Mary Matalin's publishing company, doing Corsi's book, also Karl Rove's memoirs

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Sat Aug-16-08 10:53 AM
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Mary Matalin's publishing company, doing Corsi's book, also Karl Rove's memoirs

I don't see much criticism of Mary Matalin for her tendency to publish books that may be less than truthful. Corsi's getting great press coverage. Amazing, ain't it?

I wonder if there is any pillow talk between Mary and hubby James Carville about politics and truth and baldfaced lies being put in print?

To print such rubbish from Corsi, to print Rove's book when he is being held in contempt by Congress just goes beyond all decency.

NEW YORK (AP) — GOP strategist Karl Rove has agreed to write about his years as an adviser to President Bush in a deal worth over $1.5 million with former colleague Mary Matalin's conservative imprint at Simon & Schuster, officials said Friday.
Rove, the architect of Bush's 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and one of the most influential political advisers of his time, signed the deal with Threshold Editions, the imprint's publisher and executive vice president Louise Burke said.

"All of us at Threshold are thrilled to publish the book from the man who had the president's ear for two terms," Burke said.

Rove's agent, attorney Robert Barnett, said Threshold was chosen over eight other bidding publishers. Threshold didn't say how much Rove would be paid, but the bidding reached at least $1.5 million, two publishing officials familiar with the bidding told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, a standard industry practice.

Quite frankly that does not seem like very many millions for all the years Rove has spent spreading political division and hate. You would think the right wing would reward him more than that.

Matalin's publishing company is part of Simon and Shuster now. Seems like a shame the two would blend. The latter has/had a respectable name. But I guess with our present complicit media it is all okay.

Radar Online covers this wedding of a shameless hack publishing company and a once respected publisher.

Simon and Shuster forget about facts with Obama Nation

Once upon a time—only a decade or two ago—big time New York publishers like Simon & Schuster actually cared whether or not the nonfiction books they published contained real facts.

No more. That period ended when these publishers were absorbed by great conglomerates like CBS. Now the only thing anyone really cares about is how much money a book can make.

The latest and most dramatic evidence of this mind-set is Obama Nation, the new book by Jerome R. Corsi, just published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster headed by Republican hatchet-woman Mary Matalin. Corsi is the proven fraud previously most famous as the co-author of Unfit for Command, the book that libeled John Kerry so successfully four years ago.

Media Matters for America has done a splendid job of assembling all the flat-out lies and unsubstantiated charges in Corsi's great new work—which, naturally, is debuting at number one on this Sunday's New York Times bestselling list. Among the most ludicrously false (and instantly checkable) mistakes are the following:

• Corsi wrote that "The transcript of the question-and-answer session clearly shows the Tribune staff had a hard time believing Obama" when he described his real estate dealings with Antoin Rezko. In fact, the Tribune ran an editorial afterwards saying "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama waited 16 months to attempt the exorcism. But when he finally sat down with the Tribune editorial board Friday, Obama offered a lengthy and, to us, plausible explanation for the presence of now-indicted businessman Tony Rezko in his personal and political lives. The most remarkable facet of Obama's 92-minute discussion was that, at the outset, he pledged to answer every question the three dozen Tribune journalists crammed into the room would put to him. And he did."

One of the things I will never forget about Mary Matalin and James Carville was their apparent behavior during the 2004 election.

Mary Matalin was at the WH with George and Dick in 2004 when she got a call from hubby

James Carville gets on the phone with his wife, Mary Matalin, who is at the White House with Bush.

"Carville told her he had some inside news. The Kerry campaign was going to challenge the provisional ballots in Ohio -- perhaps up to 250,000 of them. 'I don't agree with it, Carville said. I'm just telling you that's what they're talking about.

"Matalin went to Cheney to report...You better tell the President Cheney told her."

Matalin does, advising Bush that "somebody in authority needed to get in touch with J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Secretary of State in Ohio who would be in charge of any challenge to the provisional votes." An SOS goes out to Blackwell.

We are in a sad state in this country when someone like Matalin, a former aide to Dick Cheney, and a station like C-Span give such credibility to someone like Jerome Corsi.

From Radar Online... a picture and their great caption.

LOW THRESHOLD Mary Matalin and husband James Carville (Photo: Getty Images)

Amen.