I had her first book - she is great. I had been considering buying this one (Amazon has it paired with Mona Charen's book, "Useful Idiots", as one of their specials), and after reading this, I've decided I'm going to do it.
The bit about the champagne sounds about like what you find when you look in on DU: breathtaking ugliness.
Interesting thread you started, btw. ; )