Appearance on CSPAN Book TV sends "Case for Impeachment" soaring!

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Reader Response to C-Span and NPR Book Events Demonstrates Wide-Spread Interest in Impeachment Issue
Before Barbara and I got a chance to get any real national attention for The Case for Impeachment outside of programs on Air America, the best the book did on the Amazon sales ranking was about #3500.

Then last weekend, we had the opportunity, over a period of two days, to air a 7.5-minute interview on NPR, and a 75-minute presention on C-Span's "Books TV" program. Suddenly the book leapt in the rankings to #42, well ahead of #400, Greg Palast's best-selling Armed Madhouse, and even #80, Ann Coulter's Godless, and closing in on #27, Al Gore's best-selling Inconvenient Truth!

It makes you wonder what would happen if the mainstream media, like the NY Times, Washington Post and LA Times, and liberal publications like the Nation, In These Times, Salon, Slate, the Progressive, Harper's, the New Republic and others, or shows like "Fresh Air" and "Democracy Now," would stop ignoring the book and instead review it.

But ignoring "The Case for Impeachment" is just part of a larger censorship going on around impeachment, as I explain in this story which is appearing in the current issue of Extra!, the publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting:

Adultery Was Serious; This is Just the Constitution.

More at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

I am convinced. We should start impeachement hearings as soon as we take over the House!

--IMM

:thumbsup:

They also showed Freeman-Bliefuss, who wrote the book on the 2004 election being stolen.

--IMM

program. Barbara Olshansky strikes me as one of the most caring and decent human being on the planet and extremely knowledgeable about Constitutional law and human rights.

Her reaction, when a question about the suicides at Guantanamo was asked, was graceful and heart-breaking. She was strong, but you could tell it haunts and drives her. She was the attorney for the minor that died. He was three days from being released and she couldn't let him know.

Those suicides will haunt me the rest of my life. Too many things from the last five years will haunt too many people for life.

I intend to buy this book; maybe several copies if I can manage it. As Dave Lindorff pointed out on book-tv; the more information that came out in Nixon's case, the more people realized he was a criminal and finished.

Absolutely. I'm not someone who cries very often, but I almost teared up watching her.

watch their backs. The rats are getting backed into a corner and there is no telling whom they will strike out at.

How pitiful that the thought even has to be raised in America. Bizarro world!

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(sound of crickets chirping)

The woman said Bush was worse than Hitler. That's exactly what I believe.

a thank you to Dave & Barbara. I would like to do some investigation. Does any one remember the name of the children's Gitmo?

I too found the program deeply moving, and was so glad I caught it. I did note down the children's prison's name: Camp Iguana.

I had never heard this before.

:woohoo:

:kick:

successfully steal the election again.

for those who missed it...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1990432

If you have a moment, please e-mail Cspan and request they rerun this next weekend
Booktv@c-span.org

edit: from ThisCantBeHappening...

"If you missed the two C-Span broadcasts of Dave and Barbara at Robin's Books in Philadelphia, which aired on Aug. 26 and 27 on C-Span2's "Books TV" program, stay tuned to this site. C-Span plans two more airings of the program, and we'll let you know here of the times when we find out. Also, C-span should archive the show eventually, so you can play it on your computer. If you send your address to dlindorff@yahoo.com, I will add you to the alert list."

:)

I also watched the program and was hoping that it would reair soon. Since the Corporate Media does such a fine job in NOT covering things of importance. This weekend had quite a bit of good people on, I recored George Lakoff while watching it at the same time, he's always a great person to learn from.
Also recored the segment about the stolen election, however, I haven't watched it yet. Intend on watching it later today.

From his site:



:applause:

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=7322&schedID=446

It's definitely worth watching. I ordered the book.