More about Costco and Dinesh D'Souza's book otherwise known as the distracting shiny object...

and I am ashamed at the comments I'm reading on conservative websites and on Costco's Facebook page.

Do you really believe that the CEO of Costco has nothing better to do than pull a Fahrenheit 451 on a book.  One book?

That's not even rational.

Allow me to repeat:  They are running a publicly traded company.  

As I said to one of my commenters (who has a fine blog of his own) on my original post:

Sub - I know for a fact that Costco runs one of the tightest ships in retail.

Everything is done by the numbers. It's why they count people coming in the door. That number is given to the front end supervisors every hour. They use a formula to decide if they need to cut labor on the front end. No one was ever forced to go home, but anyone could volunteer. Sometimes the volunteer list was long.  

Their net profit margin in 2013 was 1.6% vs Walmart's at 3.52%. At 1.6% there is no room for mistakes.

If I'm not mistaken, Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily started this whole meme, and every conservative site is just going ballistic and repeating the same ol' same ol'.

Aren't conservatives supposed to think for themselves?

And how many of you complainers went to Costco and purchased the book?  Thought so...

We just came from seeing America - Imagine the World Without Her.

It's a must see!

Dinesh D'Souza: America. Imagine the World Without Her...

You need to see this!

From their website:

Synopsis

Someone once observed: "America is great because she is good; if she ever ceases to be good she will cease to be great." Today that notion of the essential goodness of America is under attack, replaced by another story in which theft and plunder are seen as the defining features of American history—from the theft of Native American and Mexican lands and the exploitation of African labor to a contemporary foreign policy said to be based on stealing oil and a capitalist system that robs people of their "fair share". 

Our founding fathers warned us that, although the freedoms they gave us were hard fought, they could very easily be lost. America stands at a crossroads, and the way we understand our past will determine our future. America the movie takes 21st-century Americans into the future by first visiting our past. 

Gerald Molen, the Academy-award winning producer of Schindler's List, and Dinesh D'Souza, the creator of 2016: Obama's America, invite you on a journey of discovery that will bring you face-to-face with the heroes who built America, in the times in which they lived, bled, and sacrificed in order to build a great nation: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and others. You'll be there as Columbus sets foot on American soil, as bullets whiz by Washington's head, as Douglass demands that America live up to the promises of her Founding Fathers, and as Lincoln sacrifices thousands of lives, including his own, to right a great wrong of history.

We'll also meet their present-day critics, hear their stories, and then let you decide which America you believe in. From the team that created 2016: Obama's America comes the story not of a man but a nation, at the crossroads of hope or disaster, whose destination will soon be decided.