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Summary: Something you don't want to hear
Review: Coulter delivers a scathing, powerfully witty rants throughout her entire book. Some of the more notable pieces include an inarguable defense of Reagan, a hillarious list celebrity quotations, and some unquestionable facts (e.g. SENATOR McCarthy not being a member of HUAC, the HOUSE committee responsible for Hollywood blacklisting). She occassionally loses the reader with over-the-top rhetoric and unabashed sarcasm, but her points are (usually) well-made, pointing out the inherent flaws in today's politics; her arguements are always factually air-tight.Looking through some of the reviews, many people seem to evade the bare fact. This proves Coulter's theory of liberals choosing vague emotional pleas over reality. One reviewer simply types, "Supporting McCarthyism; how unAmerican," a comment so ignorant and hypocritical, its beyond rational thought. Another comments that JFK's initiation of the Bay of Pigs demonstrates how stuanchly anti-Communist he was. These comments just beg the question, "Did these 'reviewers' even read the book?" Unfortunately, the book's flaming rhetoric alienates moderates, it's adherence to fact infuriates liberals, and it's conservative view only appeases hardline conservatives. So, if you're a liberal, don't bother reading this (just write an ignorant, blaise review on Amazon.com), if you're a conservative, give it a read (it'll give you some decent ammunition) and if you're a moderate, take it out from the library. Once you get past the chest-pounding and harsh language, you're left with a savvy, factual, intriguing book.
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Summary: Ann hasn't missed a beat yet
Review: She does tend to go a little over the top, but regular readers of Ann's recognize that this is her style and her delivery is often made with tongue more or less in cheek. Also, she is strongly partisan and makes no secret of it. This evidently deeply offends leftist-liberals who much prefer that anything published that's partisan be a) partisan in favor of leftist-liberals only and b) carefully disguised as non-partisan and objective. A previous reviewer demanded to know why if what Ann says is true, why has nothing been published about these things before? Actually a great deal has been published about them, and Ann references and cites some of these other sources in her book. The problem with them is that they have tended to be arcane, scholarly and/or not promoted to the general readership, so Joe Average has never heard of them. Ann's work is scholarly too (e.g., end notes and sources given throughout the book), but she also knows how to punch all the right buttons to make sure that what she writes will be widely read--here of course her past successes as a No. 1 non-fiction best seller haven't done her any harm. She sure does get reviewers and interviewers sputtering. Chris Matthews demanded FIVE TIMES that she say whether Jack Kennedy was a traitor, even after she had already answered No. Checking every single reference to JFK in her book shows there is absolutely nothing to suggest that she thought him a traitor. On the contrary, she gives examples of Kennedy's strong support and praise for Sen. McCarthy, with which of course she is in complete agreement. So Matthews' insinuation was without any basis in fact.
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Summary: Inflammatory pure and simple...emphasis on simple
Review: This book is so patently inflammatory, that it doesn't even deserve comment. And yet, here I am commenting! I will keep it short. I have believed for many years, after biting my lip and actually listening to Rush Limbaugh for a time, that he is a pragmatist, i.e. one who is doing what he knows will maintain, and even increase, his fan base for the simple purpose of putting money in his pocket. I see a man in Rush, who perhaps has no real moral identity at all, but has built a facade of "morality" to address and exploit a market. Simply put, he tells people what they want to hear, so he can make money. He exploits people's ignorance, so he can sell "power ties" and rake in the profits of his syndicated radio show. I will not dignify Ann Coulter's insane rhetoric with much more than a simple ditto to what I said about Rush. She is following in the footsteps of Rush, and trying to make money by exploiting Americans innate ignorance, their hatreds and their biases. She is part of the problem in this country, not part of the solution. The solution is almost as simpleminded as Coulter (although I believe she's really sharper than she let's on!). People need to speak to one another in a civil fashion and work it out. People, and Americans specifically, need to see other people, and Americans specifically, as not "the enemy" as characterized by neo-conservative pundits like Coulter, but as people of differing opinions with whom a consensus needs to be arrived at. This "them and us" rhetoric needs to stop. What ever happened to the honorable estate that was expressed in the term "loyal opposition"? If we allow the boorish and graceless culture exempified in Coulter's book, and rhetoric, to continue, we all will lose. We are all concerned with the same issues, and we should simply show respect for differences of opinion. This book is garbage. Enough said.
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Summary: Step AWAY from the crack!
Review: I noticed a similarity between Ann Coulter and Joe McCarthy... They both say something extremely stupid, and people actually start believing them. I'm sure that if you dig deep enough, you can discover that... Hitler was actually a Jew!
