The host mentioned the book while arguing that many titles are easily obtainable, noting that even a supposedly banned Dr. Seuss book like McElligot's Pool can be bought or borrowed without difficulty.
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He filled in the blank with a book claiming that it's harder somehow to obtain a book than to obtain a shotgun. ... but as long as you're not trying to buy some forbidden text, like Dr. Seuss's McElli...
— Episode: Ep. 685 - Arab Man Commits Massacre. Med...
Episode: Ep. 685 - Arab Man Commits Massacre. Media Changes...
The host mentioned the book while arguing that many titles are easily obtainable, noting that even a supposedly banned Dr. Seuss book like McElligot's Pool can be bought or borrowed without difficulty.
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He filled in the blank with a book claiming that it's harder somehow to obtain a book than to obtain a shotgun. ... but as long as you're not trying to buy some forbidden text, like Dr. Seuss's McElligot's Pool, it's quite easy to buy books.
Episode: Ep. 673 - Meghan Markle Is Crowned Queen Victim
The host cited it as a banned Dr. Seuss title that could have been read instead, noting it was prohibited solely for using the word "Eskimo."
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Mick Eligot's Pool, which is an actual banned Dr. Seuss book and the only reason it's banned, so far as I can tell, is that it uses the word Eskimo. That's it, that's really it.
Eskimo is not a slur, it's not a pejorative. We don't have to bleep it out when I'm saying it right now. Eskimo, you can say that. It's not offensive.
Episode: Ep. 672 - The Insurrection That Never Was
It was listed among the Dr. Seuss books that were taken down from eBay for being deemed offensive.
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but the the titles are and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street if I ran the zoo McElligot's Pool which I've never even heard of that one I consider myself a Seuss expert but I've never heard of that one before on Beyond Zebra Scrambled Egg Super and the Cat's Quizzer.
Episode: Ep. 669 - Next Stop On The Slippery Slope: A Child...
It was announced that the book would no longer be published because of hurtful depictions.
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Dr. Seuss Enterprises told the Associated Press that the books, here are the books, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, if I ran the zoo, McElligot's Pool, On Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Egg Super, and The Cat's Quizzer will no longer be published due to hurtful depictions in the books.
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