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Amazon steps in to 'fix' Hillary book review
WND ^ | Sept 25, 2016 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 09/25/2016 8:10:04 AM PDT by upchuck

If you can’t even win when the rules are changed in your favor, things must be REALLY bad.

That’s how it looks for Hillary Clinton’s new 2016 campaign book, “Stronger Together,” co-authored with running mate Tim Kaine.

WND reported just days ago when the book was being savaged on Amazon.com with negative reviews, with 81 percent one-star ratings and an average of only 1.7.

Clinton supporters lashed out at “trolls” they said were criticizing the book only because they oppose the Democrat’s presidential candidacy.

WND previously reported there were more than 1,200 reviews, and the number grew to than 2,000.

But Thursday afternoon, there were only 255, with many of the most critical reviews removed by Amazon, whose CEO, Jeff Bezos, owns the Washington Post, which created an army of 20 reporters and researchers to investigate the life of Donald Trump.

Victory for the Clinton book, however, remains out of grasp, with the negative, one-star responses, outnumbering positive, five-star responses nearly 2-1.

The one-star ratings Thursday were 62 percent, to 35 percent for five-star ratings.

And reviewers many times simply punched the five-star button then made harshly critical condemnations of the book and Hillary Clinton.

From suz702, who posted a five-star ranking: “I didn’t buy this book or read this book, but I have read the reviews, and enjoyed hours of entertaining, fun filled reading, expressing the TRUTH, about a crooked, lying, corrupt, terminally ill Presidential candidate, who stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders, and who is about the steal the Presidency with the use of election fraud. 10 Stars to the authors of these reviews.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amazon; bookreview; hillary2016; hillarybook; liberalfascism; miserablefailure
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To: upchuck

WND previously reported there were more than 1,200 reviews, and the number grew to than 2,000.

But Thursday afternoon, there were only 255, with many of the most critical reviews removed by Amazon, whose CEO, Jeff Bezos, owns the Washington Post, which created an army of 20 reporters and researchers to investigate the life of Donald Trump.


Wow!


41 posted on 09/25/2016 10:35:15 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about National Sovereignty, Liberty, and Freedom for future generations)
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To: upchuck

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.


42 posted on 09/25/2016 10:55:47 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: upchuck

Edit as many reviews as you want but how many are being sold and read?


43 posted on 09/25/2016 11:14:00 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Henchster
Five Stars

My only disappointment with this book is that it ended before Batman showed up to haul her to jail.

LOL

44 posted on 09/25/2016 11:17:43 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR.)
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To: upchuck

Just like the up coming election it’s fixed. Straight out of the old Tammany Hall playbook. Old man Plunkett must be smiling.


45 posted on 09/25/2016 11:19:43 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Gaffer

You forgot lifelong Democrat. They love to say lifelong Republican when they do phone ins etc.


46 posted on 09/25/2016 11:24:35 AM PDT by xp38
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To: All

My fav:

From Desmond Bullis: “My mother died after she was diagnosed with Pneumonia rather than Parkinson’s.”


47 posted on 09/25/2016 12:30:28 PM PDT by upchuck (To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "No one goes to Trump rallies, you can't find a seat!" h/t Husker8877)
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To: upchuck

Somebody make a Stranger Together logo with the Stranger Things font.


48 posted on 09/25/2016 12:35:56 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: upchuck

Funny, when I click on upchuck, the user who posted this article, it says he is banned or suspended. Why, I wonder? Ironic that he posted this article about Bezos laundering the reviews, and then gets banned from FR. I really wonder how many people FR bans.


49 posted on 09/25/2016 1:29:00 PM PDT by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: upchuck

The reviews prove we are leaps and bounds smarter than libs. I really needed the laughs.

Warning...don’t read while drinking milk or tomato juice.

Keep up the great work!

I’d love it if Trump asks her at the debate if she has read her reviews.


50 posted on 09/25/2016 3:48:05 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Deplorable to the last drop. "I don't know how Trump won, no one I know voted for him")
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To: Old_Grouch

I was banned a long time before posting the Amazon article.

Visit your screen name page here: http://www.freerepublic.com/~oldgrouch/index

You might notice a link that says, “You can edit this page.” There you are.


51 posted on 09/25/2016 4:11:41 PM PDT by upchuck (To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "No one goes to Trump rallies, you can't find a seat!" h/t Husker8877)
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To: upchuck
The reviews are hilarious, that's for sure. But I think that Amazon did the right thing by taking them down. After all, it's unfair to potential purchasers for anyone to review any product without actually having used it. It would be no different than if a bunch of libs decided to go online and trash The Art of the Deal.

If I actually wanted to know if Hillary's book was any good, I'd want to read honest reviews from people who have actually read it.
52 posted on 09/25/2016 6:30:19 PM PDT by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: upchuck

Looks like the reviews are picking up again. Bezos will have to get out his magic wiping cloth and do some more cleaning. haha.


53 posted on 09/25/2016 7:05:28 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: RandallFlagg

*** “How come Amazon didn’t do this with all of the reviews on the amazing banana slicer.
Look those up. They’re hilarious” ***

Try the Gummy Bear reviews you could accidentally pee your pants.


54 posted on 09/25/2016 7:07:50 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Sucks when EVERYTHING is Illegal and I'm too old to hold up my end!)
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To: upchuck
Here is the top of the review page as of now:

Here is how it looked on the afternoon of the 19th:

It's gone from an average of 1.6 stars to 1.5.

55 posted on 09/25/2016 7:19:23 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: bus man
If I actually wanted to know if Hillary's book was any good, I'd want to read honest reviews from people who have actually read it.

Amazon's got that base covered. Just select

Sort by: Top
Filter by: Verified Purchase | All stars | All formats

That will cut the number of reviews down to 52. But there does seem to be a minor bug:

Reader Trader Jack gave it two stars, claiming it was missing some important chapters:


56 posted on 09/25/2016 7:40:35 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Iron Munro

bttt


57 posted on 09/28/2016 12:30:24 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: upchuck

Mine was removed.


58 posted on 09/28/2016 1:20:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: upchuck

They deleted my previous one which was on its way to 40 thumbs up in just a few days - let’s see how long this one lasts if the censors keep suppressing free speech:


https://www.amazon.com/review/RIRGP0MM2DVVY?_encoding=UTF8&cdMSG=addedToThread&cdPage=&newContentID=Mx1L1466888Q73H&newContentNum=1#CustomerDiscussionsNRPB


59 posted on 09/30/2016 12:38:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: DoughtyOne

STRANGER TOGETHER

There, fixed it.


60 posted on 09/30/2016 12:39:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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