bin Laden plugged some book in his tape? WTF? Book signings next?

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20389182.htm

US author's sales jump after Osama mentions book

20 Jan 2006 23:04:15 GMT

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of U.S. foreign policy.

William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" was ranked 209,000 on Amazon.com's sales list before bin Laden mentioned it in an audiotape released on Thursday. By Friday, the book was No. 30 on the Amazon.com list.

Bin Laden said al Qaeda group was preparing more attacks in the United States but also told Americans, "It is useful for you to read the book 'The Rogue State.'"

"I was quite surprised and even shocked and amused when I found out what he'd said," Blum said on Friday in an interview with Reuters Television in his Washington apartment.

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1. Olberman had Blum on his show today....

I think he was a bit stunned by the whole thing.

I do want to read the book now... does that make me a terrorist?
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Book TV Schedule January 21-23
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x199787#200041

Great programs this weekend! Peter Bergen, John Perkins, George Lakoff and more.

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2. On the other hand...

...I'll bet Osama thought House of Bush, House of Saud was a real page-turner!

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3. Perhaps he'll give a good review of Brokeback Mountain.

"It is useful for Americans to see this film."

[lostnfound]

4. Bizarre. Well, it won't hurt for more Americans to read it.

It's all the stuff they don't teach in history class about the invasions, coups, etc.

How bizarre. I guess it will now be verboten..book burnings and all that?
These are strange times we are living in.

[Emit]

5. Reviews say

"Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew's
immortal line: 'The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country'."
Gore Vidal, author, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

"Critics will call this a one-sided book. But it is an
invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace. Even confirmed opponents of U.S. interventionism can find
much in this important book that will both educate and shock them."
Peter Dale Scott, former Professor at UC Berkeley, poet, and author, Deep Politics and The Death of JFK

"Bill Blum came by his title easily. He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongs -- an especially
well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power."
Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review, Washington, DC

"Bravo Blum! A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom'slies and propaganda."
Michael Parenti, author of History as Mystery and To Kill
a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia


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