Posted on 01/16/2006 1:26:24 PM PST by Hal1950
He doesn't write "cogently" and he can't sell his books. But thanks for at least disagreeing with his crazy views about Jews.
He does write books, lots of them, each one despite the best efforts of the NYTs makes the top ten.
Not to mention being an adviser to three Republican presidents.
Pat writes books that wind up in the remainder bin, almost as soon as they're printed. And no, they don't land on the N.Y.Times top ten list; not in hard cover nor paperback, anymore. And I really need to disabuse you of yet another error. The N.Y. Times Book Review Section may ignore many books, vis-a-vis having them reviewed, but they can't ignore sales figures and place just anything they please, on their top 10 lists. I've been reading the N.Y, Times Book Review section since I was 10; I know whereof I speak. You don't!
David Gergen has "advised many presidents; GOPers and a damned Dem. Do you also idolize Gergen? Pat wasn't an "adviser", per se and only crazies would listen to Pat now. If the shoe fits; ducky............LOL
The MSM, with the NYTs in the lead, plugs a slew of anti W books. Pat and Coulter don't get that level of positive exposer. Yet they rise to the top.
The NYT 'lies' ALL the time, and book sales is no exception. You can't have it both ways. Better to rely on Amazon as an indicator. Even then, "It Takes a Village" is still pulp.
in hoc signo vinces wrote: "If we announced tomorrow that we were withdrawing our troops from every post around the world and letting the Chinese take over...with the comment that "The Chinese will ensure you have human rights, freedom, and such." I wonder what the worlds reaction would be."
That's a thought, I would love to see the "PANDELIRIUM" at the United Nations!
Israel is not the problem, despite what arabs claim. Radical Islam is a supremacist political system and no more a "religion" than Nazism was and IS (and yes there are Nazis who revere Adoplh Hitler, doesn't mean we should "respect" their religious views)."
If they can tag you as an infidel (anyone who doesn't follow True Islam) then you are in their gun sight, it's just that they prefer to kill, given the chance, certain kinds of infidels first like Americans in general, Christians and Jews everywhere. Eventually, again given the chance, they will get to the other "infidels" and countries like France who try to appease these radicals are delusional.
Pat is "an independent thinker"?
You have some real problems, there, ducky. Pat is about as "original" as the white supremacists are and he isn't "right" 85% of the time, either. Just because YOU agree with Pat 85% of the time, that doesn't make Pat and you correct!
What you said, ducky, is that the N.Y. Times keeps Pat's books off their best sellers' lists; which they do not! Now, you are changing the story, to reviews and publicity. No wonder you imagine that Pat writes cogently! LOL
Sheeeeeeeeeesh...the N.Y. Times Sunday Book Review section can't "lie" about which books are in the top ten! That would be easy to dispute, with sale figures.
And since many people, like me, don't buy books on line, but in book stores, Amazon's lists don't indicate an absolutely correct sale of books.
And no, they don't land on the N.Y.Times top ten list; not in hard cover nor paperback, anymore.
Why the qualifier?
Amazon's lists don't indicate an absolutely correct sale of books.
Another qualifier? But based on the sample size of Amazon, it can't be sneezed at. The N.Y.Times on the other hand relies on shady Publishers and soliciting Book Stores who benefit from the hype.
Either way you cut it, Pat sold a pile of books, with enough articles and transcripts for more.
I'll bet even you, prolific reader, has read his books. I suppose there are more successful non fiction writers. Could you name a few?
Gee...Hitler sold and still sells a LOT of books. Does that make Hitler's book factual and "special"?
The anti-Semitic diatribe, "THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION" was a world wide best seller and Henry Ford used to buy that spurious POS in vast quantities; putting one in each glove compartment.
Only mental midgets buy Pat's books, now, and agree with him 85% of the time. ;^)
You would be wrong,then, ducky...I have NEVER bought any of Pat Buchanan's books and have NEVER read one. I know what he writes, because a lot of his garbage gets posted to FR.
ROTFLOL...you think that book stores profit from "profit" from what the N.T. Times has on it's Book Review Section, but not from Amazon's lists? Hello...........? Anyone at home, in your head?
There you go again. Henry's Fords did not have a glove compartment, Maybe a door pocket. I happen to own a 1931 1 1/2 ton Ford truck and in my days went through 2 31 coupes, w rumble seats. The dash board was the gas tank- with no glove compartment. You probably always rode in the rumble seat
Giving away a propaganda book with an auto is not a sale. It's hate mail.
Hitler? I thought we were talking about contemporary US writers. What makes you think that your infallible NY Times had a handle on sales figures of Kampf and Protocols?
Sweetums, I'm far too young to have ever ridden in a car that had a rumble seat and nobody I knew collected cars as lowly as an old Ford. Just how OLD are you?
Seeing as how enamoured of Hitler, and Germany, dear old Pat is, I just thought that I'd throw that in, to keep him company. Threw in the old POTEOZ as well, since Pat does a pretty good mimicry of them, when he talks about the Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos.
I think Rushdie's new book may be what is needed to confront the Arab's (Islamist) real point of contention with the west. Which is Pat's concern.
It's on another thread right now.
Pat is more dangerous now than Michael Moore. Because he is respected and followed by too many conservatives. Pat is an apologist for our enemies in the Islamic world.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.