Book Review: Demonic by Ann Coulter

Read this book? I didn’t read this whole book. I cheated, I did the audiobook. Actually, I did about half the audiobook. This book should have been about a third the length it is. The general thesis that Coulter holds is that the left in the united states operates out of a kind of blind mob mentality, which of course operates destructively and irrationally. There are actually some halfway decent points that Coulter brings out. This book is kind of dull, redundant and sort of badly written.
A couple of the better parts in my mind are some of the absurd news stories of the past. Coulter has a real pre-occupation with the Clinton sex scandal. She goes into some fun details of that whole media circus you may have forgotten. Reginald Denny from back in the 80’s? The trucker who got hit on the head with the cinder block during the LA Riots for being a white truck driver in a black neighborhood at the wrong time? I had forgotten about that one. Wow. That’s pretty wretched. People on the left defended it, too. Jared Lee Loughner? Do you remember a couple months ago that whole thing where the left was calling for a debate about civil political discourse and tried to blame the whole thing on Sarah Palin? Coulter hits that one and points out that there was no evidence that Loughner-“liked Sarah Palin or even knew who she was”. Ann Coulter is dead on about that one. They just deemed Loughner not sane enough to stand trial and there’s been a whole mess about the prison getting authorization to inject him with anti-psychotics- implying that Loughner is in a psychological state of a complete break with reality. Coulter has a point on that one- there was no evidence that Loughner supported Palin or even had any real understanding of who she was. He probably really doesn’t- he’s deeply psychotic. There’s no proof Loughner even knows where he is.
Then she goes into some very lengthy bit about the French revolution, seeking to draw a parallel with our American Democratic Party and media. Then she goes into why the American Revolution was vastly superior to the American Revolution.
It’s kind of a weak book. I even agree with a lot of what she says, but this book is a chore to get through. It is very repetitive and she has a weird, very forced feeling sense of humor that I find falls flat. I think the way to go with Coulter is maybe to read a blog entre here or there and get a little chuckle out of it maybe. I can’t do the whole book. When you have these conservative pundits on the radio they at least have people calling in and arguments breaking out.
Loughner- what a crazy freak he is. That might be the best part of the book is the part with him in it.