Why do Right-Wingers Buy So Many Books?

[BurtWorm]

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Can't stage a good burning without a lot of books, right?

[NewGuy]

2. To hold up the sofa where the leg broke off

[Richardo]

3. They don't. Their billionaire benefactors do - in bulk.

[Capn Sunshine]

6. Fifteen people are responsible for 92.7% of the sales

I just made that up. But truly, they give all those screeds away for nada for joining this or that....

[mmm]

18. that's gotta be the answer

[janx]

4. Those aren't books.

They're right-wing, political product.

[theivoryqueen]

11. Right, those are graphic novels......

er, comic books

[nostamj]

5. if you're talking RW individuals

they don't buy books or, obviously, read much of anything beyond the ticker on Faux

if you're talking RW institutions who buy them in bulk to give away and faslely inflate sale #s, well, they do

[Think Globally]

7. To support corporate publishers instead of feeding hungry children!

[theivoryqueen]

8. Dude - they can read??!

[BurtWorm]

12. See? Now you get the point of the question!

:wtf:

[maddezmom]

9. something has to go on the coffee table n/t

[bif]

10. To put them on their bookshelves and impress their friends.

Lord knows, most of them don't read anything more difficult than People magazine.

[zinsky]

17. And that's just to look at the pictures

People magazine is like an adult comic book - you can look at the pictures and get the same amount of intellectual stimulation as you do by reading the articles.

[mmonk]

13. they like to be read to

[adriennel]

14. they don't!

just because a majority of the recent "conservative" books have been bought in bulk doesn't mean the right-wingers read or buy more books.

then again, most of the book buyers I know are pretty darn liberal. Those Americans who believe in intellectual freedom will make sure books from all sides are made available (well, that's more of a library mantra).

it's too damn funny to see a huge Bill O'Reilley display in the front of my local Borders store. since we're in Ann Arbor, customers immediately passed this promotional nonsense and the display was very nearly untouched. tee hee!

[zinsky]

15. As Paperweights?

Because I am quite sure they don't read them. I went over to a friends house and he had two copies of Limbaugh's "I Told You So" on his shelf. I asked him why he had two. He replied, "To show my support." I asked, "Support for what?" He looked at me with his jaw hanging open.

Really, he is a nice enough guy and good at fixing cars, but hasn't read anything more than the instructions on a Super Mario video game wrapper in years. Kind of like Dubya!

[incapsulated]

16. I've thought about this before...

and still come up blank.

First, where and how do they get these numbers that make up this claim?

Second, we are obviously not talking about the vast amount of dittodolts, who would have trouble with a street sign.

So we are talking about fairly well educated right-wing types. Who don't strike me as that intelligent either, unless they belong to the handfull of acedemics and think-tankers, who are too few to make any difference.

And what are they reading, anyway? Aside from the conservative pop stuff?

I just don't know.

:shrug:

[LibertyorDeath]

19. For the pop ups and pictures !

[otohara]

20. LOL - All of the Above

cute BW

[Renew Deal]

21. You are assuming they know how to read.

Been to FR lately?

[MUAD_DIB]

22. Books give off such a nice glow when you light them,

and besides Duraflame hasn't come out with a book-shaped Yule log yet.