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Simon & Schuster's Revenge
American Thinker ^ | 04/02/20011 | Douglas Hackleman

Posted on 04/10/2011 6:03:31 PM PDT by ebysan

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To: Mamzelle

“Did O ever pay back the advance to S&S...and if not, why not?”

Many times a book deal or speaking tour is a form of money laundering. I’ll give you 1 million, but you have to speak at six universities for 30 minutes each. I’ll give you six million, and here is a ghost writer you’ll hire for 250K for a book, and you’ll need to go on a book tour.


21 posted on 04/10/2011 6:59:13 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Yes, for those of us who sell books to a publisher for a living, it’s astounding that he got away with that. There is no way my publisher (Penguin) would allow me to keep an advance and not turn in a book.


22 posted on 04/10/2011 7:00:10 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Richard Kimball

Wow. I had no idea it was that many. Still, seemed like a big advance at the time.


23 posted on 04/10/2011 7:05:04 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: ebysan

Joe Scarborough column at Politico :

“Bill Ayers wrote ‘Dreams From My Father,’” Trump told me.
“I have no doubt about it.
That first book was total genius and helped get him elected.
But you can tell Obama did the second book himself
because it read like it was written by somebody of average intelligence with a high school education.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52500.html

The New York Times did a puff piece on Barry’s literary skills in May 2008.
Barry was having such a tough time “ writing “ his book ,
that he decamped to Indonesia
( the world’s largest Muslim country , I’m sure it was just a coincidence.....) for “ several months .”

” His half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said he eventually retreated to Bali for several months with his wife, Michelle,
“to find a peaceful sanctuary where there were no phones.”

Maybe Trump might be able to send investigators to Indonesia to discover where Barry and Michelle lived
and how long they stayed there.
No one else seems interested in Barry and Michelle’s strange and never explained Indonesian odyssey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/politics/18memoirs.html?pagewanted=1

Interesting tidbit from the article regarding The Audacity of Hope.

“He wrote very polished first drafts,” said Cass R. Sunstein,
a University of Chicago law professor who read drafts of chapters on the Constitution and economic policy.
........ I gave him some potential formulations for what he might write.
He always put it in his own words.
Not once did he use my words.”

So Sunstein helped write Audacity ??


24 posted on 04/10/2011 7:09:04 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: NWFLConservative

If you voluntarily give money to someone to produce something, and they don’t do it, it is probably a civil matter, not a criminal matter.


25 posted on 04/10/2011 7:25:47 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: NWFLConservative
is that not grand theft?

Maybe it was more like Hillary's futures trading--laundered money from who knows where.

26 posted on 04/10/2011 7:32:29 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: DBrow

Reckon those FBI files came in handy.


27 posted on 04/10/2011 7:36:21 PM PDT by GBA (Those who die with the most liberty...Win! Ever Vigilance: For the children.)
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To: LS

Isn’t an advance part of a contract? Would it not be a breach of contract for one not to produce a manuscript after one has accepted the advance?


28 posted on 04/10/2011 7:44:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Twotone
If and when 0bama's ineligibility is ever acknowledged by the ruling class, the MSM will work night and day to convince the Supreme Court to rule that the "flawed" 2008 election also be considered a de-facto amendment to the Constitution striking down the "native born" clause. They will "hint" to SCOTUS that any other course of action would be unthinkable.

By then, the Supreme Court will assume to be just a rubber stamp to validate whatever our first president-for-life decides.

29 posted on 04/10/2011 7:45:45 PM PDT by 300winmag (Overkill never fails)
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To: Richard Kimball
The book sold over 1 million copies the first month.

Hmmmmmm...wonder how many were 'case lot' sales? Also wonder how many cases are still remain in DNC warehouses?

30 posted on 04/10/2011 7:56:32 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (The 'Land of Opportunity'... NOW BECOMING... The 'Land of Entitlements'!!!)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Hmmmmmm...wonder how many were 'case lot' sales? Also wonder how many cases are still remain in DNC warehouses?

Jim Wright book sales?
31 posted on 04/10/2011 7:58:57 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Richard Kimball
She got an 8 million advance.
The book sold over 1 million copies the first month.

but to whom?....unions /$HRILLary et.al. .
rem: Fort Worthless Jim Wright?
(IIRC) one word per page, all bought up by
Union thugs / stored in gov. warehouse.


32 posted on 04/10/2011 8:05:01 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Pharaoh / Imam) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. :)
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To: Stand Watch Listen; aruanan
Also wonder how many cases are still
remain in DNC warehouses?
Jim Wright book sales?

all that "recalling" for nothing.


33 posted on 04/10/2011 8:11:40 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Pharaoh / Imam) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. :)
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To: Enterprise
If you voluntarily give money to someone to produce something, and they don’t do it, it is probably a civil matter, not a criminal matter.

See Bernie Madoff.
34 posted on 04/10/2011 8:23:48 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Psycho_Bunny

How did he ever get a book contract, let alone an advance? He was a nobody in 1993.


35 posted on 04/10/2011 8:28:32 PM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: robowombat

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/simon_schusters_revenge.html


36 posted on 04/10/2011 8:32:45 PM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Huntress

He was being “groomed”


37 posted on 04/10/2011 8:35:54 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: aruanan

Sigh. Some cases are criminal. Some cases are civil.


38 posted on 04/10/2011 8:41:04 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Wolfstar

If you’ve read Obama’s law review article, you know it’s pitiful. If someone paid for that, they were ripped off.


39 posted on 04/10/2011 8:46:45 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: ebysan

Obama is a vessel. His main protection or “gun” is people’s fear of being called racist if they criticize him.

The country is really being run by an ultra leftist cabal of bureaucrats and handlers guiding the agenda behind the scenes. He acts as the sandbagger for this.

He is high priced window dressing, a figurehead.


40 posted on 04/10/2011 9:05:38 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (We live two lives, the life we learn and the life we live with after that.)
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