"One poster defined Coulter's style as "polemical humor." I get the impression from some that one should rarely take anything she says seriously."
Coulter calls herself a polemicist. It always cracks me up how "conservatives" get all cranky over her polemicist ways. She never considered herself to be a boring, dull history writer. To be honestm, as far as political books go hers are of the few I can actually get through without being bored to tears.
The problem I have with Ann Coulter is that when I read her stuff I start to laugh so hard I have to put it down after about 4-5 pages. So I more often read her columns than the books. Oxygen poisoning, not known frequently in the west, did claim the lives of many dervishes. I am just deeply impressed by the spatial frequency of the zapp-zingers. Most people who are good can shoot off two of those a page. She gets going like kid who's figured out the rythm of the batting machine and just smacks six or eight in a row. I have only so much spinal fluid and I need to keep it pressure regulated, not blowing leaks. I loved, absolutely loved, the reply one time to the insipid media-bimbette who asked AC (whiny voice) "Have you ever watched two women have sex?" like it was some kind of requirement for moral rectitude. No hesitation, no balking, no momentary confusion, just acidic, pinnacle, dispatch, "Not since the last time I watched Barbara Walters interview Hillary Clinton!" I don't know how long I laughed for, but it hurt so good.