UPDATED, 3:55 PM: Journalist Jeremy Scahill, a frequent guest of Real Time with Bill Maher, has canceled his appearance set for this Friday in protest of the show’s booking of Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart News editor who Scahill says will use the HBO platform to “legitimize his hateful agenda.”
Real Time has replaced Scahill with Malcolm Nance, author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election. Yiannopoulos is set to appear as the top-of-show guest, a one-on-one segment with Maher, and so won’t share the stage or debate with other guests.
Scahill, who founded the self-described adversarial journalism site The Intercept, announced his exit via social media this afternoon. Read the full text of his announcement below, if his Twitter post is hard to make out.
Scahill has been a guest or panelist on Maher’s HBO show many times during the past decade and admits he might not always be popular with its audience. “[Maher] and his staff have created a vital platform for debate and discussion that at times I love and other times loathe,” he wrote in the post. “I know I fall into the latter category for some of the show’s viewers because I hear from them every time I appear. Whatever one might say about Bill, he always allows guests to challenge him or disagree with him.
“But Milo Yiannopoulos is many bridges too far.”
Scahill charges that Yiannopoulos’ appearance could “incite violence against immigrants, transgender people, and others.” In December, Yiannopoulos, while speaking at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, named a local transgender university student (her photo was subsequently inserted into the Youtube video of the speech, and not, as I originally wrote here, displayed on stage). Yiannopoulos mocked the woman and used an offensive term to describe transgenders.
Riots broke out at UC Berkeley when Yiannopoulos was set to appear there earlier this month.
Earlier today, a spokesperson for HBO told Deadline that Yiannopoulos would appear in the studio with Maher, and that, “as with other weeks, an appropriate amount of security will be on hand.”
Here’s Scahill’s statement:
PREVIOUSLY, 9:23 AM: Breitbart News provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, whose recent scheduled, and later canceled, appearance at the UC Berkeley set off a fiery protest, will appear on this Friday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Yiannopoulos, whose anti-feminist and anti-immigrant (among other anti provocations) are routinely denounced as hate speech, will be the top-of-show guest. He was an outspoken booster of Brexit as a way of preventing Muslim immigration, writing, in part, “I worry that my Europe — the Europe of Mozart, Wagner, Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke and Hume — is rapidly disappearing.”
Yiannopoulos will be interviewed in-studio by Maher. Asked about the possibility of additional security, an HBO spokesperson said, “The series shoots on a secure lot, but as with other weeks, an appropriate amount of security will be on hand.”
Maher announced a couple weeks ago that the show was attempting to book Yiannopoulos. During Maher’s subsequent appearance on CNN’s The Messy Truth with Van Jones, the HBO host conceded that he wasn’t overly familiar with Yiannopoulos’ writing. He’s no doubt about to get a crash course.
Also on this Friday’s show is Leah Remini — rescheduled from February 3 — Republican former Congressman Jack Kingston, journalist Jeremy Scahill and comedian Larry Wilmore.
Among his many controversies, Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter after his posts about Ghostbuster’s Leslie Jones were seen as encouraging a despicable barrage of racist tweets.
On the February 3 episode of Real Time — two days after the violent Berkeley protests — Maher said the show was attempting to book Yiannopoulos. “I guess we’ll be putting on extra security,” he joked (or maybe not), adding, “I’ve been a longtime critic of colleges shutting people up. Free speech should be something we own.”
Maher said of Yiannopoulos then: “He’s a provocateur. He’s been thrown off Twitter — that’s how bad he is.”
Here is Scahill’s full letter announcing he won’t be on Real Time this week:
Today I saw the news that Milo Yiannopoulos is scheduled to be the lead guest on Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. I was already scheduled to be a panelist on the program that same evening, along with Larry Wilmore and Jack Kingston. I have decided that I will not be appearing on the show. Before I explain my reasons for this, I want to say that I have had the pleasure of working as a correspondent for Real Time and over the years have been a guest or panelist many times. I have total admiration and respect for the producers, writers, and others who work on the show.
Over the past decade, the people at Real Time have become like family to me. I passionately disagree with—and find offensive— some of Bill’s views, particularly when his comments on Islam and Muslims veer into vitriol. At the same time, I have deep respect for Bill and his voice on many other issues and I believe he and his staff have created a vital platform for debate and discussion that at times I love and other times loathe. I know I fall into the latter category for some of the show’s viewers because I hear from them every time I appear. Whatever one might say about Bill, he always allows guests to challenge him or disagree with him.
