Yesterday a caller into Hannity's radio program said that she had talked to a sales clerk at B&N. The clerk informed her that B&N had "RECALLED" all the Unfit for Command books -- claiming that "we won't carry a book that is full of so many lies".
The book is #1 on the B&N sales rank (as well as Amazon). However, read this snippy little preface to the book "From Our [B&N] Editors" (I've highlighted their biased comments):
Adding to the outcrop of politically charged manifestos in the 2004 election campaign, this highly controversial tome trumpets a very specific agenda: discrediting the military record of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. The book, written by longtime Kerry adversary and fellow Vietnam Navy vet John O'Neill -- who interviewed Navy men who served concurrently with Kerry on other Swift Boats -- charges Kerry acted irresponsibly in combat, did not deserve his medals, and betrayed Vietnam vets with antiwar activities. These claims have generated a huge maelstrom of countercharges and news reports over assertions that none of the damning testimony comes from men who actually served on the Swift Boat commanded by Kerry and that O'Neill dismiss the many laudatory accounts from the men who served under Kerry's command. Amid this swirl of charges and countercharges, one thing seems certain: This inflammatory book is sure to generate a firestorm of publicity.
On Aug. 9th, Human Events reported that the B&N website was "hacked" by Kerry supporters to read "Fit for Command" (yeah, right, a major e-commerce site is "hacked" -- more likely, B&N employees changed the image):
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=4751
There are only two possibilities here -- the site was hacked or it wasn't.
If it was "hacked", would you want to purchase from a site that doesn't have good security?
If it wasn't "hacked", would you want to purchase from a site that does such blatent manipulation?