Book Chief: Conservatives Want Slogans
Aug 21, 8:56 PM (ET)
By ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why - and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.
"The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes,'" Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. "It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes' on every page."
Schroeder, who as a Colorado Democrat was once one of Congress' most liberal House members, was responding to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that found people who consider themselves liberals are more prodigious book readers than conservatives.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070822/D8R5OK9O1.html
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
What kind of books? Fiction or non-Fiction. I KNOW that damn few lib-ruls bought MAnn Coulter's books or Rush or Sean Hannity's books. I also think rightwingers read lots of books about investing and historical books. lib-ruls on the other hand I think read more fiction. But Schoeder oversimplifies.
Yeah, you're really going to get unbiased information from PAT SCHROEDER. The only thing Pat Schroeder really ever did with her life was trying to get copyrights to last literally forever and never letting anything fall into the public domain so that it can be shared freely.
I bet they read more tabloids too!!!
I'm curious as to why you would think that historical books are a right wing thing?
I read a lot of history books, and always have. Harry Truman said the best way to learn history is by reading biographies. Those have always been a favorite, but other types of history books as well. I personally have not come across so many right wingers who are well-versed in history, other than they are often self-proclaimed experts on the Reagan years.
I am projecting nothing just wondering why you obviously did not understand the opening article of this thread.
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Umm didn't bush and dixie say history was in the past and we had to look to the future ?
And true I do not like to hang with any righties.
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
It was interesting to note that the poll showed that there was no difference in the percentage of people who were either Rs or Ds in the amount who would admit to reading no books that year.
I can't imagine not reading, I read about 2 per week. Unless it is a big book, sometimes it takes a full week to read it.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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