Margaret Atwood, Patron Saint of Non-Martyrs

Western liberalism is evidently so free of real hardships that its adherents frequently invent martyrdoms where none exist.

See: Stephen Colbert, whose cross to bear is that CBS will no longer pay him an estimated $15 million per year to host a failing show.

See also: Margaret Atwood, whose thinly veiled erotica for bored housewives, the Handmaid’s Tale, is definitely not “banned,” though she and CBS News would have you believe otherwise.

Earlier this month, 60 Minutes aired footage of Atwood torching her most famous book, as if she were one of the “firemen” from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

“Here she is taking a flamethrower to her own book,” said CBS News’s Jon Wertheim, describing the scene. “Atwood was firing back at would-be book burners by torching an unburnable edition. It was all promotion for a charity auction to benefit PEN America, a non-profit that champions free speech.”