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If a fiction writer turned this in, it would be rejected as too obvious. A couple of conservative authors were holding a launch party for their new book about how the radical Left is poisoning the minds of young Americans with garbage and turning them into angry, irrational, violent thugs, when a gang of angry, irrational, violent young thugs crashed the party, assaulted a septuagenarian media mogul, and started throwing things around while screaming Leftist slogans. It looks as if the book’s point has been made.
Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz are the authors of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, which as of this writing was Amazon’s #1 bestseller in the Censorship & Politics category. On Wednesday night, Mandel and Markowicz held a book launch party in New York City. Among those who showed up for the shindig was Steve Forbes, the former presidential candidate and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, who arrived in time to see all the fun begin.
Forbes, who is 75 years old, recounted, “I was talking to co-author Bethany Mandel near the counter where the books were on display. Suddenly a woman seemingly out of nowhere was angrily yelling almost incoherently about matters that weren’t related to the subject of the book.” Yelling almost incoherently? Must be crazed Leftists, right? Right.
These women were what you’d get if you called central casting and told them you needed a couple of stereotypical Leftist nuts. Mandel added, “Suddenly I heard screaming, had books thrown at me and I was soaking wet. I realized young women with short, dyed blue hair were screaming at us ‘black lives matter, trans lives matter!’ I tried to talk to them, but they ran off.” Markowicz recalled, “I saw two wild-eyed young white women run up to our party and scream ‘Black Lives Matter!’ They threw their drinking glasses at the wall where our books were displayed and ran off.” Charming.
Forbes related that “the books themselves were pushed off the counter loudly landing on the floor while simultaneously she tossed a drink our way,” soaking him and Mandel. He continued, “I joked that a dark suit was an advantage in a situation like this.” So is sanity.
The delicious irony of this incident is that these blue-haired harridans were exactly the kind of people the book is about. The Amazon page for Stolen Youth states, “The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of reality, then the Left and their woke indoctrinators will consider that a victory.” Are the blue-haired girls who screamed Leftist shibboleths and threw their drinking glasses at the wall at the book launch party miserable? You can bet the farm on that.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Is one sure that Mandel and Markowicz didn’t arrange this disruption themselves to sell the book? ?
Rarely says
Interesting. On what evidence exactly do you base that assertion?
somehistory says
Looks like Infidel was posing a question, not making an assertion., defined as:
“a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief:”
An interrogatory, a.k.a. question is defined as:
a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information:
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
That is the way that I had interpreted Infidels post.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It was facetious. Obviously, Canadian schools don’t do any better than US ones when it comes to teaching reading comprehension
somehistory says
I didn’t really believe your question was a serious one; but it was in question form.
Keith O says
It must be a scary place inside the heads of these leftist loons, I won’t call it a brain or mind, because that would insinuate some sort of capacity for rational thought and the ability to debate their indoctrination.
I saw someone at one of the “protests” they attempted, every time these charmers screamed fascist or racist or anyone of their highbrow rebuttals at her, she screamed the same thing back at them,
It was such a joy to watch, after awhile of these intellectuals being mirrored one of them had a breakdown and started crying, which led to a lot of laughter on our part, which led to a hissy fit on their part.
I must admit that this was the most fun I’d had in awhile.
Patriotliz says
“The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members.”—
How about saying—-“The COMMUNIST revolutionaries are waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members.”
Nothing new under the sun since this is basically the ideology that fomented the Communist revolution of Tsarist Russia, Mao’s genocidal cultural revolution, Castro’s Cuban revolution or the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields.
It’s naïve to keep referring to the maniacal, anti-American “LEFT” as merely “leftists” with occasional adjectives thrown in for emphasis like radical–, far– or extreme–. The delicate, politically correct meekness of Republican and Conservative narratives that is too shy to call them Communist subversives only delays taking more assertive action to stop the destruction of our country.
Another illegitimate Presidential election for our POTUS is the end of America. (See Brazil, Venezuela)
Patriotliz says
P.S. “Wokeness” is another mealy-mouthed euphemism for Communism. Stop it!
What? says
Agreed, why is it so scary to call Communism by its name. It is sad when Conservatives can’t seem to do it either.