{"id":62092,"date":"2017-02-08T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62092"},"modified":"2017-02-08T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:32:56","slug":"how-to-get-liberals-to-do-your-publicizing-for-you-in-one-easy-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62092","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Liberals To Do Your Publicizing For You In One Easy Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easier than you think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But then everything is with them – except a logical, rational, non-ad-hominem or strawman argument…:<\/p>\n

Maybe it was crazy but my thinking was that one of the best ways to get young men to go see a movie was to tell them they should not be allowed<\/i> to see it. What ensued was several months of chaos and controversy that ultimately drove Tucker\u2019s book<\/a> to #1 on the New York Times<\/i> Bestseller list, sold out a multi-college bus tour and ultimately sold\u00a0millions of dollars worth of tickets, dvds and books.<\/p>\n

It was a masterful bit of trolling that admittedly felt a lot more meaningful and exciting when I was younger than it does to me today: We encouraged protests at colleges by sending outraged emails to various activist groups and clubs on campuses where the movie was being screened. We sent fake tips to Gawker, which dutifully ate them up. We created a boycott group on Facebook that acquired thousands of members. We made deliberately offensive ads and ran them on websites where they would be written about by controversy-loving reporters<\/a>. After I began vandalizing some of our own billboards<\/a> in Los Angeles, the trend spread across the country, with parties of feminists roving the streets of New York to deface them (with the Village Voice<\/i> in tow<\/a>)…I\u2019ve never seen so much publicity. It was madness.<\/p>\n

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If any of this sounds familiar, it should. Because it\u2019s basically the exact playbook that right wing blogger Milo Yiannopoulos is running on his own cross country trolling tour. By almost any metric but political correctness, it\u2019s been masterfully successful\u2014his book has since been to #1 on Amazon twice<\/i><\/a>,<\/i> and the protests at UC Berkeley last week<\/a>\u00a0generated national headlines and were\u00a0addressed directly by the President<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I need to amend the old statement:<\/p>\n

“None of us are as dumb as all of us – except all of our “elites””.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s easier than you think. But then everything is with them – except a logical, rational, non-ad-hominem or strawman argument…: Maybe it was crazy but my thinking was that one of the best ways to get young men to go see a movie was to tell them they should not be allowed to see it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62093,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62092\/revisions\/62093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}