Posted on 08/13/2014 11:44:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A book proposal drafted by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s platoon mates has one publisher worried it would subject President Barack Obama to criticism, Yahoo! News reports.
The proposal insinuates that Bergdahl was a “‘premeditated’ deserter who ‘put all our lives in danger,’” and that he was an “oddball” and a “loner” who quickly shifted from excitement over killing a Taliban leader to dreaming of getting lost in the mountains and sending his personal items home. The proposal also claims that the Taliban had improved their IED attacks against American vehicles since his desertion, and that Bergdahl was training Taliban forces, although the latter claim is unsubstantiated.
But to this senior editor of Atria Books, which is a part of Simon and Schuster, what these soldiers have to say about Bergdahl isn’t as important as protecting Obama from criticism for swapping five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl.
“I’m not sure we can publish this book without the Right using it to their ends,” Sarah Durand wrote in an e-mail to one of the soldier’s agents, obtained by Yahoo! “[T]he Conservatives are all over Bergdahl and using it against Obama, and my concern is that this book will have to become a kind of ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.’”
“Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” was a book that was critical of then-2004 Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry’s Vietnam War record.
Another complication is that the soldiers could potentially be key witnesses in the Army’s investigation in Bergdahl’s 2009 disappearance.
Two of the authors of the proposal claim they’re not trying to politicize the issue — they just want to get the truth out.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“what these soldiers have to say about Bergdahl isn’t as important as protecting Obama from criticism for swapping five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl.”
POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS now be the most important criteria for book publisher’s, in Obama’s Fascist America??
And they aren’t afraid to say it, either.
Publisher as book burner...
Well, it eliminates the middle man...
Book publishing through publishers is old model.
Esp. if publishers are so yellow livered. I have no use for them.
The authors need to find a new publisher who has some backbone. Michelle Malkin is a well-published writer who could probably steer them in the right direction.
Pretty much tells us all we need to know about this publisher, eh?
And this is bad because.....???
Why would that be a problem for a book publisher?
It was confirmed by the Taliban......................
Simon and Schuster........a division of CBS Corporation.....liberals.............Carly Simon is the daughter of the co-founder, Richard L. Simon................
I bet she'd shout out her deep-throated approval for a book that leftists could use to their ends.
Yes, whoever published her “Culture of Corruption” might be a good choice.
Publishing houses edit books, give advances, provide some ad and promo support. Still the preferred way to publish — if you can.
(Self-pub books are often an unreadable mess.)
This book might well be published by Regnery, an excellent house that’s been publishing conservative books for more than 50 years, with many on the bestseller list. Soldiers’ agent should know this.
“Why would that be a problem for a book publisher?”
Book publishers have become the conduit for bribes to politicians. You want to bribe Hillary or just curry favor. After discussing it with her handlers you go to the publisher they suggest and work a deal. You want to give her $8 million. You give the publisher, say, $9 million and they write a contract to her and giver her the advance. She then has the book ghost written for, say, $30,000 (as in “It takes a village.” There are no embarrassing photos of Hillary or somebody from her entourage stuffing bundles of cash into their coats, as there was with Abscam.) Everybody is happy.
NOTHING can harm the King of Teflon. The publisher needs to lighten up. No matter how @#!#! up he is, EVERYBODY LOVES BARRY.
S&S gave Hillary $14 million and are now afraid to publish a book that contradicts Obama
The toadying renfields in today's US media slavishly trip over each other to do their master's bidding.
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