Milo Yiannopoulos loses book deal, CPAC role over comments on pedophilia
(The Star Food)

NEW YORK—Milo Yiannopoulos’ publisher has cancelled his planned book, Dangerous just as the Conservative Political Action Conference has disinvited him from speaking at this year’s event over the publication of a video in which he condones sexual relations with boys as young as 13 and laughs off the seriousness of pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests. Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced Monday that “after careful consideration” they had pulled the book, which had been high on Amazon.com’s bestseller lists and was the subject of intense controversy.Dangerous was originally scheduled to come out in March. But Yiannopoulos had pushed back the release to June so he could write about the uprisings during his recent campus tour.More than 100 Simon & Schuster authors had objected to his book deal. Author Roxane Gay withdrew a planned book with the publisher in protest of his book deal. The cancellation of the book deal comes days after Jeremy Scahill, the founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept, cancelled his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher last week in protest of Yiannopoulos’ appearance on the same show.Read more:Violent protests force cancellation of speech by Milo Yiannopoulos at UC BerkeleyChildren’s authors among 160 literaries denouncing publisher for right wing bookTwitter bans Breitbart editor over abuse of Ghostbusters star Leslie JonesMeanwhile, Yiannopoulos has also been disinvited to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference after his attempt to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men fell flat with organizers.The American Conservative Union founded and hosts CPAC, which is being held Wednesday through Saturday outside Washington. In a tweet on Monday, ACU chairman Matt Schlapp said that “due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning pedophilia, the American Co ...