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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SOLIDARITY?
Famously oppressed local dissident Antony Loewenstein is yet to offer any support to fellow silenced author Mark Steyn:
We’ve received many complaints from readers from Vancouver to Toronto to Halifax who’ve tried to purchase America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It in their nearest Chapters-Indigo-Coles only to be told that their local branch of Canada’s multi-appellated monopoly bookstore chain doesn’t have the book and has no plans to get it ...
C’mon, Antony! Speak up! Denounce the silencing!
Oh, I’m sure Ant wanted to show solidarity with his fellow silenced author. But he was silenced regarding the silencing of Mark Steyn (profits be upon him). Worse still, this nefarious silencing of the silencing was not heard about because, yes, it was silenced. Silenced cubed!
And just who is doing all this silencing? The government, of course. Or neocons. Bush. Karl possibly. With help from men in black helicopters. You can find it all in Counterpunch man.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 21 at 07:33 AM • permalinkNot entirely true. The book is available via the Indigo website
On a side note if you go into any Indigo/Chapters website the anti-Bush left wing books are all given prominent display. Any conservative or “right wing” books are buried in the shelves.
As a form of Direct Action whenever I go into on of their stores I switch them around (I am such a rebel.
Posted by Meatriarchy on 2006 10 21 at 08:47 AM • permalinkI like to pass the time and amuse myself while waiting at airports by checking out the book selections at the shops and moving the conservative authors from the bottom shelf or from behind the romance novels and putting them in front of liberal authors lined up spine to spine on the top shelves. Just my little way to make the world a better place.
Check out the book shelves the next time you’re at an airport and if I haven’t been there yet, make the switch yourself. You’ll feel so much better and nobody will know why you have that little sly smile on our face.
Ha!
Antony’s book is now into it’s third printing! The second printing corrected the map on page nine such that Haifa is no longer on the border of Lebanon. I understand later versions also made ‘subtle’ changes to other ‘printing errors’ in the first edition.
Curiously, whilst frequently referring to his book as “Best selling” and “now in its third printing”, Antony and the publisher has not once (to my knowledge) disclosed how many copies were actually sold.
Speaking of masturbation, I have glanced at a copy, and am amused to note his claim in the notes that Israeli airport security “inspected his groin” on the way out of Israel.
C’mon, Antony! Speak up! Denounce the silencing!
He can’t. He’s much too busy vilifying Israel and the US and shouting Hooray for Defeat:
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Bush administration is finally acknowledging that its Iraq mission has failed (shame it took hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis for this to happen, not that pro-war cheerleaders seem to care.)
Hundreds of thousands! That’s some “real world” analysis right there Antony....On a side note if you go into any Indigo/Chapters website the anti-Bush left wing books are all given prominent display. Any conservative or “right wing” books are buried in the shelves.
Amazing Borders hasn’t bought them out yet.
Never under estimate the power of a hissy bookstore clerk. I remember when Unfit for Command came out, and I went to my local Bookstar to pre-order it. The clerk tried to talk me out of pre-ordering as he pulled it up on his terminal..."I really don’t think we going to have demand [sees preorder list] for—oh.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 21 at 03:50 PM • permalink#4 and 5
We enjoy turning copies of Cosmopolitan and Cleo back to front in checkout lane racks in supermarkets. It amazes us that companies that promote themselves as having family values see nothing wrong with placing headlines for ‘get better oral sex’ at the eye level of a 6-y-o.-- Nick and Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 10 21 at 05:04 PM • permalink..."I really don’t think we going to have demand [sees preorder list] for—oh.”
Even with a hissy leftoid clerk, money talks, bulls**t walks.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 21 at 05:43 PM • permalinkAntony knows how to masturbate?
Well, last I heard, he’s a self-made man.....
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 21 at 05:44 PM • permalinkAs Christopher Hitchens pointed out, the silence about the left’s last fetish figure-- the100,000 plus Iraqi children supposed to be killed annually by sanctions - is deafening. Matt Welch probed the origins of these numbers in an article that sheds light on the Roberts/Lancet hoo-ha.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 10 21 at 08:39 PM • permalinkStrike that and move it somewhere else!!!
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 10 21 at 08:40 PM • permalinkSay what you like about Ant (and I’ve said plenty), he used to get a fair number of hits over at his laughable blog at one point in time. Looks like it’s flatlining these days - if the number of comments he’s attracting is indicative of anything. Hang on...this is the Australian leftwing blogosphere’s most celebrated published author! What’s wrong with this picture?
Okay, back on message. My point is in fact rather subtle: Ant may well speak up against the “silencing” of of the estimable Mr Steyn - he may not. Ask yourself; if a tree falls in the forest and nobody knows…
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 10 21 at 09:09 PM • permalink#21 and #22
Looks like it’s flatlining these days - if the number of comments he’s attracting is indicative of anything.
Are you referring to the number of comments submitted? Or the comments he doesn’t censor. There’s a considerable difference…
Oh Dear.
Not only has the Neo-Nazi, Australian League of Rights joined other right-wing extremist groups endorsing Antony Loewenstein’s book, Holocaust deniers are now turning up to Loewenstein’s speeches as well.
This is what happens when you lay down with dogs…
Of course he’ll have a helluva time blaming Zionists for his newest PR problem. Unless Neo-Nazis are also a cunning Zionist plot...[/loewenstein]
PW - having seen Ant and his accessories in real life I really doubt that any self-respecting woman would… want Ant (couldn’t think of a nice way to put it).
Also, I think you should apologise to all soldiers (even the Fwench) for even suggesting that Ant has any kind of soldiering genes in him at all (human shield comment notwithstanding).
Steyn refers to one Heather Reisman as the apparent book buyer for all of Canada’s bookshops. This is amazing. Now THIS is power. Especially when wielded as this woman does - she won’t stock books by conservative authors. Wow!
If I was a stockholder and found that the buyer won’t stock a book that is #2 at Amazon I’d be calling for her head.
This ban must be costing he employers a fortune.Antony knows how to masturbate, but he doesn’t know how to stop.
Buy America Alone from Steynonline direct. Mr Steyn then gets more money to fund his evilness and you get a copy with right wing cool; Mark Steyn’s personalised command to you.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 22 at 10:34 PM • permalink#29 Reisman is the CEO of Indigo/Chapters.
Under her direction Indigo/Chapters does not carry any magazines related to firearms.
She also refuses to carry Mein Kampf (but that’s ok we know how that one ends).
Posted by Meatriarchy on 2006 10 23 at 04:30 PM • permalink
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Amazon ought to advertise the hell out of this book and do a booming business in Canada! Then Bezos can give Chapters-Indigo-Coles a rousing raspberry, and a bare buttocks salute waved in their general direction.