At any rate, the outrage from the right is what got him disinvited from cpac.

[Sparko]

Yeah, no. I have, unfortunately, watched the video in question. His attempted excuses are ridiculous. At any rate, the outrage from the right is what got him disinvited from cpac.

OK I will take your word on it.

[Darth Executor]

What Milo said is that he had no issue with himself having sex with a priest when he was 14 (i think we can all agree he does have issues). Sex with 14 year olds is not pedophilia. Pedophilia is attraction to pre-pubescent children. What milo was talking about was child molestation (not the same thing) which is very common among gay males. Basically, Milo finally got in trouble with some of his base for being a typical gay, of all things.

[KingsGambit]

Milo claims to be both a practicing Catholic and a srxually active homosexual. Conservative Christians seem unwilling to call him on this, probably because they enjoy the opportunity to make conservatism seem more diverse.

[Mountain Man]

I'm a bit divided on the whole Milo thing, to be honest. I love what he has to say about politics and conservatism, I just don't care for the lifestyle and moral choices of the one saying it.

[Mountain Man]

Milo claims to be both a practicing Catholic and a srxually active homosexual. Conservative Christians seem unwilling to call him on this, probably because they enjoy the opportunity to make conservatism seem more diverse.

What I find ironic is that if he was liberal, and conservatives treated him the way liberals treat him now, they'd be screaming "Homophobia!" at the top of their lungs.

[Darth Executor]

Milo claims to be both a practicing Catholic and a srxually active homosexual. Conservative Christians seem unwilling to call him on this, probably because they enjoy the opportunity to make conservatism seem more diverse.

Most of his fans aren't conservative Christians and the average Conservative Christian probably has no idea who he is. But yeah, that angle probably does gain him more tolerance than he might get otherwise. Conservatives love to play the submissive in the progressive frame.

[Adrift]

Milo claims to be both a practicing Catholic and a srxually active homosexual. Conservative Christians seem unwilling to call him on this, probably because they enjoy the opportunity to make conservatism seem more diverse.

I've only ever seen him speak on the Bill Maher show recently. He came off as a total dingbat, and too young, and too confused to really know what he's saying. He seems to get off on being outlandish. I got a feeling that any support anyone might have for him on the right will eventually backfire if/when he decides to alter his worldview or change sides. Maher compared him to a young, gay, and alive Christopher Hitchens. I understand the point...but I didn't get the sense that he was nearly half as clever as Hitchens.

[KingsGambit]

I've only ever seen him speak on the Bill Maher show recently. He came off as a total dingbat, and too young, and too confused to really know what he's saying. He seems to get off on being outlandish. I got a feeling that any support anyone might have for him on the right will eventually backfire if/when he decides to alter his worldview or change sides. Maher compared him to a young, gay, and alive Christopher Hitchens. I understand the point...but I didn't get the sense that he was nearly half as clever as Hitchens.

He's really not all that ideological; he simply likes to get people riled up, and he has that down to a science.

[guacamole]

What I find ironic is that if he was liberal, and conservatives treated him the way liberals treat him now, they'd be screaming "Homophobia!" at the top of their lungs.

Again, note that the key source of outrage and the source of the cpac disinvited has been conservative.

[Darth Executor]

Didn't cpac have Trump cancel his speech during the election because they were planning to stage a walkout? I'm not sure how relevant cpac is anymore in the Trump era. The old conservative establishment were dealt a mortal blow.