[Reactionary]

"If you really think Ann does anything but preach to the converted you're delusional. No one but firebreathing right wingers are going to even bother to listen to her arguments. The vast middle that you want to persuade is totally turned off by her attitude and crude behavior."

Call me delusional. You don't convince most people by holding forth a Socratic dialogue. On the contrary, you convince them by making the other side into the enemy.

Her book is number two on the New York Best Seller List. Who's "turned off" by Ann Coulter? You tell me.

[Dave S]

Call me delusional. You don't convince most people by holding forth a Socratic dialogue. On the contrary, you convince them by making the other side into the enemy.

You've got to get them to listen to you and your arguments before you can move them to HATE the opposition. Hate doesnt come that easy to most non-political types.

Her book is number two on the New York Best Seller List. Who's "turned off" by Ann Coulter? You tell me.

So Hillary's book was there for a couple of weeks. I'm not going to get too excited one way or the other. Conservatives are notoriously voracious readers of political books and unlike the Dems they have the $$$ to buy them.

You would be shocked at the percentage of Americans that read much less buy one or more books per year. It is a very small percentage of the population. Saw it recently. Believe it was LESS THAN ten percent.

[jedwardtremlett]

Keep in mind, though, that being on the New York Times list doesn't necessarily mean a darn thing.

The book list doesn't rank SALES - instead it ranks how many books were ordered from the publishers. This is why books you've never heard of show up on the list for one week, and then promptly disappear the next: it was all hype and smoke, and then it just evaporated.

Now, if the book STAYS there for quite some time, then you've got something to go on. But remember that Michael Moore's screed was up there for a long time, too. As is the Hildebeast's 'history.' So being up there doesn't make the book right or the author on the right track, does it? : )

J