Report: Milo Yiannopoulos tapped to keynote CPAC

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico



Controversial author and Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos will be the keynote speaker at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, Yiannopoulos will focus his address on his "experiences in America battling feminists, Black Lives Matter, the media, professors and the entertainment industry."

The provocative right-wing writer has been in the news spotlight recently after many stops in his college tour were met with protests.

CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp told the Hollywood Reporter that the protests are one reason why they chose Yiannopoulos as the keynote speaker.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-keynote-report-235173

[DonViejo]

1. If CPAC finds out Milo's gay, he'll be disinvited. eom

[dhill926]

3. yep...

just show him on Bill Maher last night wearing his pearls. That should do it...

[Plucketeer]

7. It's Bill's show

And we never miss it if at all possible, but having the loud-mouthed freak on was almost enough to make me switch channels. He's got every BIT the credibility that Trump has.

[Pachamama]

11. I recommend watching this show with Milo on - Bill was rather brilliant and in my opinion let this

....creep expose who he really is....a self -loathing Narcisstic who is fascist and racist and yes, gay, who then simultaneously in order to draw attention to himself (because he shares some traits with Trump) reveals that he fucks black men and Muslim men, but hangs with far-right fascists and hates gays and women.

The reality is he is a self-loathing pathetic low life that if people just stopped paying attention to him and made him irrelevant he would fade away into the nothing's that he is. And the irony is that he is seeking appreciation and shelter from the very people who would lynch him or beat him up for being gay or fucking blacks and Muslims.....how sad....he thinks they love him...

[NurseJackie]

17. And Maher has given him the gift of VISBILITY and elevated him!

Milo's being on Real Time is quite the "feather-in-his-cap" that can really HELP his career of spewing hate and intolerance and bigotry and ENCOURAGING and MOTIVATING others to do the same.

Thanks a fucking lot Bill Maher! You've just RAISED his stature! You've LEGITIMIZED him!

We'll only see more of that little SHIT now that you've helped him by giving him a NATIONAL PLATFORM!

I knew this would happen. Milo now has yet another line-item to add to his CV and his IMDB page thanks to Bill Maher.

And did I hear Bill correctly? Did he say that it "sounds reasonable" that transgendered women shouldn't be permitted to use the ladies' room because they're "confused" or that they put other women and girls at risk? (I'll have to see if I can find the transcript, I'm not inclined to go searching the entire youtube video to double check and get an exact quote.)

That's hardly what I'd expect to hear from someone who's "rather brilliant" as you suggest.

[HopeAgain]

29. I am done with Maher

It's his extreme arrogance that allowed Milo to play him like a harp. No publicity is bad publicity for people like that.

Honestly I think Maher is as arrogant as Trump.

[Blue Idaho]

34. Maher seems to be doing a full Ed Schultz...

Anything for ratings... and money...

[NurseJackie]

41. IT'S BAD NEWS: The new set and revamped theme song suggests to me that ...

... the show's future may not be all that rosy. Thus, the sprucing-up and overhaul.

I have to admit, it's become a bit formulaic and predictable. His jokes are pedestrian, his contempt for the audience when HE bombs a joke (as if they're too stupid to get-it or appreciate his "genius&quot

But, the fact that he needs to go all Jerry Springer and Rikki Lake and Sally Jesse ... devolving into the banal ... well, it's probably time to call it a day and put that old horse out to pasture.

Some of the best shows in the world new when it was time to quit, and they did it while they were still "on top" -- as it were. MASH, Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, Friends ... none of them waited until they were a ratings embarrassment.

This was definitely Maher's "Cousin Oliver" moment or his "Fonzie Jumps the Shark Tank" moment.

[Blue Idaho]

42. There's an old theatre saying...

"Leave them wanting more."

[SunSeeker]

22. No, it was not brilliant. Maher legitimized Milo.

Maher actually said Milo's transgender bathroom exclusion demands were "not unreasonable." And Maher let him get away with the false claim that transgender people commit higher rates of sex crimes than the general population. Thank goodness Larry Wilmore and Malcolm Nance were there to call Milo on his shit.

Then Maher blathered on about how Milo was "just at the beginning" of his "career," suggesting Milo was going to be a big star. Maher really did everything he could to legitimize that fuckwit Nazi. I was so disgusted.

Here's a good refutation of Milo and Maher's bullshit from last night: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58a84dcae4b07602ad551487?

[demmiblue]

5. I'm pretty sure they already know. n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

6. Correction

On the road he mocks transgenders with his pearls. Don't waste you time on this. Bury his family name on a gravestone in the swamp of pretenders of no consequence.

[IronLionZion]

16. You think anyone still doesn't know?

he really throws it in people's faces every chance he gets.

Like he said in the Bill Maher show, how can the right be so bigoted if their spokesman is a gay Jewish immigrant who tells everyone about his black boyfriend?



Liberals constantly ask him about the right's discrimination against gay people and he seems to be all for it. He probably hates himself too and has joked that he may be mentally ill. Oh yes, some people are willing to throw their own people under the bus for their own personal gain. I've also encountered a few gay friends and classmates who couldn't care less about gay rights.

[DonViejo]

18. There are DU'ers that say they were unfamiliar with him, so yeah,

I think it's possible some CPAC'ers don't know either. Remember CPAC is the group that endorsed Ted Cruz for Prez last year and Rand Paul several times before that.

