PRESS RELEASE OF THE DAY: The publicists for American Mourning have hit on a novel approach, comparing its Amazon ranking with that of Cindy Sheehan's book, Peace Mom.Of the words I could think of to describe this press release, "novel" isn't one of them. "Reprehensible," "moronic," and "disturbing" come to mind:
But unlike Cindy Sheehan, Joe & Jan Johnson honored their son and his sacrifice for his country. In fact, Justin's father, Joe, re-enlists in the Army at the age of 43 and goes off to Iraq to fight the Islamic militants who had killed his son.In wingnut America, you "dishonor" your fallen son's service by exercising the freedom of speech and conscience he died to protect. Great. Excuse the hell out of me, but no one gets to decide how someone else honors the memory of their own dead child. These are really bad people.
Is it any wonder then, why Sheehan's "Peace Mom" is getting clobbered in the sales charts by Morgan & Moy's inspirational "American Mourning?" Check out the sales ranks for yourself - it's not even close. And for the past few weeks, even though their book had yet to be released, Morgan & Moy were still outselling Sheehan's "Peace Mom."And Putz can hardly contain his glee.
Cindy Sheehan's book, Peace "Mom" (ranked # 155,717 as of 7:00 PM Sunday 10/15/2006)
Melanie Morgan's & Catherine Moy's "American Mourning" (ranked # 836 as of 7:00 PM Sunday 10/15/2006)
As I post this, the gap's actually widened a bit. It's possible to make too much of Amazon rankings, and people often do, but this is a big difference, and it's a cleverer-than-usual press release. And I get enough of them to judge . . . .How about this gap?
How Would A Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald (Amazon rank #4,587)
An Army Of Putzen by Putz (Amazon rank #16,630)
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