Slander

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Summary: Slander is not a hyperbolic title
Review: Ann Coulter's rhetoric may at times seem a bit bombastic and colorful, but her arguments in Slander are cogent and cautiously stated. It is also not a book written solely for a conservative audience . On the contrary, Slander deserves the attention of everyone regardless of their own personal political predilections. Coulter provides abundant evidence that our national discourse has been skewed by the major media outlets. Thus, how can concerned citizens make wise decisions if legitimate and thoughtful positions are taken out of context and distorted?

Many Liberals have no intention of taking any prisoners, and long ago tacitly realized that slander is an effective weapon to use against their perceived ideological foes. This hostility is so intense that even economic self interest does not get in the way of pushing their uncompromising agenda, adds Coulter. TV ratings may suffer and newspapers remain unsold, but an immature and anti-intellectual Liberalism remains in control. Liberal politicians and intellectuals may endlessly make fools of themselves, but these individuals have little to worry about. The Liberal media will simply look the other way and cover up their misdeeds. Not so, for those embracing a more conservative temperament. The latter are exhaustingly nitpicked and maligned as extremists committed to destroying our constitutional values and human dignity.

Ann Coulter is hopeful that the Drudgereport and other independent voices on the Internet will do much to ameliorate this sad situation. The larger media concerns must now worry that they will be taken to task whenever engaging in such outrageous misbehavior. This was not the case just a few years ago. Coulter, it must be noted, is not a pessimist wallowing in defeatism. Americans are not victims, and she believes victory is realistically achievable. We merely need to grab the bull by the horns. The author has lighted the way---and the rest is up to us.

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Summary: Join the club
Review: Ms. Coulter's book is a well thought out, logical, even handed display of what it means to be a true American.
Finally a voice that is not afraid to say "We are right and you are stupid and evil".

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Summary: Turn Off Media Earphone Mannequins & Turn On Your Own Brain!
Review: Ever notice how TV Talk Show Hosts are dependent upon Earphones to think and ask questions? And they still cannot ask the right questions to liberal politicians at the right time? Finally, a book that points out how weak our media elite has spiral into de-evolution. The book will undoubtedly cause a commotion among the dying media privileged. For it shows how they have disparage others over the years to grovel favor not from the masses but from their bosses.

I do not always agree with all of Ann Coulter's views, but I am thankful for her courage to speak out and respect her very much. The author points out how American leading media institutions actually use propaganda tactics in labeling anyone who advocates common sense approaches to serious public interest subjects. Coulter modus operandi is to take on left wing cynics with sound arguments to enlighten their stone wall empty minds of media's' misinformation mush.

The liberal left media is faced with a serious problem when it actually goes into topics they cannot understand and revert to using fascist tactics under the disguise of multiculturalism. This identity politics mixing is used effectively by communists who often blend a little truth into falsehoods that in the end confuses the real issues at hand for egotistical power reasons. The media need not be left or right, just candid with both views and quit disrespecting people advocating the conservative side that uses facts over fiction!

In this book, she is challenging the media's laissez-faire witch-hunting mentality to be thoughtful, accountable, and straightforward about problems they often buildup and never resolve for self-interested purposes. It is time to end the race baiting mocking sticky tag towards conservatives so a proper public debate can take place on all subject matter under discussion.

The media finds Ann Coulter fear provoking because she is well educated, not afraid of genuineness and is more attractive than most liberal TV personalities who often lack the brains for any substantive dialogue. Ann Coulter earn an education at Cornell University and the University of Michigan Law School. She went on to be a Law Clerk for Court of Appeals, Legal Counsel on Senate Judiciary Committee, and an Attorney for the Department of Justice. Even the late publisher Katherine Graham cannot match those kinds of qualifications.

Now when you compare Ann Coulter's credentials to Katie Courics, Maureen Dowd, Gloria Steinem, Dan Rather, Arthur Sulzberger and Howell Raines, one can see why few of them could ever take her on without an earphone and even with it cannot humiliate her.

What the writer is advocating is that the American Media elite deserves being scrutinized due to the hiring of incompetent fashion models and newsreaders that cannot think of a decent question for a liberal politician. They have created a world of star obsessed people over an educational electorate. In the end, they have contributed to their own demise when the very people they choose to influence no longer values the news because of its bias.

