Well, it seems I'm not the only one who thinks that the view-from-the-podium book "Taking Heat" by former Bush butt kisser Ari Fliescher is a total dog. Political Wire has a great little blurb here
Fleischer's Book Bomb
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer "received a reported $500,000 advance for his memoir, Taking Heat, which was launched... with an eye-popping press run of 200,000," the New York Daily News reports.
"Alas, Fleischer's publisher has just placed a tiny little ad in Publishers Weekly Online announcing 'a special price promotion for retailers and wholesalers' -- often a buzz phrase in the publishing biz for throwing in the towel, admitting a big overestimation of demand and trying desperately to avoid an avalanche of returns by slashing the price."
Let me just say that he's better writer than a spokesperson. I bet his publisher is wishing it had been a bit more conservative on that half mil advance. Sucker!