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Amazon's Rejection Letter
00:03:50
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| By the way, what did Amazon do to your documentary? | |
| They canceled it. | |
| They sent us a... | |
| You know, I'm a writer. | |
| I know about rejection letters. | |
| This was a rejection letter that literally had hatred in it. | |
| It had contempt for us. | |
| It told us never to resubmit, never to... | |
| Did not play around and change the title and sort of sneak in the back door. | |
| It told us, you know, on and on it went. | |
| So, I mean, they were just really brutal about it, and they canceled us. | |
| Well, Wall Street Journal got wind of this. | |
| Others did. | |
| And the Wall Street Journal had a couple editorials on it. | |
| Jason Reilly wrote a piece. | |
| And they were embarrassed. | |
| Because the documentary met every criterion they had. | |
| The reviews that had come in before that were all very good. | |
| Five out of five, so forth. | |
| And so then, of course, we got a nice little phone call from some executive somewhere in the vast world of Amazon who said, oh, we made a mistake. | |
| Oh, we made a mistake? | |
| We made a mistake. | |
| And did he or she specify what the mistake was? | |
| No, no. | |
| And I asked them, and they said, no, that's, you know, they put it off on somebody else, some other department. | |
| They really meant to cancel Mein Kampf, but by accident, they did it to what killed Michael Brown. | |
| Right, what killed Michael Brown, which maybe they got in the way with it, except their rejection letter was so personalized. | |
| I wish you had it in front of you. | |
| Yeah, it was ideological. | |
| Of course. | |
| The irony is, see, it's irrelevant to the left. | |
| Back to your point about the weight of falsehood, they're crushed by the weight of falsehood. | |
| Because they don't ask, is your documentary telling the truth? | |
| They just ask, does it promote the leftist poetic fiction? | |
| That's right. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's it. | |
| But they did finally run, and so it is now streamed on Amazon, among other places. | |
| How's it doing? | |
| It's done very, very well. | |
| In fact, the publicity helped it a little. | |
| I would imagine. | |
| Exactly right. | |
| Prager, you got a big boost when some comedian took 10 minutes to crap on us. | |
| It was a great boost. | |
| We got a lot more fundraising. | |
| That's right. | |
| These people have no idea how helpful the publicity is. | |
| So, do you, I'm sure you know, but I don't think most of my audience knows, Barack Obama mentioned Ferguson after it was known that Michael Brown was not killed because of racism or even police mistake. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes, and many, many other people still refer to it as if it was a given that Michael Brown was a victim of white racism. | |
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Two Grand Juries Find Nothing
00:00:38
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| But his murder was investigated. | |
| There were two different Justice Department investigations. | |
| There were two different grand juries. | |
| Which had blocks on them. | |
| Right. | |
| And they found absolutely nothing, not one shred of evidence anywhere, to suggest that this was racially motivated. | |
| Keep up the great work. | |
| You're a special man. | |
| Shelby Steele's documentary is up at DennisPrager.com. | |