Rove auctioning his memoir for ‘millions.’
By on Dec 6th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Rove auctioning his memoir for ‘millions.’
Former White House adviser Karl Rove is “shopping a memoir in an auction that will kick off today and likely result in a seven-figure payday. How much Rove’s memoir will go for is still unclear, but one publisher predicted $3 million. Ashbel Green, a senior editor at Alfred A Knopf, said that Rove lacks the “personality” to fetch “the multimillion-dollar contracts of former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan or former President Bill Clinton.”
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Karl Rove sitting through public book signings?
I don’t see it happening.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pmI have two cents to offer, going once twice sold to the lady with two cents.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:42 pmHis personality has always sucked. Which is why he has exacted his revenge on the people. He’s an evil nerd, with a grudge.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:42 pmIsn’t there a Son of Sam law? Somebody convict this guy before he can further profit off his life of crime.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:42 pmIt’s never been about anything but the money….
December 6th, 2007 at 1:43 pmI don’t see Rove writing anything truthful anyway. Only the rabid faithful would buy. Maybe they can do the same thing with this they do with Coulter’s books, and buy pallets of them to make it a #1 best seller.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:43 pmKarl Rove’s Memoir? Where will we find that under Fiction? Is there anybody dumb enough to believe anything this creep says, besides Exley of course.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:44 pmYears from now, professors of psychology will make this book required reading so students can have insight into a sick and twisted mind.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:44 pmTudblossom’s Tales-My Life Under George W. Bush’s Nutsack.
By Karl Rove
December 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pmI bid eleven cents!
December 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pmI’m sorry, but I was under the impressions that the 24 percenters weren’t big book readers (outside of My Pet Goat). Aren’t they the only sheeples dumb enough to buy his crap?
December 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pmLook,
I’m not a huge rap music fan, but this is pretty sweet:
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=tD5WlQ54Sg0&feature=related
December 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pmKarl Rove sitting through public book signings?
Comment by CitiDC — December 6, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
Not without getting pissed on by everyone in line
December 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pmA book written by a sociopath. Even the title will be a lie.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pmYears from now you’ll see it “Buck a Book” along with other crappy books.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:47 pmRove lacks the “personality†to fetch “the multimillion-dollar contracts of former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan or former President Bill Clinton.â€
You mean that being a lying, back-stabbing, underhanded, criminal, traitorous, amoral political tool for the RW Authoritarian Party (a/k/a”GOP”) is not an attractive trait?
Cheers,
December 6th, 2007 at 1:48 pm(sorry OT again)
Here’s another great video. Just poetry, but amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jsPBVNecOMo&feature=related
Thanks.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:48 pmWouldn’t it be great if Rove wrote a book and no one bought it.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:49 pmI think I’ll give Rove’s novel a pass.
I’m not very big on turning pages while wearing heavy rubber gloves.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:50 pmObviously Knopf isn’t interested in biting, but somebody probably will. It’s the downside of free enterprise — people will pay money for stupid things.
Rove is already too late for this year’s Christmas shopping season — is he looking to get the book into stores by this time next year?
December 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pmOh, nice, a rewrite of history Rove style. Can we get a fact check on that book?
It will be in the fictional section.
Bush/Cheney/Rove
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
December 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pmOK, you’re a tough bunch of bidders,…..nine cents!
December 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pmYears from now you’ll see it “Buck a Book†along with other crappy books.
Comment by Kay — December 6, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
I think more like 6 months - these turds seem to sink fast
December 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pmwhen they hit the circuit.
Whhat is the vegas line on this book being stocked in the fiction section?
December 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pmMillions? Pesos, maybe.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:54 pmHmmmm. Maybe he can use those millions for his legal defense fund - !
December 6th, 2007 at 1:54 pm.
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Oh, I can dream, can’t I…??
Damn it, my last offer …… seven cents!!!
December 6th, 2007 at 1:54 pmIt will be worth reading if only for the hot Jeff Gannon scenes.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:56 pmIt will be worth reading if only for the hot Jeff Gannon scenes.
