Ann doesn't have a problem, her critics do. As does the author here. It's not so much honesty as evolved parody; sarcasm and irony to the Nth degree and it has flummoxed the liberals. They have to pretend she is serious or run the risk of defending a fictional comedy routine, which Ann seems to be able to deliver with a straight face.
It is, God bless her, sarcasm honed into a weapon so effective that the losers keep digging a deeper and deeper ideological hole for themselves.
I'm not a liberal, but I have learned not to take her seriously. Can't see why anyone would, to tell you the truth. She's the equivalent of Arsenio hall saying something to get his posse doing the old "woof woof", but indeed, nobody else takes her seriously.
I'm just not sure why so many conservatives seem to think that's a good thing.