A decade of dominance by right-wing authors ends on the NYT list...

[wyldwolf]

The spat was just a sideshow. The shouting match between the liberal satirist Al Franken and the conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly captured on "Book TV" this summer generated lots of headlines. But these days the toughest ideological warfare is playing out off camera, on the New York Times best-seller list.

For the first time in recent memory, The Times's list, the nation's most influential barometer of book sales, is pitting liberals and conservatives against each other in roughly equal numbers, ending what some publishing executives say is nearly a decade of dominance by right-wing authors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/weekinreview/05EAKI.html?ex=1066017600&en=8a15a3cf8973ab2e&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[girl gone mad]

1. The Dagger..

But Deborah Hofmann, the list's editor, said the dagger "is not a pejorative, but it is a communication to the reader that if you don't see a lot of people reading this book on the street, you're not the only one."

hehe..

[Snellius]

7. Ingraham and Coulter's books both have the dagger

Coutler once explained the dagger beside all her "bestsellers" by saying that the bulk sales were due to how many books she sells at her speaking engagements. Right. Like someone orders 5000 copies of her book to sell at the local Freeper meeting.

And welcome, girl gone mad

[diplomats]

2. Eleanor Clift mentioned that

in her most recent Newsweek column. Great news!

[KittyWampus]

3. Just Got Franken's Book At BJ's Yesterday

So there is SOME bulk buying when it comes to the good guys...

He is highly entertaining though... and factual.

[LittleApple81]

4. I am finishing his book today. It is a worthwhile read. Most of the

things the repugs are trying to hash and rehash are debunked there already with documentation. If democrats want to have a good source (and perhaps expand) he is the place to go.
And with humor, to top it all off. When you get to the Wellstone ceremony, you will get really upset...

[nostamj]

6. Franken's book

started it Friday afternoon and finished it about two hours ago.

GREAT GREAT read...

got Molly, Conason, Krugman and Rall on the top of the pile now (along with Blumenthal which I'm about 1/3 through now... also GREAT)

[qanda]

8. My sister was reading part of that to me yesterday

She began to cry because it's so touching. We were talking about how closed off we are in America and how it seems that other areas of the world realize that touch is just as important as hearing, feeling, seeing and taste. I cannot wait to read this book, sounds like Franken really brings it home.

[Gman]

5. Real people actually buy the liberal written books while

the puke books are sold in mass quantities to be given away to indoctrinate the puke masses.

[mistertrickster]

9. I read Franken and Ivins . . . NOT the same material--both are great.

Franken concentrates mainly on media apologists for BushCo.--although he does take on a few really egregious Bush lies . . . "the vast majority of my tax cuts go those at the bottom of the economic ladder".

Ivins book mainly looks at the impact that Bush's policies have had in Texas and how he's doing the same thing to the country now.

Franken is funnier and shows the media to be the whores we love to laugh at . . . Ivins provides more evidence about how Bush is totally screwing up our great country, but it too is entertaining.

Get both.

[jonoboy]

10. can only have so many

books propping up that broken sideboard leg..what else could you use that rubbish for.