How to Talk to a Liberal : The World According to Ann Coulter

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Summary: Not much on the title subject
Review: (I would like to erase the one star, there should be zero)

Even if I leave my personal political bias as far out of this as is possible considering the author we're dealing with, I find there to be no real advice about how to talk to us crazy, alien-concept-believing, differently-religious liberals: you know, if you look "liberal" up in any dictionary, you see we are the people who believe in real freedom, not that newfangled "Freedumb"(tm) that Coulter, the Fox crowd (stealing the chickens from every pot) and her government-coupster heroes push. I don't care how funny she is. Idiocy has a way of exciting the humour reflex, so people laugh at Ann Coulter, but I daresay once she's pushing forty and her looks are gone her fans will trickle down to a scattered smattering of cranks. Despite her Biblical beaming even her neocon-loving fans know her prime asset is not her mind. The difference between her liberal counterparts like Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Michael Moore is that none of these guys HATE the republicans. They're fed up with what they do to us, they're peevish and full of piss-and-vinegar, but the hate is just not there. Each of these personalities gives voice to their recognition of conservatives as people who, though sometimes misguided, still care about their ideals instead of living in apathy. The liberal humourists and pundits shout only that we all wish to be left alone, and shout that our constitution is important to preserve. Moore even goes where Coulter doesn't, despite title, and tells us how to argue with our "conservative brother in law" in his latest book: simply put, relate all arguments to his money, and how they will end up helping him make more of it. (Those arguments work by the way!) Coulter will never convince anyone to leave the liberal camp and wave a flag and a bible because hate is simply not very convincing. Nor is it that funny. I've seen better conservative humourists in the amateur blogger scene. Thankfully, Coulter's type ages quickly, and in a few years she'll be a has-been.

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Summary: How to talk like a clueless hag
Review: Ann Coulter is a joke. People who take this female neanderthal seriously are a joke. She's an ill-informed goofball that caters to the angry white man in america who thinks he's "losing the country". That's why i found it entertaining when recently a canadian journalist exposed "Anorexic Annie" to be the misinformed twit that she is.

Don't bother reading this putrid junk. Save your brain cells folks.

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Summary: Another fun read by Ann Coulter!
Review: Ann's books are great. I for one love her style of being very abrasive, brash and honest and that is why she is so great. I think she is dead on in her views and she picks apart the liberals with ease. I admire her and cant wait to read her next installment. I read this one in just a couple of days and it was well worth the 20+ dollars I spent.

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Summary: Great good fun!
Review: Anne Coulter is my hero. I have really enjoyed this book, and I wish I could memorize every word. The only criticism I have is that every once in a while, her writing is too "inside," and she leaves the reader a little behind. So it wasn't quite as perfect as "Treason" was, but still a delight to read. I particularly enjoyed "The Battle Flag" (although I didn't completely agree with everything she said), and "Let's Rewrite One for the Gipper." In every column, there was something that made me laugh, and that is a wonderful talent to have, Ms. Coulter, so please keep it up!

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Summary: Do consider the audio version instead of the print version.
Review: First up, Thanks for taking the time to read my words herein. OK, that said, I'd like to recommend this book, but particularly the audio version of this book. Miss Coulter only reads the first chapter, but the (female) reader who handles the rest does so remarkably in the cadence of the author & does so with professional aplomb. To be honest, I rather dislike collections of essays and/or previously published material packaged in book form, but this work is an exception herein---not only because listening to such journalistic writings makes it fresher, but also because this is not your typical collection of disparate dozens of essays. Rather, Miss Coulter has included many magazine-lenth articles of hers (both published & and those rejected---with the reasons why added), as well as a selection of her columns. The result makes this work a lot less superficial than one (especially her detractors) might expect. For instance, she provides a historical argument concerning an issue related to the American Civil War; one that goes on for around 20 minutes in the audio version. Other issues she devotes similar time to include, the Elian Gonzalez story, judicial appointments, the war in Iraq, the 2000 presidential election and, of course, quite a few other issues with less depth (handguns, capital punishment, Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy Jr.---she respected him, feminism, et al.). What ties everything together, however---and what makes this work more coherent than similar compilations---is that it has a unifying thread. That Miss Coulter is a lawyer is unmistakable here, for her arguments are often based on legal premises (laws that exist, moreover, not how liberals would like to see them interpreted). This book was, in short, a lot more informative than I expected & that made it that much more interesting (whether one agrees with ALL her legal briefs and/or opinions---or not---being beside the point). It's a 3 1/2 star effort (an option Amazon does not permit---hence my rating above), as it does contain much that has been previously published. (One & five star reviewers herein are either doing Miss Coulter a disservice or those who have published scholarly tomes of research---to be fair we ought reserve perfect scores for accomplished historians and the like, don't you think?) I would hope you will consider the audio version of this work---if I may reiterate that suggestion---as I found this format particularly appropriate herein. Cheers!

