From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
Subject: Re: New Book
Summary: With all that free publicity, are you kidding???
Organization: Psych Department, Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:30:10 GMT

harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (harold.r.holm) writes:
>nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
>> rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
>> >While the threshold for getting a #1 non-fiction book is relatively low,
>> >the potential "fan" audiences for Clinton and Gore should be very much
>> >larger than Rush's.  Why their books aren't selling as well is anyone's
>> >guess.

>>     When was the last time you heard an advertisement for either of their 
>> books? I haven't ever seen a single one. Rush, on the other hand, has been 
>> titillating his audience with news about his book for months, and he's 
>> run numerous commercials for it.

>Who are you trying to kid??  

    Well, you for starters, plus everyone else reading this if possible.

>With all the publicity that Senator Ozhole's
>book has received in the electronic and print media over the last several
>months, *of course* it's not hard to figure out!  All Al had to do was let
>a sympathetic media fall all over itself in proclaiming that he's the last
>great eco-prophet of the ages.

    I guess I'm just connected to a different electronic medium than you 
are. I haven't seen any of this "eco-messianic" sympathetic coverage that 
you refer to. 

>Rush's self-promoting is miniscule by comparison.

    Perhaps. When we get into the area of arguing over the finer meanings 
of descriptive adjectives we get in over my head. I always thought that 
"minuscule" meant extremely small to the point of being almost unnoticeable. 
I very much doubt that anyone listening to Rush in the course of the last 
6 months can have failed to notice that Rush has written a book.  

>  I have yet to see or hear of one specific example of a favorable review 
>of Rush's book, by the way---not even in the Wall St. Journal. 

    Have you seen any unfavorable reviews? The fact that you haven't seen 
any *favorable* press doesn't necessarily imply that Rush is being ignored.

    Besides, I would expect that Rush would generate more book sales from a 
single 30 second spot during his radio program than he would from a review 
in *any* printed source. During the 3 hours of Rush's radio show and his 
half hour on TV he is guaranteed to reach the exact group of people who 
are most likely to be inclined to buy the book.

>                           *********************************************
>                           Yeah, I'm BACK after not getting the chance to
>                           post for several weeks.  Man your trenches, 
>                           Alex and Zack....
>                           *********************************************

    Alex is still around, but I haven't seen any posts by Zack Sessions
for months. If you conservatives keep on driving away our few flaming 
liberals then what're the rest of us going to do for entertainment? Think 
about it.

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Nathan Engle                        Software Juggler
Psychology Department               Indiana University
nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu      nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu