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Summary: She tells it like it is
Review: I love ya Ann. You not only speak the truth, but you back it up with footnotes (proof).
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Summary: Treason
Review: Finaly some facts after so many years of deciet. I'm 61 and remember these hearings and more. We have been fed spin for so many years it's past time to wake up to reality.
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Summary: Terribly Entertaining, Provocative and compelling
Review: While this book is highly readable, and right on the spot in many ways, I do believe we could see improvement. At times, her facts seemed to be her elaboration. At times she built her assumptions upon her thesis rather than her thesis, which is correct ideologically, upon her facts. That is a grave error. I do think she carries some of the name calling a bit too far, though it is fun to listen to a raw blooded Reactionary. The war she is engaged in will and does take dramatic tactics at times, as reflected in this work, However, we must abide by certain commands. I know all Liberals will Loath this book with all of their being. I know even democrats will fall into that camp. I almost wonder how she can walk in public. Yet, the book is entertaning and as I said, compelling. I do believe it is a must read for any "get at the truth" minded American, or any thinking, consitutionionally minded Conservative. There can be no doubt that the LEFT is set Against that which our nation was founded on. Their aim is after all the concentration of power in Washington, the distribution of wealth as the Oligarchs or the controlling Liberal see fit. At the end of the day, like Soviets, Liberals cannot trust anyone to run their own affairs and they believe they are more able to run it for them. Not strange that so many blind lambs in our country cannot tell a lie from the truth, cannot see slavery differed from the welfare state. The Democrats are committed to breading a SLAVE class of Americans that they might reign over them all. They must be stopped. And, if it comes to it, yes, by rebellion. Yet, we must be careful every step of the way. guarding our tongues and holding our swords close at bay in hopes they will never be used. And, we must know the enemies of Freedom loving humans, and this book helps.
Yet be leary of those that protect Republicans from all critique. Republicans in large part, especially the Senate and the White House, are centrists. Centrists are now, regrettably, rather blindly liberal, if Liberal means a change from what we have known - i.e. the rule of law, the free market exchange, capitalism, The Freedom of the Church and so on. Liberal oppose these things. Or rather, they like law, so long as it reflects their will. Read it, but think every step of the way.
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Summary: Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Review: I read a number of public and private comments on Treason before I had a chance to read it for myself. From those comments - including more than a few from the right - one would be led to believe that Ms. Coulter reverentially sets Joe McCarthy on our national pantheon aside George Washington while demeaning all Democrats in history - including Truman, JFK, RFK, and Scoop Jackson - to communist sympathizers. What book were they reading, I wonder? As for the latter point, Ms. Coulter, in fact, promptly (page 11) recognizes the contributions of those earlier members of the Democratic party who were genuinely interested in defeating communism, and she never rescinds that recognition (albeit she does soundly dispose of the absurd contention of a tired generation of left-wing revisionists that it was Truman, and not Reagan, who won the Cold War). Accusations that she ignores those contributions are false and seem malicious. In fairness to her (imagine that!!), she should not have to devote chapters to the anti-communist crusades of a limited number of Democrats to avoid that charge. On the other hand, Ms. Coulter is legitimately vulnerable to accusations that she conflates "left-wing" with "Democrat". But that is interesting because it indirectly raises a challenge: Would anti-communist Democrats such as Truman, RFK, JFK, and Jackson still be Democrats today? Would they fit in with a party whose leaders are Howard Dean, John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Tom Daschle? Maybe this is Ms. Coulter's real trap. After all, it is wonderful to watch current Democrat/left-wing proponents of the Castro dictatorship defending their deities -- and Castro's would-be killers (a good thing, mind you) -- JFK and RFK as "their" contribution to the fight against communism (or, for that matter, their reaction to the on-the-record fact that JFK supported and RFK worked for Joe McCarthy). Ms. Coulter's treatment of McCarthy is more complex. Any serious and objective person (a phrase that I have borrowed with gusto from the left) now recognizes that, in fact, there was an infestation of Soviet agents in our government in the 1940's and 1950's. There cannot be any serious doubt about the traitorous acts of the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White (the economic equivalent of the Rosenbergs), and so on. Given this, nobody can seriously propose any longer that McCarthy was the drunken, paranoid "flat-out liar" in the history that I, for one, was taught in the 1980's. He was, in fact, pursuing a thoroughly legitimate and simple objective: People of unconfirmed loyalty ought not be in positions of trust in our government. So, it is clear that - if we are going to be honest with ourselves -- McCarthy deserves a more objective analysis than has been his pop culture treatment over the past 40 years - whether or not you'd want him living under the same roof. By stridently, factually, and articulately challenging the accepted wisdom, Ms. Coulter advances the important cause of discovering the truth about that period. One important illustration. If for no other reason, Joe McCarthy has been condemned to purgatory (and I am being kind) by the audio-visual impact of Army lawyer Joseph Welch repeating "have you no decency, sir" forever in our pop consciousness. If Ms. Coulter's recounting of that exchange is even half-right (and I bet it's double that), it represents one of the great frauds perpetrated on the American people. If readers take nothing away from this book other than a seed of doubt about whether Welch was the scheming attacker (yes) or the innocent victim (no) in that exchange, Ms. Coulter has accomplished a monument. Finally, a few words about Ms. Coulter's style. She is, after all, a potent mix of George Will and P.J. O' Rourke, and she is decidedly not politically correct. I, for one, love it. Her prose and arguments are devastating, and those whom she devastates don't like it (and don't like her); but those devastated, I have found, fully merit her devastation. Her writing style is far more intelligent and restrained (yes!) than Krugman, Dowd, Begala, Dionne, and so on ad infinitum. She is, however, conservative, and that means that her aggressive writing style must be deemed "controversial". Nonsense. If you have the sensibilities to read the New York Times editorial page on any given day, you should have the sensibilities to read Ms. Coulter (though you might disagree with her message). In any event, buy or borrow this book, read it, and be challenged by it. If I can sum it up in a thought: remember that she cannot simply be making all this stuff up, and let that sink in for awhile.
