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Monday, March 15, 2004

HOW TO PISS OFF STUPID WHITE PUBLISHERS

Inspiration comes in the form of the irrepressibly brilliant Billy UPSKI Wimsatt who next week, as part of his latest League of Pissed-Off Voters campaign will unleash a ticking election-year timebomb: How To Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office. Can't hardly wait!

Today also brought news that the publication of the book has enraged the legal beagles at Harper-Collins.

Remember them? They're the spineless folks who threatened to pulp Michael Moore's book, Stupid White Men after 9/11, enraging Moore himself, who then organized librarians to force H-C to release the book. Whereupon the damn thing became a bestseller, selling over a million copies and influencing young activists! (Moral of the story: never fuck with librarians.)

So H-C turns around and clocks Billy and his crew with a cease-and-desist order--NOTE: see Willie, they are not cool! Moore now remarks, "It is kind of strange that a publisher that first tried to squash my book is now trying to defend their economic interest now that it is a best seller. And they apparently doing it by trying to squash another book."

May How To Get Stupid White Men Out of Office sell a gazillion copies. Do your part next week by buying 2 copies and giving one to a homie.

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