The organizer of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and head of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp appeared on Fox News and MSNBC to respond to the controversy over his decision to invite, and then uninvite Breitbart editor and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at the annual CPAC gathering. Yiannopoulos was supposed to speak to the conservatives about censorship on college campuses before the revelation of a clip from an old interview where he spoke positively about man-boy love.





MARTHA MCCALLUM, FOX NEWS: Is there anything that he could do to be re-invited at this point?



MATT SCHLAPP: Well, not to this year's CPAC, but as a human being I urge him to get out there aggressively if he-- If he has been taken out of context, he needs to fight to clear his name. He needs to do that himself, it is not the ACU's job or CPAC's job to do that for him.



I wish that he would do that. He started today. Do that aggressively. Because there is no place in the conservative movement for people that would mainstream something as horrible as pedophilia.

SCHLAPP: I definitely agree with you when you say we're a long way from Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley. Our culture is in a completely different place. And I think there's a lot of older traditional conservatives who are looking at younger voters, younger people in the country. And they despair for the fact they think they have lost them. And they are trying to get them back.



And we have to deal with the reality in which we live. And I think it is unfortunate. I think there are many things Ronald Reagan would never have contemplated that are real and alive in our society.



And it's important for folks to understand that the conservatives who assemble at CPAC expect to talk about the things that they see on their television sets and they read about.



And it's not all pleasant. And it's not an endorsement just because you get an invitation. As a matter of fact, an invitation sometimes is an opening to a debate and a conversation. Conservatives can have that even if some folks on campuses can't.

On MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Schlapp said: