People are laughing because Milo Yiannopoulos is complaining about being…neglected.
He sends Jewish journalists $88 because 88 stands for HH – Heil Hitler. Also I don't quite get how canceling an event will cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maybe he should get travel insurance. Be an agent provocateur, but don't complain when people are provoked. https://t.co/xlZoEgqIhV
— jon ronson (@jonronson) August 25, 2018
Let’s see what it’s about.
Oh noes – he’s been deplatformed.
When Politicon announced its 2018 lineup Wednesday, even the most casual observers noted a particularly strange booking: Milo Yiannopoulos.
The alt-right troll, who last year lost his job and his book deal after appearing to defend pedophilia in a YouTube video, was listed on the annual convention’s lineup as simply “Milo.
But after an evening of public outcry and fellow guest speaker Cameron Esposito, a stand-up comic, withdrawing her appearance in outrage, Yiannopoulos had disappeared from the event’s website.
Despite that, Yiannopoulos’ website on Thursday morning continued to promote his scheduled appearance at the annual confab best explained as a nightmarish Comic-Con for people interested in seeing right-wingfirebrandsargue with liberalcable-newspundits or Democraticlawmakers for multiple days in a row.
But promotion or no promotion, Politicon confirmed that he is not on the schedule.
Oh hey it’s Milo, one of those old-timey misogynists! Let’s see how he’s doing! pic.twitter.com/2t5TuH8nw4
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) August 25, 2018
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11 responses to “And what thanks does he get?!”
‘…all the stuff I do behind the scenes I can never tell you about.”
I…REALLY…don’t want to know.
I finally realized whence I recognized Graham Linehan’s Twitter pic. It appears to be from the 1970s BBC TV production of “Murder Must Advertise,” with Ian Carmichael as Peter Wimsey. The character in the image is Mr. Ingleby, played by someone whose name I will not search out right now. The likeness, however, is unmistakable.
Mr. Ingleby was played by John Hallam, who I think bears only a passing resemblance to Linehan, the excellent Irish comedy writer and actor depicted in cartoon form on his avatar.
“I’ve fought bitterly and endlessly for a country I don’t even belong to” uh try ‘I followed the money and USA paid me well’ – what a sook.
@ Ac o’ Sag #3 –
Have you watched that production? I swear there is a scene where Hallam as Ingleby is the dead spit image of that avatar. But that’s just my memory, and of course this is a *veddy* important question.
Sounds like Milo needs to self-deport.
It costs him… hundreds of thousands of dollars not to appear in public?
What does that even mean?
Milo was never putting personal funds into his “work.” He was living on wingnut welfare, until the double-whammy of his pro-pedophilia views and his Nazi-salutes-at-karaoke came to light and made him too toxic for his right-wing benefactors to stomach.
And it turns out that, without the support of a billionaire funder, Milo can’t make a go of it. I guess the market has spoken.
#& Ben
Hundreds of thousands in income he imagines was going to continue coming his way for all time, because he is an entitled airhead.
(Laughs…)
Who?
Slightly more seriously (or as seriously as the subject deserves), it looks like an overblown troll’s fifteen minutes, such as they were, are up. A profound tragedy, I’m sure.
AJ, I don’t think you’ve truly had your 15 minutes of fame until they come out with a bobblehead of you. And so far as I can tell, the only Milo bobblehead is Milo himself. So he’s still waiting…