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Summary: Terrific
Review: Simply Unputdownable. Ann is witty and sarcastic and she gives facts dates, names and cuts through propaganda. I recommend this book to every American.
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Summary: Treason...
Review: I found the book to be informative and cleverly written. Ann Colter has a way of pulling your leg and "telling it like it is" at the same time, but it was pretty clear to me which was which. While I am admittedly a little right of moderate, I can't see why the book has some conservatives in an uproar. McCarthy targeted Hollywood for a reason. Someone should target it now.
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Summary: Eye-Opening Book
Review: This book provided me with a first rate education on the behavior of liberals in this country over the past 50 years, from blindly allowing communists to wander the hall of the government, the slander campaign against a great american -- Joe McCarthy, to the distortion of facts surrounding the Soviet Union and our present conflict. From the facts presented in this book -- and she does a very meticulous job of documenting her sources -- one can see the pattern of unpatriotic activities liberals have engaged in over the past 50 years; Hence the title of the book, Treason.
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Summary: Review from a conservative college student.
Review: Let me begin by saying that I am an avid fan of Ann Coulter. Not only is she brilliant, but she's hot too. I read her columns religiously, and I bought and read Slander the day that it came out. That being said I now understand why she was fired from National Review. Her writing style has decayed to a substandard level. In her attempt to follow in the footsteps of the masterpiece that was Slander she has strayed from her principles of writing that got her to where she is today. The book is extremely repetitive, and simple. In her attempts to slam the left (which I support whole heartedly) she seems to lose sight of the fact that her audience is an intelligent sort that does not need to be hammered over the head with every point that she makes. The repetition and over passionate style of writing has made the book almost unreadable to even a staunch conservative such as myself. Nonetheless, she does make some excellent points, and the book is worth reading if you can make it through all of the rhetoric and repetition.
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Summary: Embarrassed to be a conservative
Review: This book (as well as her others) makes me embarrassed to call myself a conservative. She's the Michael Moore of the right, except somewhat better looking. I suspect her popularity is based on her looks, because it certainly has nothing to do with her writing skills.
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Summary: Right on target!
Review: I was born in 1953 and grew up in the 1960s. I attended the Chicago Public Schools where I was taught, as I'm sure that many of you were, that the "McCarthy Era" was a terrible time when innocent people cowered in fear that the ogre Senator Joseph McCarthy would wrongfully accuse them of being Communists and ruin their lives. It was described as if it were the return of the Salem witch trials, only worse. Senator McCarthy was invariably described as a publicity seeking demagogue who never actually found a single traitor and who was finally exposed as worse than wrong, a shameless self promoter who recklessly destroyed the lives of many good people. As an adult I occasionally would notice that the real facts were quite different. For example, let's take the case of Mr. Vladimir P. who used to regularly appear on American television in the late 80s and early 90s at about the time of the collapse of the Soviet empire. He was invariably introduced as a "journalist" from the Soviet Union. I discovered that Mr. P. was born as an American Jew whose father was employed at the movie studios in Hollywood until he was "outed" as a Communist or Communist sympathizer. So he did what any other innocent and loyal American would do when wrongfully accused of being soft on communism, he took his family to the Soviet Union where his son Vladimir became a devoted member of the Communist Party and a "journalist" for Pravda, the mouthpiece for the Soviet government . He then came to America where he became a houseguest of the host of a certain well known nightly news program and a business partner of a well known TV talk show host. So many times I noticed that "innocent" people like these turned out to be pretty much what Senator McCarthy and his supporters said they were. I also noted that our great press and media never seemed to notice this, or at least they never mention it, nor did the great minds of academia, for that matter. In this book "Treason", Ann Coulter does a better job than anyone else ever has at laying out the true facts about what the records show actually happened. SENATOR MCCARTHY WAS RIGHT! Alger Hiss WAS a Soviet agent! The Rosenbergs DID PASS ATOMIC SECRETS TO THE SOVIETS! If anything McCarthy underestimated the Communist infiltration into our federal government. He was a conscientious, patriotic American who may have done more than anyone else in facilitating the ultimate victory of the American way over the Stalinist totalitarian Soviet Union. Ann Coulter is becoming as effective a spokesperson for conservative Americans as Rush Limbaugh was ten years ago. Her method is to confront liberals with the truth and the liberals HATE her for it. It's as if the liberal establishment collectively decided in the 30s and 40s to abandon the truth about their peculiar relationship with the Communists and have been lying about it ever since. Now, all that they have left are the lies. Ann Coulter has the truth and she gives it to you straight. I imagine that it must be very scary for the liberals.
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