What is it about Conservatives that makes them so ultra-sensitive about persecution when they are caught doing something wrong? Whenever they are discovered to have broken a law or violated an ethical principle, they turn it into a case of an out-of-control government trying to put the boot of tyranny on their throats.
For instance, Dinesh D’Souza insisted he was a victim of Obama’s Storm Troopers right up until he admitted guilt of election fraud. Same thing with serial slanderer James O’Keefe who confessed to unlawful activity in the office of a United States senator, but now thinks he’s a victim of federal oppressors. And then there is former Fox News anchor, Glenn Beck, who regards himself as more persecuted than Jesus.
Now we can add Senator and Republican presidential hopeful, Ted Cruz to the list. Cruz recently released a propaganda tract that he calls “A Time For Truth.” And to start off the book tour Cruz is discarding the truth in order to bitch about his book not being included on the New York Times best sellers list. Why he would want to be recognized by a news enterprise that he considers to be in cahoots with the international communist conspiracy is anyone’s guess.
More to the point, Cruz and his disciples are certain that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy intent on suppressing his book and his First Amendment rights. No doubt President Obama himself ordered the Times to remove Cruz’s book from the list in order to smother his sizzling ascendancy to the White House (for which he is currently in a distant eighth place according to the latest Fox News poll).
Of course, there may be another reason that Cruz failed to make the list. When asked by Politico why Cruz was omitted, the Times told them that “the overwhelming preponderance of evidence was that sales were limited to strategic bulk purchases.” In other words, Cruz’s book was bought by his campaign or its allies in an effort to game the system. This is often done to artificially inflate sales and grab a spot on the coveted Times list. Then they give the books away to supporters as candidate swag. The Times has procedures in place to ascertain the actual sales data so that only authentic buyers are counted. Otherwise the Koch brothers could purchase a few thousand copies of any book that they want to promote and it would become a Times best seller.
If any other evidence is needed to debunk the paranoid notion that Cruz is being singled out for persecution, a quick check of the current best sellers list shows that several right-wing authors who didn’t cheat (so far as we know) managed to get recognized. They include David Brooks, Ann Coulter, Dana Perino, and Bill O’Reilly. Going back a little further we find folks like Charles Krauthammer, Edward Klein, Dinesh D’Souza, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, and Sarah Palin. We even see current GOP primary candidates Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and Ben Carson.
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So obviously Ted Cruz alone has been stifled by the liberal gatekeepers of the literary world. The socialists at the Times are penalizing him simply because he and his publisher chose to engage in deliberate fraud in order to gain benefits from the Times to which they were not entitled. And they probably think that their only crime is that they were caught. Because that’s how paranoid cheaters with persecution complexes view every dilemma they encounter. In fact, this article is all part of the conspiracy.
Sen. Cruz’s team has challenged the Times with the following: Produce the evidence that strategic bulk purchasing took place, or apologize. I’m guessing the NY Times is pulling a Harry Reid and making this up.
Or maybe NYT is not lying. Cruz isn’t the most stable individual and all ya know. But then how is that dissimilar to the rest of the RWNJ’s?
Latest update: The New York Times will be listing Ted Cruz’ book at #7 on their best-seller list. In the words of Emily Litella, “Never mind.”
It’s a new list for a new week, Cletus. Apparently Cruz got enough suckers to shell out for his vanity book that he finally made the list.
The NYT said that “This week’s NYT best seller list was arrived at using the same process as last week’s – and the week before that.” So nothing’s changed. And Cruz is still a crybaby for his outbursts last week. And the Times proves that they aren’t discriminating against anyone, which was obvious by the people who have previously made the list as documented above.
Scientology does the same thing. They claim that L. Ronny Hubbard books have been on the best seller lists for 2 or 3 thousand years when it is just them buying up all of the published books just to say ‘look how many books we’ve sold, we’re legit’.
It’s been an open secret for many years that Regnery Publishing (who specialize in right-wing books) does “strategic bulk purchasing” deals for most of their political screeds, and drastically cuts the royalty rates to the authors to compensate the cost of more-or-less giving away pallets full of their literary emissions. In fact, some of those “best-selling” ranters – er, I mean writers – have called in their lawyers to help them get paid fairly; perhaps not realizing that those bulk sales are what get them on best-seller lists to begin with. No surprise that every thrift store in Uh’merica has like-new (unread) first-printed copies of Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter, etc, stacked like cord wood next to the shelves of trashy romance pulp that somebody actually bought, read, passed on to a friend and read again. I’ve often wondered how many Glenn Beck fans would sit down and read an entire book… even if they could (read, that is).
A combination of undocumented rumor about conservative books and insults about conservatives being unable to read. Worthless post.
Here is just one of many examples, Socotty:
Palin’s sales were boosted by $64,000 in bulk purchases made by her political action group, SarahPAC. According to a Federal Election Commission filing, “America By Heart” was offered to donors with a $100 contribution. The book retails for $25.99 and bulk purchases are generally deeply discounted.
http://archives.politicususa.com/2010/12/02/palin-bestseller-fraud.html