Posted on 11/19/2009 10:43:41 AM PST by Rodney Dangerfield
Must be like a Soviet bookstore, all literature is Party Approved!
That's exactly what these Liberals are like -- a Totalitarian regime.
The gist of the Reason article you referenced (and comments that followed) is that Palin is unqualified because she is both stupid and hasn’t paid her dues as a foot-soldier in the political establishment.
Indeed she may not be a genius, but in the interviews I’ve listened to, she is glib enough...none of the aaahs, ummms, or long pauses between sentences that I’ve heard from the president.
As for not working her way up through the political establishment, I see this as a plus. People long in politics (Washington insiders) become just as limited in their thinking as the folks in SF who won’t read her book, except in a different way. That’s why the Republican Party is in the fix it is.
You understand that this is a Conservative site and that we don't put stock in left-wing political commentary?
It's isn't left-wing commentary. And if you see it as pro-Obama, then you've missed the point, which is that Palin is so shallow she makes Obama look deep.
C'mon.How'd we go from Reagan to Palin? There has to be a better conservative out there than Palin. There just has to be.
So I called and talked to some woman and asked her if books glamorizing Chairman Mao are for “thinking people” and she said that their clientele represents a broad, diverse range of people, blah, blah, blah.
I asked her why then they don’t carry Palin’s book and she said that’s not the type of clientele they do business with, etc...
I said you must be a reader of Chairman Mao as well and she said she was busy and hung up.
Typical leftist hypocrites.
SFGate ran yet another Palin hit piece today, worse than this one.
I’ll post it later today.
It shows just how deranged the MSM is and how unbalanced they really are.
To prove your lie, Nathan, tell me how many copies of The Nation are delivered in San Freakcisco every month. Can't get more "drivel" than that!
To prove your lie, Nathan, tell me how many copies of The Nation are delivered in San Freakcisco every month. Can't get more "drivel" than that!
“”Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”
What a dumb ass.
I’m sure he carries plenty of how to books for the Earth Firsters that give guidance on how to sabotage SUV’s and commit other acts of eco terrorism.
Well, 2 things.
1) You skipped the next paragraph in your quote:
“There’s not a single copy on the shelf. Embretson said no one has asked for it except for one guy, who was kidding.”
So, what you’re slamming is a small business that is being responsive to its customers.
2) Some posted a search with the keyword “Mao” (OMG, they have books about a major historical figure from the 20th century!). They could just as easily have done this search:
http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/search/apachesolr_search/christ
The Socialist left hate freedom of speech.
Years ago, I went to the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco to buy Michael Savage’s book. I couldn’t find a copy anywhere. Clinton had his book out and there were hundreds of copies being pushed in the store windows and on every table top and the end racks.
I couldn’t find one copy of Savage’s book anywhere. It was already a NY Times #1 bestseller. I asked the clerk for one and she finally found a short stack of them hidden in the shelves BENEATH one of the tables.
Her excuse was that sometimes books sell out from their displays.
I asked her if Clinton’s hundreds of prominent copies might so sell out. I read her the riot act while she rang me up — about how liberals censor any opposition and how they had purposefully hidden Savages book, on and on, in a VERY loud voice. All the customers were looking at me like I was insane. She kept talking calmly trying to quiet me down, but I wasn’t having any. I lectured her and the other staff all the way out the door.
I HATE liberals. I hate them. They are my sworn enemy, as they are the enemies of freedom.
I know Palin’s book will be hidden out of sight in most SF bookstores. I used to think liberals were misguided. No. Liberals are evil.
Are you in the SF Bay Area?? I fled the Gay Area exactly 2 years ago, this Thanksgiving. And giving thanks, I shall once again!! I lived in the bay area for 12 years and frankly, it nearly ruined me. I still find it hard to be happy after the insanity I was exposed to for over a decade there. I was only there for the work — working as an engineer on the new bay bridges was good work — but the experience nearly ruined me.
