{"id":1102991,"date":"2021-12-09T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102991"},"modified":"2021-12-09T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:14:23","slug":"activists-demand-matt-walshs-johnny-the-walrus-be-removed-as-amazons-top-lgbtq-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-demand-matt-walshs-johnny-the-walrus-be-removed-as-amazons-top-lgbtq-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Demand Matt Walsh\u2019s \u2018Johnny The Walrus\u2019 Be Removed As Amazon\u2019s Top \u2018LGBTQ+\u2019 Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factivists-demand-matt-walshs-johnny-the-walrus-be-removed-as-amazons-top-lgbtq-book%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Activists are furious that Daily Wire podcast host and children\u2019s author Matt Walsh has the number one best-selling book in Amazon\u2019s \u201cLGBTQ+\u201d category with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Johnny-Walrus-Matt-Walsh\/dp\/1956007059\/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=matt+walsh&amp;qid=1638715453&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-3\">Johnny the Walrus.\u201d<\/a> The book challenges the radical transgender agenda being pushed on children.<\/p>\n<p>The book landed the number one spot on the LGBTQ+ list this weekend, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-Sellers-Books-LGBTQ\/zgbs\/books\/301889\">still remains there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5\">Brennan Suen, who covers LGBT issues for far-left site Media Matters, called Walsh\u2019s placement \u201ctotally unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotally unacceptable that [Amazon]&nbsp;is listing Matt Walsh\u2019s anti-trans children\u2019s book as an \u2018LGBTQ+ Book\u2019 \u2014 also goes to show how easy it is for conservatives to manipulate sales and make money off this grift,\u201d he angrily posted to Twitter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">totally unacceptable that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amazon<\/a> is listing Matt Walsh&#8217;s anti-trans children&#8217;s book as an &#8220;LGBTQ+ Book&#8221; \u2014 also goes to show how easy it is for conservatives to manipulate sales and make money off this grift <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOg7Q7Jb0l\">pic.twitter.com\/JOg7Q7Jb0l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brennan Suen (@brennansuen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brennansuen\/status\/1468585255296770053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is horrible,\u201d activist group GLAAD reacted. Tagging Amazon, the LGBT activist group added, \u201cPlease remove this book from the LGBTQ category immediately. It is absolutely not an LGBTQ book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s book \u201ctargets transgender people with hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric,\u201d the group accused without evidence.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is horrible. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmazonHelp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmazonHelp<\/a> Please remove this book from the LGBTQ category immediately. It is absolutely not an LGBTQ book. It specifically targets transgender people with hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KWw1xFVqVq\">https:\/\/t.co\/KWw1xFVqVq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GLAAD (@glaad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glaad\/status\/1468658820444475397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tagging influential tech journalist Kara Swisher, Jenni Olson posted, \u201ccan you get [Jeff Bezos]&nbsp;to help with this? Does [Amazon]&nbsp;really believe that an anti-trans extremist book belongs in their <a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGBTQ?src=hashtag_click\">#LGBTQ<\/a> category?\u201d Olson, an LGBT activist, quote-tweeted GLAAD\u2019s disapproving tweet of Walsh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karaswisher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@karaswisher<\/a> \u2013 can you get <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JeffBezos<\/a> to help with this? Does <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amazon<\/a> really believe that an anti-trans extremist book belongs in their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LGBTQ<\/a> category? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sGMRw28Vlb\">https:\/\/t.co\/sGMRw28Vlb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/McU9KiUWZK\">pic.twitter.com\/McU9KiUWZK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jenni Olson (@JenniOlsonSF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniOlsonSF\/status\/1468676492796203010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walsh has stated that a child cannot be a walrus, just as a child cannot change their sex or gender; neither should be indulged or, heaven forbid, taken to such an extreme that a child is mutilated or irreparably harmed.