June 11, 2003

Ka-ching! and the sound of hair tearing
Bwaaaa! From Joe Conason:

'For conservatives who argue that whatever sells the most copies is the most credible, yesterday was their literary Waterloo. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir had them lining up outside the stores in the early morning dark, waiting for her autograph; by day's end they had sold about 200,000 copies and her publisher announced that another 300,000 would be added to the initial print run of 1 million. You can almost hear the hair being torn from heads all over town, from News Corp on Sixth Avenue to the National Review's townhouse in Murray Hill to the Wall Street Journal office downtown (where they're trying hard not to mention that woman).

The consternation on the right is especially amusing because they don't seem to realize that their demonization of Hillary (and her husband, of course) is what made this possible.'



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