http://www.townhall.com/columnists/m...20050422.shtml
Mona Charen is one of my favorite conservative authors. Her book Useful Idiots was pretty good. It is interesting to contrast it with Treason by Ann Coulter. They both pretty much address the same subject. Where Mona's book is very straightforward, and gives credit where credit is due, Ann Coulter takes the position that Conservatives are absolutely right all the time and Democrats are always wrong. She edits quotes to reverse their meaning and leaves misleading footnotes to support her positions. In Coulter's book she paints McCarthy as a saint that was struggling for a good cause, who always did the right thing for the right reasons, and was wrongfully and evily brought down by the liberals. Mona ,on the other hands points out that there are a lot of Myths about McCarthy that everyone assumes that are true because they have been repeated so much, but she also points out some of McCarthy's flaws. Ann Coulter is just a screeching banshee, but Mona Charen is actually a responsible writer. But of course, Ann Coulter's books sell much better.
