Overtime on Real Time got pretty testy with Milo last night

[ksoze]

Lots of FU's and also some serious concern about our country. Wow.

[madaboutharry]

1. Milo comes off as a complete fraud.

He seems to be acting the part.

[underpants]

6. Stefan

[roamer65]

27. Russian operative.

He strikes me as one.

[joshcryer]

35. He's a gay Anne Coulter.

Just a troll. Better off ignored.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Saw that, and there's just something about Milo...

that makes me want to hit him so hard...

[Bettie]

7. I think it might be that he dresses like a combination of

the Don Johnson character from Miami Vice and 1980's Madonna.

Then, he adds a heaping scoop of cut-rate evil on top of that.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. That, and he just never shuts up.

[Zoonart]

3. Just another D-Bag

more than willing to channel his inner monster in order to get his fifteen minutes of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[KittyWampus]

4. Milo is a performing monkey who uses the Westboro Baptist Church method of grifting...

show up and say something totally offensive and hope to profit off the resulting outrage.

The BEST way to counter Milo is to allow him to show up and speak but stick a booth outside whatever venue he is polluting and collect donations for the ACLU or anti-Defamation League or whatever organization seems appropriate.

He is a ridiculous buffoon.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. When you are right Kitty, you are SO very right.

[Trumpocalypse]

5. Maher never should have given him a platform

to spew his hate.

[Rustyeye77]

32. I disagree..he was pwned totally...Maher just destroyed his career.

I now know everything about him...hes nothing.

[Trumpocalypse]

50. Please Maher did his best to normalize the guy

I read about the bit where he read things Joan Rivers had said to justify this hate monger with a false equivalency.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. That's precisely why I wanted to see him on that show, not kept off of it.

He got PWNED, as those darn kids supposedly say.

Let him talk for a few minutes and it becomes clear that he's just not that good at what he does; his ideas are scatterbrained, his ideology isn't thought through very well, his "facts" are wrong, and he sounds clueless- most of all when he accuses people way brighter than he is, of not "being very smart".

He came off looking foolish, because he wasn't among a crowd that he could bait into incoherence just by saying incendiary shit.

They responded to him exactly as they should have- at least, the two good panelists, not the toothy and useless ex-GOP congressman...

and in that vein, watching Larry Wilmore respond to Milo's bullshit by telling him to go fuck himself is several hundred thousand more orders of magnitude satisfying than watching some yahoos with bandanas over their faces set a dumpster on fire to try and keep him from being allowed to speak.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I do believe that Wilmore, Nance and Maher told him to go fuck himself

although maybe not in the same words, but certainly in the same spirit. What a little creep!

"You need to start inviting higher IQ guests"? Like Trump, this absolute moron has no idea as to how stupid he really is and dares to accuse others of being under par. Another face badly in need of a fist.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. he was a child at the grown-ups table, and I don't say that just because he's young.

I thought overall they handled him perfectly.

[Atman]

51. Actually, they used those exact words.

Wilmore, at least, flat-out said "Oh, go fuck yourself." At one point or another Maher and Nance said something similar. More than once.

[joshcryer]

36. I wished someone pulled an "iamverysmart" quip when he mentioned IQs.

Would've cracked the crowd up (who are no doubt versed in memes) and he would've been even more addled by it.

And it's so amusing to see conservatives triggered by someone saying "fuck off," to them. Oh my, the poor sensibilities of these people.

[starshine00]

49. yep. leave britney alone

mascara stains all over the table

[BeckyDem]

9. I love Larry, wish he had his show back on the air. We need him.

[femmocrat]

11. Same here. I miss him!

It was a travesty what happened to him. I never watch that stupid show that replaced his. He would have been terrific during the election.

[BeckyDem]

13. His show was wonderful. I don't understand why they did not give him time to develop it

further. I liked his style very much. I would crack up with the way he would pause and his facial expressions, subtle and so funny. Very smart man.

[badhair77]

19. I agree.

I would love to see his treatment of the current Washington swamp. He had a great cast also.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

24. Because Larry Wilmore isn't funny

Larry Wilmore is as entertaining as a repetitive TSA announcement about abandoned luggage.

[BeckyDem]

28. He is funny to me and many others agreed. He and Noah were tasked with a difficult

situation after Stewart and Colbert.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

30. Obviously not enough people agreed

Trevor Noah is excellent, I like him better than Jon Stewart. Wilmore is excruciating.

