Finally, do comparisons of the 2000 election campaign of the negative articles and reports on Al Gore compared to the relative cake walk George Bush got.
No kidding.
Gore was absolutely savaged during 2000. Bush had a drop in the bucket of the "negative" media coverage.
I'm convinced that it just ties into how major media outlets cater to these "liberal bias" charges with things like what's described by Curtoid. Nobody wants to be called out by bigmouths like O'Reilly or Rush, since people take their word as gospel, so they go out of their way to cater to the "other side." Nobody EVER calls out Hannity or O'Reilly or Rush when they make mistakes.
I'm infuriated Hannity blatantly said my bookstore chain had "REFUSED" to carry the book Unfit For Command. He said this on his radio show TWO DAYS AFTER we had started selling the book, and had sold out of all 30 copies we managed to get. The book was published by a dinky little publishing company that pushed up it's printing by almost a MONTH because of the media coverage the title received, and wasn't able to fill the nationwide bulk orders it was getting for it. For almost two weeks, we were only able to get about 20 copies or so a week, and they sold out right away. What do we do? WE ORDERED NONSTOP FOR TWO BUSINESS WEEKS STRAIGHT. Yet because of what assholes like Hannity said, we literally had customers coming in and chastising, arguing with, yelling at and insulting my booksellers because we were supposedly "refusing" to carry the book. It was absolutely disgusting. I got called to deal with at least a dozen different situations like this. And if it wasn't that, it was people complaining about the "bias" of our Current Affairs table, or storefront display. No, we couldn't POSSIBLY just put out the books put out in the last month, LIKE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TO MAKE MONEY. Nooooo, we're obviously catering to a "liberal bias," and now we have to ensure there's an even number of "left" and "right" books on any political display. Hey, and guess whose book was often brought up as one we "should be displaying?" Oh my, Mr. Hannity! Hmm, nevermind your fucking book came out in FEBRUARY. Nevermind we had it displayed for two weeks right by the front entrance. Nevermind we had it on our bestsellers list for over a month, again, displayed right by the front entrance. No, we're supposed to display this egomaniac's book nearly eight months after it came out on the NEW RELEASE Current Affairs display. Where could these customers have POSSIBLY gotten that suggestion? Gee, I wonder...
I've e-mailed both Hannity's radio show and TV show, but have gotten no response from either, no really expect any kind of correction. Guys like him are free to say whatever they want without anyone calling them on it because they just fall back on the absurd, "oh, look at the liberal bias coming down on me! Boo-hoo!"-horseshit. Fuck him and his Jay Leno-looking head.
People come in and will take complete piles of political books off the displays and shelves they don't like and dump them across the store. They'll turn all the face-outs of books they don't like around, or cover them up with that author's political counterpart. And 99% of the time what books are covered up or moved or hidden? The so-called "liberal" titles. Am I saying that all conservatives are politically-driven book-buying assholes? No. But I AM saying that most of the politically-driven book-buying assholes I do deal with are conservatives.
Lighten the fuck up. I've heard fucks like Rush and O'Reilly telling their listeners to go into stores and do shit like this. How fucking childish.
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