11. There is an obvious reason for
Liberals trying to hide conservative authors.
“It is a source of never-ending irritation to liberals that
Americans like to hear conservatives.
Liberals don’t try to win arguments, they seek to destroy their opponents and silence dissident opinions. The monopoly media of television, newspapers, and magazines can inflict liberals on the public without paying a price. Noticeably, however, liberals fail in any media realm where there is competition. In the three media where success is determined on the free market—radio, books, and the Internet—conservatives rule. A competitive marketplace in speech has the ominous effect of producing Rush Limbaugh. Only a monopoly could produce Dan Rather.” Coulter
12. Imagine the chagrin:
“One by one, the media bastions were falling: first talk radio, thanks largely to Rush Limbaugh; then TV, with FOX’s dominance of cable; and, of course, the rise of the conservative blogosphere.
Now mainstream publishers had at last realized, however grudgingly, that there were millions of conservative readers out there.”
The Future of Conservative Books
13.As Lord Axton noted, and applied to the Liberals who run the publishing industry, “Power corrupts, and absolute power, corrupts absolutely.”
On this issue, the war is not over.
“Noting that a number of Regnery’s most successful authors were turned away by major houses, Ross said: “
Lack of support for conservative authors and books by the big New York publishers is nothing new. Certainly you can find a handful of conservative authors on the roster of most New York houses, but those authors are often
treated with disdain and contempt.”
One source described the existence of these imprints as something that “balkanizes” conservative authors. He said, “I’ve had editors tell me they
wouldn’t possibly consider a book by a conservative, and I never would hear that if the politics were flipped.”
Another agent, who handles a number of conservative authors, said the industry’s longstanding “double standard” for right-wing authors is evidenced by the fact that “there are no quote-unquote liberal imprints in publishing.” In other words, books espousing liberal ideas often land at general-interest imprints. This, more than anything else, means there are fewer places to shop conservative books and authors. “A liberal senator has dozens of options [when it comes to imprints and editors that will publish his book],” he said. “Conservatives have a much smaller pool.”
Is Book Publishing Too Liberal?
The real understanding here is that
Liberals recognize that their ideas can’t hold a candle to conservative ideas. Silencing the Right is their only answer.
Can book burning be far behind?
