The Righteous Indignation Book party.

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! is, of course, Andrew Breitbart’s latest book; and I had the opportunity to schmooze meet up with folks from The Daily Caller / Americans for Tax Reform at a book party that they threw for Andrew yesterday.  I finished  the book itself today: it’s very accessible, and while it told me a lot of stuff that I already knew (from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective*) it should be a good deal of help to people who want to get into the political arena and start swinging.  And, incidentally: “go out there and start swinging” (in a purely metaphorical sense, of course) is the central message of the book.  Good advice, too.

Videos below the fold: the first is Andrew’s general speech (which has some profanity in it, so be prepared), and the second is the minute I was able to gouge out of his time to get him to answer a question for RedState.  It was a busy book party for Andrew, in other words. Continue reading The Righteous Indignation Book party.

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…he did a book signing/event today for his new book Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!, and I’ve got some video of his speech and a quick minute of question-and-answer regarding why people should buy it (it was a busy book signing/event, and Andrew’s a bit, ah, enthusiastic).  I’m about halfway through my copy now; it’s fast, engrossing reading – and there’s a certain not-quite-nostalgia going on.  I mean, the First Blogosphere War (2003-2004) sucked. It purely sucked.  By the time it was over I was having screaming nightmares.  And yet, it’s interesting to remember events from back then; it’s amazing how much bile got stirred up over the Democratic base simply not getting the seats that it expected to in a midterm election…

Anyway: processing and reproducing tomorrow.  Some pretty good stuff in Andrew’s speech.

Moe Lane

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…and its absolutely brilliant observation: “It’s a good life, having idiots hate you.”  Latest example?  This winner, driving up Andrew Breitbart’s royalties for Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!:

…because, apparently, people seem to think that authors get their cut of a book sale when the book is sold to a consumer.  Erm.  No.  Costco purchases books ahead of time – like they would any other product – then they resell those books at a profit.  Throwing those books in the trash merely decreases the number that Costco has available… which means that it hastens the point where they have to order more books in order to keep a proper inventory.  Which is I believe the point where Andrew Breitbart racks up a bit more in commissions.

Put more simply: the result of this binge of civil disobedience?

KA-CHING!

Moe Lane

PS: Writers write because we have to.  Writers publish because we care about getting paid.  To paraphrase Robert Heinlein: the greatest, most poetic phrase in the English language is Pay to the order of…

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