August 27, 2007<\/p>\n
The Associated Press <\/em>took a survey this week to see who reads more, the Liberal or the Conservative.\u00a0 And\u00a0 in this survey, it was discovered that liberals read an average of 8 books a year while conservatives only read\u00a0 7 books a year.<\/p>\n Hmm\u2026Very revealing.\u00a0\u00a0 Well I guess that would explain the problem then. Evidently the reason liberals have such stupid ideas is that they’re reading too many stupid books.\u00a0 I mean honestly!\u00a0 Assuming this is an accurate survey, assuming these are real books people are talking about, assuming they aren\u2019t counting websites like moveon.org as a book, .assuming they aren\u2019t counting comic books, or the Bazooka Joe strip from bubble gum wrappers, and assuming they\u2019re not talking about reading a map on the back of a Captain Crunch box or reading the recipe \u00a0from a Betty Crocker cake mix\u2026So what?\u00a0 What difference does it make how many books you read? What matters is the content<\/em> of the books.\u00a0 For all we know, the liberals could be reading Horton Hatches an Egg. <\/em>In Nazi Germany Mein Kamp<\/em> was a best seller. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>It doesn\u2019t make a hill of beans of difference how many books you\u2019ve read. <\/em>Who<\/em> wrote the books? <\/em>What points<\/em> did the books make? <\/em>Were these points backed up with actual facts<\/em>? <\/em>Those are the only relevant questions. <\/em><\/p>\n This is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 27, 2007 The Associated Press took a survey this week to see who reads more, the Liberal or the Conservative.\u00a0 And\u00a0 in this survey, it was discovered that liberals read an average of 8…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutpolitics","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}