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 Update at 7:15 p.m.: Shortly after the American Conservative Union canceled Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos' invitation to speak at CPAC, Simon & Schuster said it would no longer publish his book, Dangerous. He had reportedly received an advance of $250,000 for the book that was set to be published by Simon & Schuster's conservative imprint Threshold Editions. “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos," the publisher said in a brief statement. 
  
 Yiannopoulos confirmed the news on Facebook. "They canceled my book," he wrote. Later he added: "I've gone through worse. This will not defeat me." 
  
  
  
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 Update at 3 p.m.: The American Conservative Union gave in to pressure and decided to rescind the invitation it had extended to Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference. Apparently all the horrific things he has said before were acceptable, but Yiannopoulos’ seeming endorsement of at least some types of pedophilia is where the ACU draws the line. 
  
 “Due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning pedophilia, the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference,” ACU head Matt Schlapp said in a statement on Twitter. “We continue to believe that CPAC is a constructive forum for controversies and disagreements among conservatives, however there is no disagreement among attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children.” 
  
 "@ACUConservative has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at #CPAC2017." pic.twitter.com/sVWGnPCW7C — Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) February 20, 2017 
  
 Yiannopoulos will of course get lots of free publicity out of this and has told the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza he still plans to go to Washington. 
  
  
  
 I just got off the phone with Milo Y. He was unaware of this decision and said he's probably still coming to DC. https://t.co/YxCAjLyC7I — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) February 20, 2017 
  
 Original post: It was an eventful few days for Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart editor who likes to describe himself as a provocateur. First, he sparked a disturbing bromance with Bill Maher on HBO, then he was invited to speak at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, and to round up the weekend, videos were released in which the self-described “virtuous troll” defends pedophilia and jokes about sexual abuse by members of the clergy. 
  
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 Although the videos weren’t new, they were repackaged and published on Twitter by a conservative account clearly critical of the CPAC invite. The videos show how Yiannopoulos played down the importance of child abuse—“You can get quite hung up on this child-abuse thing.” He then goes on to say that sexual relations between “younger boys” and older men could be part of a “coming-of-age relationship” in which “those older men help those young boys discover who they are.” When an unnamed person suggests that Yiannopoulos was advocating for something that “sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me,” the Breitbart editor suggested that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. “But you know what? I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.” He later seems to suggest that sexual relations with a 13-year-old isn’t necessarily pedophilia: 
  
 You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty. 
  
 Here is the uncut 5 minute video of Milo Yiannopoulos advocating for Pederasty involving "13 Year old" and "older men." HIS WORDS.@Mschlapp pic.twitter.com/mAgmfpuyvu — The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 20, 2017 
  
 In an earlier interview with comedian Joe Rogan, Yiannopoulos also seemed to try to normalize pedophilia, denying that “Father Michael” was a “terrible person,” adding: “It wasn’t molestation.” He later asked Rogan: “So you’re saying you’ve never seen a 15-year-old girl, at any point in your life, that you thought was hot?” 
  
 Yiannopoulos took to Facebook to defend himself, denying he ever defended pedophilia and suggesting this was all a Republican-led campaign to discredit him: 
  
 I do not support pedophilia. Period. It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst. There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject. 
  
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 CNN’s Jake Tapper got involved on the debate, writing a series of tweets wondering how CPAC could possibly defend Yiannopoulos. 
  
 Friend of mine, conservative, could not be more distraught by this Milo tape. Was molested as a child. Horrified. — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 20, 2017 
  
 More from survivor of sex trafficking: "Please please please don't let that mess he said go away." 
  
  
  
 How on earth can CPAC defend this? — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 20, 2017 
  
 Preying on children is the definition of evil. Justifying it in any way is sick and disturbing. 
  
  
  
 Has everyone lost their minds? — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 20, 2017 
  
 Despite initial reports, the American Conservative Union made clear that Yiannopoulos was not the keynote speaker at CPAC and was only one of 75 people who would be talking at the conference. 
  
 Still, many have expressed disappointment with that decision and have called on the ACU to rescind its invite, particularly after the new videos surfaced. The ACU board, which includes the likes of Kellyanne Conway and Grover Norquist, was allegedly never consulted on the decision. 
  
 This is why you consult board members. https://t.co/PSvRBBY77n — Ned Ryun (@nedryun) February 20, 2017 
  
 Several members of the conservative media harshly criticized the invite while some are piling on pressure on other CPAC speakers to boycott the conference. 
  
 Members of conservative media currently roasting CPAC having Milo. pic.twitter.com/kTEmzGSlUy — andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) February 18, 2017 
  
 I just listened to the Rogan/Milo interview. #Milo was absolutely permissive of pedophilia. It's not controversial or edgy. It's deviant. — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) February 20, 2017 
  
 ACU head Matt Schlapp, however, has defended the invite. “We realize that this invitation will be accompanied by controversy which we think the conservative movement and our CPAC attendees can handle,” Schlapp told the Washington Post in an email. Schlapp confirmed on Monday that President Donald Trump will also be speaking at CPAC. ||||| Reuters flags the latest Global Traffic Scorecard from INRIX Inc, a traffic data company based in Washington state. It found that 5 of the 10 most congested cities globally are in the U.S., and that drivers waste an average of $1,200 a year in lost fuel and time sitting in traffic jams. 
  
