Eric Boehlert: A colossal flop -- fawning media can't save Chris Christie's new book

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/fawning-media-cant-save-christies


A colossal flop — fawning media can't save Chris Christie’s new book
Just 2,000 copies sold
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago


It’s hard to recall a former politician who was showered with more free media attention than Chris Christie this month as he peddled his new book, “Republican Rescue.” Invited to appear on a carousel of shows, Christie was all-present as journalists lined up to interview him. CNN even dedicated an entire primetime hour to him, treating the in-your-face Republican as one of the most important political voices in the country.

Consumers aren’t buying it.

A senior publishing source with access to the industry’s BookScan tabulations tells me that “Republican Rescue” sold just 2,289 copies during its first week in stores, which constitutes a colossal publishing flop. That figure does not include digital copies of the book, but based on industry sales patterns, given Christie’s weak showing in stores he likely sold only a few hundred digital ones. (On Sunday, “Republican Rescue” was ranked 15,545th at Amazon’s Kindle Store.)

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So, he’s an unapologetic anti-Trumper, right? He views Fox News misinformation as a danger to our democracy, right? Nope and nope. Pressed during his media blitz, Christie said he might vote for Trump in 2024, and when appearing on MSNBC he refused to criticize Fox News, likely because he appeared on the network a few days later hawking his book by stressing to right-wing viewers how he supported Trump for so many years.

Americans see through Christie, yet the press worships him. They’ve been doing it for the better part of a decade, portraying him as an authentic Every Man, a master communicator, and that rare politician who cuts through the stagecraft and delivers hard truths.

"Chris Christie is someone who is magical in the way politicians can be magical," Time's Mark Halperin announced while appearing on “Meet The Press,” in 2013. And remember when ABC's Barbara Walters crowned Christie as one of her 10 Most Fascinating People, casting him as a “passionate and compassionate” politician who cannot lie?

Today, nobody cares about Chris Christie, except Beltway journalists.

[Walleye]

1. He is a hack. The only good thing he ever did was put Jared Kushner'sdad in jail

[Sibelius Fan]

2. Spot on.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Maybe, just maybe this is a sign that finally, everybody is sick and tired of trump this, trump ...

that, trump etc. ad nauseum...the politicians often find out long way after the fact that the public is bored, or moved on to other things, and they (the politicians) are left wondering what in hell happened?

[NNadir]

4. He is, without any doubt, the worst stain on New Jersey life since...

...I've lived here. He makes even Christy Whitman seem like a decent human being, as difficult as that might be.

[budkin]

5. He's grotesque in every sense of the word

Good riddance.

[gratuitous]

6. That's too bad

Maybe Chris will have to get a real job, now, to pay back the hefty advance he no doubt received? Ha, ha, ha, of course not.

I will say that having seen Christie in action, I can tell why the nooz shows like him. He's glib and stays on message, he sounds reasonable even when he's saying the most unreasonable things.

[Larissa]

7. More on Christie's book bomb

Maybe now he'll go away for good.

Phony! Phoni! Phoné! Chris Christie fails. Again.
Jonathan V. Last

https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/phony-phoni-phone

"Chris Christie is a man with no position, no audience, and nothing to say. He is nothing more than an inconsequential phony."

[Greybnk48]

8. Maybe now old "bucket mouth" will realize that this is about the

number of people who would vote for him if he ran nationally. The novelty of seeing a loud-mouthed bully berate people on camera who cannot fight back has worn off.

No one envies the jobs of teachers anymore, so who would this clown berate and belittle? Nurses? Store clerks?

Good riddance.