But Milo Yiannopoulos is many bridges too far. He has ample venues to spew his hateful diatribes. There is no value in “debating” him. Appearing on Real Time will provide Yiannopoulos with a large, important platform to openly advocate his racist, anti-immigrant campaign. It will be exploited by Yiannopoulos in an attempt to legitimize his hateful agenda. Yiannopoulos’s appearance could also be used to incite violence against immigrants, transgender people, and others at a time when the Trump Administration is already seeking to formalize a war against some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Yiannopoulos has shown he will use his appearances to publicly attack and shame specific ordinary people by name, a practice which could lead to violence or even death. Real Time, of course, has the right to book whomever it wants on its show, including Yiannopoulos. But I cannot participate in an event that will give a platform to such a person. For these reasons, I have informed the producers of Real Time that I will not appear on the show.
—Jeremy Scahill, journalist.
Perhaps Bill will learn something that is different than he perceives about Milo.
I think he will. The Left doesn’t understand that they have been lied to about Milo.
Nope. As a proud leftist I can see the truth about Milo in his own writings and editorial work.
Nope. Milo is provocative in his wording but the core of his message is incontrovertible.
Incontrovertible if you are a White nationalist, true.
Right incontrovertibly white supremacist.
Name one time he said something that makes him a white supremacist.
I’ll wait for you to Google or YouTube the evidence you won’t find…
What’s the truth about him?
That he is a divisive white nationalist.
He doesn’t know.
That he’s another angry neocon trying to look witty in the hate jockey genre of political commentators. The truth is, he’s actually boring because he’s just doing a repeat of the 20 year old hate jockey. At least Limbaugh was creative in his time. This guy is just one of many.
Like a British white nationalist?…
I’ve read quite a bit of Milo’s work over the years and he seems like a bad copy of Ann Coulter to me – someone who just says outrageous things for the attention.
A ‘bad copy’ of Ann Coulter? That puts him Right of Looney Tunes, and way over the edge of reason. Do you argue or try and convince a Stick of Dynamite to not explode? No. These ‘people’ should be set aside and put where their ideas reside — in hell. No need to escalate the level of radioactive hatred that is the New American Con. NeoCon? Same as the Old Con.
His own words speak for himself
He’ll (Milo) make the argument that Muslims would kill him for being gay, but will ignore the right’s constant attack on his rights here in the states. He’ll argue that the accomplishments of renaissance men somehow translate to him because, you know, they’re both white…and men.
Yeah, we get it. Milo can’t see beyond himself. What else is there to know?
I am on the right and I have a gay brother and sister plus a half brother who is Mexican. The point is that you are full of shit stop thinking that know what the conservatives of the world actually think. Your are just to misinformed from the fake news.
Ha! It’s the “I have a black friend, so I can’t be racist” argument. Awesome.
People who have black friends AREN’T racist. If one IS racist they DON’T have friends of other races!!!
CJ is right. Automatic, baseless ridicule as a deflection, is a abusive verbal technique. Zero integrity.
Just like “black people can’t be racist”, right?
He’s not making a comment on conservatives whatsoever; he (the previous commenter) is speaking truly about one individual’s beliefs that have been unequivocally stated through media and writing.
Just because we think Milo is a bigot, and Milo is a Conservative, does not mean we think all Conservatives are bigots. This is the basis of logic.
Milo is a gay, half Jew who recognizes that Islam is a crypto-facist belief system that if practiced as proscribed by the “Holy Koran” leads to homosexuals being thrown of roof tops, and women accused of being unchaste stoned to death in soccer stadiums…HEY LIBS, these folks want you dead dummies.
Hey, ‘Anonymous…’ Most CONservatives also want most Gays either dead or in concentration camps as well. And Islam is the “crypto-fascist belief system?” Check out Conversion Therapy,” which, btw your own Vice President has gone through to talk about how ‘compassionate’ most CONservative ‘Christians’ are.
If you’re a true Compassionate Christian and not an Assassinate Christian, then you’re a Liberal. Not a CONservative. Liberals judge, but CONservatives CONdemn.
If you want to talk about equality, freedom, and ending religious persecution… you’re on the wrong side of the judgement line.
