Coulter’s latest book flops.
By on Dec 17th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Coulter’s latest book flops.
Ann Coulter’s latest book, If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, “hasn’t caught fire with book buyers,” according to data from Nielsen BookScan. “The title spent just four weeks on The New York Times’ best-seller list–compared with 12 for her previous book–and has sold 97,000 copies in the last 10 weeks. … Coulter’s last effort, Godless, sold 233,000 copies over the same time span, according to BookScan.”
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oopsie, Annie – your fifteen minutes are apparently up.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:04 pmThe sewer must be backed up.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:06 pmIn another year, she’ll have the same agent as Tonya Harding, and as many paying jobs.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pmIt looks like the market for post-menopausal screeds has peaked. What next, a children’s book? It would be the perfect forum for a childless hack.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pmIf you figure the books that were sold to wholesalers and the like… maybe 2 people actually bought the book at a bookstore….
December 17th, 2007 at 5:09 pmProbably too many words in the title. Coulter’s audience gets headaches when they have to read that much at once.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:11 pmIt’s still 97,000 too many books sold.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:12 pmbut AN INCONVENIENT BOOK, by Glenn Beck, and RESCUING SPRITE, by Mark R. Levin, are each sitting comfortably in the top 10 for Hardcover non-fiction.
Comment by cold_hard_lefT
That’s what happens when your employer buys all the books. They see it as a way to increase the audience. Everybody knows Fox viewers can’t read beyond the third grade level. They like books with BIG pictures.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:15 pmThe title should say: “If republican women had wieners .. they’ll be Ann Coulter”
December 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pm7 – So? Pointing to 2 guys who are still have their 15 minutes in progress doesn’t change the complexion of the situation at all.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pmYes, but the NUMBER 1 hardcover non-fiction book is “I am America (and so can you)” by STEPHEN COLBERT, which is a book dedicated to making fun of idiots like you.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pmI guess her publisher needs to buy a few more pallet-loads…
December 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pmCheck out my new book:
If Mann Coulter had a soul, she wouldn’t be a zombie!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pmNeo-conservatives are relocating their good-old-conservative brains.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:18 pmThis book by Coulter is not doing well, but AN INCONVENIENT BOOK, by Glenn Beck, and RESCUING SPRITE, by Mark R. Levin, are each sitting comfortably in the top 10 for Hardcover non-fiction.
Comment by cold_hard_left — December 17, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
One could reasonably argue that, if neither Beck nor Levin identify themselves as a die-hard Republican (but rather, like O’Reilly, a supposed “realist” who just calls ‘em like they sees ‘em), it wouldn’t be as embarrassing to pick up their books right now. But a book by Coulter titled If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, at a time when the Republican party is run by people who are either absolute morons or absolutely evil (or a little from Column A and a little from Column B), would only make the person buying the book look like an idiot. It’s like buying Milli Vanilli’s album AFTER their scam had been uncovered. It’s like still believing Clifford Irving wrote the definitive Howard Hughes biography. It’s like still believing professional wrestling is on the up and up. Even the ones who WANT to believe just can’t bring themselves to do it.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:18 pmwe now know there are at least 97,000 braindead zombies running around loose in America.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:19 pmScary thought!
this is ot but what up with the regnery lawsuit?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pmCoulter and Beck; this is what we are TALKING about! God help us that we give them anymore print time here. Speaking of Godless people!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pmI read somewhere, pardon my lack of a link, that when politically-driven books are released, special interest groups supporting the book will buy up a large number of copies thus artificially thrusting the book onto the best-seller list and generating further sales. I’m not jumping to any conclusions, just thought this was an interesting factoid.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:21 pmIt’s like still believing professional wrestling is on the up and up. Even the ones who WANT to believe just can’t bring themselves to do it.
Comment by slappy magoo — December 17, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
Don’t tell cold_hard_idiot that wresslin’ ain’t real!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pmHis head will explode all over the thread and make such a mess.
