Hillary bedeviled by protesters

The Hill--"The Newspaper for and about the US Congress" ^ | 7/2/03 | Bill Thomas

[DPB101]

Protesters have become a regular feature at book signings by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), but so far, according to Clinton's publisher, Simon & Schuster, they haven't hurt sales.

Now Clinton may have another problem that could: conservative blonde nemesis Ann Coulter and her new bestseller, Treason.

Living History, Clinton's book, continues to do a brisk business, yet by the beginning of the week Coulter's anti-liberal tome had buried it on Amazon's nonfiction bestseller list. Treason started the week in the No. 1 spot, while Living History had fallen out of the top 10.

Unfazed, Clinton has kept a heavy schedule of appearances. By her estimate, she's signed 10,000 copies of her memoirs.

"I try to look at people," she told Newsday. "I give [them] five or six or seven seconds to say something. Some are tongue-tied, some have a whole speech prepared, some give me letters."

Considering the number of protesters she attracts, Clinton said, she's surprised she hasn't received more negative comments at book signings. For security reasons Simon & Schuster has never posted her appearances on its website.

"One man in a devil's costume . . .has been following me for three years," Clinton said.

The devil didn‚t show a week ago when she signed books at a store in Huntington, N.Y., but there was a guy dressed in desert fatigues and a Hillary mask calling himself "Rodham Hussein."

[Doctor Raoul]

B&N purchased displays for Treason for each and every one of their stores. B&N is in the business of selling books, or so it seems.

[sheik yerbouty]

It's her husband.

[CFC__VRWC]

B&N purchased displays for Treason for each and every one of their stores. B&N is in the business of selling books, or so it seems.

That's good - I guess there's one of the book store chains that's more interested in making money than in shoving a Marxist agenda down our throats. I've been reading lots of posts from people who are having a hard time finding Treason at their book stores, because the stores aren't putting copies on the shelves or are hiding them in obscure corners of the store.

[Doctor Raoul]

Thanks.

[Doctor Raoul]

Nobody knows she's there. So those who are showing up to buy her book, uhhh...could they be there by special invitation and media photo-op [not real buyers; just the appearance of real buyers]?

There are signs in the book stores and closer to the date, they arrange an interview so that a story runs in the local paper.

Sometimes there's not even an interview, the papers just run a story she's coming.

[RobbyS]

What fried me was the way Chen tried to relate anti-communism with anti-semitism. How are we going to answer that without seeming to justify this defence. Can we help it that so many Jewish intellectuals have been in thrall with radicalpolitics ever since the French Revolution and that one of them--Marx--must rank as one of the most evil persons imaginable. Thank God he never held power.

[COBOL2Java]

Woe to anyone who makes direct eye contact with Her Heinousness!

[sweetliberty]

Hey, how'd you get close enough to get that picture of her?

[ChadGore]

I love freepers !

[COBOL2Java]

Hey, how'd you get close enough to get that picture of her?

Reflection taken from inside my magic shield.. :-)

[firebrand]

That was my devil mask, sent to RonDog.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...The DEVIL, you say, fb.

...Thank you for the Clarification on our HILLARY Freep DEVIL Mask.

...Those HILLARY Line People just hated it...

...and WE just loved it...!!!

[firebrand]

Those masks now have to be sent on to a future book-signing freeper group.

You guys were great!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

GOD Speed... 4-FREEDOM

[philomath]

you're not like the others
i'm sure you'd make me so happy.
now where's that wall......

[Exit148]

"The adulation the two of them receive, the success for doing absolutely nothing, the hurt they have caused all associated with them is unmatched in recent history."

And yet that adulation goes on. Doesn't say much for the electorate.

[speekinout]

If the library doesn't have Hillary's book, it's because the librarian thinks it's a waste of money to buy something no one will read.

That's no doubt true. But my local library almost never decides that a "best seller" is a book no one will read.
Is hillary's book a "best seller" or one that no one will read?

[Monty22]

Hahahah, yeah first hand recognition by your boss is a great moral booster.

[Doctor Raoul]

I'll have to look up the website. They were $11 plus shipping.

[A2J]

they haven't hurt sales

Maybe because it's impossible to hurt a dead horse?