Atria Books, an imprint of
Simon & Schuster, has rejected a book by soldiers who knew him about Obama’s
favorite disserter Bowe Bergdahl. (Remember that Bergdahl is the one Obama gave up five high-level dangerous Taliban to retrieve.) The reason for the rejection of the book? To protect Obama.
Don’t take my word for
it. Senior Editor Sarah Durand
said so herself:
“I’m not sure we can publish this book without the
Right using it to their ends,” Sarah Durand, a senior editor at Atria Books, a
division of Simon & Schuster, wrote in an email to one of the soldiers’
agents.
“[T]he Conservatives are all over Bergdahl and using
it against Obama,” Durand wrote, “and my concern is that this book will have
to become a kind of ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’” — a reference to the
group behind a controversial book that raised questions about John Kerry’s
Vietnam War record in the midst of his 2004 presidential campaign. (Durand did
not respond to requests for comment. “We do not comment about our editorial
process,” said Paul Olsewski, vice president and director of publicity at
Atria.)
Lately, big publishing
houses have been whining about how the internet, particularly Amazon, has been
eroding their business. But after
decades of dealing with Big Publishing as an author, after seeing some of the
crap they do chose to publish, and after reading stories like this, my response
to said complaints from the publishing houses is . . .
Good.
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