Posted on 01/09/2009 10:14:27 PM PST by melt
USA Today, which recently raised its newsstand price from 75 cents to $1, will print a special Obama edition it will sell on newsstands for nearly five times that.
The newspaper says it has published a special issue titled Obama: The Historic Journey which will be available on newsstands Jan. 8 and will cost $4.95. It includes biographies of both Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe and Jill Biden, excerpts from several key Obama speeches, inaugural stage and parade maps and features on everything from presidential children to First Lady dresses.
The $4.95 paper will also contain advertisements, but USA Today justifies the price by saying the paper is unique. It follows the model of USA Today and Sports Weekly special editions and reflects the standard price of these issues, says senior vice president of advertising Brett Wilson. These products have been very successful for us and we continue to have strong reader interest.
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It’s an INVESTMENT!
Sucker bait.
Your chance to own a piece of history!
Vomit Carnage alert!
Too bad my parakeet died, I could use that.
Get used to this, folks. This will never end in our lifetimes. If he's in for eight years or four, we will be told about his wonderfulness nonstop from now on.
I already saw a sack of crap an hour ago in the toilet. Why would I want to pay 5 bucks for more crap
....and this Special Bambi (Toilet) Paper Issue, may have only 45/50 Sheets...
If you had a bird it would make good cage lining.
For that “premium bird-cage liner” feel.
Looks like a desperate move to get idiot Dems to buy this crap as a form of a bailout for its rag.
Nine seconds.
“Collectable” gold plated coins with the image of Obama..
Streets already being named for Obama..
Schools will soon bear his name..
“Tee” shirts with his lovely visage — everywhere.
Major media has already anointed the Dalai Bama....
We now have OUR own Karl Marx, Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Fidel Castro and Kim Jong-il.....
We have entered the era of a dumbed down America - worshiping an unaccomplished cult hero fabricated from myth...
Welcome to the future.....
Good Grief. I buy a Sunday Paper for the coupons and fire-prep.
Sounds like a yawner.
What in the hell has he done in his life for them to write about?
Lol! Get some sucker money from the groupies!
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