Guy Fawkes
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Sat Jul-31-04 02:54 AM
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I've read a lot of books by conservative authors. I've read Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, you name it. Over the years, I've noticed one thing. •Conservatives write 3-4x the amount of books as liberals. My theory is that they can do this because they spend no time fact checking.
"...in a LexisNexis search of the entier New York Times archives, the phrases "atheist liberals" or "the atheist left" do not appear once." Ann Coulter wrote that on page 167 of "Slander."
That's not exactly true. Not only does she only search 2000 (read the endnotes!), but she uses a +the augment in her LexisNexis search for "Atheist Left." As the NYT has ran her articles,I am sure that a search for "Atheist Left" WOULD yield articles.
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physioex
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Sat Jul-31-04 02:57 AM
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1. There is large number of people buying these books.. |
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But they also do the bulk orders. Go to Newsmax.com and you can buy them for 0.99 a piece plus you get a membership. They were doing this awhile back, not sure if they are doing this now. That's another way they get all these sales....
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the Kelly Gang
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Sat Jul-31-04 03:01 AM
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2. it's a dirty job..but someone has to do it so we don't, I guess |
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the morans have to be bombarded with the rubbish untill their little minds retain the lies
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Sat Jul-31-04 05:39 AM
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3. Also a conservative author gets more yield from logical fallacies than |
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one-liner facts. For every fact/truth avoided, one has the choice of begging the question, attacking the opponent on a personal level, red herrings, appeal to force/threats, argument from ignorance, appeal to pity, directing an emotional appeal "to the people" (an oldie, but a goodie . . .), irrelevent conclusion. Take one or more in combination, and you can be the author of dozens of books, and/or be a host of or guest on a show on either cable news or radio network.
Truth is dry, boring, and has no "pizzaz". This is entertainment, folks, disguising the destruction of democracy. (Excuse the alliteration, please.)
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