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Eat shoes you conservative

I read this in the 'in the news' section of the chronicle, so i did a lil research on this.

this is an expert from crossfire, and watch watch what carlson says

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In culinary news, Hillary Rodham Clinton sold an astonishing 200,000 copies of her terrific new book, "Living History," in just its first day of sales. Simon & Schuster, which had ordered a whopping one million books for its first printing, is already reportedly ordering a second printing of more than 300,000.

Why then do I call this culinary news? Here's why. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: If she sells a million copies of this book, I'll eat my shoes and my tie. I will.

BEGALA: And your tie, too?

CARLSON: Yes, and I'll enjoy it. A million copies.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BEGALA: Tucker, my friend, get ready to be munching on a little shoe leather coming up pretty soon, huh?

CARLSON: Actually, Paul, I will, in fact, eat my shoes, because I'm a man of my word, as you know. But I don't think there's any chance that's going to happen. This is book publishing hype.

They're already ordering 350,000 copies. From the reviews, the review yesterday in "The New York Times," one of the most savage reviews I have ever read of any book published ever in my lifetime, this book is not going to sell a million copies.

I truly don't believe it is. And if it does, it can be verified, I'll eat them, I'll be happy to do that.

BEGALA: No weasel words, if it can be verified. If there's honest reporting in the media...

CARLSON: Well actually if they say a million copies. I don't want to eat wing tips if I don't have to.

BEGALA: Guess what? You're going to be eating those shoes. This is a terrific book.

Everybody in the audience, by the way, who wants to watch Tucker eat his shoes, buy Hillary's book. We're going to let our audience actually vote right now. If you've got your voting devices, tell us whether Tucker Carlson will have to eat his shoes.

Press one for yes, Hillary Clinton will, in fact, sell a million books. Tucker's going to be munching on filet of sole. Or, press two, Republicans, if you find a way to stop the vote count. Perhaps call Chief Justice Rehnquist and spare Tucker a leather lunch. We'll have the results a little later in our program.

But next, we're going to debate a more serious topic, whether the Bush administration may have spun the intelligence of whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Stay with us.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/11/cf.00.html

i'll watch that episode when he eats his shoes and bow tie!

hey, make fun all you want.

it's about to sell a million copies and i'm about to see a conservative eat his shoes and tie

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Originally posted by The_Dude
hey, make fun all you want.

it's about to sell a million copies and i'm about to see a conservative eat his shoes and tie

O.K....while I admit that would be fun to watch...sales are still a long way from a million. What do we have, I forgot already, 550,000 copies total printed? That's just over half-way. And not all of those are sold. Sales will drop off drastically as the ferver dies down. Plus...Harry Potter comes out in about...oh..50 minutes from rigghhht NOW.

according to cbs, " Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's book sold an estimated 200,000 copies on its first day on store shelves, her publisher said. "

the publisher had ordered 1 mil copies + 50k after that.

LINKY

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Rush Limbaugh: Hillary's publisher lying
Radio host rips Simon & Schuster for inflating sales of Clinton's book

Radio talk-show giant and best-selling author Rush Limbaugh is making it absolutely clear what he thinks about the purported success of Hillary Clinton's new book, "Living History."

He says reports of record purchases are simply not true.

"The publisher at Simon & Schuster is lying about the sales of this book," Limbaugh said during his nationally broadcast program yesterday, singling out company president and CEO Jack Romanos.

"He's lying about it being the best-selling book of all time, not just the best-selling book they've published. He's lying about how many copies they've sold – they don't know yet how many copies they've sold. It takes them six months to do audits to pay their authors royalties."

It was on Tuesday's edition of "Your World with Neal Cavuto" on the Fox News Channel that Romanos proclaimed how well sales of the senator's memoir were doing.

"This is the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the history of our industry," Romanos said. "It remains to be seen – we'll know certainly by the end of the year – whether it is the best-selling non-fiction book.

"But, at this point, we estimate we've sold over 600,000 copies in less than a week. We've printed a million 600,000. We've gone back to press off the initial printing of a million by 600,000 more. It's a truly unique opportunity."

"It's all a crock!" exclaimed Limbaugh, who says he knows Romanos well, since Simon & Schuster is the same company that published both of Limbaugh's own best sellers through its Pocket Books division.

"My second book called 'See I Told You So' had a first printing of 2 million," said Limbaugh. "Mrs. Clinton's first printing is rumored to be 1 million. But we've got a source ... an unnamed source at Simon & Schuster saying they made that up, saying, 'Where would we put a million books? Where could we hide 'em? And we don't know how many have been sold we're just saying this because it's part of a PR campaign.' ...

