#2 ... Who's #1?

Now this is interesting … not a big deal, but a very good example of how our media works in this country. This ties directly to the reporting I did about President Obama shaking hands with Chavez … and Chavez handing him a book. Now this book that our President so graciously accepted is a book about how Latin America has been exploited by the West and more specifically the United States. After the news broke about the book … no the liberal media break it, the story was broken by conservative blogs, I believe specifically the Drudge Report, the book began to see a massive surge of people buying it on Amazon … so much so that it jumped from something like #50,000 to the #2 selling book on Amazon. Now stick with me here because I know you’re thinking “Doug what the hell are you talking about!” Again this is not something that is a huge issue but it really shows you what liberal bias in the media is all about, it is a very clear example … so let’s get into it.

The media jumped on this and had reports by some of the biggest names, Chuck Todd of NBC, Heraldo Rivera of Fox News, Chris Matthews of MSNBC among others discussing how amazing it was that this book has risen so fast on Amazon. Now not once did they discuss the content of the book, nor did they discuss the inappropriate nature of a Dictator handing an American hating book to our President, they simply just marveled at how incredible it was that the book jumped to #2. Now why is the #2 significant? … Well for all you math majors out there, the #2 is right after the … #1! Can anybody tell me what the number one selling book is on Amazon? (that’s right the #1 best-selling book, not just the #1 political book, not the #1 non-fiction book, not the #1 educational book … the #1 book period!) I can, it is Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto. Now what may surprise you even more is that this book has been #1 on Amazon and the New York Times bestseller list, again not in its category of non-fiction, but #1 out of all categories … for the last 3 full weeks and looking good to be #1 for 4 full weeks! Yet you have not seen or heard of one mention of this book on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Associated Press, nor have you seen the author interviewed on the Today Show, nor on Good Morning America, nor on the Early Show, nor on the View, nor on Regis and the Hot Blonde Show, nor on 60 minutes, nor anywhere!

Now I don’t care if he is interviewed, nor does he, has he has a #1 book without them and is the 3rd largest nationally syndicated radio talk show host in the country. But it is just striking that his book, which is about conservative beliefs, became #1 and is still #1, without any mention in the mainstream media. What is even more striking … and disturbing, is that a book about extreme leftist hatred of America zooms to # 2 on Amazon, after a banana republic third world dictator hands it to our President A clear example of liberal bias in America … and a very disturbing view of what the media think about their country. Stay tuned! Big Lie #2 in Health Care coming up and I will be blogging about the so called ‘Torture Memos’. Hey, after you kiss the kid’s good night and tuck them into bed and before you fall asleep remember to say these words; “I live in the greatest nation on earth, and I’m thankful for that’.