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Slander

Slander

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Can't you take a joke?
Review: I imagine it might take years for you people to understand: this book is supposed to be a joke! You people take yourselves so seriously that you don't even notice Ann's wry grin or silly smile as she says things like "Women shouldn't vote" in talk shows. People: She is a WOMAN!!! Let me spell it out: S H E ' S J O K I N G. How does the saying go? Wake up and smell the coffee! If I could, I would give you all a sense of humour. Although I suppose all you dorks probably enjoy being clueless one way or the other. I would advise you to buy this book and laugh a little.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I am uterly disgusted....
Review: We shall never achieve a peaceful, safe world, with bumbling idiots following this disgusting excuse for a woman. Look up some of her quotes on the internet, you'll see what I mean. I am ashamed that someone like this calls herself an "American", or even a "woman" for that matter. Read Al Fraken's Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them, for Ann Coulter is a lying liar, amongst other things.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The people who need to read this book won't
Review: Ann Coulter has performed a public service that should be required reading for anyone who plans to vote. Unfortunately, the people who truly need to read it won't. Slander is well written and well documented and often witty. Many of the quotes from supposedly objective "news" reporters should be enough to shock any thinking liberal into realizing the incredible bias of big media today.

The problem with this book is that it is a bit like fighting an atom bomb with a pellet gun. The constant barrage from the mainstream media simply overwhelms any reasoned approach at politics. The good news is that many Americans are waking up to the reality of the liberal bias in media and have switched to other sources for reliable news reporting (note the ratings changes for Fox [up] and CNN [down]). Maybe the pellet gun is working after all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Sultana of Spin
Review: "Slander" is arguably one of the most important books of our time. Revisionist historian and satirist Ann Coulter updates "Mein Kampf" with hilarious effect, substituting "liberal" for "Jew" and "conservative" for "Aryan." The end result is simply astonishing.

Anyone who has ever wondered how Adolf Hitler succeeded in bewitching the German people with rhetoric will find this work fascinating. With this level of spin, the reader gradually comes to understand that "it could happen here."

Miss Coulter cherry-picks media accounts to illustrate the art of spin-doctoring at its best. All of the usual logical fallacies are included, along with emotional (but fact-less) appeals, conveniently omitted facts, sweeping generalizations, baseless attributions, quotes with reversed context, opinions disguised as facts, and others that haven't even been named yet.

As with its intellectual ancestor, Jonathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," many readers of "Slander" aren't aware that the book is satirical. My understanding is that this problem will be rectified in an upcoming annotated edition, where the argument fallacies will be explicitly indicated.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Full of it
Review: Ann Coulter is totally, completely full of it. There is really nothing in this book worth reading.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Oh its slander alright.
Review: FROM THE RIGHT! Once again the onslaught of the right wing writings calling leftists liars and cheats, well guess what you flag hugging jesus freaks, (...) If you want to dig into the republicans little closet of "uh-ohs," you better bring a back hoe because it would take years to find it all. Ann Coulter has a right to an opinion as does everyone and I think her opinion is dead wrong. Its not our fault democrats are smarter so stop trying to hit us with this crap-o-la.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dude, shes hot.
Review: Who cares if she can write? Buy this book and leave it around for you're girlfreind to see. If she get's jealous, explain that she could be just as sexy as Ann if your girlfreind stopped being a lefty pinko feminazi. Cool! I just saw some store is selling Ann Cuolter Barbie dolls.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: from the rib of Edmund Burke!
Review: I knew Ann back when she called herself Tex Watson -- and it is truly thrilling to see how well she has done.

She's been keeping her Adam's Apple mighty busy attacking liberals -- and she has a point. My only difficulty with Ann's material is when she delves into the politics of transgenderism. Christine Jorgensen still seems more intelligent, more cultured than Ann. But let's give the estrogen some time -- and greet Ann's book with the same generosity of spirit she has given to so many.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Those in the middle of the road...
Review: ... tend to get run over.

I'm not quite done, so this is an incomplete rating. My opinion on anyone reading this book is that they already go into this either believing they'll love it or hate it. My, my, aren't I the dissenter to be almost ambivalent towards it...

The good news is: if you're conservative, you're going to love it.

The good news is: if you're liberal, you're going to hate it.

The bad news is: Thus far, I find no solution to opening up a discussion of politics as a free-flow of constructive ideas bent on formulating policy instead of casting blame & calling names...

But, again, I haven't finished the book & hope to find that there is such a resolution in this book.

The thing is, one reads a book like this to validate his or her own opinion or to denigrate those of others - conservatives: "We all knew the liberals were these complete pongs who control the media"; liberals: "We all knew the conservatives were wimpy whiners who can only blame their unpopularity on the media."

Both sides: grow up, tell the truth, stop playing games on my tax dollar.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Yawn
Review: Coulter weaves tales of twisted lies and half-truths and twists those as well. It's also quite dull.


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