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Obamas sign record book deal worth estimated $65 million [REMINDER]
AL.COM ^ | March 1, 2017

Posted on 05/16/2018 5:34:34 PM PDT by nwrep

Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michele have signed a multi-million book deal with Penguin Random House.

Terms of the deal were not released but Financial Times reported bidding for the two-book deal had reached more than $65 million, a record amount for presidential memoirs.


(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2017; 201702; 201703; betsydevos; commoncore; fundingtheleft; hypocrites; liberals; obama; oldnews; payoff; pearsonplc; penguin; randomhouse
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To: nwrep

Like winning the lottery without even buying a ticket


21 posted on 05/16/2018 5:54:05 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: marron

"...book publishers are complicit..."


I have often wondered how many millions of dollars are exchanged for so-called “bestsellers” that are never even printed?

Or perhaps printed, delivered by pallet to a warehouse, then immediately pulverized into cellulose and blown into attics as insulation!


22 posted on 05/16/2018 5:54:20 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: TigersEye
#10: "What will the ghost writer get? $100k if he’s lucky?"

If he's not lucky it will be a bullet in the back of the head, "street robbery" Seth Rich style.
 

23 posted on 05/16/2018 5:54:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: nwrep

Will he complain about all the great things he did that trump undid ,LOL


24 posted on 05/16/2018 5:55:21 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nwrep

Will Ayers and Dohrn write these ones too?


25 posted on 05/16/2018 5:56:39 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? @BrowardSheriff? DO SOMETHING!!)
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To: nwrep

Conman cashing in ALERT!


26 posted on 05/16/2018 5:58:26 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: nwrep

I’ll wait for it to arrive in the dollar bin at Target...and I’ll walk on by! After all,I’ve already read “Rules For Radicals”...what more do I need to know?


27 posted on 05/16/2018 6:01:09 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: nwrep

$65 million??? This is clearly mulatto privlidge.


28 posted on 05/16/2018 6:02:50 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: nwrep

“Rules for thee, but not for me.”


29 posted on 05/16/2018 6:04:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

How does the publisher recover $65 million?


They’re counting on the same idiots who elected him twice, and still think he’s a god.


30 posted on 05/16/2018 6:04:59 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

They will not. This is discretionary expense footed by the parent companies of Random House (Bertelsmann of Germany and Pearson of UK) which are both massive media conglomerates. It is the payoff for being popular with global elites...


31 posted on 05/16/2018 6:07:25 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

“Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!”
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at”
—Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: “No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen”

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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“It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming ‘community organizer,’ had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working ‘only to educate’ - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers.”

Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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“In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ...”

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
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“They’re certainly friendly” -quote from ‘Obama’s chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago’s political tribes), David Axelrod,’ on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html


32 posted on 05/16/2018 6:10:58 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: nwrep

It’s just a way to legally give corporate money to well positioned liberals.

Publishers know they will never recover that kind of front money from book sales.


33 posted on 05/16/2018 6:17:19 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: nwrep
Well he can't call it "What Happened" so maybe he can use

"What's Happening - to my legacy?"

34 posted on 05/16/2018 6:23:48 PM PDT by MomwithHope
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To: nwrep

Money laundering.

Payback for all the backs he scratched with taxpayer money.


35 posted on 05/16/2018 6:25:24 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: marron

I really think that the lifetime Presidential Pension should be means tested. Same thing with their staff. What the hell does an ex-President need staff for?


36 posted on 05/16/2018 6:29:38 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Steely Tom

Pretty sure that was about cash for speeches and appearances in Japan, not memoirs.


37 posted on 05/16/2018 6:35:13 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: nwrep
I have a GREAT title for their book:

'UNACCOUNTABLE'

38 posted on 05/16/2018 6:38:59 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Flaming Conservative
They’re counting on the same idiots who elected him twice, and still think he’s a god.


39 posted on 05/16/2018 6:39:37 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

40 posted on 05/16/2018 6:41:39 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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