brayzie

Agreed.

I've only seen Scahill on a few segments on television but he always seemed pretty objective and intelligent.

Doubtful. It's more like mutual promotion for both. Milo gets his profile raised by being on Real Time with Bill Maher, and Bill Maher gets more people talking about his show with controversial guests like the attractive Lahren, and charismatic Milo.

It just goes to show, that you can be a despicable person, but as long as you're attractive or funny and charismatic, people will like you.


Nah, I've watched most of his college talks, tv appearances and interviews.I actually enjoyed Milo's stuff early on, but he's become pretty despicable.
He's articulate, witty and charismatic but he's all style and no substance. He blindly agrees with Trump on everything, and when Trump reverses course, Milo does too, like when Trump said guns in a gay night club would have prevented the Orlando massacre.

He mocks female "social justice warriors" and feminists, but gets self-righteous when people mock MRAs and gamers.

He sees the alt-right, Christians, conservatives, and MRAs as demographics to exploit. There's no sincerity in what he says.

JTH182

I hadn't seen anything of Milo's before tonight, but while I was watching the first thing that came to mind was "performance art," which is funny since I see I'm not the only one in this thread who thinks that. He's just another Millennial who grew up in the age of YouTube who has a schtick and a fast mouth.

Just like Tomi Lahren, he has taken what people like Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter and countless others have done and applied it to the new generation to drive hits, clicks, likes, and followers. They'll ride this fame driven by controversy for as long as they can and get rich doing it.

He even admitted the secret during the interview: that it's easy to get people triggered, and he gets off on it. Larry telling him to go fuck himself did nothing but validate his brand.

The best thing to do with people like him is ignore him. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

Bravo to him for finding a way to get rich though, I'm almost jealous.

Spiderbite

So this was the Milo guy that the Berkley liberals went apeshit over and rioted? What the fuck?

Those dumbasses would have done themselves a favor by letting him get the publicity from speaking because I can promise you that Redneck Bubba Joe and Christian Betsy Sue who are "liking" and forwarding all of Breitbart's stories on Facebook, Twitter and the like have no fucking clue that a flamboyantly gay guy is behind the scenes pulling the strings.

slop101

That little shit doesn't give a single fuck about being "right" or "wrong". He only wants to rattle people just for the "LULZ".

He admitted as much when he said he wanted to get all 3 panelists to tell him to fuck off.
You can't "debate" or have any meaningful discourse with someone who's only intention is to piss you off to the point of profanity.

He's a youtube comment, personified.

Troy Stiffler

That's a good way to put it. You know when you're watching some old Michael Jordan slam dunk, and there's some guy who can't help but call Jordan the n word and starts complaining about racism against white people? That's kind of like what Milo picks up on, and puts into what he says.

Milo is shoulders deep in that Youtube activity, the way I get shoulders deep in film. Or the way Christopher Hitchens was all about religion. I think I've chosen a healthy obsession. If that's Milo's thing, I guess he should go for it. Free speech is there to be exercised, even if I don't agree with it.

Astrofan

Good prediction, no? Bill never got a handle on him. So Milo ran the conversation and Bill was stuck mostly having to agree with him.

Paff

In a way, I think Maher succeeded. I'm willing to bet that half of those Berkeley protesters had never even Yiannopoulos speak. Probably only read snippets of his writings, or just read what OTHERS have said about him. I'm certainly in that category. Once you see he's just an annoying twat, he's a lot less formidable.

slop101

brayzie

I'd bet that most don't care. When the Orlando massacre happened and Milo was using it as an opportunity to denounce Islam, Christian conservatives were arm and arm with Milo praying for him.

"Thank you Lord for this gentleman right here with me...God you love all your children..."

Milo's helping the conservative cause by making it look cool. If many conservative Christians didn't have a problem with Sarah Palin mentioning "baptism" as a punchline for advocating torture, or Trump being a lecherous fornicator why would Milo being gay matter?

Plus, Milo already has that angle covered if it were a problem. He's mentioned that he'd rather be heterosexual, he thinks transgenderism is a mental disorder, said lesbians don't exist, and spoken out against gay marriage.

As openly gay and flamboyant as he is, he has the "right" opinions. He knows he'd be better off not being gay.



I'm pretty sure they have. He has both his full speeches on line, as well as shorter clips of him speaking. Considering how EVERYONE is on Instagram/twitter/youtube/etc, I really doubt 20-somethings protesting him haven't actually heard him speak.

brayzie

Yup. He's always says that the people protesting him should debate him. The reason they don't is because 1) it only helps to legitimize him, and 2) you can't have a successful debate with someone when the other person is inconsistent in their own logic, willing to say or do anything to play to the audience.

mike7162

Wow. I knew the name, read some of the stories about him, saw the protests - this was my first time seeing. I was expecting a lot of things, but what I didn't expect was disappointment. Who the hell would take that guy seriously? Is this Jim Bruer in a long form Tony Clifton-type bit? I think Maher had him on just to expose this junior high cafeteria queen for what he is.

slop101

brayzie

I'm still surprised that so many people here assume good intentions on the part of celebrities and entertainers. Their goals are to stay in the spotlight and make money.

If Milo's given a platform on Youtube, television programs, and on college campuses and he still hasn't been "exposed," how is appearing on yet another television program going to make a difference? Bill Maher wasn't even that critical of him, even complimenting him by comparing him to Christopher Hitchens.

mike7162

I agree. Bill seemed oddly cordial, which I didn't expect (the same could be said for Tomi Lahren last week). I blame the weed.

ben12

Why was Leah Remini kept completely separate from the panel? She didn't even appear on Overtime? Anyone know why?

JTH182

We'll have to see if they do it again next week, then maybe it's a new thing. Otherwise, I was wondering the same thing. Maybe she really just didn't want to do the panel, but he already had Milo as the interview.

Josh-da-man

She knows those are possums and not rats, doesn't she?

Astrofan

So we could get a real view of that awful dress with the matching dyed shoes.

dex14

I imagine he really wanted to interview with her and not just get two questions in. Also, some people don't want to go on the show and talk politics. Maybe it was her own condition to be seperate.

Astrofan

Separate.

Paff

Yeah, I think Remini just wanted to discuss Scientology and not politics in general, so it was a separate segment rather than have her be part of the panel.

Throwing Copper

I had never seen Milo before, just heard of him because of the protest. When he first walked out and starting talking, I'm like "This is him?"

Liberals definitely should have let him speak at the university.

Double_Oh_7

Milo is just a troll who's made it this far because liberals take the bait too easily. Ignore him and the troll will go away.

MikahC

When it rains, it pours. Today...
- Milo "uninvited" by CPAC
- Milo's book canceled by Simon & Schuster

Apparently there's some video out there (edited / out of context according to Milo) showing him saying gay men having sex with underaged boys isn't necessarily all bad if the boys are gay as they can help the little tykes learn about themselves and who they are. Or something like that.

MikahC

And today...