Rumsfeld book greeted with ‘tepid’ interest.
By on Aug 17th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Rumsfeld book greeted with ‘tepid’ interest.
A “well-placed industry source” tells the New York Post that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “has received only tepid interest from a handful of publishers.” Rumsfeld is re-tooling the book, and “he now plans to make it a full-blown autobiography rather than simply a treatment of his six years in the cabinet.”
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If there are no pictures to color or pages that fold out, Repubes won’t be the least bit interested.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:31 amDoesn’t matter, it’ll all be a pack of lies and embellishments of a failed bureaucrat.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:31 amTales of Brave Donnie and the Generals who let him down.
My Life as a Military Failure, by dandy Don Crumbsfeld.
-GSD
August 17th, 2007 at 11:39 amEven the intended audience for this book knows that it will contain warmed over tripe. All the good stuff is “secret”.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:41 amWill this be on an end cap, toilet paper isle at Wal-Mart.?….Blessings
August 17th, 2007 at 11:42 amhe now plans to make it a full-blown autobiography…
Full blown?
August 17th, 2007 at 11:42 amDid Gannon work with Rummy, too?
Maybe he will donate the first signed copy to the Arroyo Seco, NM library. I am sure they will LOVE to have that in the shelves.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:44 amWill this be on an end cap, toilet paper isle at Wal-Mart.?….Blessings
Comment by Sharon — August 17, 2007 @ 11:42 am
Probably a great doorstop. :D
August 17th, 2007 at 11:45 amWill this be on an end cap, toilet paper isle at Wal-Mart.?….Blessings
Comment by Sharon — August 17, 2007 @ 11:42 am
If you can’t find it there, you might find it over in the garden department with the other fertilizers.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:45 amto be retitled… If I Did It… by Don Rumsfeld
August 17th, 2007 at 11:50 amProbably a great doorstop. :D
Comment by Zooey
Or a bug swatter.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:52 amGood Morning Ladies. Well at least we have given the troll’s a detailed map of where to go to find their most recent book on rep, crap….LOL…Blessings
August 17th, 2007 at 11:53 amPerhaps I could buy it from Amazon, paired “Better Together” with Economist.com’s “Resign, Rumsfeld” issue at a smashing price.
Go me, the bulk/comparison shopper.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:56 amWill this be on an end cap, toilet paper isle at Wal-Mart.?….Blessings
Comment by Sharon — August 17, 2007 @ 11:42 am
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:02 pmGreat one Sharon!!
Or a bug swatter.
Comment by Wayne — August 17, 2007 @ 11:52 am
Or land fill… land fill is good.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:04 pmWhy do the lefties even bother shaking in their boots over this book, its not as if any of them can understand a concept that strays beyond, “Bush lied PEOPLE DIED!”
Stick to Archie© cartoons, people.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:06 pmthere’s always regnery. they don’t pay well but they pay.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:08 pmComment by LibTeenie — August 17, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
so easy to piss you people off!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:10 pmComment by LibTeenie — August 17, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
I don’t detect any shaking just the same the same lack of interest in the gentleman’s book.
Betty vs Veronica is such a difficult one. I quess I’ll go with Midge
August 17th, 2007 at 12:10 pmCan anyone imagine how hard it would be for Rummy to write a book? I mean to have to figure out the known knowns, unknown knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns and then to figure out how to ask himself the best questions and then to figure out how to answer those questions in the most obtuse manner in order to maintain the string of disinformation and lies MUST be a brutal task. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:13 pmNo wonder Rummy looks ancient, and needs assistance walking — he’s exhausted from overseeing the ghost writing of his book.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm“has received only tepid interest from a handful of publishers.â€
Well, you go to publishers with the book you have, not the book you want to have.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:17 pm“Why do the lefties even bother shaking in their boots over this book”
Comment by LibTeenie — August 17, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
The shaking you see comes from our laughter…
August 17th, 2007 at 12:19 pmmissmolly
*Applause* Bravo, nicely done.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:20 pmThe shaking you see comes from our laughter…
Comment by missmolly — August 17, 2007 @ 12:19 pm
The trolls will never get it!!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:21 pmGeees, now the slow leaker troll’s think our “making fun of” comment’s show worry…Maybe we need to ask the rummer’s publisher to include a small dictionary along with his crummy book…2 fer as it were…..That’s it, a crummy along with a rummy, fit for troll reading all the time..
Thank’s RUCerious…How ya doing.? Good to read you here….Blessings
August 17th, 2007 at 12:23 pmThe shaking you see comes from our laughter…
So you DO finally understand the Archie© comics?
*Applause* Bravo, nicely done.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:24 pmLibteenie: *Applause* Bravo, nicely done.
Right back at em, teeners, good job.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pmMissmolly, priceless……Blessings
August 17th, 2007 at 12:29 pmSo you DO finally understand the Archie© comics?
Comment by LibTeenie — August 17, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/new_archie_graphic_novel
August 17th, 2007 at 12:33 pmIf Rummy is that hard up for cash, he could get Regenery to publish his book, then the right wing welfare machine can kick in and buy it by the palette load so they can give it away for free on Newsmax.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:39 pm“Mr. Rumsfeld, how well do you believe your book will sell?”
“As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don’t know We don’t know.”
August 17th, 2007 at 12:44 pmOxyCon – and then they can say it’s a bestseller! Sounds like you know the tricks they play in the publishing world!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:46 pmWaste of time. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra did it first!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pm“Mr Rumsfeld. critics will say your book is filled with lies and distortions. What is your response?”
“You’re going to be told lots of things. You get told things every day that don’t happen. It doesn’t seem to bother people, they don’t—
August 17th, 2007 at 12:55 pmIt’s printed in the press. The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened. Everyone’s so eager to get the story before in fact the story’s there. That the world is constantly being fed things that haven’t happened. All I can tell you is, it hasn’t happened. It’s going to happen.”
And then there this gem……
“I believe what I said yesterday … I don’t know what I said, er, but I know what I think, and … well, I assume it’s what I said.”
No wonder he can’t find a publisher.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:09 pmThis book will be a best seller in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
August 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pmIt won’t sell to repugs unless it has a centerfold picture of a bomb exploding over a city.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pmWith God peering over the clouds at the scene.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pmSmiling.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pm#31
If Rummy is that hard up for cash, he could get Regenery to publish his book, then the right wing welfare machine can kick in and buy it by the palette load so they can give it away for free on Newsmax.
Comment by OxyCon — August 17, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
You mean like they do for ann coultergeist’s little ranting gems? I think they are now paying people to take them and use them as toilet paper.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:41 pmImagine rumsfeld talking about rumsfeld? Oh my.
August 17th, 2007 at 2:25 pmI will not buy this asswipes book!!!
August 17th, 2007 at 8:22 pmRumfeld is the worst defense secretary we have had in our history. He didn’t provide the troops with the body armor and uparmored humvees they needed. He was wrong about the insurgency, the cost of the war, and how long the war would take.
August 18th, 2007 at 2:04 am