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They’re claiming that they’re not carrying it because their customers don’t want it, but c’mon.  Nobody in San Francisco wants a tell-all book about the McCain-Palin campaign?  Not one liberal in San Francisco wants to read Palin’s book just so they can confirm for themselves how dumb she is?

Please.  Michael Savage is on the air in San Francisco.  Limbaugh has an affiliate in San Francisco.  Surely Palin can sell books in San Francisco.  It’s just these oh-so-tolerant librals can’t even let profits supersede their irrational hatred and fear of her.

  “Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”

  There’s not a single copy on the shelf. Embretson said no one has asked for it except for one guy, who was kidding.

  “He said he wanted to look at it but he also said he didn’t really want to read it,” Embretson said. “Anyway, he certainly didn’t want to buy it. I think he regarded looking at it as a kind of punishment.”…

  Had she ordered 50 copies of the book, Cotleur said, she would probably wind up shipping 50 copies of the book back to the publisher in a couple of weeks.

  “I would expect to take a bath on it,” she said. “The job of a book buyer is to be something of a psychic. You have to know your community. I don’t want to waste a lot of money and shelf space on a book nobody wants.’ ...

“Anything like that we wouldn’t carry,” said clerk Emily Stackhouse. “We’re a small store and it would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross.”

For what it’s worth, Pendragon Books may not be selling Palin’s book because (according to them) their customers don’t want it, but they’re still selling Hitler’s book Mein Kampf.

Oh, and surprise, Pendragon Books really is selling Palin’s book.  On their website.  Right here.

I guess sometimes those evil profits really do trump fear and hatred.