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Summary: Another good book exposing the liberals
Review: Good book. Not as exciting as Hannity's show on Fox News (you don't get both sides of the coin, and debate is fun), but still great reading. Not a huge amount of info, but short and sweet for those of us who don't want to wade through a huge amount of statistics and analysis. Thank God for Hannity and Fox News. Finally it is possible for conservatives like myself to get information which is fair and balanced. I am truly proud to be an American!
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Summary: Many good points but too much preaching
Review: A lot of very interesting stuff. I learned a lot about the damage ultra-liberal politicians & media are doing to the country. Unfortunately, the book drags a little as he gets too preachy. Not as good as a book by Rush Limbaugh or Larry Elder, but still worth reading.
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Summary: book of bull
Review: This book is such a joke that I thought I was a conservative before I read it. Firt Rush now Sean, what a joke.
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Summary: this book rings false
Review: The Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of religion and dissent, provides for separation of church and state, and favors the individual over the state. Hannity, as a typical blowhard for the right wing, likes the sound of these words but not their reality. Instead, he agrees with the current Republican agenda of seeing their religious views accepted by the country, letting church and state mix to a dangerous degree, and favoring the interests of the state, the rich, and big Republican corporate donors over the interests of the individual. It blows my mind that the Republicans whine about the liberal media, the media elites, etc., when the media is very conservative. Hannity's book relishes freedoms that he does not want you to have. The book rings false.
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Summary: Puts Liberals in their place - Go Gettem' Sean!!
Review: Hannity ties together various points to produce this composite which thoroughly explains why America is the best country in the world. Liberals are simply unable to answer questions that destroy their intellectually bankrupt arguments that buckle under the slightest scrutiny.He explains why Liberals believe the following seven lies : 1) America is rich only because it has stolen money from other countries. Africa would be rich if America had not stolen from Africa. Even the wealth created in the last 10 years from software development was the result of exploiting the Amazon jungles and the Congo.
2) Blacks in the US deserve reparations, even from people who's ancestors came to the US much later than the Civil War. Even Asian American taxpayers who arrived in the 1970s must pay reparations to Blacks who would otherwise be wealthy in Africa had they not been taken from there. Blacks are continually discriminated against by whites to this day at every possible opportunity. The fact that black immigrants from Dominica and Jamaica are doing much better than African Americans means that they are selectively not subjected to racism, even though their skin is even darker. They should pay reparations too.
3) The SAT is racially biased. The fact that Korean, Chinese, and Indian students do better than whites still means that it is biased against blacks and no one else. The Math section is particularly rigged against blacks.
4) All rich people are rich because they had rich parents. If someone has poor parents, they have no chance. Communism, which fairly redistributes the fixed amount of dollars in the US, is the only fair solution. Even the immigrants who became rich after coming here have exploited others.
5) Bush's tax cut only favors the rich. The person making $300,000 was paying $100,000 in taxes, and now will only pay $80,000, getting a refund of $20,000! The person making only $20,000 was paying $2000 in taxes, and now will still pay $1500, getting a refund of only $500. It is unfair that the rich person gets a refund that is 40 times larger than the poor person! They should get a refund of the same size! The fact that the rich person is STILL paying $80,000 while the poor person is
only paying $1500, or less than 2% as much, is irrelevent. The rich are evil, and we have to take it away. Hard work never gets anyone anywhere in America, but smoking pot and having body piercings and tatoos do.
6) We have NO right to attack the Taliban, even though they don't allow girls to go to school and force women to wear a burkha. Women in the US, however, are still held back by the glass ceiling.
7) All the world's cultures are equal. The fact that immigrants from every part of the globe want to leave their countries and come to the US is not a valid point. I do not need to visit Africa, China, Brazil, or Iraq to know that their cultures are better than America. It is okay for China to massacre its own students at Tianamen, and conduct genocide against Tibetans and Uighurs, but it is wrong for the US to attack the Taliban while providing food for the Afghan people. America was also wrong to attack Germany in WWII to save the Jews. Whenever America has a war, it is wrong. If you are a conservative who is angered by liberals who put forth these arguments, you will find indestructable firepower for your next argument in this book. Few books provide so comprehensive an arsenal to demolish the liberal shibboleths as this one. You will also know when you have WON when liberals say 'you are dumb' or 'you don't know' without putting forth an
intelligent sentence. If you are a liberal who thinks the above are true, read this book if you actually believe in free speech (liberals usually believe in free speech when it consists of their own liberal intellectual incest.). Prove that you are not a hypocrite and read this book. Note that the fools giving this book one star do not actually point out any flaws in Hannity's reasoning, but just scream about things not relevant to this book. That is because HANNITY HAS ALREADY ANALYZED AND DEFEATED THEIR POINTS, and they have no choice but to cry in protest to their being outwitted and embarrassed. Their self-loathing ways have been revealed. Read this book before your next debate against some liberal pseudo-intellectual.
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Summary: Offensive, Abominable Garbage
Review: Hannity's very title is a giveaway here to the essential dishonesty of the conservative mindset: "Liberty" is an essential feature of "Liberalism." Hannity's "liberty" apparently does not include religious freedom for non-Christians, economic democracy, nor dissent from the Bush junta. People that REALLY love freedom should boycott any sponsors of Hannity. I do.