What are you thinking?
I keep wondering if he/she is both gender’s, not that there is anything wring with that…..But it would account for all the anger and evil, both sex’s fighting for dominance in an ugly body has to be tough…Poor he/she…….Blessings
December 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pmCue the racial/homophobic/partisan slanders and slurs on the usual accomodating “news” outlets.
Let’s take some bets – will it be blacks, Muslims, homosexuals or Jews?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:24 pmNot to mention that sh!tty authors usually do this to boost the books spot.
Somebody should look and see if Coulter rented a storage unit lately.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:25 pmLefty – I’m pretty sure this time it will be the “feminazis” who took exception to (m)Ann’s call to repeal women’s right to vote recently.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:26 pm97,000 dumbasses still not too embarassed to be seen buying this book. There’s your peer group CHL. Anybody carrying that book is as dumb as you are. Now run along and try to find somebody.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:26 pmSo she’s fallen out of favor with the bulk buyer at the heritage foundation?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:28 pmWe have quite a few misogynist in here today.
Comment by Southern Man — December 17, 2007 @ 5:27 pm
Yeah usually you’re the only one around. Now you’re not #1 at anything.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pmOne, counting you Dixie. That’s a lot where you come from.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pmSome how, the low book sales must be the result of the liberal MSM.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pmSo why plug it?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pmI think Ann’s latest book release came too soon on the heels of Godless, so readers weren’t yet ready to digest another Coulter opus.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pmNow Dixie, maybe you’d like to get into the discussion by insinuating that we’re bad parents who want to allow their kids to be killed – that’s always a good icebreaker.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pmWith news like this out today, why are we talking about Ann Coulter, other than my suspicions that libs secretly think she’s hot?
Comment by cold_hard_left — December 17, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
If you’re unhappy with the content then why are you here. Feel free to run along and start your own blog because I’m pretty sure the people at TP know a little bit more about this one than you do. For example it’s not intended for people who think like you. And I use the word “think” very loosely here.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:31 pmWhen Ann’s name is on the cover, Hendler, they’re called “dopus”, not opus.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:31 pmI think Ann’s latest book release came too soon on the heels of Godless, so readers weren’t yet ready to digest another Coulter opus.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 17, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
I think you meant “Coulter opiate.” But since it take’s a year or better for you idiots to finish a book you’re probably correct about the too soon thing.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:32 pmI noticed something on the NY Times bestseller list:
Glenn Beck’s book has been on the bestseller list for 3 weeks, and went from #2 last week to #4
Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up has also been on the list for 3 weeks, and went from #4 last week to #3.
Yep, Glenn, you’re getting beat by one wild and craaaazy guy!!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:33 pmI think Ann’s latest book release came too soon on the heels of Godless, so readers weren’t yet ready to digest another Coulter turd.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 17, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
you are what you digest
December 17th, 2007 at 5:35 pmHer venomous shtick is old hat.
Maybe if the childless shrew were to get married the God Squad might find her more tolerable.
I mean when she was a 30 something blond tart they dug her. Now that she’s close to 50, she’s kinda pathetic.
-GSD
December 17th, 2007 at 5:36 pmSo why plug it?
Comment by Doc Rock — December 17, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
Yeah, you’re right! Even though I’m a liberal, now that the book is on TP I’m going to run out and go buy me some copies.
woo hoo, TP recommends Ann Coulter book simply by mentioning it!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:36 pmWe have quite a few misogynist in here today.
Comment by Southern Man — December 17, 2007 @ 5:27 pm
We have lots of Adam’s apple bobbing watching going on as well…
December 17th, 2007 at 5:38 pm52 -i’m sure there’s a whole wide world of things you don’t know Dixie, but thanks for confirming my suspicions.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:38 pmSouthern Man, don’t forget what the Good Book said.
