sales of Amy Coney Barrett's book? These "editors" claim to be smarter than
us, but they don't even understand the allure of the forbidden fruit? LOL.
Posted on 10/28/2022 1:20:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan
DAVID HARSANYI FROM THE FEDERALIST 1:00 PM on October 28, 2022...
More than 350 literary workers—agents, editors, publicists, and writers—have signed an open letter demanding Penguin Random House drop publication of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s upcoming book. It should be noted, that there are some legitimate editors on the list, but many signees –-“Leslie” and editorial interns and so on –- are not exactly Nan Talese. And yet, the document, brimming with nonsensical, contradictory, confusingly reasoned claims, is a useful window into the increasingly authoritarian mindset of the cultural American left.
The letter argues that Random House has a duty to stop the publication of ACB’s book to save free speech. “This is not just a book that we disagree with, and we are not calling for censorship,” says the letter, titled “We Dissent.” “We cannot stand idly by while our industry misuses free speech to destroy our rights.” It quotes British leftist David Puttnam, who contends that the media has a duty to “balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
We must purge these institutions of Communists without mercy if we are to preserve our Republic.
Joseph Goebbels was a writer.
“The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is”...L.Star
It’s nice to think of how those 350 rabid libtard losers will be crying in their chardonnay on Election Night.
See my tagline.
Yes it is! I am going to enjoy a nice glass of scotch and revel in their weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I hadn’t even heard that ACB was writing a book. Now that these censorious lefties have given it free publicity, I’m inclined to get it on Kindle as soon as it comes out.
Certainly not! Instead, this is a book we disagree with, and we are calling for censorship. We're sure you can appreciate the difference.
“We cannot stand idly by while our industry misuses free speech to destroy our rights.”
Free speech was never intended to "protect your rights", you stupid asses.
“We must shut down free speech in order to preserve free speech!”
Actually, Lenin said it the opposite way:
When asked why he (Lenin) no longer supported free speech, after having supported it, he said: “Yes, I did support free speech, but that was when I was in the opposition”.
1st Amendment, Build Back Better style…
I'm waiving my 'Two-Limit Martini Rule' that night, if things go in our favor. Even more so if they don't! ;)
Why is this excerpted?
Is the Federalist now on ‘the list’?
Our Democracy is so important, it is too important to be left to the voters.😆😆
Won’t they be embarrassed when they discover the book is about gardening.
Open letter? Why aren’t their names revealed? Doesn’t sound like an open letter to me.
“Random House has a duty!”
Remember these are the folks that have absolutely no civic virtue in them whatsoever. They want as much control as they can possibly steal.
“I’m waiving my ‘Two-Limit Martini Rule’ that night, if things go in our favor. Even more so if they don’t! ;)”
I’ve been thinking on V8 Bloody Maria’s with a stalk of celery.
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