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Summary: Laughably Bad
Review: Hannity chastises liberals for moral relativism and promotes moral absolutes. But who defines the absolutes? Everything isn't black and white, as Hannity believes. He also invokes our "founding fathers" with a sort of spiritual reverence, without really discussing that their idea of "democracy" allowed voting only by land-owning males. This is but one example of how notions of "right" and "wrong" have shifted over time, as no enlightened person would dare suggest today that minorities, non-land owners or women shouldn't have the right to vote. The converted (i.e., fans of Hannity's radio show) may love this book, but those with an open mind aren't likely to be convinced by Hannity's sense of logic.
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Summary: More Hannity than anyone on this planet could handle
Review: This book could have been written by Dennis Miller, because all Hannity does is RANT!
When I first saw this book, I thought I would read it to find out what Hannity would do to make this country better, even though, after seeing his show, one can see that he has not ideas of his own.
Besides, he spends 99% of the time ranting about how Democrats and Liberals want to destroy the country (which no one wants to do), instead of admitting that they have a point of view different to his and then express why he thinks they are wrong.
While everyone should get together to try to make this country a better place, Hannity keeps bashing everyone who might dare oppose his views. Sean GROW UP!
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Summary: very disappointing
Review: I was asked to read this book by a friend of mine. While I don't share Mr. Hannity's views, I am open to hearing from the other side. I have read many classical works of political theory and many of them represent an intellectual conservatism - i.e. such authors as Edmund Burke, Michael Oakshott, and Milton Friedman. Although I have seldom been convinced by these canonical texts of philosophical conservatism, I have never ceased to be stimulated. Mr. Hannity's book has done nothing to convince me that I have arrived at anything other than the right conclusion when I look upon what passes for conservative writing these days as pablum. This book is just an angry diatribe that seldom offers any real insight. Mr. Hannity is a propagandist of the highest order and his book reads like a written down version of shouting down your brother-in-law in a bar. If you really want to read what conservatism has stood for through the ages then read folks like Harry Jaffa and the classic authors I mentioned earlier. Don't waste your money on this over-the-top tantrum.
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Summary: Know thine enemy
Review: If you're as left-leaning as I am, you should read this book. For what reason? If nothing else, this book takes all the evil things you always knew The Administration either believed or was in the process of planning - and systematizes it into straightforward, terrifyingly clear language. I'm not kidding. Every page is shocking and should be repulsive to anyone with half a brain.
For those of you who won't be able to make it past Hannity's sickly smirk on the cover, don't worry, because I can save you some time: He agrees with the Bush administration on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE AND QUASI-ISSUE IN AMERICAN POLITICS. It's a strange coincidence, isn't it? All the things that Bush wants, Hannity wants. And everything that Hannity wants, Bush is already working on. This book is a joke. I can't imagine what people in other countries must think of us when they see stuff like this. There is nothing - I repeat, absolutely nothing - in this book that hasn't been proclaimed a thousand times before by, say, Roman senators pushing for war in Africa, or for that matter, Hitler's early speeches about nationalism. It's the same old story - fool the people, make them believe what you believe. It doesn't seem like it's that hard. This book has forced me to acknowledge the conclusion that the typical person really isn't all that smart or free-thinking. All the same - read it. Take its Orwellian dogmas and write them on your wall until you're finally moved to do something about the sordid state of our empire. This is the New World Order - barely disguised.
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Summary: What an idiot ...
Review: A friend gave me this book to read and once I had it opened it was like I was reading bathroom walls at school. I felt like I was reading something that a schoolyard bully had wrote. Enough of these BS books ... waste of my time and waste of money. Take him off the air and off the bookshelves.