-GSD
December 17th, 2007 at 5:39 pmShe should have put a picture of Jesus on it, then Tony Snow would have something to buy as Christmas presents.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:42 pmthat’s the biggest straw man i ever seen.
you are the king, chilly_pliable_wrong
December 17th, 2007 at 5:43 pm58-’scuse me Dix – when did Mrs. Clinton call for the assassination of judges, “perfection” of jews, or the repeal of womens’ right to vote?
i must have missed that.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:44 pmBut call Hillary any number of things and your a misogynist. Hypocrites.
Comment by Southern Man — December 17, 2007 @ 5:42 pm
How many hillary supporters do you actually see posting here?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pmI think you need new glasses or a new brain.
#45, tommy,
I am so embarrassed for you. Morphing opus to dopus is your attempt at wit? At least you built on an opponent’s statement, instead of rehashing “yo’ mama” jokes – I suppose that’s some progress.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pmi see i got to ya there Hendler.
good.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pmThis was just posted at TPM:
Karl Rove’s memoir not drawing as much interest from publishers as expected.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pmdarn, I forget to get global warming into the rant. I’ll have to fix that.
Comment by cold_hard_left — December 17, 2007 @ 5:44 pm
That’s ok
December 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pmit’s not like anyone actually reads your crap anyway
Chilly, Is the straw man party you’re throwing some kind of homage to Ms Coulter, who admittedly bears a strong resemblance to a scarecrow?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:49 pmI think she has just gone to the same well one to many times and the water table is sinking fast. Whether you like her or dislike her, she has released too many books in a fairly short time that cover the same rhetorical ground. And that particular rhetorical ground is being steadily eroded by a sea of change.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:50 pmCoulter’s books should be categorized in their own section
Diatribe.
The frenetic rantings of a scared, shrieking excuse for a human being.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:52 pmI think Ann’s latest book release came too soon on the heels of Godless, so readers weren’t yet ready to digest another Coulter opus.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 17, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
They were too busy choking on or burping up the last one?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:54 pmGodless gives you gas?
#45, tommy,
I am so embarrassed for you. Morphing opus to dopus is your attempt at wit? At least you built on an opponent’s statement, instead of rehashing “yo’ mama†jokes – I suppose that’s some progress.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 17, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
Jeez, Jason, is that the best you can do? “Rehashing yo mama jokes”?And you’re pretending to be “embarrassed” for tombaker? It’s pretty clear from your own postings that you have no capacity for embarrassment.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:55 pmSouthern man: “We have quite a few misogynist in here today.”
Please. Coulter’s the one who recently said that we made a big mistake by “allowing” women to vote.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:56 pmMaybe she could sell more copies if they were printed on paper that was a little more absorbent, and not quite so scratchy.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:59 pmAnn Coulter makes me puke.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:00 pmHey, Col. Jack – whattaya say we take up a collection and buy Southern Man an “s” or two…?
Nah. Waste of money.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:01 pmread something about Regency boosting the “sales” of Right wingers by buying them all up or something? In other words phoney sales so they could make the best sellers lists…..maybe they had to stop that?
December 17th, 2007 at 6:09 pmThanks Dr. Matt – nothing tells it like her own words do.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:10 pmSoggy newspaper is probably more combustable than the drool-soaked rag that she is trying to peddle.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:12 pm#67, Tommy,
LOL – no, I was just so sure that you had been prepping yourself for a better run at me than what you produced, and you laid an egg. You were right to stay in your comfort zone, so let loose with the “yo’ mama” jokes.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pmAnd of the 97,000 copies sold, how many were audio copies of her reading books – used for clearing sea gulls from airport runways !
December 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pmWord has it Turdblossom Rove isn’t getting the big bucks he was hoping for while whoring his bio around.
No takes yet for “My Life as Bush Bobbing Turdblossom.”
