C-SPAN “In-Depth”/Sunday open thread
Be sure to join me on C-SPAN2′s BookTV program, “In Depth” today at 12noon-3pm Eastern. You can watch on TV or live online here. Have questions for me about any of my books? E-mail questions to booktv@c-span.org.
Related fun fact from the NYTimes’ “Inside the List” column today:
The hardcover nonfiction list was dominated by sports, celebrities, conservatives and Malcolm Gladwell, who scored with “Outliers” (a holdover from 2008) and “What the Dog Saw.” Mark R. Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny,” an anti-Obama cri de coeur, held on longest at No. 1 (11 weeks), with ideological backup from Michelle Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption” (six weeks in the top spot); Dick Morris’s “Catastrophe” (two weeks); Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” (one week); and Palin’s “Going Rogue” (six weeks and counting). Elizabeth Edwards (“Resilience”) and Edward M. Kennedy (“True Compass”) led the countercharge, each lasting just one week at No. 1. Final roll call: conservatives, 26; liberals, 2; Malcolm Gladwell, 9.
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Congratulations!
Will watch later today.
Do the political know-it-alls who say conservatives should be more like liberals believe conservatives should sell less books? Or write less interesting ones?
The DVR is set (just in case).
Congratulations again on your best seller. I gave copies of your book to 3 relatives as Christmas gifts, they appreciated it. By the way, they each gave me copies of Gov. Palin’s and Beck’s book!
Looks like Patriotic Conservatives have won the Super Bowl of publishing!
Useful idiots and statists read but little. It’s sooo difficult to get information into a closed mind.
Great work Michelle, congratulations.
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Thank you c-span. Be sure you carefully screen the leftwing hate-mongers.
We conservatives seem to have seized control of the apparatus that determines who gets to be #1 on book lists. All part of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Ruminating on the possible conclusions for a little Sunday fun:
a) Liberals are knuckle-dragging neanderthals who don’t read books (love to take that one and throw it back at them!)
b) Liberals are knuckle-dragging neanderthals who can’t write books
c) Liberals have disappeared so far up their own a-holes that few can stand to read the nonsense they do write
d) Any other suggestions?
Great! I’ll be watching Michelle while DVRing the Lions game so I can save our 14th loss for all posterity.
Read? I wait for the movie.
Yemen, and what, where, and how the GWOT is being fought.
Yemen speaks to the larger issue of who is Al Qaeda and who isn’t.
Were the Yemeni detainees captured in Afghanistan, or Iraq?
If they were captured in Afghanistan why did we invade Iraq knowing that many Al Qaeda, who were fighting in Afghanistan, were coming from Yemen?
If they were captured in Iraq, why did we conitnue to fight in Iraq when it was obvious where Al Qaeda terrorists were coming from?
Fighting Al Qaeda where ever they exist is the way to go, and fighting them should be done like skinning a cat. There is more than one to do it.
e. Liberal ideals are offensive to Americans and are rejected out of hand.
OT- NYT ?
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well OK but we knuckledraggers have our pride-we are sensitive you know
C-span it is
heh
I agree! The following fact,
proves beyond a doubt, that it is conservatives that read, not libs. It may also account for the cratering subscriptions of the NYTimes, LOL!
This has already been explained to you many times.
And went over his head every time. Is it another definition of insanity to insist on having the same discussion over and over expecting a different outcome each time??
I just learned this (not exactly a news flash) but the US just closed its embassy in Yemen. That is often a prelude a near-final step to open the option of military attack. Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan insists that the Yemeni government has been and continues to be “very cooperative” in the fight against Al Qaeda but isn’t writing off US troops in Yemen.
Looks to me like we are about to start exterminating terrorists in their camps. We’ll see whether the Yemeni government is truly cooperating. If they aren’t, there are no innocents in Yemen. They are all terrorists or terrorist sympathizers and so, fair targets.
All libs do is insult you, they can’t actually debate you because they have no foundation for their absurd belief system. All religious cults function the same way.
Oh yeah, that’s all the book was about, Obama. Right.
If you listen closely, you can hear the mashing, smashing, and gnashing of the sour grapes.
