Waaah: Libs want segregated best-seller lists
Problem: Too many damned conservative authors dominating the New York Times best-seller lists.
Solution: A Fairness Doctrine from books!
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Is there no shame on the Left? They embarrass themselves.
Call the Wambulance.
Typical of liberals. Let’s change the playing field to make it more “fair” to those who are getting their butts kicked in life.
Way to go Michelle, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter, just to name a few of the authors who are kicking the butts of liberals.
So now the party of victimization wants to “gerrymander” the best seller lists … sounds par for the course … but the conservative list would still be longer and selling more books … Well yeah! DUH!!! …
I’m currently finishing up Glenn Beck’s Arguing With Idiots, a must-have for anybody who enjoyed An Inconvenient Book. I think I’ll start reading Mark Levin’s Liberty & Tyranny book this weekend when I start my vacation. Ooh, I can start reading it at SeaTac airport while I await my flight.
Michelle’s latest book is in my “to read” bin at home – I’ll get to Culture of Corruption in a couple weeks.
Hmmmm, it would appear that these comments do not support underlining. Tjord. =[
Maybe if the poor wittle tings wrote books that people actually wanted to read they might sell better.
*eye roll*
Note to self: order Tammy Bruce’s “The New Thought Police”
Next thing you know, they’ll want to handicap the sales figures.
Is the sale of a book diminished by the politics of its author? How stupid.
gerrymander = LOL
And why don’t they publish their list in the stock quotes section.
The problem with having a Conservative category, is that the liberals will still be lost among the child raising books, the gardeing books, etc etc.
Maybe it would be easier to keep track of if they had a liberal best selling list. Then they would only need to compete against themselves. So it would be Matthews at #1 selling 12 copies, Olberman at #2 selling 10 copies etc. Frankin comes in at #10 with 3 copies sold.
“Whoo Hoo, my book made the top ten best sellers list.” Al Frankin.
Hey, you know what?
Maybe the NEA could fund liberal authors!
Then they could be like elephant-dung and cross-in-urine artists in more ways than just the similarities in their work!
The solution is to give each liberal author a “participation trophy” when their book is published.
That is their idea of how a competitive environment should work, so they should be happy.
Maybe if they stopped naming their books things like “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”, they might sell better. But then again…their books are crap and everyone knows it. Why waste your money on liberal drivel when you can get inspired truth from the Conservatives and patriots out there? A fairness doctrine for the best seller lists? What will these morons come up with next? I know…a TAX on Conservative books! I hope Dodd isn’t reading this. Wouldn’t want him to get any ideas.
boo hoo…need some cheeze with that whine?? gee is that because the lefties can’t read or maybe they just don’t write quality books worth ready like Michelle’s or Mark Levin or Glenn Beck…Keep shining the light on them Michelle!!! We know whose got the real story and not hopey dopey change…
WalterC nailed it. Pulling all the “conservative” books out isn’t going to magically make the liberals rise on the charts. You have to sell books to do that.
This isn’t about unfairness. This is about dominance. The libs don’t care if they’re not on the list. They just don’t want any advertisement of conservative books. They don’t want anyone even KNOWING THEY EXIST. They already have their near-monopoly on the minds of Americans, but near isn’t enough.
Erasure of all conservative ideas is what they’re after.
I am sick of it…..
OT:
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/thank-you-former-president-george-w-bush-and-former-first-lady-laura-bush/
Sorry if repost, but this is a must-read. Former BDS-suffering gay supporters of Hilary Clinton wake up and realize what a class act our former President and First Lady are (and were.)
Liberals are right about one thing. Michelle, Glenn, Mark, Ann, etc., are in a league of their own. And liberals just can’t compete with them.
It’s not faaaaaaaaaaaaair! Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
I love how the libs claim that Conservatives top the charts because Conservative groups and Christian groups buy the books in bulk and sell then at below market rates so as to pump up sales.
If that’s true, how do you explain talk radio? Conservative talk radio is very profitable — because tons of people listen.
Surely Conservative/Christian groups aren’t paying people to sit and listen to Conservative talk radio to boost the listener numbers.
Here’s a suggestion: The “This makes too much friggin’ sense” category.
Well let one of those ‘tards write something worth reading for a change and maybe someone will buy it.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Don’t give them any ideas.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
If they are, I definitely need to know where to apply.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Just another example of why libs hate the free market — they can’t compete.
Hey, lefty hack writers: You, too, can become a “Big Fish” in the world of book authoring — if you only make the pond small enough.
The began ignoring the Bible years ago since it’s always a best-seller.
Liberal books belong in the fiction catergory anyways.
To paraphrase the immortal words of Ann Coulter: “Whatever liberals accuse you of is what they’re up to.”
Perfect.
Tolerance.
Why don’t they just give the NYT more money so that they can get a better grade? They’re doing it in schools now. Sheesh!
