Professional bigot and crude provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News infamy was flying high earlier this year, with numerous pro-Trump speaking engagements and a pending book deal. His high came crashing down though, when an old video surfaced in which he claimed that 13-year-old boys could consent to sexual relationships with adult men, seemingly offering an apologia for sexual abuse and pedophilia.
In the ensuing storm of controversy, Milo was forced to resign from Breitbart and publisher Simon & Schuster canceled his planned autobiography. Milo then filed a lawsuit over the terminated book deal.
Now, editorial notes from the book have surfaced, and they are absolutely humiliating, painting a picture of a man unable to write, and more tellingly, unable to even think coherently.
It’s a crippling blow to a pseudointellectual who likes to present himself as a brilliant mind, revealing him as the cheap, shock-jock purveyor of racist and xenophobic jokes that he really is.
Yesterday, Publisher Jason Pinter shared Simon & Schuster’s rebuttal to Milo’s lawsuit.
This section of Simon & Schuster’s rebuttal to Milo’s lawsuit over DANGEROUS.
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Today, Twitter user Sarah Mei visited the New York County clerk’s website and found the aborted manuscript along with the comments. They are brutal.
I went to the New York county clerk’s website and found this filing. It includes the entire manuscript with allllllll the editor’s comments as exhibit B. https://t.co/fb9yptldbO
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
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I didn’t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They’re…amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.
And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine. pic.twitter.com/2kPESxAlA9
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— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
The editor is a conservative man who has published books for 45 & other folks with similar opinions. You can see that in the occasional “good point” comments. But mostly he was very politely having NONE of Milo’s bullshit.
It’s glorious.
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Also I now know I can write a book, because ffs he wrote A WHOLE CHAPTER about how ugly people hate him
Literally anyone could do better than this pic.twitter.com/xdPhoioUT9
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
You can feel the faint air of “oh god, what have we gotten ourselves into” getting stronger pic.twitter.com/bja198uLQy
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Then the frustration starts creeping in pic.twitter.com/ltVOZ12BaL
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
More from the category of “things a professional editor never imagined they’d need to tell someone” pic.twitter.com/EIOh8cPqss
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Will immediately start using “if you want to make a case for [fucking ridiculous thing], you’re going to have to employ a lot more intellectual rigor than you use here.”
“assertions that don’t have the weight of fact” yes yes that’s another good one *takes notes*
Mr. Ivers is getting pretty sick of your bullshit, young man. pic.twitter.com/o4TEyYhomi
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
And about that ego – pic.twitter.com/eIPyHWPwHj
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
And the humor – pic.twitter.com/x24gHa7phN
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
And the…wait what? pic.twitter.com/SlgOSzSRq8
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Out of all the editor’s comments, this one most tempted me to read the manuscript. BUT I STAYED STRONG
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
These were literally just the highlights of the comments.
There’s
so
much
more. pic.twitter.com/eMikiFwl2o— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
The positive comments were instructive too. Interesting window into how they reframe things to make them sound reasonable.
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
I can’t seem to link directly to the PDF, but I think you can go here and search for Simon & Schuster as defendant. It’s one of the exhibits filed on Dec 21. https://t.co/f6Mo5FYMgK
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Honestly, when I write a book, I hope my editor will be as straightforward with my work.
But I also hope I earn fewer “I’m very disappointed in you“ notes, and maybe a little less exasperated yelling. [fin]
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
The embarrassing notes are hilarious to read, but more importantly, they offer a reminder that there is no intellectual heft behind the hatred spewed by the far-right. These people pretend to know what they’re talking about, but in reality, they’re just ignorant, unintelligent bigots. They shouldn’t be taken seriously, and their regressive ideas should be mocked at every opportunity.
