Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter

I almost passed on buying this as Coulter is such an easy target, I couldn't imagine a book debunking her already-debunked garbage would be worth the time. So glad I didn't miss it. Joe hilarliously takes her weak arguments, poor research and mind-numbing hypocrisy apart page after page with redoubtable aplomb. Well-written, researched and unflinchingly honest about the Neocon Queen Bee. Good work, Joe. Too bad the damn "liberal media" fired you over writing this.

I am so relieved that someone is taking on Coulter's blistering, outrageous, mean-spirited rants. Mr. Maguire meticulously takes apart her statements and shows us that even though this maybe a fantasy for some..."the emperor isn't wearing any clothes" with regards to her rhetoric. She uses words to damage, not to elevate us as humans. Mr Maguire is assisting us by showing the number of fallacies in her hate filled words. Bravo!!

An earlier review of this book reads "Notice that this rag has 11 reviews, whereas Ann's actual book has over 1800." That's the same one sidedness that Ann has tried to promote throughout her career- she's popular so she must be right. Maguire rips Coulter and her arguments to shreds, showing time and time again where she lambasts the liberal perspective for doing one thing and then defends the conservatives for doing the same thing. (See the chapter "Ann Has it Both Ways") He shows how out of touch Ann is with the common man: Unlike Michael Moore, who is criticized for criticizing the upper class while he has gone on to become a wealthy man, Ann was BORN INTO wealth and privelage rather than Moore who was BORN INTO the working class life of Flint, Michigan. Maguire debunks Coulter over and over again, revealing her to be the arrogant, racist, lying, hateful, vicious, and heartless person that she is. If you thought that maybe her comments about the "Jersey Girls" were insensitve or, more appropriately, sickening, then you should see what she said about Princess Diana shortly after the woman's death. Realizing that Ann Coulter is a vile and horrible person does not make you unpatriotic, it does not make you a terrorist sympathizer, and it does not make you a sissy. It makes you a thinking person who can see the obvious.

Ann Coulter is a star attraction in what Mark Halperin and John F. Harris describe in their new book, "The Way to Win," as the "Freak Show." Her methods are innuendo, personal attack, misrepresentation and sloganism. Joe Maguire is not the first to take her on; reviewers have for years pointed out that her so-called "facts" are lies, her arguments illogical and her conclusions preposterous. The thing is, Ann and her audience discount criticism as easily as they do the truth. And why should this be surprising? Does anyone think that people who argue, and apparently believe, that the theory of evolution is a left-wing conspiracy are interested in reality? While it's satisfying to see Ann kicked around (she deserves it) and, hopefully, Maguire and his book will get air time, the truth is that other than, perhaps, Fox News producers and Ann's publishers, who profit from her antics, no one who is not brainless takes Ann seriously anyway -- she is a freak, and so are the members of her fan club. Therefore, this book won't change anyone's mind. Nonetheless, in systematically taking Coulter apart, Maguire does a public service. Reality needs to be recorded, particularly in the era of the Freak Show.

I challenge any conservative, any conservative at all, to do the following: Read a list of quotes from Jesus, and then read a list of quotes from Ann Coulter, back to back, and then explain to the world why Ann Coulter has any right whatsoever to call other people GODLESS. This book is here for all the sane, rational people in the world who see Ann Coulter for what she is: A violent, GODLESS, infantile hate-monger. Well done.