Well that is because the Libs have a conundrum. IF they subscribe to the NYTimes then they are participating in the very capitalistic system by helping to turn a profit for a corporation (and we all know how libs feel about the evil corporation), on the otherhand; if they do not subscribe to the NYTimes then they loose their “beacon on the hill” for “educating America about her evils” (their words not mine)……
I don’t recall Yemen being part of any discussion as to why we should have, or should not have invaded Iraq. I do recall discussing that we should go after the terrorist and perpetraitors of 9/11, and more broadly Al Qaeda.
Knowing that Yemen has a large prescence of Al Qaeda, as evidenced by the number of their citizens detained in Gitmo, because they were found on the battlefield in Afghanistan, it would behoove one to not consider invading Yemen. Lest we forget where the USNS Cole was attacked.
Yep, let’s get the terrorists . . . but go to the source.
Before invading Iraq I would have liked to have known where the terrorists in Afghanistan came from. That would have influenced my decision on where to go next, after Afghanistan.
If they had read the book themselves (which I highly doubt) they would realize that it is about liberalism not just Obama, but we can look at it a different way.
Even if the writter was right and the book were about Obama, what then would it be saying about how Americans really feel about Obama?
Two objections to Jennifer Schuessler’s NYT-crafted perspective on all things literary in 2009:
1. Ted Kennedy’s “True Compass” should be classified as “novelty” and not as “non-fiction.”
2. Elizabeth Edwards’ “Resilience” should be classified as “self-help,” literally. The only reason I wouldn’t give it Ms. Schuessler’s “novelty” marker is the fact that Edwards is dying of cancer. I’m being sympathetic, nothing more.
“Before invading Iraq”
Some folks sure are stuck.
Bush didn’t really win in 2000 either.
What other places can we be stuck at?
There was more than one shooter in Dallas?
Paul is the walrus and he’s dead.
Elvis is alive and living in Montana somewhere.
Man did not walk on the moon.
9/11 was an inside job.
The Corvair was unsafe.
Ok Zyzzyg let’s try to explain this one more time….
The military plans their strategy on what they consider to be “actionalable intelligence”. At the time of the decision to go to war in Iraq the “actionable intelligence” pointed to Saddam being a threat with his stockpile of WMD’s and the fear was that he would give them to the terrorists to strike America in hopes that it would weaken the world’s resolve to continue the sanctions (and keeping an eye on) Iraq. This intelligence came from our CIA, the British MI-5, The French intelligence services, the German intelligence services, hell even the Russians believed that he had them.
So at the time the “actionable intelligence” pointed the decision makers towards Iraq being the greatest threat at that moment and that is why we went into Iraq after Afghanistan.
If we followed your line of thinking that would mean that the way we conducted WWII was errant. It was the Japanese attack at Pearl harbor that brought America into the war, not an attack by the Germans. So with your line of thinking we should have gone full force after the Japanese first and not the Germans.
History shows us that the greatest threat was the Nazi’s and not Imperal Japan; therefore, the decision makers went after Germany knowing that it was the greater threat.
We can keep going back you know. How about this one?
FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor but did nothing, other than move a few key ships out of the harbor, as he knew its what the US needed to get into the war AND for him to basically become king like.
“let’s try to explain this one more time….”
You aren’t hoping to change his mind are you? He’s stuck. Each and every time the dialog gets anywhere near this subject he makes his point of view clear. He isn’t going to change his mind now.
You just acknowledge he’s stuck and expect his point of view. Then move on. Nothing new to see.
Or perhaps that the true 9/11 conspiracy is that the government created the 9/11 truther movement to get people to believe that the government is more powerful than it is…(ok I saw that one on South Park, but it was a great episode).
So the REAL conspiracy is that some one made up the conspiracy?
The socialists at the NYT must be going nuts trying to figure out which one of these statements is true:
1. Conservatives actually can and do read — a lot! — and are not the back-woods yahoos and / or knuckle-dragging Neanderthals that we claim they are at every opportunity
OR
2. A lot of socialists are slipping off the reservation and buying books written by conservatives. How dare they?
My bet is they’ll eventually settle on # 2. It will be easier to believe their fellow comrades are doing research on the enemy than to ever accept that conservatives can actually walk upright on two legs.
Of course, we know that it really boils down to the facts that a majority of liberals haven’t read a book in years, and that the books written by liberals are crap.
