At the risk of giving too much credence to something that doesn’t deserve it, here’s a a little more on the highly flacked “exposé” that turned into a press release for a book–indeed a book the actual existence of is still in doubt.

Well, there is now a listing on Amazon for the book, but it looks as suspicious as the press conference and press release.

For what it’s worth (not much), the book is listed as “temporarily out of stock.”

The “Reviews” are pretty hilarious. The first by “Precision Political Reviews” (Google search comes up empty!) is pretty much a rehash of the press release. The second by “Barry Jobe” (Google search comes up with lots of references to a Nashville vocalist/backup singer! as well as a prior Amazon “customer review”–of a vanity press book!–noting he is the “author of SF stories Plowshare and Mothership”) is just plain nonsensical spin.

The supposed website for “Revelation Press” still doesn’t work. I guess it could be all those conspiracy-theorists and Ron Paul supporters (I suppose I am repeating myself there) crashing the site in their rush to buy this important book!

The two “contact” individuals listed in the press release, Daryl Toor of Attention Group and Ned Barnett of BarnettMarCom, are both internet marketing types who build “buzz” and “get the word out”–mostly for businesses, which appears to be the reason that this is getting picked up by all sorts of investor-related webnews trackers.

There might be a smidgen of “something” here, but the something looks mostly like a political hack job–and a pretty pathetic one at that.

Greta Van Susteren lashed out at the pre-press conference e-mail attempts to create a buzz, that seemed mostly to have taken hold only among Ron Paul supporting blogsites.

Now he’s deleted that section of his post, with a vague explanation that hides his insider knowledge.

Draw your own conclusions.

OK, let’s see if I have this right. You have been in Washington for how many decades? Two or is this your third? Is Washington better today or is it worse? Let me see if I can remember what your accomplishments are:

1. Something with Ted Kennedy I seem to remember. Was it a conservative thing or does Ted Kennedy’s presence really tell us all we need to know about that?

2. You did something with another hugely liberal Democrat I think. Was it Russ Finegold? Yeah, I think that is it. The presence of another liberal Democrat’s name on your work tells us a lot about where your heart is there too.

3. Now you did something with another Democrat in Joe Lieberman, albeit one we kind of like I will admit, at least on defense issues.

4. You jumped on General Petraeus’ surge idea fairly early. I have to give you credit for that although it wasn’t your idea. But you did the right thing there. That’s ONE. I will give you credit for it even though it was someone else’s’ idea.

5. What else? You seem to get along well the Clinton’s and you speak highly of Barack Obama. I have to admit I do kind of like Obama’s wife. I would hire her to get me out of a legal jam. I don’t know what he has ever done though that is worthy of comment.

But I am still at a loss to find something you did for Republicans. You did a lot for Democrats but nothing for conservatives except propose to make it easier for illegal aliens to get into the US and stay here. Oh wait – that is another Democrat thing.

So I guess I am still at a loss to find anything you did for Republicans. Maybe somebody can help me out here.

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With the double reference to Huckabee (notwithstanding the disclaimer of any relation to any candidate), this couldn’t be evidence of Ed Rollins’ “going negative” as promised, could it?