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. I can't imagine that a lot of CPACers watch Maher n/t

[d_r]

27. nope

that's the dude's schtick, to keep saying he is "gay" and then talk about how it is a choice and it is wrong and how intolerant the left is because he is gay and they don't like him. He's cashing in on being a token.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. As always

Thank you demmi

Yet, let's not give this pretender any status by even mentioning his name. imo

[Plucketeer]

4. LOL!!!

I'm bettin' that magnetic pole shift is closer than we think!

[BainsBane]

8. They chose hm because of the protests

I think that guy set them up for publicity. I also have doubts as to whether he's a real conservative. I think his schtick is a performance designed for attention and cash.

[Frisbee]

9. Exactly!

He's nothing but a money grabbing publicity whore.

[KittyWampus]

12. Hopefully the Left Coalition will not invest negative emotions on this buffoon and instead

use any venue he shows up in to fund raise for Civil Rights causes. Set up a booth and use him to make money for a good cause.

I also think he is acting.

As I've posted, he's got less sincerity than a 4chan loser who trolls the internet.

[BainsBane]

14. Better yet ignore him

Don't turn up at his events at all.

[Plucketeer]

40. BINGO!

I'll just be as OUTRAGEOUS as one can be. I'll do the talk show circuit, get a few book deals, then feign dismay at the way I'll be shredded by the right and beg for embracement by the left. What a fun ride on the way to fame and fortune without EVER getting my hands dirty!

[Roy Rolling]

10. Another "family values conservative"

Do I have to say more?

[jmowreader]

13. Anyone know how to contact Samantha Bee, The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert?

Jonathan Krohn started out in life as a die-hard conservative. He keynoted CPAC one year, following the grand CPAC tradition of picking the right-winger most likely to piss off liberals and sticking that person on the national stage.

Jonathan has become a liberal, and now he's pretty outspoken as to how full of shit those people are.

What could be really entertaining: a special live edition of any one of those three interviewing Jonathan Krohn...played exactly at the same time the CPAC people are drooling over Milo.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. CPAC - Crackpots Posing As Conservatives

[shenmue]

30. Bingo

[mdbl]

46. Thanks!

Always wondered what the acronym stood for

[SunSeeker]

19. Idiocy on parade. And Bill Maher normalized him last night.

[amuse bouche]

31. I disagree. There was no normalizing that fool

He acted like an idiot and was a laughingstock. Nance and Wlimore called him out.

I appreciate Maher. Too many on the left demand purity tests from people like Maher, which is absurd.

We don't have that many Liberal voices out there. The ones we have need to be appreciated

[SunSeeker]

33. Pointing out a vicious lie is not "demanding purity."

There is nothing "reasonable" about the so-called bathroom laws that keep transgender people out of their gender bathrooms. Yet that is what Maher said.

Maher is normally spot on and hilarious. He was neither with Milo on the panel. Pointing that out is not "demanding purity." It is simply a critique of one performance. Hopefully next time he'll do better.

[smirkymonkey]

47. I agree with you.

I had never seen him before and they made him look like the absolute idiot that he is.

Sorry, but nobody can quite slam the republicans like Maher. I may not agree with everything he has to say, but he is one of the best at what he does.

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. Seems like someone that adores attention, much like Drumpf

And what better way to stand out than being one of the only gay men that excuses Trump and the GOP for all their open bigotry?

Its so.......brave and radical!!!!!!!

No, Its a side show, and an attention seeking circus freak.

[RKP5637]

21. Another Attention Whore!!! n/t

[George II]

23. If Adolf was alive they'd tap him to be the keynote speaker.

[Mz Pip]

26. If Adolfo were alive

Milo would be one of the first ones rounded up.

[mitch96]

24. Putting this guy as a speaker

Just exposes the hypocrisy of the ultra conservative right. Just like the Right wing Evangelicals.
He can be a p***y grabber but it's ok if he pushes their agenda...
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[mdbl]

45. So true, they hypocracy is pretty thick

and they have no shame anymore.

[Mz Pip]

25. Will he wear his pearls?

Milo is a troll.

[underpants]

28. Have t watched the video other than seeing that

Yikes.

[mdbl]

32. He acts just like Ann Coulter

Saw him on Maher's show and thought, this guy is competing to be the next Ann Coulter.

[TexasBushwhacker]

36. Well, he IS more feminine n/t

[mdbl]

37. True, he has Ann beat in that dept

[pansypoo53219]

38. ann coulter is getting old.

[dawn frenzy adams]

39. Stop calling this man controversial, alt-right, or conservative provocateur.

HE'S A NAZI!

[nikibatts]

43. Is he even a citizen of the US?

[Mz Pip]

49. Nope

He's British.

[pressbox69]

44. So now

the conservatives are coming out full tilt deplorable. They don't care if he's gay. Wasn't Breitbart gay for Drudge?

[Mc Mike]

48. As keynote speaker, I imagine he's appearing after 5 'stone the gays' pastors

speak on the same stage.

A gay foreign nazi? As long as he's a nazi, the repugs can overlook the other stuff. They're a 'big tent' party.

This guy is Shitler's Ernst Rohm. I forget what happened to the original Rohm.