July 28, 2003
Why Ann Coulter's Books Sell
Thanks to a pointer from Mad Kane's hilarious Dubya's Dayly Diary, I found that Ann Coulter will attempt to blog. The preliminary title is "Coultergeist", which must mean that she intends to frighten the living daylights out of every halfway sane person in this country that hasn't yet thought about fleeing to Canada.
On that note, I present a link to the site whose ad was running the first time I pulled it up, the Conservative Book Club. They offer them 3 for a $1, apparently, they must now resort to practically giving the things away.
For those who remember the column for which Coulter was fired from the National Review*, this book advertised on the CBC's front page should set some bells off. The Sword of the Prophet is billed as "What Muslims, multiculturalists, and the media hope you never find out about Islam." Here's an excerpt from the review:
...To correct this, Trifkovic gives us the unvarnished, "politically incorrect" truth about Islam -- including the shocking facts about its founder, Mohammed; its rise through bloody conquest; its sanctioning of theft, deceit, lust and murder; its persecutions of Christians, Jews, Hindus and other "infidels"; its cruel mistreatment of women; the colossal myth of its cultural "golden age"; its irreformable commitment to global conquest by any means necessary; the broad sweep of the military, political, moral, and spiritual struggle that faces us; and what we must do if we wish to survive. ...
Worse follows, if you've got the stomach for it. What's that line about the company you keep ...? So Ann, I'm already scared before you've blogged a thing, your work here is done.
* How out there do you have to be, anyway, for people who say things like this to decide you're too hot to handle?
Posted by natasha at July 28, 2003 01:00 AM | TrackBackThanks so much for your nice words about my Dubya's Dayly Diary!
Writing it is my form of therapy.
Mad Kane
Ah, well, it's become a bit of therapy for all of us, so thanks.
Posted by: natasha on July 28, 2003 02:29 AMI'm also interested to see that her 'blog' has now sat, empty, for about a month now...
and she's still above me in the Ecosystem! D'oh!!
Posted by: (: Tom :) on July 28, 2003 01:27 PMI've said this elsewhere, but I'll repeat it...
If I were CBS humorist Bill Geist, I'd be thinking seriously about suing Coulter for defamation.
Posted by: N in Seattle on July 28, 2003 03:29 PMJust quickly skimmed this post & gulped in utter disbelief. There's no way that CBC would be advertising anything on its homepage, let alone something as vile as that...then I moused over the link & discovered that you weren't referring to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, after all. Phew! What a relief! That'll teach me to stop & read more carefully in future. On second thought, mind you, I don't really care to read much about her, so I should have just stopped at the heading & be done with it.
Posted by: Carolyn on July 28, 2003 08:06 PMSorry to startle you. Thought it would be clear that I meant the Conservative Book Club, but apparently not. Can't get too careless with acronyms.
Posted by: natasha on July 28, 2003 10:31 PMI just went to the link you gave and found the headline "Ann Coulter speaks her mind..." over an empty white article space. Bit a hole in my lip trying not to laugh and startle the dog.
Posted by: Valerie on July 29, 2003 01:53 AMBy the way, your link to their June archive doesn't work now because they re-dated that announcement pos to September 21: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-ann.php?range=09%2F21%2F2003+-+09%2F27%2F2003
Even still, she hasn't yet figured out how to turn on her laptop, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: xian on October 22, 2003 02:41 PM