Empty Heart of Hillary

SPARING THE RODHAM
Ann Coulter's 'Treason'
tops Hillary's 'History'
On 1st day of release, conservative pundit trumps senator's memoir on Amazon chart

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Posted: June 24, 2003
12:14 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com


Attorney, author and WND columnist Ann Coulter's latest book, "Treason," surpassed Sen. Hillary Clinton's "Living History" on Amazon.com's best-seller list on its first day of official release.

Coulter's book is currently listed as No. 5 on Amazon's best-seller list, while Clinton's book has dropped from a high of No. 2 to No. 10. Topping sales at Amazon is the latest Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

Even before "Treason" was released, it skyrocketed up the Amazon charts in pre-order sales.

As WorldNetDaily previously reported, the week "Living History" was released it was bumped from the No. 2 spot by a paperback title tying the recent war to Bible prophecy called "Beyond Iraq."

"Treason," a follow-up to Coulter's best-selling "Slander," contends that liberals have been wrong on every foreign-policy issue from the fight against communism at home in the early Cold War days to the struggle with the Soviet empire to the current war on terrorism.

"Liberals have a preternatural gift for always striking a position on the side of treason," writes Coulter. "Everyone says liberals love America, too. No, they don't." From Truman to Kennedy to Carter to Clinton, America has contained, appeased and retreated, she says, often sacrificing America's best interests and security. With the fate of the world in the balance, Coulter argues that liberals should leave the defense of the nation to conservatives.

Re-examining the 60-year history of the Cold War and beyond - including the career of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair, Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," the Gulf War and America's present war on terrorism - Coulter reveals in "Treason" how liberals have been "horribly wrong" in all their political analyses and policy prescriptions. McCarthy, exonerated by the Venona Papers if not before, was basically right about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government, writes the best-selling author. Hiss turned out to be a high-ranking Soviet spy (who consulted Roosevelt at Yalta). Reagan, ridiculed throughout his presidency, ended up winning the Cold War. And George W. Bush, also an object of ridicule, has by all accounts performed exceptionally in responding to America's newest threats at home and abroad.

"Treason," Coulter's hottest and most controversial book yet, can be ordered now at WorldNetDaily's online store - including copies exclusively autographed by the author.

You know, it is amusing how conservatives love to tout the specious notion that Americans are basically conservative, and yet conservative authors can't seem to get out of the gate when it comes to book sales. This goes all the way back to ol' flannel-mouth and his book Up From Liberalism . . . (i'll think of his name here in a minute, and ruin my morning) . . . but then, maybe they are correct about the numbers, which however do not include a significant number of the casually literate . . .

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SPARING THE RODHAM
Ann Coulter's 'Treason'
Posted: June 24, 2003
12:14 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
..."Liberals have a preternatural gift for always striking a position on the side of treason," writes Coulter. "Everyone says liberals love America, too. No, they don't." ...

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Frankapisa

You misquoted me.
I said that Coulter's venom is like catnip to the 'HATERS', not the conservatives.

It's not a small point. Coulter speaks and writes like what we used to call the 'Idiot-fringe'. Her hatred of those she disagrees with boils out of nearly every paragraph she writes.

It's true that the idiot fringe has grown much in recent years and the ranks of the 'haters' have swollen; yet, while I abhor much of what passes nowadays for 'conservatism', I believe most conservatives are decent well-meaning people -not haters.

Let's hear it for middle aged women in mini skirts. We wore em once, we can do it again. (If we're careful about it.) I'll have to read up to catch up here, but I'll be back.....(maybe)