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August 22, 2007

The [il]Liberal Elite's burden

WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why—and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.

"The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes,'" Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. "It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes' on every page."

Schroeder, who as a Colorado Democrat was once one of Congress' most liberal House members, was responding to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that found people who consider themselves liberals are more prodigious book readers than conservatives.

She said liberals tend to be policy wonks who "can't say anything in less than paragraphs. We really want the whole picture, want to peel the onion."

Awwww. Can you feel the love? Can you feel the respect from the former congresscritter and failed Presidential candidate towards at least half the US population? Though let's not let facts stand in the way of a good sneer. As Michelle Malkin points out
The Bible and religious works were read by two-thirds in the survey, more than all other categories. Popular fiction, histories, biographies and mysteries were all cited by about half, while one in five read romance novels. Every other genre — including politics, poetry and classical literature — were named by fewer than five percent of readers.
So while Schroeder uses the poll to extol liberal readers as learned “policy wonks,” political books are a blip on the screen.

Can’t wait for her reaction to the fact that the Bible and religious works were the most widely read books among those polled.

However, one point I think getting overlooked is Schroeder's blatant unprofessionalism in donning her AAP CEO's robe then declaring herself as part of the Superior Onion Peelers Clan.

Not good form. But it does speak to her general character and why her 1987 run was such a dismal failure. Condescension is hard to mask, even when she wants to tack authoritarian with the best of motives.

Time for AAP's Board of Directors to call her in and edit her position.

Posted by Darleen at August 22, 2007 12:51 PM

Comments

Actually, it is liberals who constantly make-up slogans and it is liberals who repeat them like parrots.

Onions and layers? "DONKEY!" Has she watched Shrek too many times? Each layer of an onion is similar to the blank pages of a book, which best describes the intellect of liberals, blank with subtle differentiations in composition.

Posted by: RaLph at August 23, 2007 06:47 AM