I have read two of Coulter's other books and have seen the paragraph from which the controversial quote was taken. The books that I read both have the same flaw: she makes a series of excellent points, usually well-substantiated, and then spoils it with some over-the-top comment that gives liberals an opening to make HER the issue and ignore her salient points. If I'm smart enough to see this, why isn't Coulter? If Coulter can make inferences about the Jersey Girls enjoying their husbands deaths, perhaps I can make inferences that Coulter enjoys being a controversial celebrity more than she enjoys effectiveness in spreading the conservative message.
and then spoils brings attention to it with some over-the-top comment that givesdrives liberals an opening to make HER insane and ignore her salient points - as her book rockets to #1 on every list due to all of the attention her books get.
Still, folks obviously went through the book and decided what they could perhaps shoot it down with and came up with the cause of the Jersey Girls. Now all in all, this shows how strong the book is that this is its weakest link. Honestly, this whole campaign to impugn Ann and suppress this book has primarily gone to benefit both Coulter's arguments and her pocket book.
Honestly, without this "Big Deal" being made, do you think she would be on Leno tonight? This is kind of attention that Wilson and Clarke got by the machinations of CBS and their media empire paid for given freely. She is getting opportunities to speak for the hopes she will say something truly unsupportable and humiliating. As long as Ann is up to the task, and if she can get off of this point and share her other points as well.. this will serve to vastly increase the reach of her ideas.