Comments on: The Failure of ‘Progressive’ Media

By: Johnny Mainstream

Johnny Mainstream — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:27:43 +0000

Wow. What inane idiocy. Check the Amazon listings…it’s really not that difficult.

Loser.

By: LY

LY — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:59:59 +0000

Punditguy, you’re flat wrong about Crashing the Gates sales. Just admit it!

By: Guirigui

Guirigui — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:55:28 +0000

“Kos Claims (no surprise) that Drudge’s numbers aren’t on the up and up. What-ev-eh.”

Uh, so does Glenn Reynolds.

http://instapundit.com/archives/029919.php

“What-ev-eh” ???

You and my 7 year old niece have something in common.

By: Dominion

Dominion — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:16:34 +0000

Yes, I am sure it is coming any minute now…

By: teapot dome

teapot dome — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:41:03 +0000

Beingthere,

HAHAHA. What are your “FACTS” in the face of the onward march and universal popularity of the Glorious Bushbot Revolution?

Really, though, I’m sure PunditBeing will write a correction when he does some research. He’s an honorable man, is he not?

tpd

By: Making Light

Making Light — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:53:05 +0000

Right behind this potted plant

Via Glenn Greenwald: Matt Drudge, a man always willing to let his followers look stupid, has claimed that Crashing the…

By: BeingThere

BeingThere — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:09:54 +0000

What an absolute BS of a post. You do know those book sales figures don’t include online sales, don’t you? More likely that you do, but choose to ignore that fact.

Consider the online sales figures of relative popularity of recently published (or soon to be published) “progressive” vs “conservative” books:

Amazon best seller list:

Glenn Greenwald – #1 (yet to be released)
Kevin Phillips – #13
Jerome Armstrong/Markos Moulitsas Zuniga – #40

As for the conservative pundits with recent books – well, lets see:

Ann Coulter – #266 (yet to be released)
Ramesh Ponnuru – #428 (yet to be released)
Michelle Malkin – #1,149
Glenn Reynolds – #1,049
Kate O’Beirne – #2,160
Hugh Hewitt – #7,300

Now, if I were to do what you and Drudge have done and chosen only a segment of sales indicators, ie looked solely at online sales figures and no other source, I’d say that the only “conclusion” that could be reached would be the complete “failure of the conservative media”, wouldn’t you?