Congratulations to you, MM, and to all the other conservative authors who are leading the fight for truth, justice, and the American way (cue Superman theme!).
That is what happened on the “truther episode”. I was laughing so hard at that one.
“The socialists at the NYT must be going nuts”
OR its just one more piece of evidence that the belief folks like the NYT push, that almost everyone is a liberal and conservatives are few and far between crazies, is FALSE.
The reason conservative books sell more is there are a lot more conservatives “out there” than liberals.
So to get to something is amiss about so many conservative books are selling and it needs some explanation to need the explanation one has to believe an untruth.
Those of us who realize conservatives out number liberals in this country by a country mile look at the numbers and say, “Well, sure. It makes perfect sense. Afterall we are the majority why wouldn’t more books be sold about conservative ideals?”
Its only an odd thing IF you believe what folks at the NYT’s believe.
Once again they are demonstrating why their circulation and revenue is declining. They are out of touch with the majority of Americans and America.
the “truther episode”.
Well that’s sorta like standing in a barber shop that has mirrors on both sides and seeing a bazillion reflections and blaming one reflection for the next.
Gotta love it though.
Slow at work. Watching this live on-line for now.
You silly, silly people.
Conservatives don’t really read the books they buy, they only buy these books so that they will be on the best seller list.
What conservatives actually do with these books is to use them for kindling at our KKK meetings to get the bonfire going.
Geesh, get a grip guys.
We conservative gun owners also use them for when we run out of beer cans to shoot off of each others’ heads at the gun range.
They also work well, provided you have enough of them, to level the trailer.
And the pretty cover make great wallpaper.
This is a great interview.
Yes, she is remarkable.
I am thrilled that on this rare Sunday off for me, I logged on to MM and saw that she is on CSPAN.
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I hope Michelle Malkin is alert at her BookTV appearance. Look out for Ann Coulter style cream pie throwing liberals! Always watch your back when loco “liberals” are in the area.
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Possibly she could borrow Laura Ingraham’s dog Lucy–after some “attack training”–to protect against anyone approaching with a pie in hand.
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John Bibb
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Ha! Ha!
Tom Daschle is a toe fungus that never goes away!
Classic MM
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I’d like to know how many of the 26 conservative books that made it were actually reviewed by the NYT and compare that to the number of liberal books reviewed that didn’t make it…
cnredd
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Michelle is blowing the doors off on C-SPAN2.
Watching Michelle on C-SPAN makes me wonder why our politicians can’t speak so clearly and without a teleprompter and without endlessly er-ing and ah-ing. I guess the lesson is that it is easier to express yourself when you are speaking factually and believe what you are saying. Weaving webs of deceit is so complicated.
Listening now to banned video, one of your finest hours, Michelle.
Try all you want to, I am asking about what went into the decision to act as we did and if we could have acted differently. Invade Iraq, don’t invade Iraq. I would have liked to go after the terrorists who perpertraited 9/11.
Do you agree, or disagree?
If your retort is possible future threats, then it would be consistent to address the future threats poised by threats in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Actual places where the terrorist are.
Yes, or no?
Actually, the military acts on the policy decisions of the President. Once the President has decided on a policy the military forms a plan to carry it out. It is not about the military, it is about the policy and the information that went into making that policy.
The policy was to go after the terrorist and those who support them.
Yes, or no?
Knowing that a greater number of terrorist were coming from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, that would have gone into how to achieve the policy objective.
Yep, Iraq had, or was thought to have had WMDs, primarily because we supplied Iraq with them. That being said, what was the relationship between Al Qaeda and Iraq? Were Iraqis caught on the battlefield in Afghanistan? Or, were they mostly Yemenis and Saudis? Why were the nationalities of the Gitmo detainees slowly released (or discovered) over time?
I understand fear, yet there should be some substantiation of that fear. I am not saying Iraq would not have provided terrorists with WMDs, just asking what was more probable. More terrorist coming from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, or Iraq, who was on lock down, doing something silly?
I doubt the world’s resolve would have been weakened to continue the sanctions against Iraq had they provided WMDs to terrorists. The more likely result of Iraq supplying terrorists with WMDs would be their annihilation.
