Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Soros Publisher 'Shaped' McClellan's Hit Job: Other publishers don't recognize it as the same book
American Thinker ^ | 05/31/08 | Wm Tate

Posted on 05/31/2008 7:32:57 AM PDT by LBSTx

An examination of published reports reveals that Scott McClellan's kiss-and-smell betrayal of George W. Bush is a far cry from the book McClellan started out to write and was shaped into an offensive tome by a publisher with close ties to George Soros.

To understand how McClellan's literary knife-in-the-back evolved, one has to know something about the book industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: georgebush; georgesoros; scottmcclellan; whathappened
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-58 next last
To: ExTexasRedhead

I don’t know if I can throw up anymore.


21 posted on 05/31/2008 8:06:58 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

I suspect McClellan was boiled like a frog on this one.

Submit a draft, hmm, make a few changes, submit it again, hmm, lets tweak this up a little here, submit it again, more changes... until the the whole thing is a total rewrite.


22 posted on 05/31/2008 8:07:21 AM PDT by Wil H
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wil H
Submit a draft, hmm, make a few changes, submit it again, hmm, lets tweak this up a little here, submit it again, more changes... until the the whole thing is a total rewrite.

Maybe a lot of that did happen but you don't hear McClellan reprimanding the publisher or threatening and filing a lawsuit against them for basically changing everything he wrote and basically just using his name.

Yesterday I heard him being interviewed saying he is considering Barrack Obama. You got to be kidding me! How George Bush ever gave this clown a job in his administration is beyond me. He is clearly not a conservative and never was.

23 posted on 05/31/2008 8:11:56 AM PDT by Blue Highway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: ExTexasRedhead

Yep, so what do we do...Liberals obvious quest for power, at the expense of their country, IMO, equates to treason and negates their right to call themselves Americans.


24 posted on 05/31/2008 8:16:32 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

How do you sculpture a turd?


25 posted on 05/31/2008 8:18:02 AM PDT by RichInOC (Scott, you should have named the book "WHAT HAPPEN?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: iopscusa; freekitty; oswegodeee; No Surrender No Retreat

Exposure is what Liberals fear the most. Freepers and other Conservatives have to expose them and publicize the truth constantly. Other than that, I don’t know.


26 posted on 05/31/2008 8:20:47 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx
You don't have to know about the American book industry, you just have to know about Scott McClellan.

I've told my wife for years, don't fear strong people, it's the weak ones who will knife you in the back. 15 seconds of Scott McClellan lets you know, he's one weak **^&%$#)*&.

I think this is a mark agaisnt Bush, who promoted such a man to Press Secretary and kept him employeed for years and years.

27 posted on 05/31/2008 8:24:22 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (I'm just a typical bitter, white, heteronormative space worm clinging to guns and God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

INTREP


28 posted on 05/31/2008 8:24:50 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cubreporter

29 posted on 05/31/2008 8:25:19 AM PDT by JoanVarga
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

Because Scottie did not write it. A Soro ghost wirter did.


30 posted on 05/31/2008 8:25:43 AM PDT by ncalburt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Blue Highway
Maybe a lot of that did happen but you don't hear McClellan reprimanding the publisher or threatening and filing a lawsuit against them for basically changing everything he wrote and basically just using his name.

I'm not defending him, I'm just suggesting how it happened. He allowed himself to be brainwashed by the left.

Apparently that's what he does - At the White House, he was told what to say and he went out and said it, now the left got hold of him and he's done exactly the same thing.

He's probably incapable of having an original thought.

31 posted on 05/31/2008 8:25:47 AM PDT by Wil H
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Wil H; ExTexasRedhead; Blue Highway
A not-so-sacred, not-so-lonely process, Part Two
One of our readers makes the point that the Scott McClellan-Peter Osnos affair has the earmarks of communist thought control, as in Darkness at Noon.

Powerline

32 posted on 05/31/2008 8:40:17 AM PDT by SouthTexas (If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whore


33 posted on 05/31/2008 8:59:25 AM PDT by pabianice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sodpoodle
The analysis makes perfect sense. Paid only $75K as an advance - before the tome was written - shows precisely why he folded and wrote what the Soros crowd demanded.

He was paid a lot less than that up front. If he was lucky half on signing and half on finishing. Deduct from that 15% to his agent (unless he used a lawyer for an hourly fee) and whatever he paid a ghostwriter.

Obviously the publisher was able to tell him he would never earn anything beyond the paltry advance unless he spiced it up. Very effective tactic.

34 posted on 05/31/2008 9:09:54 AM PDT by freespirited (Difference #1 between McCain and Obama: McCain is actually qualified to be president.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Blue Highway
Did you read the entire article?

It cleared explained, because he received such a SMALL AMOUNT UP FRONT... he was under pressure to write the type of book that would sell, if he wanted to make MORE money.

...and apparently that's what his goal was...write a book that would BRING in MORE money.

35 posted on 05/31/2008 10:00:03 AM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: ExTexasRedhead

No need to put “traitors” in quotation marks. These leftist politicians are hell-bent on torching the very Constitution they pledge to uphold. Their oaths of office have become meaningless.


36 posted on 05/31/2008 10:08:48 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

Ghost Writers in DC
So Poor Boy change your ways today or with us you will write
A’ tryin’ to pour out the crap to bolster up our spite
Yippee Aye A, Yippee Aye Oh


37 posted on 05/31/2008 10:26:59 AM PDT by Sal (Breathe into the bubble Mary Jo. I'll be back on Tuesday. (Officer Vick KSFO))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Blue Highway
I agree that it makes sense that he folded somewhat, but would he sell himself out for only 75k?

1) 75K+royalties for borrowing his ex-good name! 2)...for essentially no work, save a few pages of outline material, and going along with 'the lie',which, told often enough will pass media muster as 'the news'!

38 posted on 05/31/2008 10:33:05 AM PDT by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: LBSTx

doesn’t mean squat until mclellan admits as much....


39 posted on 05/31/2008 10:34:14 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: oldbrowser
Liberal wackos have lots of money to throw away, why not take some?

Because slimy liar Pillsbury DoughBoy Scott should NOT be rewarded for his traitorous endeavors.

40 posted on 05/31/2008 10:35:40 AM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-58 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson