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Amazon erasing negative reviews of Hillary Clinton
Fortune Mag ^ | Sep 12, 2017 8:55 AM ET | Claire Zillman

Posted on 09/13/2017 7:28:08 AM PDT by TheAshFR

Hillary Clinton's new book about the 2016 presidential race titled What Happened went on sale Tuesday. In the long lead-up to its release, Clinton and her publisher Simon & Schuster promised that the book would be a candid account of the former secretary of state's dramatic election loss to Donald Trump and an honest reflection on what the experience has meant to her. Some book critics say Clinton's latest title delivers the kind of authenticity that she's lacked in the past. The New York Times' Jennifer Senior calls the book a "feminist manifesto," "a score-settling jubilee," and "worth reading." Others, meanwhile, fault Clinton for using the 464-page text to blame players like Bernie Sanders, James Comey, and Vladimir Putin for the election defeat, rather than taking responsibility herself. And then there are the decidedly less analytical reviews that are already populating the book's Amazon listing. Given the current political climate and the venomous nature of the 2016 race, it's probably no surprise that critics of Clinton have used one-star reviews to further communicate their dislike of the former first lady, or in some cases, peddle conspiracy theories about Clinton and husband Bill.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amazon; ashalert; censorship; hillarybook; hillarybookreviews; hillaryclinton; whathappened
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I myself wrote the following review which was deleted by Amazon: Wow what great, if dumb and embarrassing, book! I greatly enjoyed many parts, and there were times I couldn't keep from laughing. I honestly wish this book would have been published before the election, because we got some great quotes: First of all, can you imagine Trump losing an election and then writing about doing YOGA do overcome the loss? "Friends advised me on the power of Xanax and raved about their amazing therapists. Doctors told me they’d never prescribed so many antidepressants in their lives. But that wasn’t for me. Never has been. Instead, I did yoga with my instructor." (from the chapter "Grit and Gratitude") Thank God we have a man in the white house instead of this wimp! Also, Hillary Clinton's anti-bullying program: "Many kids asked what I would do about bullying, which made me want to become President even more. I had an initiative called Better Than Bullying ready to go." Pity she didn't reveal that before the election. #BetterThanBullying would have been a great meme. (Hey, Hillary, know what's #BetterThanBullying? Winning.) But the absolute cake-taker is the following quote, right after calling the Access Hollyood tape as "bragging about sexual assault" referring to Bill's rape: "To divert attention from his own ugliness, Trump brought to our second debate three women who had accused my husband of bad acts decades ago, plus a woman whose accused rapist I had been ordered by a judge to represent back in Arkansas. It was an awful stunt." Really???? Trumps' locker room talk is "sexual assault" but Billy's rape is "bad acts". "Bad acts" sounds like a kindergartner who wet his pants. No, Hillary, rape is not "bad acts". it's rape. I particularly liked the part "decades ago". I guess Hillary supports a statute of limitations for rape. Thank God we have a president in office who supports women's rights, particularly the right not to get raped by illegal aliens. Then she writes: "I don’t know what the Trump campaign was hoping to accomplish [by bringing the women that Bill raped to the debate] other than the obvious." Uh, I know Hillary. He wanted to show your a big fat hypocrite. I guess you ain't that bright Hillary. As far as the book is concerned it is a pretty good read. But the vast majority of it is "Fake News"!
1 posted on 09/13/2017 7:28:09 AM PDT by TheAshFR
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To: TheAshFR

Ummm, they not teach PARAGRAPHS where you come from?


2 posted on 09/13/2017 7:30:26 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: TheAshFR

Perhaps the reviewer forgot to use paragraph tags.


3 posted on 09/13/2017 7:33:06 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: TheAshFR

Amazon should routinely delete comments from people who haven’t read the book that’s being reviewed. Not just in this case but in all cases. I hate reading one-star reviews by people complaining that Prime delivery took three days or that the Kindle price is too high. It’s unfair to authors and deters potential readers.


4 posted on 09/13/2017 7:35:14 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: TheAshFR

Jeff Bezos is evil, and Trump REALLY needs to take an anti-trust hammer to his Evil Empire.


5 posted on 09/13/2017 7:35:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TheAshFR

Just like throwing away meaningful statues. It means nothing. History is history. And she will always be remembered by thinking people as being ignorant, stupid and evil.


6 posted on 09/13/2017 7:35:48 AM PDT by mulligan
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To: TheAshFR

The Ministry of Propaganda has orders to keep Queen Hillary’s secrets.

Her book is nothing but more lies.


7 posted on 09/13/2017 7:36:25 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

There were 50 percent one star reviews.

I couldn’t find one of them :)


8 posted on 09/13/2017 7:40:06 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Bet they have software that looks for the words “Bill’s rape” and deletes the post. Somebody try it. Do an innocuous review, with those words, and see what happens.


9 posted on 09/13/2017 7:40:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: a fond memory of something that went away 30 years ago.)
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To: TheAshFR

How totalitarian chic... soooooo “1984” sooooo ‘Clinton’.


10 posted on 09/13/2017 7:41:13 AM PDT by GOPJ ( The "Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election." - Steve Bannon)
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To: TheAshFR
Erase this:


11 posted on 09/13/2017 7:42:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: TheAshFR

HTML...... worth a quick look at the following. Your first post on FR so
make the next using HTML.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=basic+html+codes&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004


13 posted on 09/13/2017 7:42:59 AM PDT by deport
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To: TheAshFR

One guy’s review simply said “This reviewer has been assassinated”

I guess his review was a negative one...lol


14 posted on 09/13/2017 7:43:05 AM PDT by Bobalu (Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
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> Amazon should routinely delete comments from people who haven’t read the book that’s being reviewed. <

I actually think that’s what is going on here. I went to Hillary’s “What Happened” book site the other day, and there were many negative reviews. But the book wasn’t even out yet.

I have no problem with Amazon deleting those phony negative reviews - as long as they deleted the phony positive ones as well.


15 posted on 09/13/2017 7:43:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: TheAshFR
You joined today to post an amazon review that was taken down?

Hate to tell you, nobody’s going to read that without formatting.

16 posted on 09/13/2017 7:43:36 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: dp0622

Sorry, gonna dissent here. If a person didn’t read the book that person shouldn’t post a review. Animus toward the author doesn’t matter, there are plenty of other places to express that. Amazon is entirely correct to delete these reviews.


17 posted on 09/13/2017 7:43:37 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: jalisco555

Are the thousands of reviews about explosive diarreha from sugar free gummy bears genuine?

Should Amazonglobal be politically selective in determining which reviews to purge?


18 posted on 09/13/2017 7:44:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: jalisco555
Amazon should routinely delete comments from people who haven’t read the book that’s being reviewed. Not just in this case but in all cases. I hate reading one-star reviews by people complaining that Prime delivery took three days or that the Kindle price is too high. It’s unfair to authors and deters potential readers.

Agreed. I also hate reading a Blu-ray movie review that's titled "glad this classic is finally available on VHS".

19 posted on 09/13/2017 7:44:41 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: TheAshFR

Don’t take offense against those complaining about your lack of paragraphs.

You are a newbie, and you won’t forget paragraphs next time :-)

Pretty much everyone has dome that once or twice.


20 posted on 09/13/2017 7:45:51 AM PDT by Bobalu (Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
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