“Most conservatives want most gays dead…”? Wow….generalize much? You are an ignorant bigot.
What rights would those be?
Of course you are “conservative.” You can’t spell and don’t use proper grammar. You probably don’t even know what conservative means. You’re just negative and uneducated, let’s be real.
He’s a piss poor, penny ante, flea market level Joseph Goebbels.
But he has a career because he’s never gone full Goebbels, and coyly plays around the periphery of hate, giving white supremacists talking points to defend and justify their racism so they can say “I’m pro America, I’m for law and order, I’m for strong borders” as in the talkback section to his articles blacks are compared to gorillas and Latinos are vilified.
Cue the link from the Drudge Report and alt-right zealots in 5, 4, 3, 2…
You should read this before you comment “Sam theEagle”… “Comments On Deadline Hollywood are monitored. So don’t go off topic, don’t impersonate anyone, and don’t get your facts wrong.”
personal attack is off topic. And your facts are all wrong. You even indict Milo for what people type into little comment boxes – you’re not supposed to impersonate people nor let others be impersonated by others in your comments here. All three strikes. You should be out. Since I’m making you the subject I’m also off topic and should be deleted along with you. BUT MY FACTS ARE STRAIGHT at least. You have either never really listened to Milo seriously… or you are a liar and a troll.
Righttttt, everyone who likes him is “alt-right.” Sorry to dampen your ardour there, mate, but you’re WRONGGGGGGGG
Stop generalising every one in to the alt right. Not every conservative is alt right. Dust the same as not every lefty is Anti Fa terrorists. Milo uses bad words but that’s the point we are tierd of the PC BS
Yes, but if you are a white supremicist then you ARE alt-right. I don’t think that Milo makes any bones about the fact that he favors “white culture” (whatever that is). That’s not the conservatism I know. That’s fringe stuff.
Nope..Conservatives in the Western World have always sought to preserve our history & culture. That’s why we’re called conservatives numbnuts..
So no melting pot, huh? unless it’s just Europeans. Not much of a stew. This country would be nothing without the rest of the cultural mix. Where are you from anyway? Have you met these fabulous people?
The homosexual who constantly brags that he only likes to sleep with black me favors “White Culture”? Funny that, Milo actually never speaks on which culture he prefers other than “American Culture”, or the culture of free speech. You should actually read some of his stuff, or watch a few videos. Some of the things he says are a bit outlandish, or he says them to push buttons, but he’s just a person with an opinion. He doesn’t spread hate speech, and anyone that does is just being a sensationalist bigot.
Nope he nailed it
You make no sense..AT ALL, typical leftist mentality, anyone who’s a republican or libertarian is automatically part of the “alt right”, foh with that liberal BS 👌👌👊👊
Ahh the pot meets the kettle. You’re argument is not really it’s so leftist to paint with a broad stroke, is it? You see your hypocrisy, right?
This is why the left will never win another election
yeah, even though we have you outnumbered by plenty, we are definitely losing. Republicans much better at gerrymandering and competing at state level which is where the shenanigans start. Once we get a representative democracy back the center left will prevail. Until then we’re stuck with you troglodytes and the messes you create.
BINGO!
Bringing up Nazis, Hitler or, in your case, Goebbels is the reserve of the those who think only in slogans and debate only with insults. Your groupthink tactic has a name – Godwin’s Law – and it automatically loses you the argument.
How about the argument that he’s an idiot. No nazis there. So defend him. Tell me I’m wrong and Milo is right.
Well it’s at least a claim. I don’t see an argument, though.
What a defense! I can’t believe I still argue Milo is an idiot.
Sorry. Did you see Stephen Miller on the Sunday shows? Straight out of the Goebbels handbook. I’m not saying he’s into genocide, but definitely a national socialist. As a jew I’m deeply ashamed.
Sam the Eagle is posting similar comments on the Hollywood Reporter’s Milo article. Who’s paying you?
I’m getting one dollar from each of Donnie’s three to five million imaginary illegal voters. Are the millions of invisible people at his inauguration paying you?
Comparing Milo to Goebbels is ridiculous. I have studied Goebbels extensively, and listented/read to about 10 hrs of Milo. Your comparison shows how totally ignorant you are and knee-jerk your name-calling is.
I study tyrants so I will really know when they come along. You cry wolf and will cease being listened to because you sound false alarms.
