A surprise best seller shocks the Left, again

This week’s New York Times bestseller is Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. The author is Ann Coulter.

Miss Coulter is well known to regular viewers of the cable news networks. Long blond hair. Long legs. Short skirts. Big attitude and a quick wit that slashes Leftists down to size faster than you can say I feel your pain. Clearly, she qualifies as a pinup girl of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Using computer searches and other research, Miss Coulter has delivered a 205-page tome that stunningly (for those who haven’t been paying attention) establishes how Leftist politicians, newspapers, television shows and news magazines have turned truth on its head. Those poor mislead souls may point to the supposed perils of conservatism, but they’re the real purveyors of hate. The almost 800 footnotes persuasively document her case.

Despite its number one ranking on their own list, the folks at the New York Times are undoubtedly astounded at the success of Miss Coulter’s book. Indeed, Slander points out how often liberals are flabbergasted at the success of books targeted to conservatives. Examples are provided, and here are just a few.

The Washington Post found Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up a "surprise national bestseller." United Press International (UPI) took note of ". . . such surprise bestsellers" as Illiberal Education and The Real Anita Hill. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times was deemed "a surprise best seller" by USA Today.

Robert Bork’s Slouching Toward Gomorrah was a "surprise best seller" according to the Chicago Tribune. National Public Radio branded retired FBI agent Gary Aldrich’s Unlimited Access, a book detailing the sleaziness of the Clinton White House, a "surprise best-seller."

It’s understandable that conservative books being bought – and read and discussed – come as an unwelcome shocker to the deep thinkers who’ve propagandized Americans for decades. They are so detached from reality that they simply can’t fathom that some people still prefer to think for themselves. Why, they must wonder, aren’t customers scarfing up all of those riveting Jimmy Carter volumes instead?

I found a particular passage of Slander especially relevant: "Leaving nothing to chance, liberals also hide conservative books. The hiding books trick – long well-known to conservatives – eventually became comical enough to be written up in the New York Times."

Last Sunday I visited a bookstore located in a mall and looked for Ann Coulter’s book. Not finding it, I asked for assistance from a clerk who located it fairly quickly. The reason I hadn’t seen the book was because, in contrast to most of the other books displayed, it was shelved with only the side of the book opposite of the spine showing.

The clerk gave me a copy and commented there was only one left. "Guess we should have ordered more," he said cheerily. Not that I think there’s a conspiracy afoot or anything like that.

Some conservatives may take issue with a few of Miss Coulter’s conclusions. She doesn’t think, for example, that Bill O’Reilly of Fox News is a conservative. She cites his opposition to the death penalty, his support of gun control, his warming up to the notion of global warning, and his belief Elian Gonzalez should have been sent back to the prison that is Cuba as evidence.

She also doesn’t accept Pat Robertson as a genuine conservative. Here she points out his endorsement of Dole over Buchanan in the ’96 primaries, his calling for an end to Clinton’s impeachment, his endorsement for Most Favored Nation status for China, and his apparent acceptance of China’s forced abortion policies.

Perky Katie Couric, who is unfavorably mentioned in Slander, introduced Ann Coulter using the phrase "right-wing telebimbo." Not that Perky Katie thinks that, but someone else does. With enemies like Mz Couric, you just have to love Ann Coulter. Her book is terrific and will confirm – if you need additional confirmation – that your suspicions of media bias are grounded in fact.

No problem. Let's see...Ken Timmerman, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Barbara Olson, Pat Buchanan... I've read the Timmerman book - he's a liberal by the way - and books by some of the others. Your inclusion of him with the others kinda kills the point you're trying to make. If you want specific examples of lib 'prevarications' check out Ann Coulter's Scandal - each and every liberal lie in the book is fully documented with references to where and when they were said.

I've read the Timmerman book - he's a liberal by the way...

You're calling Ken Timmerman a "liberal" with a straight face? Yikes. You must lean farther to the right than Dornan or Buchanan. A look at Timmerman's website suggests that he'd take exception to your characterization.

Since you've proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that you haven't a clue, I'm done with you. Best wishes.

I actually like it when Coulter calls people (and their ideas) stupid. Sometimes we forget that there are such things as stupid people and stupid ideas. We try to be so fair that often stupid things go flying by, as obvious as turd in a punchbowl, and we just let it slide. Coulter doesn't do that.

There is a great deal of sheer stupidity in the leftist view of the world. So much of it is emotion-based, devoid of rational thought, and founded on the idea that all ideas have validity just because we wish them to be true. Much of what the left stands for (like the idea that homosexual sex is morally, physically and socially neutral, not bad) is pure evil and extremely destructive. Much of it is in opposition to G*d and His people.

In the past, the left had it good because we refused to attack. We need to do more than take off the gloves; we need to pull out the knives. We need to go for blood, ruthlessly. Coulter does this, and I applaud her.

Mea culpa - I just checked my bookshelf and mixed up Goldberg & McGowan with Timmerman.

It doesn't change the fact that Timmerman's book on Je$$e is as right on.

You still need to read Ann Coulter's book and try to disprove some of her allegations. I doubt you can do it though!

"The truth is the mortal enemy of liberals!"

--- PortugeeJoe 2000

I love quoting myself (from a web article I wrote during Al Gore's attempted coup in 2000. I still remeber the debate I was having with another clueless liberal on a USA Today board where I quoted myself and was accused by the clueless one of misquoting PortugeeJoe. He was so holdermcneil-like that he didn't even know that he was debating the source of the quote.

Being stoned is an inalienable right. I read that in the Constitution somewhere...or was it on a bathroom wall?

No, stupid. The tenth amendment is written into the Constitution. It reserves all rights, not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution, to the states and the people.

If you can show me where in the Constitution the Federal Government is given the right to decide which substances US citizens can ingest, smoke, or wear on their heads, I won’t think you a total statist buffoon.

But it’s not there, unless you take your little crayon and write it in.

Have somebody read you that document someday. Sorry there are no pictures.

She's smart, but narcissistic and far too hostile for my taste.

It is not "hostility". Ann exposes liberalism and liberal bias with a confident (and knee-buckling) smile on her face. And that is called "wit".
Ann is so smart, articulate, and dead-on accurate in her portrayal of liberals and "moderates" as the selfish, pathetic scumbags that they are, that she does tend to irritate people like you. It's understandable. But it has always been my opinion that it is sometimes necessary to go down, down, way down to the bottom of the sewer and fight the scumbag Democrats where they live.
Hats off to Ann for being able to do that without even getting smudged.

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