Conservative books on top, but NYT concludes Marx is “back in vogue”
Mark Levin held the #1 spot on the NYTimes best-seller list for 12 weeks this summer.
Culture of Corruption has held the top spot for the past 3 weeks.
Glenn Beck’s latest book has topped the paperback non-fiction list for 9 weeks.
The latest broadside against Obama from Dick Morris and Eileen McGann has also been on the NYT list for two months.
So what does a NYTimes book reviewer conclude?
Why, Karl Marx is “back in vogue.”
Always count on the Fishwrap of Record to have its finger on the pulse of America!
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Via Christian Toto at Human Events:
Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, isn’t surprised by the newspaper’s stance against these like-minded books.
“Very rarely do they review conservative books,” Ross says. “What they sometimes do is mention a book that is conservative on their “Inside the List” feature. It’s a way to defend themselves against the accusation they ignore these books.”
The New York Times did see fit to print reviews of major liberal books from Michael Moore (Dude, Where’s My Country?), Eric Alterman (What Liberal Media?) and Al Franken (Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) but has yet to examine the aforementioned right-leaning bestsellers.
Having one’s book reviewed in The New York Times meant something up until recently.
“Traditionally, most publishers and authors are very eager to get in the New York Times to review their books,” Ross says.
Now, readers take their cues from talk radio and the Internet.
“People tend to trust what they hear on talk radio rather than what they might read in the New York Times,” she says. “They develop a relationship with a talk radio show and what the host likes and is interested in.”
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Well, when the media can spin a black Obama supporter sporting an AR15 at a pro-Obama rally as a white supremacist who is trying to assassinate the POTUS, how hard is it to ignore the truth regarding book sales?
Marx IS back in vogue. Inside the Beltway.
Das Kapital again? Yeah, all the rage with the common folk and the semi-literate; a dry treatise on politics by a hack writer translated from German. Sure.
What is truly mystifying is that most people still don’t see that the Democrat Party IS the Communist Party.
When was Marx ever out of “vogue” at the New York Times?
The spirit of Walter Duranty seems to be alive and well….
Are there really people (outside of newsrooms) who still read that rag?
Weird.
That is truly hilarious.
Your book get a review yet?
The best book review about a Marxist screed was by Friedrich Engels’ mother:
“I wish he’d go make some ‘Kapital,’ instead of just writing about it.”
Pet rocks, macrame plant holders, and roller disco are not far behind!
Well, Karl is certainly the subject or intense debate. I am not sure that is the same as “back in vogue” but you have to remember that English, logic, reasoned thought and critical analysis are not native the the NYT news and editorial rooms…
Methinks their fingers are placed firmly between their buttocks!
Regulus–LOL.
and:
Make that its ‘middle finger’.
If this is how they read their audience it’s no wonder they’re begging foreign billionaires for loans – who wants to buy a paper that decidedly ignores its readers’ needs?
Adolf Hitler loved dogs and was a competent, if not inspired, painter. Josef Stalin enjoyed gardening and the theater. They just had one or two little quirks.
Yes, and we’ve ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia.
My collie says:
lgm surely has a copy–right next to Mao’s ‘little red book’. Don’tcha think?
Another example of content that drives circulation…
…deeper and deeper into the hole.
Anyone have a Death Pool going for the NY Times? I think it’s sweet that when they go they’ll take the Boston Globe with them. That is simply poetry…
I have Karl and both Mao’s little red books. KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
With the NY Times Marx is never out of vogue. What’s hysterical, is if the Marxists took over, the journalists are among those “reducated” first either willingly or with Mr. AK-47.
The frightening thing about this is they truly believe what they write. How insane do you have to be to believe this crap?
Or the NYT has completely mis read the reason people are reading Marx because they are comparing his philosophy to what is going on right now. All interest isn’t by those who are fans of Marxism…Know your enemy
Flyoverman–yeah, but lgm has them both in graphic novel form (ok, just call them comic books).
Whoa, hold on…those went out of style?
Silly me, I didn’t even know Karl Marx had gone out of vogue.