Now I just wish for the big one to come and make Vallejo prime beachfront property. OK, just kidding! I have way too many people I like who I left behind and would not want them to be hurt. I pray that the 8.0+ earthquake does not hit the bay area in my lifetime. I don’t want to see the destruction. When it comes, it will be devastating and all of the people there will cry, “I didn’t know that was going to happen!”.
There were many times I was stuck in traffic jams on the upper deck of the bridge commuting home, thinking, if the big one hit now should I stay in the car and try to drive off, run to get off the bridge, or run for one of the towers. Even if some section of the bridge fell, I’m sure the towers would be a safe place to be.
I still wonder what it is going to be like. The traffic. The fires. The panic. Ruin. Displacement. No running water. Rapidly diminishing sanitation.
The though of an 8.0 SF earthquake scares me terribly.
Ah, I see you are taking care of your parents.
Where are you stuck. I was by Stonestown and I must say it was nice to walk to the stores. I had some nice walks in nice neighborhoods. That said...
Traffic congestion was intolerable. The level of rude driving was insane. Pedestrians blocked the streets. Bike riders rode as if suicidal. People turned left from the right lane, stopped and backed up in the middle of streets.
I was constantly getting tickets. I even got one in front of my place for parking in a neighbors driveway.
We paid millions to beautify parks that droves of drug-addicted homeless took over and the children are afraid to walk there or play their.
Market street is a sordid dung-heap of filth. After visiting NYC in 2002 and seeing how clean it was, Market looked even more seedy.
I could never enjoy the beach or Golden Gate Park due to the massive crowds of weekenders. Puke.
The worst though, were the libtards. They are insane. Anti-war protesters didn’t know what they were protesting. If I see another pair of naked-butt chap wearing men kiss again, I will scream. They voted to BAN my handguns and that was really the last straw that caused me to leave, even though years of good work on the SF bay bridge still remained to be done. Not worth putting up with all that crap.
Ack! I better stop. I am having flashbacks!
Thank goodness for my stupid cowpie valley town of Yuba City, north of Sacramento. This godforsaken place has nothing to offer, but it lacks everything I hate about the bay area as well. A worthy trade. I’ll take this garbage little backwater any day. At least I am not filled with stress and hate on a daily basis.
No, the number of liberal scum in SF alone would never fit in Alcatraz, if you stacked them on end to the rafters. Then you have to make room for all of the Oakland scum as well. Lots of true scum over there, where Van Jones cut his teeth as a cop-hating supporter of cop-killers. Jerry Brown is a perfect fit.
No, we need a LOT more room than Alcatraz for all of the bay area liberal scum.
Well, you have your own particular vantage point, but you’ve come to essentially he same conclusions I have.
On the surface...it’s an incredible place, beautiful bay, very scenic. Where I live, Lafayette, near Walnut Creek, is a beautiful litle town, upper crust.
But well-entrenched liberalism wrecks everything here. There hasn’t been a road of any consequence built in the East Bay since I was here in the early 70’s, and as you imply, the traffic is just murder. I’m sure it is worse elsewhere, but it’s not one bit worse here than in LA. As I tell people, in LA you have five lanes and 500,000 people in front of you. Here you have 3 lanes and 300,000 people in front of you. There’s no real difference. And frankly, LA drivers are much more skilled and even courteous than those here. Down in LA, you are on the freeway to get somewhere, no BS about it. Up here, you are thinking about your next senstivity training session or whale hugging expedition, talking about it on your cel phone, and trying to overcome some small twinge of an acid flashback from 1973. Very inconsiderate up here. They’re lowering their carbon footprint, you see, by not giving you a turn signal when they careen into your lane.
Only one post, and that defending a leftist San Francisco bookstore with a placenta-drinking-type self-fellating liberal.
Sniff?
This is nothing new. During the Clinton years, Bay Area book store clerks put anti-Clinton books in the fiction section, hid them in the back room, sneered when you asked for something by Barbara Olsen or Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, and just generally made jerks of themselves. I consider it great sport to antagonize them by asking for books they consider unclean.
Spare me too!
Note for in-person visits: the Oakland store is at 5560 College Ave., near the Rockridge BART station.
Nathan got misquoted: the writer dropped the "double."
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