Instead of attacking people and sniveling about who and who is not a "publisher" perhaps you should be asking why this book is outselling Nancy Pelosi's 1000 to 1. Do you really think we (being the reading public) are so easily duped? If you want to sit and debate "scholarship", I suggest you park yourself in an ivory tower somewhere and let the rest of us get about the business of supporting our children to pay tuition and your salary. As for me, I plan to read this title along with Obama's Dreams from My Father, Audacity Of Hope, and McCain's Faith Of My Fathers and make up my own mind about the election, thank you very much. If you think you can do better, quit whining and write your own book.

Do you really think we (being the reading public) are so easily duped?

Uh ... frankly, yes. Depressingly so, reading your post.

But not so easily duped as people whose writing is subsidized by failing corporate websites and newspapers.

Read what you like, but you ought to bear in mind that the two Obama books and the McCain book were written not as testimonials but as conduits for self-promotion.

Isn't it more than a coincidence that these three books should appear just prior to an event horizon? Cobbled together by two men with a common goal?

You won't much from these books except a hard-copy version of Biography on the A&E channel.

It worked for JFK when he "penned" Profiles In Courage.

As for the Corsi book....I'm sure there's just enough truthiness in it to make it seem as though it's investigative. But I'd be wary of any book written to either disparage or champion a presidential candidate by an author with a vested interest in the outcome of the election.

Also, if you intend to read these books so that you can make up your mind about which candidate to vote for....well, do you really think either of them are going to include anything that might suggest they're full of shit?

To the condescending travelall: Someone who will read all the books concerned and make up their own mind distresses you? Smacks of elitism and a small mind already made up and disposed.

Is that a catch phrase intended to separate the liberals from the common folk - you and me? Seems to me that elitism would be defined as someone whose family has a compound in Kennebunkport and went to Ivy League schools because their father's money got them in and kept them there.

But I digress. Why would reading a slew of books that are either grossly promotional or falsely derogatory be a good way to make up your mind about a candidate?

It doesn't sound to me like the poster has a good game plan - he just has a lot of time to waste. Assuming of course, that he really intends to read anything but the salacious book.

Now it is your turn to grow up. Do you really think this book is hitting the No. 1 spot because it is selling?

You realize that the best seller list is not a rating of how many books are sold to readers, but how many books are sold to wholesalers, right? You understand that, right?

So if you have a lot of money - let's just say someone wants to donate to a campaign but they have already gone over the legal limit for campaign contributions - you can buy this book wholesale in large lots and make sure it hits the best seller list.

You're a grown up - you know how that works, right?

Right?

yeah bulk sales like hillarys 'it takes a communist village to brainwash a child'.

if there are objectionable, untruths, slanders or libels in the book. he should sue. god knows he's a dem and the dems are chock full of blood sucking trial lawyers willing to take it on a contingency commission.

but they won't just like that backstabbing cocksucker kerry didn't. the pussy went around playing the victim because he knew that if everyone dug into the facts, he would be exposed as being just as the swift boat guys said.

now mooseface is back in teresa's lap where he belongs.

>> You realize that the best seller list is not a rating of how many books are sold to readers, but how many books are sold to wholesalers, right? You understand that, right? So if you have a lot of money - let's just say someone wants to donate to a campaign but they have already gone over the legal limit for campaign contributions - you can buy this book wholesale in large lots and make sure it hits the best seller list. <<

You may disagree with the poster, but the sarcasm is a bad idea because you aren't correct. There is no single formula or approach for setting best seller status. The NYT best seller list, as is pretty well documented, relies on sell through at a number of bookstores, though the newspaper does not release the list. People claim Amazon best seller status, but that is a transitory thing, with volume over a given period of time affecting sales rank. Wholesellers would actually be a fairly poor indication, as far more books would go through major distribution, and the big sales into a B&N, Borders, or Amazon tend to be direct purchases from the publisher, otherwise the retailers woudln't get the margins they need. There may be some best seller lists somewhere that depend solely on wholesale, and certainly there are figures for book movement through distribution, but that would be pretty unreliable because it likely wouldn't indicate returns, which can be very high.

So you're the grown up!

Spoken like a true Republican, Irv. You can't type one post without being childishly insulting. You really do need to take the advice to grow up.

Here's a hint. If you have something important to say it can be said without resorting to name calling. If you must name call, then you probably don't have anything of any value to say.

Your use of terminology implies you may have issues with your own equipment...if you know what I mean. Sort of fixated on genitalia, aren't you? And how about posting a picture of yourself so we can make comments on how you look?

Suing just gives publicity to a poor writer like Corsi. Not worth effort.

'Suing just gives publicity to a poor writer like Corsi.'

yeah. that's what i figured. gutless whimps. at least corsi stands for what he believes unlike you spineless fucks.

Well, let's see if Corsi and Matalin sue for slander or libel since you think MediaMatters is full of shit.

Naw. Probably not. It would cut into the proft they are making off of dupes like you. And they would have to try and substantiate what's in the book. Can't have too close examination of them-thar facts, can we now?

The only thing Corsi stands up for is his right to make a bunch of cash by doing no work except to put a lot of black marks on some paper that cowering idiots will eat up like candy. Ain't capitalism wonderful!

There's nothing heroic in telling lies, Irv! You should know that. Still waiting for my pics of you....

soi you'd rather sit around and play the victim again. pa fucking thetic.