Egads. The New York Times has figured me out

[WilliamPitt]

They have a story on left-right reading habits, and did this graphic to explain where on the left-right spectrum some books fall. It looks like one of those "What political party are you" tests...and there are my books, 'Sedition' and 'War on Iraq,' pretty much right where I fall on those tests.

Weird stuff to wake up to.

Here's the story, btw:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/13BOOK.html

[eyesroll]

1. Wow...Krebs figured out that people who buy one WIlliam Pitt book

buy other William Pitt books. I'm shocked.

;)

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. You are just like Savage, O'Reilly, and Coulter!

Except for the whole "right-wing fucker" part.

[Robb]

8. Yeah, Will's our

"left-wing fucker". :D

:thumbsup: Nice!

[VelmaD]

3. Congrats on the mention in the NY Times.

Nice to see your books in there with a lot of my other favorites. :) GO YOU!

Interesting methodology the guy used. I'm definitely gonna have to go back and re-read the article when I'm more awake to see if I have anything pertinent to say about it.

G'mornin'...where's the donuts? :)

[GOPisEvil]

4. Wow. Congratulations!

:thumbsup:

[Rick Myers]

5. Congrats, Will!!!

You're in good company! Keep up the good work!!!

:toast:

[bobthedrummer]

6. Good for you!

I'm currently reading Kinzer's "All The Shah's Men" though.

[havocmom]

7. Not gonna be happy til I see your picture

on the cover of the Rolling Stone
Then I'll buy five copies for your mother!

[proud patriot]

9. look they have Ivins just to the right of you

Very cool William :thumbsup:

[eileen_d]

10. Reminds me of yesterday at my local indie bookstore

It's downtown, which is arguably the hippest area here in squaresville, but is also home turf for numerous conservative Republican business-morans. I was cruising through "Current Events" (looking for "The Book on Bush" which I ordered) and noted how fair and balanced for real their selection was. For each Molly Ivins, a Savage Weiner; Al Franken and Sean "Asswipe" Hannity in equal measure.

I told the owner "You're doing a good job of being non-biased if I only want to throw half the books out the window." ;)

[underpants]

11. Wow I own 6 "blue" books

Sigh I guess my wife is right I am a liberal.


Lying Liars
Big Lies (great book)
Dude....
Stupid White Men
War in Iraq (and I did too buy it so stop saying that)
The Price of Loyalty

[supernova]

12. Cool graph, Will

You're in good company. :thumbsup:

But I wonder about including Bush at War in the middle grey area. I thought that book was one big * kissup. :shrug:

[Khephra]

13. It also has a lot of damning info in it too

IIRC, that's the book where it was revealed that Rummy was yelling "Iraq!" right after the planes hit.

[CanuckAmok]

14. Hey, wait...that's the chemical structure of icing sugar!

What are you trying to pull, Will?!

[SoCalDem]

15. Here's the difference..

I would bet money that if one bought all the books on the "left", they would be chock full of footnotes, and facts, easily traceable to mainstream sources..

There would be some hyperbole, because we all like it..right or left...

but the books on the right would probably be a lot of "reminiscences and meanderings" of the minds of the writers..probably very few actual verifiable facts..

The left is often accused of being "touchy-feely", and devoid of facts, but loaded with theory.. Regardinig literature, the OPPOSITE is actually true.. O'Reilly & Coulter are prime examples. Their tomes are ALL ABOUT their own litle worlds and the perceptions they hold..

I dare anyone to find an "irreproachable fact" in any of her books :)

[pagerbear]

16. Just looked up Will's books on Amazon.com

...and found the following hateful reader review:

Democracy is dead according to Will Pitt and other far left 'thinkers', but save yourself the money and just go spend time at democraticunderground.com or truthout.com and get the same hateful negativity for free.

What a load of crap!

[CanuckAmok]

17. Hey, any publicity is good publicity!

Reader clicks on Will Pitt review, sees link to DU...

I bet they're here now. Welcome to DU, truth-seeker!

[Kat45]

18. You're in good company, Will. Cool!

:toast:

[Paragon]

19. Interesting blueprint...but will it fly?

:silly: