Simon & Schuster's rebuttal against Milo Yiannopoulos lawsuit reveals hilarious editorial notes

This section of Simon & Schuster’s rebuttal to Milo’s lawsuit over DANGEROUS. 🤭 pic.twitter.com/JxydVQpx4f

— Jason Pinter (@jasonpinter) December 27, 2017

• ICYMI: alt-right troll, racist, sexist, and all-around bigot Milo Yiannopoulos was offered a book deal by Simon & Schuster in 2016. Within two months they dropped the book after video where Milo appeared to defend sexual relationships between men and boys resurfaced


• Milo sued Simon & Schuster for breach of contract


• S&S are currently defending themselves by saying his book was unpublishable and full of errors. They included the editorial notes for the book which are... a lot


• Some of the notes include statements like:

I went to the New York county clerk’s website and found this filing. It includes the entire manuscript with allllllll the editor’s comments as exhibit B. https://t.co/fb9yptldbO

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

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 editor is a conservative man who has published books for 45 & other folks with similar opinions. You can see that in the occasional “good point” comments. But mostly he was very politely having NONE of Milo’s bullshit.

It’s glorious.

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

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

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

Then the frustration starts creeping in pic.twitter.com/ltVOZ12BaL

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

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

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

“assertions that don’t have the weight of fact” yes yes that’s another good one *takes notes* 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/1uUybOLw4S

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

Mr. Ivers is getting pretty sick of your bullshit, young man. pic.twitter.com/o4TEyYhomi

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

And about that ego - pic.twitter.com/eIPyHWPwHj

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

And the humor - pic.twitter.com/x24gHa7phN

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

And the...wait what? pic.twitter.com/SlgOSzSRq8

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

Out of all the editor’s comments, this one most tempted me to read the manuscript. BUT I STAYED STRONG

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

These were literally just the highlights of the comments.
There’s
so
much
more. pic.twitter.com/eMikiFwl2o

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

The positive comments were instructive too. Interesting window into how they reframe things to make them sound reasonable.

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

Honestly, when I write a book, I hope my editor will be as straightforward with my work.

But I also hope I earn fewer “I’m very disappointed in you“ notes, and maybe a little less exasperated yelling. [fin]

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017