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Wayne Besen
PO Box 25491
Brooklyn, NY 11202
Amazing, but Mary Cheney's book has only sold 6,000 copies, despite the fact that she has been on seemingly every national talk show in the country. Maybe no one wants to buy the book because it is clear that she is still "spinning" and not speaking from her heart.
I bought and read the book and it taught me virtually nothing, except that Mary was a daddy's girl and her sycophantic book cleared the approval desk at the Republican National Committee. I almost want to sue Mary for making me waste a day of my life reading such calculated political drivel.
I never thought I'd actually sell more books than Mary.
9 Comments:
I think you are absolutely right, Wayne. I believe people are not buying the book because they are not buying Mary.
posted by Anonymous, at
6/09/2006 12:16 PM
I can understand not wanting to rush up and kick your Dad in the shins, but aren't you entitled to courtesy in return? Namely not sitting on your hands when the administration has every antigay crank to the left of Fred Phelps along for the "Marriage Protection Amendment" debut.
posted by Anonymous, at
6/09/2006 12:38 PM
Mary's book is a profile in a lack of courage. It's hardly the kind of thing people want to rush out and buy. Who wants to hear her give a myriad of weak excuses as to why she remained silent in the face of attacks on her own community from the administration she worked to put into power?
posted by Anonymous, at
6/09/2006 5:09 PM
hahahahaha. there's something about mary!! 6k - that's embarassing
posted by Anonymous, at
6/09/2006 5:24 PM
Wayne,
I criticized those who attacked Mary without having read the book.
Then I bought it and read it. Nothing. Pages of meaningless anecdotes ranging from her niece's doodling to the amenities on the campaign planes.
For example,
In 2000 then-Governor Bush first said he "probably wouldn't" meet with Log Cabin. Then when the press ate him alive, on 4/14/00 he met with 12 Gay Republican leaders in Austin (what came to be known as the Austin 12).
This led to a series of demands from Log Cabin that the Governor met, including that an openly gay person speak at the National Convention. That August, Jim Kolbe, AZ Congressman, addressed the convention on foreign policy issues. Some of Bush's Texas delegation "prayed" though the speech rather than listen as an anti-gay protest.
It might have been interesting to know what the President or Vice President or even Mary thought about all this.
Mary doesn't mention it at all.
And this is just one small example.
Basically, the book was a waste of paper.
posted by Anonymous, at
6/09/2006 7:53 PM
The wingers don't want to deal with a lesbian in their midst and the rest of us already know what a hypocrite she is. That doesn't leave much of an audience. If the book had some "girl-on-girl" it might havotten traction among male frat boys.
posted by Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland, Ohio, at
6/10/2006 1:36 PM
Kaching! She was bought and paid for...in several currencies: social, political etc. I'll go with the old saying "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."
posted by Anonymous, at
6/15/2006 10:33 PM
