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Boomer with Attitude / News And now the good news . . . Ann Coulter's sales drop dramatically
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:54 PM
The bad news we told you about earlier — the return of tent cities to American urban areas, reminiscent to the Great Depression's "Hoovervilles" — is balanced a tiny bit today by reports that Ann Coulter's book sales are headed steadily downward.
Coulter, bony heroine of the hard right and former actress (she played Seabiscuit in the movie of the same name), has been all over the media lately, even agreeing to joint appearances with Bill Maher. The reason? Her latest book, Guilty, has sold a mere 100,000 copies. Most authors would kill for 100,000 books sold, but Coulter is used to figures in the 300K-400K range. And she and her publisher are apparently freaking out.
As media critic Jeff Bercovici commented, "No wonder Coulter is wishing out loud that the new administration had chosen to feud with her instead of Rush Limbaugh." At the very least, it's one more piece of evidence that the conservative wave that washed over U.S. politics starting in 1980 has broken and is receding faster than Karl Rove's hairline.
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