Bloggasm

Now I dislike Ann Coulter as much as the next person, but I’m perplexed as to why someone would write an entire book made to attack her. How far are we going from real political debate if we’re not only writing books that attack specific politicians, but writing books about people who write books attacking politicians. If it’s a wide-ranging book that examines several different media figures, like Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, then that’s one thing, but a writer named Joe Maguire wrote a book called Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter.

We know the content of this book before we even read it: Maguire will display Coulter’s most shocking statements and then move on to her most glaring stretches of the truth. Then, after it’s published, Coulter can go on her cable interview slots (that for some reason, news stations keep bringing her on) and roll her eyes at the attacks like it’s one big joke. Focusing on one source of disinformation so much is an exercise in fuility, because while all this research is done on Ann Coulter, there’s thousands of other right-wing pundits who are shooting out disinformation in the meantime. People who’d be interested in buying this book (rather than browsing through it at the bookstore for a chuckle) are a sub-group of a sub-group. Not only do they have to be politically liberal, but also haters of Ann Coulter enough to buy a book against her. It’s preaching to the choir’s choir. Now if only we can get a book that preaches to the choir’s choir’s choir: Joe Maguire’s Lies about Ann Coulter’s Lies. I think I”ll go pitch it to an agent right now.