{"id":1456415,"date":"2022-04-28T08:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456415"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:14:55","slug":"amazon-pulls-ads-for-matt-walshs-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-pulls-ads-for-matt-walshs-childrens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Pulls Ads for Matt Walsh\u2019s Children\u2019s 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\">16<\/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%2Famazon-pulls-ads-for-matt-walshs-childrens-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=1456415&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--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/daily-wires-matt-walsh-to-release-new-documentary-what-is-a-woman\">Matt Walsh<\/a> of <em>The Daily Wire <\/em>broke the news on Wednesday that his bestselling children&#8217;s book <em>Johnny the Walrus<\/em> had been barred by Amazon from advertising on the platform. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Amazon said that the Walsh&#8217;s children&#8217;s book, which <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/matt-walsh-challenges-transgender-narrative-targeting-kids-with-new-childrens-book\">challenges the narrative of transgender activism<\/a>, was not &#8220;appropriate,&#8221; pulled it from the category of children&#8217;s books, and labeled it political commentary.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The letter from Amazon to Daily Wire books read:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazon has pulled all ads for Johnny The Walrus, claiming it&#8217;s not &#8220;appropriate.&#8221; They&#8217;ve also removed it from the children&#8217;s category and labeled it political commentary. They can&#8217;t take the book down because it doesn&#8217;t violate their rules, so instead they&#8217;ll pull these tricks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bThYE3CDd9\">pic.twitter.com\/bThYE3CDd9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acclaimed Children&#8217;s Author Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1519335701766033408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;In an effort to continuously improve our customer experience, we periodically review active campaigns. On the basis of the recent review, below is the status of your ads in the campaign &#8216;JTQ_manual'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>They then expressed that the ads for the children&#8217;s book are &#8220;non-compliant to creative acceptance policies,&#8221; and gave the reason that it was &#8220;not appropriate for all audiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;To ensure a good customer experience,&#8221; they continue, per Walsh, &#8220;we reserve the right to restrict ads that contain elements that may not be appropriate for all audiences. This may include erotica; content on sexual preferences such as BDSM; incestuous relationships; sexual contact with person(s) under the age of 18; self-help content (such as dating, get-rich-quick, or weight-loss books); or content that promotes, endorses, or incites potentially dangerous or harmful activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/matt-walsh-challenges-transgender-narrative-targeting-kids-with-new-childrens-book\">book<\/a> is about a boy named Johnny who believed himself to be a walrus, even pretending to have tusks by wearing spoons, and wearing tube socks to mimic being a walrus.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Doctors in the book encourage Johnny&#8217;s mother to help him transition to becoming walrus, suggesting they cut his feet to be like fins. Johnny&#8217;s mother eventually realizes that Johnny is not a walrus, despite what activists and doctors would have her believe.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The ad pull for Walsh&#8217;s children&#8217;s book about a walrus happened on the same day that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/amazon-execs-matt-walshs-childrens-book-traumatic-trans-employees-customers\">video was leaked showing Amazon employees in literal tears over the book<\/a>. One employee yelled &#8220;You are selling a manual on how to teach kids to bully other kids to commit suicide!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-matt-walsh-explains-human-biology-to-confused-trans-activists\">Walsh<\/a> spoke to Tucker Carlson about the backlash from Amazon employees over his book. Walsh said that the book &#8220;is about true self-acceptance,&#8221; wherein the characters learn to &#8220;accept who you truly are.&#8221; The message of self-acceptance, Walsh said, used to be a common theme, but that now, the going idea is that kids should believe delusions about who you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Walsh said that Amazon employees &#8220;want your 9-year-old to read a book that encourages him to sterilize and castrate himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mattwalshblog<\/a> joins Tucker Carlson after Amazon employees were heard plotting how to take down his children&#8217;s book &#8220;Johnny the Walrus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1es1jZ3wuL\">https:\/\/t.co\/1es1jZ3wuL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OguLEqj4K7\">pic.twitter.com\/OguLEqj4K7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1519117574717460483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a very traumatic experience for transgender Amazonians and our transgender customers,&#8221; said an employee. &#8220;What I don&#8217;t want to come out of this is slamming the books team with a bunch of tickets; they&#8217;re already aware of this. There will be there are things in this space that are happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;But &#8216;Johnny the Walrus&#8217; is a bit of a problematic book. Not a bit, it is \u2014 it is not a bit of a problem. It&#8217;s one hell of a problem,&#8221; the employee said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;It is teaching kids to kill, well, to bully transgenders. Yeah to-to bully them into committing suicide the LGBTQIA, especially transgenders,&#8221; another said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire broke the news on Wednesday that his bestselling children&#8217;s book Johnny the Walrus had been barred by Amazon from advertising on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456415","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\/1456415","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456415\/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=1456415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}