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Summary: Coulter Hits the Left with a Hard Right
Review: Okay, I'm a son of traditional "democratic" values like championing justice for minorities, providing a safety net for the poor, and bolstering the inherent rights of laborers and consumers over employers and producers. So I crack open this book for ammunition to crack a few more radical right wing moron jokes -- but what do I get?... hundreds of carefully referenced citations and accurate "in-context" quotes supporting a superbly articulated case that the lunatic left is intellectually dishonest and ethically bankrupt as it unleashes constant, shameless "pit-bull" attacks on every conservative argument it hears. My take?... Let's all start actually thinking about what we are saying, why we are saying it, and how rationally we are defending our positions. This book makes a lot of people look really ignorant... but they aren't the usual radical right bible-thumping suspects. No, they're the slick self-righteous liberal elites who have almost completely hijacked the "democratic" values and the Democratic party I was taught to love -- hijacked it and driven it up over the divider and off the left hand side of the road. This book describes a "car-wreck" -- the absolute intellectual wreck that has become of the liberal "argument" in this country.
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Summary: I WILL NEVER LOOK AT THE MEDIA THE SAME WAY AGAIN
Review: This was the first book of Ann Coulter's that I have read, and I was impressed. Some of the things I gleaned from it are the following: 1. It opened my eyes to the left-wing bias' in the mainstream news media. 2. Gave a great description of liberals in America and educated me in their various methods of slander, with great examples to back it up. 3. Showed me how downright deceitful, hateful, and immoral liberals can be. And how they often times will do whatever it takes (lie, cheat, steal) to get what they want. (i.e. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry...) I gave the book 4 stars, and not 5 because I think her writing style could stand to improve a little. Although it's a good read overall, often times it seemed she tried to over-articulate and use bigger words than would be necessary. Not a big deal, but could stand to improve in this area. I just bought her most recent book "Treason" and am anxious to dig in!
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Summary: Lies and fantasies make for great entertainment, but...
Review: There are so many factual errors and distortions in this book, all to entertain the neoconservative audience. One can only assume that the author lives in a fantasy world in which anyone who does not think like she does is by definition evil and thus deserving of the worst kind of verbal abuse. There's a psychological term for this kind of pathological black/white thinking, wish I could remember what it is. But it is definitely a pathology (that means mental illness for those who don't like multi-syllable words). This sort of weak-minded, immature entertainment is only a symptom of why neoconservative American politics cannot be take seriously. A shameful, pathetic replacement for what was once the honorable tradition of conservative American politics.
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Summary: Funny. Academic. Well Referenced.
Review: Ann Coulter's blockbuster hit Slander is a hysterically funny look at how the American democrat/left-wing politicians and their media cohorts use every imaginable trick in the book to avoid engaging conservatives on actual issues, and especially how they conspire to keep the truth about conservatives from ever coming to light. She covers everything: how democrats oppose tax cuts while they sneeringly claim to enjoy paying taxes (because what do the ultra-rich care about how much the working class have to pay?), the fact that Americans vote with their dollars and that their dollars clearly show a preference for conservative points of view, the fact that democrats like Hillary Clinton want to censore the internet to keep people from "choosing to view only sites that contain their preferred point of view", how liberals oppose conservative ideas until they work (then lyingly adopt them as their own), how the left constantly maligns a religious right that doesn't exist (less than 15% of voters consider themselves Christian and conservative), and how the left avoids having to engage on issues by accusing conservatives of being either stupid, racist, hate-filled, or (better yet) some combination thereof. There is a lot more material covered in this book, far too much to list it all here. Suffice it to say that just about every imaginable darling of the left is held up and examined in the light of day. Coulter is an intelligent, funny, wry, author. In Slander she offers basically nothing in the way of conclusions drawn, plans for change, or a battle-cry to those who would take it up. Some may find this troubling and inconclusive. I find it refreshing that she simply offers the facts of the matter (the book is highly referenced) and allows the reader to take those facts where they will. Some reviewers seem to have been troubled with Coulter's writing style, saying that she is difficult and ungrammatic. I don't really understand that position, as I found her style to be quite sophisticated and academic. However, I will say that Coulter has an impressive command of the English language, which includes complex sentences and a vocabulary that will have the reader digging out their dictionary from time to time. I would recommend that everyone who can, should read this book. It may enlighten the reader to a point of view, but even failing that, the reader will be unable to escape without enjoying Coulter's wonderful sense of humor. That alone is worth the purchase price.
