It’s Crenshaw Again
Texas Republicans wear Dan Crenshaw around their necks like an Olympic Medal. They are so proud of him. His memoir and social critique, “Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage,” soared to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published last year. The book, which he didn’t write but probably did read, was sexy and brutal enough that they all promptly spit shined their dancin’ shoes and did The Dan. They were celebrating that Dan could add Best Selling Author to his Former Navy Seal bragathon.
Come to find out, Crenshaw and his publisher, Hachette Book Group, got a little help from the Texas Republican’s friends.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect GOP candidates to Congress, spent nearly $400,000 on bulk purchases of the book. The organization acquired 25,500 copies through two online booksellers, enough to fuel “Fortitude’s” ascent up the bestseller lists. The NRCC said it gave away copies as incentives to donors, raising $1.5 million in the process.
Crenshaw just disclosed that he received between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in royalties from sales of Fortitude in 2021.
And then last month the NRCC spent another $49,000 on books for “donor mementos” last month.
He gets by with a little help from his friends.
And here’s something cool. If Crenshaw’s book is tl/dr there’s a Reader’s Digest version. Crenshaw Cliff Notes for Republicans. It’s 31 pages long, with lots of white space.
If you can’t trust the best seller lists, what can you trust anymore?
Wait, isn’t this the same Crenshaw they were calling “eyepatch John McCain” about a week ago?
1Whenever a US right-winger’s book hits a best-seller list, I assume that the dadgummed thing has been bought up in bulk to be doled out to contributors to authoritarian-minded PACs and other fundraisers.
2Cliff Notes edition at 31 pages? Naw, that’s too much to read for Republicans. They’ll wait until bumper stickers are available from Trump’s web site. As long as the bumper stickers don’t have too many words on them – three is the upper limit. Even then, only provided none of the words have more than two syllables.
That’s why they think Trump is a geni-ass. His MAGA motto expands out to four words, which puts him into the range of great literature. And one of those words has four syllables!
3RE: Various deep-pock Rethuglikan groups buying up large quantities of Rethug-authored [sic] bound printed materials to jink up the sales and ‘bestseller’ lists.
The good ladies over at the Newshounds website have been carefully documenting this phenomenon for literally decades.
https://www.newshounds.us/
4This seems like a harder way to stockpile toilet paper.
5I would shoot out both of my own eyes before I read even one word put forth by this country’s right-wing autocratic cabal — which has been filled with ignorant, knuckledragging hicks and morons for far too long which is why I left the party years ago and I have never regretted it. A right-winger will never make the best seller list honestly because their winger readers do not read and the winger writers always lie.
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