bbernardini
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Thu Jul-29-04 12:38 PM
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| Hooray for my local Barnes and Noble! |
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They had a table for "Current Events and Media" books, and about 2 or 3 out of 30-40 were pro-Bush. They had Robert Reich, that guy I can't remember the name of (but he wrote the one about "Beat Around The Bush"), the books with Tom Tomorrow cartoons on the front, some MoveOn stuff and lots of other lovely items.
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| Richardo
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Thu Jul-29-04 12:45 PM
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| 1. Jim Hightower is the guy you can't remember... |
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That's a great display and we caught all kinds of hell from the locals because it was a "Bush bashing" table.
My response: the RW is always going on about free markets, particularly when they try to explain why there are few left wing talk shows ("If the market wanted them, they would exist.") This applies to publishing as well - if the market wanted pro-Bush books, there would be more of them, no? :evilgrin:
Other responses (official B&N): That table is primarily new releases, B&N does not practice censorship of political views, etc etc.
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| cavebat2000
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Thu Jul-29-04 12:59 PM
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Edited on Thu Jul-29-04 01:00 PM by cavebat2000
We made sure we had equal numbers of Liberal and Conservative books on the special political display table. :)
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| bbernardini
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Thu Jul-29-04 01:02 PM
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All the conservative books were UNDER the liberal books, right? :)
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