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I’m sure the editors of NYT throw up a little in their mouths when they have to type Culture of Corruption in that number 1 slot.
Way to go Michelle!
libs can read?? I thought they couldn’t get past talking points….lol
The NYT is a caricature now.
Pathetic.
Congratulations on the great honor the New York Slimes is giving you by ignoring you, Michelle.
Interesting article, but facts don’t bother liberals much. I’m taking bets on how long will it take for lgm to try to explain this phenomenon as just balancing the coverage of Fox News.
That’s all their books are – talking points. They’re coffee table books – nobody ever picks them up and actually reads them.
Michelle, the Obama administration is working hard to make sure your new book stays at number one.
Congratulations!!!
Harry Smith is still alive?
Kudos Michelle, I just finished your interview with Rush in the Limbaugh letter.
Good work and stay strong
Congrats Michelle! This just proves that they don’t know a great book when they see one.
congratulations on the success of your book MM. Your work is meticulous and you teach everyone who reads your book. Focus on the big stuff and let personal issues fade. Your research is unmatched and necessary.
Best selling books, talk radio, blogs, independent news outlets on the web–Obama and friends have plans to kill them all. Obama is asking for emergency power to regulate the web in case of a man made emergency – just before election time I would suppose.
The the new FCC “Diversity Officer” could shut down ALL private radio, not just talk. I imagine Fox News would be gone.The books would still be written–hard to do the research, hard to publicize, harder to sell.
The MSM may be ignoring conservative books–Obama and Company are certainly not. The Ministry of Truth will decide what we hear, see and read. Or not, it is up to us.
Sunlight is reported to be the best disinfectant-and the Left will have none of it. If you have finished Culture of Corruption pass it on, buy another and reach as many people as you can.
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Look for my book out soon
All Dogs May Go to Heaven But No Gopher Ever Will!
(working on the yard $%#*@ gophers!)
I am allowing myself only a few pages a day. It is all my blood pressure can stand.
Keep up the good work Michelle. My BP be damned along with the libtards.
Talk about brinksmanship! They came so close to mentioning your book but didn’t. The secret is still intact. Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me. If I’m asked, it’s “I don’t know nuttin’ niminy nobody!”
At this rate, pretty soon we’ll have the Libroids calling for the Fairness Doctrine to be applied to books… wait, where have I heard this before?
To liberal-msm types (redundant, I admit), best-selling conservative books are radioactive, to be placed in lead-lined containers, to be handled only by iron tongs, not to be mentioned let alone discussed. A lot of things are subject to change in the future, but that particular fact is not among them. So it has been and so it will be. Those who are familiar with the publishing history of Atlas Shrugged(1957) know it was almost killed by the media of the day (the reviews were terrible and worse), word of mouth alone saving it.
The fact that there is now a very lame organized effort to get liberal writers products into the top 10…. with prizes even, let us know that this is bugging them to no end.
CMI’s analysis did not include the Fox Network. If ‘Meet the Press’ was mentioned, why not Chris Wallace’s show?
Would Mr Levin agree to go on any of these shows? Did CMI ask the Networks if they invited the conservative authors? Did CMI ask the authors if they were asked to appear and declined to do so? Were there scheduling problems?
Writing a book does not entitle the author to an appearance on any show.
Right next to The Enquirer.
Last night on Nightly News with Lehrer, they concluded the program with an extensive interview with Haynes Johnson and Dan Balz who just co-authored a book about last year’s election. The interview was like listening to teen-aged girls squealing in delight over the latest teen hunk. Clearly, Obama is a god walking among us mortals.
Don’t be insulting the Enquirer.
Seriously.
The Enquirer broke the Edwards adultery story, which is infinitely more than the NYT fishrag has done in years in terms of giving balanced, nonpropagandistic news reporting.
Camille Paglia has done it again. Like always, it’s a must read.
