Yiannopoulos' sweet-bigot money book deal goes up in flames.

[RandySF]

Milo Yiannopoulos' book Dangerous was canceled abruptly Monday after Republican conservatives released clips of videos-with-audio in which he seemed to condone sex between men and boys.

In a terse statement released Monday afternoon, the right-wing provocateur's publisher said: "After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have canceled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos."

Yiannopoulos' provocative right-wing persona (he attacked feminists and trashed women who used birth control, to name a few of his views), helped get him a reported $250,000 book deal from Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, which was due to release his book, Dangerous, in June.

The book stirred controversy and outrage from the get-go. When word of the deal came out late last year, it inspired critical tweets, threats to boycott S&S books and vows from some authors to find another publisher for their own books. The book rose to No. 1 on Amazon in early February, but by Monday it had dropped to No. 84, based on pre-orders.

But the latest uproar was a bridge too far for his publisher.

The gay British writer, who has collected kudos in the era of Donald Trump as a self-described "dangerous" provocateur, teetered on the edge of disaster Monday after Republican conservatives released clips of videos-with-audio in which he talked about his own past as a teenager who had sex with men and suggested that some young teen boys might be old enough to give consent to such sexual relationships.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2017/02/20/could-milo-yiannopoulos-now-lose-his-lucrative-book-deal/98156040/

[underpants]

1. Good.

Let's see Fox News try to paint this as free speech or make him a victim.

[Hugin]

5. It won't come up.

It doesn't fall into one of the Kremlin approved categories:

1) How bigly great Trump is... The BEST ever! Great! Not failing.

2) emails.

3) Benghazi.

[shenmue]

2. OT but he doesn't seem to have an accent

[BannonsLiver]

7. He's a U.K. citizen

[CaptainTruth]

3. The $250k was called an advance, so I guess he has to pay it back?

[PoliticAverse]

4. Assuming he's delivered the manuscript he promised he probably doesn't. n/t

[BannonsLiver]

8. Where he loses is with the royalties

Like you wrote, if he delivered the book the advance is likely his to keep. I thought the advance wasn't exactly over the top money so I've been wondering if his deal was better on the back end. Oh well, it's all moot now. GOOD.

[Rex]

6. .

[alarimer]

9. All of his misogyny wasn't enough?

No. misogyny is "free speech" I guess. It's just women, after all, who cares about them???

[LisaM]

12. Right? This bothers me too. n/t

[alarimer]

15. He pretty much checked all the bigotry boxes actually.

Women on the internet have known about Milo and his minions for some time.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Definitely did MY happy dance!

[mdbl]

11. I can't understand why anyone would buy anything from him

He's a looney tune. Oh yeah, so are all those working in the white house now. I forgot.

[kimbutgar]

13. The little creep now needs to slink back under his rock and get lost.

[MrScorpio]

14. Sweet!