Publisher Lied About Hillary Book Sales

Rush Limbaugh .com ^ | 6/16/03 | El Rushbo

[Libloather]

Publisher Lied About Hillary Book Sales

June 16, 2003

Here are some facts to smash the myths on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book: There were not a million printed. There were not 200,000 sold on the first day. There was not a "leak" to the Associated Press of the book's content. Hillary's publisher, Simon & Schuster, sent the data on Bill and Monica to AP. The American Prowler reports all of this.

More: Ann Coulter wrote a great column about this guy named Packer who made a big show of rushing to buy the book at midnight when it went on sale. He's quoted all over the place as a "man on the street." The truth? He's one of Hillary's campaign aides! Read this column, because it's truly amazing. The whole thing was staged. There weren't any real life book fans out there panting to get Hillary's book. This Packer guy was just part of the campaign. The Clintons corrupt everyone they touch, and that's been proven with this corruption of Simon & Schuster.

The Prowler quotes internal memos at the publisher: "Part of the plan to generate buzz on the book was the leaking of some of the most sensational tidbits that had been pulled together by three ghost writers for the former first lady." That was just an old trick to boost sales. You could run these sorts of scams 15 or 20 years ago before the new media, but not anymore. Not with us around.

[weegee]

If she's going to cover things up, how about starting with those legs?

[lepton]

More: Ann Coulter wrote a great column about this guy named Packer who made a big show of rushing to buy the book at midnight when it went on sale. He's quoted all over the place as a "man on the street." The truth? He's one of Hillary's campaign aides!

I don't recall this as being correct. There were two people interviewed. One was a Hillary aid, the other was a Huntington DoT worker who is a nut who tries to be first in line for celebrity greetings - who is Greg Packer.

[OREALLY]

I am deeply happy

[RonDog]

See also THIS thread:

AP Memo/ Advisory On Quoting Greg Packer
[NY Times 'Tourist Guy' & DNC Fan Man on the Street]
Romenesko Media News Website ^ | June 16, 2003 | Jim Romenesko
Posted on 06/16/2003 1:59 PM PDT by ewing

News Organization: Associated Press

To: News Editors/ Correspondents USA

The world is full of all kinds of interesting people.

One of them is Greg Packer a [Contsruction Worker] from Huntington, NY who apparently lives to get his name on the Associated Press Wire and in other media.

A Nexis search turned up 100 mentions in various publications. And that is just a handful of the stories. He shows up in AP Broadcast actualities and in one APTN piece.

Mr. Packer is clearly eager to be quoted.
Let's be eager too--to find other people to quote.

So far, he is apparently just attending East Coast events. But it is not out of the realm of possibility that he will someday show up in your town, first in line somehwere..

Kristin Gazlay

CLICK HERE for the rest of this thread

[weegee]

Viacom also manipulated the concert footage of the Concert For NY appearance where police and firemen booed Hillary. They replaced the boos with cheers for the VH-1 and See-BS rebroadcasts. They had to protect their $8million investment.

[PJ-Comix]

Greg Packer is kind of like a real-life Forrest Gump. Charles Greinsky is the Hillary aide. BTW, does Greinsky's paycheck come from public funds? If so, then was he on taxpayer time while waiting on that autograph line?

[harpo11]

I'm having a hard time understanding why any woman who decides to stay married to her unfaithful cad of a husband who has a very difficult time "keeping his snake in the cage" even in the Oval Office, would write about such sordid filthy smut just to get $8M.

[Jorge]

Lying and fraud surrounding a Clinton...AGAIN.
(This is a big surprise)

[dix]

Thanks for the post. Gotta save this one for later to read all of the great links folks provided in there replies.

[CyberAnt]

And ... Viacom has legislation before the Congress - how convenient they have a "senator" to help them.

[Chuckster]

True Grit
Ann Coulter (archive)


June 12, 2003 | Print | Send


I could hardly breathe. Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling, "What do you mean? What are you saying? Why are the Clintons back again?"

Interviewing Hillary Clinton last Sunday night about her book Living History, ABC's Barbara Walters began with such hardball questions as:



"Are you a saint?"

"[Is it] tougher than being first lady, being a senator?"

"You know, you have been working on so many bills with Republicans. ... How do you turn old enemies into allies? ... I mean, no hard feelings?"

"How do you get on with this?"

"There were the accusations that [your husband] was a womanizer." I believe a DNA test revealed that they were more than accusations. "How'd you deal with it?"

Hillary dealt with it. Hillary is a survivor. As Walters said, Living History is a "wife's deeply personal account of being betrayed in front of the entire world." In fact, it was so deeply personal, it took several ghostwriters to get it right.

Walters brazenly probed the question on everyone's mind: How could Hillary be so brave, so strong, so downright wonderful? As Walters recounted, once our brave heroine even lived in Arkansas! Summarizing Hillary's sacrifice, Walters said: "You were young. You were smart. You had a future in Washington. But you gave it up to be with Bill Clinton, to move to Arkansas. ... Why on earth would you throw away your future?" Admittedly, even Bill Clinton couldn't wait to get out of Arkansas. Manhattanites cannot conceive of a greater hardship.

