Post by Webster on Jan 7, 2021 19:46:41 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Simon & Schuster has cancelled its planned publication of a book by Josh Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri who was the first senator to support Donald Trump’s futile and unconstitutional attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election. “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 as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom,” the publishing house said in a statement.
The book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, had been scheduled for publication in June.
Hawley responded to the news in his typical, pseudo-Trumpian style, calling the publisher whose money he had previously been happy to take a “woke mob” and invoking Orwell and “cancel culture”. Hawley also attempted to recast his participation in an effort to throw out the votes of tens of millions of Americans as an exercise in representative democracy, writing, “Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because I was representing my constituents, leading a debate on the Senate floor on voter integrity, which they have now decided to redefine as sedition.”
The Stanford- and Yale-educated 41-year-old ended his statement with an apparent threat to sue.
Hawley’s hometown newspaper, the Kansas City Star, has excoriated the senator for his role in Wednesday’s mob violence, writing: “No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.”
The book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, had been scheduled for publication in June.
Hawley responded to the news in his typical, pseudo-Trumpian style, calling the publisher whose money he had previously been happy to take a “woke mob” and invoking Orwell and “cancel culture”. Hawley also attempted to recast his participation in an effort to throw out the votes of tens of millions of Americans as an exercise in representative democracy, writing, “Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because I was representing my constituents, leading a debate on the Senate floor on voter integrity, which they have now decided to redefine as sedition.”
The Stanford- and Yale-educated 41-year-old ended his statement with an apparent threat to sue.
Hawley’s hometown newspaper, the Kansas City Star, has excoriated the senator for his role in Wednesday’s mob violence, writing: “No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.”