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Mockery and confusion?
Is this supposed to be a real article, or is it a self-parody?
Is this supposed to be a real article, or is it a self-parody?
I'm just asking, as I have had articles 10x better than this one huffed.--[[User:SeanTheSheep|SeanTheSheep]] 15:06, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
I'm just asking, as I have had articles 10x better than this one huffed.--[[User:SeanTheSheep|SeanTheSheep]] 15:06, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
== Mockery and confusion? ==
About the whole bit about Bushisms, especially the sentence "''There is no reason to collect and show these for one politician while never showing the same kind of error made by another politician, unless you are trying to make the false point that your candidate is infallible and your opponent is incompetent.''":
I think there is a much more innocent reasoning for these books popping up (compared to the quest to create confusion and boosting one's own candidate): Money.
Books with silly quotes sell like... err... something that sells very quickly. :P Especially if the quotes sound hilarious and if they come from a famous guy. And I'd argue that "President of the United States of America" grants fame by default. It makes perfect sense to sell these books. That's the stuff average John Does like to read for a chuckle. Easy money.
Compare that to the estimated success of selling books with quotes by... *makes random search* Dave Freudenthal (Governor of Wyoming). I think quite a few people will go "...who's that?" (at least when you look at the international market), so "Hilarious quotes by Dave Freudenthal" will most likely sell less copies than "Hilarious quotes by George W. Bush". That's the reason why you see so many "Bushisms" books and almost no quote books about other politicians (to be fair, it should be mentioned that GWB had quite a few slips of the tongue).
Of course, these books won't give long and boring explanations about all the circumstances, and of course most people know that they're just simple slips of the tongue. But they will say "So what? It's still hilarious." and buy it anyway. I can hardly blame the authors for publishing such a book - they just know their target audience and they want to make money.
It's exactly the same for biographies. Somebody steps into the major spotlight and half a week later, the book shops are flooded with books about him or her. --[[User:JLindon|JLindon]] 15:18, 14 May 2007 (EDT)