Posted on 07/10/2005 8:18:31 PM PDT by Man50D
Edward Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary" has made the New York Times best-seller list for the second week in a row - a development that has the Times book review spitting mad.
As NewsMax reported over a week ago, Klein debuted on the Times list this week in the No. 2 slot.
Despite an orchestrated campaign to keep Klein off major TV talk shows, NewsMax has learned that the best-selling author will be on the Times list next week as well, in the No. 4 position.
The liberal Gray Lady apparently doesn't like the fact that one of its own - Klein is former editor of the New York Times Magazine - penned a biting biography of one of the paper's icons, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Times has yet to review the book, but took the unusual step in Sunday's book section to publish a disclaimer attacking the book from pillar to post in a sidebar column adjacent to the best-seller list.
"'The Truth About Hillary' has united [no easy task] literary critics," Timesman Dwight Garner fumed, adding "it is easily this year's most vilified book."
Then Garner promptly joined in the vilification:
"Writing in the Book Review in 1988, Joyce Carol Oates coined the term 'pathography' to describe hatchet jobs like Klein's. Reading Oates's taxonomy of that genre today, it sounds as if she somehow had an advance copy of Klein's book rotting at her elbow."
Rotting?
Still - in what must have been a gut-wrenching admission for the paper - Garner lamented, "That hasn't stopped Klein's book from landing on beach blankets; it makes its debut at No. 2 on this week's hardcover nonfiction list."
The paper's vitriol against Klein contrasts with its first-class treatment of Kitty Kelley's works, including her recent hit book on the Bush family. Kelley's book on Nancy Reagan - in which Kelley alleged that Ronald Reagan engaged in date rape, among numerous other scurrilous allegations - made Page One coverage in the Times.
Shall we call that liberal "pathocoverage"?
Klein, a veteran journalist and editor with credentials well beyond anything Kelley has to offer, said he isn't bothered by the elite media's disdain for his book.
"My book's staying power on The Times list is testimony to the power of the Internet and conservative talk radio," he told NewsMax on Saturday. "The mainstream liberal media no longer have a monopoly on what's news and what isn't, and that's a healthy thing for America."
More healthy still, "The Truth About Hillary's" best-seller status shows that readers were willing to defy the media blockade orchestrated by the Clintons.
Hours after speaking to NewsMax, Klein told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley:
"Hillary and her people have called up ... all the TV networks and the newspapers and said to them that if you give Ed Klein exposure, we're not going to be very happy about it." The result: "I've been canceled on many of the TV shows that I was booked on," Klein said, "and have not had my book reviewed by any of the major media."
Klein appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" the day his book was released on June 21, but the network quickly canceled three scheduled interviews with the author.
A wave of other cancellations followed, and CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and Sinclair Broadcasting's News Central were the only other programs to interview the author.
But the media censorship may be working in Klein's favor. Not only is his book a certified New York Times best seller, it also debuts this week on the Publisher's Weekly best-seller list in the No. 4 slot.
Isn't that a major news story in itself? Who is orchestrating this attempted 'coverup'?
"Klein appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" the day his book was released on June 21, but the network quickly canceled three scheduled interviews with the author.
A wave of other cancellations followed, and CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and Sinclair Broadcasting's News Central were the only other programs to interview the author. "
It would be news if it was not already widely known to be their standard operating procedure.................
Liberals scream like five year old girls when they don't get their way.
yeah, I know I am preaching to the choir but still... it is just STILL so annoying- but we gotta keep saying it
I honestly hope they keep it up. The more biased they are the more they reduce their listening audience.
Even though FoxNews is a little bit to the left of where I'd like to see it ;-) its now pulling in 3 times the ratings of CNN and more than CNN pMSNBC etc combined.
The folks in the nation are noticing.
BTTT
Mark
Just ordered the book. $14.97 from Amazon.
I'm lovin' this...I'm a librarian (NOT a member of ALA, so no flames, please!), and our central library - a nest of liberals - must buy the NYT best-sellers for all of us. It's killing them to keep buying all of these books that slam their own!
Pray for W and Our Troops
If the NY times attacks or ignores a book then that book must be filled with facts and truths and is therefore something that everybody must read.
Hillary's views are polarizing enough. Dishing out mudpies, even though true, smears conservatives more than it does Hillary. Klein is marketing to conservatives, as he knows liberals' minds are made up and the undecideds will see this as a smear job. Seems to me there's plenty of fodder for ideological ridicule in her public record to write a library of books. A better tactic, perhaps?
It used to be conservatives who were all about ideas and complained about liberals' smear tactics. I guess that has changed.
I bought the book and read it in just two nights. There was not one nice sentence that I saw while reading. Of course you may be right, that Hillary will air her dirty laundry before election. The book is ust too damning to say the least. Some of the material, or all, is factual from documented history.
Media is only whipping up the publics curiosity about the contents by trying to censor, and it just going to make it worse for Hillary, in my opinion.
If I could live without hearing one word about Hillary Clinton, life would indeed be good!
Rumor is that Hill has a weiner.
Only about a third of the way through the book but it just doesn't seem that smearing to me.
Sbe's just so pathetic and ordinary somehow. Definitely not presidential material anyway.
lol Ike....hang in there.
I'm glad to read this thread. Good reminder. I'm off to order it now......just to p*** off the NYT.
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