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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:44 AM
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Where Annie's Bulk Purchase books are going - Free to NewsMax subscribers
Edited on Fri Aug-01-03 08:47 AM by LynneSin
https://www.newsmaxstore.com/nm_mag/treason2.cfm

I was reading about Starwood hotels and how they won't feature any FAUX news channels (woohoo!) and I saw an ad on the page with the News Max Article

Get "Treason" FREE!

Sign up or renew your subscription early with the form below and get "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism" FREE – a value of almost $35 with shipping FREE!!


And we wonder why there is a (+) next to Annie's name in the NYTimes bestseller list: THEY'RE GIVING HER BOOK AWAY!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/books/bestseller/0803besthardnonfiction.html
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:46 AM
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1. By the way...not so sure about the Starwood story now...
Edited on Fri Aug-01-03 08:49 AM by GOPisEvil
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=N08

Loew's looks good, though.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:48 AM
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3. Why would newsmax goof on them
they should be goofing on Loews which is like 98% democratic.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:50 AM
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4. I dunno...
..maybe Starwood doesn't carry FoxNews and they're just embellishing the story, knowing that the average NewsMax reader would never check that out...
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:48 AM
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2. NewsMax ... brings you exclusive stories the major media won’t report.
Yeah, like "Hollywood Naked"! LOL
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:40 PM
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12. Congrats ftbc!! 300 posts
:toast:
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pennylane100 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:52 AM
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5. I always thought something like this was going on.
There was no way a crappy book like that could have got to the top of the best seller list so quickly. It would be great if there was a way to track just how many of her books were bought in bulk sales.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 09:02 AM
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6. Her book has only been out for six weeks and they're GIVING it away
Where as Hillary is still selling books one person at a time. No (+) next to her name!
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chaumont58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 09:14 AM
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7. HumanEvents is doing the same thing
Prepubiscent Terry Jeffries' HumanEvents website is doing the same thing as the NewMaxi, giving away Ann The Man's book.

link: https://www.humaneventsonline.com/subscribe-direct.php

At this rate, how long will it take Scaife to go broke?
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 09:21 AM
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8. Um....
Edited on Fri Aug-01-03 09:22 AM by markbark
OK... I'll don my "Devil's Advocate" hat here


Even though I wouldn't use Ann Coulter's screed to line a cat-box (wouldn't that be redundant??) How is NewsMax's promotion of Treason any different from Buzzflash's promotion of:


Weapons of Mass Deception by Rampton, Stauber
All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
Living History by HRC
What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
The Clinton Wars by Sid Blumenthal
Fortunate Son by JH Hatfield
Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast

et al?

Right Wing sites push Rightist screeds, Left Wing sites push the lefty books.

There's a problem with this?


--MAB
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 09:32 AM
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9. Buzzflash does not buy them in bulk and give them away free
Edited on Fri Aug-01-03 09:33 AM by Loonman
Newsmax might buy x amount of Coulter books that either sit in a storeroom as they are given away for sign-ups, contests, etc.

They are probably buying the books in bulk per month, whether they get re-circulated or not.

Buzzflash is just saving you a trip to Amazon or B&N's website, not pushing "double sales" figures for Annie's screed.

Kinda like what the Scientologists did to keep "Dianetics" on the bestseller lists.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 09:39 AM
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10. You need to check the NYTimes bestseller list
To be honest, both sites could be doing the same thing. But there is no bulk purchase sales on Hillary books or any other book that isn't right-wing leaning. It makes you wonder what these right-wing books sales would really be if Scaife wasn't filling warehouses with the books
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:56 PM
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13. There's a concerted effort
by wealthy wingnuts to purchase HUGE quantities of any shrill right-wing screed in a deliberate attempt to get, and keep, the book on the bestseller lists. This has been their strategy ever since Anal-cyst-boy's first pack o' lies was published, and it works. Most people think the books are legitimately on the bestseller lists, not realizing that individual purchases make up only a tiny percentage of the total number of the 'books' sold.

Buzzflash, DU, and similar sites may have ads for books, but certainly don't purchase bulk quantities of the books to force them onto bestseller lists. Liberal books that hit the bestseller lists do it on individual purchases.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 10:05 AM
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11. so
maybe they should have a * after annthrax's name.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:57 PM
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14. Does anyone else get a little ironic chuckle
...over the phrase, "get Treason from Ann Coulter FREE"?

:D
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