Posted on 11/10/2009 11:52:13 AM PST by Rufus2007
According to The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and other right-of-center stars that regularly dominate the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestsellers List are - or should be - in a league of their own.
No, that isn't Arianna Huffington's blog heaping praise on conservative authors. It's a literal suggestion. With right-leaning books and authors holding so many spots on the list, and more to come - former Sarah Palin, former Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush all have books due out -Huffington Post suggests conservatives should have their own category to differentiate from other works of non-fiction.
In a Nov. 9 entry on The Huffington Post that laments Fox News host Glenn Beck pulling a feat not done before - holding the number one spot on The New York Times' four lists: hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, paperback non-fiction and children's - they suggest a separate category altogether, not for political non-fiction, but conservative non-fiction.
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Like when Motor Trend used to have their “Domestic Car of the Year” because domestic cars could never win a “Car of the Year” award.
It's automatic.
I've never seen a sign that
Tells people to breathe.
they are sick and tired of not being able to have their ideologues on the #1 best selling list....
So now they slit and conquer and change the rules, pure Alinsky.
I agree. And all blacks in Major League Baseball should be forced into a reconstituted Negro League.
Suits me. It sounds good so I won’t have to look at any lib books or is that the idea in reverse.
It’s only fair since we conservatives just do what we’re told. We’re not independent free thinkers like the Huff Pos.
Yeah, put conservatives in a ghetto. That’s the ticket.
Ther already is a list for conservative blockbusters - the main non-fiction list. it’s not the conservatives’ fault that no one wants to read the libs’ books.
...”former Sarah Palin, former Dick Cheney”?....Like what are they now?................
Not sure if that’s an Alinsky rule.
It really doesn’t have to be.
It’s a core aspect of liberal ideology.
Whats Arrianna want? A true non-fiction classification for Conservative books, and a made up non-fiction category for liberal books?
>> I agree. And all blacks in Major League Baseball should be forced into a reconstituted Negro League. <<
Robert “The Sheets” Byrd, a Democrat, agrees!
Maybe we can have a all White NBA that would be as popular as the WNBA????
Personally I am so very excited about the Japanese-American Football League.
Why not allow everyone to complete for book sales, Huffinton Post, Tear down this wall.....
It’s the modern day manifestation of the “separate but equal” concept that segregationists used to espouse.
If you believe everything that every other “liberal” believes, you’re a “free thinker”,
if you disagree, you’re not a “free thinker”.
INGSOC
Ya, isn’t a separate conservative list a matter of “separate but equal”? Aren’t the liberals against discrimination?
Why not just put yellow stars on them while they’re at it?
Shouldn't he be exclusively on a TV channel to cover his propaganda, lies, shopping trips and schmoozing with his betters world wide?
I suggest the Gay channel.
But this story does meet the criterion for Alinsky Ruls Number One: Pick a target, freeze it, polarize it. Isolating conservatives in their own separate ghetto would be a perfect example of this.
A blogger on another site sarcastically wondered
“Maybe we need a fairness doctrine for books so that if you buy a conservative book you also have to by a liberal one”
A blogger on another site sarcastically wondered
“Maybe we need a fairness doctrine for books so that if you buy a conservative book you also have to buy a liberal book”
I don’t think these people must get out much:
Conservative Book Club
http://www.conservativebookclub.com/DefaultJoin.asp?
Christian Books (and gifts)
http://www.christianbook.com/
Books A Million (conservative answer to Barnes & Noble/Amazon)
http://www.bamm.com
So liberas are seeking a Jim Crow type arrangement, huh? Pretty soon HufPo will be recommending that the authors of such books be jailed.
Next she’ll suggest all conservatives have a large letter “C” sewn onto their clothing.
So HufPo is for segregation after all...
As I'm sure you know, libs are only opposed to certain kinds of discrimination. They consider other kinds to be acceptable or commendable, but they would argue that they're not really discrimination. Affirmative action is the obvious example.
Right in front of our eyes, the Administration is turning Communist at full speed and The Country be damned! If they do it fast enough, the job will be complete and irreversible before The Country realizes.
Right in front of our eyes, the Administration is turning Communist at full speed and The Country be damned! If they do it fast enough, the job will be complete and irreversible before The Country realizes.
Segregation Forever! Wait, somebody else already said that, and the libs didn’t like that.
I read thru all the almost 300 postings on the thread. Boils down to:
Conservatives are stupid.
Conservatives can't read.
Conservatives are evil.
Glenn beck is stupid.
Glenn Beck can't write.
Glenn Beck is evil.
Conservative bestsellers are actually bought in bulk by Rupert Murdoch and the Republican Party in order to claim they're bestsellers (this was repeated ad nausea throughout the thread).
Republicans are stupid.
Republicans can't read.
Republicans are evil.
Sarah Palin can't possibly have a best seller because she is stupid, can't control her daughter's lusts, can see Russia from her house and besides, her books are being bought in bulk by Dick Cheney's evil oil and military-industrial complex CEO buddies!
Glenn Beck is nothing, no one is afraid of him and the White House yawns whenever his name is mentioned.
And one other overarching theme: Liberals--themselves (of course)--are smart people! Conservatives are stuupid!
All the lib books have the "Hate America", "Gay is Good", or some far out conspiracy theory theme. Even the libs get tired of hearing it so often.
Ideally a non-Greek guy! :)
Best wishes.
Well, it is a bit unfair, considering that so few liberals can read. Maybe they need a category for liberal videos. TV is about the correct level of comprehension for liberals. That’s why so many shows are liberal. It’s the semi-literate’s natural habitat.
LOL..You nailed it. I read through quite a few of the posts myself and thought this could all be condensed into about 10 to 15 posts. They all think exactly the same. They are lemmings.
That would work only if I could return one of them within ten days...
That would work only if I could return one of them within ten days...
If there had been a separate category for ‘rat-written, anti-Bush books...there wouldn’t have been a NYT Bestseller List.
Most American won't roll over so easily.
NOTHING is irreversible.
An item in the Bill of Rights guarantees it.
Liberals don’t believe in reality and thus they not only tend to read fiction, they actually LIVE fiction where all is fluffy bunnies and agreement with THEM. Most liberals buy books based on how the spines will look in their bookcases as decor, or, how the titles will impress others. One big difference between Liberals and Conservatives is that LIberals care more than anything else what others think about them.
Actually, not to be picky, but that’s #13. (Lucky)
Liberals don’t believe in reality and thus they not only tend to read fiction, they actually LIVE fiction where all is fluffy bunnies and agreement with THEM. Most liberals buy books based on how the spines will look in their bookcases as decor, or, how the titles will impress others. One big difference between Liberals and Conservatives is that LIberals care more than anything else what others think about them.
Liberals don’t believe in reality and thus they not only tend to read fiction, they actually LIVE fiction where all is fluffy bunnies and agreement with THEM. Most liberals buy books based on how the spines will look in their bookcases as decor, or, how the titles will impress others. One big difference between Liberals and Conservatives is that LIberals care more than anything else what others think about them.
Thank you for reading and distilling those comments for us! I know it must have been unpleasant, but it does help to know what they think, it’s why we have such an easy time refuting their ‘strongest arguments’ when we meet them face to face.
The libs must be going insane.
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