'If a smear falls in the forest': NYTs reporters' discredited hit job on Kavanaugh shaping up to be 'one of the most epic bombs in political publishing'

Doug P. | 2:25 PM on October 04, 2019

The wheels started coming off the New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly’s credibility even before their book on Brett Kavanaugh hit store shelves. Repeated examples of journalistic malpractice and flat-out bias might have something to do with the book’s performance — or lack thereof:

NYT Kavanaugh book bombs, just 3,120 sold, Amazon rank #6,795 https://t.co/olYYkcG9mA pic.twitter.com/4NlLA75y72

— Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) October 4, 2019

Ouch! More from the Washington Examiner:

Expected to sell at least 10,000-12,000 in the first two weeks and propel The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation onto the newspaper’s bestseller hardcover list, it has sold about a third of that in the first two weeks.

A publishing source provided the latest BookScan numbers, which can account for about 80% of sales. That number is 3,120. “If you add in ebooks — they may have sold a total of 4,000. That’s one of the most epic bombs in political publishing over the past decade,” said the source.

The book-buying public must be losing its appetite for fiction.

Guessing the Kavanaugh book by @MZHemingway @Regnery sold a ton more with a fraction of the MSM attention, and by fraction I mean none

— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) October 4, 2019

And that would be correct:

"By comparison, another Kavanaugh book, #JusticeOnTrial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, which details the Democratic war on the Trump nominee, has sold 60,000 books and a total of 100,000 copies since its July 9 debut." @MZHemingway @JCNSeverino https://t.co/DtpXpHnZtC

— Regnery Publishing (@Regnery) October 4, 2019