A popular televangelist has singled out right-wing gasbag and newly proclaimed “ex-gay” Milo Yiannopoulos as the cause of an outbreak of COVID-19 in her church. Yes, really.
Lauren Witzke, the substitute host of the fringe Christian show TruNews, pointed her finger at Yiannopoulos following an outbreak of the virus within the studio which also infected senior Pastor Rick Wiles, the usual host. Wiles remains hospitalized due to complications from the virus.
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Witzke, for her part, blamed Wiles’ recent interaction with Yiannopoulos for his infection. The alt-right troll had recently appeared on TruNews to promote his newfound heterosexual identity. Yiannopoulos rose to fame in the lead-up to the 2016 US Presidential election as a defender of Donald Trump and white supremacy. His career collapsed not long after following comments in which he appeared to endorse pedophilia. He’s made an attempt to reboot his career by proclaiming his recent “change” in sexual orientation and endorsement of conversion therapy.
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Lauren Witzke says the wave of COVID-19 that swept through TruNews was a demonic attack on the network for having Milo Yiannopoulos on the program after "Satan's favorite sodomite" became "ex-gay" and a Christian. pic.twitter.com/3tewgOkPSH
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 7, 2021
“I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the TruNews crew all got deathly ill – got very sick – right after they brought Milo onto their show and he shared his testimony,” Witzke said on the show. “You have to remember that this is a spiritual battle as well and our enemy retaliates. This is retaliation. We constantly, you know, battle demonic spirits.”
“It was no coincidence that Rick and his crew are in the situation they’re in because they stood for Christ and had, you know, the spine to bring Milo on and share his platform and his testimony,” she went on. “Milo is somebody who belonged to the darkness. He was Satan’s favorite sodomite, wasn’t he? And we took him back, Christ took him back.”
This isn’t the first time a host of TruNews has made incendiary or ridiculous claims about COVID-19. The currently-hospitalized Rick Wiles had previously blamed LGBTQ people, China and Jews for the virus at one point or another, calling it God’s punishment. He has also condemned vaccines as a way of curbing infections.
Chrisk
“Satan’s favorite sodomite”. Poor Ex gay Milo. These freaks are the things he was trying to appeal to too. The gratitude. Lol
Heywood Jablowme
When we all know Satan’s favorite sodomite is Lil Nas X. We have video proof!
bsg1967
This is awesome, you can’t make this stuff up. Milo is certainly getting a big serving of karma
Liquid Silver
I’ve always suspected this, actually. It’s currently mutating in Milo’s colon, too.
Heywood Jablowme
If anyone seriously wants to blame Covid on Milo it’s hard for me to object. Hey, maybe there’s something to it.
Liquid Silver
You never know. I suggest isolating Milo for extensive, multi-year testing.
Kangol2
I’m surprised she and Wiles didn’t try to pray the “gay” and Covid-19 away, and expel the demons. Is she saying her fantasy…er, religion isn’t working? What’s that about? And to think, with a vaccine–I know, the demons, the demons!–they probably all could have protected themselves, no matter who appeared on their sick, hateful farce of a show.
cuteguy
I thought MAGA losers didn’t believe there was covid? That’s why they won’t take the vaccine. Hopefully these MAGA losers will all perish
Polaro
Milo is good for a two things: infecting evil people, and uniting the QUEERTY commenters, both very difficult to accomplish tasks.
Cam
Milo probably normally just gets blamed for run of the mill things like Syphilis and crabs. So I guess he’s coming up in the world.
BaltoSteve
@Cam, are you saying he has a seafood endorsement contract for all the crabs he spreads around?
tjay7
It bugs the crap out of me when these anti-Science Christian-for-pay grifters get sick and then go to science educated doctors for health care instead of staying home and dying.
Donston
The story is kinda funny. It makes both Milo and TruNews look like idiots. However, if Milo’s career has “collapsed”, and everyone knows his primary objective is to troll and get money from trolling, and everyone knows that he doesn’t really know anything about politics and doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself, and everyone knows he has some serious issues with insecurities and mental health- then what is the point of continuing to give him coverage?
Both the left and right media have done nothing but use Milo as a freak show, continuously indulging his need to recognized for being “subversive.” And they’ve both assisted in lining his pockets despite almost everyone, no matter their politics, resenting him and seeing that he doesn’t know shit.
The left media continuing to give his press almost feels obsessive and borderline “queer-phobic” to be honest. It’s the same mistake they made with Donald Trump. Stop giving obviously hateful and disturbed people with nothing intelligent or insightful to say press. It just gives them power and money. Get over the need to have easy punching bags. When the dude hinted he was cool with pedophilia that should have been enough for everyone to banish him and stop covering him. Stop giving this dude a platform. Stop covering all his nonsense.
TMBisAOK
It’s called gossip and us humans thrive on it. Why else would you have decided to read AND comment? And funny how your comment actually chastises others for doing exactly what you yourself did.
Donston
I’m aware of the hypocrisy. Still, it needs to be said. This is not mere “gossip”, not when it comes to truly insidious, hateful people that are packing that hate as “god” and politics. It is no longe just gossip.
The consistent coverage of these people are giving them relevance and lining their pockets. It’s that simple. The only reason that either even became semi mainstream figures is because the “left” covering them. At a certain point, you need to find new punching bags. Milo and his antics incredibly old news. Furthermore, if you’re gonna keep covering for clicks and feel superior don’t act like you’re also not implicit in keeping him faintly relevant and keeping him employed.
ScottOnEarth
Did anyone notice that she makes no sense here whatsoever? What TF is she actually trying to say, besides spewing hatred and stupidity?
Donston
That was pretty much her point in bringing him on the show. She couldn’t care less about him and his arc. She had him on to push and justify hate, even if she had to grasp at straws and sound nonsensical. They both embarrassed themselves, which is expected.
Cam
You’re right, it’s like she’s saying “Good for him” for finding God, then blaming him for Covid because….he was over with Satan for a while?
WSnyder
I’m sure Milo will have something to say, as soon as he takes that dick out of his mouth.
mailliw110
It will soon be a lot easier to tell who got the shot and who didn’t.
TheRedLine
See? They still don’t want you.
Mr. Stadnick
I am not sure what the purpose of this story is. It seems to me that it is about clicks as there is little to no merit in “reporting” on these people. They are not elected figures and their focus is pretty niche. More people know of them now that hadn’t known anything about them and their utter foolishness. So you are really doing a disservice
Hdtex
@STADNICK.
Then start your own blog and STFU.
AxelDC
While I agree that Milo Fascist is toxic, it’s probably the belief that viruses are spread by demons that caused the outbreak. Germ theory has been accepted medical science for a couple of centuries now.
Joshooeerr
So Milo denounced his homosexuality/demonic ways or was cured (or whatever), “Christ took him back”, and still God made him the vector for a deadly disease that infected the godly. So either your God is some seriously twisted dude, or the devil is way more powerful. Either way you interpret this, it’s not a good look.