She could very well restore liberalism to good favor were she to shame the elitist Marxists who seem to be in charge of both parties into going away. I am not afraid of the liberalism she espouses. It is civilized, reasonable and respects most of the values we as conservatives cherish. She “gets it”.
Hey they started it, if they can call us stupid for exposing corruption, we can call them illiterate for being, well, stupid.
I suppose it won’t be long before the Capitol catches fire, and the blame placed on “right wing extremists”. Obama will then declare himself in total control and order the “burning of all banned books”. The purple shirts will march calling all conservatives “facists”. My books will be safely hidden. In the meantime, I enjoy reading them, especially because they are honest.
Maybe the broadcast network news types got suckered into the philosophy of SanFranNan’s “most ethical congress ever” mentality.
It sure seems they operate with the same efficiency of that grand body.
Their motto: “Never let the truth get in the way of a good rumor.”
Some of our major Universities and Libraries have become rather close to that.
No, ziggy, but having a book at the top of the non-fiction best seller list for weeks on end (not one or two) is newsworthy. The networks along with the rest of the MSM have decided that we, apparently, don’t need to know about these books and authors. The reason for this should be apparent even to you.
ECS
Yeah, when the only food we’ll be able to get will be out of our backyards, it WILL be a best seller.
Way off-topic: I had a small patch (1 sq yd.) of romaine growing so nice. I watered it on Thursday evening and went out on Friday afternoon to get “lunch” – waddya know? Darn gophers ate it ALL clear down to the ground. The little $hit even put its teeth into the SECOND ripe cantaloupe of the patch.
Went straight to the hardware store and bought some of that smells-like-bear-urine stuff that gophers hate. (Considered peeing on it myself as I read on the Internet that that worked just as well. But I’m sure it was written by some libtard-drug-damaged-a$$hat, so I assisted in increasing the GNP by $12.)
The romaine is growing back nicely.
it takes me allof about 3.5 seconds to tune into those networks before i want to barf and laugh at the childish ignorance befor clicking them into no mans land. as of now those channles are blocked with no interest to reinstate them…..ever.. they truly are stupid and have their collective heads straight uo their a$$es.
excuse the typos please.
I turned off my cable TV earlier this summer. I haven’t missed it once. I read more now and don’t have to worry about seeing these shrill shills telling me how wonderful Obama is.
If anything, this article underscores the complete disconnect between the American public and the media. The Van Jones incident just as powerfully illustrates its rapid decline into irrelevancy and talk radio’s and the conservative blogosphere’s ascendancy.
I’ll be sad to see the NY Times go; it fits the bottom of my cats’ litter box perfectly.
Nobody reads the newspapers anymore anyway. Even their subscribers only get the paper to impress the plebes who may see it on their porch.
“Wow, that guy reads the Times!”
Should it be any surprise that the NY Times would spike news of the MM number one best seller or that Matt Lauer would be swooning over Elizabeth Edwards while being contemptuous of conservative authors? The New York Times is the same newspaper that deliberately spiked news of the Holocaust because the publisher at the time, one Arthur Ochs, was determined that he and his newspaper would be more WASPY than anyone in Greenwich. Ochs was a relentless social climber. The NY Times also had a reporter in Cuba in the late 1950s whose reportage was nothing more than public relations for Castro. His name was Matthews. Then there is Roger Cohen, who spent all of 2008 and 2009 sanitizing Ahmedinejad and Khameini. Then there is Christopher Hedges, the leftist reporter who gave a college graduation speech (the students never asked for him but got him anyway) that was so filled with antiAmerican vitriol that the students booed Hedges and would not applaud when he mercifully finished his monotone laden speech. Lately, the Times has invited both Qaddafi and Qdaffi’s son to be oped writers while firing Bill Kristol and replacing him with yet another liberal Republican Ivy League columnist.
If there were only liberal books published; how many publishers and book stores would go belly up?
“The mainstream media often argue that where liberal bias does exist, it’s a byproduct of the natural pursuit of ratings and ad revenue.”
