 merrie says: In September of that year, the Boston Globe proclaimed liberals "triumphant" against "conservatives' decade long hold on popular culture." Yes, it seemed such wonderful liberal values were finally en vogue. Barnes and Noble, reacting to the outpouring of Bush-bashing literature in August of 2003 announced that it would set up ‘political science/cultural affairs' tables at its stores to feature the newest partisan works. But conservatives have reclaimed their hold on the Times's bestseller page. The closest any of the top 15 hard-cover non-fiction books gets to a defense of liberalism or the Obama Administration is In Fed We Trust by David Wessel [...] "The books from the left strike me as an obvious reaction to Bush," conservative commentator Tucker Carlson told the Associated Press in 2003. "And for people who buy them, it's a way of voting against him in an off-election year." With Bush gone, liberals no longer have a blatant target at whom to direct a coordinated literary and rhetorical assault. The rise of conservative works on the bestsellers list could be explained away as a similar trend (that is, distaste for Obama sells books, and his poll numbers have reached a new low) Malkin reported recently that liberal authors have launched a campaign explicitly designed to bump her, Beck, and O’Reilly off of the Times’s roll of top-sellers. “There’s been a major shift in the political landscape. There’s a hunger for a counter-narrative to the Hope and Change propaganda disseminated by the mainstream media. The New York Times is still deluding itself into believing that conservatives can’t/don’t read books. “The Times will only cover conservative books... |
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