Simon & Schuster said on Thursday, 1/7/21, that it would cancel the publication of an upcoming book by Senator Josh Hawley, one of several members of Congress who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election.
“Simon and Schuster:
As a publisher, it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom,” the publisher, which is in the process of being sold by ViacomCBS to Penguin Random House, said.
The book blurb that is still on the publisher’s website says Hawley “argues that big tech companies—Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple—represent the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age, and proposes a democratic, hopeful path forward.”
A comment on Twitter starts: “This could not be more Orwellian . . . “
Abigail Shrier a columnist for the WSJ put this in perspective:
“You’re not entitled your book contract,’ can quickly become ‘United doesn’t have to let you onto its planes’ ‘Marriott doesn’t have to let you stay at its hotels,’ or ‘Visa doesn’t have to let you use its cards.’ And maybe that’s the point.”
As reported by RedState’s Mike Miller, ABC News has championed “cleansing” the country of the “movement he (Trump) commands.”
“Cleansing!!” . . . Scary, and by ABC News, no less.
Gird your loins. This is just the beginning. Cancel Culture is just beginning to pick up steam.
Will the courts try to balance the scales of justice?Will the Supreme Court come out of its recent hibernation to deal with this issue, or will it continue to be in absentia?
1/11/21