The public needs an Investigative TV Show that follow our own media darlings around and report on who they are dating, cheating with, or have covered up for their own benefit. And see how many "No Comments" of their lack of education and knowledge they would have to address.

All the writer did in this book is depict reality and everyone in media is shocked that they have been ensnared in scornful name calling for years. If Coulter is wrong, each can file a lawsuit for slander or libel against her. Go ahead and make her day, but truth is an absolute defense against libel and slander with or without malice!

Now that the media have been trapped the only question left is what to do with them? Ann Coulter has the answer, turn them off as she turns anyone with a thinking brain on, not by her looks, but by her words of wisdom and wit merge with the facts. The perfect formulas to inoculate you against any media's mannequin reproduction dummies that crave to be advertised to sell themselves like manure in Nebraska! The public cannot smell them through their TV's but Americans know when they stink, yet remain polluting our airwaves with their ignorance!

Ultimately, Ann Coulter wants what all-thoughtful people want from our media as written by Plato, Symposium 203E-204A. "None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already -- nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking."

So using typical media tactics may I say, Right Wing Radical Philosopher Aristotle often proved his tutor Plato wrong on many subjects, but agreed with Plato's commentary that cultivates knowledge over prejudice; just like Ann Coulter is doing to today's media elite by writing this book.

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Summary: I wouldn't call it drivel but...
Review: Ms. Coulter has written a book that rivals the best of Grim when it comes to fairy tales. I was actually looking for something insightful, something for us conservatives to hang our hats on. Maybe a mantra. Instead I got most of the rhetoric I should have expected... --This text refers to the Hardcover edition

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Summary: I have to tell you a story...
Review: Shortly after reading this wonderful book for the first time, I heard Ann give an interview on the radio. Obviously, the interviewer was a liberal, and he tried to discredit her logic in this book. He said something like "How do you know a liberal is lying?" and she said "because they are saying bad things about conservatives". The interviewer said "don't both sides do this? Don't conservatives exagerate the shortcomings of liberals?" and she said "No". He said look at all this bad stuff that has been said about all these blah blah liberals, and she said "It's not slander, because it's true". He said, "how do you know it's true?" and she said "because conservatives don't lie." The liberal hand-wringer interview guy was so struck by the truth of this statement that he was speechless! Just like John the Baptist!

All you liberals who give this book 1 star should be arrested for trying to take away Ann's freedom of speech!

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Summary: Anything but "fair & balanced"
Review: This book would win the prize for "Most One-Sidedness". But what would you expect from a conservative extremist like Coulter? This book contains the usual "liberals hate america" statements. Nothing more, nothing less. She continues quoting people out of context too. I seriously recommend Al Franken's "Liars and the lying liars who tell them". It's both informative AND humorous. This book on the other hand, is dull, baseless and boring. Period.

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Summary: Debunked...
Review: Exposed, discredited oh so many times, oh so many ways, by oh so many people. Wearing short skirts, and crossing your legs on TV while making outrageous statements only gets ya only so far, and only lasts so long, hon. Bring on the next radical right wing chick, please. Ann's a discredited bore at this point.

