Posted on 11/23/2018 5:39:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Michelle Obama has a new memoir out called "Becoming." Add two words: "Very Wealthy." The Obamas struck a $65 million book deal for his-and-hers memoirs, and next to it is their $50 million production deal with Netflix. They are set to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. One outlet has called them a "billion-dollar brand." None of their media sycophants find this the tiniest bit controversial. They are the royal family. They cannot possibly be compensated enough.
(President Trump's wealth? Wealth generated by a lifetime of work in the private sector? Unacceptable.)
Mrs. Obama's interviews -- entirely with women, and mostly black women -- are servile in every "objective news" venue and even worse during TV promotional pit stops. Ellen DeGeneres aired a sappy tribute video stuffed with adoration and proclaimed that Obama is "a human being that we all look up to." She said, "you inspire all of us. So, we put together a little something for you to just show you how amazing you are."
No one asks about any Obama scandal, like the 2012 Benghazi attack. No one asks about her controversial, heavy-handed school lunch rules, which Trump thankfully threw out. And no one asks about greed. She has a 10-city stadium tour charging $300 a ticket or more for the superfans to hear her speak. Is it appropriate to cash in on her FLOTUS status this way? How much, if any, has gone to charity? These kinds of questions are unacceptable. This is Michelle Obama.
Republican first ladies can only dream of this kind of treatment.
To understand the fawning nature of this coverage, consult Andrea Mitchell's "reporting" on the "NBC Nightly News." On Nov. 9, Mitchell offered an infomercial for Mrs. Obama, saying, "After fiercely guarding her privacy in the White House years, now the most revealing memoir ever written by a former first lady, ripping President Trump's false accusations about her husband's citizenship as bigoted and dangerous."
Michelle's body "buzzed with fury after the infamous 'Access Hollywood' tape," Mitchell said. To break up the commercial, there were a few seconds of a clip of President Trump saying, "She got paid a lot of money to write a book, and they always insist you come up with controversial ..." NBC wouldn't even air the end of the sentence.
Did Michelle's body buzz with fury when former President Bill Clinton's accusers resurfaced to remind people that he sexually assaulted them? Nobody asks.
Mitchell finished the Obama report talking about "intimate details" that were the publisher's talking points, like Obama's "devastating miscarriage" and some marriage counseling she went to with Barack. Oh, and Mitchell said Obama is "on a tour befitting a rock star."
Now compare. Eight years ago, first lady Laura Bush's memoir was released, and there was Andrea Mitchell. She began with then-President Bush's mangling of the Hurricane Katrina optics, saying: "She writes about Katrina. August 31st, two days after the hurricane struck, the levees had failed. People were desperate. The president flies over instead of visiting." Mrs. Bush says the president flew over to keep his convoy of vehicles from blocking helpful supplies.
For rebuttal, NBC put on liberal historian Douglas Brinkley, who bizarrely claimed the government was conspiring against help: "the federal government was stopping trucks from Walmart and Kmart with water and food from even arriving."
Then Mitchell discussed the Bushes' fear of being poisoned at a German summit in 2007. And then, for a trifecta of "good news," she brought up Bush's "lifelong guilt" over having killed a 17-year-old friend in a car accident.
If that contrast sounds like a joke, it is. But it's also real.
Most Americans would like the media to tread lightly with the first ladies, especially after they've lived in the White House. But the liberal media have savaged Nancy Reagan and the Bush wives, and they're not exactly rolling out a red carpet for Melania Trump. The favoritism cannot be more obvious.
The Greatest Fraud Ever and his “wife” should be in prison.
Laundered money paid to enemies of the citizens of The United States.
As usual, the MSM appeals to those who are unintelligent enough to be unable to perceive the glaring biases and outright contradictions the MSM spews daily. It is no wonder their ratings are going down, and the big social media companies are turning to ever more heavy handed tactics to suppress challenges to the narrative.
What good does it profit a man...
He will find out just how true that is one day.
The worst former occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave should indeed be in prison
Setting the author aside I have questions about the book publishing business.
How many books must be sold at what retail price to warrant a $65 Million deal?
Is the $65 Million what the author receives?
How much profit is there for the publisher, book distributor, and the retail book store?
I'm sure my questions are naïve but what must the retail price be for the author to receive $65 million. If the author received $1 for each book will they sell 65 million books?
‘At some point you’ve made enough money...’ - Barack Hussein Obama (D-USSA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoTSeuLffA
Consider that in 2000 Hillary was only given an $8,000,000 advance on her book. By Viacom when they owned the publisher and CBS.
I’d love to know the math of all that. I know nothing about it. Probably the retail side of it is rather out of the picture as far as the publisher and author are concerned.
Don’t forget; the $65 MM is not for just “the book”; it is for an audiobook in 3-10 languages and that number could cover a follow up book. I don’t know the details. They could literally have 10 MM people download the audiobook and forget they did so in the next ten minutes.
As for her book; go to Amazon and look at the reviews. They’re like 300:1 positive. An uplifting tale, you know.
For the first time in her life, she’s proud of capitalism.
When those sealed indictments start raining down, a slick lawyer will charge them 4 times his regular rate because he knows they have the money to pay him.
She never wrote any book. It was written by a secret, highly-paid sycophant. She deserves not a cent!
Her husband deserves prison for betraying this country.
Once a grifter, always a grifter.
Her book: expensive toilet paper.
Money laundering. This is their own money being laundered into daylight.
I wonder how much the publisher keeps as their fee for the service?
Could you explain how that works?
I don’t know, this is just what I suspect. Is there any possibility that they would actually sell $65 million in books? I remember with some of the Clinton books, they’d receive huge advances but though the publisher reported large sales, I couldn’t tell that anyone actually bought them.
I remember there was a Democrat speaker of the house years back who had a book ghost-written for him. Unions were required to buy the books, by the thousands, which they did. They would give the books away, store them in warehouses, send them to the land fills. Companies, people, who wanted to talk to the speaker had to buy quantities of the book. It was a way of extracting a bribe without it looking like a bribe.
Others have done similar things. But at some point, if the book is going straight to the landfill, why actually print the book? Why not just show the sales on the spreadsheet, pay the taxes on the income, but save the ink and paper?
So this is what I suspect with these exaggerated book deals. Especially with books that few people actually read.
There are other ways politicians launder money after retirement. You become a partner in a firm at “x” million a year, with no duties. I always assume its your own money being laundered. You do a speaking tour for hundreds of thousands per twenty minute speech. If you are still in power, its a transparent bribe. If you are out of power, I suspect money laundering again. Because nobody bribes a politician who is completely out of power.
Or they set up a foundation and receive donations. Again, if they are in power, assume bribery. But if they are retired from power, its their own money being brought in from their overseas accounts.
Maybe I’m wrong. But this is what it looks like to me. Law firms, book publishers, are complicit. I think.
Michelle Obama's publisher hired the peeping tom to spy on and smear the Palins: https://concernedwomen.org/jeepers-creepers-random-house-hires-peepers/ What's next? Hire a rapist to follow Ivanka Trump? The guy's hands are soaked in slime, and it's a short step to being soaked in blood.
To answer the question of where he got the $65M to pay Michelle: from the same source as the money to spy on the Palins. It's funneled to him by people who hate and want to destroy America.
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