Exactly the same thing happened with my first book, How Would a Patriot Act? -- it was ignored almost completely by establishment media outlets (not a single review, television interview, etc.),

I know that Mark Crispin Miller has talked about his difficulty in getting the mainstream media to discuss his book on the flaws in our electronic voting system.

And yet Ann Coulter, despite two years ago making racist comments at CPAC, and this year calling Edwards a faggot, gets to go on all the major shows and what not to promote the paperback edition of her bigoted hate-mongering, partly plagiarized anti-"liberal" hack absolutely idiotic to the point that scientists believe she's secretly doing a Sokal Hoax on the conservative movement anti-science book, all the while demonstrating that she is a soulless immoral cretin.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/06/promoting-hate.html

Ann Coulter, after calling John Edwards a "faggot" at this year's CPAC, was rewarded with an appearance on Good Morning America - a program deemed to be part of the "liberally biased" media by the conservative movement - where she got to offer this oh-so sincere bit of contrition:

"So I've learned my lesson ... If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future I'll just wish he'd been killed in a terrorist assasination plot."

Ha ha, get it? Coulter is saying that "liberals" are hypocrites because "liberals" think jokes about Vice President Cheney being killed by terrorists are funny. Except by "liberals" she means a handful of anonymous commenters at the Huffington Post.

But great job Good Morning America, at giving Coulter a window to further demonize "liberals" and a chance to engage in the favorite response of movement conservative hate-mongers whenever they are called out on some act of bigotry, namely, the "'liberals' do X which is worse" red herring switch-a-roo.

Last summer, I wrote a post at Unclaimed Territory explaining why it was necessary to respond to the likes of Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. Nothing has changed.

Not too long ago a friend of mine told me she was trying to become more politically informed. To do so, she continued, she had begun reading Ann Coulter's How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must). Think about that for a moment. This was an individual who did not know much about politics, was a non-ideological independent and the first person she could think of to learn more about politics from was a hate-mongering hack. This should have never happened, because Coulter should have been exposed for the vile, bigoted, intellectually bankrupt propagandist that she is by journalists a long time ago. In this regard, my friend was failed by a mainstream media which is more interested in using Coulter as a figure to drive up ratings than they are in doing their jobs of promoting a responsible national discourse.

It should be noted that the appearance was part of Coulter's promotion tour for the paperback edition of her latest anti-"liberal" hate-mongering book, Godless, the book that inspired my post last summer.

Update: It appears I was both wrong and being too generous to Coulter. As Media Matters makes clear, Coulter wasn't alluding to the comments from Huffington Post, but instead was making up a defamatory lie about Bill Maher.

The Daily Howler has been doing a series on the response to Gore's book. THe Washington Post ran a review in which the reviewer didn't actually disagree with the content of the book, but just found Gore to be incredibly annoying. 7 years after the mainstream media helped put GWBush in the Oval Office with their perverse obsession with letting the public know that the press finds Gore annoying and also by creating a false image of him as a liar while BUsh became a down-to-Earth truth teller, they are still pulling the same b.s.

"We will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." - Joseph Pulitzer, New York World (May 1883)

"Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice." - Joseph Pulitzer, letter to the editor of New York World (1911)

Truthishly, Goldberg is a hack. Just like all the rest of them. What's his expertise? Its his ability to stick to right-wing dogma inspite of and despite of reality. Its the common character trait he shares with Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and a plethora of braindead authoritarian zombies.

Rage against the dying of the light and imagine Sisyphus happy.

yeah, I'm a sap. but what else is left?

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/grand.htm

I'd think it would be more accurate to describe that as an example of the pyschology of the social dominator mind. Shadia Drury does, however, sight this parable when describing neoconservative philosophy.