I just got this email from Amazon.
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Hello,
Your suggestion to show the item “Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government” on amazon.com searches for “mayan prophecy” was suspended because keywords used in search usually refer to the title, author or other words in connection with the item. Thank you!
Regards,
Amazon.com Tags team
Geeno
Now I haz a sad, too
Common Sense
Austin Goolsbee mimics Kevin Nealon to win “Washington’s Funniest Celebrity.”
Comrade Mary
I love you, DougJ.
Snark Based Reality
Keep it up DougJ and I might have to drop my man crush on Barney Frank and move onto you.
Warren Terra
Does this mean we aren’t all Mayans now?
Comrade Dread
Sort of off topic (well, it’s about more political commentator jackasses), anyone seen or commented on this yet?
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20090917_4420.php
demkat620
@Warren Terra: I know! I just got used to it.
Dayum! What are we now?
Are we Muslins?
Violet
Suspended? Does that mean you can’t go to Amazon for three days and your parents get really mad at you?
Gravenstone
@Comrade Dread: I’m sure Bobo is insanely pleased with himself, splitting it right down the middle at 141 apiece.
Jay K.
flappy hands
toro toro
Don’t worry, it’s still searchable under “idiots” and “small minds”.
demkat620
On a lighter note,
Politico has video of Boehner calling for Pelosi to reign in the Democratic rhetoric.
Sorry http://www.politico.com
They keep you from linking to it directly.
margarita
The suspense is killing me.
Comrade Dread
@Gravenstone
Yeah. I was just more taken back by how pretty much every name on it is an example of someone who consistently makes bad predictions and analysis and is taken as gospel by Dem and GOP insiders.
I guess nothing should surprise me anymore. We seem to live in a giant echo chamber of Fail.
Warren Terra
@ demkat620, #12
You can link to it directly – but you do have to launch the player to get the URL.
demkat620
@Warren Terra: Thanks!
smiley
I don’t understand why your tag would be suspended considering that some of the others are “idiot”, “racist”, and “keeping America stupid.” I guess it means that those tags are referring to the author. Maybe that’s a second-order win. Congrats!
Notorious P.A.T.
What does ” We Are All Mayans Now ” mean? I looked at the other articles in that category but couldn’t figure it out. And I’m too lazy today to do further research.
DougJ
@Notorious
We Are All Mayans Now
The Grand Panjandrum
Sorry u haz a sad.
But that it some weapons grade snark my man. I’ll be laughing about that one for the rest of the night. Maybe the mayans were just setting us up for some comic relief. We’ve gotten plenty of laughs out of the “mayan prophecy.”
CapMidnight
It’s the end of the world because Obama puts elitist Mayannaise on his burgers.
Silver Owl
I was in Barnes and Noble last evening to get a book on Cd. They had Beck’s publication on display. Ironically is was displayed among all fictional titles, which made me think that was appropriate and smile.
Anyways, I saw his picture on it and thought he does look like an idiot. That picture so fits his own title of “Arguing with idiots”. lol
chuck
I read that Amazon message five times. I still don’t know what the hell it means. Someone want to explain it to me?
DougJ
Someone want to explain it to me?
They won’t let me tag the new Glenn Beck book with “mayan prophecy”.
Joel
@Notorious P.A.T.:
It’s a sure sign of the pending apocalypse.
According to the loonier interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the world will end catastrophically in December 2012. This view is mostly held by people who read Dan Brown and believe.
The reality is a bit more mundane. 2012 demarcates a long time cycle on the calendar in exactly the same way the year 2000 represented a major shift (in numbering anyway) in our own calendar. Lots of celebration, jubilation, excitement over the possibilities for the upcoming era…not to mention a few nutcases hiding out in their basements with tinned food and gas-powered generators because of teh y2k.
BeccaM
I saw Beck there on the cover of his book, all dressed up in his Nazi uniform, mugging for the camera, and couldn’t help but wonder, “So, he’s telling us he aspires to be Goebbels now? This isn’t exactly a stretch for him…”
The other thing was it’s clear to me Beck’s monstrosity absolutely falls into the category of “those books which OUGHT to be judged by their covers.”
Epicurus
Great story, Doug, thank you. But, time to be grammar nazi in the comments. This is the second time I’ve seen this today, it’s “REIN” in. Reigns are the length of time a ruler serves; reins are the devices used to control a horse. Here endeth the lesson; don’t even get me started on “nookleeur.”
CMcD
Another popular tag for Beck’s book at Amazon: pig vomit.
Cat G
@Comrade Dread: I’ll second your observations and add one: check out David Broder’s numbers… Looks like there are too many @%[email protected]&& stupid democrats who are influenced by Broder…seriously depressing.
The Sheriff's A Ni-
Personally, I don’t think any category can beat ‘keeping america stupid’.
Comrade E.B. Misfit
I laugh every time I see the “pig vomit” tag.
Anne Laurie
Cheer up, DougJ. The Amazon minions are just afraid that if the Noo Auj crystal bunnies interbreed with the teabaggers, it’ll produce a race of subhumans so stupid that they’ll destroy the whole planet… even faster.
Chad N Freude
@Comrade Dread: OK, here’s a comment. “shap[ing] their own opinion or worldview” certainly includes “If X said it, then it must be wrong, completely at odds with reality, and my opinion or worldview is opposed to whatever it is.” Hence all of the Dems should be influenced by all of the righty sources.
Chad N Freude
@Chad N Freude: Hey! Edit woiks!
justme
Love the “pig vomit” tag.
I was thinking that “guano faucet” might find an appropriate home there as well.
Edward G. Talbot
DougJ, you gotta be more subtle. tag it with “The Fifth World” – they might not take the time to use The Google and just assume it’s a valid connection that they don’t understand :)
Comrade E.B. Misfit
I was thinking that “guano faucet” might find an appropriate home there as well.
Someone’s already tagged it with that one. I’ll have to log in from home and tag it with that, as well. Maybe we can drive “guano faucet” up in the tag ratings.