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.
Of all the liberals who read so many books, may we now have a tally of all those who were able to successfully color inside the lines?
Or any movie by Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, or Albore.
I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for Debra ever since I first read her columns in the Daily News in L.A.; she was wont to quote her dad from time to time as having cautioned her as a child and adult that “[In] A hundred years, all new people,”
As a writer, she does her best to show us that that doesn’t mean a fresh, new start.
I read for information which usually comes from
white papers and periodical literature. How does
that factor into “reading”? When I read a novel
it is usually an historial novel - so I can get
my information fix.
I'll be working for a friend of mine in Wisconsin in October. The light is at the end of the tunnel.
I still have to give my notice. Given that the boss snapped when I finally took vacation after 8 years on the job... I don't think he is going to like this.
The exception proves the lie.
Why were those who read no books left out of the statistics? I'm guessing it was about 90% liberals who hadn't even read one book, so that was information was completely left out of the Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
LOL... What bias?
I've told my wife that every time we see a car, usually a very small car, with multiple bumper stickers, the odds are that virtually all of them are anti-conservative-Republican-Bush messages along with all the other lib-enviroNazi gobbledygook. By anecdotal evidence it appears to me that libs are nothing if not perfect representatives of the bumper-sticker mentality. In short they're not very deep thinkers.
3. Conservatives spend more time at work have real jobs.
Sounds as if you are making the correct decision to leave.
Yeah, but that's hardly fair. At least five of those were already colored in.
Yes ... and no. In one commercial, the caveman’s shrink gives him a doll and asks him to role-play a conversaiton. So he says what he is going to say, and then tells the shink, “He doesn’t say anything because he is just a doll.” Very literal minded.
Yipes. And I bet he thinks he’s smarter than you.
LOL
None of them. Staying inside the lines is for Nazis.
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