On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 04:17:56 GMT, WaIIy wrote:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:35:43 GMT, Joe Parsons
wrote:

For what it's worth, I find more people who self-identify as "liberal" reading
conservative commentators and authors than I do "conservatives" reading liberal
texts. In general, those who tend to read the likes of Rush Limbaugh (and
recently, his tag-along kid brother, David), O'Reilly, Coulter and the like,
seem to restrict their reading and listening to those who will reinforce and
confirm the beliefs they already hold.

But a few posts before, Joe says :

"Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the
Left" by Al Franken (E.P. Dutton; (August 29, 2003) ISBN: 0525947647) is
#2 on the New York Times Bestseller list for nonfiction. It was number
1 last week, and has been on the list for 6 weeks.


So, the conservatives are reading these or the liberals are speed
readers?

I don't pretend to know specifically *who* is reading any of these books,
although I did report what my own observation has been.

But I don't know that a book needs to have both "liberals" and "conservatives"
buying it in order to reach the NYT Bestseller list or to achieve a high ranking
with Amazon. I mentioned those statistics only to provide a counterexample for
a statement: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 01:44:23 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:

They're both just a flash in the pan. People are interested in them right
now in the same way you gawk at a really bad car accident.

My point was, as it is now, that making an assertion that is so easily
undermined can destroy a point someone is trying to make.

Duh

"Duh?"

Joe Parsons