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Summary: Just her columns
Review: I'm a big Ann Coulter fan and hard core right winger. But all this is is a collection of her columns arranged in chronological order. I've already read all her columns so there was nothing new for me. It would be good for liberals to read to help cure the disease of liberalism, but for me I have already read these columns and this book had nothing new for me.

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Summary: Don't You Know....
Review: she'd love to be laid up in the grave with Ronnie Reagan, banging the hell out of his mouldering old bones (whilst, btw, his soul rots in hell for all eternity.)

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Summary: awesome read
Review: This is yet another WINNING book from Miss Coulter. She knows all the right liberalese buttons to push as evidenced by the gross hostility shown in many reviews here. ;)

The world would be a much better place without liberalism.

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Summary: Deliver US From Coulter & Her Cronies!
Review: To bad there is not a -5 star!

As Close Minded AS you can get. A Real Simpleton!

This is what happens when a proper education is not instilled in one at an early age in life. It is people like her that make me embarassed to answer, when I am asked my nationality in a foreign land!

Hopefully she is not far from burning out, and FADING AWAY!

Based on her books, and how they all talk the same talk, same old, same old rhetoric, her fading away should not be far off!
A hate monger only has followers for so long, before they (the followers) wake up and smell the coffee!

Much better books to spend your time on. However, if your only motive is just to see what some of the folks are being hypnotized into, then it could be entertaining. I suggest using this rag as kindling in the fireplace for the chestnuts as soon as you are done!

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Summary: Entertaining and Well Researched
Review: `How to Talk to A Liberal (If You Must) is a collection of columns that Ann Coulter has written that were apparently `too hot' for newspapers to run.

These columns run the gamut and include such topics as: war, terrorism, judicial nominations, gay marriage, capital punishment, double standards, and media bias.

It is filled with her trademark controversial positions and sizzling one-liners. Liberals will likely not enjoy it too much as her criticisms are uncompromising and well researched.

Although written about serious topics of public policy, it also has a lot of humor and great quotes. Even some of the chapter titles are funny. A few examples are: Elian Gonzales - The Only Immigrant Liberals Ever Wanted to Deport; The Only Cop the New York Times Likes is the One in the Village People; and Give Us Twenty-Two Minutes, We'll Give Up the Country.

In a piece on the Elian Gonzales situation, she wrote: `Liberals lost 300 million people when their beloved Soviet Union was defeated by Ronald Reagan, but Elian gave them a chance to grab one back'.

While addressing double standards in reporting, she contrasted remarks made by two sitting US Senators about two of their colleagues and the vastly different treatment they received. She compared the case of then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott with that of Sen. Christopher Dodd. Lott simply complimented Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday with a statement that didn't appear to have any racist undertones, whereas Dodd made an expressly racist comment in complimenting Sen. Robert Byrd, who is a former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan. Dodd said that Byrd `would have been right during the great conflict of the Civil War in this Nation'. Yet, the media made little mention of it while hounding Lott out of his leadership position for a much tamer remark that didn't even appear to deal with race.

It is not just Democrats that Coulter blasts. She is bipartisan in her critiques. In reviewing the inane security procedures that the Bush administration enacted in airports after 9/11, she remarked that these measures will do `absolutely nothing to deter hijackers' but `will be incredibly burdensome for millions of American travelers'. She then went on to suggest several common sense solutions to airline security.

Besides being highly entertaining, this book takes a serious look at the American political scene today and current issues. It is sure to either entertain or enrage, depending upon one's perspective. Certainly no one is likely to find it to be boring.