{"id":68,"date":"2006-03-05T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/albanian-backlash-against-the-book-begins\/"},"modified":"2006-03-05T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T00:03:33","slug":"albanian-backlash-against-the-book-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/albanian-backlash-against-the-book-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian Backlash against the book begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanian Anti-Defamation League has launched its first attack on <em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/em>.\u00a0 A\u00a0 woman who calls herself Kristina Albania &#8211; and who confesses that her nickname is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/pdp\/profile\/A19799C2PM8SIN\/103-5023217-4695063\"><strong>&#8220;blerta&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; angrily attacked the book yesterday in a &#8220;customer&#8221; (fat chance) review on Amazon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1403971080\/ref=pd_kar_gw_1\/103-5023217-4695063?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\"><strong>Amazon page<\/strong><\/a> for Attention Deficit Democracy &#8211; \u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Title of Customer Review: Smart or stupid?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">\u00a0March 4, 2006\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Reviewer:\u00a0 Kristina Albania (DK) &#8211;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">&#8220;Simply because there have not been Albanian-style mass violent attacks on government office buildings?&#8221;<\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Lines from the introduction of this book<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Since when have violent attacks on government office buildings become an Albanian thing?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Please leave Albania out of your stupid mass produced books<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">*****<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">To the best of my knowledge, the Albanian embassy has not yet filed a formal complaint about the book with the U.S. State Department.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Here is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/worldreport\/Helsinki-01.htm\">link<\/a><\/strong> to the 1998 Human Rights Watch report on violent Albanian mobs attacking government buildings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">And here is the context of the line &#8220;blerta&#8221; quoted from my Intro chapter:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">&#8220;By what standard could American democracy be considered a success? 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