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Summary: Standard Hate Propaganda... *snooze*
Review: This book is wonderful reading for people looking for excuses to hate their fellow Americans. Another sad example of divisive, hateful rhetoric wrapped up in a flag.Heaven forbid you disagree in the land of freedom.
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Summary: Can't wait to get it
Review: After reading the review by that professor who said he would give him a C I knew I needed this book. Anything that makes a liberal professor mad must be worth reading.
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Summary: Hannity rules
Review: What a great book! This book is the perfect companion to talk radio - which I love. For years, my favorite author was Rush Limbaugh because when an issue was too complicated for me to figure out myself, he told me what to think. Now Sean has been handed the baton and this book proves how smart he really is. I hate the fact that liberals in this country think the constitution gives them the right to speak their mind or present a different side to an issue. The thesis throughout this book just proves how ridiculous middle ground and compromise are in todays black and white world. Thanks Sean for showing how evil the liberals truly are! Move over Rush, Sean's book is now the place I go to tell me how to think !
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Summary: The Truth Will Set You Free
Review: ...and Sean Hannity speaks the truth in this much anticipated book. Of course, there will always be those who refuse to accept the truth as evidenced by some of the reviews. Oh right, most of them don't even think there's any such thing as truth, do they? But truth there is, and Hannity backs his assertions with facts which can be ignored but not disputed. We in the USA have gotten ourselves into quite a fix haven't we? September 11 should have been a wake-up call and for awhile it was, but here we are, a year later, back to the same old attitudes that got us into this mess in the first place. If we just looooooove everybody, let them stream into our country without documentation, shower them with hard-earned tax payer dollars they'll looooooove us right back. Give me a break. As Hannity so eloquently points out, this jihad is for real and in the end will either kill us or them. Get that through your heads you bleeding hearts. Nothing but tough action will stop this now. We'd better wake up and get our act together or the liberal left will find themselves wringing their hands and wondering what happened as they watch the next buildings fall, a city wiped out by contaminated water or disease, or a nuclear power plant blow up. Maybe it will be that bad and maybe it will just be small strikes killing a hundred or less at a time, but we're heading there. Thank goodness there are clear-thinking people like Sean sounding the alarm and telling the truth.
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Summary: Really, really disappointing
Review: I know that talk radio and political "point-counterpoint" TV shows don't always lend themselves to in-depth argumentation and the logical articulation of a well-developed philosophy. That's what books are for. And as someone who has encountered Sean Hannity on radio and TV, I was looking forward to watching him develop an argument over 300 or so pages. Maybe this would be the "Conscience of a Conservative" for our time. No such luck. Certainly, Hannity does a fine job waving the flag and reminding his readers of a few important facts and truths. However, he really hasn't taken advantage of what the print medium offers. Instead, his chapters read like transcripts of his radio shows, or maybe his lecture circuit notes. Much of the news isn't new (the liberals want to abolish the CIA!), and the analysis, while accurate as far as it goes (Mike Spann, good! John Walker Lindh, bad!), seems to stop about halfway down the trail toward the point he's trying to make. Compared to this title, Ann Coulter's "Slander" reads like Buckley. I've heard Hannity say, in speeches and on the radio, that his "liberty over liberalism" subtitle was deliberately chosen. And in fact, he's said that if he'd known how much that formulation would outrage the Left, he'd have made it his title. Unfortunately, Hannity's argumentation takes much for granted: he seems to think it self-evident that a strong CIA and no Clinton defense cuts might have prevented September 11. Those dots, however, remain unconnected. In other cases, Hannity's logic moves in bizarre directions. Here, too, I wish he had made it clearer what he really means. For example, he notes on page 125, "I can't tell you how many times I've sent one of my radio producers out on the streets of New York on a Friday afternoon ... to interview people and see if they can recite the Pledge [of Allegiance] -- and they can't. They don't even know the most basic elements of Civics 101. It makes me wonder: How are we supposed to remain 'one nation' and 'indivisible' if we don't teach the next generation the basics of good citizenship and respect for the traditions of our country?" Is the author really saying that the most fundamental duty of a citizen ("Civics 101"), one of "the basics of good citizenship," is the ability to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Is citizenship really that cheap, that its basis is the rote memorization of a few lines of free verse? I wish Hannity had laid out his philosophy of conservatism more explicitly and fully-- with less about Lee Greenwood and the Pledge, and more about the real fundamentals. It would be fascinating to see him set within his context of true-blue Reaganism statements like, "It [education reform] means more vouchers, tuition tax credits, and educational savings accounts -- and whatever else it takes to break the nearly total government monopoly on K-12 education in this country" (pp. 162-3) Tax-funded vouchers break the government monopoly? Or: "In response, we must continue to claim the high ground and continue to preach racial color-blindness and egalitarianism -- strongly and proactively. That's what conservatism is all about" (p. 294). Conservatism is all about egalitarianism? Equality of opportunity, sure. But egalitarianism? That one definitely deserves more explanation. C'mon, Sean. You're smart and articulate. You can do a whole lot better than this.
