Matt Yglesias reports that Jonah Goldberg thinks that Ann Coulter's books aren't serious, they're just meant as red meat for the rubes. Goldberg is under the delusion that Liberal Fascism is a real contribution to our knowledge:
Goldberg’s editor, in other words, understood that this was the sort of red meat the rubes would eat up. But the gossip I’ve heard has it that he was then taken aback to discover that Goldberg didn’t see the project that way. He’s sufficiently vainglorious, out of touch, and egomaniacal that he really does think of the book as a “very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care” and genuinely takes offense at the fact that people are grappling with his scholarship.
Recall his indignant huff that his book “isn’t like any Ann Coulter book.”
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