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Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Sept. 11, 2006 Brainless. Not exactly the title I had expected for my first book. As is typical for most writers, I had imagined something more … I don’t know … literary, I guess. Not that I’d change the title if I could. The old saw that you can’t judge a book by its cover doesn’t really apply here. I just wonder what people will think about it, that’s all. I worry that bookstore browsers will simply dismiss it as an opportunistic hatchet job on a defenseless easy target. But given that you’re curious enough about the book to be reading this, my guess is I don’t have to worry about such a thing with you. And, at the risk of self-promotion, the fact is that Brainless is anything but an unwarranted attack on a harmless celebrity. To begin with, Ann Coulter’s harmlessness is a matter of intense dispute – just ask 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser … or Bill Clinton, for that matter. Ann is an attack-dog for the right. Not a guard dog – an attack dog. The kind loosed not on burglars and gun-wielding trespassers but rather on unwitting passersby. Secondly, Brainless is not a simple collection of pot-shots. Armed with a decade of journalism experience and a B+ in freshman-year Logic (don’t ask about the Latin course), I’ve used what I have at my disposal to deconstruct and expose Ann’s lies and lunacy, as the book’s subtitle would have it. I’ve separated fact, such as it is, from fiction and held Ann’s rhetorical feet to the fire as best I can. Lastly, this book is an entreaty to those of us who care enough about the future of this country’s politics to stand up and say the emperor has no clothes. It’s time to question the so-called conventional wisdom being spouted by advocates of the current administration. It’s time to make sure that truth overrides wit, that sound bytes bow before information and that those with something important to say aren’t drowned out by the shrieking heads that these days pass for political pundits. To this last point, the only thing I ask of you is that you tell me what you think about Ann Coulter, the Bush Administration or whatever it is you have on your mind. Post your comments, read other readers’ postings and exercise the brain you’ve been given. Some people aren’t lucky enough to have one. 0 Comments:Previous Posts Powered by
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