No sh!t, sherlock.
Now here’s my million dollar question: if conservatives are the holders of truth, freedom, success and the American way, why don’t we own any of the networks or large presses?
I am glad that you agree with me.
The books have become bestsellers without being touted in certain places. That being the case, then why does it matter if the Authors appear on a certain show, or not? Obviously, these books are known . . . because, they are on the bestseller lists.
As for newsworthiness, should every book in every category be touted by every media outlet? Should every bestselling music artist in every music category be touted by every media outlet?
They don’t review Coulters’s books for the same reasons they don’t review professional wrestling on TV: it’s fake.
The people interested in book reviews are thinking people. Thinking people are not the ones interested in Coulter’s books. The silence is market driven, not ideological.
I think you are watching the wrong TV channel. Turn it over to the UFC.
Amazon sales ranking:
Audacity of Dope. Ranked 445th in sales.
Dreams of my Commie Father. Ranked 294 in sales.
Change We can Believe in, or Not. Ranked 13,662 (!). (Pffft!).
Culture of Corruption. Ranked 13 in sales. YOU GO GIRL!
lgm, if you ever bothered to read any of Ann Coulter’s books you would see that they are EXTENSIVELY footnoted. She is especially good at skewering liberals with their own words. Show us where her FACTS are wrong. I really don’t care if you don’t like her style.
If you have no facts to back up your arguements, you are only voicing an unexamined opinion.
That’s a poorly constructed strawman, not a thinking person’s argument. It’s not even an original strawman as you’ve used the wrestling canard previously.
Why are you still here? You’re clearly just phoning it in now.
You make statements about “thinking people” but seem to have trouble reconciling the difference between your opinion and something you can prove.
…Says the guy who often makes hostile comments about free market principles and seems to often fail to comprehend them.
Your statement doesn’t even make much sense. The article points out several authors, including our hostess, who remain best sellers for several weeks. Conservative authors succeed in the market much more than liberal authors despite a lack of coverage in the MSM.
For the MSM to define their decision as “market driven” would be for them to assume that the vast majority of their market is liberal. I know you would like to believe with your whole heart that this is true, but you know that it is not. To support a “market driven” argument, you would effectively be admitting that the MSM has a liberal bias.
Why wouldn’t a news producer wish to tap a larger market and include these conservative authors? The savvy business man looks to expand his market, not stifle a successful product.
Precisely why most of the outlets of the mainstream media are in the process of going broke. They are ideologically driven, not profit driven.
LGM cannot see this because he has only unexamined opinions.
Liberal + examined opinions = Conservative.
lgm, the real reason they don’t review conservative books but do review liberal books is because liberals are too stupid and lazy to read a book, so they have to get the cliff notes on t.v. as seem by sales, conservatives read the damn book and make up their own mind. stupid robots need to be taught, hence union organizers and astroturf coaches, whereas thinkers can act independently as at tea parties and town hall meetings.
Eye roll. Why is MM so desperate for the attention of the Nazi/Zombie/Communist media?
As for the Coulter section. Ann’s argument about Drudge’s record vs. NBC is fairly amusing. How many spurrious links has Drudge posted and taken down without a peep? How many editorials does he post as fact? And, frankly, if Ann Coulter was treated the same way Elizabeth Edwards was treated on The Today Show…she wouldn’t be Ann Coulter. It’s a part of the performance. It’s the express reason for going on The Today Show. If Matt Lauer sat there and told her she was awesome and that her book was sensational, she’d probably burst into flames.
at 12:58 pm, cheapseat said:
Could be. In any case market forces determine which books to review. A common phrase in liberal blogs is: “Klein reads Coulter so you don’t have to.”
To what market are you referring? Are you still clinging to this faulty argument because I doubt you mean the general concept of a free market.
I’m curious how you manage to disassociate “best seller” from “market forces” in your reasoning.
I see that paradigm working in your “contributions” here. TPM and KOS think so that you don’t have to.