"All I know is that Jack Romanos was at Simon & Schuster when my book printed 2 million original copies. [It was the] first time in non-fiction it had ever been done, it has not been done since ... and those 2 million books sold in eight weeks. ... I don't know what's happening with Mrs. Clinton's book, but I'll guarantee you it isn't that, and Simon & Schuster knows it, and they're making it all up just because they paid her this $8 million advance. They're a bunch of liberals over there anyway and they're just trying to claim that this is the biggest thing since sliced bread. They've been corrupted by the Clinton mystique just like everybody else that gets involved with the Clintons."

Limbaugh complained that no one is challenging the veracity of the sales claims made by the publisher.

"There are a lot of other authors at Simon & Schuster who've done better than Hillary's doing," he said. "Howard Stern is one."

Repeated calls by WorldNetDaily to Simon & Schuster went unreturned.

Despite some media accounts of initially hot sales, WorldNetDaily reported that bookstores across America's heartland were not seeing any strong demand for "Living History," and a book on prophecy called "Beyond Iraq" had knocked the senator's work out of the No. 2 position on Amazon.com. Clinton's book remains in third position on Amazon's list.

When reports first emerged of people lining up to buy "Living History," WorldNetDaily columnist Ann Coulter documented some irregularities about several customers:

First in line for Hillary's book at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center on Sunday night was Charles Greinsky, who told the New York Daily News he rushed out at midnight to get one of the first books because he supported Hillary's health-care plan. A few years ago, the Associated Press identified Greinsky more fully. It turns out he is "a longtime Clinton campaigner" from Staten Island, who has been the Clintons' guest several times both at the White House and at their home in Chappaqua, N.Y. ...
Another average individual eager to get Hillary's book was Greg Packer, who was the centerpiece of the New York Times' "man on the street" interview about Hillary-mania. After being first in line for an autographed book at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble, Packer gushed to the Times: "I'm a big fan of Hillary and Bill's. I want to change her mind about running for president. I want to be part of her campaign."

It was easy for the Times to spell Packer's name right because he is apparently the entire media's designated "man on the street" for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans' Day Parade. He was quoted at not one – but two – New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new "Star Wars" movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games – even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin's house in the Hamptons and the pope's visit to Giants stadium.

"I like to be a piece of the action," Packer explained to the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, The American Prowler reported that pre-sale leaks regarding Bill Clinton's admission to Hillary of his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky were intentional.

"That was really to jump-start the sales," a Simon & Schuster editor told the Prowler. "It's a tried and true technique."

That editor also reportedly admitted there were serious concerns about the book's staying power.

"All the people that really love her and want the book have already gotten it. We know we are not going to be seeing hundred-thousand sales two weeks from now."

Sixate nailed the link before I could.

" 'Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's book sold an estimated 200,000 copies on its first day on store shelves', her publisher said."

Her publisher wouldn't have any reason to lie.

Hillary Book is already down to #7 (it was #4 yesterday) on Amazon. So i doubt its selling as good as they say

Why is Rush Limbaugh doing business with liberals if he hates them so much?

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Originally posted by Macheath
Why is Rush Limbaugh doing business with liberals if he hates them so much?

Business is business, Limbaugh is a Capitalist first. Just like any actor speaking out against war, then staring in a movies that glorifies it. The almighty dollar always wins

Tucker Calson is the token conservative on CNN. Like Alan Combes(sp) is the token liberal on FOX. So i hope he gags on his stupid bow tie.

Good for a laugh, thanks...

man thats funny, i hope he does eat some shoe, it'd find it funny to watch anyone do that.

It's good to see that he lives up to his word. That's not even something Janine Garofalo could do!

....or Alec Baldwin, for that matter. Wasn't he supposed to leave the United States if Bush won in 2000? HA!

I'd love it if they simoultaneously televised Tucker eating his shoes and bowtie, and Alec Baldwin leaving the States. Hilary's book still has a ways to go doesn't it?

Sorry... why does it really matter if she sells two books or two million? Does it really matter that the publisher is lying?

This kind of thing happens everyday. It's called PR.

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Originally posted by Peetster
Sixate nailed the link before I could.

" 'Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's book sold an estimated 200,000 copies on its first day on store shelves', her publisher said."

Her publisher wouldn't have any reason to lie.

So her publisher's now part of the vast left-wing conspiracy, propagating cruel untrue liberal bias into our media? :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Sparhawk
So her publisher's now part of the vast left-wing conspiracy, propagating cruel untrue liberal bias into our media? :rolleyes:

So you noticed the conspiracy too?!??!