You speculated that the world would loose it’s resolve, and I speculated that the world would punish Iraq, for giving WMDs to terrorists. Go figure.
Isn’t that what Pres Obama said about acting in Pakistan, and was derided for it? I agree we should act on actionable intelligence. What proof existed that Iraq would provide terrorist with WMDs? Fear?
What proof existed that the terrorists were coming from Yemen and Saudi Arabia? They were being found on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Nope. The Japanese, Italians and Germans were in an alliance. Recall, it was called the Axis Powers. There was no alliance between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
OK. What had Nazi Germany done up to that point, compared to what Iraq had done? Iraq was on lock down, Nazi Germany wasn’t. We were already involved with the Nazi Germany threat via lend lease.
I understand your desire to make analogies, but it only serves as a tangent. Nothing changes about what was considered, and what was not considered in pursuing the GWOT.
Yes, there was the possibility that Iraq would do something extreme, yet there is the reality that terrorists were coming from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Well, I am going to deal with the reality first, and the possibility later. Would you agree, or disagree?
Great Job Michelle!
Watching her it is not a mystery as to why she is such a success.
So far so good…..
Not too busy at work.
So how do I frame the cheerleading video in my mind? Homer Simpson and “Mmmm cheerleader!”…..
I didn’t realize that Michelle’s top inspiration was Thomas Sowell. Now there is a man whose story needs to be told. Doing what is right because it is the right thing to do leads to lasting change even if the path chosen is not the most expedient. Few embody that better than Mr. Sowell. Clarence Thomas is another excellent example but that story has been told.
Money quote:”There are more times that I say “no” than I say “yes”.” (about granting interviews to the MSM) Amen!
Just try getting an autograph from Michelle. I even wrote a haiku threatening to kill myself!
Saddam SAID he had weapons and defied anyone to inspect.
It is odd how leftists always recommend we go “somewhere else” rather than where we are.
They wanted us to go to Somalia until we got there. Then we were supposed to go to Sudan. And they were all in favor of going to Afghanistan until we did. And the same in Iraq. All the lefties voted for that war until we did. Then they wanted us to go back to Afghanistan or Sudan.
Now a lefty wants to know why we didn’t attack Saudi Arabia where most of the 19 terrorist from 9/11 came from or Yemen…
There mantra seems to be, “any where but what we are and any where until we get there.” It is like lefties are all ADD or something…
Try a limerick.
There once was a pundit, Michelle
A right wing conservative belle.
She’ll have nothing to fear
If she signs her name here
But if not there’s gonna be hell.
Can’t CSPAN afford decent phone call technology?
With liberals, the argument is always that we have to lose the war we are fighting as soon as possible because there is more important war to lose somewhere else.
Not bad!
“Lose the war we are fighting as soon as possible because there is more important war to lose somewhere else.”
The Left
That would be a great t-shirt.
Congratulations Michelle for being the first guest of the new decade and setting a new standard for excellence.
They are talking about us now….
CSPAN budget request
1. Better phone system.
2. Call screener.
True.
Though, is it true that he said he would provide them to terrorists? Did Al Qaeda say they were approaching Saddam to get WMDs? Our actions in Iraq were preemptive based on speculation. Yes, or no? Actual terrorists are in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, etc.
Yes, consideration should be given to what our enemies say, but we should act on what they actually do. If they show up in Pakistan, go after them. If they show up in Yemen, go after them. If they show up in Iraq, go after them. If they are coming from Saudi Arabia, go after them at the source.
Do you agree, or disagree?
Recall, it was our policy to go after the terrorist and their supporters. Or, do you disagree with the policy?
I am just so enjoying Michelle! It is amazing she can go so long without hundreds of speech writers helping her, not to mention the promter. Gotta love our Michelle!
L
I agree that Iraq needed to be invaded and anywhere else that we need to invade to kill terrorist, we need to invade it too.
A ZIONIST JEW! What!?
Moonbat indeed.
Michelle outed by caller! She is just a puppet for her husband who, it may now be told, is a Zionist Jew! Who knew?!?!
Oh brother, our Michelle’s husband is giving her the talking points on the rop type? She said her husband was probably laughing at the call.
L
Well, there we have it. Another conservative exposed for the Zionist that we all are.
