SABOTAGE: Reader Ed Reynolds (no relation) writes:

Thought you’d appreciate this: I was just over at Costco, and the front corner of the book table had about 12 three-foot tall stacks of Mark Levin’s new book, “Ameritopia.” Someone had very neatly turned the top book in each stack face down so passersby could not see the title. Additionally, in the “other paperback” area, a copy of his other book was also upside down.

I turned them all back over…

Someone is a bit touchy, huh?

Well, it shows what they’re afraid of.

UPDATE: Reader Kimberly Marvel writes:

laughed when I read the comment on this blurb. But it made me think of something that happened when I worked for Barnes & Noble years ago.

I used to work for Barnes and Noble with their magazines and newspapers for our specific location. The magazines were separated out into the various types and located in one of the last sections were the political magazines. When I first started, there were all sorts of lefty magazines and very few conservative ones.

The an interesting thing happened. Rush Limbaugh started issuing his magazine out to the stores instead of by “subscription only” so they actually sent us three copies the first month. I couldn’t keep them on the shelf. By the time I ended my time there, we would receive between thirty and fifty copies a month, with no returns. And it wasn’t just The Limbaugh Letter, but it happened with the other conservative mags too. I always gave any new magazines three months to sell and as long as they sold a few copies a month, I would continue to get them in. And meanwhile, the lefty mags always just sat there, always looking used since people always browsed them, but never bought them. So they were always returned. Well, someone (whoever did the magazine ordering for our region) started noticing that we never returned the Limbaugh Letter, so they started sending us other conservative mags to try.

Amazing thing, every morning, when I would straighten out the racks, the conservative mags were always shoved into the back corners where no one could see them, and the lefty mags were always moved to the front. However, I believed that we sold more if you put the more popular mags at the front so I would always shift them back. It had nothing to do with politics, but only with sales. I actually thought it was incredibly funny that someone went to all the trouble of shifting the magazines almost every night even though I shifted them back the next morning. At least I got paid to do it and the entertainment value went up every month. If it hurt their feelings so much to see the conservative mags in prominence, perhaps they should have started buying the lefty mags instead.

I enjoy your site! Keep up the good work!

Thanks.