"Useful Word-bombs"

Cathy Seipp looks at the hypocrisy of the liberal "cognoscenti" who turn to know-nothings when confronted, especially bookstores who refuse to carry books like An Army of Davids or anything by conservative authors and excuse themselves with epithets.

It reminds me of the Borders in Provo, Utah, which is about as solidly Mormon as it gets, maintaining a section for erotica and gay literature. They could stock those shelves with Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, etc. and turn them over once a month. But they'd rather waste their shelves on stuff few Provoans would even dare look at in public. Utah was also where the CleanFlicks company discovered a market for videos and DVDs of popular films with the sex, nudity and profanity edited out. It did good business until the producers of the films sued to prevent the practice, even though they themselves provide edited versions to be shown on TV and airplanes and refuse to allow these versions to be sold or rented. They reject "censorship." Another useful word-bomb.