How do liberals manage to get out of bed everyday without hurting themselves?
“get out of bed”
Because they have to get up in the morning and get out to the front lawn and collect the manna before it spoils.
That was a quick 3 hours!
Okay Michelle. Back to work.
That was great Michelle. I hope I can watch it again next Saturday.
Wow! I have to find out who lives in Michelle’s old house in Germantown, MD as it appears I have been STALKING a COMPLETE STRANGER since she moved to Colorado! :O
A very good appearance by our host but a few of the calls were odd. The moderator and call screener could use a bit of help. Sounds like Chappy and ZZYGGYGYGYGYZZYGYGY were burning up the phone lines to ask questions…
“and call screener”
What makes you think they have a call screener?
Jesus loves you WarEagle.
Silly emoticons! I almost never use them and when I wanted to it came out wrong!
There, that’s better now…
Dear Chappy,
Thanks. I heard that message this morning during church. Were you there? He loves you and Zero too!
Only saw the last hour , but look forward to someday shaking your hand and telling you who I am. In brief, I am an old white man who has no voice in today’s society because I have been told that there is no way I can appreciate how hard it is here in America for women and other “minorities”. You constantly reinforce my belief that we are all individuals and therefore all of us are minorities and all have equal rights and equal responsibilities. Thanks for being who you are.
Goodness no. I was too busy destroying America brick by brick and raping the future of your children. Between that and the collaboration with jihadists, there simply are just not enough hours in the day.
My message was to Michelle, not Chap.
I suppose it is all a matter of priorities. Give my best to OBL and the Yemeni faction of Al Qaeda…
And you appear marginally sober on the 3rd day of the year. That in itself is quite impressive!
Happy New Year!
I think everyone understood that.
Michelle:
First, outstanding interview.
Your referring to yourself as a “little, brown girl” is part self-depreciating humor and part appreciated of your success in spite of obstacles. What the left does not get is true conservatives judge the work of people by the merits, not the gender, color, race, or religion of the worker; most of the race-baiting by the left seems to be projection, as you point out.
Final roll call: conservatives, 26; liberals, 2; Malcolm Gladwell, 9.
Here’s hoping that’s also the vote count in November(and that Gladwell is also a conservative)!
“Goodness no. I was too busy destroying America brick by brick and raping the future of your children. Between that and the collaboration with jihadists, there simply are just not enough hours in the day.”
That’s just not funny chap. I know you think it was funny. Its isn’t. The tax burden we are putting on the backs of our greatgrandchildren’s children is hardly a laughing matter. The lives that could have been and for other then what might be considered an act of God should have been lost on Christmas Day is no laughing matter.
Humor is one thing. Humor that is in poor taste is another counselor.
And your post, bad show old chap, bad show.
Now that was funny. That’s two in one article chap, you must have had one very good night’s sleep!
I’d encourage you to go to google, type site:michellemalkin.com “affirmative action” Harvard Obama and look at some of the comments by your fellow conservative posters.
No, they are not. The very earnest perception that this is what liberal atheists are doing is, however.
Lately I’ve just been coming here to read these assorted towel flicks in the locker room of life.
It is informative and entertaining and makes me happy to be an American.
DougT,
Happy to oblige. I am sure Chappy spent all 6 of his high school years with a permanent wedgy. It must have been tough to campaign for prom queen in that condition but the experience obviously made him the “man” he is today!
God loves you Chap. Posting comments while gulping wine is not wise.
“The very earnest perception that this is what liberal atheists are doing is, however.”
Liberals are not burdening our great grandchildren’s children with tax burdens?
Oh now Chap…….
Or maybe Chap Obama and his administration did NOT attempt to minimize the Christmas panty bomber, lable him a lone wolf, and marginalize the organized terrorist activity he represented?
Not the “this” I was referring to. I was referring to my original comment. Sorry I wasn’t clear.
No wait, liberals ARE burdening generation after generation with tax burdens AND they DID attempt to dismiss and marginalize the Christmas Day panty bomber.
Sorry, my bad……
“liberal atheists”
Well maybe its only God fearing liberals that are busy undermining our future and out country. Sorry, again my bad. Liberal atheists, well they are closet conservatives I guess.