NYT's Martyr Judy Miller shopping a $1.2 million Book Deal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/making-faux-martyrdom-pay_b_8268.html

So says Arianna. That frigging bitch (Judy, not Arianna).

I just talked to Carolyn Reidy, president of Simon & Shuster, who told me, “There is no signed deal for the book -- and no projected P & L.” (For those not steeped in publishing lingo, that’s short for profit and loss statement, the financial bottom line on a book). So if the $1.2 million figure is the amount that Judy Miller has asked for (and is telling friends she got), let me help Simon & Schuster crunch the numbers. My advice, as I wrote back in July is: Don’t do it. Smells like remainder to me.

That seems like an awful lot of money to pay a journalist with an iffy reputation whose cause never really became very celebre. A publishing insider crunched the numbers for me: “In order to recoup that kind of advance,” the insider told me, “they’d have to sell 300,000 copies at $27 a book. Ain’t gonna happen. I can see the thinking: Simon & Schuster is a Viacom company, so they could line up the big “60 Minutes” push. It worked for Richard Clarke and Paul O’Neill, right? But, in both those cases, those guys could be portrayed as heroic -- or at least good guys taking on the powers-that-be to expose the truth. What would Miller’s angle be? I helped the bad guys sell a bogus war that led to tens of thousands of deaths, then went to jail to protect my neocon pals?"

Still doing unpaid due diligence for Simon and Schuster (after all, they did a great job publishing my biographies of Callas and Picasso), I called a high-powered New York book agent and asked what would happen if, by the time the book comes out, Miller’s attempted transformation from discredited neocon shill to journalistic martyr has had its Cinderella midnight moment -- poof! “Hmm,” he said, after thinking for a moment. “She could always turn it into a confessional. Confessionals sell well.”

A Judy confessional? I can’t wait to see the chapter headings:

WMD? Boy, Did I Screw That One Up
How I Turned the Paper of Record Into a Laughingstock
About Those Aluminum Tubes…
Chalabi, Cheney, and Me: We Had a Three-Way, You Got Screwed
I Hate To Make John Bolton Mad But…
Scooter & Pinch: My Thing for Men With Silly Nicknames

just so I could go to her book signing event and whack her over the head with it.

if judy 'media darling' miller gets a book deal.

her book to uselessly try and become relevant again like a restored vestal Bush virgin. The NYT should be cringing in horror because the less she says, the less their editorial cowardice is trumpted to the world - yet again.

Hot promos for Judy and Jason Blair tour together in a "The Best NYT Journalistic Liars Tour." Emceed by Flatty Friedman and facilitated by their former public editor Okrent. Judy could describe Gannon style her gushing praise for Chalabi's paltry attributes and Libby in a Scooter lather.

Ewwwwww - Judy should have the decency to quietly fade into the sunset after commiting murder via her poison pen by making lies US policy for the Bush cabal. :puke: