God bless Ann Althouse

[meegbear]

Because honestly, what other prominent conservative blogger delivers unintentional hilarity as consistently as she does? (Talk about a crowded field of contenders.) She's a treasure for the funny bone.

Her latest bout of comic relief is here. The gist is that while visiting a random bookstore she spotted a display put out during inauguration week of a bunch of books and magazines featuring Barack Obama. But--and this was the newsworthy part, according to Althouse--there were not swarms of people crowded around the table. And she posted pics to prove it!

"Despite shrines to Obama, bookstore was nearly empty," read the side-splitting headline.

Ah, right-wing blog logic. Borders Books, which is in the amidst of an economic free-fall by the way, put out a lots of Obama-related products. But when Althouse stumbled into a store in January (a traditionally dead time in the publishing industry), on a Friday night at dinnertime, there weren't many shoppers around.

So Althouse, naturally, suggests the media interest in Obama is misplaced. That people don't really care, or maybe don't even like him. Actually, Althouse seems to suggest Obama is causing people to stay away from bookstores. That he' s responsible for the downturn in shoppers because before the Obama shrines, bookstores were packed with people. (I told you she's comedy gold.)

Her bookstore visit was all the proof Althouse needed to prove her point.

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http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200901250001?show=1

[rpannier]

1. Desperate times call for desperate people

And she seems like one of the more desperate out there

[Yo_Mama]

2. She Voted For Obama

Seriously, she did.

[gratuitous]

3. See what happens when you're nice to people?

By common agreement, we decided to let Ann have the Shrine to Obama all to herself on a Friday night (the holiest night of the week), and she disses us! That's the thanks you can expect from the Althouses (Althice?) of the world. Screw her.