‘It’s A Best Seller’

Posted on 08/14/2008 at 11:17 am by Bob Cesca

That anti-Obama book appears to be climbing the best seller charts for some reason.

Why?

Because far-right barons like Mellon-Scaife buy up thousands of copies in order to artifically inflate book sales. They’ve been doing this for years.

And — surprise! — the barbecue media refuses to report this.

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  • ConstanceRifle

    Dan Abrams dropped the ball on this last night. I wanted to throw a shoe through the TV.I still can’t believe that people are willing to believe that the SBVF(u)T were telling the truth.

  • ConstanceRifle

    Oh, also…on Amazon, the number of 1 stars outweighs the number of 5 stars, so that’s encouraging.

  • http://uh-yeah-right.blogspot.com yeah right

    Bob, maybe I missed something earlier, but where is your attribution for the Mellon-Scaife deception about sales of the book?

  • ConstanceRifle

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin4th paragraph downAnd it’s been known for years that Scaife buys conservative books in bulk…it’s why any of Ann Coulter’s books became best-sellers.

  • Bob_Cesca

    >>Bob, maybe I missed something earlier, but where is your attribution for the Mellon-Scaife deception about sales of the book?ConstanceRifle linked to one source. Meanwhile, this is SOP for the far-right. They do it with all of their books. I first read about this practice in David Brock’s book THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    Veritas Nihilum VincetTruth Conquers NothingIt’s all about the noise, the spin, the soundbite.I fear we fight a losing battle, equipped with the weakest weapons – truth, reason and facts – against the most powerful – bias, fear and habit./my zippo works and I know how to make butter