Posted on 11/25/2002 12:15:08 AM PST by KQQL
COUNTING EVERY READER
Al Gore is said by associates to be surprised that his newest books on family aren't selling well. The pair of books co-written with wife Tipper Gore (one of them is a coffee-table book intended to serve as companion to the "heavier" tome) are apparently headed toward the remainder bin as bookstores move more popular and potential Christmas gift fare into the line of sight of customers.
"We aren't selling any," says a sales associate for Borders Books in Bethesda, Maryland. "And we thought given that this is kind of a political book and that it's by Gore that it would sell in this area."
It hasn't worked out that way. The audiences at Gore's book signings have been skimpy, and worse, those that do come to hear him haven't been buying the books. In San Francisco, Gore's appearances were met by crowds of people apparently rounded up by his former Northern California presidential campaign staff. "We were invited to come and cheer him on," says a former volunteer. "We were chanting, 'Gore in 2004,' and he loved it. But I wasn't going to buy the book."
The Gore books haven't yet cracked the New York Times bestseller list after more than three weeks in stores, an indication that it won't make the list. "They tried getting them [The Sunday New York Times Book Review] to list it as a book in the 'Bear in Mind' section, so at least it would make the page where the bestseller list is placed, but we couldn't even get that," says a former Gore aide. "It's another indication the public isn't buying Gore as a serious candidate in 2004."
The Prowler won't go so far. We see it as an indication that the American public is still in recovery from Earth in the Balance.
Must be doubly nerve-wracking for Hitlery since her plan is to sail back into the White House, cravenly counting on the publication and promotion of the book, and being in our face 24/7, as one of her tools.
What with the gore's flop, we need to do another of those hilarious FR threads which has the Clintons furiously rewritng their chapters....like after Nov 5 .......the chapter entitled "Terry McAuliffe's Victorious DNC Tenure," was changed to "Terry Who?"
What is it with leftists, books and elections? Crinton/Gore had 'Putting People First' and Altoast writes this mess prior to yet another presidential run.
I suspect the Hildabeast's book will be out in the summer of 2006...
Wake UP, Lib'ral DOLTS, the Effete Elite are playin' ya fer FOOLS!!!
BWAHAHAHA...MUD
They also get lots of media coverage when they publish - a leg up for their various candidacies. It's ironic that in al/tipper's case, the coverage is all bad.
Wasn't supposed to happen that way. Heheheh.
WHAT YEAR WAS NOTHING HIDDEN BORN, AND WAS AL THE FATHER (STRANGE NAME FOR A CHILD, I SAY)?
I wonder why Dem officials didn't arrange the purchase of a lot of these books, just for the sake of appearances.
Mo1, you might remind your m-i-l that these books from the library aren't really free. She's paying for them with her tax dollars!
But in that sense too, it's good to use the library since she's already paying for the services....
She sounds like a typical liberal....somewhat ignorant in the area of taxes and economics:-)
Dang...California FReepers should have been there chanting "Get out of Cheney's Bookstore!"
Sure, it doesn't make any sense, but it would have been a hoot!
Gore sensitive about Hammer Connection
Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily.com
A gossip columnist for MSNBC suggests Al Gore is being cagey about his middle name because of his family’s long-time association with a billionaire Soviet apparatchik. In her Feb 15 column Jeanette Walls reveals the vice president usually gives only his middle initial — A — when asked about his middle name. When pressed upon by a fifth grader recently, Gore asked the kid to give his full name. In other words, the vice president won’t even give a straight, direct answer to the question: “What’s your name?”
On his tax return, Gore lists his middle name as Albert. I always thought that was his first name. According to the Wall Street Journal, his birth certificate lists the middle name as simply the initial “A.”
Very strange. Why the hypersensitivity?
A source told Walls that his parents gave him the initial as a middle name because they wanted their friend and benefactor, Armand Hammer, to believe their child was named for him. An official spokesman for the vice president questioned the veracity of the report. With good reason the campaign wants to divert attention from the Hammer-Gore connection.
Hammer used to boast that he had Sen. Al Gore Sr. “in his back pocket.” As I have reported before, Armand Hammer set up Gore Sr. in business before he ventured into politics, stayed close to him throughout his political career and hired him after he left office. “Throughout the whole of his life, Al Gore Sr. and his family depended on pay-outs, kickbacks and subventions from Hammer,” wrote Neil Lyndon, who worked for Hammer. “Like his father before him, Al Gore Jr.’s political career was lavishly sponsored by Hammer from the moment it began until Hammer died, only two years before the Gore Clinton 1992 race for the White House.”
Who was Hammer? He was a personal friend of V.I. Lenin. He was known as Lenin’s “path” to America’s financial resources. He was the first of a long line of Western businessmen to participate in KGB-controlled joint ventures in the Soviet Union. He was the son of Julius Hammer, a founder of the Socialist Labor Party and later the Communist party USA and who served time in Sing Sing for performing illegal abortions. Armand Hammer was called the “Capitalist Prince” by the KGB. He dutifully served the Soviets for seven decades and became the first — and only — “American capitalist” to be awarded the Order of Lenin.
In other words, Hammer was a part-time spy, part-time money-launderer, part-time “industrialist” — but a full-time traitor to the United States of America.
To the Soviet Union in his day, Hammer was a figure with much in common with the contemporary spy-cum-billionaire Mochtar Riady — doing the bidding of socialist tyrants and making a bundle in the process.
It was Al Gore Sr. who stopped the FBI from pursuing an investigation of Hammer as a Soviet agent of influence. And the cozy relationship with the family continued when Al Gore Jr. — whatever his real name is — was elected to the Senate in 1980. Hammer was the guest of honor in the “senators only” section during President Reagan’s inauguration.
The Hammer connection continued to define Al Gore’s political career. He serves as co-chairman of a Russian-U.S. commission intended to help the next generation of Armand Hammer-style “Capitalist Princes” develop contacts with businesses that are little more than foreign intelligence fronts. In 1994, the vice president established U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation, better known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. The purpose of the commission is to help establish join ventures in space exploration, science and technology, defense conversion, environmental initiatives, public health issues, agribusiness and economic development. The Russian side of this equation is littered with shadowy figures with one foot in the intelligence community and the other in mob-related activities.
Now you see why Al Gore Jr. is the perfect candidate to continue the Bill Clinton tradition. He’s been groomed for it his whole life — from the very day he was born.
So, at the next Democratic party town hall meeting, some one should ask the simple, straightforward question — once again — of candidate Al Gore: “Sir, what is your full name?”
It will be fun to watch him squirm, change the subject and evade answering. And now you’ll know why.
Speaking of families, Gore's twin, separated at birth, is Theodore Kaczynski, author of the best-seller Er, I'm Imbalanced.
With Al out of the Author! Author! business, Hitlery can goosestep down der Ghostwrittenstrasse with My Years of Struggle Against Ignorance, Stupidity, Lies, and Bill's Leftist Bent shortened by publishers to Mein Kampf.
Leni Reifenstahl on line one.
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