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June’s Poli-Book Best Seller List (Where are the conservative books?)
New York Times ^ | 06/06/08 | Orville Buddo

Posted on 06/06/2008 12:43:36 PM PDT by wm_tate

Scott McClellan’s controversial book, “What Happened,” jumped immediately to the No. 2 slot on this month’s political best seller list. And “Counselor” by Ted Sorensen, another title by a close adviser to a president, is No. 5.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; books
Is it merely coincidence that the NYT political book best-seller list is dominated by liberals (Soros, Sorenson, Moyers) or books driven by a liberal agenda (What Happened, Bad Money, The Prosecution of George Bush)? Where on their list are Doug Feith, Jonah Goldberg, or George Will? Or, somewhat immodestly, my book, A Time Like This? Do conservatives really not buy books? Or is the Times methodology weighted to reflect their bias? -Wm Tate A Time Like This
1 posted on 06/06/2008 12:43:37 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate

Since when is George Will a conservative? (He is only by MSM standards). And for those of us who recognize the Iraq war as an archetypically liberal attempt to apply liberal social policy to other countries (pre-emptive wars of agression, ‘nation-building’ and such are reflections of liberal totalitarian thinking, not conservatism), What Happened is more an indictment of Bush’s liberalism than an attack on anything conservative.


2 posted on 06/06/2008 12:51:26 PM PDT by Liberty1970
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To: wm_tate

I look at it this way. The money the ‘RATS spend on these “books” isn’t being contributed to some ‘RAT poll-it-ician somewhere.


3 posted on 06/06/2008 12:51:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: Liberty1970

From that perspective, the NYT list is even more lopsided!
-Wm Tate
http://www.atimelikethis.us/


4 posted on 06/06/2008 12:54:06 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Excellent point! But shouldn’t these folks be buying only e-books, to fight global warning and all?
-Wm Tate,
http://www.atimelikethis.us/


5 posted on 06/06/2008 12:55:39 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: Liberty1970
What Happened is more an indictment of Bush’s liberalism than an attack on anything conservative.

So you've decided to believe the fabrication that is McClelland's book. Sure, Scottie was right in the thick of foreign policy discussions even though he was a deputy press sec'y for domestic issues. Sure, Scottie's is to be believed now even though he is saying he lied to the American people the whole time he was Press Sec'y. (I guess his conscience won out, and that the money he made from writing the book had nothing to do with it.)

LOL Sorry, but that's funny, I don't care who you are.

6 posted on 06/06/2008 12:55:52 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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Excellent point! But shouldn’t these folks be buying only e-books, to fight global warning and all? -Wm Tate,

Heh, heh, heh. You've got a good point there!

On a serious note, I wonder how many of these "best sellers" get that way due to liberal librarians across the country ordering them for their libraries.

7 posted on 06/06/2008 1:01:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There’s also a lot of bulk buying. How many of Soros’s books do you think actually end up in a reader’s hands?
-Wm Tate,
http://www.atimelikethis.us/


8 posted on 06/06/2008 1:03:33 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate

When you run the Christians out of town you’re not going to have anything conservative left behind.


9 posted on 06/06/2008 1:07:26 PM PDT by donna ("I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." Barack Hussein Obama)
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