Conservative books on top, but NYT concludes Marx is “back in vogue”

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 20, 2009 11:56 AM

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!

***

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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  1. #1
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    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?

  2. #2
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, Roland said:

    Marx IS back in vogue. Inside the Beltway.

  3. #3
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, b-cat said:

    So what does a NYTimes book reviewer conclude?

    Why, Karl Marx is “back in vogue.”

    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. :roll:

  4. #4
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, b-cat said:

    What is truly mystifying is that most people still don’t see that the Democrat Party IS the Communist Party.

  5. #5
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm, Regulus said:

    When was Marx ever out of “vogue” at the New York Times?

    The spirit of Walter Duranty seems to be alive and well….

  6. #6
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm, irving said:

    Are there really people (outside of newsrooms) who still read that rag?

    Weird.

  7. #7
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:10 pm, Brian72 said:

    That is truly hilarious.

    Your book get a review yet?

  8. #8
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:10 pm, flmom said:

    Always count on the Fishwrap of Record to have its finger on the pulse of Leftist America!

  9. #9
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, Regulus said:

    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.”

  10. #10
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, Roman Con said:

    Pet rocks, macrame plant holders, and roller disco are not far behind!

  11. #11
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:17 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    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…

  12. #12
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, dan708 said:

    Why, Karl Marx is “back in vogue.”

    Always count on the Fishwrap of Record to have its finger on the pulse of America!

    Methinks their fingers are placed firmly between their buttocks!

  13. #13
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Regulus–LOL.

    and:

    Always count on the Fishwrap of Record to have its finger on the pulse of America!

    Make that its ‘middle finger’.

  14. #14
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:22 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Why, Karl Marx is “back in vogue.”

    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?

  15. #15
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pm, mchristian said:

    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.

  16. #16
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, CyberCipher said:

    Yes, and we’ve ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia.

    My collie says:

    I feel a two-minute hate coming on.

  17. #17
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm, spaceycakes said:

    lgm surely has a copy–right next to Mao’s ‘little red book’. Don’tcha think?

  18. #18
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:31 pm, RobM1981 said:

    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…

  19. #19
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm, spaceycakes said:

    lgm surely has a copy–right next to Mao’s ‘little red book’. Don’tcha think?

    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.

  20. #20
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, happyscrapper said:

    The frightening thing about this is they truly believe what they write. How insane do you have to be to believe this crap?

  21. #21
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:34 pm, Laree said:

    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

  22. #22
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Flyoverman–yeah, but lgm has them both in graphic novel form (ok, just call them comic books).

  23. #23
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Insomniac said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, Roman Con said:
    Pet rocks, macrame plant holders, and roller disco are not far behind!

    Whoa, hold on…those went out of style?

  24. #24
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Silly me, I didn’t even know Karl Marx had gone out of vogue.

  25. #25
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm, madshark said:

    Why, Karl Marx is “back in vogue.”

    I’ve always preferred Groucho or Harpo.

  26. #26
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm, Misscheryl said:

    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.

  27. #27
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Insomniac said:
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, Roman Con said:
    Pet rocks, macrame plant holders, and roller disco are not far behind!
    Whoa, hold on…those went out of style?

    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’!

  28. #28
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, John the Libertarian said:

    Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” is also selling well — as opposition research.

  29. #29
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, MtsEdge said:

    WarEagle & Laree,

    Good points! Of course there is lots of talk about Marx these days…his ideology is rampant in Washington!

  30. #30
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, granite said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, John the Libertarian said:

    Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” is also selling well — as opposition research.

    Yep.

    Hey!
    How did you know that I recently ordered it?

  31. #31
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, Hangfire said:

    Marx is always in vogue.

    Just go to any public University in the United States since the 1930s. Herr Marx is alive and well.

  32. #32
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Silly me, I didn’t even know Karl Marx had gone out of vogue.

    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.

  33. #33
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, John Deaux said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, spaceycakes said:
    Flyoverman–yeah, but lgm has them both in graphic novel form (ok, just call them comic books).

    I thought they were pop-ups?

  34. #34
    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Hangfire said:

    I have “Das Kapital” on 8-track.

  35. #36
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm, happy2behere said:

    Marx back in vogue? Only for the kool-aid drinkers who wish to live in an opppresive system that people clammour to escape from.

  36. #37
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:05 pm, cheapseat said:

    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.

  37. #39
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:10 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, John Deaux said:

    Probably played with Lenin, Mao and Fidel finger puppets when he was a lad.

  38. #40
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:17 pm, right_on said:

    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.