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 But at least you're not in Bogota or Moscow: Drivers in those two cities deal with the worst traffic in the world, when you break it down by the percentage of time spent in traffic jams compared to total drive time. ||||| Internet provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos – now uninvited as a CPAC keynote speaker – is under fire after he was captured on video advocating “cross generational” sexual relationships between boys and older men. 
  
 The American Conservative Union has now rescinded its invite for Milo to speak at CPAC – a major gathering of prominent conservatives – as the outrage grows over the videotaped comments about 13-year-old boys and older men. Yiannopoulos resigned from the conservative site Breitbart on February 21, and Simon & Schuster cancelled his upcoming book. Milo held a press conference at 3 p.m. on February 21 in New York City. 
  
 Watch it here. He admitted he made “outrageous” statements but said he was being targeted unfairly. He apologized to “other victims of abuse” for his comments and pledged to continue advocating for free speech. He also said he has an upcoming new media venture planned, and he revealed he was molested when he was underage by two men. 
  
 What did he say, though, in the video that provoked the outrage in the first place? 
  
 Here’s the full transcript of the video making the rounds on social media. The comments were made on the Drunken Peasants podcast. (Spots with a “…” indicate where people talked over each other or it was unintelligible. Otherwise, this is the word-for-word transcript of what Milo said.) 
  
 Milo: “This is a controversial point of view I accept. We get hung up on this kind of child abuse stuff to the point where we’re heavily policing even relationships between consenting adults, you know grad students and professors at universities.” 
  
 The men in the joint video interview then discuss Milo’s experience at age 14. 
  
 Another man says: “The whole consent thing for me. It’s not this black and white thing that people try to paint it. Are there some 13-year-olds out there capable of giving informed consent to have sex with an adult, probably…” 
  
 The man says, “The reason these age of consent laws exist is because we have to set some kind of a barometer here, we’ve got to pick some kind of an age…” 
  
 Milo: “The law is probably about right, that’s probably roughly the right age. I think it’s probably about okay, but there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world by the way. In many cases actually those relationships with older men…This is one reason I hate the left. This stupid one size fits all policing of culture. (People speak over each other). This sort of arbitrary and oppressive idea of consent, which totally destroys you know understanding that many of us have. The complexities and subtleties and complicated nature of many relationships. You know, people are messy and complex. In the homosexual world particularly. Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming of age relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable and sort of a rock where they can’t speak to their parents. Some of those relationships are the most -” 
  
 It sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me, another man says, interrupting Milo. 
  
  
  
 Milo: “And you know what, I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.” 
  
 Other people talk. Oh my God, I can’t handle it, one man says. The next thing in line is going to be pedophilia…says another man. 
  
 Milo: “You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13-years-old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. Who have not gone through puberty. Who are too young to be able (unclear and cut off by others)…That’s not what we are talking about. You don’t understand what pedophilia is if you are saying I’m defending it because I’m certainly not.” 
  
 Another man said, “You are advocating for cross generational relationships here, can we be honest about that?” 
  
 Milo: “Yeah, I don’t mind admitting that. I think particularly in the gay world and outside the Catholic church, if that’s where some of you want to go with this, I think in the gay world, some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can even save those young boys, from desolation, from suicide (people talk over each other)… providing they’re consensual.” |||||
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Alt-right firebrand Milo Yiannopolous finds himself under fire for comments he made about relationships between teens and older men, comments that have critics accusing him of supporting pedophilia, which he adamantly denies. The controversy comes just after he received an invitation to speak this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, as the Hollywood Reporter reported earlier. Coverage: The latest controversy began when a group called the Reagan Battalion, apparently unhappy with the CPAC invite, released videos including this one. (Note: strong language, including a joke Yiannopolous makes about his own sexual prowess thanks to a priest.) You can read a transcript via Heavy.com. One quote: "(T)here are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger. ... In the homosexual world particularly. Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming of age relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable and sort of a rock where they can’t speak to their parents." Another: "You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. ... You don't understand what pedophilia is if you think I’m defending it because I’m certainly not.” In a lengthy Facebook post, Yiannopolous declares: "I do not support pedophilia. Period." He says the "selectively edited videos" are "part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans," adding: "If it somehow comes across (through my own sloppy phrasing or through deceptive editing) that I meant any of the ugly things alleged, let me set the record straight: I am completely disgusted by the abuse of children." Read it in full here. Slate rounds up some of the criticism, including tweets like this one from CNN's Jake Tapper: "Preying on children is the definition of evil. Justifying it in any way is sick and disturbing. Has everyone lost their minds?" What's next? "Chances Milo speaks at CPAC, with hundreds of young attendees: zero," says a post at Mike Allen's Axios blog.