
We IMers learned all about this practice years ago.
Courtesy of NYT:
Boxes began arriving in early November at the Phoenix headquarters of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group with ties to the Trump family.
They contained copies of the new book by Donald Trump Jr., “Triggered,” according to a person who works in the building. The stockpile grew to roughly 2,000 copies, stored in an underused second-floor office under a poster bearing a slogan: “Capitalism Not Cronyism.”
Turning Point is not the only conservative group making bulk purchases to aid Mr. Trump’s new career as an author. At least nine Republican organizations, G.O.P. candidates or advocacy groups are selling “Triggered” or promoting Mr. Trump’s book tour, according to emails obtained by The New York Times, interviews and disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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Some groups are harnessing the younger Mr. Trump’s popularity to raise political donations while also driving his sales. The N.R.C.C. bought $75,000 worth of books in November, a spokesman said, in a promotion that took in almost $200,000 in contributions. The National Republican Senatorial Committee ordered about 2,500 copies, which it said sold almost immediately.
The Republican National Committee and Citizens United, a conservative activist group run by a former deputy campaign manager to the president, are also offering the book to donors.
Earlier this month, the R.N.C. denied making large bulk purchases of the book, a practice that some best-seller lists, including that of The Times, may penalize authors for when ranking sales. But F.E.C. records released last week showed that it spent almost $100,000 on copies on Oct. 29, a transaction the committee acknowledged was part of its “Triggered” promotion.
I think most of us here became aware of this practice when it was used to push Sarah Palin’s stupid book to the top of the best seller’s list.
However this same tactic has been used to make Bill O’Reilly’s books, Glenn Beck’s books, and Jeanine Pirro’s books, seem super popular.
These people do not know how to be successful without cheating.
Someday I would love to see some big journalistic outift, like the New York Times, really dig down to find out just how many sales are to individuals and how many are bullshit bulk purchases by Right Wing groups.
I think that would be very enlightening.
By the way I should mention that Junior’s book was knocked out of the number one spot on the Times best seller’s list by “A Warning” the book written by an anonymous White House staffer who says that Donald Trump is unfit for office.
Somehow I doubt that book relied on bulk sales to reach its position.
HAH, Gryph, my first thought just reading your title…. “Palin 2.0!”
c4p and $arahPAC didn’t much like getting called on it either.
Quite pissy, if memory serves. GRIN.
The (cough) “esteemed” Franklin Graham calls us demonic because we do not support and hail all things Trump.
Put me in a room with him one-on-one discussing the Bible. I’ll make him CRY, the freaking fraud.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/kid-rock-shocks-audience-as-he-attacks-oprah-and-joy-behar-in-drunken-racist-rant/
After describing performing a sex act with Winfrey and Behar, Rock declared that people who call him racist are “f*ckin’ weird.”
aka pebble
BFF of $arah as well as Nugent.
Doesn’t that tell you all that you need to know about HER?
Birds of a feather, she can reinvent herself how many times she wants.
The world LAUGHS.
They “are in a situation where they understand their base pressure, the base has not yet bolted from the president,” – said Dent, who stepped down from Congress in 2018.
“They resent being put in this position all the time.” They “are in a situation where they understand their base pressure, the base has not yet bolted from the president,”- ““But there’s no question, having spoken to many of them privately, they’re absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the president’s behavior,”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-dent-gop-trump-impeachment_n_5de0c4a9e4b00149f72cd57d
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/11/29/trump-fake-pic-real.html
The sensitivity of the campaign to questions about Trump’s age and health is a 2020 red flag. They know that Trump likely has some health problems, and they are going to absurd lengths to cover them up and pass him off as healthier than he probably is.
Trump supporters can’t be converted. They must be defeated.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/29/ohio-extreme-abortion-bill-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face ‘abortion murder’ charges
A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into a woman’s uterus – a procedure that does not exist in medical science – or face charges of “abortion murder”.
LMAO! I won’t even forward this to my chief nurse of 40 plus years sister.
OMG their ignorance of a woman’s body is going to kill someone.
I think it was The Blacklist that had a storyline about a doctor taking revenge on both her rapist and the men in power who passed draconian anti-abortion laws. She kidnapped them, implanted embryos and then released them three months later. As I was watching I was thinking YES, if only someone would do this for real.
I’d also like men to have to pay full price out of pocket for viagra and get written permission from their wives or mothers to get a prescription.
Why is it that both Don the Greater and Don the Lesser always look like they are sucking on something in every photograph?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whole-foods-person-of-the-year-mitch-mcconnell_n_5de149e9e4b0d50f32a15319
“Mitch McConnell has done a tremendous amount to influence the natural products industry in 2019, and what he has set in motion will continue to impact this industry for a long time to come.”
#MoscowMitch
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/11/prison-libraries-book-bans-california-sacramento-reading-rehabilitation/
For centuries, the printed word has been seen as a way to help incarcerated people turn their lives around. In the late 1700s, inmates received religious texts to encourage their rehabilitation. In the 1940s, California prison librarian Herman Spector pushed the theory of bibliotherapy, which held that incarcerated people could be reformed through reading. During a talk to the American Prison Association in 1940, Dr. C.V. Morrison recommended book “prescriptions” for inmates; around that time, officials at California’s San Quentin Prison took library records into account when deciding parole eligibility.
Conservative groups are buying the books,but where is the money coming from to buy them?
Is donnie jr funneling money to the groups somehow, he overcharges the secret service at some trump property and gets $$ from taxpayers,which he then sends to groups to buy his books?
I shop at value village thrift shop and see stacks of Sarah Pees face on going rogue. I would hate to see wasted paper in our thrift shops with that ugly jr face. Yelck. We Americans are suffering the ugly Republicans dreams with their anal retentive faced leaders. What fresh hell!
I’d like to see books with bulk purchases to that degree disqualified from the best sellers list.