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Summary: Conservative reader
Review: While I watch Hannity and Colmes almost every evening, this book was a disappointment. Sean has a tendency of over-simplifying every problem: We are good guys, liberals are wrong, arms race is good, abortion is bad, we, Americans won the WWII, missile defense program is a savior, and as soon as we have school vouchers, they will solve all problems of inner city youth. While the book "Slander" by Ann Coultier is very well researched, and has tons of references, this book is mostly declaration of Sean's views. Actually, Sean is unfortunate to publish his book right after Slander, it looses in comparison. And finally, the style is not something I would expect from such good TV and radio host - Sean uses clichés like "man and women in uniform" so often that it is surprising. Want to read a good book - buy Slander or "Bias" by Bernard Goldberg.
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Summary: Go Sean Go!
Review: Sean, you the man! What a great book by a great American. As you can tell by some of the other reviews, the lefties just hate this book. Well, the truth is hard to take. Thanks Sean, for telling it like it is.
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Summary: intellectual bankruptcy masquerading as political argument
Review: If you to know anything about conservative thought and what it really means to be a conservative and think like a conservative, then skip this book. For starters, Hannity is a hero-worshipper - not a conservative thinker. He is more interested in manufacturing doxologies to Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich than setting out concisely how conservatives think - and why that makes their ideology different than that of other folks on the political spectrum. Does anyone other than Hannity really believe that Ronald Reagan is singlehandedly responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union? That tommyrot version of history, which Hannity proffers repeatedly in this book, sounds like the kind of thing that a curator at the Reagan Library would say -- not a serious political commentator. Hannity's ossified bleating about tax rates, abortion and gun rights is about as revealing as yesterday's headlines. Hannity really is more of a public relations flack than an author or commentator, and his arguments would be more at home on a Republican National Committee pamphlet than in a book.
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Summary: America marches on....
Review: Another loudmouth rakes it in pandering to craven bigots, and those who think patriotism is arrogance and power. Real patriotism is doing the best you can to build a strong, civil nation for all. Patriotism is community service, and advocating policies that lead to the greatest good for the greatest number. Too bad Sean Hannity, and those who gobble up his trite rhetoric, are too busy fighting a "war" against so-called "liberalism". I love America too, and that's why I'm proud to stand for workers rights, environmental protection, social justice, and basic economic fairness for all. Sean would like to paint liberals as unpatriotic, but he fails. Fact is, America is indeed the greatest country on the earth in spite of conservative ideology, not because of it. Social progressives and liberals have everything to do with the grand and magnificent state of our union. Sean, and those who read him, would do well to remember and thank the liberals of history and today, not vilify them. You're weak and failing rhetoric may have made you wealthy Sean, but it can't make you right. Our great nation finds it roots in progressive values, and we'll march on towards a greater state of civil perfection... even as right-wing zealots and conservatives try to impede our progress, even trun back the clock. Generation after generation, America continues it's slow steady march, turning aside from the voices of ignorance, voices like Sean Hannity and his ilk.
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Summary: Totally Hannitized!
Review: I love the way Sean writes! When I'm reading, I can actually hear him in my head. There could only be one thing better than reading it and that would be to listen to it on audio! He writes and says exactly what most of us are thinking. I highly recommend that EVERYONE read it. How can you possibly disagree with facts! I look forward to his next book.
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