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O'Reilly's Book Hits #1 on NY Times List
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| 12/21/03
| Limbacher
Posted on 12/21/2003 11:54:45 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Waiting patiently for the Drudge numbers on this.
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posted on
12/21/2003 11:56:52 AM PST
by
Glenn
(What were you thinking, Al?)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
What was Dradge saying about Bill fudging his numbers on book sales?
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posted on
12/21/2003 11:57:06 AM PST
by
Tacis
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Does this exclude large book purchases? Not that a certain commentator on FOX would purchase thousands of books to boost his ranking.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:03:23 PM PST
by
lelio
To: Tacis
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU DEC 18, 2003 09:25:08 ET XXXXX
HOST UNHINGED AFTER SALES FIGURES REVEALED; CALLS DRUDGE 'THREAT TO DEMOCRACY'
TalkerAuthor Bill O'Reilly lashed out against this space during his popular FOXNEWS O'REILLY FACTOR Wednesday night -- just hours after closely guarded book sales figures were splashed over the internet.
Sales figures show how, contrary to his claims, O'Reilly lags far behind rivals Al Franken and Sen. Hillary Clinton for nonfiction props!
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Responding to an exclusive yearender DRUDGE dispatch, which presented NIELSEN's Top 20 BOOKSCAN list of 2003 sales, O'Reilly called the DRUDGE REPORT a "threat to democracy."
"I mean you can't believe a word Matt Drudge says," O'Reilly told the cameras. "Now you've got the Matt Drudges of the world and these other people, Michael Moore and all of these crazies, all right, no responsibility... that is a threat to democracy, I think." O'Reilly warned: "They'll just spin it and twist it and take it out of proportion every which way."
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Last year, the host of Cable TVs most-watched newscast became unbuckled and turned unstable after this space first revealed how O'Reilly was plotting a new radio program to air opposite Rush Limbaugh [who had just lost his hearing] and how WOR-AM in New York would receive cash compensation from VIACOM to carry the program. [The broadcast launched several months later.]
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"There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge," O'Reilly charged on the IMUS in the MORNING radio show.
"I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack - right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue... And the authorities should know it."
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:04:56 PM PST
by
Bommer
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
O'Reilly....to Coulter(on his show)....
(Sen.)McCarthy was a member of the House Unamerican Activies Commisision....
STILL laughing about that!... What an overrated maroon...
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:05:44 PM PST
by
hosepipe
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I don't believe it. Maybe some of these buyers need fuel for their fireplaces and woodstoves.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:06:27 PM PST
by
Palladin
(Proud to be a FReeper!)
To: Bommer
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED DEC 17, 2003 17:06:32 ET XXXXX
BOOK YEARENDER: O'REILLY TRAILS FRANKEN IN SCANNED SALES; 'SOUTH BEACH' TOP OF NONFIC LIST
FOXNEWS's top-rated host Bill O'Reilly recently claimed that he is "running against Hillary for most copies of nonfiction books sold this year!"
But numbers obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT show a dramatically different sales scene for 2003.
NIELSEN, the same company that ranks O'Reilly #1 on Cable TV, currently places O'Reilly at #6 for the year on the nonfiction charts -- trailing rival Al Franken by nearly 30%!
[O'Reilly ranks #63 on USA TODAY's 2003 sales chart.]
"We've outsold that guy [Franken] all over the place," O'Reilly claimed Monday on NBC's TODAY show. "We're running against Hillary for most copies of non-fiction books sold this year!"
With two weeks to go for 2003:
Nonfiction
1. South Beach Diet Dr. Arthur Agatston 2,304,608 [units scanned]
2. Purpose Driven Life Warren 1,507,902
3. Living History Clinton 1,084,520
4. Ultimate Weight Solution McGraw 836,043
5. Lies and The Lying Liars Franken 674,024
6. Who's Looking Out for You O'Reilly 430,407
7. Benjamin Franklin Isaacson 384,137
8. Dude, Where's My Country Moore 365,519
9. Treason Coulter 364,848
10. Fly Boys Bradley 222,685
11. Short History of Nearly Everything Bryson 217,591
12. Moneyball Lewis 210,108
13. Royal Duty Burrell 159,261
14. Who's Your Caddy? Reilly 151,978
15. Every Second Counts Armstrong 145,183
16. World According to Mr. Rogers 141,405
17. Madame Secretary Albright 122,167
18. New Cookbook, BH&G Better Homes & Gardens 118,230
19. Merriam Websters Dictionary 115,185
20. Bushwacked Ivans 110,000
As a comparison, Harry Potter fiction has scanned 7,908,391 units; DaVinci Code moved 3,023,336.
NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN numbers represents purchased, sold and bagged copies at AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE, BORDER'S, COSTCO and other outlets.
[BOOKSCAN is generally considered to capture about 70-80% of total sales in USA.]
Developing...
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:08:11 PM PST
by
Bommer
To: Palladin
It might be a good book, but O"Reill's a ho.......
To: lelio
lelio wrote:
Does this exclude large book purchases? Not that a certain commentator on FOX would purchase thousands of books to boost his ranking.However many books O'Reilly mioght have bought, they pale in comparison to the bulk purchases of Hillary's book by Democrat-connected organizations such as unions and the DNC.
That having been said, O'Reilly should tone himself down, he's beginning to sound unhinged.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:08:57 PM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I wonder how many of these new book sales are from the Big 'O' himself, hahahaha.
The Big 'O' is losing it and I'll be glad when he's gone...
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:13:25 PM PST
by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there is the face of Islam!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"O'Reilly's book has leapt ahead of screeds by left-wing bomb-throwers Al Franken and Michael Moore." The implication by the Mr. Limbacher, of NewsMax, is that a "conservative" as dethroned the other two liberals.
Let's look at Mr. O'Reilly's defense of "conservative" principles:
--he supports CFR (violates First Amendment)
--he supports assualt weapon ban (violates Second Amendment)
--he supports regulation of business (violates the Fifth Amendment)
--he supports WOD (violates the 9th Amendment)
--he supports federal law trumps state law (violates the 10th amendment)
He is a loud mouth statist/socialist bordering on communist.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:17:26 PM PST
by
tahiti
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I imagine O'Really will be to modest and embarrassed to mention this on his radio or tv show.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:22:15 PM PST
by
dwilli
To: CommandoFrank
O'Reilly should tone himself down, he's beginning to sound unhinged.Beginning?
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:39:24 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: tahiti
O'Reilly likes to see himself as common-sense populist but his views and principles changes daily and he is so erratic that the only thing you can be certain Bill O'Reilly is for is Bill O'Reilly.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:55:12 PM PST
by
azcap
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Thanks to TIVO, I can watch his show in about 12 minutes average.
To: tahiti
tahiti said: "--he [O'Reilly] supports assualt weapon ban (violates Second Amendment) "
And he is either lying to his entire audience about the scope of the AWB or he is truly a very ignorant man.
To: tahiti
After his comments about Drudge I have had very little respect for him and I stopped watching him.
After reading what you posted, it makes me hate him even more.
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posted on
12/21/2003 2:11:56 PM PST
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
I enjoy Bill Oreilly on the Radio Factor. It is fun to yell at the top of one's lungs at the guy on the radio while driving alone!
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posted on
12/21/2003 2:47:51 PM PST
by
AdA$tra
(Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse....)
To: azcap
btt
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posted on
12/21/2003 3:05:07 PM PST
by
GulliverSwift
(Howard Dean is the Joker's insane twin brother.)
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