via NJ:
That best-selling author, Barack Obama, is scheduled to appear at a campaign fundraiser in New York on June 18, hosted by members of the publishing industry.
That would be the same President Obama whose administration filed anti-trust cases against five leading publishers in April, claiming they exercise an abusive monopoly.
In any other field of business, the timing would suggest a classic political shakedown - Nice little literary business you got here. [...]
