all it would be good for is smearing shit all over your ass. Which begs the question. Who needs that?

provide a dumpster nearby to aid them in throwing them away.

I remember reading something on here once about bulk purchasing happening with books written by Reich wingers.

Because their publishers or sponsors or big-bucks supporters make bulk buys - aimed at creating and building the "story." The mere numbers are high enough to qualify as a "best-seller," because they always buy enough to reach the best-seller threshold at the New York Times and other prestigious, important best-seller lists. BINGO! Your author is now a best-selling author. Neat, huh? THEN, you use your media machine to massage that "fact" you just created, sending that author out and getting him/her booked up the ying-yang on all the TV and cable and radio shows - on the pretense that they're a best-selling author (hey, look at this Sunday's "New York Times," eh?) and you make a big deal about their instant credibility as spokespeople and legitimate view-holders and commentators. That's how people like that twisted scarecrow ann coulter make their living. Do the book tour thing and the speakers' bureau circuit. Lots of book clubs out there with an affluent membership, usually elderly, predominantly female, often church-related. And they LOVE booking marquee-name authors to come and speaker.

And when you have this infrastructure of "foundations" and "institutes" like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation that eagerly fund those bulk buys. Sometimes campaign committees do it and everybody who buys a ticket to the candidate's appearance or luncheon or fundraising meet-n-greet gets a complimentary copy of his/her book, or a copy is left at every place-setting on every banquet table, or it's offered for purchase at the event because the author's there to sign it, woohoo! Or if you join some crank wrong-wing organization, you get a bonus of so&so's book as a welcoming gift - OR "special discounts" on its purchase (as a member, you know!).

The most audacious example of this that I ever saw was back when limbaugh had his mercifully short run with his own ridiculous, ego-stroking TV show. Guess what his backdrop was, on the set - behind his chair and the chair(s) and side tables for his guests? Stacks and stacks of his "The Way Things Ought To Be" or whatever-the-fuck idiot book title he was hawking that year. There was a wall-to-wall panorama of his books. Stacked to human height, clear across the whole set behind where the chairs were, from stem to stern. Had to be thousands of books in that wall-to-wall display facade. I remember wondering who bought them, or how the limbaugh show acquired them and who paid for the books and the shipping/delivery. Probably plenty enough books on that set to clinch ol rushbo a slot on the New York Times Best-Seller List with his worthless waste of trees.

These wrongies are shrewd. They are SHREWD. They're better than anybody at cooking up these sneaky-ass, phonied-up, corner-cutting manipulations, I swear! We need a few devious thinkers on our side - if not to think stuff up so much as sound the alarm when the other side does it. It ALWAYS has to be spotted and then immediately called out for the manipulation it is. Otherwise, GUARANTEED, people will be taken in by it.

I knew there was something about them being bought in bulk on a macro scale, but didn't know the info. you posted about this particular book.

Amazing that they openly admitted it...

Have them take the books to a recycling center ... to then be turned into toilet paper.

.. to line the cage.

and Darth Maul are looking down on him from the background. It's the best use of that terrible movie yet.

That book represents the GOP teabaggers, the Kochs, and FAUX News.

and the next week

$1.00.

you could heat your house with them.

It's enough to make grown men weep, I am sure...

You know those old style grocery bags? You could fit 20 books in one of those and the sale was a "buck a bag".

Nobody wanted the Limbaugh books.

I went the following year and they were still there.

I said to my friend I was with in a loud enough voice to fill the entire sales floor, "Oh look! They have a bunch of books by Rush Limbaugh." (pause - confused look) "Shouldn't these be in 'Fiction'?"

General laughter from every direction.


(Always was the class clown)

but that would be too snarky right?

the activists who were going to the mega bookstores, and reshelving Bush's and others' books into "True Crime"?

Clever subversion, methinks ...

and I'll recycle it with the newspapers.

to cut out the pages to line my parrot's cage.

I hate having to do the conversions myself.