Cenk Uygur
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Another Politician Caught Using Sleazy Book Sales Trick
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July 11, 2015
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8:28Now PlayingTed Cruz has just written a new book and he is outraged that he’s not on the New York Times best seller list considering the fact he sold over twelve thousand books in the first week. However, “...the Times claimed that ‘the overwhelming preponderance of evidence was that sales were limited to strategic bulk purchases.” It appears that Ted Cruz’s sad bulk sales trick isn’t fooling the New York Times. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (The Point), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), and Wes Clark Jr. host tonight's Young Turks Power Panel. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The New York Times decided this week not to place Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) book on its bestseller list, leaving some conservatives convinced that the paper unfairly targeted the presidential candidate.
The Times told HarperCollins that Cruz's book would not make the list, despite the fact that "A Time For Truth" sold more copies than 18 of the 20 books that appeared on the bestseller list this week, Politico reported. According to Nielsen Bookscan, Cruz sold 11,854 copies of his book in its first week.”*
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