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Summary: A humorous treat!
Review: Coulter makes me feel so much better about the future of discourse.
I was truly beginning to believe that with conservatives were telling everyone about fiscal responsibility while running up deficits, touting the Second Ammendment (and the First, but only for themselves!) while attacking the Fourth and Ninth... and Fourteenth, they had no time left (oh no! I'm a traitorous lefty!)for political satire. Thank goodness Coulter was here to prove my Socialist self wrong. She could only be satirizing the Right. After all, I cannot imagine Barry Goldwater wanting to appear in public with the divine Miss C. Conservatives who read this book must either be in deep denial or dead set against the principles of Jefferson, Washington and our other founders. That said, anyone in this country who considers him- or herself a loyal American should be appalled by Coulter, and by the angry vitriol with which some reviewers have attacked those who don't agree with their own views-- on either end of the spectrum.
Many of you would be better off reading Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, or better yes, a book called "What's a Nice (Republican) Girl Like Me Doing in the ACLU" by Illinios lawyer and former rep Sheila Seuss Kennedy. That book at least exhibits energetic research, pragmatism, hope, and wit. I'd recommend it to liberals and conservatives alike, although I suspect that many of the angrier posters (who seem to be dominantly pro-Coulter) would be dismayed to discover just how unbalanced and dangerous Coulter really is for our freedom of diverse thought and expression.
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Summary: Only an American would understand
Review: Only an american would understand and appreciate such an author. Those in other countries can only guess what it is really like to live here and to have taken part in our history. The truth must be told and the author does so brilliantly. That is what makes libs/dems the most upset, they can't hide the truth. Those of you in other countries who read this book and don't like it, listen up. Americans don't care if you don't 'like' us, I know I don't. God's word is the foundation this country was formed from and there is no other like it on this planet. Sure, we don't do everything right and some of us are trying to change the wrongs being done. Let God be true and all men liars. God bless America. Get this book!
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Summary: Ann Coulter describes Liberals for the traitors they are
Review: Ann Coulter produced a very well documented book that describes liberals for the traitors that they really are. Ann's book documents how liberals have been systematically destroying America from within ever since World War II. Ann's book shows how true American Patriots like John Ashcroft and McCarthy have been systematically slandered and slammed by the liberals who are bent on destroying America from the inside. Liberals showed their true colors when they said that the United States deserved to be attacked on 9/11. The people that McCarthy called communists during his justified investigations into their traitorous activities are now know as LIBERALS in Modern Day America. Liberals are now calling themselves Progressives in an attempt to throw people off the trail of their traitorous actions going back to the days of the 40's and 50's when liberals were know as communists. Thank goodness for true patriots like Ann Coulter who has the courage to document how Liberals are Traitors to the United States and are executing systematically a plan to destroy the United States from within. The Liberals (traitors) who wrote scathing and slanderous attacks against Ann Coulter in their reviews, illustrates just how accurate Ann's book is. The liberals (traitors) are actively attacking and slandering Ann Coulter because her book hit a little to close to the truth about the liberals traitorous plans to destroy the United States from withing.
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Summary: A Well-Researched and Written Book
Review: It is difficult to believe that many of the reviewers who rated this book so poorly have even read it. It is one of the best researched and documented books I have read in the last decade. Coulter provides 46 pages of resource citatations for the infomation she presents and discusses. For those who claim that it is mere opinion I would ask how one explains away all of the sources that are so carefully referenced? If you are a conservative or a moderate you should really read this. If you are not, then you probably won't like it. But not because the information is not factual, but rather because of the irrefutable(so far) information that it so carefully presents(saying Coulter is a right-wing extremist is not a refutation...it is a reaction). I highly recommend this book. For those that would disagree with it, at least READ it first!
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Summary: She Really Has The Liberals Shook Up.
Review: ...However, in spite of the caustic reviews from these liberals, Ms.
Coulter has many pages of bibliography to back up her statements, as well as many direct quotes from the people she derides. I have long believed that which Ms. Coulter writes in her book to be true, and now here comes a documented work to validate those beliefs. After they have read this book, I would
hope that some liberals may have the good sense to re-think their
positions. Conservatives need to read this book, also, in order to arm themselves against the liberal rhetoric of the last seventy five years, and then they need to talk it up to their friends and colleagues. I believe a little preaching to the choir is necessary in order to spread the truth. Be prepared to give your little grey cells a good work-out with this intellectual and enlightening read. I suggest you have your dictionary handy, also, because this book will tax your vocabulary just a tat.
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Summary: Hateful Book
Review: This book slanders liberals. It says Sen. Joseph McCarthy is a hero for making false claims against innocent people. And anyone who wishes to engage in democratic debate and not just go along with conservative ideas is a traitor. This is a very sad book. I cannot believe a book could be so hateful. But then again look at her other books.
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