Posted on 04/18/2009 10:08:23 PM PDT by pissant
Just after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a present this morning of a book that criticizes the role of the United States in Latin America -- "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano -- its Amazon sales rank was No. 54,295.
Just a few minutes ago it was No. 20.
- Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
UPDATE: At 4:54 pm EDT - rank is #17.
UPDATE: At 5:42 pm EST - rank is #14.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
...who here wishes it was a bible, or perhaps one of CS Lewis’s books?
wow thats an amazing story by jake tapper! incredible research an insight.
again, media giving free publicity to books they support
So long as “Atlas Shrugged” is outselling it, we’re fine.
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
I’m not buying it; I’ll just wait for 60 Minutes special.
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