Posted on 04/07/2003 3:18:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
It has been reported that Simon and Schuster executives are in a panic because good old reliable Hillary has not turned in a complete manuscript of her book which is due for publication in August.
What is wrong with those liberal dummies at Simon and Schuster's? Don't they know that the $8 million deal they did with good old liberal Hillary was merely seen by her as a donation to her electoral war chest? Are these liberals so stupid that they did not realise that Hillary's idea of a deal is: I take, you give. Apparently not, which only goes to show how dumb liberals can be.
But the book deal had a rotten smell about it from day one. To recover its $8 million dollar investment in Hillary publisher Simon & Schuster would have to sell more than 3 million hardback copies. That would literally make publishing history, at least in America. Does anyone think for a moment that this is possible, least of all her prospective publisher? Yes, if she told the truth about the rape of Broaddrick, the rake offs, the selling of state secrets, the Foster suicide, the White Water scandal, and various other frauds and criminal activities. But of course, Hillary is as big a liar as Bill and just as good.
There was also the obvious conflict of interest that America's liberal media chose to overlook. (Not that such niceties ever cut any ice with the Clintons and their rabid supporters).
Not only is Viacom Inc. Simon & Schuster's parent company it also has numerous media interests, including ownership of CBS. It is also no secret that those who run Viacom are very close to the Clintons.
Now $8 million dollars is big money in any language and no matter how supportive Party donors have been they are not that generous, not even the loony Streisand. In any case, a coporate donation of that size would have been bound to raise far too many eyebrows. So why not contrive an $8 million book deal? The great advantage for this from Hillary's corporate supporters is that Viacom's shareholders would have paid for it. She gets $8 million and they get taken to the cleaners. A perfect Clinton scam.
Of course, for the scam to work a book would still have to be produced and that means hiring a ghost writer. It appears that though a writer was hired the manuscript still remains in an incorporeal form, so to speak.
I would guess that it is not the money that is causing panic at Simon and Schuster but the fear that people, particularly shareholders, perhaps, might get the idea that Hillary's cavalier disregard for the publishing house, despite the huge payout, is evidence that the arrangement was a scam from day one.
You may switch capter two and three.
She'd better be glad that she didn't sign that contract in Texas .... here the DA has the option to pursue criminal cases without the consent of the victim.
I'm sure that she could probably be brought up on felony fraud charges for this.
They'll get a book I'm sure but it will be the typical ghost written crap that is put together before one runs for higher office. Hillary will sit down or phone interview with the real writer for an hour or two and the book is done. It will not be controversial in any way and will be a phony patriotic flowery (semi)autobiography to make her look like a centrist. I expect it will come out in time for her 2004 pres. election run.
Freakin' beautiful!
This is nothing but a plought to get more money into the Dem/Hil coffers. Period.
It escapes me, but I think she has a book out now that nobody can find. Lots of pictures, and nobody cares.
Leftists give Hitlery eight million in graft.
Hitlery has some pasty eunuch in the cellar ghost another tell-nothing book.
Despite hysterical hyping by Oprah and every embalmed anchor on CBS, boxcars of books sit on sidings as weeds overgrow the tracks.
Hitlery did not learn from Ellen Degeneres the country is not eager for a bitter, lumpy lesbian lecturer.
Not a complete manuscript?
How about not a draft, not a rough draft, not an introduction, not a dedication, not an outline, not a précis, not a bibliography, not a concept, not even a title?
They do, however, have her autograph, on the back of the $3 mil advance check.
The Memory Workbook: Breakthrough Techniques to Exercise Your Brain and Improve Your Memory
By: Douglas J. Mason, Michael Lee Kohn, Karen A. Clark
Of course if their memory was any good, they'd both be in prison right now.
I am sure that Hillary is trying to do a 'one up' on Fort Worthless Jim. He got caught writing the book and selling it. It looks like The Old Bag ain't gonna get caught selling a book because she not planning on writing it.
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