Posted on 05/19/2004 7:50:14 PM PDT by Ditter
Tonight at Barnes & Nobels I got angry! I went to buy Dick Morris's new book Rewriting History. When I entered the store the table facing the front door was covered with all the new anti-Bush books, too many to mention. I looked all the way around the table expecting to find Morris on the back side. His book wasn't there.
I went to the nearest cash register & asked the lady where I might find Rewriting History (I am starting to smolder). She checked the computer and then informed me it was all the way across the store on the back wall.
I asked her why it was that the anti-Bush books slapped me in the face when I came in, but I had to ask for help to find Morris's book. She frowned and then said "I wish I knew, I just do what I am told". I told her I would like to ask the manager that question and she said "I wish you would, let me call him". She was grinning from ear to ear.
In a few minutes the manager showed up and after I asked him my question he blushed and stammered for a minute. Then he apologized several times and said he would make sure, from now on, that the front table would be "fair and balanced".
Then he added that the pro Bush books sold better anyway and they should be up front, like he didn't even know that they weren't.
After the election I hope the anti-Bush books are in the Dollar Store.
the Tattered Cover Book store in Denver is not too bad for balanced display.
I gave up on them when I found they don't even carry, even in the back of the store, THE WEEKLY STANDARD magazine.
I now use them only to see what a book looks like if it's
an art book, then I buy it on AMAZON. The whole publishing industry is leftist liberal; as much so as the partisan press propagandists!
Nice Going! A lady I know always heads straight for the smack you in the face with Hil/Franken table and soon the table's books are all either turned face down or covered over with Hannity/Coulter/Ingraham/Limbaugh books.
There are a lot of weird people in the bookstore. The overweight, balding pervert with a staring problem. The shifty, slimy, liberal, fresh from the bathhouse who deems it necessary to fondle the John Stossel books like it was his latest acquaintance. I can only imagine the germs spread by malicious liberals on the jackets of Let Freedom Ring, The Enemy Within and Treason. I swear, you gotta wear gloves in these places.
Great activism story. I'm going to do the same next time I'm in a book store! Good job!
I was doing the same thing to the Dixie Chicks CDs when I would be out at the PX on Ft. Bragg. I would either turn them around or hide them behind other CDs. That was more fun.
You describe those people so well. Just as I have observed at some big book stores.
Very well done. Well worth the effort. Looking forward to the sequel: My Trip To The Post Office
;-)
I just want to thank you for what you did. A lot of us bow to you!!!
I live in a red state, this store is in a red district.
. . .bottom line; these stores are all the same. It is simply left up to us to try and make a difference; by letting them know; and as well, discreetly. . .moving 'our' books, to a fair/balanced' position.
Pro'Bush;Conservative books are seldom where they belong. Go and grab a few and place them on the 'best seller table/display'. Place some on staff favorites shelf. . .Move 'Nation' to a down low and bring Am.Spectator; National Review up to eye level/out front. . .
Perhaps if we alllll did this. . .well; more eyes that don't see; might.
Is Brainwased out there. . .Bill Sammon's new book re President Bush - MIS-understimated or somesuch; do want to read this. . .
We have 'freeper protester/freeping. . .How about 'freeper' brigade who does all the above; for. . .Barnes and Noble and all the rest? Book freeping? Well, quiet activision, for sure.
I've had similar experiences buying books in San Francisco. Of course, it's San Francisco where the liberals are king. At Staceys Bookstore, I have to search for best-selling conservative authors, while poor-seller lib books are all over the front. When I demand a book, say one from Ann Coulter, then they say there was a slip-up in putting them on display and they found them in a box in a back storage area. Yeah, right.
I have seen the same thing at Borders. I was going to write a post here about it as well. Thanks for doing it.
Immediately walking in the door the display is only Bush bashing books or the like.
Years ago, when Rush's first book first came out, I stopped at a Crown Books to see if they had it. I was perusing the wall of best sellers, then asked the hippy dippy salesperson if they had it yet. He almost snarled that they didn't, and anyway it wouldn't be expected to ever be among the books displayed on the most important selling books. He expected it to start out in the mark downs, if even there. I was so happy to drop in often and note Rush's book hitting the top of the charts, the guy would skulk off every time he saw me.
My consistent minor protest in Costco and Barnes and Nobles is as follows-
when I walk in and see the anti-Bush books, I slowly turn the front book on the stack around, and just keep going. It is petty and minor, but it makes me feel better that I might have prevented one sale.
Good for you, although I am reading the Morris book right now, and I am a little bit disturbed by it. While Morris says he is anti Hillary, there is a undertone of praise for her on about every page. Not so sure I trust this man for sure after reading more than half of the book.
And as an aside, when I purchased a Starbucks coffee there a couple of days ago, I was served by the first transvestite (obviously so) I think I have ever spoken with-interesting, to me. Kinda weird, very funky.
It's not just Barnes and Noble. Hastings has all the New Age books and the liberal books prominently in the front, and all the anti bush books. In the "current events" section, they have one or two conservative books but most of them are liberal. (and this is in Oklahoma)
Now, I'm a book freak who used to travel 100 miles to a good book store when I lived in Minnesota. My budget is $100 a month for books/DVD/Music. But in Hastings, their religion, current events, and history sections are bunk, so I mainly buy music there. And even for DVD and music, I can more easily find it in Walmart when we go to shop for other things. It's not worth my time to go to that bookstore, so in effect because of their bias, they are losing my business...
Thank God for Amazon...where I can order any book I want to.
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