{"id":35873,"date":"2019-04-14T23:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35873"},"modified":"2019-04-14T23:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:28:41","slug":"politics-and-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35873","title":{"rendered":"Politics And The New York Times&#8217; Best Sellers List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/04\/14\/valerie-jarrett-book-manipulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article today noting that although Valerie Jarrett&#8217;s book, \u201cFinding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward,\u201d appears as number fourteen on The New York Times&#8217; Best Sellers List, it is number 1,030 on Amazon\u2019s list of top sellers and number 1,244 on Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cGiven the organic sales of that book and the fact that during the entire week of rollout it barely cracked the top 100 on Amazon, there\u2019s no way the book should have a place on the NYT Best Seller list. Inconceivable,\u201d one prominent book industry insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cThere\u2019s likely an effort to game the system, it\u2019s the only explanation.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Jarrett\u2019s book outsold all but the top four books on the NYT list, according to BookScan, which tracks sales figures. But instead of putting it at number five, the Times placed it lower, including behind one book billed as \u201ca behind-the-scenes look at the daytime talk show \u2018The View,&#8217;\u201d which is seventh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have Valerie Jarrett and her cronies ever been involved in anything where they didn&#8217;t try to &#8216;game the system.?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller posted an article today noting that although Valerie Jarrett&#8217;s book, \u201cFinding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward,\u201d appears as number fourteen on The New York Times&#8217; Best Sellers List, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7947,7015,8558,1860],"class_list":["post-35873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book","tag-the-daily-caller","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-valerie-jarrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35874,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions\/35874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}