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, a fierce cultural critic on the Right, first released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Johnny-Walrus-Matt-Walsh\/dp\/1956007059\/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=matt+walsh&amp;qid=1638715453&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-3\">Johnny the Walrus<\/a>\u201d on November 29 \u2014 to immediate success.<\/p>\n<p>The book features a young boy named Johnny, who has a wild imagination. The child envisions himself as many things, including a walrus. His progressive mom knows her boy is a boy, but becomes pressured by her friends on social media to treat and \u201ctransition\u201d her child to live his true identity as a walrus. Mom is faced with the choice of either protecting her son or pleasing her friends.<\/p>\n<p>Mere hours after its release, the book hit number one on the Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/movers-and-shakers\/books\/ref=zg_bsms_nav_0\">Movers &amp; Shakers list<\/a>, and hours later sold out. (If you\u2019re looking to reserve copies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/shop\/products\/johnny-the-walrus\">you can reserve them here<\/a>; Daily Wire members, as usual, receive discounted pricing.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of the book proves that people are tired of the children\u2019s book market being dominated by left-wing propaganda,\u201d Walsh told The Daily Wire. \u201cAlso, it indicates perhaps that there is a mostly untapped interest in walruses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Walsh joked that he should \u201chenceforth be known as Bestselling Children\u2019s Author Matt Walsh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, days later, the author landed another top spot on Amazon.&nbsp;\u201cJohnny the Walrus\u201d became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/matt-walshs-johnny-the-walrus-hits-1-on-amazons-lgbtq-list-his-response-is-priceless\">best selling book in Amazon\u2019s \u201cLGBTQ+\u201d category<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 much to the displeasure of LGBT activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now have the number one LGBT book in the country. Any further criticism of me or my book is now homophobic,\u201d Walsh posted to social media on Sunday morning. \u201cCheckmate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also changed his name on Twitter to&nbsp;\u201cBestselling LGBT Author Matt Walsh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks you have to admit this is all extremely funny,\u201d Walsh continued. \u201cMe becoming a number one bestselling LGBT author is the twist no one saw coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author emphasized his point in an Instagram video posted Sunday, too. \u201cBig news, I woke up this morning to find out my book, Johnny The Walrus, is the #1 LGBTQ book in the country,\u201d he captioned the post. \u201cI am now a leading member of the LGBTQ community, I take that responsibility seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-matt-walsh-launches-new-book-tackling-trans-agenda-targeting-children\">spoke<\/a> to Fox News host Tucker Carlson to announce the launch of \u201cJohnny the Walrus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about a child,\u201d he described. \u201cHe\u2019s very imaginative and pretends to be different things. \u2026 And one day, he pretends to be a walrus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, his (Johnny\u2019s) mother is very progressive,\u201d Walsh continued. She gets convinced by the internet \u201cto raise her child as a walrus \u2014 as a sort of trans-walrus, respecting his \u2018self-identity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mother in the story \u201cstarts to learn \u2026 just because your child is pretending to be something, doesn\u2019t mean he actually is that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only is your child not a walrus because he says he is, Walsh said, \u201cthe book might also draw other comparisons, like maybe if a young boy says that he\u2019s a girl, it doesn\u2019t mean that he actually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists are furious that Daily Wire podcast host and children\u2019s author Matt Walsh has the number one best-selling book in Amazon\u2019s \u201cLGBTQ+\u201d category with \u201cJohnny the Walrus.\u201d The book challenges the radical transgender agenda being pushed on children.The book landed the number one spot on the LGBTQ+ list this weekend, and still remains there.Brennan Suen, who covers LGBT issues for far-left site Media Matters, called Walsh\u2019s placement \u201ctotally unacceptable.\u201d\u201cTotally unacceptable that [Amazon]\u00a0is listing Matt Walsh\u2019s anti-trans children\u2019s book as an \u2018LGBTQ+ Book\u2019 \u2014 also goes to show how easy it is for conservatives to manipulate sales and make money off this grift,\u201d he angrily posted to Twitter on Wednesday.totally unacceptable that @amazon is listing Matt Walsh&#8217;s anti-trans children&#8217;s book as an &#8220;LGBTQ+ Book&#8221; \u2014 also goes to show how easy it is for conservatives to manipulate sales and make money off this grift pic.twitter.com\/JOg7Q7Jb0l\u2014 Brennan Suen (@brennansuen) December 8, 2021\u201cThis is horrible,\u201d activist group GLAAD reacted. Tagging Amazon, the LGBT activist group added, \u201cPlease remove this book from the LGBTQ category immediately. It is absolutely not an LGBTQ book.