Posted on 09/18/2014 12:20:04 PM PDT by servo1969
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner has been dogging the compilers of the formerly prestigious New York Times best-seller list for trying to deny best-seller status to conservative authors. First it was Dinesh D’Souza’s book America.
Now it's David Limbaugh's latest book Jesus on Trial. He reports the Times crew has "banished conservative legal author David Limbaugh's latest, Jesus on Trial, from its upcoming best seller list despite having sales better than 17 other books on the list."
According to publishing sources, Limbaugh's probe into the accuracy of the Bible sold 9,660 in its first week out, according to Nielsen BookScan. That should have made it No. 4 on the NYT print hardcover sales list.
Instead, Henry Kissinger's World Order, praised by Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post, is No. 4 despite weekly sales of 6,607.
As Secrets wrote about a similar banishment early in the sales of conservative Dinesh D’Souza’s America, the Gray Lady is mysterious in how it calculates its list. A spokeswoman said, "We let the rankings speak for themselves and are confident they are accurate."
The September 28 list of the top 20 print hardcover best sellers includes one book that sold just 1,570 copies.
This summer, the Times first tried to deny D’Souza a place on the list, and then later it tried to deny the book had earned the number-one spot. The Times is looking like they can’t handle an inconvenient truth.
Not surprised.
Which will make it in the top sellers on Amazon.
Somebody cue Claude Rains.
Back in it's day, Francis Schaeffer's A Christian Manifesto would have made the NYT list also, based on sales numbers. Being put on the list isn't done to reflect sales, but rather to promote them.
What a closed little closed-minded society the NYT editorial staff must be. Like those who couldn’t comprehend how Ronald Reagan was elected by a landslide in 1980, because nobody they knew would have voted for him.
“Who they are (i.e. the Reagan people), I don’t know. But sometimes, when I’m in the theater, I can feel them.”
- Pauline Kael, NYT drama critic
I know what she means, as sometimes when I am in a theater I can smell Democrats, other times though it is just gas.
You must understand, that Ms. Kael was an extremely decent, compassionate, caring liberal for whom feeling was more important than thinking.
With her heightened sense of empathy, she sensed in the theater hostile racist sexist fascist homophobic vibes emanating from Republicans in the audience.
;^)
What kind of presumptious idiots run that paper? Or isn’t a “best-seller” based on sales?
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