The world was aghast when alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos went from Twitter troll to potential best-selling author after the provocateur scored a massive book deal with Simon & Schuster.
Thanks to general opposition and the former Breitbart writer’s dumbass remarks endorsing pedophilia, the publisher canceled the deal — prompting Yiannopoulos to file a lawsuit against S&S for ruining his “brand.”
As it turns out, the petty suit was the best thing to happen to Yiannopoulos’ critics, because the editor’s notes for his first draft were among the public court docs that found their way to Twitter. And, holy-Steve Bannon are they rough!
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Publisher and novelist Jason Pinter tweeted out screenshots of the court records on Wednesday, including scathing feedback from Yiannopoulos’ conservative editor Mitchell Ivers on the book’s weak arguments, arbitrary insults, and one too many “black-dick” jokes.
Overall, Ivers called the Dangerous manuscript “at best, a superficial work full of incendiary jokes with no coherent or sophisticated analysis of political issues.” But the real hilarity lies in Ivers’ page comments, which grew increasingly infuriated with Yiannopoulos’s inability to string together a logical argument.
Do these notes hint at yet another reason why his book wasn’t published? See the lowlights for yourself (below), provided by delighted Twitter users:
Court filings say @simonschuster editor @MitchellIvers considered #MiloYiannopoulos‘ first draft “at best, a superficial work full of incendiary jokes with no coherent or sophisticated analysis of political issues.” Cader / @PublishersLunch https://t.co/Ws21o5dImC
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) December 23, 2017
Retweeted without comment. https://t.co/tzjvJMwX8j
— Mitchell Ivers (@MitchellIvers) December 27, 2017
I didn├óΓé¼Γäót read the manuscript. Just the comments. They├óΓé¼Γäóre…amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.
And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine. pic.twitter.com/2kPESxAlA9
— 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├óΓé¼Γäód 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├óΓé¼Γäóre going to have to employ a lot more intellectual rigor than you use here.” ├░┼╕ΓÇ¥┬Ñ├░┼╕ΓÇ¥┬Ñ├░┼╕ΓÇ¥┬Ñ pic.twitter.com/WV8xwt8cwj
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
“assertions that don├óΓé¼Γäót have the weight of fact” yes yes that├óΓé¼Γäós another good one *takes notes* ├░┼╕ΓÇ¥┬Ñ├░┼╕ΓÇ¥┬Ñ├░┼╕ΓÇ¥┬Ñ pic.twitter.com/1uUybOLw4S
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
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
Thoughts???
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