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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTitle Katy Tur's campaign memoir
Katy Tur is the embedded reporter in Donald Trump's campaign entourage. You KNOW she's going to write a book...then disappear into an undisclosed location to protect herself from a Trumpler fatwa. What's the title going to be?
My best guess: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2016. Yes, it's a ripoff of a great author's work, but any proper book on the Trump campaign will have to be written in the style of Hunter S. Thompson.
livetohike
(22,165 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)The ugly final throes of the Trump 'campaign'
underpants
(182,925 posts)This is a taking on Trump's "Well ... someone's doing the raping!!!"
texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)NastyWomen
(119 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)When they gave her that assignment they never thought Trump would go all the way. The "important" people got Cruz, Rubio, and the expected prize, Bush.
They couldn't pull her off once she got in there, though--ticked a lotta people off. And now, through a combination of incredible luck, a bit of hard work, and Trump crapping on her while she bounces back, she's a "name."
rug
(82,333 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,384 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,384 posts)Plus, greatness:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3049.John_Kennedy_Toole
I was reading Confederacy on a commuter train about 35 years ago and burst out laughing. People thought I was being rude.
rug
(82,333 posts)His bed sheet at the protest . . . .
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Even if I didn't love New Orleans with all my heart it's one of the most fascinating and real character studies ever done. In spite of Ignatius being larger than life he and the others are real NOLA types, ones seldom given their due. And Toole's story is sad and compelling. Oh, right, we were talking politics...
BeyondGeography
(39,384 posts)Sadly. But there's always the consolation of wisdom laced with humor:
"The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive."
tanyev
(42,632 posts)Hekate
(90,846 posts)demmiblue
(36,898 posts)doc03
(35,386 posts)demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Trump turned it over, I was assigned to cover it.
Vinca
(50,313 posts)I hope they're giving this woman a nice vacation after following the orangutan for so long.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)madaboutharry
(40,229 posts)demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Little Katy had to be in one of the titles!
OldEurope
(1,273 posts)You really think that a female journalist has to copy a man?
Thumbs down from me.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Featured on the front page of: http://www.amightygirl.com/
malaise
(269,200 posts)by the disgraced
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)No ideas on the book title.
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Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)Bozvotros
(785 posts)Warpy
(111,367 posts)How I Discovered Bulemia on the Campaign Trail.
(No, bulemia is not a joke. Neither is the prospect of electing Trump)
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)neverforget
(9,437 posts)mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 5, 2016, 09:05 PM - Edit history (1)
duncang
(1,907 posts)Been a long campaign season.
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lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)This is too easy. They write themselves.
GopherGal
(2,010 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)lapfog_1
(29,227 posts)*so I can quit this god-awful job and never cover another candidate like Trump
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