I’ve always preferred Groucho or Harpo.
buh..buh..but..what you say? O’Reilly isn’t on a NY Best Seller List or a #1 in all the world’s books of books? Whaddya mean that O’Reilly doesn’t have the book to end all books listed somewhere? I just don’t believe it!
I Sorry, couldn’t hep it.
Cool! I can’t wait to lose 50 lbs. and get back into my leisure suit.
singing: Burn baby burn! – Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! – Burn that mama down
Burn baby burn! – Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! – Burn that mama down
Burnin’!
Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” is also selling well — as opposition research.
WarEagle & Laree,
Good points! Of course there is lots of talk about Marx these days…his ideology is rampant in Washington!
Yep.
Hey!
How did you know that I recently ordered it?
Marx is always in vogue.
Just go to any public University in the United States since the 1930s. Herr Marx is alive and well.
Nope it hasn’t. There still are too many who look back fondly on the Russian Revolution and the communist revolutions that followed elsewhere in the world, as the greatest events of human history and wish for the same experience here in the USA.
I thought they were pop-ups?
I have “Das Kapital” on 8-track.
Marx back in vogue? Only for the kool-aid drinkers who wish to live in an opppresive system that people clammour to escape from.
the books sell, the rush radio sells, the fox news sells, christianity sells, but socialism/communism is in vogue. these msm dips**ts really need to get out of their upper west side condos and view america, not just hop a jet to paris.
Probably played with Lenin, Mao and Fidel finger puppets when he was a lad.
Karl Marx, eh? It says an awful lot about the NYT’s social circles, does it not?
I guess those tried and failed ideas of Marx’s are new, simply because “new” socialists are trying to force them down our throats, and up our…well, you know. Are they promoting Nouveau Marxism, or is this just plain “old” Marxism? And they write about the lack of “new” ideas from the Republican Party?
Remember when “Justice” was blind, and the NYT reported “all the news worth reporting?” The modern statist considered those things “status quo.” Justice is no longer blind…jurists must have “empathy“…the NYT reports all the news worth creating.
If you buy into this aberant thinking, remember, that is how we wound up with “The One” and his dysphoric, and Afro-centric American spouse.
Das Kapital For Dummies and Mao’s Little Red Book For Dummies, maybe.
ECS
Dwight Garner said:
Perhaps not, but that’s what happens when you grant absolute power to the state. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
People buy conservative books for the same reason they watch professional wrestling. They know it’s fake, but trash talk and bulked up macho strutting is fun. Then there’s the thrill of beating up the referee (Supreme Court).
…once again something wholly partisan.
Was there a point in there? Or are you content in acting just like the wrestlers you mentioned? You know, the trash talk and macho strutting dismissing conservative authors.
If it wasn’t for conservatism, you wouldn’t have the freedom to say the things you do.
Salt said (#42):
Thank you for noticing. It was fun.
Which wrestler were you imitating with your little ring speech?
Wrestling is not real?! (slaps head) You mean Vince McMahon lied to me?!
(breaks down in bitter tears) (sob!)
lgm couldn’t ‘macho strut’ if you gave him cialis & forced him to watch a Bruce Willis movie.
Just us folks here clinging to our guns and religion. lgm dreams of a day when we will all munch arugula with “The One.”
What would expect? This is the time of socialism, the socialists started making their move to destroy freedom over 2 years ago. nothing suprising or confusing here.
Amazing that lgm can see fakery but not in The Won’s administration.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
People buy liberal/socialist books for the same reason they watch “reality” shows: They know it’s fake, but living vicariously and pretending that they have a life is fun. Then there’s the thrill of beating up the referee (Supreme Court) when they actually interpret the Constitution instead of going with their feelings. The racially motivated Sotomayor should take the fun out of that for you.
Wow! Your really put him away with that snappy retort! /sarc LOL!
On August 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, b-cat said:
Exactly.
There is no difference between the agenda of the Democrat Party and the agenda of the Communist Party USA:
I love the jokes here, but the topic is serious too.
Karl Marx influenced Trotsy, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedung and some Nazism. Hundreds of millions dead. Religious and political persecution. Failed economic systems, mass starvation. If this guy is en vogue, then the culture is mentally ill.
Who said the following?
Who said that?
President Ronald Reagan.