Time for adults to run the country while everyone else goes looking for their lost sense of humor.
liberal authors have their niche and they sell verry well, it’s just when they go out of the niche and try to sell a real book, they forget the target audience’s reading ability. just put an inconvenient truth or nan’s tome into COMIC BOOK format and it will sell like hotcakes.
touche!
That’s funny. Lefties claim to represent the “people”, yet their books bomb, their radio stations bomb, their TV channels bomb, their newspapers and magazines bomb. And how do they respond when they bomb? They lurch even further left.
But they never seem to look at themselves and wonder if they’re not out of touch, out of step, and out of the mainstream. Liberalism seems to be something of a psychosis. Their attempts to make the US their Castle In The Clouds is going to cost us all dear.
Can’t have a list of best sellers if the books aren’t selling. Liberal elites have ideas that only work in their heads.
Tell them to just sort the list in reverse order to see their books at the top.
So now the Left is advocating segregation.
Even the media playing up the unread liberal books only read the liner notes.
The NYT Book List should take a play from the playbook at Google where the search and ranking algorithm has been tweeked to weight NYT articles more highly:
They apply a weighting factor of less than 1 for the sales volume of conservative books and maybe a 4 or 5 for leftist books to adjust the rankings for “societal value”.
I’m surprised they didn’t suggest trashing the list entirely and just randomizing the titles. So as not to make the 14th place finisher feel bad.
Boo Hoo……
When are liberals going to realize that the majority of the population believe liberals are fools.
The other founder is Russian. Really.
AAaaHahahahahaha! I posted this everywhere I could think of! Thanks Michelle! This totally made my day!
How pathetically funny of them! =)
They actually have come up with a name ‘graphic literature’. It’s selling really well in ‘Sophisticated Urban’ areas, you know, the regions where government schools prevail and it’s gauche to expose an educated aura, unless of course you are in academia. There are actual university courses in ‘graphic literature’. I can’t wait for ‘The Sound and the Fury’, ‘As I lay Dying’ ‘Absalom Absalom!’ and OMG ‘Atlas Shrugged’ that one would have to be at least as big as Pelotzi’s HR 3962. Maybe then someone on the left could actually interpret it though.
Who here would read a lib book? I can hardly wait till this bho or mo comes out with a book and see how it does. Sores will have to spend big time to get it on the top list.
L
We need to name the physical condition liberals suffer from when they attempt to read a Beck or Levin book:
Tired Lips Syndrome.
It would be hard to get on the lib best seller list, you actually have to sell them first.
The problem they are up against is that people who read, are mainly conservatives. The liberals corner the tv show market. They should be happy with that. Their problem is that when they become literate, they turn conservative.
hey piglosi says health care will be your Christmas gift…isn’t that statement a bit un-PC?? Talking Christmas…this woman needs to be put in a rubber room at GITMO where she can’t do any harm to herself or the nation….she is just plain looney tunes…
ooops forgot the link….
http://www.breitbart.tv/pelosi-health-care-will-be-nations-christmas-present/
Now, now. We should be sympathetic. Given the level of quality of lib writers, they need the equivalent of “affirmative action” for their books.
It is because they are “special”. Now you know why they don’t let our kids keep score in sports anymore.
What is clearly unfair is that some authors sell more books than others. All publishers should be required to the print the same number of copies for all books. That way the public will not be overexposed to the authors it likes and all ideas will be given a fair hearing. Besides, who do readers think they are to determine what is popular? This is best left in the hands of experts.
the picture tells the whole story about these whiny a$$ libs MM, ty.
Maybe there should be two leagues for kids to play in. One for the libs where they play the game of sorts and don’t keep score… the other league for conservative achievers where they play hard, fair and keep score, kinda like the way life is.
Only if Liberals would have a separate list for their agenda-driven films.
This is just libbies being libbies. They can’t stand toe-to-toe with conservative authors, so they’ll create their own league. It will be like Major League Baseball versus Class A.
This says it ALL!
There was a movie called Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the Water.
That is the exact way all liberals think. They try to justify it by calling it thinking outside the box. In reality it’s just seeing the world through a funhouse mirror and then trying to get everyone to look like the mirror images so nothing looks out of place.
That’s what belief in socialism does. You try to keep fixing something that isn’t broken.
Keeping the liberal ranks full means keeping them ignorant. Most liberals I know are oblivious to what is going on around them, they just know how they “feel”, how things “should be” and courtesy of the state run media that “conservatives are evil and bad”. The liberal masters don’t want to risk losing any of their mindless followers by way of any of them actually deciding one day, I want to read a book and accidentally picking one from any of the authors listed here on the NY Times best sellers list. Liberals will lose a mindless voter when that person actually takes the time to learn what conservatism actually is.
I met a girl in Arizona at a party recently, I told her that I was pretty conservative in politics. She said, so your very nazi like. I just asked her, darling, who is the speaker of the house? She said, isn’t it that guy? I told her, you are very ignorant and do not even want to come close to trying to match wits with me. She retired to the other side of the house and looked at me all night like, please don’t call me out and let my friends know how much I do not know (of course most of the people there I’m sure are as clueless as this little princess is). I shudder when I think these apathetic people vote.
