SOURCES: COULTER SIGNS NEW BOOK DEAL VALUED AT $3 MILLION

[DemoTex]

Headline at www.drudgereport.com (7/27/03 19:25 EDT)

It's all about money. Has to be. So who will she defend this time? Joe "Cuddles" Stalin? Adolph "Uncle Chuckles" Hitler? Pol "Joker" Pot? Perhaps the heinous George "Chimpy" Bu$h?

[JanMichael]

1. Just one more reason that I'm a Socialist.

Can anyone here defend that reward?

A couple of biscuits and a bucket of soapy water is more appropriate.

Camus would be rolling in his grave if that were possible...

[DemoTex]

6. So would Mark Twain (roll in grave, I mean)

Give her soap and towel, but hide the looking glass. Mark Twain, 1900

[JanMichael]

12. Mr. Twain would be livid with these cretins.

The fact that Ann the Man gets paid a ransoms sum for shit is a disgrace to literature. All the way from coloring books to Les Miserable...

[Fixated]

2. ...

Are you kidding? Pol Pot was a Communist. So was Stalin. Communist killers are worse than normal killers.

Oh well, everyone visit my site (in the signature). See, she's not the only one getting profit from her books. I'm gonna start advertising soon. Cha-ching!

[Clete]

9. Actually those two were communist in name only.

None of the communist nations and leaders of the last century were truly communist. They did a few token communist things like collective farms and such, but in reality they were totalitarian dictatorships that had more in common with fascism than communism. The NAZIs called themselves socialists and workers, but Hitler never worked at a steady, honest job in his life.

[Fixated]

10. ...

Hitler's Socialism wasn't the one we think of, clearly. He denounced the "other" socialism in Mein Kampf. And I'm aware of the non-Communist tendencies of Pol Pot and Stalin, but they were still essentially economically Communist, with modifications (we call ourselves capitalists in the same way).

[Clete]

13. I don't know.

I can't accept that true communism can exist under a dictatorship.

The real problem is people banter around labels without questioning their meaning. I mean we really don't practice Democracy in this country, we just use some aspects of Democratic principles. We should just call ourselves a Republican government until the electoral system is abolished.

[mot78]

24. Well you have Lenin to Thank for That

With his idea for a "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" Soviet Communism, and the brands of Communism that followed (Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, etc.) are nothing like what Karl Marx envisioned. Leninism is differant from Marxism in that Russia was not industrialized, unlike Western Europe, where Marx predicted his revolution would start. So Lenin had to start from scratch. Also, Russia was in the midst of a civil war against supporters of the Czar and Alex Karensky's provisional government, and the idea of a dictator seemed practical in preserving Communism. Also, Communism is technically where workers control the means of production in heavy industry and agriculture. But where you have an entity like a governement overseeing these industries, what you have is a totalitarian form of Socialism, and not Marxism.

[Clete]

26. It should be called Leninism then because it has

moved away from the original concept and changed it into something else.

[Dimsdale]

15. Hitler never worked..

an honest job, eh? Remind you of anyone?

[Clete]

16. Yep.

I am doing a post as soon as I get all my research ducks in a row about the similarities. Hitler though was poor, yet he preferred to let his widowed mother and other relatives support him while he "found himself". When his mother died, his relatives cut off the dole because they weren't seeing any results. He then lived the life of a "vagabond" in Vienna and then Munich. I think we call them "bums" today. He was a frequent denizen of shelters and soup kitchens trying to eke out a living as an "artist" even though he had been rejected as an art student and had no talent. There is more.

[JackSwift]

21. Not true

He was a house painter in Vienna before the first war. Also a fine art painter, but not a quality one. The kind of pretty pictures you would pay $30 bucks for at a street fair.

[Clete]

25. I avoided the term "never did a day's work" for the reason you state.

My point was is he didn't have a button down job, like a banker, and until he entered the Bavarian army in WWI lived like a bum. Even after he became the Feuhrer he left the details of governing to his henchmen, which allowed them the latitude to become very rich at the expense of others, mostly Jews. He did do some bad art that he sold to supplement his income. My sources say it was never true that he was a housepainter. It was propaganda to discredit that he was a painter.

