Here Are the Most Ridiculous Editor’s Notes From Milo’s Cancelled Book
Steve Bannon‘s one-time protégé, Milo Yiannopoulos, sailed into the alt-right sunset earlier this year, thanks to a video that showed the self-styled firebrand seeming to endorse pedophilia.
The backlash over these comments were swift. He was disinvited from CPAC, lost his job at Breitbart News and had his forthcoming memoir cancelled by publisher Simon & Schuster.
The book, titled “Dangerous,” was allegedly close to being finished and he had been advanced a healthy sum of $250,000 for its publication, but Yiannopoulos felt it was worth much more than that. He sued the publisher for, wait for it, $10 million dollars, a lawsuit Simon & Schuster called “publicity driven.”
Now, however, thanks to his lawsuit, much of their debacle has become a matter of public record, including a manuscript of the aforementioned memoir.
A software engineer, Sarah Mei, has done us all a solid and unearthed not only the manuscript itself, but each of the editor’s notes. These notes are harsh, direct and hilarious. Please note, the book’s editor was Mitchell Ivers, who is no stranger to the world of conservative publishing, having edited manuscripts by President Donald Trump, Michelle Malkin, Ben Shapiro and more. Each of these authors were, after a certain number of drafts, given the “go ahead” by Ivers, though “Dangerous” seems so far from meeting his standards as to be laughable.
Here are some of his best editor’s notes.
Poor Ivers had to inform Yiannopoulos there was “no semen” in a factually incorrect paragraph.
More from the category of “things a professional editor never imagined they’d need to tell someone” pic.twitter.com/EIOh8cPqss
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
“Let’s leave fecal waste out of this chapter.”
You can feel the faint air of “oh god, what have we gotten ourselves into” getting stronger pic.twitter.com/bja198uLQy
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
“Lets leave cuck out of it.” No, not cuck!
I didn’t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They’re…amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.
And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine. pic.twitter.com/2kPESxAlA9
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
The chapter on how “ugly people” are attracted to the left did not sit well with the renowned editor.
Also I now know I can write a book, because ffs he wrote A WHOLE CHAPTER about how ugly people hate him
Literally anyone could do better than this pic.twitter.com/xdPhoioUT9
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
I’m getting flashbacks to freshman year here (sweats.)
Will immediately start using “if you want to make a case for [fucking ridiculous thing], you’re going to have to employ a lot more intellectual rigor than you use here.” ??? pic.twitter.com/WV8xwt8cwj
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
There’s also the matter of the alleged narcissism of the author.
And about that ego – pic.twitter.com/eIPyHWPwHj
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
You can really see the anger starting to creep in here. This must be several chapters in.
Then the frustration starts creeping in pic.twitter.com/ltVOZ12BaL
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Finally, there’s this little nugget, which suggests a book far more complicated than it possibly could be.
And the…wait what? pic.twitter.com/SlgOSzSRq8
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017
Wait what, indeed. As of this writing, Yiannopoulos has not responded to the unearthing of these editor’s notes.
[image via screenshot]
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