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Originally posted by bilmore
During a casual stroll through downtown this morning, I was in three bookstores. Two big-chain stores, one indie.
Tons of Franken, Moore, Ivins, Krugman, Alterman occupying the front tables and shelves.
Nary a Swiftboats book to be seen. Not one pro-Bush book unless you went to the back of the stores in obscure sections.
(I asked one 40-ish earthmother-type clerk where they kept the Ann Coulter, just for fun. I swear she got pale. )
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Minnesota is about fifty-fifty these days. I think that, by itself, makes your "they're just giving the public what it wants" idea short shrift.
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Well, sure, if you're going to call the children's section "obscure."
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 08-20-2004 at 01:50 PM..
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