At our current implementation of tracking technology the best we’re going to get is wildly inaccurate and contradictiory sales figures.

BTW, when it comes to game and comic book stores (where the RPG sales figures are (haphazardly) obtained), many of them still use mechanical cash registers and record all sales on paper slips. Very often the database consists of moldering paper crammed into shoe boxes. Bookstore sales are simply not included in the survey.

That said, I’m surprised that both books are selling that poorly – man, you could fit both sets of buyers into Madison Square Garden and still have plenty of room left over.

Yeah yeah, I know its relatively early, but still – that’s kind of sad.

Reynolds did say he was outselling the numbers Drudge was reporting for Kos, although he doubted the latter. Greenwald does seem in his second update to be pointing to the source of numbers that he expressed so much doubt about and accepting them to prove the point that Kos’ sales are better than Reynolds’.

I suspect that Kos’ book is outselling Reynolds’; that makes some sense to me, given their relative traffic and the communal nature of Daily Kos. I suspect that they are both selling more than reported.

Hugh Hewitt’s numbers have got to be way off. I remember in 2004 him coming to Phoenix for a book signing and there were easily a couple hundred people there.

I did not miss the “joke.” I thought it was “cute.”

I was drawing attention to the fact that in this “joke,” dickchainey repeats one of the big lies that the left always tells.

Yeah, funny.

More from Glenn: “Kos’s book clearly is on the way for better than average…that’s very respectable. Drudge should know better than to report a decently selling book as stalled. As it stands, he’s misreporting the situation.”

I can well believe that you are an outsider to Conservative Christian circles, if in fact you believe that their only goals are banning abortion and gay marriage. Or if you believe that there is a single, uniform agenda which is embraced by everyone flying the “Conservative Christian” colors. Frankly, I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. This leads me to be sceptical of your claims regarding Phillips’ “hyperbole”, though I freely admit to having not read the book in question. My view of the topic is shaped entirely by my own direct research and experience.

As for the embarrassing post by Roger Simon, I throw in my lot with those who judge the whole business to be petty and a waste of band width.

The Daily Kos crowd possesses the veto power over the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee…… It is illegal to murder them – David Thomson

Yes, that Kevin Phillips certainly is hyperbolic.î

I am not employing hyperbolic language in describing the threat the Daily Kos poses to the Democratic Party establishment. And there is simply no legal way he can be marginalized. The Internet makes this virtually impossible. Political assassination is the only way to stop the Daily Kos—and thankfully this is still illegal in the United States.

Kevin Phillips is an bigot. I listened to him during a discussion with Dennis Praeger. Phillips has no idea what he is talking about. His view of conservative Christians (and Jews) is a slanderous caricature. Once again, I do not subscribe to their theological tenets. I speak as an outsider.