Posted on 11/02/2009 8:28:41 AM PST by markomalley
Americans are looking forward to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's memoir the most out of a slew of autobiographies from Republicans set to hit bookshelves soon.
Interest in Rice's book leads interest in those by her former bosses, former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as the memoir to be published this month by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), according to a poll.
Twenty-two percent of Americans said they're most likely to read Rice's book, according to a poll commissioned by the CBS news program "60 Minutes" and the magazine Vanity Fair.
Eleven percent said they are interested in reading Bush's book, followed by 9 percent for Palin, 7 percent for former first lady Laura Bush and 4 percent for Cheney.
Forty-six percent of those surveyed said they have interest in none of those books.
Among Republicans who were surveyed, Rice still leads the pack, but GOPers were more enthusiastic about the Bush and Palin memoirs, which each received interest from 17 percent of Republicans surveyed.
The poll, which was conducted by the CBS News Election and Survey Unit from Oct. 5 through 8, surveyed 829 respondents nationwide.
lol....when sales numbers are determined by polls I'll believe it. But I think the poll was purposely skewed somehow to minimize the tremendous press and advance sales that Sarah Palin's book is generating.
So, how many millions in advance copies has she sold? Seems to me Palin has most already sold.
A poll conducted by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair? Oh, sure.
Whenever I see the name of that magazine, I think of the passage from Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” after which it was named, and never more aptly than in recent years:
Then I saw in my dream, that, when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before
them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept
all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than
vanity, and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the Wise,
“All that cometh is vanity” (Eccles. 1; 2:11, 17; Isa. 40:17).
This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.
Almost five thousand years ago, there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons
are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims
made that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair
wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are
all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms,
lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants,
lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
And, moreover, at this fair there are at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves,
and rogues, and that of every kind.
Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swearers, and that of a bloodred
color.
I wasn’t aware Rice had a book coming out.
Jerry Rice? That might be worth reading.
It's the ol’ “put your money where your mouth is” policy that subscribe to in matters like this!
HA....YES!
I bought Palins book, I hadn’t heard about Rice’s book.
Looks like BDS live forever.
They are trying to put Sarah back in the bottle..too late!!!!!
The Hill and Politico are broadsides that pass for political thought in Decomcrat circles. Their idiccy is boundless. Palin will outsell Condi by at least 10-1.
“....according to a poll commissioned by the CBS news program “60 Minutes” and the magazine Vanity Fair.”
....I got a poll for both these Lib Dem fellow travelers:
0....CBS goes broke first
0....Vanity Fair goes broke first
0....Both go broke at same time
LOL! What about the sales numbers? The rest doesn't matter. Rice and Bush don't even garner close to the interest Palin does.
It is amazing how fearful the left is of Palin and the absurd lengths they will go to to try to discredit her.
Who ever heard of a poll to see who is interested in upcoming books by Republicans? This is hilarious.
But in true drive-by fashion, no-one in the press will ever revisit this a year from now to see how actual sale numbers compared with this faux poll.
This is pure bull. It is amazing what effortless propagandists and liars the Dems have become.
BTTT.
LOL
more libs trying to detract from Palin’s #1 best seller... MONTHS BEFORE RELEASE
she gives them fits
GO SARAH
It should have read, "46% said they had no interest in any books". That's more like it...
This is such bogus malarkey. The left is absolutely terrified of Sarah Palin. They’ve been talking down her book for months, and they don’t even know what’s in it.
They’ve now come out with a copy cat looking book to try to bleed off sales of her book. Kid yourselves not, every lefty that might have thought of buying her book to see what she had so say, will now have to decide, her book / the funny knock off? Palin will lose some sales. I doubt it will be significant. What this does show though, is the absolute panic that has gripped the left over her book.
Now we read that Rice is the real deal. Sarah’s book isn’t what people are looking forward to. Well, they’ll have to excuse me for noticing that Sarah’s pre-sales figures are on fire.
If Sarah pounds home solid Conservative ideals in an easily read format, it’s going to drive the left stark raving mad.
Oh scratch that. You can’t drive people to a location if they’re already there.
BTW, can’t wait to read Cheney’s book.
Presumably the entire poll was conducted inside the DC Beltway
Now CBS wouldn’t sway polls, right? Right?
Another plug for Affirmative Action.
They have drifted into something very bad we chased away in 1782.
In fact, truth be known, I probably won't ever even read Rice's.
I’ve already purchased Sarah’s book, I’ll pass on the rice.
I wouldn’t believe anything that came from Vanity Fair magazine.
What a joke! Palin's book is a runaway best seller before being released! I'd be willing to bet you that 99% of Americans don't even know that Condi is writing a book.
True enough, but how about Donna Rice?
CA....
Is this poll for real?
Probably 80% of the American nation do NOT know what position in government Joe Biden holds. And yet, “60 Minutes” and Vanity Fair would have us believe that Rice’s book has more interest than Palin’s?
Exercise: go to your local mall or supermarket. Ask people shopping if they’ve heard of a) Joe Biden b) Condi Rice or c) Sarah Palin.
My guess is that most people in the American nation would give you answer “c).”
I agree. I wouldn't trust a poll sponsored by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair no matter the subject matter but on this subject at this time its purpose seems obvious.
None. He's a former Vice-President.
Yeah what poll determined this? LOL. I didn’t even know she had a memoir coming out.
A lame attempt to diminish Palin’s book.
When the others lives have been plastered all over the media; there’s not much sense in buying a book.
Condi; however; is a different story.
How foolish his title of “more interested” will look when actual interest in terms of SALES will be such that Palin’s book will outsell both Bush and Rice's combined.
Your credibility has been pimped out HARD on the cheap Mike O'Brien.
The the pre-release sales numbers for Condi’s book are ???????????
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