Just Doing My Part For Ann
Part-time serial plagiarist and constant shrieking she-bitch, the God-forsaken Ann Coulter really has it coming.
No, not harassment, stalkers or threats like those advocated by her wingnut comrades; but since her book sales are bolstered by below-cost discounting and her web-site is suffering a downward trend in hits despite her all-out promotional campaign, I thought I'd help ease her slowly to the perdition of irrelevancy.
You can too, it's easy! I tried it and found it very rewarding, non-fattening, probably legal and no where near as malicious as the things she promotes.
Next time you're in a book store, or some supermarket with a couple of racks of the latest bestsellers, and you see her anorexic mug sneering at you -- turn her book around.
I got carried away to be sure, but it was truly fun turn her upside-down, backwards and then put a copy of Al Franken's The Truth (with jokes) in front of each of her stacks.
Alas they didn't have MarKOS's Crashing The Gates, or Glenn Greenwald's What Would A Patriot Do where I was shopping, but the bookstore chains that carry those have Ann in her own display set-up which would make it much harder to play the prank. However, in a supermarket she could be sitting there getting dusty for months before some stock-boy sets her straight.
In fact, if we keep it up, those stock-boys could be getting a minimum wage raise before Coulter's books get sold off those shelves.
Mr. Adams,
You ought to know that—as a bookseller—I am trying hard not to swear at you. In fact, I actually am swearing at you as I type. It takes a good hour each night to straiten the store after the customers leave. It’s obnoxious to clean after people’s misapplied energy (the couple with the huge stack of books that sits down to read never actually buys them, mind). The fact that you are causing me more work explicitly to make it harder for me to make a living is cause for no end of rage amongst my co-workers...
No, you’re not the first person to think of this. At least twice a week we get someone who decides that it is clever to take all the jackets off a Michael Moore book. Or puts bibles in the Gay Fiction section (or Gay Fiction in the Bible section). It isn’t funny. It’s just work...
To put it in a slightly different perspective: you’re stifling free expression and debate. Ann Coulter’s work fails quite well on its own, thank you. Start calling attention to it by going out of your way to make it more than just another book on the shelf will cause people to wonder what’s so important. You are, in all probability, helping her sales. Stop it...
Bwahahaha.