-GSD
December 17th, 2007 at 6:15 pmHendler – you’re hardly a fair target. I save my best material for people who I know will be able to comprehend it. No sense just zingin’em right over the audience’s head, dontcha know.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:17 pmEvery time I see that hateful hag’s books in stores I take the time to turn them around so the back cover shows, I sure hope I was part of stopping that hate machine.
Bush/Cheney/Mann Coulter
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
December 17th, 2007 at 6:18 pmWouldn’t ya just love to see Coulter in a wet T-shirt contest?
With a 10,000 psi water cannon?
December 17th, 2007 at 6:23 pmI guess she stepped over the line when she said Jews are imperfect Christians. Even the right doesn’t like it’s arrogance made so visible.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7475
December 17th, 2007 at 6:26 pmIf Republicans had any morals they would be human.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:26 pmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F_ck off, mAnny!
December 17th, 2007 at 6:30 pmAnd coming to a 99 cent store near you…
December 17th, 2007 at 6:32 pmThe only thing “catching fire” is Coultergeist’s overblown ego! She’s a total loser and now her book’s a loser. One loser begets another.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:33 pmCoultergeist is resembling a female impersonator more each day.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:34 pmand are probably as ugly as Mann Coulter. You bunch of ‘tards.â€
Comment by cold_hard_left — December 17, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
You forgot the part where we’re waging a war on Christmas because accidentally we might have said Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. Since obviously you believe everything Limbaugh and O’Reilly tell you, how did you forget this one?
December 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pmWe have quite a few misogynist in here today.
Comment by Southern Man
Coulter is a woman?
December 17th, 2007 at 6:43 pmYou were right to stay in your comfort zone, so let loose with the “yo’ mama†jokes.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 17, 2007 @ 6:13 pm
Here’s some, yo mama is so dumb but even she doesn’t believe you went to Stanford. Yo mama is so ugly but even she doesn’t have an adam’s apple like mann coulter. Yo mama is an ignorant hick but even she gets embarassed when she here’s you defending something as lame as a Coulter book.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:45 pmShe should be happy to at least have something that flops……
December 17th, 2007 at 6:45 pmI’m pretty sure every date she ever had was a flop.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:47 pmHere’s some, yo mama is so dumb but even she doesn’t believe you went to Stanford. Yo mama is so ugly but even she doesn’t have an adam’s apple like mann coulter. Yo mama is an ignorant hick but even she gets embarassed when she here’s you defending something as lame as a Coulter book.
Comment by Shayne — December 17, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
Yo’ mammy is so fu(king dumb that you convinced her you “attended” an “Ivy League” school!! Imagine Stanford, “Ivy League!” Hahahahaaa!!!
I can here it now…
“Ma, ah tell ya ah’m a genenueisous!!! Ah am ‘tendin’ StanPhord!!”
December 17th, 2007 at 7:00 pm#102 is for Jackass Moron Hitler, not Shayne. Let me be clear here!
December 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pmI think Ann’s latest book release came too soon on the heels of Godless, so readers weren’t yet ready to digest another Coulter opus.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 17, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
I’ve been stuck in a long meeting, and I know I’m late to the game but this is one of my favorite comments in ages. I love the idea that (a) Coulter’s books are so deep it takes Righties years to plumb the depths or (b) Righties take years to finish a book or (c) all of the above.
It might be more honest to suggest that even Righties get tired of reading the same old shtick over and over again, but Jason is probably in a better position to make the call. After all, he’s probably been working his way through her last book himself.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pmWith news like this out today, why are we talking about Ann Coulter, other than my suspicions that libs secretly think she’s hot?
Comment by cold_hard_left — December 17, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
projecting again, eh?
December 17th, 2007 at 7:03 pmWith news like this out today, why are we talking about Ann Coulter, other than my suspicions that libs secretly think she’s hot?
Comment by cold_hard_left — December 17, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
projecting again, eh?
Comment by joe cantwell — December 17, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
It’s a mystery to me why the Right thinks Coulter is “hot”. Is it a kneejerk reaction to blonde hair? The little black dress? Is bulimia hot?
