“Pedophilia is not a sexual
attraction to somebody thirteen years old who is sexually mature.
Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty.” And
with that, ladies and gentlemen, we begin to see the sun setting on the
glorious and periodically fabulous career of Milo Yiannopoulos. You may
remember Milo from some of his other greatest hits: “Given America’s
obesity epidemic, the truth is that hot people are an endangered species. We
are a marginalized group constantly punished by society’s unrealistically ugly
beauty standards.” Or “America has a Muslim problem… The terror attack on
Saturday is an expression of mainstream Muslim values," after the
attack on an Orlando nightclub last June. How about “Women have huge competitive
advantage when they go into tech because there aren’t many other women.
They get coverage when they don’t deserve it, when they enter a room,
people pay attention to them. Privately successful women will tell you
this." And of course “If a white person gave Dr. King’s famous ‘I
have a dream’ speech and said his line ‘I look to a day when people will not be
judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,’
they’d face charges of hate speech from liberals too ignorant of history to
even know it’s Dr. King’s line.” Yup. This guy's a winner from way back. And
now he is a former senior editor for Breitbart News.
Milo resigned on
Tuesday after some people, a whole lot of people, got angry about his
definition of pedophilia. These remarks were made over a year ago, and after
apologizing and resigning, he went on to complain, “But let’s be clear what is happening here,” Yiannopoulos said.
“This is a cynical media witch hunt from people who don’t care about children.
They care about destroying me and my career, and by extension my allies. They
know that although I made some outrageous statements, I’ve never actually done
anything wrong. These videos have been out there for more than a year. The media
held this story back because they don’t care about victims, they only care
about bringing me down. They will fail.” Feel free at this point to try and
reconcile his rant about "Dr. King's words" and his own. If you're
feeling like it doesn't exactly add up, you are not alone. That would be why
the Breitbart folks didn't bother trying to save poor Milo. They cut him loose.
Maybe because he had finally gone too far, or maybe because he was openly gay
and it was only a matter of time before someone would have to explain that
steaming pile of hypocrisy, but whatever the case Milo has moved on to the next
great thing that any homosexual alt right journalist would. Oops. His book deal
with Simon and Schuster was
cancelled. Was it because he was too conservative? Was it because he was too
gay? Was it because he was too much for conservative Republicans to deal with?
Consider that the tapes of that interview were released by right wingers
calling themselves The Reagan Battalion.
Tune in tomorrow as the Republicans continue to feed one another to the
lions.
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