it's not all bad news
May. 25th, 2011 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogOne of the cheery things about my visit to BookExpo today was that, every time I passed the large-ish WND Press stand (i.e., the stand for the book wing of World Nuts Daily, full of Birther nonsense and even more venomous anti-Obama abuse), it was absolutely deserted except for a couple of depressed-looking staffers.
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Date: 2011-05-26 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-26 04:20 pm (UTC)Some truly unbelievable books being hawked there, especially an entire volume about Obama's birth certificate.
That may have contributed to the lack of interest in their stand. The book has been a cause celebre among us students of wingnuttia. There was a lot of loud laughter when Obama issued the long-form cert just a couple of months before the book's planned publication, and even more when WND's Joseph Farah continued to insist that he still believed the book was authoritative. I suspect even an appreciable number of the wingnuts are beginning to realize WND's been selling them a crock o' the bad stuff.
Sorry we didn't run into you yesterday!
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Date: 2011-05-26 04:25 pm (UTC)I love BEA. I wish I could go every year.
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Date: 2011-05-26 04:50 pm (UTC)I love BEA. I wish I could go every year.
We go most years, for work purposes rather for straightforward fun -- although obviously there's the fun element too, not least all the FREEE-EEEE-EEE books! I kind of have mixed feelings about the fair, though. It annoys me that the organizers, after years of observing the food court needs more seating, still can't be bothered to do anything about it -- even though the free space is there. And the manufactured long lines for signings irk me as well, since they significantly and unnecessarily increase the congestion of already congested thoroughfares. And so on.
But we did some good business there this year, so overall I'm not complaining! :)