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And Just Like That, Dr. Fauci’s Book Has Been Pulled From Presales

https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/06/02/and-just-like-that-dr-faucis-book-has-been-pulled-from-presales-n390371

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...Since yesterday’s announcement, and the release of the cover art, the news cycle has exploded over the release of thousands of pages of emails from Fauci, and the news — as we have been covering here at RedState — has not been good. While the press has done a noble job in trying to burnish the doctor’s image with cherry-plucked instances from the thousands of pages of communications, there have been a number of realities coming to light since the release of those emails.

And it appears the publisher of his book is now scrambling to avoid trouble. Over at Amazon, where yesterday they had been enthusiastically pimping the release for this coming November, the title is nowhere to be found.

The page that had been active for the presale is now stripped, and clicking on it today will deliver any number of cute dog pics.

This is being announced by National Geographic Books, the publisher as well as the production outfit of an announced documentary on the doctor, as having been a premature announcement. This is, to put it politely, an amusing serving of PR spin. To put it impolitely, it is garbage excuse-making. Clearly there either was a case of conflicting information in the book, when balanced against the details in the communications, or there was an effort at purely burnishing Dr. Fauci’s image and the hard facts coming to light are in conflict with that attempt — and probably both.

The claim of a premature announcement is not in any way believable.

...The conflicting data that has been coming to light, and the way this is reflecting on the celebrity doctor, is certainly becoming a case of horrible timing for National Geographic Books, and parent company Disney. The then-president of the company, Bob Iger, was seen in some of those emails raving about the development of the documentary surrounding Fauci.

Now, at least for a time, the company appears willing to sit back and wait to see how this will all play out. Disney might be sitting on intellectual property with an expiration date.