Looks like the new anti-Clinton book will be bulked to #1...

[LynneSin]

...and the media will treat it like it's some hot-selling must-buy bestseller.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200506090002

The Scaife-funded "Boot" behind Klein's "Truth"

The promotion machine for Edward Klein's attack book on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) includes a name familiar for his past bankrolling of attacks against the Clintons -- Richard Mellon Scaife, the right-wing Pittsburgh billionaire who funded the 1990s dirt-digging operation against the Clintons known as the Arkansas Project.

The first "news" of the contents of Klein's The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President (Sentinel, June 2005) -- which proved predicated on a falsehood -- was published this past weekend in a subscriber-only e-mail from the conservative news website NewsMax.com, in which Scaife is an investor and the third-largest stockholder. NewsMax, which has promoted the book for weeks, has published three articles touting it in the last three days, and is currently offering it (a $24.95 value) for free with the purchase of a $39 one-year subscription to NewsMax's magazine. (The NewsMax offer also throws in the so-called "Deck of Hillary," a $4.95 deck of cards NewsMax promotes this way: "As the Pentagon proved with its deck of Most Wanted Iraqis, there's no better way to 'out' the enemy than to depict it on a deck of cards.") Like the NewsMax website, NewsMax Magazine has been a vehicle for promoting right-wing causes, including an error-filled smear of progressive financier George Soros.

[Arkana]

1. Yawn.

Oh, look--another frothing anti-Hillary screed. This one will be pure, un-researched crap, just like the others.

[LynneSin]

2. Yep and when this one hits #1 on the NY Times bestseller list...

...the Media will fawn over it like it's fricking Hemmingway.

What's bullshit is the Media never pays attention to the (+) next to books on that bestseller list which show that someone was buying these books in bulk in order to put that book on the NYTimes bestsellers list.

[Skarbrowe]

3. I thought the bookstores were supposed to

signify books bought in bulk. I don't know if it's with an asterisk beside the title or something else. I worked in a bookstore and they were supposed to report if books were sold in bulk quantities to single buyers or whatever. It was supposed to safeguard the integrity between books actually bought by individuals and books bought by bulk ( like all of Ann Coulters ) to purposely and erroneously reflect there popularity.

Anyway, I hope the best seller lists notate bulk buying in some way.

[LynneSin]

4. You'll see it on the NYTimes bestseller with a (+) mark

but....

The media won't recognize any issue with bulk versus normally purchased books. They'll want this Klein dude on all the morning talk shows, even the ones on the not-so-obviously biased networks. Then the public will see what a fuss they're making over this book and they'll think "Well gee, someone is reading it - maybe I should too" not realizing that the books being 'read' were actually bulked in purchased, shoved in some warehouse in Hoboken NJ and giving away as free gifts when you subscribe to a conservative website.

Silly isn't it, but I'm not sure who is sillier - the assholes who use this profit to market their books or the clueless buyers who don't have a clue

[Skarbrowe]

5. Ah yes, that little + sign. Thank-you. Well, if we do see

see the plus sign on the NYT list, we can try and tell as many people as possible. That's about all we can do I guess.