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Glenn Beck unreleased book destroying sales of "50 Ways You Can Help Obama"
PDOP ^ | 09/07/2009 | J Brown

Posted on 09/07/2009 6:50:26 AM PDT by Jabrown

When Michael Huttner and Jason Salzman's book, 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America, hit the book stands September 1st, the admittedly left-wing authors had high hopes of dislodging conservative books from Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin and others from Best Seller lists they have dominated for months. The 50 ways guide was publicized with glowing reviews from Hollywood celebrities and even the late Senator Ted Kennedy. At the Huffington Post, they have even offered a trip to Hawaii contest as an promotion for pushing sales. But alas, one week after the hyped release of the book, it appears that there is not as much interest in helping President Obama change America as the liberal authors had hoped. In fact, to put it simply, the book is bombing.

But bombing may be an understatement. Although it will...

(Excerpt) Read more at politicallydrunk.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: fringeleft; glennbeck; obama
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To: Desdemona
That's awfully expensive for toilet paper.

Especially when it's already full of sh...crap.

21 posted on 09/07/2009 7:35:14 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: Jabrown

Maybe ACORN can hire a bunch of street people to walk into book stores and buy the liberal book... then they can give them away at thrift stores...


22 posted on 09/07/2009 7:36:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (- - - - - - "The Race Card - Only losers play it" - - - - - - - KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle)
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To: dawn53
Probably more like they don’t read...rely on the “boob tube” for their news and information.

Even then, Fox News smokes all the other cable news channels COMBINED.

People have a choice. Air America or conservative talk radio. And we all know how Err Amerika is doing.

Liberal news doesn't sell.
Liberal books don't sell.
Liberal talk radio doesn't sell.

On a level playing field, liberal mindsets don't sell.

23 posted on 09/07/2009 7:41:40 AM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Bryanw92
Liberals think holding the "correct - " beliefs make them intellecutal. It's creepy, but they've turned ideas into fashion statements - - they don't read or think - they dress themselves in liberal groupthink...

They don't know leisure suits and mini skirts went out of fashion 40 years ago...

24 posted on 09/07/2009 7:43:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (- - - - - - "The Race Card - Only losers play it" - - - - - - - KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle)
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To: Jabrown
Liberals think holding the “correct - “ beliefs make them intellectual. It's creepy, but they've turned ideas into fashion statements - - they don't read or think - they dress themselves in liberal group-think...

They don't know leisure suits and mini skirts went out of fashion more that 40 years ago...

25 posted on 09/07/2009 7:45:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (- - - - - - "The Race Card - Only losers play it" - - - - - - - KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle)
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To: dawn53
Probably more like they don’t read...rely on the “boob tube” for their news and information.

Sadly, many of the ones I know get all of their political information from what their favorite bands say on stage, in songs, or on their websites. That's it.
26 posted on 09/07/2009 7:49:26 AM PDT by TruthBeforeAll (Honesty is like a knife... Used without love, it can do a lot of harm.)
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
Amazon already has slashed the price to $7.77 (hoping for a jackpot that won’t come)?

I see the book has 256 pages and is 8.4" x 5.5"

Don't know for certain but I suspect a new book that size can not be marketed at a profit for $7.77.

27 posted on 09/07/2009 7:51:09 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Jabrown

People may like, and vote for, certain individual liberal/leftist policies that specifically benefit them - but few people like leftism as a whole, and Americans hate communism. This has been proven again and again. That’s why politics/lies and coercion are absolutely necessary parts of their control.


28 posted on 09/07/2009 7:52:18 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Jabrown

Sounds like his School Speech.

Pray for America and Our Troops


29 posted on 09/07/2009 7:53:29 AM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: GOPJ

>>Liberals think holding the “correct - “ beliefs make them intellecutal

You’ve got a point there. They don’t need to read, because they already know the truth—about everything.


30 posted on 09/07/2009 7:55:36 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Question O-thority!)
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To: lysie

I bet you the first person to get it is some wacko lib who is going to tear out each page to use as toilet paper.


31 posted on 09/07/2009 7:55:56 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: Jabrown

The publisher is PoliPoint Press. I went to their website. No real info about the company. I wonder who’s paying the bills...


32 posted on 09/07/2009 7:56:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
A wee bit more on PoliPoint here....

PoliPoint Enters Downloadable Audio Market

33 posted on 09/07/2009 7:59:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
From 2006...

Growing Pains at PoliPointPress

Snort.

So who's been bankrolling these guys...?

34 posted on 09/07/2009 8:01:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
From 2008 and PW....

PoliPoint Getting 'Real McCain' Message Out Via Bloggers

Question for PW: Absolutely no curiosity on your part about how these guys are paying their bills when their sales suck, huh?

35 posted on 09/07/2009 8:05:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: njslim

Silly you! The only color needed for that book is RED!


36 posted on 09/07/2009 8:10:08 AM PDT by milagro
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To: Jabrown

Again we see the theme that we should “help” Obama. Same theme as in the original lesson plan sent out by the Department of Education to accompany the Obama address to America’s school children.


37 posted on 09/07/2009 8:16:39 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Jabrown
When Michael Huttner and Jason Salzman’s book, 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America, hit the book stands September 1st, the admittedly left-wing authors had high hopes of dislodging conservative books from Glenn Beck,
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Look at the literacy rates in the U.S. While complete illiteracy in the U.S. is rare, those who study the issue divide Americans into quintiles. Those in the bottom quintile of literacy, simply can not function in the written world. Those in the second level from the bottom do not read well enough to understand the arguments being presented in a common newspaper.

So?....My guess is that conservatives are in the top 2 highest levels of literacy. This means that they are smart enough, and well enough educated, to be able to read books.

Democrats are more likely to be in the bottom 2 quintiles of literacy and would never be in a bookstore, or on-line, buy and book.

38 posted on 09/07/2009 8:22:12 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Bryanw92
You’ve got a point there. They don’t need to read, because they already know the truth—about everything.
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While there is an element among Marxists ( I refuse to call them Democrats) that are hyper-educated, the masses of the Obama followers are too stupid and too uneducated to ever consider buying a book.

The opposite is true for conservatives. That is why conservative books hit the top level of best selling books.

Please see post #38.

39 posted on 09/07/2009 8:27:50 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: dawn53

Maybe they CAN’T read and that’s why they’re so stupid about common sense and other political stuff. LOL.


40 posted on 09/07/2009 8:29:24 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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