ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
If you’re looking for someone to blame for the Milo phenomenon, here are a few people who ought to be in your crosshairs. Troll them! They will love it. My former editor at Breitbart, Alex Marlow, has the best judgment of any journalist working today and saved me from plenty of near-misses in early drafts of this manuscript. I wouldn’t be where I am without him.
My deputy, Allum Bokhari, without whom this book would never have got off the ground, is a major journalistic talent and will eclipse me when I finally collapse unconscious onto a pile of Nigerian rent boys. Colin Madine flawlessly executed the most difficult job in media throughout 2016 -- keeping Milo Yiannopoulos on the straight and narrow.
Thank you to my dark angel Lexica for helping me to produce the best pop album of 2017. You shaped my thinking and I am forever grateful. One day we will be free at a Snctm party in the Hills.
James Cook: wise counsel. Scott Walter and Rachel Fulton Brown provided constant intellectual nourishment. Based Mom, Christina Hoff Sommers, kept me kind. Drake Bell kept a smile on my face. Azealia Banks for being the big sis I never had. Ann Coulter has been both a friend and a professional inspiration. Lee Habib taught me how to be a star. David Horowitz saw my genius before almost anyone else and gave me the Annie Taylor award for journalistic bravery, which I keep on my desk as a reminder of his good taste and judgment.
My assistants Marc and Marc make sure I show up within an hour or two of the advertised time. My legal team does a lot of heavy lifting and they never so much as raise an eyebrow at my ludicrous demands. Thanks to the squad for keeping the travelling Dangerous Faggot circus fed, watered and looking fabulous -- Mike, Hayden, Hunter, Seabass, Blake and of course Will Magner Fitness and my Dangerous Faggot tour manager Andrew Greider. Matt Perdie is the most remarkable colleague I have ever had. Thanks Gabe, for keeping the lights on last year. Alexander Macris, thank you for captaining the ship with a steady hand. Will Ross -- we miss you.
Thanks to my partner in crime Pizza Party Ben for keeping the meme tank full. I could have been a better friend while on tour and while writing this book to Alicia, Colette and Sascha for the past three years. But I know they will forgive me eventually. My new friend David Suarez threw me a bone without which this book could not have been published.
And of course I couldn’t have done it without Thomas Flannery.
THANK YOU TO ALL THE HATERS -- WITHOUT YOU I’D BE NOWHERE. TO ALL THE HUNGRY TIGERS WHO TRIED IT - STAY MAD! TO EVERYONE WHO SAID I COULDN’T MAKE IT, LOOK AT ME NOW! IN PARTICULAR: Anita Sarkeesian! Couldn’t have done it without you, babe. Leslie Jones, for making me even more famous. And Jack Dorsey, who did so much to get Daddy elected.
Finally: thanks to Steve Bannon and to God -- jointly, for everything else.