[BeckyDem]

31. New comedy show that were not doing well and given the chance to grow well past their first year

became large successes. Mary Tyler Moore, Seinfeld are only two, there have been others.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

41. Mary Tyler Moore and Seinfeld are funny

Larry Wilmore might be more successful recording corporate voicemail greetings for a living.

[BeckyDem]

43. I heard you the first time, you don't like him. I think he is funny and very smart.

I hope he is given another chance and soon.

[otohara]

38. I Always Enjoyed Opening Segment

but his panel discussions were blah...
Frankly I'm sick of panels not finding much of anything funny or interesting when it comes to Trump.
Not gonna waste my time obsessing over Trump like I did GWB - mental health is at stake.

Love Trevor I'm with you he's a breath of fresh air post Stewart.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

42. I work with a lot of South Africans

They were giddy when it began to circulate that Trevor Noah was Stewart's chosen heir.

[Rustyeye77]

10. Milo's 15 mins just hit the wall.

By asshole.

[rug]

12. That was better than the show.

[Raine1967]

14. Larry Wilmore is a hero for coming to the defense of the Trans Community.

I will be honest -- While I knew of that milo person via his twitter nastiness (Leslie Jones Gamergate etc.,) I had not seen what a condescending little weasel he was until I saw this.

Wilmore deserves tons of props for standing up for the marginalized in this country and world.

[Ms. Toad]

21. It is the first time I had seen him, as well.

Not just a condescending little weasel, but blatantly transphobic.

I stumbled into this when someone posted it in connection with the comments late in the video on Wikileaks.

Not pleasant to stumble into without any forewarning.

[Raine1967]

25. He is uniquely peculiar.

And an awful person. I checked out his wiki page because I wasn't sure if he was putting on a *gay act* knowing how homophobic and transphobic he is.

HE says he is gay and that gays should stay in the closet.

I really wish people would stop giving people that do the kind of damage he's done - a platform.

have a great day Ms. Toad -- always enjoy reading you here at DU.

[JI7]

39. and the fake concern for women as an excuse for the hate

He also said some bs about how transgender people are most violent when the truth is the opposite.

And it's straight nontransgender men who commit the most violence against women.

[Raine1967]

47. YES.

That milo person had no facts to back his claims up.

[Warren DeMontague]

40. There was a small, vocal, claque of transphobes on DU years ago, that used to spout the same shit.

So glad admin here said "enough" to that crap.

[PatSeg]

17. Thanks for posting

That was great.

[spanone]

20. what an asshole...should be in the trump cabinet

[Historic NY]

22. So why isn't he in his own country,,,,standing up there.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

23. I couldn't watch two minutes of that guy

Who is this guy's audience?

I have a hard time believing he is drawing big crowds on his lecture tour.

[kentuck]

26. I wonder if he came from a privileged background?

Everything came easy for him?

[Chiquitita]

29. Great ending

I was afraid to watch it-but it went great and made all the right points demonstrably.

[d_r]

33. This guy

Is just putting on an act of a character he created to try to he famous in our crazy assed culture. Everybody needs to just stop paying any attention to him and let his 15 minutes be up. Its the old quit feeding the troll, because all he is doing is trolling, dont bite on the hook.

[nolabear]

34. That was great on so many levels. I'll never worry about Milo again.

I have to confess I'd never really seen him, just knew the terrible things he's said and the horrors that have been perpetrated around him. He's a child playing with his own shit and giggling because the adults won't stop him. Jesus. Why has anyone EVER taken him seriously?

And WHY is King getting so much air time? He never contributes a thing worthwhile and he's nobody.

But Malcolm Nance? He's my new boo. I would have his babies.

On edit: I'd like to turn Eddie Izzard loose on Milo's sad little ass.

[NCTraveler]

45. Well said.

Trump supporters are finding few willing to continue to spout Trump style bullshit. They are beyond desperate to find someone that gives backing to their ignorance.

[NCTraveler]

44. Milo is a thing of beauty.

It shows who is really left in Trumps corner. They are so desperate that they are giving this guy cred. Nothing but positive as they have little else.

[mountain grammy]

46. They were working for you!

Party over country, thank you very much!!

[starshine00]

48. Milo is the internet personified

he is a tragedy. He has no place in real life. Milo is the result of the monetization of the online world of personalities who should have remained in their obscure corners and would have had they not found a way to connect with other undeveloped freaks. He's the Chris Crocker of politics. It is so gross, and I hope this whole 'free speech' fetish (because it is far from a conviction) of these internet denizens will quickly be relegated to the internet dustbin.