  39. #41
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm, spaceycakes said:
    lgm surely has a copy–right next to Mao’s ‘little red book’. Don’tcha think?

    Das Kapital For Dummies and Mao’s Little Red Book For Dummies, maybe.

    ECS

  40. #42
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, WrshpMzshn said:

    Dwight Garner said:

    Ultimately, however, Mr. Hunt largely exonerates him. “In no intelligible sense can Engels or Marx bear culpability for the crimes of historical actors carried out generations later,” he writes

    Perhaps not, but that’s what happens when you grant absolute power to the state. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  41. #43
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:

    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).

  42. #44
    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:59 pm, Salt said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:

    …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.

  43. #46
    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:13 pm, MtsEdge said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:

    If it wasn’t for conservatism, you wouldn’t have the freedom to say the things you do.

  44. #47
    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#42):

    are you content in acting just like the wrestlers you mentioned? You know, the trash talk and macho strutting dismissing conservative authors.

    Thank you for noticing. It was fun.

  45. #48
    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:20 pm, Salt said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#42):

    are you content in acting just like the wrestlers you mentioned? You know, the trash talk and macho strutting dismissing conservative authors.

    Thank you for noticing. It was fun.

    Which wrestler were you imitating with your little ring speech?

  46. #49
    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:40 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:
    People buy conservative books for the same reason they watch professional wrestling. They know it’s fake,

    Wrestling is not real?! (slaps head) You mean Vince McMahon lied to me?!
    (breaks down in bitter tears) (sob!)

  47. #50
    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, spaceycakes said:

    lgm couldn’t ‘macho strut’ if you gave him cialis & forced him to watch a Bruce Willis movie.

  48. #52
    On August 20th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Just us folks here clinging to our guns and religion. lgm dreams of a day when we will all munch arugula with “The One.”

  49. #54
    On August 20th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, allrsn said:

    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.

  50. #56
    On August 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, TigerLady said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:
    People buy conservative books for the same reason they watch professional wrestling. They know it’s fake,

    Amazing that lgm can see fakery but not in The Won’s administration.

    Things that make you go hmmmm.

  51. #57
    On August 20th, 2009 at 6:28 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:

    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).

    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.

  52. #58
    On August 20th, 2009 at 6:30 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#42):

    are you content in acting just like the wrestlers you mentioned? You know, the trash talk and macho strutting dismissing conservative authors.

    Thank you for noticing. It was fun.

    Wow! Your really put him away with that snappy retort! /sarc LOL!

  53. #59
    On August 20th, 2009 at 7:38 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On August 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, b-cat said:

    What is truly mystifying is that most people still don’t see that the Democrat Party IS the Communist Party.

    Exactly.

    There is no difference between the agenda of the Democrat Party and the agenda of the Communist Party USA:

    The Road to Socialism USA

  54. #61
    On August 21st, 2009 at 12:50 am, happy2behere said:

    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.

  55. #64
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Who said the following?

    While America’s military strength is important, let me add here that I’ve always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

    Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a witness to one of the terrible traumas of our time, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote that the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which the West is indifferent to God, the degree to which it collaborates in communism’s attempt to make man stand alone without God. And then he said, for Marxism-Leninism is actually the second-oldest faith, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, “Ye shall be as gods.”

    The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, “but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism’s faith in Man.”

    I believe we shall rise to the challenge. I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last — last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. For in the words of Isaiah: “He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increased strength… But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary…”

    Yes, change your world. One of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, said, “We have it within our power to begin the world over again.” We can do it, doing together what no one church could do by itself.

    God bless you and thank you very much.

    Who said that?
    President Ronald Reagan.

  56. #65
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 6:52 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    This is the “evil empire” speech that was so often quoted as defining my attitude toward the Soviets. At the time it was portrayed as some kind of know-nothing, archconservative statement that could only drive the Soviets to further heights of paranoia and insecurity.

    For too long our leaders were unable to describe the Soviet Union as it actually was. The keepers of our foreign-policy knowledge – in other words, most liberal foreign-affairs scholars, the State Department, and various columnists – found it illiberal and provocative to be so honest. I’ve always believed, however, that it’s important to define differences, because there are choices and decisions to be made in life and history.

    The Soviet system over the years has purposely starved, murdered, and brutalized its own people. Millions were killed; it’s all right there in the history books. It put other citizens it disagreed with into psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugging them into oblivion. Is the system that allowed this not evil? Then why shouldn’t we say so? Even the Soviets themselves are now admitting to annihilating their own people during Stalin’s era.

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