(2004-07-01) — In the same week that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, told a San Francisco audience that future President John Forbes Kerry will take money away from wealthy Americans “on behalf of the common good“, the former First Lady’s publisher announced it would not pay the $5.3 million deferred advance it owes for her book Living History.
“To get the publishing industry, and our company in particular, back on track, we’re going to cut that short and not give it to you,” a spokesman for Simon and Shuster reportedly told Mrs. Clinton. “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
Mrs. Clinton’s office released a statement saying she was “delighted to help cover the publisher’s losses from unpopular books by other authors, bad management decisions and bureaucratic waste.”
She suggested that her husband, who served with her in the White House during the 1990s, would like to do the same with his $10 million advance from Knopf.
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1 The Club for Growth Blog // Jul 1, 2004 at 10:32 am
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2 Anonymous // Jul 1, 2004 at 10:48 am
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3 Pejmanesque // Jul 1, 2004 at 4:56 pm
FOR THE COMMON GOOD . . .
Well, it’s only natural that this should happen….
4 Inoperable Terran // Jul 2, 2004 at 9:45 am
Kobayashi maru
Scott Ott paints Hillary into a corner….
5 Chasing the Wind // Jul 2, 2004 at 10:04 am
Scrappleface Satire
There’s some funny stuff there this week. My favorite entries:
6 amcgltd // Jul 2, 2004 at 10:50 am
What’s Good for the Goose…
Scott Ott hits another one with this new development in the “your money’s actually mine” foot-in-mouth incident: In the same week that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, told a San Francisco audience that future President John Forbes Kerry will take…
7 it comes in pints? // Jul 2, 2004 at 11:14 am
Would that it were so
As Pej says, it’s only natural….
8 The Beacon // Jul 3, 2004 at 3:21 pm
Publisher Revokes Hillary’s Advance for Common Good
Outstanding satire from Scrappleface:
In the same week that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, told a San Francisco audience that future President John Forbes Kerry will take money away from wealthy Americans “on behalf of the common good”, the former First L…