Monday, April 20, 2009

Politics and Amazon Reviews

I don't know if you guys are following this or not, but a quick summary.

1. Hugo Chavez gave a book to President Obama about Latin America.
2. Matt Drudge provided a link to the book on Amazon.
3. Those will political views similar to Matt Drudge are bombarding the reviews with "Not Helpful" votes and frantically writing comments to 10-year old reviews.
4. Oh, and of course writing reviews for a book they have not read.

It's always something...

You know, sometimes I am ashamed to be a member of the human race.

2 comments:

Malleus said...

No, I was unaware of this.
> are bombarding the reviews with "Not Helpful"
> votes and frantically writing comments to
> 10-year old reviews. [...]
> sometimes I am ashamed to be a member of the human race.
:-) Yeah, I know what you mean. Which book is that, can you post a link?

Dave IRV said...

It was the book Chavez presented to President Obama...by Eduardo Galeano...Open Veins of Latin America.

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240746290&sr=1-1