[salin]

3. I think she will embrace Benito "big bruising brother" Musolini

as a hero - he had that religious crony corporate fascism down pat. Shame what those liberal FDR serving american GIs - along with a little help from those pansy Europeans did to him... {Exceptional Sarcasm}

[Fixated]

4. ...

Thinking back, the one thing right-wing idea she hasn't cashed in on is FDR-bashing. I bet she's working on it.

[Bluzmann57]

5. The real question is

Why would anybody pay her $3.00, let alone $3 million? The silly bitch goes on "liberal" T.V. shows and tries to sell her books. Nothing wrong with trying to make money in a capitalistic society, but there used to be ethics about it. Not to mention truth.

[Fixated]

7. ...

Well businesses look for big sellers, and she definitely is one.

[PaDUer]

19. It's Hillary's fault!

Hillary's new book has freepland going bonkers, and Ann the man, is insanely delirious along w/ the freeps...You might have read their thread that they were figuring out how to make the man's book top Hillary's...they're working behind the scenes and in front of the scenes to try to beat Hillary..some of the whackos were ordering and ordering books for everyone they know...don't worry, the whacks will even buy the books and shitcan them the same day!

[philosophie_en_rose]

8. Well, if it's any comfort.

Ann will have to invest 2.9 million buying enough books to force herself onto a bestseller list.

I suspect it will be along the lines of pornography starring her and Cheney, or a defense of Bush as doubleplusgood.

[Clete]

11. Max Amann

Hitler's fascist publisher whittled Adolfs book "My Struggle" (Mein Kampf) down from the orignal title "Four And A Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity And Cowardice". Sounds like a Coulter rant doesn't it? "Lying liberals! Stupid liberals! Cowardly liberals". Maybe she could name her new book "Struggle".

[whoYaCallinAlib]

14. Whoever buys one of her books is a certified moron.

What drivel. Who would spend good money on a book full of lies?

[Dimsdale]

17. Trendy..

Ayn Rand, Coulter..Me, me. Gimme, gimme. Fuck everybody else. Liberalism is counter to that and must be trashed as viciously as possible.

[grasswire]

18. I don't believe it.

Nobody would pay that kind of money for a book that has to be punched up with bulk purchases for free giveaways.

Drudge is her partner in crime -- her best bud. I suspect they've cooked up this story just for PR purposes.

[zbdent]

20. First thought: She paid that much?

snicker.

[Democat]

22. Her books probably lose money, but they don't care

It's pro-government propaganda, the money they spend promoting them and trying to convince people to buy them is just an investment in Big Brother.

[JackSwift]

23. Her latest will be lucky to hit 100,000

So figuring half a million copies of three of these tomes in hardback and another million in paperback still leaves her owing the publisher money on the advance. So unless the publisher is doing for a favor to her for prestige, which Scaife might just do, well, good for her to part that money from the SOB.

[DemoTex]

27. More from Drudge:

Controversialist and bestselling author Ann Coulter is on the verge of signing a new publishing deal valued at near $3 million, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT -- a deal which would become the highwater mark for an advance paid to a conservative author!

The Coulter bonanza is expected to be finalized this week at CROWN FORUM.

The deal comes after more than 600,000 copies of her SLANDER and TREASON have been sold at market.

Impacting...

www.drudgereport.com

Controversialist? Yes! Coulter revels in controversy. Wallows in it like a fat sow. Truth and accuracy be damned! Objective and timely journalism be damned. Coulter is an exhibitionist. She wants to be on display as a right-wing circus freak.

[maine_raptor]

28. I can't wait until

her Treason book hits the bargin bins. Kinda wondering how she spins Tail-Gunner Joes $20,000 bribe from the boys at Pepsi to oppose the continuation of sugar rationing after the war. Or how she handled his defending the SS scum carried out the Malmedy Massacre.

Anybody read it? Save me 50 cents and let me know.

[Razoor]

29. good timing

kinda running on low on toilet paper couldnt happen at a better time
:)

[maxanne]

30. maybe she'll do a cookbook

with some of her favorite recipes.

Dinners With Despots:

The Pol Pot Roast

Lenin Loaf

Dada Dumplings

Meatballs Mugabe

:evilgrin: