Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos' tolerant statements on pedophilia may have jeopardized his speaking opportunity at next week's Conservative Political Action Conference.
The right-wing provocateur once spoke fondly of relationships between children and men on the 2016 podcast "The Drunken Peasants."
In the Jan. 4 episode, he flippantly said that young boys "discover who they are" through those relationships, later implying that those relationships can be sexual in nature, and can "give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable rock where they can't speak to their parents," he said.
A host with the podcast fired back at Yiannopoulos and said, "Sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me."
"I'm grateful for Father Michael," Yiannopoulos replied. "I wouldn't give nearly such good head if it wasn't for him."
Yiannopoulos' controversial remarks were by no means a recent revelation. His shocking comments on pedophilia have been readily available on Youtube since last year on Jan. 4, when the podcast shared its three-hour-long interview with the troll.
A group known as the Reagan Battalion shared clips from the podcast in an attempt to oppose Yiannopoulos' appearance at CPAC.
Yiannopoulos denied that he supports pedophilia and that he was addressing "anything illegal" during the "Drunken Peasants" interview. He added that he misspoke by using the word "boy," according to a statement he issued Sunday night.
He claims the video does "not show what people say they show."
Milo Yiannopoulos is expected to speak at CPAC next week in Maryland.
(Jeremy Papasso/AP)
"I did joke about giving better head as a result of clerical sexual abuse committed against me when I was a teen. If I choose to deal in an edgy way on an internet livestream with a crime I was the victim of that's my prerogative," he said. "It's no different to gallows humor from AIDS sufferers."
He said the video clips are an attempt to "discredit me from establishment Republicans."
CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp said Yiannopoulos is not the keynote speaker, as previously reported, but is one of 75 speakers that include respected members of the GOP, such as Vice President Mike Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Both are slated to speak at the Maryland conference.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed shock that such a polarizing figure such as Yiannopoulos would be speaking at the right-wing convention in light of his remarks.
"How on earth can CPAC defend this," Tapper asked.
"Friend of mine, conservative, could not be more distraught by this Milo tape. Was molested as a child. Horrified," Tapper wrote of a friend.
Tapper then quoted the same friend as saying, "Milo straight up defended abusing 13 yr old boys ... Please don't let that be normalized."
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