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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:47 AM
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Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter (Hardcover)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:54 AM
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1. Succinct review at the website!!!!
.....Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter is an unbridled look at a woman who twists the truth, misleads, plays loose with facts and allusions, and has been accused of plagiarism in hammering home her logic-defying arguments.

Brainless illustrates the dangers, ironies, and hypocrisies of the Mistress of Malice. She spews her venom generously across the spectrum. Democrats and Liberals are just the beginning. If you're a woman (you shouldn't vote), gay (you're going to hell), a 9/11 widow (dancing on your murdered husband's grave) or Bill Clinton (slurs and charges too numerous to mention here), you will find yourself the object of her ire.

Now it's time to turn the tables and take a good hard look at the High Priestess of Hypocrisy. Journalist Joe Maguire takes apart her arguments, picks apart her agenda, and gives us a look at the psychology and background of the woman who has reduced public political and cultural debate to browbeating and name-calling.

Diligently researched (with source notes you can verify!), Maguire separates fact from myth and gives us an unvarnished look at the REAL Ann Coulter.

Let's face it. You don't ever want to read a book by Ann Coulter. Read this so you don't have to!

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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:10 AM
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2. I wouldn't...
even without the review. She's beyond yucky to me. But thanks for the review anyway! :hi: Maybe others here will check her book out. Though I shudder to think any dems would send money her way. :puke: Has the woman not made enough money off of liberals (bashing us, making fun of us, lying about us). :eyes:

Hey, come to think of it, doesn't she owe us all some money? ;)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:12 AM
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3. Well, the money spent on this book wouldn't go anywhere near her
It would go to the left leaning author of the book who has researched her bullshit and raked her over the coals.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:32 AM
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8. So sorry that I misunderstood...
I read the op and still didn't get that. :banghead: Forgive me, it's late and my decongestants are kicking in. :blush: I apologize for being completely dense.

Well, as interesting as it may be (and enjoyable) to read ANYTHING where Ann gets raked over the coals--I'll still pass. Primarily because I have little interest in the subject matter (her).

But I sincerely hope the author doesn't get beaten up by the rw media, since they seem to worship her. It would be a shame for the work to immediately be dismissed if it has some objective and factual information about her, and she looks bad in the process. :)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 09:17 AM
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12. Odds are good that debate on the book will fall on party lines
The koolaiders will say the author is mean, the lefties will say he's precise and insightful. Just from the review and my knowledge of that beast, I'm with the lefties!

The media, though, would have a hard time beating the guy up--even they get shy when arguing with basic, incontrovertible facts! Can't let their bias be detectable! They'll probably try to ignore the thing altogether if they possibly can, for to do otherwise would expose them for the craven shills that we know them to be!

Ah, the brain fog of decongestants....I know it well, so no worries!
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 05:30 PM
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15. Thanks for understanding!
Edited on Tue Sep-26-06 05:32 PM by bliss_eternal
:hi: The backlash on Fox news will probably be brutal, but also funny because it will be SO predictable. Of COURSE they are going to defend the fascist party doll. What else would they do?

Then again, they may choose to ignore it altogether--coulter IS a woman after all. Chivalry doesn't seem to be a strong suit of the chimps on that network.

I guess it could go either way...it will be interesting to see how this all goes.:)

On edit--I think your predictions concerning the msm are dead-on. They are shills, doubt they'll even talk about it. Colbert and Stewart will, though. :P
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:13 AM
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4. Er, the book is *about* her...
...not *by* her.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:26 AM
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6. Ewwww....
Why would anyone bother with that?! Why is it not categorized as "fantasy" or "horror"?
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FujiZ1 Donating Member (75 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:14 AM
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5. Why in the hell would anyone pay her lip service?
Edited on Tue Sep-26-06 01:14 AM by FujiZ1
Christ, ignore her. What a jackass trying to make money off that, he's undermining US you know.
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 03:05 AM
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9. unbelievable! Coulter is outed, and DUers are dissing it.
anything that exposes her for the cheap little fraudulent know-nothing hate-spewer that she is is a GOOD thing. sheesh.
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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 07:47 AM
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10. It is perplexing
But in time you learn to overlook the peccadillos of our
fellow DUers.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 09:24 AM
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13. I find it odd, too--but it could be that the subject matter is just so
Edited on Tue Sep-26-06 09:24 AM by MADem
revolting that one hesitates to buy a volume that approaches it in depth for fear of being misconstrued, or simply because one can't bear to even think about the horrible creature.

I suppose it could be compared to ordering, strictly for scholarly purposes, mind you, books with titles like Encyclopedia of Child Molesting, or Undetectable Torture Methods for Home and Work. The very subject matter is, shall we say....gruesome.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 10:06 AM
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14. IA, and she should be subjected to the type of personal attack
she dishes out!

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madmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:31 AM
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7. The title is the title of the book...
Not Mark E. Smith's DU title of the thread. In short, it's a book about Coulter being Brainless.
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:42 AM
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11. Hmm... it could easily be about some DUers
Brainless :shrug:
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