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Summary: A flawed, but true spiritual guide
Review: Hannity's first book is more than just a daring polemic against the major liberal trends that are suffocating our culture, ruining our country, and withering away at our country's defenses. This is well-covered terrain and other writers have put forth equally persuasive critiques of the ghastly liberal spectre that seems so ubiquitously present in our everyday lives. While they may not be popular, other important figures like Ben Stein (the game show host), Diane Ravitch, Clayton Douglass, David Icke (the Lizard King), Lawrence Auster, and Daniel Woorley, have been instrumental figures in zapping away at the peons of liberalism. Hannity shows himself to be a true giant of intellectual powers in the skillful manner in which he skewers liberalism and shows how they have been derelict in supporting our military and intelligence community, all to the detriment of our country. Liberals are really seditious folk; people without an ounce of patriotism or concern for the traditional American perspective. It wasn't so long ago that liberals were championing the Soviet Union, organizing Leon Trotsky fan clubs, and sponsoring legislation to eat away at the traditional family. Shrewdly Hannity charts the rise of the old Trotsky movement in gaining power in various outlets in America and then frightufully even infiltrating the conservative movement itself. Yes, it is true -- the Marxist poison has spread and infected Hannity's beloved Conservatism. These Trotskyites run magazines like the Weekly Standard, National Review, and occasionally show up in places like Worldnetdaily, and even the Republican Party. While they secretly operate under the banner of Conservatism, they are really subversive revolutionaries supporing an expanded state, ideologically driven foreign policies and even support foreign states -- although Israel now rather than the Soviet Union. Some say that many of their followers are under the MK-ULTRA mind control program and manipulate large segments of society through Barry Manilow music. Hannity has a very original chapter in his book where he discusses the importance of remote viewing -- the mental ability to free your mind from your body and view extraneous locations. If you practice this technique you will be able to eavesdrop on the conversations of these subversives and see what they are really up to. I can not emphasize too highly the importance of this work, and its possible use in launching a Conservative restoration in this country. Do not shirk your responsibilities and deny the brilliant tactics and philosophies this book reveals. A work like this only comes around once in a lifetime.
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Summary: There is Right and Then There is Wrong
Review: Sean Hannity makes no bones about the thrust of his LET FREEDOM RING. His subtitle--WINNING THE WAR AGAINST LIBERTY OVER LIBERALISM--clearly indicates that there is a war to be won, but the opponents are the left-wing liberal Democrats that he sees as ruinous to the future of the United States. Much of his book can be boiled down to the differing world views held by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. Hannity describes conservatives as those who believe in moral absolutes. There is a 'right' way to see a wide range of issues ranging from abortion to immigration to the Pledge of Allegiance. He identifies the Democrats as moral relativists, those who refuse to take a stand on issues that our forefathers had no problem in doing. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the primary external political danger to the United States vanished along with the fall of the Berlin Wall one year earlier. However, Hannity rages against the Democrats who refuse to see that a new and more insidious enemy has arisen on their ashes. This new external enemy, Hannity describes as a unconnected coalition of terrorism bulwarked by a massive wave of illegal immigration, both of which threaten our security and culture. Hannity is further angered by left-wingers who view the demise of Communism as the end to all external threats to American security. Democrats, he exhorts, ought to cease viewing conservative bedrock values as the new political boogeyman rather than on terrorists who wish to crash planes into American buildings. Each of the chapters in LET FREEDOM RING focuses on segments of American culture that Hannity sees as endangered by Democrats. Many of his points are valid even if he presents them as printed transcripts of his syndicated radio shows. His style is uncluttered with obfuscation. His political beliefs are expressed in the literary equivalent of a writing style that draws a line in the sand that separates where we are now from where he would like us to be. Many of Hannity's critics use his writing style which admittedly is screechy at times as a reason to shun both his ideas and values. But the purpose of his book was to reach out to the uncommitted Americans who do not know exactly how to relate to the events of 9/11. Specifically, Hannity wants to re-energize the CIA, the Border Patrol, and a sense of patriotism that was common during the Second World War. He has a special loathing for moral relativists who see the Pledge of Allegiance as hollow words that point only to a racist and homophobic America. Hannity, like other conservatives, believes that if it is permissible for other nations to proudly tout their own respective native and cultural advantages, then it cannot be wrong for America to do the same with its own brand. It seems that only left-wingers would equate patriotism with jingoism. Hannity makes this point as clear as anyone else. LET FREEDOM RING is the kind of patriotic exhortation that was once popular in America and if Hannity has anything to do with it, will be so again.
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Summary: Comprehensive conservatism
Review: I found Hannity's book to be very similar to Limbaugh's two books, which is not necessarily a bad thing. While I was able to anticipate much of what Hannity was going to say, I found his presentation entertaining with his own unique twist. This book will provide a great foundation to new conservatives.
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Summary: Bonehead
Review: As The Onion put it, "Fox News Reporter Asks Questions Others Are Too Smart To Ask."
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Summary: Shallow propaganda
Review: As a non-american I did not expect to fall within the natural constituency of this book. However, I did not expect it to be such a blinkered diatribe. Unless you are a flag waving american there is really nothing in this book that even pertains to serious political commentary. The foundation upon which everything is built is a patriotic love of the US, and an unquestioning, patriotic acceptance that the US can only ever be a force for good. Any deviaton from this is unpatriotic and simply unacceptable. If this cornerstone is missing, as is the case for most non-americans, then the remainder of the arguments just do not stack up. From an outside perspective many arguments are simply laughable, such as the suggestion that the US media is biased to the left. The non-reporting of the 2000 election singlehandedly blows this theory completely out of the water. No further examples are necessary or indeed relevant.
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