Posted on 07/05/2003 8:39:39 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
Well, Ann Coulter makes to #2 two on the New York Times Best Seller list. Quite the accomplishment since she did not have the media love fest that fawned all over Hillary Clinton. "Living History" is still listed as number one, but I suspect that will not last much longer. Hillary Clinton's book career has seen its best days! I urge all who want to see the Clintons destroyed to go out and buy Ann Coulter's book, if you have not already done so. Let's collectively make Ann Coulter #1 on next week's best seller list of the NYT!
July 13, 2003
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On List1 LIVING HISTORY, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A memoir by the junior senator from New York and former first lady. 1 3 2 TREASON, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $26.95.) The lawyer and pundit dissects "liberal treachery from the cold war to the war on terrorism." (+) 1 -- snip --
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending June 28, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
Buy two. One to read and one to lend out or give away.
An excellent suggestion, unspun. A thoughtful and appropriate tribute to a great lady.
...the U-T is too cheap to be current...LOL!
Thanks!NOBODY is more current than Free Republic...
Gotta get a copy of that, too. I enjoy reading Dick Morris in The New York Post very much, so I know the book must be at least very entertaining.
Thank you bump!
I think maybe we'll do a blow up picture of the cover of Treason for the Arkansas booksigning FReeps of Hillary, just so the koolaid drinkers recognize the book that bumped Hillary down and, by then, probably off the charts. Might be a little promo for Ann too.Or, you could use the composite image from Drudge, like Endeavor did in Chicago:
Is Hillary back from her bookseller appearance in Berlin Germany yet?From www.timesunion.com:
GOP chief blasts Clinton trip
The senator is spending July 4 holiday in Europe promoting her new bookBy DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press
First published: Friday, July 4, 2003
WASHINGTON -- The state Republican Party chief criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday for traveling through Europe promoting her new book during the Independence Day holiday, insisting she should be listening to people in Paris, N.Y., instead of Paris, France. "The listening tour is clearly over, and the self-promoting book tour is in high gear," complained GOP chairman Alexander Treadwell. "It's all about ambition and ego and I think the people of New York state are getting tired of her act."
Treadwell charged the promotional events for "Living History," the best-selling memoir of her time in the White House, are detracting from her work as the junior senator from New York.
He also cited a recent appearance by Clinton, a Democrat, at a Los Angeles hospital, and book-signing events in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington last month.
Congress is in recess for the week of the July Fourth holiday. Clinton has scheduled stops in Germany, France and the Netherlands. She will spend Independence Day in England.
Clinton spokeswoman Karen Dunn said, "New Yorkers are sick of this kind of divisive politics. A good Fourth of July lesson for the Republican party is to stop questioning the patriotism of their fellow Americans."
Given the United States' recent rocky relationship with France over the war in Iraq, Treadwell took special exception to Clinton's appearance in that country.
French first lady Bernadette Chirac said Wednesday that many women hope Clinton will run for the presidency and win, saying such a historic move would encourage women around the globe to engage in politics.
"Maybe (president) of France, but not here," said Treadwell, who said he believed most members of Congress "spend their time back in their districts ... getting in touch with the people they represent."
Paris, N.Y., is a town of roughly 5,000 people in Oneida County.
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Things that make you go hmmm...
She moves with ease from a specific contested fact or an event to the generalization that sweeps broadly to condemn all within the scope of her ill-founded, and consistently fraudulent, universal truth. Virtually every assertion throughout the book, which I have just finished reading, casts the widest possible net to indict all of those with whom she disagrees as some form of traitor for whom disloyalty to America is a permeating truth.
Her work is neither a scholarly nor a competent examination of contested issues that constitute the playing fields of today's political debates and community concerns. It does nothing to enlighten the reader of the competing perspectives and goals of advocates along the spectrum of American society and how those voices undertake the task of justifying their positions and communicating to convince others. Rather, it is nothing less than a self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing and aimlessly angry screed in bold language that "waves the bloody shirt" intending to inflame the passions of those who already share her predispositions of unrelenting hatred of those having differing views and offering differing solutions. And, by the sound of the loyal Coulter devotees' postings, she has succeeded beyond expectations. Instead of being an enlightened advocate and communicator, she is merely a highly effective cheerleader.
Ms. Coulter is obviously bright, articulate and an observer of the contemporary scene who could, if she chose to do so, add to the inventory of thoughful commentary and become an respectful advocate for her policies, as well as the policy goals of those who agree with her. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, she has opted for a strident, hyperbolical, and contemptuous tone of authorship that obliterates any morsel of meritorious fact and thought that must certainly exist somewhere among the pages.
The real loss caused by her book is that the conservative message, to which I am a firm adherent and that contains a great deal of value to serious listeners, fails to get delivered. The only value of the work is to the author who benefits by the sale to readers anxious to say: "Yeah, go get 'em Ann" or, "You go girl."
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