How to Create a Best Seller

The Rovians felt they had to DESTROY, via carpet-bombing, former terrorism czar Richard Clarke, since his criticism of El Presidente's policies anent terrorism and Iraq were (a) irrefutably well grounded in 30 years experience and (b) capable of undermining Bush in the one area where Americans Who Don't Read think he's the cat's pajamas, in his War on Terror. So Bush & Company have pulled out the stops to stomp Clarke.

With the result that ... Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," is the hottest best-seller going. Went on sale just Monday and is already in its fifth printing. The New York Times is reporting this a.m. that as of yesterday in Washington, D.C., copies were extremely hard to come by.

So, keep on attacking, Bush operatives!