The voilence and propaganda of occupy, BLM, Inauguration protests, and Berkely are much more like the Nazis/Goebbles than anyone else on the horizon. If you are worried about violent tyrants, find the people behind the black shirts, faces masks, and fire bombs who want to overthrow the constitution. They are much more like the Brownshirts than anyone else.
No engagemen with this post? Must be that you have your facts straight and make sense.
The meek may inherit the earth, but the crazies will take the internet.
Go get em Milo!
I agree, these people have no clue what they’re in for. There’s going to be so many people running for safe spaces, running away from facts and not opinions. Lefties hate him because he’s spot on with his speech.
Which part is spot on? Be sure to back up your response with facts, not opinions.
Yes, it’s “controversial” for a gay man to not want to be thrown off a rooftop by third world savages. Not everyone is suicidal, Greg.
By the way, he’s anti ILLEGAL immigrant. Big difference from anti-immigrant. Get it right or don’t report it at all.
Yes, ironic as he is on a visa himself, thus an immigrant?
Why would that be ironic? A legal immigrant is against illegal immigration? Sounds sound, not ironic. Or are you being sarcastic in a non obvious way?
You could argue it’s ironic since two weeks ago, he wouldn’t have gotten into the country even with his visa if he was from one of seven Muslim majority nations…which is probably why Donnie’s ban was shot down.
Cry us a river white men. Your tears amuse me.
No, it’s not ironic, since he still would have been able to do what he did, since he doesn’t come from any of the seven countries. He’s a Brit.
It would only be ironic if Britain would be on the Ban List as well, which it isn’t.
> he wouldn’t have gotten into the country even with his visa if he was from one of seven Muslim majority nations
Which he is not.
That travel ban was not supposed to cover those with green cards and visas. A miscommunication that was fixed within 48 hours. So please, you may go back to your crying, you intolerant baby. Why do you feel the need to twist things to fit your oppressive ideology?
And where was your outrage when Obama did the same thing in 2011? Your hypocrisy is showing.
@ Largo – so the whole thing was a f— up because Brannon forgot there was a constitution before handing over the EO for Donnie to crayon his name onto. Yeah, we know.
@ Anonymous – ok. So it’s “hypocritical” for Milo to disregard those of Muslim belief to be denied their rights as visa holders when he is no different than them. Tell me, what’s the irony in a gay man telling others not to tolerate Muslims…
It wouldn’t have been ironic – it would have been impossible. SInce Milo would more than likely be dead if he lived in one of the 7 banned countries. He’s a British Greek Catholic Jewish Homosexual. His life expectancy in any Muslim nation isn’t apt to be very long. He can’t even GO to the 7 banned countries…..because he’s. BANNED. Jews can’t go to very many Muslim countries.
@jeandiata – good thing he doesn’t want a cake from a Christian baker, huh. All the same degree of intolerance.
There was no constitutional screw up in Trumps executive order. The liberal courts, media and the people who parrot them without doing their research, use the word unconstitutional, but they don’t know what it means.
The power to regulate the influx of immigrants is a plenary congressional power under the constitution. Congress passed the law empowering the president to determine which groups of people can and cannot enter the US. That EO was also lawful, the afore mention law as passed, 8 USC 1182(f)
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
That is the law. It is perfectly constitutional. FYI: foreign persons don’t have rights under the US constitution.
So you are setting yourself up as an expert over (so far) two federal judges and a panel of the 9th circuit. who tf are you? those “liberal courts” (liberal courts, liberal media, what you mean is people who are not stridently reactionary) include two Bush appointees, including the highly respected judge in Washington St. My guess is that if Trump and co. still thought it was legal they’d have taken it to the Supreme Court. But they knew they’d be wiped out there too and that’s why they’re trying to re-write it.
Legally.
Yes, Milo may be a legal immigrant, or just in the States on a work Visa, either way, he’s legally hear, and he hasn’t come here to blow up anything or chop off our heads.
What’s truly ironic here is that you people on the right are all so certain Milo Yiannopoulos has sound documentation and yet you just elected a president who was once – perhaps still is – convinced Barack Obama didn’t have a valid birth certificate.
no, he’ll let his sycophants do that for him.
But with a visa so NOT an illegal….
