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Jimmy Failla: If you like reading at a third-grade level, you're going to love this book

FOX News' Jimmy Failla talks about his new book 'Cancel Culture Dictionary' on 'Gutfeld!'NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

I’d like to begin by thanking you for reading this piece about my new book, "Cancel Culture Dictionary." I have to admit I’m a bit embarrassed by the amount of press it’s getting on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, and even Times Square billboards. That being said, if you saw my grades in high school, you’d understand why people are a little worked up about the idea of a guy like me becoming a published author. This is the literary equivalent of O.J. becoming a marriage counselor.

I kid, which was a thing we did with more regularity when I was growing up in Levittown, N.Y. in the 1980s. It was a simpler time when people just wanted their MTV and the only one who obsessed about using their phone was E.T. Although if that movie were made today, he wouldn’t phone home he’d probably text home and get back to fighting about politics with his fellow aliens on Twitter.

I mention social media because cancel culture wouldn’t be possible without it. Don’t get me wrong, we always had people who’d go after comedians like Dave Chappelle, but in the 80’s we didn’t call them "cancel culture" we called them LOSERS.