{"id":51095,"date":"2023-07-09T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51095"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:27:56","slug":"public-pressure-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51095","title":{"rendered":"Public Pressure Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12272975\/Target-performs-overnight-U-turn-decides-sell-Mark-Levins-new-book.html?ito=facebook_share_article-floatingbar&amp;fbclid=IwAR1zM1FzQLK6o1qF0qymH2b6N4Wgh17rXvFiY84t4cgChwKxdyKXp5Rx0KI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> posted an article about a new book by Mark Levin that is going to be released in September. The book&#8217;s title is &#8216;The <span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-4a5ae4a0-1c56-11ee-9258-cdcaea38cac6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/democrats\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a><\/span> Hates America.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Target has made a stunning reversal after <a id=\"mol-4a5b32c0-1c56-11ee-9258-cdcaea38cac6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/fox-news\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> host Mark Levin called out the retail giant for not carrying his new book &#8216;The <a id=\"mol-4a5ae4a0-1c56-11ee-9258-cdcaea38cac6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/democrats\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> Hates America&#8217; because it &#8216;may offend certain customers.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Levin blasted the retail giant on Wednesday saying: &#8216;Target has informed my publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, that it will not carry my new book when it is released on September 19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;It claims that certain customers might be offended by the title. Imagine that!\u00a0So, the corporatist leftwing censorship begins. I will discuss this in more detail on this evening&#8217;s radio show.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Within 24 hours however, Levin&#8217;s book was destined for shelves in what appeared to be an overnight U-turn by the retailer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;We&#8217;ve been offering this book for pre-sale since mid-June,&#8217; a Target spokesperson said to <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/target-backtracks-will-sell-mark-levins-forthcoming-book-in-stores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;As we have with Mark Levin&#8217;s past books, many of which are currently available for sale at Target, we&#8217;ll offer his newest title for sale when it is available on September 19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The spokesperson said that the company had initially taken issue with the book&#8217;s title in which it uses the term &#8216;hate.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;The use of the word &#8216;hate&#8217; in the title caused our team to reach out to the publisher, but as stated, we are continuing to offer this book for pre-sale now, and it will be available for sale on its release date,&#8217; they added.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8216;We regret any confusion this situation caused.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Mark Twain reportedly said, &#8220;Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.&#8221; Mark Levin does not buy ink by the barrel, but he has a pretty substantial radio and television audience. Also, I suspect his comments on censorship echo the feelings of many Americans. The left yells &#8216;censorship&#8217; when parents try to protect their children from reading trash, yet they are perfectly content with censoring any literature that does not agree with their beliefs. Most Americans easily see through that!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article about a new book by Mark Levin that is going to be released in September. The book&#8217;s title is &#8216;The Democratic Party Hates America.&#8217; The article reports: Target has made a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2523,5015,16764,9360,16763,13343],"class_list":["post-51095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fox-news","tag-mark-levin","tag-simon-schuster","tag-target","tag-the-democratic-party-hates-america","tag-the-u-k-daily-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51096,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51095\/revisions\/51096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}