Posted on 08/30/2007 5:38:08 AM PDT by theothercheek
Writing about that recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the number of books Americans read in the previous year, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Sauders pounced on how AP reported the findings – specifically, that "liberals read more books than conservatives":
The poll found that among people polled who read at least one book in the last year, liberals read nine books and conservatives read eight.
When I called Michael Gross, associate vice president of Ipsos public affairs, to find out more about the Ipsos poll, he told me the one-book difference "is within the margin of error, it's not a statistically significant difference."
This statistically insignificant finding was enough to give former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder (D-CO), now the president of the American Association of Publishers, an excuse to crow about how much smarter liberals are, as compared to conservatives:
"The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple of slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes.' It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes,' on every page."
She also told AP that liberals "can't say anything in less than paragraphs. We really want the whole picture, want to peel the onion." …
Notes Saunders, "[a]ccording to Schroeder, as a conservative, I've got a bumper sticker for brains."
Brevity - not bloviating - is the soul of wit. The reason liberals can’t say anything in less than paragraphs is because they are smug, self-satisfied windbags.
That’s why The Stiletto thought it was more than a bit of a stretch for people to "worry that [the new ABC sitcom "Cavemen"] will reinforce racial stereotypes by encouraging viewers to identify the maligned Cro-Magnons with African-Americans," as Stanley Fish put it in a recent column, "A Fictional Minority" (TimesSelect subscription required).
Though the writers and producers all disavowed any equivalency between the proto-humans and blacks, Fish insisted on insisting, "[o]f course it’s a show about minorities and racism."
As a conservative, perhaps The Stiletto is being too literal but she believes the show is not about racial prejudice at all. It’s about prejudice against people who are – or are perceived to be – intellectually inferior by the elites. Clearly those Cro-Magnons are conservatives.
RUSH covered this last week. This poll. by the nature of the company doing the polling, is suspect. However, what they (dim operatives) refuse to ever report, is the fact that the difference (in this poll) between Republicans and dims reading books was within the margin of error for the poll.
LLS
Hasn’t the Caveman TV show already been canceled?
And BTW, the main problem with the Caveman show was that it wasn’t racilally stereotypical, it’s more of a homo stereotype.
Liberals are all about process rather than substance. Whether it be the ridiculous jargon of Feminists or Deconstuctionists or the need to write a paragraph when a line will do they never get to the point of the discussion.
Do you really think liberals reading...” Bears on wheels” counts?
Has it? I know that stupid Anchorwoman show was cancelled, but I hadn’t read that this one was. Only that it didn’t have great buzz.
LOL!
Is it just me, or do those bumper stickers seem remarkably well preserved?
I wonder if some have been printed after the last general?
Oooh! A little "sensitive" are we, George?
FYI: another good one to avoid is Progressive.
It's called Progressive for a reason.
Part of the gag in the GEICO ads is the perception that the cavemen are stupid vs the reality that they are quite smart. In real life, a caveman could not go through life on 'cruise control' like his modern day counterpart. He would have to think about a situation, rather than emote.
I’m pretty sure there is a new caveman TV series planned for the fall. I’ll be sure to avoid it.
Someone got up on the wrong side of the rock?? ;>)
This subset of Democrats may be very liberal, who see themselves as intellectuals, who probably do nothing but read.
Still, why don't we see the number of books read by Republicans versus Democrats, since they obviously have that data.
One of Soros' companies?
Funny you should mention that movie. I worked with a liberal hump who was outraged when he saw that movie. He was furious that he never knew all the "facts" before.
I told him he never heard about those facts, because they were bullshit inventions of Oliver Stone and other conspiracy theorists.
He told me that the real reason those facts were never aired was that the New York Times and other news outlets were too "conservative" to air the truth. Right then, I crossed him off my list of people with whom I might attempt an intelligent conversation.
I work with 2 of them. One is my boss, the other is my "co-worker" - who collects a check, works from home, and refuses assignments because she "isn't comfortable" in doing them. Academia is great, huh?
At any rate, the "co-worker" swears that the problem with the MSM is that they are just too right wing to tell the truth because, "big corporations own them man!"
My boss is a Southern Democrat who thinks Clinton was great, the war is bad, and everything is just like Vietnam - a war he did not go to yet talks about frequently. He thought Moore's awful little movie was 100% factual and can't understand how W. got reelected. He is a big fan of Edwards... so, you know he is stupid.
They make substantial contributions to Planned Parenthood, etc.
Hey, I own a beat up Volvo :(
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Designer also worked for a flaming liberal once.
Try to hold on to your sanity while working there.
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