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Summary: Slander: A Very Appropriate Title
Review: I have given this book 1 star because of the shameful technique Ann uses to get her readers on her side by misleading them with simple lies and fabrications. Starting off, Ann herself is a very suspicious character. Her Connecticut driver's license states she was born in 1961, while the newer DC drivers license states she was born in 1963. This means, under the Patriot Act, that Ann has lied on a Government I.D., which is a violation of federal law. I find it interesting that the writer of this book is a criminal, as well as the writer of this statement days after 9/11: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." Wow. This coming from a supposedly bipartisan writer. ANyway, because of that comment on the internet, she had to stop writing her column. That should at least lower her credibility level when reading this book.
Ann's main message is that the mainstream media is liberally biased. Any person that is not biased and/or not criminally insane, which would both exclude Ann, can see that the media is horribly biased to the right-wing. Just look at Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity's radio dominance, and the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel and New York Post (Great exclusive you ran on Gephardt, Rupert). Simple examples of Ann's lies would include her claiming the NY Times never ran the story about Jesse Jackson and his controversial Chrismas Day speech on British TV, when a simple LexisNexis search of the NY Times archives of "Jesse Jackson and Christmas and Britain" shows that the Times did print the story, with excerpts from the speech. However, in Ann's endnotes, it shows she searched "Jesse Jackson and Germany and fascism and South Africa" which did not turn up any results, because, well, the article didn't mention such unrelated subjects like SOuth AFrica.
Even when she cites her facts, she chooses not to cite with a simple footnote at the bottom of the page, but to use endnotes that appear at the very end of the book. She seems to think her readers are too lazy to actually check her "facts", so she doesn't need to back up her case with reliable, undeniable sources in footnotes. Well, I guess she was right. My advice to future readers, be aware that this woman can make up things, and to not believe every word she says. Instead, believe the untampered facts.
(Also, in trying to show the NY Times was liberally biased, Ann used pro-Communism quotes that she took from a book review and a quote of a quote, and these articles were published 3 years apart. Read Al Franken's book (Liesand the lying liars..) for more proof of Ann's lies, because there simply aren't enough words to use in this review, and frankly I'm getting tired of making such an easy case of how Ann lies.)

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Summary: A book by Coulter called Slander?
Review: Now that is funny. With all the accuracy of a scud missile, Coulter uses broad generalizations to paint a picture of liberals that is laughable. "Liberals hate America." "Liberals hate The flag." "Liberals hate Christ." "Liberals make coats out of dalmation skins." Blah, blah, blah. What is a liberal you might ask? Well, pretty much anyone who disagrees with Ann Coulter. Coulter projects to liberals the things that she deep down sees in herself in this book. This book is an interesting psychological study about "Narcissist Personality Disorder" because Coulter is a classic case. Amazing that she has been able to make a living off her own imbecility.

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Summary: The reviews prove the book's premise....
Review: It's not hard to see why the book's premise pretty much plays itself out in these reviews alone. Notice how many reviewers (from New York, New York to boot) simple rely on insults to criticize Ann's book.

I enjoyed this book, mostly because it does make some very valid points which I've noticed myself, personally as a Republican in a democrat family. For instance, my sister, a democrat, i.e., liberal, while arguing with me about President Bush, always makes her argument that he's dumb, or stupid. Once, when I was watching the Republican convention on TV, she even said, "I could sort of agree with some of their policies, except I hate Bush, he's so dumb." Yep, that's her argument, he's dumb. Most democracts seem to hate President Bush personally, as opposed to any single one of his policies. Also, something that really shamed me, I found my sister to be a liberal bigot as well, when we were arguing about why President Bush beat Kerry, she said, "the only reason he won is because southern hicks who marry their cousins didn't want gays to marry." I was stunned to hear that, since I didn't believe anyone in our family could be that racist, stereotypical, and a bigot about the South. By the way, we live in New Jersey in a city that's right next to the Lincoln Tunnel, so NYC is like 10 minutes away by bus. NYC democrats are really the worst, having myself experienced their "views."

The idea of this omni present, all powerful "religious right" as Coulter points out, is rather silly. For one thing, it's fun to see how she portrays the many deaths of the "religous right" at the hand of liberals, only to have it resurrected again, and again, and again. I also found it funny how she ponders how one becomes part of this so called "religious right." It can't just be believing in God and being a Republican, because that would pretty much mean almost the entire Republican party would be the "religous right."

Her conclusion is quite funny, as she points out for the most part of the last half century, the democrats have been wrong about everything. They were certainly wrong about President Reagan (who they, surprise, called dumb too). They were certainly wrong about welfare, and that it took Republican policy to reform it. I was especially floored with laughter by this little paragraph, because it's so true, it hurts.

"It's not an accident that, today, the left's single biggest cause is "global warming." This time, conservatives won't be able to prove them wrong for a thousand years."

I'm all for reducing reducing pollution, since it's nasty stuff, but I'm not one of those people who take the rather sketchy science about Global warming and the causes of it.

Great book, not meant to convince liberals or convert them, since they wiill most likely hate the book for pointing out the obvious. Rather, this book is to allow Republicans, such as myself, to laugh at liberals and their bumbling efforts, if only because to argue with them is not really much of a challenge.