Conservative Website Daily Caller Drops Milo Yiannopoulos After One Column

“I’m Disappointed,” Yiannopoulous Said

Conservative website The Daily Caller, co-founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and with an its own anti-Semitic history, has opted not to proceed with a weekly column from controversial writer Milo Yiannopoulos.

Salon reported this week that the Yiannopoulos had become the “latest white nationalist to write for the Daily Caller,” noting that he would not receive a salary for his contributions.

“Yiannopoulos wrote on his Facebook page Saturday afternoon that the Daily Caller had ‘caved to pressure and canceled my weekly column,’” The Hill reported Saturday, citing the post in which the Brietbart alum labeled “right-wing media” as “spineless in the face of outrage mobs.”

“Sad news: The Daily Caller has caved to pressure and cancelled my weekly column after a day, claiming, falsely, they never planned to run weekly contributions from me,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “Where will it end? So: no new MILO column for now. This sort of cowardice is why the Right in America loses and will keep losing the culture wars.”

The one column completed by Yiannopoulous attacked Kevin Spacey for the allegations of sexual abuse and sexual advances to a minor facing the former “House of Cards” actor. Ironic and in poor taste, given that in February, Yiannopoulous lost a $250,000 book deal after the re-surfacing of comments he made that defended the statutory rape of teenage boys.

The Hill also reported that Yiannopoulous “made a number of explosive claims, including claiming without evidence that straight people in America are more likely to be fired for their sexuality than LGBT Americans.”

Controversy has followed Yiannopoulos wherever he’s gone. He also lost a speaking invitation at the conservative CPAC event in February, and his “Free Speech Week” event at UC Berkeley was canceled one day before it was scheduled to begin.

Just this week, billionaire investor Robert Mercer also announced that he was cutting financial ties for Yiannopoulous. The news, as LGBTQ Nation reported, “comes around a month after BuzzFeed exposed the publication’s dealings with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, with emails from Yiannopoulos” included. 

“I’m disappointed,” Milo Yiannopoulous said. “To put it mildly.”

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