{"id":223751,"date":"2017-03-01T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223751"},"modified":"2017-03-02T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:41:36","slug":"what-the-obamas-book-deal-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/01\/what-the-obamas-book-deal-really-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Obamas\u2019 Book Deal Really Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: By the way, have you heard…? I guess it\u2019s Random House has announced a dual book deal with Michelle and Barack Obama. Now, I know the number, but I\u2019m not sure that they\u2019ve announced it. The number is $60 million, a $60 million advance for two books: One from Michelle (My Belle), one from Barack. (interruption) Well, I think… Yeah, it\u2019s the advance or it may be the whole package. But, again, they\u2019re not announcing it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, one of the things that I\u2019ve heard the reason — and they\u2019re not specifying of the 60, who gets how much. Does Obama get 40 and Michelle 20? Does Michelle get 50 and Barack 10? The reason they haven\u2019t is \u2019cause I\u2019m given to understand that they don\u2019t know which of the two is gonna outsell the other. They\u2019re not sure. You know what I think this is? Apparently, in the bidding were Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, which is Rupert Murdoch\u2019s outfit.<\/p>\n

Simon & Schuster is CBS. Random House, I don\u2019t know who their parent is. But Hillary got $14 million and everybody lost their shirt. And the deal talks about, the announcement talks about how there\u2019s no better composer of prose among active presidents than Barack Obama. And I just had to smirk at that. But I\u2019m just gonna tell you what I think, and I got nothing to back it up.<\/p>\n

The $60 million for a book deal — if that number is accurate — means somebody has decided to invest that much money rather than a traditional $2 million advance and then let\u2019s see how much it sells and take your percentage of that. I don\u2019t think they want to risk nobody buying the book like nobody bought Hillary\u2019s. Because Obama… You know, talking about the Democrat Party and no bench<\/a> and therefore no identity, Barack Obama is still all they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

Even though he\u2019s the architect of their it misery, he\u2019s the architect of their decline, he\u2019s the architect of their political losing, in their minds, he\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. They can\u2019t allow anything to happen such as a new book that nobody buys or a new book that doesn\u2019t sell very well. I mean, it… That Obama book had better set records or something\u2019s wrong. So what they\u2019re doing is setting the record before a single one has been bought and not taking a chance on the fact that not very many would sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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