Henry's show on the Independent Film Channel alone is worth upping your satellite package: http://www.ifc.com/henry
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Here's an exchange from Chris Matthews' show, discussing Coulter:
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you find her physically attractive, Tucker?
TUCKER CARLSON: I'm not going to answer that, because the answer, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. That's not the point.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Positively.
RITA COSBY: Don't ask me that question.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Mike, do you want to weigh in here as an older fellow. Do you find her to be a physically attractive woman?
MIKE BARNICLE: I'm too old to be doing that. I had enough fights in my life.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: OK, Rita, do you find her to be a physically attractive woman?
RITA COSBY: I'll throw it back to you, Chris, do you find her attractive?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: You guys are all afraid to answer. No, I find her—I wouldn't put her—well, she doesn't pass the Chris Matthews test.
Whatever she looks like on the outside, inside she's the ugliest piece of sludge I've encountered in my lifetime.
And why the hell is that a topic of discussion on a show about politics? Didn't Martin Luther King say something about judging people on the content of their character?
Number 1 book in the country. Again. PLEASE! Someone take a stab at WHY? BH said a lot of people agree with her. God, is that the case? Are we that lost - a country of xenophobes who jump to rhetoric?
I second the cyborg comment - in the clip, the women doesn't appear to have a heart. Here is a better clip representing the results of Ann's views [warning: the clip is emotional, possibly inflammatory, and often gruesome.... but we should know exactly what the results are of taking her views to a logical conclusion: heartless ----> atrocities.].
Jesus Christ, what a fucking ego on that horrible horrible woman. It amazes me that anyone would find her captivating or attractive in any way either.
I don't even know where to begin. First of all, she really is hideous. That anorexic lankiness with her unhealthy mop of bleached hair seems to exemplify the barren soul. She actually tries to come off as sexy with her comment about how "if she just wanted to get attention she would wear short skirts and grow her hair out long"... Did anyone else roll their eyes at that comment? I did something really unique. I gagged while rolling my eyes. Tough trick... You should try it. If you find it difficult, just watch that Leno clip again.
Her absence of empathy is shocking. Well, nothing she does or says is shocking anymore, but she certainly reinforces my desire to learn of her early demise. She actually referred to women as "broads"... a pejorative term that was popular in the 50's, the golden era of America for which she reminicses even though she wasn't even born yet. When Leno called her on it she shut him down pretty quickly, successfully deflecting his point.
Amazingly, there were people in the audience cheering for her. I wonder if she hired them. Surely everyone in the country can see right through her right (and not just because she's so thin that she's translucent).
I can't believe Carlin didn't light into her after she addressed him. I am also more amazed that the many Christian liberals aren't more pissed about the title of her book. I know quite a few, and I think it is high time they found their voice. She mocked liberals for their lack of response to that particular stab.
I am saddened that her book debuted at #1... We have more to worry about than we realize when someone akin to the KKK can find an audience that large in this country. Our culture wars are just beginning!
I second the cyborg comment - in the clip, the women doesn't appear to have a heart. Here is a better clip representing the results of Ann's views [warning: the clip is emotional, possibly inflammatory, and often gruesome.... but we should know exactly what the results are of taking her views to a logical conclusion: heartless ----> atrocities.].
I'll have to wait to see it at home. I sometimes enjoy shocking video that makes me angry. It's the same feeling of seeing a bad accident. It's just so horrible you look in shocked amazement.
I'll have to wait to see it at home. I sometimes enjoy shocking video that makes me angry. It's the same feeling of seeing a bad accident. It's just so horrible you look in shocked amazement.
Maybe the answer to Kaiser's question lays in this response. At least it would be an answer some people would be a little more willing to accept. God forbid that people buy her books because they actually take an interest in what she writes. That would be ridiculous.
As for the applause? It would be just like her to buy out a crowd to cheer for her--you know--because she has always cared so much about what people think about her.
/endsarcasm
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BeachHead, I don't actually think she bought them out. I am just grasping for a reason that anyone might actually cheer that vile woman. Maybe if people would quit giving her a microphone or camera time the problem would solve itself. I guess the media isn't all as liberal as she would like to think.
Maybe the answer to Kaiser's question lays in this response. At least it would be an answer some people would be a little more willing to accept. God forbid that people buy her books because they actually take an interest in what she writes. That would be ridiculous.
I learned, perhaps a little late, that before I accept someone's word at face value, I have to trust them. As a blanket rule, I don't trust someone who's trying to sell something.
You don't have to sell books to everybody to have a best seller. Ann has a loyal group of readers who buy her books as soon as they are published. On top of that the publicity blitz then gets others who are curious to buy a book.
Do you have any doubt that many Hannidy, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Fox listeners/viewers don't buy her books as soon as they are published?
You don't have to sell books to everybody to have a best seller. Ann has a loyal group of readers who buy her books as soon as they are published. On top of that the publicity blitz then gets others who are curious to buy a book.
Do you have any doubt that many Hannidy, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Fox listeners/viewers don't buy her books as soon as they are published?
Thanks for the explanation Greg. I don't know much about the industry, but assumed that you would need some widespread appeal to be the #1 book in the country.
Happily, I'm not familiar with the habits of loyal FOXNews viewers.
BTW, interesting to see how coverage of the US soccer match weekend varied. In the ABC coverage, all you could hear before the game were cheers for the US team. In one of the foreign news reports (something in Spanish, but I miss the channel), you could hear the jeers and whistles. Another 'side effect' of our foreign policy - I don't recall a time in the last 2 decades where the US teams were booed overseas, or seeing signs that said 'Yankee Go Home' or 'Imperialists Not Welcome Here'. Admittedly, I haven't been looking, and also admittedly, Germany never has liked the US.
They're a closely guarded secret. The only way to know exactly how many copies of any given book are sold is to work at the company selling it and have access to all sales totals.
There's a service called BookScan, which anyone can subscribe to. But even that only tracks about 75 to 80 percent of book sales. It doesn't include sales to specialty retailers, for example, who might be ordering books directly from a publisher instead of one of the major distributors.
And then you throw in book clubs and direct-to-consumer sales, from companies like Rodale, and BookScan numbers might show an ever lower percentage of total sales.
Basically, if you sell a few thousand copies a week, you have a huge hit. The biggest sales I ever saw were for South Beach Diet, which was selling over 100,000 copies a week for months on end. And that was just in retail -- the direct-to-consumer sales were in the millions as well.
I don't know how many people listen to talk radio. I'd guess it's in the tens of millions. But you only need tens of thousands for a bestseller -- as Greg noted, a small fraction of that audience.
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