I just love Michelle Malkin's takedown of Pat Schroeder, former Democrat Congresswoman and now CEO of the Association of American Publishers.

In fashion typical of elitist liberal snobs Schroeder used a very general news headline as justification for her bigoted attack on conservatives.

The headline came from an AP poll citing that liberals read more books than conservatives (by an average of just one more book a year, hardly worth bragging about).

Schroeder, who as a Colorado Democrat was once one of Congress' most liberal House members, was responding to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that found people who consider themselves liberals are more prodigious book readers than conservatives.

She said liberals tend to be policy wonks who "can't say anything in less than paragraphs. We really want the whole picture, want to peel the onion."
Since when does one more book a year make one "more prodigious"?

But Malkin noted all the poll facts that Schroeder ignored:

[According to the poll results] "The Bible and religious works were read by two-thirds in the survey, more than all other categories. Popular fiction, histories, biographies and mysteries were all cited by about half, while one in five read romance novels. Every other genre — including politics, poetry and classical literature — were named by fewer than five percent of readers."

So while Schroeder uses the poll to extol liberal readers as learned "policy wonks," political books are a blip on the screen.

Can't wait for her reaction to the fact that the Bible and religious works were the most widely read books among those polled.

Peel that onion, Patty.
No kidding. Wonder who's reading those bibles? Would you like to wager it's not the 'blue state' voters?

Labels: media bias, not so fast