'Living History' Makes Hillary a Living Star

NY Newsday ^ | July 16, 2003 | Lawrence C. Levy

[presidio9]

Hillary Rodham Clinton's autobiography isn't selling as well as a month ago. Then, despite being panned as a dull, unconvincing, committee-written apologia, it soared beyond expectations, with hours-long lines at stores to meet her.

But "Living History" is still reaping Clinton big political royalties, helping to push up her approval rating to all-time highs and earning something rare for such a well-known politician - a fresh look from the most important and open-minded voters, suburbanites.

"People who love her wanted to know more and people who hate her wanted to know more," Jason Porembski, a manager at the Borders store at the Republic Airport mall, said yesterday. "She wins either way, at least selling books."

[princess leah]

"open minded voters"...That's just a cover for what they really are: CRACKED IN THE HEAD!

[b4its2late]

No BARF Alert? Shame, shame, shame......

[b4its2late]

You'll like this..... ;-)

[jjm2111]

With that title a barf alert is redundant.

People who thing Hillary is wonderful are morons.

[Exit148]

I've heard of people who buy several of her books, and get it autographed ---then sell, or try to sell them on E-Bay.

So much for dedicated readers.

[JoJo Gunn]

Hey, Levy - how much did you get paid for such a blatant puff piece?

[My2Cents]

But "Living History" is still reaping Clinton big political royalties, helping to push up her approval rating to all-time highs

One of her main objectives in writing the book has been achieved. She's somewhat rehabilitated herself. Now, if the current attacks on Pres. Bush drop his poll numbers into the low 50-percentiles, she'll have the second piece in her plan to run for President next year.

[daviddennis]

They're getting anywhere from $65-96 per copy.

Not a bad profit, until you realize it probably represented 3-5 hours of waiting ...

D

[My2Cents]

"open minded voters"...

Some open minds should be closed for repairs.

[william clark]

More like a black hole, I'd say.

[cyncooper]

Here's more "Living History" about Hillary....One must keep the record current!

Clintons Lose Appeal, will need to repay over $3 Million in Legal Fees

Excerpt from court ruling, July 15, 2003:

In 1978, then-Arkansas Attorney General William Jefferson Clinton, his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Jim and Susan McDougal purchased 230 acres of undeveloped property in Arkansas. To develop the property they formed a partnership known as the Whitewater Development Company. In 1982 Jim McDougal purchased a savings and loan and renamed it Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association. Over the next few years, Jim McDougal and Madison Guaranty were involved in questionable financial transactions, some of which benefitted Whitewater Development. Also during this time period Mrs. Clinton and one of her law partners, Webster Hubbell, performed legal work for Madison Guaranty involving at least one of the questionable transactions. These activities eventually drew the attention of federal bank regulators, who made a criminal referral in 1992 to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Little Rock. The referrals alleged that Jim and Susan McDougal had fraudulently misused bank accounts at Madison Guaranty to benefit entities owned by them, including Whitewater Development. Additional referrals soon followed, some of which concerned questionable campaign contributions to Mr. Clinton in 1985. The U.S Attorney’s Office undertook an investigation, and in late 1993 transferred the case to the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.

[aShepard]

Further down in the article is this tidbit:

"That Clinton is likely to outsell conservative Ann Coulter's "Treason" - without having to resort to the sleazy tactic of appearing on the cover in a slinky black dress - has to warm the former first lady's heart as much as it has lined her pockets."

How about the sleazy tactic of having to resort to a photograph taken ten years ago, and then airbrushed by a student of Michangelo to totally transform her ugly puss!

[presidio9]

That Clinton is likely to outsell conservative Ann Coulter's "Treason" - without having to resort to the sleazy tactic of appearing on the cover in a slinky black dress

Is the author suggesting that Clinton would sell more books if she appeared in a "slinky black dress?" Yuk.

[pawdoggie]

The only thing that the sales of "Living History" prove is that there are a lot more well-heeled swells in the "Party of the People" than the DNC spin machine would have us believe. Only the rich can afford to spend good money on tedious fiction masquerading as fact in order to enrich someone who constantly demonizes the "rich".

[randog]

...despite being panned as a dull, unconvincing, committee-written apologia, it soared beyond expectations...

Beyond $8M expectations?

[RoughDobermann]

That Clinton is likely to outsell conservative Ann Coulter's "Treason" - without having to resort to the sleazy tactic of appearing on the cover in a slinky black dress

There is a difference: Coulter looks good in a slinky black dress; Clinton in a slinky black would cause mass hysteria.

[mombonn]

More like mass nausea.

[Rosencrantz]

[presidio9]

I was thinking she could use that as a threat: "Buy my book or I will put on the "slinky black dress." Or, worse, "take it off."