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Ann Coulter: Plumping Her Sales Figures?
The Village Voice ^ | June 15, 2006 | Sarah Ferguson

Posted on 06/15/2006 2:23:46 PM PDT by rface

Ann Coulter may have perfected the art of flogging liberals—and 9-11 widows—to flog her books.

But it looks like she's been getting a little help in the sales department.

Her new screed, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, is now reportedly the fastest selling non-fiction book in the country, with 48,408 copies sold in its debut week, according to the latest Nielson Bookscan figures.

No doubt a lot of that reflects the shitstorm of controversy she's kicked up by attacking those widows who dared challenge the official explanations for 9-11 as "harpies" who are somehow "enjoying their husbands' deaths."

But the marketing of this book by Random House's new conservative imprint, Crown Forum, appears to reflect the same sales-hyping tactics as Coulter's previous publisher Regnery, the right wing book mill that pioneered the art of using bulk buys from conservative and religious groups to plump out sales figures.

Though Godless retails for $27.95, you can get a FREE! copy if you subscribe to Human Events, the conservative weekly that publishes Coulter's weekly rants.

Human Events is a subsidiary of Eagle Publishing, which also owns Regnery (which put out Coulter's "bestselling" 2002 tirade to impeach Bill Clinton).

The Conservative Book Club is also offering free copies of Godless if you agree to buy two more of their "regularly discounted" titles over the next year.

And NewsMax is pitching a $4.99 Godless, if you sign up for a trial subscription to their monthly NewsMax Magazine (or you can get the book free if you pay for a yearly sub).

All of which puts a new spin on Coulter's accusations of media whoring.

In Godless, Coulter accuses the 9-11 widows—or "Witches of East Brunswick," as she calls them—of pimping their husbands' deaths for media attention and political gain:

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much."

"These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. The whole nation was wounded, all our lives reduced. But they believed the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony."

"And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."

Yet Coulter doesn't seem to mind pimping herself to sell books. The cover of Godless features her in a neck-plunging, skin-tight dress, with a small cross dangling above her ample cleavage.

It's quite a pose for a book that goes on about how "godless" liberals are.

Meanwhile, in a column published Wednesday [entitled "Party of Rapist Proud to Be Godless"] Coulter has the gall to go after all those critics who've been whooped up into helping her sell her book: "I'm getting a little fed up with people trying to make money off my book," Coulter complains. "Worthless little cable TV shows with teeny-tiny audiences, ridiculous legislators, and tabloid newspapers are all trying to make a name for themselves off the profundity of Godless."

Oops, maybe that's us.

But didn't the Bible say something about pride....?


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: coulter; envy
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To: GraniteStateConservative
God Bless America and Ann Coulter's boobs.

Ann Coulter's boobs?? I love Ann, but if her face was on backwards, I wouldn't notice. :-)

41 posted on 06/15/2006 2:42:10 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Graybeard58
Wal-Mart has it for under $20

Thanks for the tip! I contemplated buying it last week at the airport, where I saw it for $27.95. Even at that price, the stack of books was pretty low, as if it had been selling at a good clip.
42 posted on 06/15/2006 2:43:00 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rface

I ran an image search on "Sarah Ferguson Village Voice"

Nothing. But you can see she's written about and for every dem/lib/commie you can imagine.


43 posted on 06/15/2006 2:43:17 PM PDT by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
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To: rface

Liberals Behaving Badly Part 1


44 posted on 06/15/2006 2:43:28 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (If you got Sowell, you got Soul !)
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To: rface
"No doubt a lot of that reflects the shitstorm of controversy she's kicked up..."


Instead of building an ark they are going to sit around and blame President Bush for not evacuating them.
45 posted on 06/15/2006 2:43:28 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Costco: 16.95
46 posted on 06/15/2006 2:43:42 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Pukin Dog

I'd have thought that giving her your "chunky monkey" was part of the plan.


47 posted on 06/15/2006 2:43:44 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I only saw 3 copies at my local W-M. They are selling fast.


48 posted on 06/15/2006 2:45:13 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Good catch.
49 posted on 06/15/2006 2:45:24 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Pukin Dog

Darn, I don't have a Costco membership. I'll have to send my liberal co-worker in there to buy it for me. ;-)


50 posted on 06/15/2006 2:45:31 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rface
Though Godless retails for $27.95, you can get a FREE! copy if you subscribe to Human Events . . .

Alright! Free advertising through the Village Voice!

51 posted on 06/15/2006 2:45:33 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: rface
Yet Coulter doesn't seem to mind pimping herself to sell books. The cover of Godless features her in a neck-plunging, skin-tight dress, with a small cross dangling above her ample cleavage. It's quite a pose for a book that goes on about how "godless" liberals are.

They have some nerve to publish this drivel at the same time this FREE weekly paper pumps out personal sex ads of some of the worlds sickest wierdest low lifes. BUT they are offended Ann coulter wears a black dress on the cover of her book.

52 posted on 06/15/2006 2:46:24 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: rface; PJ-Comix
"And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."

Please Hef, DON't DO IT! Even if they will pose for free!

Thankfully, Vida Guerra is featured this month. May they NEVER show Krisin Bretwiser in the buff!

53 posted on 06/15/2006 2:47:23 PM PDT by Clemenza (The CFR ate my bilderburgers! Time to call for a trilateral commission to investigate!)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

I live in New York City. My dentist here is a conservative and he tells me I am one of his few conservative patients. Today he sent me Coulter's book...

He says his patients hate it when he is tuned in to Rush. He did, however every one of his seven staff to vote for Bush !


54 posted on 06/15/2006 2:47:33 PM PDT by somerville
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To: Pukin Dog
Costco: 16.95

No Costco anywhere near me but Wal-Mart will price match that.

But they won't give me my 10% discount on price matched items.

(Now I'm quibbling about pennies - note to self - get a grip)

55 posted on 06/15/2006 2:49:43 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: rface
Thanks for the laugh! They haven't simmered down yet or gotten her quotes right, yet. That's good. Sarah talks about pride, that's rich.

Thanks, rface for posting this good news..........Ann sold another 12,000 copies today, and she should sell 2 million in the next three months.
56 posted on 06/15/2006 2:50:57 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
You mean you have never had the pleasure of buying gallons of olive oil? No salmon fillets by the pallet? You have never experienced the joy of coming home with enough Beef Jerky to survive Nuclear Winter?

Loser.
57 posted on 06/15/2006 2:51:29 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: somerville
I live in New York City. My dentist here is a conservative and he tells me I am one of his few conservative patients. Today he sent me Coulter's book...

My dentist is a conservative too - his brother however, is a reporter for the L.A. Times.

(Neither of them sent me a free book)

58 posted on 06/15/2006 2:52:11 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: rface
the right wing book mill that pioneered the art of using bulk buys from conservative and religious groups to plump out sales figures.

Oh yeah. Everybody knows when this happens; all the "sold" books show up after a while in second-hand book stores and charity sales... just like Hillary's last ---- NOT!

59 posted on 06/15/2006 3:00:17 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Graybeard58

My dentist's wife is a liberal. I think he sent me the book cause he doesn't know too many people who agree with him.


60 posted on 06/15/2006 3:02:01 PM PDT by somerville
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