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| Hillary Clinton Irked by Children's Book | |
| 2005-11-18 | |
| New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is attacking a children's book that depicts her as an inveterate liberal who tries to regulate a lemonade stand run by two budding entrepeneurs. The book, "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!," by Katharine DeBrecht, stars "Congresswoman Clunkton" - a kind of cartoon verson of Nurse Ratched in a pantsuit who orders the young boys to reduce the sugar in their lemonade and add broccoli to each glass. "Canât wait for the sequel, Help! Mom! I Canât Read This Book Because Republicans Have Cut Literacy Programs!â Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines fumed recently in comments to The Hill newspaper. A few days later, the Hillary flak lauched another attack. "Itâs not the liberal under the bed that they should be worried about,â he snapped, "itâs the sales that are in the basement.â In fact, "Help! Mom!" has been flying off bookstore shelves since its release in September, topping the Barnes & Noble bestseller list and climbing on Amazon's list to just behind ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
The South Carolina-based writer got the idea for "Help! Mom!" after watching the 2000 GOP convention with her own young boys. Four years later, DeBrecht saw an ad on NewsMax.com for Xulon Press and self-published her story. "Help! Mom!" caught the eye of Florida talk radio host Greg Allen, who put DeBrecht on his "Right Balance" radio show. Allen helped put her in touch with World Ahead publishing, which reissued DeBrecht's book with new artwork under its Kids Ahead imprint. Just two days after it was re-published in Sept. 2004, "Help! Mom!" was touted by conservative mega star Rush Limbaugh, who said his "hat was off" to the conservative children's book writer. The endorsement catapulted "Help Mom" to the top of the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists. Liberal reaction was swift. One left-wing Web site began comparing DeBrechtâs book to Nazi propaganda. Another, the Democratic Underground, trashed her as one of their "Top 10 Conservative Idiots.â Far from slowing DeBrecht down, however, the overheated response has only encouraged her to begin a new project - turning her "Help! Mom!" book into a full-blown series. Pending titles include: "Help! Mom! Hollywood Is in My Hamper!," "Help! Mom! There Are Lawyers in My Lunchbox!" and "Help! Mom! The Ninth Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!" | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #12 The thing that makes humor funny is that it has some truth in it. This is also what annoys Hildebeast: there's some truth in it. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-11-18 16:19 |
| #11 its stupid that some leftie moonbats have published an antibush kids book. But its amusing that righties think an attack on Hillary is a response to that. In case anyones forgotten, shes just the junior senator from New York, and never held an elective office before 2000. If I wuz Hillary, Id make hay out of this, to show Reid, Feingold, Dean, etc who the REAL top democrat is. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2005-11-18 16:01 |
| #10 LOL. Those upcoming titles sound pretty good, too. LOL. Hitting too close to home, indeed, heh. I hope she makes a staggering amount of money - and helps kids learn something before the education system starts dumbing them down. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-11-18 14:58 |
| #9 One left-wing Web site began comparing DeBrechtâs book to Nazi propaganda. But of course! What else would they say? On the other hand, if you describe their crap as Communist propaganda, you're immediately deafened by the shrill screams of "MCCARTHYISM!!!" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-18 12:46 |
| #8 Thanks Hillary! Book sales just increased by 500% You're the best!! |
| Posted by: Katharine DeBrecht 2005-11-18 12:22 |
| #7 Worth going to Amazon just to read the bad reviews from our liberal friends. Oh my, oh my!You get a lot of this. I'm a liberal and ... a) I don't care if you put up a cross in your home or business - just on property for which I pay taxes. I don't proselytize, even when Christians do. b) I don't care if you eat your broccoli or not. I'd like everyone to have the OPTION of eating something other than junk food. But how they exercise that option is outside my interest. c) Nobody is asking anyone who makes $12 a year to pay half their money in taxes. Keep eating your hate, folks. It's making America weaker. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-11-18 11:47 |
| #6 Hillary Clinton Irked by Children's Book This is because she was never a child. A buzzard laid an egg on a tree-stump, and when it hatched, Hillary came out fully grown, holding a greyhound bus ticket to Vassar. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-11-18 11:41 |
| #5 "itâs the sales that are in the basement.â Right. Those "low" sales must be how the book got onto your radar screen in the first place, eh, Hillary? |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-11-18 11:27 |
| #4 LOL I didn't know Liberal could read....ENGLISH! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-11-18 11:26 |
| #3 Hitting too close to the truth Hillary? AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-18 11:18 |
| #2 purdy funy. sum more good chilrens books fownd heer. pajes an pajes of em |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-11-18 10:48 |
| #1 THIS IS GREAT!!!! Couldn't stop laughing!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-11-18 10:46 |