Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nNew York Times writes about Milo Yiannopoulos\u2019 new book<\/span>.\u00a0 First line of the story<\/span><\/a><\/span> says Milo is \u201cinfamous\u201d and a \u201cDonald J. Trump\u201d supporter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Infamous \u2013 as in \u201ca day that will live in infamy?\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s that bad? <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Care to give us any examples, show us any bodies? \u00a0Guess not.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>And who the Hell is Donald J. Trump?\u00a0 Is that the new President\u2019s son?\u00a0 Nephew?\u00a0 Look, if you\u2019re talking about the guy who just got elected President, why not call him that?\u00a0 Identity would be certain and you could skip the middle initial, because there\u2019d be no possibility any reader would confuse him with any other \u2018President-elect Donald Trump.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Setting the tone of disapproval in the very first sentence<\/span> is<\/span> letting readers know we\u2019re talking about a Bad Person that some publisher has unaccountably decided to publish.\u00a0 Horrifying!\u00a0 Other publishers didn\u2019t want the book \u2013 might offend older and religious conservatives.\u00a0 No wonder there\u2019s controversy, as well there should be, from all right-thinking persons.\u00a0 Oh, and one little detail that didn\u2019t make the story . . . . it\u2019s the #1 New Release on Amazon<\/span><\/a>, presently ranking up there with Fahrenheit 451 in Censorship and Politics.<\/span><\/a> <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Hasn\u2019t even been released yet, doesn\u2019t come out until March, and it\u2019s selling like hotcakes. Astonishing that a publisher might be willing to print a best seller.\u00a0 What were they thinking?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019ve read some of Milo\u2019s stuff.\u00a0 He\u2019s a gay British guy with a Greek last name so you might assume he\u2019s a typical Liberal twit but no, he\u2019s funny and completely unafraid to say what ordinary Joes like me are thinking.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never paid $13.99 for a Kindle book before.\u00a0 This just might be the start, if for no other reason than to poke a stick in the eye of the New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Remember when dissent was a virtue…<\/p>\n
…well,\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>of it is, again.<\/p>\n
Milo, and most of you, and me? \u00a0We’re not the right\u00a0kind\u00a0<\/em>of dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New York Times writes about Milo Yiannopoulos\u2019 new book.\u00a0 First line of the story says Milo is \u201cinfamous\u201d and a \u201cDonald J. Trump\u201d supporter.\u00a0 \u00a0Infamous \u2013 as in \u201ca day that will live in infamy?\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s that bad? \u00a0Care to give us any examples, show us any bodies? \u00a0Guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61810,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61809\/revisions\/61810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}