Mark Halperin, John Heilemann Get Six Figure Deal To Co-Author Book About 2008 Campaign

New York Post:

Two magazine veterans, each on the campaign trail for nearly two decades, have snared a big-bucks deal from HarperCollins to write about the current presidential campaign pitting John McCain against Barack Obama.

John Heilemann at New York magazine and Mark Halperin at Time believe they first met back in 1996 covering the New Hampshire primaries.

Both have written extensively on political campaigns but it wasn't until they were both covering a McCain rally in Annapolis, Md., in early April that they began seriously toying with the idea of writing a book together.

"We were both finding that we had a mind meld on what we thought was important," recalled Heilemann.

The aim is not so much to write a political treatise describing every tic-tock of every primary contest as it is to grab the big picture with a colorful writing style, both authors said.

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Comments

[SeekerOne]

Skin crawler.

[Beachchick]

I certainly won't read anything penned by Mark Halperin.

[naturallight]

A book about the election?

Like we weren't watching?

This will be as successful as the Iraq war movies that flopped.

[desertdweller]

Mark Halperin is anything but objective. He has been a GOP apologist since his early days at ABC. Watch for him in the future on Farts Noose,

[GrainOSand]

I would not pay and could not be paid to read anything from this (and I use the term loosely) human being named Mark. He represents a caricature of someone who has been gutted of his or her soul and heart, and whose mind has been emptied of any ability to be objective or fair. What we are left with is a whistling hollow of no substance and no standing, a moral void.

Enjoy the money Mark, because that's about all your life amounts to, the pursuit of a paycheck instead of the pursuit of justice, fairness, and honesty. May you not suffer the wrath of the seeds you have sown. I say this because I am empathetic by nature and therefore I pity anyone who suffers. Your journey promises later suffering.

As for Fundamentally Offensive eXaminations, I will never see him for I do not recognize the existence of the channel and I make every effort to boycott the sponsors.