Poised to Pull a Fast One to Profit from Palin’s MemoirBy Jerry A. Kane | Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
The editors and writers at The Nation rag-azine have put their pointy heads together and racked their collective brain to come up with a way to gain praises from their statist-minded readers and poach profits from Sarah Palin’s book at the same time. Entertainment Weekly reports:
Start-up publisher OR Books will publish Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare, with a book jacket similar to Palin’s upcoming memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Also, the publisher will release the look-alike copy November 17, the same day Palin’s book is slated for release.
Two of The Nation’s top editors, Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, compiled the counterfeit for OR Books. The counterfeit will be the first (and hopefully the last) book release from the publisher that “embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business.”
The Nation, the flagship publication for the statist left, has been an anti-American rag that has consistently supported totalitarian and communist regimes. At the conclusion of World War II, The Nation’s articles parroted the Stalinist line and condemned U.S. involvement in the Cold War.
After the Cuban Revolution, The Nation’s Carleton Beals, praised Fidel Castro as a “hero,” possessing “the finest qualities of true leadership: self-sacrifice, dedication, patience, confidence and ready pliability in the most difficult situations.” Beals wrote, “The revolution sweeps on in many directions…these are days of great promises and great hopes.”
The Nation exalted Cuba as “one of the most egalitarian societies in the world,” but it has never criticized Castro’s brutality, his human rights violations, or the poverty that he inflicted upon the Cuban people.
If the truth be told, The Nation’s editors and essayists despise those founding principles that promote individual liberty, personal responsibility, freedom of conscience, and free markets. They are out to destroy Palin because, like Ronald Reagan, she too embodies those principles that have made America great, and they despise her for it.
© Jerry A. Kane, all rights reserved. Jerry A. Kane works part-time as a technical writer and editor. He has spent almost two decades as an adjunct English professor and over a decade as journalist. His commentaries have appeared on WorldNetDaily, the American Thinker, Canada Free Press, and in daily and weekly newspapers in western Pennsylvania. Visit his blog, The Millstone Diaries, for more commentaries and musings.
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One Response to “Poised to Pull a Fast One to Profit from Palin’s Memoir”
October 31st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I would think they could be sued for copyright violations. The look and style of the book is similar enough that people not looking closely might mistake it for the real thing. The resulting economic damage is an offense open to severe civil penalties under copyright law if I am not mistaken.