Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer has seen sales of her book “Scorpions For Breakfast” skyrocket following her run in with President Barack Obama Wednesday.
The book is currently at number seven on Amazon.com’s bestseller’s list and has been on the best seller’s list for two days, which is evidence that her run in with the president is what likely lead to the increase in sales because the incident occurred two days ago.
The 240 page book also made Amazon.com’s “Mover’s and Shaker’s list” on Friday, that list ranks books that have seen the most gains in sales on Amazon in the previous 24 hours. In the two days since her showdown with the president at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, the governor’s book saw a remarkable 522 percent increase in sales, Politico reports.
Additionally, the book is also currently ranked number one in the following book categories on Amazon.com; Politics and Social Sciences, Biographies and Memoirs, and History.
The full title of the book is “Scorpions For Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border,” published by Broadside Books and was released on November 1st, 2011.
The Arizona governor’s intense conversation with President Obama was the result of the president’s unhappiness with a passage in the book that describes a meeting between the two of them at the White House in 2010.
“I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president,” said Ms. Brewer describing the incident to reporters after their confrontation. “The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt.”
The Arizona Republican also appeared on Fox News later that day and called the president “thin skinned” for being upset with how she described their meeting at the White House in 2010.
In the passage, Ms. Brewer described their conversation as the president lecturing her to the point that she was “like a child at his knee,” according to MSNBC.
The president did an interview with ABC News’s Diane Sawyer on Thursday where he addressed the incident and said it “was blown out of proportion.”
A photograph featuring Ms. Brewer with her finger in the president’s face where she appears to be yelling at him went viral on the Internet and has been constantly featured and talked about on all major television news networks over the past two days.
“It’s always good publicity for a Republican if they’re in an argument with me,” said the president Thursday.
Governor Brewer had originally wanted to give the president a letter inviting him to tour the U.S-Mexican border with her. She released the transcript of the letter Thursday, at the end of it she “respectfully” invited the president to lunch after acknowledging their differences in “how best to make America grow.”
The foreword for her book “Scorpions for Breakfast” was written by former Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin.
