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Bill Whittle Network

Frankly Joe, We Don't Give a Damn

Bill Whittle Network

Bill Whittle Network

News

4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

To date, books about Joe Biden have sold 81 MILLION COPIES! Just kidding; that was a completely random, ridiculous number. Actually, some of them are failing to break 5,000 total sales. Books about Donald Trump flew off the shelf because Donald Trump is INTERESTING. The Mediocrity in Chief is... not. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

reading is fundamentally a waste of time apparently when the topic is presidentist joe

0:06.4

biden hey everybody i'm steve green with bill whittle and scott this is right angle brought

0:11.6

you by the members of bill whittle dot com and i got to amuse bill on the intro i always love doing

0:16.4

that uh today's topic comes to us courtesy of the national pulse uh i'm gonna i got to read this intro to you because I just got a kick out of this.

0:23.9

The book industry has seen significantly lower sales during the Biden presidency compared to the Trump era.

0:29.7

Books about former president Donald Trump sold millions of copies, but those focused on Biden have struggled to generate interest.

0:36.9

Several books about the Bidens have sold fewer than a humiliating 5,000 copies each.

0:44.5

And then we get to the spin.

0:47.0

I love the spin.

0:48.1

I live for the spin because, well, I'm a lover of absurdity.

0:51.9

Politico's Jonathan Allen tried putting this spin on the story.

0:56.1

Biden has tried to be kind of a drama-free president, certainly in comparison to his predecessor,

1:01.7

and that makes it harder to write a book, both in terms of getting information and turning his story

1:06.7

into one that is compelling for readers. Bill, I find it hard to believe that we can't find anything interesting to write about a guy

1:15.8

who needs a Sherpa guide and a pith helmet to find his way through a sentence, who got rich

1:22.4

without ever producing a good or providing a legal service and whose surviving children just are our advertisements

1:32.1

for emotional neglect and abuse.

1:35.6

Do you buy into that?

1:38.3

Well, Steve, I can perhaps answer this question for you with another question.

1:42.2

Do you know how many smartly written,

1:44.9

bitingly satirical criticisms of Joseph Stalin were written during the Soviet Union?

1:49.6

Oh, I know this. Four. No, there was none. Oh, so close. No, so close. And the reason that

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