In what way is that irony? Like black fly in your chardonnay-level? Meaning not at all? I think your misunderstanding of the definition of “irony” matches your misunderstanding of the word “illegal.”
Yes legally.
No, it’s not “ironic” since he is NOT “anti-immigrant”
This douche Milo along with Jack Kingston. Talk about an hour in Hell. I’ll pass.
Of course you’ll “pass”. Like most liberals who chose to “pass” will continue to keep their head in the sand and get their news source from other “head in the sand” liberals instead of directly from the horse’s mouth. The guy will be on, why not listen? No need to answer my rhetorical question…. I know the answer.
If I watch – which I will – and still find Milo to be an idiot, then what’s your argument?
You can’t handle the truth. Just as well that you’ve elected to find your #SAFESPACE!
Do you read liberal websites, or are you in your faux news, brwhitebart conservative safe space?
Conservative spaces aren’t safe. Your ideas will be scrutinized and destroyed if they aren’t up to snuff. Nobody cares about your feelings in a conservative space when you try to use your feelings to make arguments.
Lock her up??
Facts don’t care about feelings.
This is such an interesting piece you just wrote. I think it gets to the bottom of a lot of Conservative vs. Liberal thinking (except for the fact that you’ve messed it all up). The part I understand is your perception of facts vs. feelings. To Liberals, facts matter, but feelings also matter. Human Beings should be allowed to FEEL safe, FEEL secure, FEEL that their rights and freedoms are not being abrogated if they are not hurting anyone else in the process. They want to FEEL good about how their country is perceived and how it acts. It is not a weakness and it is not the product of flabby thinking. It’s a right, and in my mind, THE right way to think. I think many conservatives are just not wired that way. They have NO EMPATHY for people who are unlike themselves, and are ruled more by self-interest than the interests of the society as a whole. That kind of thinking is self defeating because it is actually in everyone’s ENLIGHTENED self interest to have a stable, accepting, moral, non-racist, non-sexist, pluralistic country. Our striving for this kind of achievement (we’ve never reached it) is what makes other countries admire us and follow us. Throw that away and we’re just a bunch of fascists. Again I love facts, and I’ll stand by trusted journals that strive for factual reporting like NY Times, WaPo, CNN (when they’re actually reporting news) Wall St. Journal (not the editorial side). but you can’t just say that all they report is “fake news.” You can doubt individual stories, but if they’re all reporting the same thing it’s probably true. Or do you think that sites like Zero Hedge are more accurate, which would just mean that you’re a crackpot?
I follow all leads. I used to listen to #LIAROFTHELEFT #BERNIEWARD and even called into his program. Unlike leftists I actively SEEK OUT difference of opinion as it provides for the best conversation and great debates!
Ok, I’ll debate you. Why shouldn’t Donald resign after associating with Flynn who committed treason, most likely on Donnie’s behalf?
Well, for starters, he didn’t commit “treason” nor even any “criminal offense” in case you’ve been news fasting. Even NPR says so.
Flynn committed treason for negotiating with a foreign country on America’s behalf. Please keep up.
False! Even NPR says you’re ridiculous!
It’s not treason, probably But sure feels a lot like sedition.
Sedition is what Soros and Obama and their mob of useful idiots and minions are presently doing to derail the US Presidency.
More liberal fascism from Robert. Instead of taking the time to prove you’re actually open minded and listen to someone speak, you’d rather stick your head in the sand and cry, “If you don’t agree with me your Hitler. Not because I heard what you said but because everyone on the left says this guy is a meanie!! And if I don’t say the same I won’t be virtue signaling how righteous I pretend to be.” People with this POV are why Western Civilization is in decline.
What about America First nationalism groupthink?
The reporting on this site is getting as biased and one-sided as the Hollywood entertainers and their political rants. How about instead of “anti-immigrant” you say “anti-ILLEGAL immigrant”; instead of “anti-feminist how about the wording “masculinist” (yes – an actual word – look it up).
Anyway – good to see Mahar has the guts to have him on – I may disagree with him but kudos to having a different perspective on for a change…
“For a change”? Maher tries to have opposing voices on almost every week. He bashes conservatives non-stop, but he also has them on all the time in order to promote dialogue.
For a change perhaps he can someone with different viewpoint be allowed to talk without being abused by some no nothing comedian
Pier Morgan wouldn’t stfu last week. Tomi just sat there and shook her head. If Ann Coulter is on, her mouth never closes. Just saying.
