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Home Front: Culture Wars
Lefties complain that conservatives sell too many books
2009-11-11
Sarah Palin is not the only person to have a best-seller this fall before it hit the presses. Glenn Beck's "The Christmas Sweater" book for children comes out this week and its publisher said it will open at No. 1 in the New York Times list of best-selling children's books -- his fifth book to make No. 1. The publisher said in a press release: "Simon & Schuster, believes that Beck has become the only author in history to ever have #1 New York Times bestsellers debut on these four different lists: hardcover fiction (The Christmas Sweater), hardcover nonfiction (Arguing with Idiots and An Inconvenient Book), nonfiction paperback (Glenn Beck's Common Sense), and now with The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book, children's picture books."

Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Beck, Palin and the rest have sold tons of books this year. Conservatives are responsible for the clearing of forests. And the left is wetting itself over this.
Oh this is sweet.

Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Beck, Palin and the rest have sold tons of books this year. Conservatives are responsible for the clearing of forests.

And the left is wetting itself over this.

The Huffington Post asked: "Should The New York Times create a separate bestseller list for conservative blockbusters? Think of the history: we have a children's bestseller list because of "Harry Potter" -- Harry was knocking adult books off the top spots on the hardcover fiction list so publishers complained. The same thing must be true for Beck, Palin, Cheney, Bush (George W. and Laura), Malkin and others."

Boo hoo hoo. This upset them more than Fox News dominating the cable news channels.

Maybe we need a fairness doctrine so that when you buy a conservative book you must also buy a liberal book.

It is so tough to be someone's intellectual superior when he is out-reading you.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Pappy, it's not just unions and stooges. The DNC has occasionally bought up millions of copies to give away as gifts to donors.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-11-11 19:02  

#13  Conservatives are responsible for the clearing of forests

We have a new liberal slogan!

"Save the trees - Stop conservatives from publishing."
Posted by: Frozen Al   2009-11-11 17:16  

#12  Maybe if they had something to say...
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-11-11 12:43  

#11  I'm lumpenproletariat? I'm simply going to have to go on that diet I've been avoiding. And just before Thanksgiving, too!
Posted by: trailing wife    2009-11-11 12:28  

#10  Oh, it did? And it tanked. Why wasn't I told that? Uh...well...Ted Kennedy's last book did pretty good, right? What was that? Only peaked at #71 on Amazon? And Barbara Boxer barely cracked 10,000 in sales? Oh my. At least there aren't too many copies of Jimmah Cahtah's books in the bargain bin this week...

Oh, they're not best sellers - commercially. But the book advance and the unions and advocacy groups friends and relatives who buy who buy hundreds of copies (a la Jim Wright) more than makes up for the lack of sales to the lumpenproletariat.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-11-11 11:57  

#9  Thanks to Amazon all the bookstore games of hiding the 'non-pc' books are not working.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-11-11 11:01  

#8   Nothing is stopping these complainers from buying books they favor and pulping them just to create bestsellers.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2009-11-11 10:38  

#7  suggestion to the left: buy these books and leave em on the table so people think you're smart. You don't even have to read em
Posted by: Frank G   2009-11-11 09:46  

#6  Who knew conservatives could read?

It starts with the Constitution, something that is fundamentally evasive to liberal and left comprehension.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-11-11 08:44  

#5  I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi's book is gonna be huge when it comes out!

Oh, it did? And it tanked. Why wasn't I told that? Uh...well...Ted Kennedy's last book did pretty good, right? What was that? Only peaked at #71 on Amazon? And Barbara Boxer barely cracked 10,000 in sales? Oh my. At least there aren't too many copies of Jimmah Cahtah's books in the bargain bin this week...
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-11-11 08:15  

#4  Who knew conservatives could read?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-11-11 05:23  

#3  My cockles warm just thinking of all the old growth trees cut down and pulped.
Posted by: ed   2009-11-11 00:48  

#2  I had that exact same thought badanov. Don't give them any ideas. How long before the book-burning?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-11-11 00:35  

#1  Maybe we need a fairness doctrine so that when you buy a conservative book you must also buy a liberal book.

Don't give them any ideas, Don.
Posted by: badanov   2009-11-11 00:12  

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