December 17th, 2007 at 7:06 pmWho cares? Coulter is just another marketing sideshow and a butt ugly one at that. No educated person regardless of ideology belives anything she says. It is just so much more schtick like O’Reilly etal.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:06 pmIt’s sad, notwithstanding, that this kind of tripe shifts any numbers at all.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:07 pmI wouldn’t touch Ann Coulter with Bill O’Reilly’s dildo.
-GSD
December 17th, 2007 at 7:07 pmWho cares? Coulter is just another marketing sideshow and a butt ugly one at that. No educated person regardless of ideology belives anything she says. It is just so much more schtick like O’Reilly etal.
Comment by dbadass — December 17, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
I can’t tell the difference between the WWE (fake a$$ ‘rasslin’) and the RePugniScums like Colder and O’Liely.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:15 pmHendler, you want a “yo momma joke”
Yo momma so fat, you’re a fu*king moron.
Well, that’s not really a joke as much as an observation.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:20 pmBoo-frickin’-hoo for Annie Coultergeist.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:22 pmI heard Karl Rove’s book is not doing well either.
Hendler’s Mama is so dumb, she sold her car for gas money.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:38 pmHendler’s Mama is so big, when she jumps up in the air, she gets stuck.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:39 pmHendler’s Mama’s glasses are so thick, when she look at a road map, she sees people wavin’.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:39 pmHendler’s Mama is so ugly, she got arrested for moonin’, when she went and looked out the window.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:41 pmCoulter’s books are all the same anyhow.
I’ll be glad when the Left stops giving her so much publicity, there are so many other conservative and contrarian writers out there that are much, much better than she is.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:50 pmTheodore Dalrymple’s new book is quite good:
http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Prejudice-Necessity-Preconceived-Ideas/dp/1594032025/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197939119&sr=8-1
So are his other books: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-3431408-5364660?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=theodore+dalrymple&x=16&y=23
December 17th, 2007 at 7:54 pm117 – Sorry, babe – you guys put her where she is, and now you own her, like ot or not.
In the interest of political parity, I like Paul Craig Roberts and John Dean – both rock-ribbed conservatives, with a lot of experience. Good writers, too.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:56 pmBecause barely anyone wants to read the rantings of a psycho hose beast?
December 17th, 2007 at 8:02 pmStop talking about JoeAnn CoulterMan.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:04 pmIt’s a mystery to me why the Right thinks Coulter is “hotâ€. Is it a kneejerk reaction to blonde hair? The little black dress? Is bulimia hot?
Comment by gummitch — December 17, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
her 3 pack a day smoking habit is kind of a turn off too (hacking black tar phlegm, lung cancer, etc.)
but she does get jas hendler’s cocktail weenie stiff, right jas?
December 17th, 2007 at 8:11 pmAnn
Now is the time be begin your transexual porn career.
http://www.yabbadabbahubbado.com
December 17th, 2007 at 8:32 pmhere’s a sad bit of news:
The auction for Karl Rove’s memoir drags on a month after the Republican strategist made the rounds of publishers with Washington power lawyer Robert Barnett at his side.
“It’s very, very slow,†says an executive at one of the few houses left in the bidding. Early reports had predicted a $3 million sale, but some insiders are wondering if Mr. Barnett has had trouble getting to that number. He declined to comment.
Mr. Rove isn’t the only conservative meeting a backlash. The latest tome by right-wing scribe Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, hasn’t caught fire with book buyers.
eh?
December 17th, 2007 at 9:06 pmThe RNC is running a little short on cash these days and doesn’t have any to spare to buy pallets of Mann Coulter’s books to put her on the best selling list. They probably returned the pallets they bought this time (thus affecting her sales status), rather than destroying them they way they usually do (thereby artificially inflating her sales figures).