Oh, point being, liberal masters can guide their mindless followers to the Liberal best selling list if they make different catagories.
Didn’t they do this several years ago? I don’t remember the details… I think some uncomfortably true book was threatening The List until it was reclassified as a Children’s book, and thus not qualified for significant recognition. Anyone remember some such reclassification trick?
That’s odd. I guess it’s the liberals who must be buying up all those conservative books. Even they can’t stand boring liberal authors and their lying double speak.
That’s funny. We all know that Repub does not necessarily equal conservative. And I thought that same AP continually instructs us that “independents” are not usually interested in conservatism…so why are they lumping them in w/conservatives?
I agree w/your analysis!
It’s more likely liberals just tend to buy more fiction: detective stories, science fiction, fantasy, romance novels, etc.
They have an aversion to reality.
I always knew their mantra of integration and inclusiveness was a rouse.
Fine. Make 2 separate lists and let the lesser drop off the market.
It is called “the public schools”
Daddy’s Room Mate
Heather Has Two Mommies
being two prime examples. If you homophobes won’t teach your children the joys of a little recreational sodomy they will.
The Party of the BIG tent, once again wants to segregate folks. Whatever happened to “we should live in harmony”, “I am my brothers keeper”, and of course that good old “diversity)? (meaning everyone who thinks like us.)
I was comparing recent books read with a liberal acquaintance of mine a while back. My list was most history, political analysis, and biographies. Her list was vampire stories and, incredibly, Harry Potter (this was a teacher no less). I tried to point out that Harry Potter was a childrens book written at the sixth grade level but she would have none of it. My lack of interest in Harry Potter and vampires made me a closed minded, unimaginative conservative!
Fairy tale people…and they govern that way too!
Separating the non-fiction into:
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Liberal: Nancy Pelosi’s “Know Your Power” with 5,000 sold = Number 1 in best sellers.
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Conservative: Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” with 2 million sold = Number 1 in best sellers.
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Yeah that works. /sarc
I don’t really give a hoot what the libs do to push their books, they will not sell. Brain dead “authors” like Nancy Pelosi keep trying to sell crap like “Know Your Power” while people are storming the book stores and web sites to buy conservative best-sellers. The only way liberals can fight back is to come up with a new way to define “best-seller” (a la “man made catastrophe”… does this sound familiar?) and then use the old liberal point and whine tactic much to the amusement of intelligent readers.
Al Gore’s Current Media cuts 80 jobs
Even Liberals will not support Liberals-I guess that is an Inconvenient Truth
If Current Media- aka ManBearPigTalksTooMuchInc.-would show re-runs of Gilligan’s Island and The Red Ryder they just might get some viewers.
Even if you are not a Huffpo fan, click on the link above to read the comments that liberals are making on the topic…..it really just bothers them to no end that conservative authors sell more books. Of course, nearly all of them blame it on “bulk sales”. LOL!
Someone did comment at Huffpo that havng a seperate lists for liberals and conservatives would only serve to highlight liberals dismal sales numbers even more and make them look even more ridiculous.
Lessons they will take with them into adulthood, something liberals never really achieve.
I know my daughter will be able to kick the butt of any liberal weenie, male or female. Speaking from a work ethic point of view of course…
papa louie,
The numbers changed the other way once the category of “pop-up” was taken from the survey.
I can see it now. First the leftists want separate “Best Seller Lists.” So, then they could “fairly” report that Pelosi’s book, which has sold maybe 5,000 copies is that the top of the “best seller list” just like Levin’s book which has sold maybe 1,000,000 copies.
Then, they could ask for separate schools, and separate housing areas, and separate restaurants, and separate lunch counters, and separate doctors and hospitals and buses and then separate water fountains. And then they will have achieved their goal of “separate and equal…”
What will they complain about then?
The fact that conservatives perform better at everything and thus enjoy better incomes and living. Then they’ll have to “equalize” that.
On November 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
On November 11th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, pecze said:
Sounds like projection to me. I bet this is what really does happen with certain liberal books (for example, the book claiming to have been written by Nancy Pelosi).
On November 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, AlohaGuy said:
Truth.
Every #1 best-seller on the NYT list is, in reality, the #2 best-seller.
The true #1 best-seller, consistently, is the Holy Bible.
But the liberals don’t want people to know the truth.
As a matter of fact, when Shillary wrote It Takes a Village Idiot, Waldenbooks employees were claiming that they were getting in boxes of her book with their price tags already installed, implying that someone was buying them in bulk at the retail level, then returning them to the publisher or distributor to send back out.
No, I cannot currently substantiate this. But it is in character.
How will they hide the fact that in the libraries there are waiting lists for new conservative books of 2 to 4 weeks while the liberal bombs can almost always be found on the shelves with a thick layer of dust on them? Maybe people can be required to check out one of these insomnia cures to get on the waiting list for the cool stuff.
SHoward they are already working on that.