March 3, 2005

Coulter shows cheerful side by responding to joke with personal attack on people who had nothing to do with joke . . .

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The left wing think tank the Center for American Progress has announced the winners of the “Name Ann Coulter/s Next Book” contest. As Richard Leiby explains in his Reliable Source column for The Washington Post, the contest was inspired by the titles of Coulter’s last few bestsellers. As Leiby puts it, “Think what you will of her political views,” but Coulter “certainly has a gift for writing provocatively titled” books, such as “Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism and Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. So what was the winning entry? Roosevelt: Wheelchair-Riding, America-Hating Terrorist. The author, 26-year-old Ryan Sniatecki, wins “his very own Ann Coulter talking action figure,” whose weapon is a sharp tongue. Runners-up included: Pander: How Character Assassination and Name-Calling Will Make You Popular and Rich, and Democracy: The Liberal Plot to Feed Your Children to the Poor. Coulter, says Leiby, “blasted back” her own choices for her next tome: The Five People You Meet in Line at the Welfare Office and He’s Just Not That Into Jews: The George Soros Story.

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