Last week Bill blew up on Pierce Morgan, and a guest yelled “FU” at him… and Pierce did not vote for Trump, and is a liberal who mostly agrees with Maher. If they can’t handle a lefty trying to talk rationally, how are they going to handle Milo??
Piers
Pierce was arguing spin news by saying it’s not really a Muslim ban because Donnie’s business partners can still get in. Dumb argument and he should be told to f— off.
It’s not a Muslim ban because it doesn’t ban Muslims. If you are Muslim in Greece, come on in. If you are a Catholic in Iran, sorry you have to wait 90 days.
That’s not what Trump said. But can’ we just call it a partial Muslim Ban? And why aren’t we banning Muslims from the states that actually DID bring terrorism to these shores? I haven’t quite gotten my head around that one yet. What’s 90 days going to do when no one from these countries have laid a terrorist finger on anyone here ever? It already takes two years of vetting to get in here and yes, the Obama administration was reviewing these procedures as they should. But don’t create chaos for effect. Do your review and then propose some kind of implementation. See how that goes.
Really? I thought Donnie tweeted it was impossible for Christian refugees to get in. Why’d he ban them?
“And why aren’t we banning Muslims from the states that actually DID bring terrorism to these shores? I haven’t quite gotten my head around that one yet.”
I can only assume that you mean Saudi Arabia, who is considered our ally. It would be bad form if we put a 90 day ban on people from a country that we are “friends” with.
Masculism is not the same thing as anti-feminism. Not even close.
Let’s hope Bill can listen to an opinion which he himself would have had prior to all the post 2012 rhetoric the media has been pushing.
“anti-feminist and anti-immigrant”. So that’s what calling people on people’s bullshit and advocating the enforcement of a nation’s immigration laws is called by the left these days…..
And Bernie was a communist and Hillary was the devil. You seem not to be able to take what you give, righty.
No, Bernie is a socialist and Hillary is a liar. Get it straight!
Milo will not “own” Bill Maher. Bill will concede that Milo’s free speech rights should not have been curtailed, then he will bury Milo in the back pages of history books for enabling the election of a fascist idiot. Who talks over people the most and gets in the last word and releases choice clips for sites like this one to use the next day? Bill.
Can you define fascist? You use that word but your use implies that you don’t know what it means.
Dude it is Jack Dorsey. Being thrown off Twitter for being conservative is what happened.
Fake news…Larry wilmore is NOT a comedian, despite all attempts to persuade otherwise.
Glad he’ll be on there. But he’s not “anti-immigrant!” He IS “an immigrant!”
Great. I work near where Maher tapes his show.
I may have to leave work early in case they start torching my town.
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Coat
Have you ever heard him speak? Watched any of the videos that have been posted?
He is “anti-immigrant” or anti-illegal immigrant?
I dont care what side you’re on; when i read misrepresentations about peoples political beliefs it’s hard to call it anything but fake news.
Milo articulates the truth and snowflakes can’t handle it! He presents facts,figures and doesn’t sugar coat it.
Build the wall,remove illegal immigrants and ban refugees. I support President Trump!🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
How cute. So Donald supporter, why does he trust someone who committed treason?
Wrong flag
So that guy is going to come on HBO’s beautifully designed set, sit under perfect lights with perfect makeup (like a movie-star) and market his white-supremacy nonsense to the biggest TV audience he has ever had.
No matter how the “debate” turns out the white supremacists win here because HBO is giving them a high-production sizzle real for their youtube/websites. Even if they win over <1% of HBO's audience they come out ahead.
But the worst thing the network can do now is try to pull the plug. Because it gives him even more promotion.
Market his white-supremacy nonsense? Are you kidding? Milo is a Jew who only dates black men.
Can you define what a white supremacist is? You make that claim here but the context suggests that you don’t know what it means. I don’t necessarily agree with everything that Milo talks about, but I don’t ever remember him promoting white people as a supreme race over another.
There is a fundamental difference in making the claim that western civilization is better than the Muslim cultures of the Middle East. That might suggest a form of cultural supremacy, but not racial supremacy. And so that we’re clear, western culture is both different and superior to the Muslim cultures of the Middle East. It is a demonstrable reality.