Who cares if the publisher is lying or not. If she sells a million books and Tucker Carlson ends up eating his shoes, he deserves it. What a made for television PR ploy. Just that stunt alone could account for 100,000 in sales. I wonder if Carlson is getting a kickback from Hillary? Maybe he's just an undercover member of the vast left-wing conspiracy?

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Originally posted by Sparhawk
So her publisher's now part of the vast left-wing conspiracy, propagating cruel untrue liberal bias into our media? :rolleyes:

Publishers are propaganda machines, regardless of whos book is being sold.

Who are the pathetic cretins that are buying this book? Jeez, it's been years since the scandal...let it go already

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Originally posted by Kaos
Who are the pathetic cretins that are buying this book? Jeez, it's been years since the scandal...let it go already

Conservative Republicans who havent been truly happy since Clinton left office and they had noone's cock to talk about.

i can tell you first hand that publishers lie all the time. every review i've seen of hillary's book was harsh, and S&S probably tried to divert some of that with hype about sales--that's what my office did. it's not a big deal...it's PR. independent presses are *quick* to lie about sales--they do it to survive. S&S is huge, but you know, it could happen. i think it's pretty sad/funny that some guy might have to eat shoes...i hope he wears strappy sandals and has incredibly small feet if it comes to that.

While I don't really support Hillary's views as a whole, I honestly do hope that she can sell a million copies, just to make Carlson stick to his word.

Sorry, but there is no chance in hell that I would buy Hillary's book. I do, however, plan to pick it up at the library. I will not put money in her pocket, but I would like to read what she (well, what her ghostwriters) have to say.

That's just my two cents.

i'm just wondering what percentage of the books that have sold were bought just because of the scandal? That's gotta be a big factor (the woman's pov of the whole situation)...which makes it kinda sad that her book isn't selling that great even with the scandal tied in.

I know few people who have bought it because of the scandal. I know more (mostly women) who've bought it just because she's led a very interesting life, and has a lot of stories to tell.

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Originally posted by Phaenx
It's good to see that he lives up to his word. That's not even something Janine Garofalo could do!

I'd like to eat Janine Garofalo. Tell you what, if Hillary sells a million books I get to eat Janine.

Literally eat her, news has been slow recently.

nah, you know what I mean... wink wink nudge nudge

I do, but really, a celebrity has to die so the news doesn't suck for the next week or so. High grand ruler Phaenx-Sama demands it!

well 2 out of 3 aint bad. so long Kate and Buddy

Success or not, it's a shame she didn't write the book herself.

I dont care about all this democrat/republican dispute or whatever... BUT ID REALLY LOVE TO SEE A GUY TRYING TO EAT HIS OWN SHOE :D!!!!

look what I found:

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Clinton's Book Sales Top 1 Million
1 hour, 15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) has sold more than 1 million copies of her memoir "Living History," in almost exactly a month, her publisher announced Wednesday.

"What has been particularly exciting is the speed with which it has achieved such unprecedented sales levels," Simon & Schuster executive Carolyn Reidy said in a statement.

The company ordered 1 million copies for the first printing, an extraordinarily high number for a nonfiction book.

"Living History" hit stores June 9 amid a wave of publicity and promotional appearances by the former first lady.

First-day sales topped 200,000, and the publisher quickly announced that it would print even more copies to keep pace with demand.

Clinton signed an $8 million deal to write the book, in which she recounts, among other things, her personal pain and shock at her husband's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

To promote sales, the New York Democrat launched a media blitz and appeared at a number of book-signing events, where fans waited on line for hours.

The intense public interest fueled speculation that Clinton may someday run for president.

When Congress was in recess last week, she traveled to Europe for a series of book-signing appearances.

DAMN!!!DAMN!!!DAMN!!! Memalvada done beat me to it.

When's the shoe eatin' begin? Crap, I'll bet it'll be pay-per-view.

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Originally posted by hotzot
I'd like to eat Janine Garofalo. Tell you what, if Hillary sells a million books I get to eat Janine.

Oh, and another thing. That's what I truly love about the TFP...all this time I thought that I must be the only guy on the planet to have a thing for Janine Garofalo. You learn so much here. :D

I WANNA SEE THE SHOE AND TIE EATING! ! WHAT'S BETTER THAN SEEING A CONSERVATIVE EAT HIS OWN SHOES N TIE??

Seeing a conservative jump of a bridge? :D

but watching one eat shoes and tie lasts a lot longer

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Originally posted by The_Dude
I WANNA SEE THE SHOE AND TIE EATING! ! WHAT'S BETTER THAN SEEING A CONSERVATIVE EAT HIS OWN SHOES N TIE??

Seeing a democrat say "get a job" to a welfare recipient.