Facing backlash
So it seems that Milo Yiannopoulos is too much even for the Daily Caller.
The Daily Caller on Saturday, facing backlash, fired its opinion editor and canceled a weekly column he had offered right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
“Sad news: The Daily Caller has caved to pressure and cancelled my weekly column after a day, claiming, falsely, they never planned to run weekly contributions from me,” Yiannopoulos wrote Saturday on Facebook, adding that he was “disappointed, to put it mildly.”
Just a day prior, the Daily Caller, a conservative news and opinion website, had published a column by Yiannopoulos on the topic of the sexual harassment allegations against actor Kevin Spacey.
The opinion editor offered him a regular weekly unpaid column; the editor in chief said Nope.
A note at the bottom of his Spacey column indicated it was the “first installment” in a “new weekly column.” The note is no longer attached to the column.
The news of a regular column from Yiannopoulos did not go over well.
The Daily Caller came under immediate fire on social media for giving platform to Yiannopoulos, a controversial figure associated with white nationalism who resigned from the right-wing Breitbart website earlier this year over comments he made about pederasty. Robert Mercer, the billionaire conservative donor, said earlier this week that he was “mistaken” to have supported Yiannopoulos and that he was severing ties.
Okay…any second thoughts about Trump?
Hahahaha, he needs a backleash.
Oh, we were talking about Shermer earlier, weren’t we? Remember that time Shermer published a glowing review for Yiannopoulos’ book?
So now that Milo is associated with white nationalism, he’s too hot to handle? Though he wasn’t when he was only associated with misogyny?
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Hating women is just, you know, a different opinion. Hating other minorities is allowed, too, but you’re supposed to limit yourself to code words. The Nazi salutes were a dead giveaway.
Actually, Screechy, I’m beginning to think hating women is SOP. It’s not even a different opinion, it’s default opinion, and the rest of us are “different” (read: wrong) opinion.
It was waxing nostalgic about pedophilia that seems to have been the Emperor’s New Pontificate moment for Yiannopoulos
John, I think the pedophilia thing was strike one, that strike two was lying about having booked various conservative personalities for his Free Speech Week “event” (that he never intended to hold), which exposed them to embarrassing questions, and strike three was the recent expose of Milo and Breitbart’s connections to the neo-Nazis, including the karaoke video with the Nazi salutes.
I guess the real test will be what’s going on with the Mercers. It’s possible that this is just a camo operation, and that the money will continue to flow through Rebecca Mercer, thereby insulating Robert and his hedge fund from bad publicity. But if the money tap is really being tightened or cut off, then Milo’s got real trouble. He might conceivably have enough fans to earn a living cranking out YouTube videos, but that would require him to actually do some work, instead of just hiring interns to ghostwrite columns for him.