Walters also astutely observed that "in addition to being first lady, you're a mother." Will Hillary's mind-boggling feats never end? Usually such phony liberal amazement at the staggering heroism of women ends with the woman drowning all her children.

Describing interviews like these, New York Times television reviewer Alessandra Stanley said that Hillary was finally able to show her "grit, an outsize will and discipline that has nothing to do with gender." This, Ms. Stanley said, was a welcome change from Hillary's more recognized role as "an emblem of the modern female condition." So on one hand, Hillary has grit and determination. But on the other hand, she is a living, breathing icon. It's good to see the New York Times really going the extra mile to give both sides these days.

In "her" book, "Hillary" explains that the story of how Nelson Mandela forgave his jailers inspired her to forgive Bill for his infidelity. OK, but they locked up Mandela only once. Revealing more about herself than Hillary, Ms. Stanley claims that "millions of women have forgiven far worse of philandering husbands." Far worse? Really? No wonder liberal women hate men so much.

If you credit news reports, the public can't get enough of Hillary. The crush of ordinary people buying Hillary's book seems baffling in light of recent polls. According to an ABC poll, 48 percent of Americans have an unfavorable impression of Hillary, 53 percent of Americans don't want Hillary to ever run for president, and 7 percent of Americans have been date-raped by Bill Clinton.

First in line for Hillary's book at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center on Sunday night was Charles Greinsky, who told the New York Daily News he rushed out at midnight to get one of the first books because he supported Hillary's health-care plan. A few years ago, the Associated Press identified Greinsky more fully. It turns out he is "a longtime Clinton campaigner" from Staten Island, who has been the Clintons' guest several times both at the White House and at their home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Lining up at midnight to buy Hillary's book is street theater for liberals. I suppose shelling out $30 to support the concept of Hillary is less dangerous than the pernicious nonsense liberals usually fund. Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book – the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history. Hillary's acolytes could buy enough copies of her book to rebuild the World Trade Center, and she's not going to pocket more than that.

Another average individual eager to get Hillary's book was Greg Packer, who was the centerpiece of the New York Times' "man on the street" interview about Hillary-mania. After being first in line for an autographed book at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble, Packer gushed to the Times: "I'm a big fan of Hillary and Bill's. I want to change her mind about running for president. I want to be part of her campaign."

It was easy for the Times to spell Packer's name right because he is apparently the entire media's designated "man on the street" for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans' Day Parade. He was quoted at not one – but two – New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new "Star Wars" movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games – even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin's house in the Hamptons and the pope's visit to Giants stadium.

Are all reporters writing their stories from Jayson Blair's house? Whether or not it will help her presidential ambitions, Living History definitely positions Hillary nicely for a job as a reporter.

[arasina]

I've always wondered about this photo. Shouldn't the person on the other side of the camera be making this anti-Vampire gesture?

[Chuckster]

Rats! When I was looking for it, you were posting. Guess I'm just not as quick as I used to be.

[gridlock]

Bump

[plusone]

She's a shallow husk of a woman, filled with utter contempt for the peasants she reigns over. And that's why I think she'll be presidentriz soon...

[Let's Roll]

"I'm shocked and dismayed."

As well as "deeply troubled."

[RLK]

Walters said: "You were young. You were smart. You had a future in Washington. But you gave it up to be with Bill Clinton, to move to Arkansas. ... Why on earth would you throw away your future?"

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Throw away her future? She's never worked a day in her life. She spent eitght years in the White House. She's now a United States Senator and the most powerful figure in the Democratic party. What has she given up?

[don-o]

Rush should check his facts better.

Here we go, once again.

RL has his gig nailed. He earns his money, because he has an audience

He keeps it entertained

When folks are entertained, they are satisfied.

NB that he never encoorages RushNation to get busy on a single thing. His gig is just to keep the numbers up enough to justify his contract, He does that well

[South40]

What's wrong with her legs?

[Quix]

The closest her unroyal lowness--her hideous heinous--Bwitch Shrillery Hellry Antoinette de Fosterizer de Pathological-liar de Sade

EVER got to

THE TRUTH--at least in a spiritual/philosophical/practicing sense

was

the distance of two galaxies 100 galactic clusters apart.

And if it weren't for Gideon Bibles in hotel rooms, she'd not have been that close in any sense of the word.

Truth is not in her vocabulary.
Truth is poison to her bones.
Truth causes her to break out in hives.
Truth triggers an automatic, reflexive snarl from the depths of her black heart.
Truth flashing by her 'person' longer than a microsecond causes her to wretch and vomit bile.
Truth causes her to run and hide behind 3 ft thick concrete walls.
Truth causes her to lose tons of sleep.
Truth gives her nightmares of appearing on Larry King as a stand-up ridiculed foil of a comic in the nude.
Truth also gives her nightmares of spending eternity in a tiny black cell with flickering lights from the built-in fires that are not the heater nor fireplace.
Truth causes her mouth to crack and her teeth fall out at the faintest hint or expectation from anyone that she should try to say something true.