Right wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos ‘talks a lot of sense’, says Troll Academy tour publicist Max Markson
PR agent Max Markson is working with Penthouse Australia to promote Milo Yiannopoulos’ forthcoming ‘Troll Academy’ Australian tour with the publicity veteran insisting the right wing agitator “talks a lot of sense”.
Yiannopoulos’ December tour will see him appearing in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast.
Markson described it “an exciting project” and brushed aside the often extreme and divisive nature of Yiannopoulos’s rants.
“The world has changed over the last two years with Brexit and Donald Trump and I think Milo talks a lot of common sense, as does Andrew Bolt and Mark Latham,” he told Mumbrella. “Milo is amazing. He is incredibly articulate, witty, funny and politically incorrect.”
Yiannopoulos has courted controversy and sparked outrage with his often-extreme views on a range of sensitive issues.
He has been banned from Twitter and was forced to quit his job as Breitbart earlier this year – and had a book deal withdrawn – following comments he made about paedophilia.
Asked whether he was comfortable promoting a character associated with offensive material, Markson said: “I am a publicist, that what I do for a living and have done for 40 years.”
Yiannopoulos is a publicists’ dream, he said, with a host of media outlets already queuing up to interview the former technology journalist.
His appeal straddles all demographics, Markson added, with Yiannopoulos lined up to appear on a diverse range of radio stations and shows, including the Kyle and Jackie O show on Kiss.
“He’s a rock star,” Markson said, adding that Yiannopoulos should come on stage to the Billy Joel track ‘We didn’t start the fire’.
“It should actually be changed to ‘I didn’t start the fire’,” he said.
The publicist rejected any suggestions that Yiannopoulos’s appearance will spark protests across Australia, saying it was “not the Australian thing to do”.
“It’s not that important,” he said. “There are keyboard warriors and there will be outrage at first and then people will go to the beach as we do in Australia.
“I don’t think there will be protests and people won’t get out of bed for anti Milo parades.”
He said the interest has already resulted in “enormous” ticket sales.
Markson’s job in promoting the tour comes after he told Mumbrella 360 earlier this year that “the truth doesn’t matter anymore” in a post Trump world.
“We don’t care about the truth anymore we just care about the biggest voice and the loudest voices,” he told the audience during a PR crisis simulation.
Penthouse (Australia & New Zealand) publisher Damien Costas defended the decision to bring Yiannopoulos to Australia.
“Penthouse has championed the right to free speech for over 50 years,” he said. “The magazine was founded in 1965 during the sexual revolution, and through its investigative reporting and irreverent editorial, it fought for progressive causes including women’s rights, civil rights, the rights of Vietnam Veterans and helped changed the world – none of which could have been possible without our right to free speech.
“Whether it was Martin Luther King and the freedom riders in the 1960’s or Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017, free speech is part of Australia’s robust democracy and the cornerstone of Western civilisation. Penthouse is proud to be bringing Milo’s Troll Academy Tour to Australia.”
Penthouse is no stranger to controversy having been accused by former staff and freelances last year of not paying wages and superannuation entitlements.
Knob move: compare MLK Jr and Milo ‘the Rambler from NAMBLA’ Yiannopoulos?
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Think the whole industry would be a hell of a lot better off if we just ignored everything that was associated with Markson.
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Markson is not in PR. What he practices is not PR. He’s a publicist who’ll sell anyone or anything.
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why am i not surprised that a man whose views often mirror the silent conservative majority is pejoratively described by Mumbrella as “extreme and divisive”, with his speeches derisively labelled as “rants”?
his views are only extreme and divisive to vaccuous groupthinkers who prefer censorship and virtue-signalling to reason and argument
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Agree totally with Bob. And have already bought my ticket. Maybe the rest of the Mumbrella readers should go along and see why political correctness is killing advertising creativity.
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This will drive the inner-city luvvie-Leftists insane. They’re bursting to throw their toxic bile at Milo, but trapped in a bind of their own homophobia-phobia. They’ll attack by trolling anonymously, as they always do; and they’ll marshall their terrorist friends in Antifa to wreak havoc and assault the innocent, as they always do. This stands as the acid test for free speech in Australia, and those who try to thwart it through their violence must receive very long custodial sentences.
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There are interesting conservative writers & thinkers out there. David Frum & Tyler Cowan being two US ones.
Milo is not really a thinker so much as an entertainer. He is basically Andrew Bolt as a gay 30-something. He will say tediously outrageous things about brown people and women. He will claim to be silenced. He will find someone with less power than himself to humiliate. Then he will count his money and go home.
Enjoy.
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Matt – exactly.
I’m certainly a leftie, but I find it hard to muster outrage about Milo. The guy exists not to further the conservative side of a debate, but to enrich himself by saying ridiculous and silly things. He is quite literally a professional troll.
If there was money to be made in making sensible arguments, he’d be doing that instead.
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Is this satire? It’s not very good.
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1 – If there is a silent conservative majority in Australia, it’s a small one. Last election saw the Coalition get 50.7% of the two-party vote.
2 – I would hazard a guess that a lot of people within that 50.7% don’t think that rape culture is a myth, that white privilege doesn’t exist, that there are occasions when men having sex with underage boys is ok, that transgender people are mentally ill, etc…
As others here have mentioned, Milo may not even believe these things themselves – he only says them to shock. But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t divisive, and not just to “vaccuous groupthinkers who prefer censorship and virtue-signalling to reason and argument”.
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Interesting. Perhaps Milo’s been a frequent collaborator/contributor to Markson Sparks! for years. http://marksonsparks.com/author/milo/
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MIlo is alt right (average comments, smokescreened by his sharp appearance and demeanor). He is a fraud. Likewise the regressive left are frauds. Anywhere in between, I would favour a debate, because it is often rational and logical debate.
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Penthouse is still in business?
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LOL!
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I look forward to ignoring this tosh
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I wrote a lengthy post about Milo (the good and the bad). $100 says it’s deleted. Search for “Christina Hoff Sommers”. If there’s no comment here about her from Bruce, Mods has censored a balanced view of the truth.
Regardless, see Christina Hoff Sommers (the factual feminist). She worked with Milo to defend gamer gate people (among many others).
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You’re correct, Bruce. I’m not publishing it. It’s off topic.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
I suspect not many will turn up to see him in Australia.
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I suspect you may be wrong, but I guess we’ll see.
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We do not have free speech in Australia. How hard is it for people to comprehend that? Why is Penthouse printing we do? that is a lie!
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Are you abole to point me to a link of his speech. I want o know what all the fuss is about.
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He does talk a lot of sense but he also talks a lot of garbage, some of it is a complete lie, some of it extremely toxic. So I ask people; why listen to him when there are 100’s of other people who talk a lot of sense but without all the hate and lies?
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