NYT Best Seller/Anti-Bush book claims: Jeb's 1994 Running Mate was a Marxist (who died in 1942)

March 21, 2004 | summer

[summer]

And, that Tom Mooney link I posted was not something I hunted down - it was just the first link on google to come up.

[mattdono]

Well, you could look at the positive side of things...the bookstore has put the books in high-traffic areas and there are still "piles" of them left over.

In my mind, that's capitalism working. The people really aren't interested in that tripe, so it sits in piles, and piles, and piles.

[alwaysconservative]

On the occasions that I have to go into Barnes & Noble to buy a book, I find that they hide the conservative books off in the hinterland, while prominently displaying the socialist and Chomsky cr*p. So it gives me great pleasure to turn some of the leftists books backwards and put the covers of some of the sane, conservative books in prominent display. That is probably not the most mature thing I do, but it is very satisfying!

[summer]

I hope that is true, but it gets harder and harder to find adult writers who will actually attempt to be objective for an adult audience.

[summer]

There is little, if any, true fact checking done before a book or article is published.

This is sad to me, because I believe there was a time when the written word meant something. Now it often seems to mean nothing. You have to somehow bring more of your own knowledge, instead thinking you are going to acquire it via the written word.

[Rome2000]

You can have all kinds of fun by turning those "books" upside down and back wards.

With the way Feeney was vilified by the left back in '94, its amazing that they could have forgotten his name so quickly

[Irish Eyes]

Read your post and I had to laugh, have done the same thing myself maybe not real mature but gives you a very good feeling... LOL

[summer]

Not only that, but Feeney is still very active NOW.

[writer33]

"I think "Bush County" was published by St Martin's Press."


Yep. There's always exceptions, but the majority go to those three presses. I queried to a press, and I'll leave the editor nameless, but they replied, "This isn't for my list. And my beliefs would prevent me from doing it as well."

I simply replied thanking them and commenting on their honesty. Because at least this person was honest. I know of no conservative editors out there. Well, not working full time under a major publisher.

[summer]

Who published Hannity's book, and O'Reilly's books? Do you happen to know?

[summer]

FYI.

[summer]

Because at least this person was honest

Yes, that counts! :)

[summer]

And, I should add - the page I linked to about this guy "Tom Mooney" states he was a socialist, but I don't know if he was also a "Marxist" -- it says he was reading Marx. All that info does not, however, fit onto the title of one of these threads.

[AmishDude]

Freudian slip? Maybe Phillips had Marxists on his mind.

[writer33]

"Who published Hannity's book, and O'Reilly's books? Do you happen to know?"


I think it was Simon & Schuster for Hannity. As for O'Reilly, I don't know. That's easy to find out though. Just go to Amazon.com. A lot of these places won't take you if you don't have an agent.

These liberal publishing houses have no other choice than to recognize that big names means big money. So, even they will publish an evil conservative. Especially if it means going against their ideology. Money talks.

I know O'Reilly has published a lot of fiction books through Bancroft Press. It's a press geared to journalists only. His nonfiction books, I think, have been published through either Simon & Schuster or Random House.

[Dog Gone]

The left is blinded by their hate for the Bush family. But this one is really weird. Had it been true, wouldn't this have been a good thing by their standards?

[summer]

I guess - but, I mean, the guy's been dead for 50+ years by the time of the 1998 FL gov race. Also, if you're trying to understand more about the people mentioned in the book, and you go online to research, well -- you get a very different impression of the GOP after you read about "Tom Mooney" than after you read about the unmentioned Tom Feeney.

[summer]

From the link I posted about "Tom Mooney" who was allegedly framed:

...After the publication of this new evidence it was generally believed that Charles Fickert and Martin Swanson had framed Mooney and Billings. However, Republican governors over the next twenty years: William Stephens (1917-1923), Friend Richardson (1923-1927), Clement Young (1927-1931), James Rolph (1931-1934) and Frank Merriam (1934-39) all refused to order the release of the two men. The international campaign to free Mooney and Billings continued. In a survey carried out in 1935 and it was discovered that Tom Mooney was one of the four best known Americans in Europe (other three were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford).

In 1937 a group of politicians led by Caroline O'Day, Nan Honeyman, Jerry O'Connell, Emanuel Celler, James E. Murray, Vito Marcantonio, Gerald Nye and Usher Burdick asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt to intercede in the case. When Roosevelt declined Murray and O'Connell introduced a resolution in the Senate calling on Governor Frank Merriam to pardon Mooney and Billings.

In November 1938 Culbert Olson was elected as Governor of California. He was the first member of the Democratic Party to hold this office for forty-four years. Soon after gaining power Olson ordered that Mooney and Warren Billings should be released from prison. Rena Mooney, who welcomed her husband as he left San Quentin was quoted as saying: "These twenty-two long years have been moth-eaten. Life to me has been something like a cloak. There is little left but the tatters."

Geesh!

[summer]

From the link I posted about Feeney, whose name was omitted from the book:

...On November 21, 2000, Tom Feeney was sworn in as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and in 2001 was ranked among the most effective legislators of the year by the Miami Herald. Tom Slade, past Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida said "Feeney is the most philosophically disciplined and principled member of state government that I've ever known."

In Congress, Feeney serves on the powerful Financial Services and Judiciary committees as well as the Science committee which overseas NASA. He is also a Deputy Whip and serves as the Freshman Representative to the Leadership. He intends to focus on tort reform and tax reform in the 108th Congress. ,br>
Quite a difference in what info one walks away with, don't you think? :)

[summer]

From the link I posted about Feeney, whose name was omitted from the book:

...On November 21, 2000, Tom Feeney was sworn in as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and in 2001 was ranked among the most effective legislators of the year by the Miami Herald. Tom Slade, past Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida said "Feeney is the most philosophically disciplined and principled member of state government that I've ever known."

In Congress, Feeney serves on the powerful Financial Services and Judiciary committees as well as the Science committee which overseas NASA. He is also a Deputy Whip and serves as the Freshman Representative to the Leadership. He intends to focus on tort reform and tax reform in the 108th Congress.

Quite a difference in what info one walks away with, don't you think? :)