The Muslim culture hasn’t been the center of art, math and science for centuries. Their culture as it is, stifles freedom, suppresses women and sexual minorities and promotes a culture that demonizes alternative ideas and beliefs. No where in the Muslim world do they produce literature, music and art in any significant amount. No world class university can be found in the Muslim world today and the few Muslim countries with a functional economy are reliant on foreign talent and investors.
Even if what you say is true (not saying it is, but there are some things I agree with in there) what better way to set the Muslim religion on a course to reform than to welcome highly vetted (and they are right now without changing a thing) Muslims into this country and let them suck in some of our better cultural attributes. They can be ambassadors for change throughout the world. Or we can just hate, vilify and repress them and keep them where they are.
Ahhhh, yes they’re so well vetted that all of the research done on this issue suggests that it’s nigh impossible to separate the terrorists from the refugees. They absorb western culture so well that majority of western Muslims still want homosexuality to be illegal and a majority of them still want Sharia law to be implemented. They’re so open to change that they haven’t made any significant improvements to their ideology since it’s creation, unlike many other religions. You want to see what happens when we let too many of these people in? Look at Europe. Rape rates in Europe have skyrocketed, terror attacks are far more frequent, crime is up, communities have been shattered in order to make way for these people etc and the funny thing is that a lot of these ‘refugees’ aren’t even from Syria or any war torn country. A lot of these people come into these countries because they know that they’re going to receive a lot of benefits simply because they’re ‘refugees’.
I bet he misses the Europe of Wagner the most.
Why because he is Jewish and Wagner was anti-Semitic? Are you really that pig ignorant? Perhaps he would miss the sublime music a great composer whose influence on modern music was profound as still has a huge audience.
More Samuel Huntington inspired “clash of civilizations” tripe. Do yourself a favor and read Richard Bulliet instead – if for no other reason than to evaluate a far more logical and cogent argument from someone who at least knows something about the Islamic world.
Sweet Lord, I feel like I’m living in the comments section of a YouTube video of police shooting an unarmed black man these days.
Tripe HUH? …. Lmao it is fun to see someone so taken with thier own intellect .
BOYCOTT Bill Maher’s show!
(oooh, wait a minute, that’s BILL MAHER, but IT’s MiiiLoooow! What the hell do I do now???)
Good for you!
If Milo truly were a racist/transphobic/homophobic/whatever, the best thing you could do is to get him in front of as many people as possible so that they would be repulsed by him. Unfortunately for you, Milo is a witty, charming, non-PC butt kicker that wins arguments and persuades people. You are terrified of losing your stranglehold on popular culture, which ironically will force you to drop your grip even faster. Your average person is put off by the left’s social nihilism. No longer are conservatives the ones that are burdened by inconvenient facts.
My question is WHYYYY does America need another “non-PC butt kicker that wins arguments?” Don’t we have enough hate jockeys in the Coulter, Beck, Limbaugh, Trump, you name it versions. Heck! Pat Robertson is becoming more interesting than this line of angry neocons.
Hmmmm….maybe this is why Conservatives in National Review aren’t so smitten with the new racist neocon movement or old 45? Things that make you go hmmmm.
You’re kidding right? Please point me to the facts that say there were millions of illegal votes cast for Hillary? Where’s the facts that his was the biggest inauguration ever? How about Mexico paying for his wall?
Inconvenient facts? Hypocrite.
Oh the author has just slandered Milo. Milo is not anti-immigrant.
sure, not if you’re a white European immigrant. He’s ok with those. Others need not apply.
Milo needs to branch out from being just another repeat of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to something more creative. Right now, he’s something we’ve seen a thousand times over and even with his desperate attempts at shock value, he’s boring, because we’ve seen so much of it.
Why can’t these comedians offer some good humor, a sensational IQ, or maybe even a new take on hate? THAT I might watch! The other seems so abusive husband wants to kick his terrified wife’s ass. I almost expect roses to appear for the romance period after the anger.
The same reason the left slobbers over Bill Maher, Sam Bee, Colbert, Stewart, Trevor Noah. Because you like what they are saying. We don’t need six liberal comedy shows, but we have them.
yeah why is it that the right can’t do satire, they just do big mouthed ugly hate stuff?
We don’t need another “do as I say, not as I do” conservative, but here you all are…
yuck-forget about Yiannopoulos-Larry Wilmore is a reason not to watch Real Time this week