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Summary: Fair and Balanced Review
Review: People should indeed read this book. Note that I said READ this book. I did not say anything about buying the book and wasting your money. Take it out of your public library, or perhaps borrow it from a gullible friend. I spent much of the last month reading both sides of what appears much like a court battle. Now in court, the prosecution goes first, and the defense follows, so the books I read and the order of reading were: (1) Slander ..., by Ann Coulter
(2) Treason ..., by Ann Coulter
(3) Let Freedom Ring ..., by Sean Hannity
(4) Big Lies ..., by Joe Conason
(5) The Hunting of the President ..., by Conason and Lyons
(6) Blinded by the Right ..., by David Brock Anyone who can take this little six-book journey and come away impressed by the likes of Coulter and Hannity has got to have a screw loose, in my humble opinion. Their so-called research doesn't hold up under the slightest scrutiny, and there are almost no primary sources listed in the "academic looking" end notes. This journey shows a person how "push-polling" works to slander a political opponent, how to lie with quarter-truths and innuendo effectively, and how to manipulate single-issue voters like the Religious Right with an anti-abortion stance, all the while selling those voter's children into effective slavery with Wal-Mart level jobs. To paraphrase a man from 50 years ago: "Have you no sense of decency, Coulter, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" And indeed they don't. The only real question is how long we will allow ourselves to be distracted by this power-hungry side-show of neo-con partisans masquerading as journalists and investigators. How many Enrons and Jimmy Swaggerts does it take before we all see that the neo-cons have no clothes, just juicy book deals and radio shows designed to help loot the nation without us noticing. Maybe 30 years from now they will be willing to use their skills to relate "The Fall of the American Empire" to which they will have contributed so much.
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Summary: Message to Amazon.com review editor
Review: You have chosen a "spotlight review" for slander that doesn't say anything about the book. The review, written by a Nick Tropiano on 2/16/04, is about a column Colter wrote 2 years after Slander. He's clearly upset about the column, and has chosen the Amazon.com book review as a forum to write a polemical attack on Coulter in response to it. Reviews are beyond your control, and they are full of all kinds of personal opinions unrelated to the item being reviewed. But such a review SHOULD NOT be a "spotlight review." By selecting this review as a "spotlight review," you are not doing your job of informing potential buyers about the product -good or bad. Rather, you are demonstrating that you obviously agree with the reviewer's negative opinion of the author, and you choose to inject your own bias into the review process rather than do your job. If he had written a scathing review about the book, that would be different, and acceptable as a "spotlight review." As it now stands, anytime somebody reads a Coulter column they don't like, they can write a response to it, and submit it as a review of one of her books. The idiot Amazon.com editor might even make it a "spotlight review" if he likes what it says.
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Summary: Great book
Review: So the liberals who never read this book give it one star only because they can't give it a negative rating. Conservatives give it five stars because Ann Coulter is actually knowledgable, intelligent, informative - and funny (not to mention gorgeous)! So as a result it gets three stars overall. Ever notice how most conservative pundits actually have political and legal backgrounds... while the liberal pundits are comedians - and notoriously bad ones at that? Do yourself a favor and check out this book. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Ann Coulter, how about you are the liar
Review: Please, all I must say is read Lies and the Lying Liars who are telling them, it points out so many flaws which makes this book horrible and shows the Right lies terribly.
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Summary: SPACE STALIN BATTLES THE POLYCHROMATIC LEPRECHAUN
Review: Although I vehemently agree with her anti-Vietnam War veteran amputee stance, I can't help but feel an ethical objection to certain parts of her book. Like when she calls for all of Western Europe to be carpetbombed, to quote "get rid of those uncircumcised limeys and their progressive and therefore wrong concepts of diplomacy and freedom of expression once and for all". I don't feel that all of western Europe deserve firebombing, maybe just parts of Luxembourg. Furthermore, when she states that "if it weren't for the out-of-control Left-wing judges, I could ground up panda bears and negroes into a fine paste and eat it, completing my ritual that would summon a million Balrogs who would hail me as queen of the Annis Hags and carry me to their plane of existence on a throne of femurs, where I would reach the 666th layer of the abyss and make love to dark lord Demogorgon, as his 15-foot phallus penetrates my wet vaginal lips and I shout out the name of my grandfather Hitler and fantasize about raping children", I found this to be the most offensive and disgusting thing imaginable. Everyone knows that Balrogs strictly use thrones of skulls. My intelligence couldn't have been more insulted.
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Summary: Pot. Kettle. Black.
Review: "My general feel was that this was projection identification. Basically, a republican is feeling bad about her views... and is projecting her bad feelings on liberals. I don't even think this person has a good handle on what constitutes a liberal mind-set." Liberals accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of.
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