CBS must explain-Logan's Benghazi source & CBS-owned partisan bk publisher (Editor=Mary Matalin)

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6. Matalin and Threshold Editions

A Politico story from 2009:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25175.html

Mary Matalin’s official title at Threshold Editions is editor-in-chief, but the Republican strategist prefers several others: conservative, book-lover, fixer.

It’s that last role where Matalin’s extensive network comes into play for Simon & Schuster’s 4-year-old conservative imprint, now slated to publish memoirs by both former Vice President Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Matalin’s connections also played a part in a publishing-industry coup earlier this month, as Threshold simultaneously held the top spots on The New York Times best-seller list for hardcover and paperback nonfiction — Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” and Glenn Beck’s “Common Sense,” respectively. . . .

After the publication of Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” last August, liberal watchdog organization Media Matters described the book in a study as “unfit for publication” — a play off the author’s 2004 book, “Unfit for Command,” which riled Democrats and pushed the phrase “swift-boating” into the lexicon.

“What the hell is Mary Matalin doing running a publishing imprint in the first place?” asked Slate’s Timothy Noah, following the Media Matters report. “She is a professional propagandist, a political operative who learned her craft at the feet not of Maxwell Perkins but of Lee Atwater.”