Comment by Menehune — December 6, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Oh, I didn’t hear that Lynn Cheney will be ghost-writing it. That changes everything.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:58 pmSo Rove will say that X happen this way or that. How we going to get to verify that? All of the primary sources have either been deleted / destroyed or will, I’m certain, be classified as state secrets until every last one of them (and likely their grandchildren’s children) are gone.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pmOh, nice, a rewrite of history Rove style. Can we get a fact check on that book?
Comment by Buckie Boy — December 6, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
You know, if he told the truth it’d be a very enlightening book. But I’m pretty sure he’s simply not capable of telling the truth and that it will be one massive spin job and not worth the paper it’s printed on. Except to marketing students perhaps - how to sell the public anything!
December 6th, 2007 at 2:06 pmI’ll tell you the only way that I would buy his book and stand in a Rove line.
If they put Rove in a big box and let everyone who bought a book walk up and spit in it. That’s it. Sign me up!
I’ll bet in less than an hour, he’d sell a million. But then, of course, he would also drown.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:12 pmI bid 2 cents.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:13 pm31…spittleboarding?
December 6th, 2007 at 2:14 pmSpittleboarding . . . lol
Would that be considered torture, do you think?
December 6th, 2007 at 2:15 pmHow about splattershitboarding?
December 6th, 2007 at 2:20 pmMaybe he’ll tell us what was in those millions of missing e-mails.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:24 pmI offer to publish Rove’s book - if he pays ME $10 million and agrees that only three copies are made, one for him and his vanity, one for inclusion in the Library of Congress as documentation of his corruption, and one for him to eat as part of his restitution after his conviction.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:32 pmIt would make some great toilet paper in the out house!
December 6th, 2007 at 2:32 pmWhichever publisher “wins?” that one is going to take a bath on it, and end up giving away copies to Minutemen and Chamber of Commerce chapters around the country. Like a “straight to home video” movie. The initial shipment is being allocated to “Half Price Books”, where it will take the place of O’Reilly’s latest screed, which not even their customers will buy at 99 cents a copy.
The book will no doubt be a turd of revisionism, wrapped in lies, and dipped in liquid bullshit. Whoever reads it should take precautions - condoms, latex gloves, and dental dams- God knows what one could catch from that manwhore panderer.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:33 pm.
WHY IS ROVE FREE, STILL?
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December 6th, 2007 at 2:35 pmI wouldn’t pay a single peso for Tubby McTreason Rove’s memoir playbook. Those millions are needed for Tubby’s upcoming lawsuits and future indictments for his crimes.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:38 pmTentative Title: I am Bush’s Pet Goat
December 6th, 2007 at 2:40 pmPlease insert a line in the contract that requires Rove to pay back double the fee if the information isn’t fully accurate.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:41 pmCoulter won’t be happy with the competition. Not happy at all.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:42 pmWait…Rove has even less personality than Allan Greenspan, a man whose entire purpose in life for 30 years was twitching the interest rate? How is that possible?!
December 6th, 2007 at 2:51 pmI bid 2 cents.
Comment by Xisithrus — December 6, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
OK, Xis, the bidding war is on.
I bid 1 cent and four green stamps.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:02 pmJesus the book will only be good for butt wipe and even then I’d have to sterilize my ass afterwards!
December 6th, 2007 at 3:46 pmI bid 4 of c-h-l’s kernels of corn.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:47 pmI’d buy a book at a book signing from him just for the privilege of telling him what a traitor I think that he is to this country for the Valerie Plame Affair.
December 6th, 2007 at 5:16 pmOh, yeah, then I’d burn the book in the parking lot.
December 6th, 2007 at 5:17 pmRove is a smug and secretive little toady and doesn’t have any facet in his personality to make someone buy his book.
December 6th, 2007 at 5:55 pmAnother book that will end up in the $3.00 bin next Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:37 pmMay Rove be ultimately slaughtered like the over fed swine that he is.
∞
December 7th, 2007 at 2:15 amWait…Rove has even less personality than Allan Greenspan, a man whose entire purpose in life for 30 years was twitching the interest rate? How is that possible?!
LOL. In other words, Rove has less personality than a door stop.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:38 pm