I wonder what the clerk thinks of that, or if he’s capable of doing anything other than parrot things that he feels rather than understands.

And who, exactly, said it did? I merely pointed out that the clerk was responding to the Fallaci name.

How, exactly, does that make it better?

Stop wondering; they don’t. San Franciscans know neither what the rest of the world is like nor what the rest of the world thinks of them.

Bear in mind that the clerk was just speaking his own mind: the book won’t be available until Nov 15, and then only in hardcover. I suspect the clerk’s reaction was to the Fallaci name.

It’s a shame that there is no court where the left can file for reorganization due to intellectual bankruptcy.

Once again the left, which proclaims that no views should be shut down, that censorship is the worst of sins, that freedom of expression is the one of the most glorious examples of the American experiment, show their true colors by shutting down the expressions of someone they once embraced. Fallaci committed the sin of not following the party line. She had an original thought and the guardians of the official dogma judged that there followers could not handle the written words of Fallaci and reject or agree with them on their own. It is their property and they have the right to accept or reject any book that they wish to. But they betray their own principles by “book banning” a work by a respected writer of the left. When she agreed with them she was kosher. When she thought for herself she was punished by the intellectual gatekeepers. They show contempt for their customers by not letting her voice be heard and judged by the customers themselves. Their paternalistic actions show that they do not trust their customers to think for themselves. I imagine that many of their customers would agree with them. But by “book banning” they commit the sin that they rightously hurl at their ideological opponents. They have the right to do it and I would never try to take their right away. But if a conservative bookstore did the same thing they would hurl accusations of Nazi, KKK and all the other cliche brickbats of the left. They do not have principles, they have dogma. They brook no opposition and will not let someone who they praised in the past write anything that challenges their rigid thinking. Leftist Cardinals in Defense of the faith,Cowards!