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Ann Coulter's Godless - Faultless

...at least as far as page 6, anyways. But I'm going to go ahead and vouch for the rest of it because I think the 'appeal to authority' argument is plenty enough justification in this instance.

Some background: I did not intend to buy the book now, and in fact as I was rushing through an airport today I had two perfectly respectable pieces of reading material which would have carried me through my air-miles quite sufficiently.

But I turned a corner into Dulles Airport's B-gate and walked smack into the Borders store with this as the front level display:


Be still my aching, Coulter-deprived heart.

Now, I didn't need a book, because I've got a hundred books at home I should have already read, but if you put Ann Coulter's photo on a box of matzoh, even though I am not Jewish and I eat low-carb and I do not really like matzoh, I would buy that Ann Coulter Matzoh, just for the picture.

Therefore, I guess we can say I'm in the 'sympathetic' demographic for the purposes of Ann Coulter-related marketing campaigns. I can live with that.

So once we get beyond the photo of Ann on the front cover - which, when you think about it, there's really no hurry to do, because it's a flattering picture (is there any other kind?) and in our busy society how much beauty do we really take the time to appreciate, and, jeez, that's got to be a waist of like 22 inches and a bust of like.... - ok, sorry, THAT was straying from the report...

Once we get beyond the photo, as Donky Cons aptly noted some time back, this book is going to turn some heads. Or explode some heads, as the case may be.


Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah's ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while the Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law. As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not. If people are born gay, why hasn't Darwinism weeded out people who don't reproduce? (For that, we need a theory of survival of the most fabulous.)

Reading a little further:

The core of the Judeo-Christian tradition says that we are utterly and distinctly apart from other species. We have dominion over the plants and the animals on Earth. God gave it to us, it's ours - as stated succinctly in the book of Genesis. Liberals would sooner trust the stewardship of the Earth to Shetland ponies and dung beetles.

Scanning the book, I deem this an amazingly accurate analysis of the "church of liberalism." There's way more to discuss than I have time for this week. I predict this book will be one of the major news themes of the summer.

Ann Coulter is an American treasure. For purely intellectual reasons.

Much more on Ann from Donky Cons, here.

Comments

Well, she turned out as one handsome woman, that's for sure.
I've heard rumors that Ann is a transgender. And seen pictures that were supposed to be of her, before surgery and hormone treatments. That pic definitely makes her look a bit manly. there may be some truth to the notion that she used to be a man.
Conservatives Should Condemn Coulter In Coulter’s most recent book she writes of the four New Jersey windows whose husbands were killed on 911. "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much…" She says, "How do we know their husbands weren't going to divorce these harpies?" After reading this, can conservatives continue to think of Coulter as a responsible spokesperson for conservative issues? It would seem that Coulter has finally put her foot in her mouth so far in she won’t be able to get it out again. In my view Coulter should be harshly condemned by all reasonable people (especially those of us from the right) for her over the top statements regarding the windows of our 911 victims. What could she have been thinking? It would seem to me that Coulter has become one of these people spoiled by their own success - just a little too much money, fame and celebrity. For Coulter it is no longer all about principles and beliefs - it’s become all about “her” and her media image, and about thinking up new and totally outrageous things to say for the sole purpose of calling attention to "herself". As demonstrated by her recent statements, Coulter will say virtually anything to prove a point, or to sell a book. She has lost all sense of shame. Coulter’s highly inflammatory and defamatory comments about the New Jersey 911 windows do nothing to enlighten the public discussion. Instead Coulter’s comments only serve to divide people into warring camps and to perpetuate the stereotypical image that all conservatives are uncaring zealots and extremists. If conservatives continue to embrace extremists like Coulter, perhaps the stereotype is valid. People who write for a living need to be very watchful about the words they ultimately decide to commit to paper. The words we choose to use are extremely important. In all fairness, Coulter’s comments were not made in the heat of some verbal argument. If so, one might possibly forgive her. To the contrary, Coulter had ample opportunity to think about her words before ultimately deciding to include them in her new book and so did her publisher, and both Coulter and her publisher knew this book would be widely read and discussed. No doubt the plan was to sell the book via Coulter’s controversial comments, which is how she markets herself. I think it is going to be very hard for Coulter to regain her past credibility after having made these incredibly stupid and hurtful statements and about the New Jersey 911 widows. Conservatism must always be the party of reason, honor and restraint and this is why conservatives should part company with Coulter.

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