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Hillary Team Calls for Media Blackout of Anti-Clinton Books
Breitbart ^ | 7-25-14 | Alexander Marlowe

Posted on 07/25/2014 11:09:38 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Soon there will be three anti-Clinton books on the market, which is apparently enough to have gotten under the skin of Team Hillary.

The First Family Detail by Ronald Kessler, set for release next month, will join Clinton, Inc. by the Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper and Blood Feud by Ed Klein on bookshelves. Yesterday we reported that Clinton, Inc. has shot up the charts and now both Halper and Klein’s books are outselling Hillary Clinton’s recent memoir Hard Choices.

“With Klein, Halper and Kessler, we now have a Hat Trick of despicable actors concocting trashy nonsense,” Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “Their behavior should neither be allowed nor enabled, and legitimate media outlets who know with every fiber of their beings that it is completely made up should not get down in the gutter with them.”

What does he mean “not allowed”? The interview doesn’t detail any specific behavior that drew Team Hillary's ire beyond the simple act of writing a book. Without the benefit of full context, it appears as though Hillary's flack is suggesting the books be banned. At a minimum he is imploring the overwhelmingly pro-Clinton mainstream press to freeze out these authors and prevent their ideas and findings from being discussed on the media stage.

This is latently hypocritical coming from the folks surrounding the former First Lady, who famously defended “the right to debate and disagree" on the campaign trail in 2008.

"No wonder there is a mainstream media blackout of my book -- the Clintons have issued their edicts," Daniel Halper said an in email. "They are proving the thesis of my book."

Klein has said that "all" of the criticism of his book has been directed at him personally and not the facts and arguments...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; blackout; bloodfeud; campaign; clintonbooks; clintoninc; clintonmachine; firstfamilydetail; hillary; hillary2016; media; ronaldkessler; supression
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1 posted on 07/25/2014 11:09:38 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Good luck banning ‘Blood Feud’ Hillary. That book made me laugh out loud over and over. It has the ring of truth. It is dynamite.


2 posted on 07/25/2014 11:11:37 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: afraidfortherepublic

HRC is a POS.


3 posted on 07/25/2014 11:12:25 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Barack is the wife.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

giving orders to the compliant, docile media slaves


4 posted on 07/25/2014 11:13:18 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

***Klein has said that “all” of the criticism of his book has been directed at him personally and not the facts and arguments...***

That’s the way it is when the left is faced with the truth. Wasn’t it Bill himself who coined the phrase: ‘the politics of personal destruction’?


5 posted on 07/25/2014 11:16:03 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

How very “Liberal” of her....


6 posted on 07/25/2014 11:18:10 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

When she sent the email about it, did it come from hilary@ingsoc.gov?


7 posted on 07/25/2014 11:18:24 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“They are proving the thesis of my book.”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


8 posted on 07/25/2014 11:18:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Welcome to the free market, Hillary.


9 posted on 07/25/2014 11:21:00 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Thats the ticket. Keep others from talking. The refuge of lyin’ progressives.


10 posted on 07/25/2014 11:22:39 AM PDT by dforest
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To: DPMD
Hard Choices Hardcover – Unabridged, June 10, 2014
by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155 in Books

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,025 Paid in Kindle Store
11 posted on 07/25/2014 11:23:37 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: afraidfortherepublic
She is running contrary to the advice of one of her cherished heroes:

” Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.”
~Mao

“If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
~ Hilary's Uncle Joe

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

~William F. Buckley, Jr.

12 posted on 07/25/2014 11:24:05 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Hillary, apparently, is not against engaging in questionable behavior, she is just against the reporting of said behavior.
13 posted on 07/25/2014 11:24:41 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Who was the idiot that said ‘Dissent Is the Highest Form of Patriotism’?!?!?!

Wait til I get my hands on him!!!!”

~H. Clinton


14 posted on 07/25/2014 11:26:46 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Free Publicity for Anti-Clinton Books, LOL


15 posted on 07/25/2014 11:28:58 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Halper was supposed to talk about Hillary’s health on Megyn earlier this week, and said the info would stop her run. But they never got around to it.


16 posted on 07/25/2014 11:29:09 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

And the trashy novels/books about Palin were okay in the best interest of the public’s need to know. Gotcha ....


17 posted on 07/25/2014 11:31:53 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: shalom aleichem

Now you’ve got me curious about that new book. May have to check it out before The Clintons succeed in getting the book banned, burned and buried. Just discussing such a Media Blackout is a loser for Hillary’s electoral prospects. Somebody like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz would have a field day pointing out how oppressive and inappropriate such an unauthorized action would be.


18 posted on 07/25/2014 11:31:56 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Fun with Hillary:

BREAKING: Sight-Impaired Millionaire Still Not Cleared to Drive - Hillary Clinton flees baby-talking event in five-car motorcade

http://freebeacon.com/blog/breaking-sight-impaired-millionaire-still-not-cleared-to-drive/

19 posted on 07/25/2014 11:32:38 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The Team is also ticked that many of her tomes never got wide acceptance ...


20 posted on 07/25/2014 11:35:13 AM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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