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2009-11-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

Lefties complain that conservatives sell too many books

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#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|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-11-11 00:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 My cockles warm just thinking of all the old growth trees cut down and pulped.

Posted by ed 2009-11-11 00:48|| 2009-11-11 00:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Who knew conservatives could read?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-11 05:23|| 2009-11-11 05:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 08:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 08:44|| Front Page Top

#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">Frank G 2009-11-11 09:46|| 2009-11-11 09:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 10:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 11:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 11:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 12:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe if they had something to say...

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-11 12:43|| 2009-11-11 12:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 17:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-11-11 19:02|| Front Page Top

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