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"How to Talk To (not 'with') A Liberal" tortures us with more and more flamoyant redundancy of Ann Coulter's own articles over the last couple of years. Regurgitating the same old cliché-ridden acerbic "shock-style," there is nothing new to gain (if there ever was), from this upper-class Connecticut leather-bound bag of wind lawyer that keeps trying to pitch "demagoguery cool" to the masses. For those that agree with her viewpoints in general, they will like this book. Those that disagree with her, will loathe it. Those who attempt to be conscientious and learn about the world in which we live with objective facts, won't even bother to read this book, for it isn't targeted to them. Coulter has her target-market audience. Earning $25,000 per speech on the circuit, interviews on national TV, published columns and books, what she is doing works. If something is working, an ideologue shouldn't tinker with it too much. Don't fix a machine that isn't broken. She cannot afford to. Leave that to the artists, writers, and musicians, and actual public-policy makers. They can change and explore new ideas and areas--political demagogues cannot. They must stay the course, whether they are being sincere, redundant, or flat-out boring. Keep the message simple, be shocking and controversial, and repeat the simple message over, and over, and over. The Outdated and Moribund "Conservative vs. Liberal" Mythical Boxing Match: As of 2005, Conservatism is basically dead, being pushed aside by the small but overwhelmingly powerful oligarchy of political and cultural Neo-conservatives. Liberalism died about fifteen years ago, near the beginning of the 1990s, with Clinton killing classical liberalism off for a long time to come. Yes, there are a few classical conservatives and classical liberals that remain as individuals, but politically they have both been reduced to irrelevancy, left to pine in the back pages of Op-Ed columns. So why the Conservative vs. Liberal histrionics from Coulter again? Because it works. It simplifies complex topics for the American public. These two labels make it easier, and even possible for the mainstream masses to categorize phenomena that is occurring contemporary American society. Keep the message simple. Repeat the message over, and over, and over. In this book Coulter again displays arrogance towards poorer nations of the world. We should remember she was fired from MSNBC for publicly insulting the president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost." A dubious statement, that cannot be considered a historical fact. Yet another historical error, was when she stated on national public television that Canada sent troops to Vietnam--which Canada never did. When hired as a Journalist to cover the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004 she referred to it as "Spawn of Satan convention in Boston." Brilliant journalism. And one of her most infamous public statements that only fuels more fire for anti-Americanism when we need it least: "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity". Love her, or hate her, Ann Coulter will be around for a while. Similar to the obnoxious "fabulous Sports babe," Coulter learns everything she pontificates about from the daily newspaper--like the rest of us.