It should come as no surprise that James Comey’s devastating testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee resulted in a lot of verbal vomit and cybervomit from the right. Prominent right-wingers openly questioned Comey’s manhood on the air and on Twitter.
For instance, Laura Ingraham mocked Comey’s account of how everyone was ushered out of the room before Trump expressed his “hope” that Comey could drop the Michael Flynn investigation. Her view? These were the musings of a “drama queen”–and for good measure, “men should not write like this.” In a similar vein, the folks on InfoWars thought Comey all but admitted he was a beta male.
All things considered, it would have been a surprise if one of Trump’s religious right cheerleaders didn’t join in on the act. Well, one of them, Lance Wallnau, obliged. But he did so by sharing a video from of the alt-right’s most notorious and deplorable trolls, Milo Yiannopoulos.
In case you missed it, Wallnau took to Facebook in the wee hours of Thursday morning to lead his followers in prayer against Comey and Trump’s other foes. Apparently he was under the delusion that they worked, because on Thursday night Wallnau shared a video that started floating around the right-wing web soon after Comey left the stand. It dubbed the audio from Kathy Griffin’s press conference in the aftermath of her beheading stunt onto the video of Comey’s testimony.
But in doing so, Wallnau revealed a lot about the kind of person he really is at bottom. He shared Milo’s version of the video. See for yourself.
Now why does it matter whose version Wallnau shared? Well, with apologies to Keith Olbermann, it has been amply established that Milo is one of the worst people in the world.
This is a man who was permanently banned from Twitter for leading a harassment campaign against Leslie Jones. This is a man who thinks some people deserve to be harassed and trolled. This is a man who, when he learned Harvard’s men’s soccer team had been circulating “scouting reports” about their female counterparts, didn’t condemn it as rape culture. No, no. He dismissed it as “locker room talk.” And this is a man who was caught on tape condoning pedophilia–a discovery that led the Conservative Political Action Conference to yank him from its schedule and forced him to resign as Breitbart’s tech editor. This, folks, is the man whose link Wallnau saw fit to share.
It was already amply established that Wallnau is one of the most loathsome characters on the religious right, a movement that has no shortage of such characters. After all, Wallnau claims that the progressive spirit and the spirit of witchcraft are one and the same, and that the media is using that same spirit to turn people against Trump. He thinks the effort to remove Trump from office is nothing more than sabotage from people who are “resisting God” by resisting the Donald.
But delivering a notorious troll and pedophilia apologist Facebook traffic is a new low, even for him. We already knew that the religious right’s bar for acceptable behavior sinks almost to ground level if you make the right clucking noises on social issues. After all, they bowed down to a man who plastered a private cell phone on social media, mocked the disabled, condoned violence at his campaign rallies, and reveled in degrading women. But you would think Wallnau and friends would have some standards. Apparently not.
It’s not the first time that Wallnau has rallied to Milo’s side. He took to Facebook not long after Milo’s fall, and claimed that CPAC wasted an opportunity to be “a safe space for a beaten-up young man” by giving Milo the boot.
Later, in a podcast from Charisma magazine–the self-proclaimed mouthpiece of the charismatic/Pentecostal movement–he prophesied that Milo would lead revivals on campuses across this country. People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch got a clip.
Listen to the whole thing here. Wallnau claimed that based on his own research into Milo, liberals were trying to do the same thing to him that they tried to do to Trump.
What Wallnau forgot was that it was a conservative group who actually brought the pedophilia tapes to light. But even without that to consider, had Wallnau done his homework, he would have known that Milo had a sordid past long before those pedophilia tapes were uncovered. He would have also known that even without Milo’s defense of pedophilia, this was a man who is NOT to be defended, no matter how much they agree politically.
Wallnau is hosting a summer camp for millennial fundies next month. But by rallying behind a noxious troll and pedophilia apologist, as well as sharing his posts on Facebook, Wallnau revealed that he’s no real role model. He also revealed that he has the same moral code as another, more famous Lance–namely, Lance Armstrong.
(featured image courtesy Wallnau’s Facebook)
