NYT Seelye headline: Clinton Draws Adoring Throngs!

[DeepModem Mom]

Clinton's Book Signings Draw Adoring Throngs
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Published: June 23, 2004


Maxine George was in an absolute swoon yesterday.

"What a wonderful guy,'' she said, buckling at the knees, throwing her head back and clutching "My Life'' to her chest. "He is so sexy.''

Ms. George, 49, executive director of a nonprofit organization, traveled from Schenectady, N.Y., to meet Bill Clinton at a book signing that turned into a marathon four-hour performance and helped Barnes & Noble sell a record number of books at its store on Fifth Avenue in Rockefeller Center, 2,217 copies, and at all Barnes & Noble stores across the country - more than 90,000 copies, by far a record for single-day sales for nonfiction, a spokeswoman for the chain, Mary Ellen Keating, said.

Publishing experts say Barnes & Noble stores and its Web site account for about 20 percent of total book sales, suggesting that Mr. Clinton may have sold 500,000 copies on the first day. That would put him on track to pay back his reported $10 million advance fairly quickly.

And it breaks the nonfiction record that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have set last year with 200,000 copies of her "Living History'' sold on its first day....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/politics/23clinton.html

[Flubadubya]

1. Helps restore my faith in the American people...

A recent poll shows (sorry, no link, just heard on TV) that 50% of Americans like Clinton, 50% don't, but still three-fifths think he did a good job as president.

Glad to see the people can rise above the honking right-wing media noise that continues unabated even today. Just saw a piece on CNN's morning show where Soledad O'Brien and Bill Hemmer pretty much trashed and bashed him over the "BBC incident".

Eeewwww, isn't it just horrible that Bill Clinton is telling the truth about Ken Starr and how the media did nothing to counter the creep's illegal and illegitimate onslaught against the Presidency and American civilization.

Doesn't surprise me that the media whores all have their Calvin Klein's in a tight wad... Clinton does deliver a pretty heavy blow to their effite, lazy, and biased republican-mongering. What a bunch of thin-skinned YaHoos! All he did was tell them how they failed on their jobs by not questioning Ken Starr's tactics, and they try to label him as "over the top".

Hooray for Bill Clinton and the American people who have half a lick of sense and still support him.

[LynneSin]

2. I thought it said: NYT Seelye headline: Clinton Draws Adoring Thongs!

:crazy:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. No doubt intended play on words.

no doubt at all.