December 18th, 2007 at 12:15 amI read somewhere, pardon my lack of a link, that when politically-driven books are released, special interest groups supporting the book will buy up a large number of copies thus artificially thrusting the book onto the best-seller list and generating further sales. I’m not jumping to any conclusions, just thought this was an interesting factoid.
Comment by erock
Actually, this is exactly what happens. I worked for a book publisher for a while and talked to a guy who worked at a company that destroyed books to make sure that they didn’t get back into the marketplace. He told me that by far the most books they took in for destruction were books by conservative writers like Coulter and O’Reilly.
The way it works is, the distributors sell pallets of books to book stores. The “best seller” attribute is gained by how many books the book stores buy. Then when they don’t sell, the book stores return the books for credit, thereby making the book go lower on the best seller list. But, organizations like the RNC and other conservative outfits buy pallets and pallets of the books and don’t return them, thereby artificially inflating the sales figures for the books. They first try to sell the books, then when they can’t sell them they try to give them away as freebies and when that doesn’t work, they have them destroyed.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:22 ammAnn Coulter sold so many books last time ’round because they were sold at 5 buck apiece on Amazon…..I’m sure it’s the same case with Beck’s.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:47 amAnn Coulter’s latest book, If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, “hasn’t caught fire with book buyers,†according to data from Nielsen BookScan. “The title spent just four weeks on The New York Times’ best-seller list–compared with 12 for her previous book–and has sold 97,000 copies in the last 10 weeks. … Coulter’s last effort, Godless, sold 233,000 copies over the same time span, according to BookScan.â€
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Now that’s good news! Wonderful…couldn’t be happier! And if that sounds like schadenfreude — you’re damn right it is! Frankly, I think that Coulter more than deserves to have a little schadenfreude thrown her way. After all, this is the same woman (and I use that term loosely, since she doesn’t strike me as having any sort of nurturing feminine energy about her at all) who claims to be a Christian yet who also — if her books are anything to go on — secretly fantasizes about beating her political opponent’s skulls in with a baseball bat and committing genocide against Muslims. Does that sound even remotely like anything Jesus would do? Not according to the Bible I’ve read, it doesn’t. If that’s what Christianity really means, I for one want no part of it. And no…for the record, I don’t believe she’s ever been “just joking”. Do you see me laughing? No, you don’t — that’s because some of these things are not something that should ever be suggested even in jest.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:09 am“No educated person regardless of ideology belives anything she says. It is just so much more schtick like O’Reilly etal.”
Yes. It’s “entertainment,” and should be treated as such by … whoever finds it entertaining.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:09 amComment by O. Bigfoot — December 18, 2007 @ 1:16 am
biggie you’d pay 35 bucks for uncle karl’s book, wouldn’t you?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:00 pm#65, yea that’s it Wayne…give the righties exactly what they want..feed into the MSM’s lies about Hillary Clinton…
So you wouldn’t defend someone with a straight-on Liberal voting record, and you’d be submissive to someone insulting Hillary?
Whatevs.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm“but AN INCONVENIENT BOOK, by Glenn Beck, and RESCUING SPRITE, by Mark R. Levin, are each sitting comfortably in the top 10 for Hardcover non-fiction.
Comment by cold_hard_lefT
That’s what happens when your employer buys all the books. They see it as a way to increase the audience. Everybody knows Fox viewers can’t read beyond the third grade level. They like books with BIG pictures.
Comment by StratRat — December 17, 2007 @ 5:15 pmâ€
Glenn Beck is on CNN, not Fox. Mark Levin is on radio, but doesn’t have a television program that I know of.
True, but Beck does have a radio show, a one man comedy show (from conservative point of view) and as far as that goes, CNN is as bad as Fox these days…what’s the difference? All the viewers (America in general) are letting the shrub get away with murder…they DO like books with pretty pictures.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pmLook TP, Coulter is scum, but 4 weeks atop the NYT’s bestseller list is by no definition “a flop.” This story is lame and not worth the megabytes of space it’s taking up.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:10 pm