Ann is the Woman! Her books are great and have been phenomenomally successful. She doesn't do her own radio or TV show because she doesn't have to and doesn't want to.
Laura is a great radio host. As an author she is not in Ann's class (I have read both of LI's books too).
What irritates me is that she is the flip side of a Liberal, accusatory, devoid of ideas and more importantly fast and loose with the truth. Just because she slaps down Liberals (I applaud her for that) the war of ideas is still about that: ideas and how to move forward. Reactionary thinking is not the way to go.