\u201dThe children\u2019s book \u201ctargets transgender people with hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric,\u201d the group accused without evidence.This is horrible. @AmazonHelp Please remove this book from the LGBTQ category immediately. It is absolutely not an LGBTQ book. It specifically targets transgender people with hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric. https:\/\/t.co\/KWw1xFVqVq\u2014 GLAAD (@glaad) December 8, 2021Tagging influential tech journalist Kara Swisher, Jenni Olson posted, \u201ccan you get [Jeff Bezos]\u00a0to help with this? Does [Amazon]\u00a0really believe that an anti-trans extremist book belongs in their #LGBTQ category?\u201d Olson, an LGBT activist, quote-tweeted GLAAD\u2019s disapproving tweet of Walsh.\u00a0Hey @karaswisher \u2013 can you get @JeffBezos to help with this? Does @amazon really believe that an anti-trans extremist book belongs in their #LGBTQ category? https:\/\/t.co\/sGMRw28Vlb pic.twitter.com\/McU9KiUWZK\u2014 Jenni Olson (@JenniOlsonSF) December 8, 2021Walsh has stated that a child cannot be a walrus, just as a child cannot change their sex or gender; neither should be indulged or, heaven forbid, taken to such an extreme that a child is mutilated or irreparably harmed.Walsh, a fierce cultural critic on the Right, first released \u201cJohnny the Walrus\u201d on November 29 \u2014 to immediate success.The book features a young boy named Johnny, who has a wild imagination. The child envisions himself as many things, including a walrus. His progressive mom knows her boy is a boy, but becomes pressured by her friends on social media to treat and \u201ctransition\u201d her child to live his true identity as a walrus. Mom is faced with the choice of either protecting her son or pleasing her friends.Mere hours after its release, the book hit number one on the Amazon Movers &#038; Shakers list, and hours later sold out. (If you\u2019re looking to reserve copies, you can reserve them here; Daily Wire members, as usual, receive discounted pricing.)\u201cThe success of the book proves that people are tired of the children\u2019s book market being dominated by left-wing propaganda,\u201d Walsh told The Daily Wire. \u201cAlso, it indicates perhaps that there is a mostly untapped interest in walruses.\u201dOn Twitter, Walsh joked that he should \u201chenceforth be known as Bestselling Children\u2019s Author Matt Walsh.\u201dThen, days later, the author landed another top spot on Amazon.\u00a0\u201cJohnny the Walrus\u201d became the best selling book in Amazon\u2019s \u201cLGBTQ+\u201d category\u00a0\u2014 much to the displeasure of LGBT activists.\u201cI now have the number one LGBT book in the country. Any further criticism of me or my book is now homophobic,\u201d Walsh posted to social media on Sunday morning. \u201cCheckmate.\u201dHe also changed his name on Twitter to\u00a0\u201cBestselling LGBT Author Matt Walsh.\u201d\u201cFolks you have to admit this is all extremely funny,\u201d Walsh continued. \u201cMe becoming a number one bestselling LGBT author is the twist no one saw coming.\u201dThe author emphasized his point in an Instagram video posted Sunday, too. \u201cBig news, I woke up this morning to find out my book, Johnny The Walrus, is the #1 LGBTQ book in the country,\u201d he captioned the post. \u201cI am now a leading member of the LGBTQ community, I take that responsibility seriously.\u201dLast week, Walsh spoke to Fox News host Tucker Carlson to announce the launch of \u201cJohnny the Walrus.\u201d\u201cIt\u2019s all about a child,\u201d he described. \u201cHe\u2019s very imaginative and pretends to be different things. \u2026 And one day, he pretends to be a walrus.\u201d\u201cUnfortunately, his (Johnny\u2019s) mother is very progressive,\u201d Walsh continued. She gets convinced by the internet \u201cto raise her child as a walrus \u2014 as a sort of trans-walrus, respecting his \u2018self-identity.\u2019\u201dThe mother in the story \u201cstarts to learn \u2026 just because your child is pretending to be something, doesn\u2019t mean he actually is that.\u201dNot only is your child not a walrus because he says he is, Walsh said, \u201cthe book might also draw other comparisons, like maybe if a young boy says that he\u2019s a girl, it doesn\u2019t mean that he actually is a girl.\u201d\u201cSee, the point here is that biology is not malleable, it\u2019s not relative, it\u2019s an objective reality.\u201dRelated:\u00a0Matt Walsh\u2019s \u2018Johnny The Walrus\u2019 Hits #1 On Amazon\u2019s \u2018LGBTQ+\u2019 List. His Response Is\u00a0Priceless.Related:\u00a0Matt Walsh\u2019s Children\u2019s Book Sells Out On Amazon In Matter Of Hours. Here\u2019s How To Get Your\u00a0Copy.Related:\u00a0Matt Walsh\u2019s Children\u2019s Book Hits Number 1 On Amazon List Hours After\u00a0LaunchThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}