NY Times: Bookstores Reported Receiving Bulk Orders for Mitt Romney's New Book

conservatives4palin ^ | FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010 | Iceland's Finest

[curth]

Romney fans, please don't shoot the messenger.

Mitt Romney's book has debuted at #1 atop the NY Times best-seller list among non-fiction hardcover books. However, the NY Times also provides some additional information that may explain how Romney's book hit the #1 spot.

Whenever the NY Times places a "dagger" symbol next to a book, it signifies that "some bookstores report[ed] receiving bulk orders" for the book.

The NY Times placed not just one, but two, daggers next to Romney's book. You can draw your own conclusion as to who it was that purchased Governor Romney's book in bulk.

By contrast, the NY Times failed to place the "dagger" symbol next to Governor Palin's book in any of the weeks she held the top position on the NY Times best-seller list among non-fiction hardcover books. Despite the left's unsubstantiated theories, bookstores did not report to the NY Times that they received bulk orders for Going Rogue. See week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, and week 6. As you can see, in none of these weeks is there a dagger symbol next to her book.

Once again, I'm just reporting what I found from the NY Times. Don't shoot the messenger.

[Clyde5445]

The Benny Hill music is great in the C4P version. Back when it first came out BOR did a story on it.

[ansel12]

It is two daggers and the more that I google the reason that the New York Times book list put those daggers there, and the fact that this is a formal, public action, makes me think that this story could cause a minor scandal.

This is definitely a Romney story worth following, with his history of being a compulsive liar and a Machiavellian character, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[Ripliancum]

I’m not looking for guessing, there’s enough of that on this thread already.

[Ripliancum]

Do you have information on what you term “significant”? I’m looking for factual references on what it means.

[Ripliancum]

If you look at the previous weeks, there are many books with daggers next to them. So what I want to know is what exactly that means, in terms of numbers and amounts, without putting our own context into it on a political thread like this one.

[ansel12]

Do you have the link to those previous weeks.

[ansel12]

Every source gives the same reason for the dagger, I don’t know why irregularities with the Romney book sales gets two daggers.

If he is number one on the manipulated NYT’s list, is he number one over at Amazon also?

[CharlesWayneCT]

When Romneybots Attack.....

So far as I can tell, this was a pro-Palin blog attacking Romney's book sales. I've never heard the palin site called "Romneybot" before though.

[Ripliancum]

Just random ones I found searching, you can google it if you like.

It’s interesting that Ann Coulter’s book also had a dagger for several of the weeks she was atop the list.

[Al B.]

As reported by C4P, even Mark Ambinder is making fun of this via tweet:

Political version of the Maris asterisk: bulk sales to debut at top of best-seller list. Romney? No apologies: 2 daggers. http://j.mp/axptzl

[SeaHawkFan]

Sarah openly buying copies of her book from the publisher is a lot different than making bulk purchases from a retailer. Purchases directly from the publisher don’t count in the numbers on the best sellers lists.

Besides, over 2.5 million copies of Sarah’s books have been published and I doubt that Romney’s will do 1/10th of that.

[Recovering_Democrat]

learn. you ought to be capable.

[Diogenesis]

WHEN ROMNEY-BOTS ATTACK

SCREENPLAY: BANDS OF LEPERS

Fascist carpetbagger Mitt ("I am Myth") Romney:
"You will embrace these attacks on the Gov. Palin and the GOP now, throwing the Election.
Create, then support, these anti-Palin attacks from our northern lands,
the media, and our operatives on the Obama and McCain teams who will join you.
I will gain GOP favor by condemning the attacks and
ordering them opposed from our lands in the south.
Whichever way the tide runs, we will rise and be left standing. "

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"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[ansel12]

No thanks, if you won’t link to them then I will dismiss your claim, my guess is that it isn’t relevant to this situation anyway, since it would be a truly embarrassing scandal if a GOP Presidential candidate with an already shady reputation and a history of lies and deceit did this, whereas it wouldn’t mean much to politics if someone else had a dagger appointed them.

[Pan_Yan]

Sometimes, the media really do target conservatives for destruction.

They only target RINOs after the primaries.

[ansel12]

I’m not a teenage girl that is here to learn your cutesy symbols that you use with each other, if you have something to say then spit it out, use grown up words.

[Ripliancum]

Google is your friend.

I am not.

[Diogenesis]

WRONG. The MSM attacks conservatives and helps
RINOs and especially GOP-backstabbers like Mitt RomneyCARE.

Bill Clinton (seeking his 3rd Term) Finished Third in Battle for Campaign Coverage

[Pan_Yan]

Uhhh.... what you wrote agrees with what I wrote.

So what was wrong?

[ansel12]

Dismissed then.

Romney seems to be up to his usual despicable sleaziness, he sure has the right people trying to promote him here, they fit him to a tee.