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Summary: A Strong Finish
Review: There are few surprises in this book. I liked it, but then this is the type book that conservatives will like, liberals will not. If you watch Sean Hannity's show, or listen to his radio program, then you know what to expect out of this book, so if you buy it, don't complain if it isn't some great revelation for you.
I like Sean Hannity. He is someone who got passionate about something and ended up being very successful at it. That is always admirable. But I found this book lacking content. Maybe it's just that I am so familiar with Hannity that I wasn't reading anything I didn't already know, but I thought there was too much time spent just rehashing guests from the Hannity and Colmes TV show. But then I read chapter 11 and it turned the whole thing around for me. Chapter 11 appears to be Sean Hannity speaking from the heart and it is invaluable. Like Bill Bennett's classic, Book of Virtues, chapter 11 of this book should be required reading for every High School student in America. It exposes the cold hard truth about many of the liberal lies and tactics and how they should be dealt with. In fact, the last 3 chapters really make this book a worthwhile read.
Buy the book. If you're not a political junkie, you will learn a few things in the first ten chapters. If you are a political junkie, you'll get your money's worth in the last three chapters.
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Summary: This man is BRILLIANT!
Review: What more can I say.
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Summary: Relevant, hard-hitting, and insightful...to a degree
Review: Hannity accomplishes much that is good in this wide-ranging and sometimes rambling indictment of the American Left Wing. To his credit, the author goes a long way toward correctly identifying the mindset of the American liberal. Perhaps of greatest value in the book is Hannity's proven talent for identifying the true cause of many issues. He should also be commended for his dogged pursuit (and timely use) of facts to support his case-something not often seen from the other side of the political aisle. He argues from a position of strength (i.e., a premise based in fact supported by a logical argument) on many issues, but where he falls short of the mark is in the intellectual discipline to consistently apply this formula to all of his arguments. Like many conservatives who embrace that title, Hannity remains objective only on issues related to fiscal policy and the nation's defense (of course, other trivial exceptions also apply). True to form, Hannity loses all semblance of the plodding, logical thinker on issues the invoke his unabashed religious views. To his credit, the author confronts this bias explicitly; he openly states his relgious tenets and then argues from them. While his candor is appreciated, it is precisely this logical inconsistency that dilutes the value of the book. For there is a certain intellectual dishonesty involved in placing equal weight on arguments that flow from fact-based, logical premises and those steeped in faith-based, irrational premises. The inevitable and regrettable result, is a book containing a hodge-podge of truly brilliant, rational arguments comingled with relgious appeals to authority, the fallacy of self-exclusion, the fallacy of composition, and other logical fallacies. These intellectual flaws do not, however, diminish the importance of those arguments that do stem from a rational basis. Hannity provides cogent and insightful attacks on the leftist mindset, and he lends much to the establishment of a proper agenda to combat it. Topics in the book include the war on terrorism, military defense, taxation, abortion, the enrivonment, and general social mores. Many of the topics are handled deftly, and much is provided in the way of historical and political perspective. However, as noted above, Hannity too often disarms himself by not arguing from a position of perfectly consistent logic. It would be nice to see a conservative completely identify the root cause of the insidious positions espoused by the likes of Al Gore and Tom Daschle. While much is made of their ample record of hypocrisy, Hannity refuses to take the moral high ground in attributing anything sinister to their motives. Why not? Perhaps it's time to call a spade a spade. Tom Daschle is another ivory-tower leftist who would have been perfectly at home in the hippie movement. Indeed, the only thing truly dangerous about this man is that the same asinine policies being spouted from the muck in Woodstock are now being bellowed from the floor of the U.S. Senate. Al Gore is an even easier case, and Hannity does a fair job of identifying Gore's anti-American screed ("Earth in the Balance") as just that. However, after correctly identifying the hateful nature and harm that works such as these can do to the United States, Hannity goes to great lengths to explicitly and repeatedly refer to the former Vice President as patriotic. Why the hesitation to drive the point to its proper conclusion? Perhaps Hannity's hedging on important points such as these reflect his publicist's means of keeping the door open to visitors on his radio and televisions shows. (If that is the case, perhaps his publicist should be noted among the contributors.) I suspect, however, that this sort of pragmatism is at the root of the conservative movement, for this sort of logical inconsistency is the hallmark of many conservatives today. Indeed, we see this sort of timidity with conservatives a great deal: lucid identification of crucial issues pursued only to the 80% mark...it's like a bad horror movie where the villain is always left alive to haunt us another day. Perhaps conservatives fear that a complete pursuit of their enemies might jeopardize their faith in the almighty compromise; perhaps it might take them too close to some of their own irrational premises. Either way, this hesitation is the reason that conservatives will never fully prevail in the war of ideas.
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Summary: Thank God, we're fighting back
Review: What can I say but that I love Sean Hannity and that I am indeed proud that he is such an outspoken and well liked conservative. For too long, we conservatives have not been represented favorably on television and the news. We were all too often portrayed by the media as the bad guys. I gave up watching network news years ago because I recognized the bias long before anybody ever talked about it. Things have changed. I think Rush was our trail blazer and now finally, we have more than just token representation on television with the advent of cable news and with people like Sean articulating so well our side of the argument. Conservatives should support fellow conservatives in their unending quest to defeat liberalism. Buying and reading this book is an excellent contribution towards that end. I would not recommend this book to liberals. Why ruin their day?
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