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Summary: Right on target, but could use more substance
Review: When you read the reviews of this book written by liberals, you realize the subtitle of the book could be "liberals never face reality", or "liberals never learn".
Jim Cooper states that without Marx, we wouldn't have Medicare - is he kidding? Without Reagan, Russia, eastern Europe, and half of African and South America would all be Communist right now, but Cooper may think that's a GOOD thing.
Another reviewer states Coulter doesn't make the case for a liberal media - while Coulter does rant a bit much, anyone who believes she didn't make this point either didn't read the book, or is so liberally biased they think Hillary Clinton is part of a right wing conspiracy.
Remember that the liberal media includes CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, Time, Newsweek, and most of our big city newspapers - in short, where most people have traditionally gotten their news. Coulter does a good job showing that these groups seriously distort the news with liberal assumptions, and have been doing so since the days of Walter Cronkite.
Liberals whine about right wing talk radio, but most of the hosts of these shows are 'preaching to the choir'. In years past, you couldn't get away from the liberal slant on the news because there was no place to get the news where you didn't get that slant. This is changing with the arrival of the more balanced Fox News and their rapidly accelerating ratings.
Still, to get a better view of how stupid the liberal world has been, read "Reagan's War". It is 100% documented, and shows conclusively how liberals have been used like tools for the past 50 years by our enemies. But again, liberals NEVER learn.
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Summary: You'll Love it or Hate it
Review: There is no middle road on Slander. Coulter packed her book with black and white examples of the idealogical differences between the left and the right. She backed her assertions with footnote after verifiable footnote. This leaves the reader with one of two choices. Love the book because it exposes the truth about the intellectual void among the liberal elite. Hate the book because it reveals the cerebal dysfunction of the left wing establishment. Not surprisingly, those that choose to hate the book attempt to slander the messenger. Is this because they have no moral or intellectual ground to attack the message? Read the book and find out.
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Summary: Good for the entertainment value if you like her columns
Review: Making a decision to buy this book is easy. Go to a web site that has Ann Coulter's weekly columns, and if you like them, then buy this book. It is like a great big column. It is an entertaining, full of Ann Coulter's bitter sarcasm and reality check examples. It is fairly light reading, and it is not all that well-organized, kind of like a long rant. Still, it is definitely worth picking up if you like this sort of thing. "Slander" has a lot of original work that hasn't been addressed a great deal, even by other Conservative/Libertarian authors. You don't find many regurgitated ideas in "Slander", and that is what makes the book worth reading. One area that she gives a lot of attention to is the myth of the power of the Christian Right. Another is her documentation of the "The Democrat is a genius intellectual, the Republican is a dope" strategy that Liberals and/or Democrats use every election cycle. Going back to Carter vs. Ford, Coulter shows how laughable it is that this theme keeps showing up, election after election. It's hard to disprove what she says, as she documents the source of all of her quotations and facts. This book has hundreds and hundreds of footnotes. Coulter also does a great job of making The New York Times look foolish (not that it's very difficult), repeatedly mocking the title "the newspaper of record". She also targets Liberals who refuse to acknowledge that the Times is a left wing rag, pointing out how the paper has endorsed every Democratic presidential candidate since the 60's, including landslide losers Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter. Of course, the book is also filled with Coulter's usual hyperbole. Since the whole point of the book is how Liberals use hyperbole and insults to describe Conservatives, then the entire work is somewhat hypocritical. However, as I mentioned above. it is an entertaining read, and it does have a lot of useful information. If you read Conservative literature, then make sure to pick this book up.
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Summary: Its hardly Journalism
Review: I started this book with high hopes. It had been on the bestseller list for months and I was interested in what new theory or point of view the author could present to an open minded reader. Within the first 2 pages her point and case are made through one word quotations, lifted from numerous sources and, which she slings about with admirable zeal. And while I can understand the reaction people have to how the 'liberal' media has glossed over topics big and small on both sides of the political spectrum, this book is an insult to anyone who isnt quite so easily marked by a party line. While some of the reaction to this book has been beyond the pal in terms of rudeness towards the author. The book is not that good. As always read for yourself and find out but perhaps give it a skim at your local library before you buy it.
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Summary: A bit winey
Review: I must admit, I am a liberal. However, I looked forward to reading Coulter's book to learn more about the supposed liberal bias of the media. I found the book to have a "wining" tone. It was a list of name callings and examples of mistreatments. I think most of this is just public perception of conservative issues. I'm not convinced by this book that life (people's opinions) imitates art (media). It seems to me that the media is reporting more what the people want to hear. Still, I am glad I read Slander and did learn alot about the negativism of politics on both sides of the fence.
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Summary: Right wing drivel
Review: I read this book and it was everything I thought it would be. I found myself laughing through most of it. Ms. Coulter's views are utterly ridiculous, and her "facts" present an extremely weak case for a liberal media. She, like most folks on the right, tries to cover up for a lack of intelligence or correctness or pragmatism on issues by proclaiming that any counter arguments to their misguided beliefs are the products of a liberal bias in the media. I find her book most childish.
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Summary: Does she dislike her gender as much as her country?
Review: "The Republicans have a problem...How can conservatives expect to win votes for an economic program so inimical to the middle class? The answer is they cannot--and they know it. Therefore most conservative ideologues have done their best to change the subject from the economy to what they like to call 'the culture'...Both race-baiting and the [sexual] politics of family values are part of the same Republican culture war strategy of diverting the anger of the white working class from the owners and operators of the Republican party--the corporate and hereditary rich--and focusing wrath on unpopular minorites..." "Supply-side economics, the myth of public school failure, and the illegitimacy-epidemic hoax are on the the tip of the iceberg. Other examples of the dissemination of half-truths and falsehoods by the foundation subsidized conservative intelligentsia...are not difficult to find..." Michael Lind
UP FROM CONSERVATISM
From Chapter Five, "Whistling Dixie" "For those who don't know Ann Coulter, she is one of those blond, right-wing, talking heads who pop up on cable--the most outspoken one. 'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,' she remarked after the terrorist attacks." From the Booklist review of
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Ann H. Coulter Ann is probably making sweet money from her book of diatribes--which, considering its lack of intellectual and historical vaidity, is I'm sure all that matters. I wonder, nonetheless, what she thinks of THE WAR ON FREEDOM by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed... or DREAMING WAR, by Gore Vidal... or James Banford's BODY OF SECRETS, INSIDE THE NSA... or Michale Lind's UP FROM CONSERVATISM... or Conason and Lyons' THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT... or Lothar Machtan's THE HIDDEN HITLER... or INTO THE BUZZSAW: LEADING JOURNALISTS EXPOSE THE MYTH OF A FREE PRESS by Kristina Borjesson... or Martin Luther King's STRENGTH TO LOVE... or *PAUL'S LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS, 10:13*... I hear nothing even resembling the character or ideals upon which our country was founded between the covers of this book, only a NATIONAL ENQUIRER-type use of the First Amendment that is more than reminiscent of what she is attacking. It seems as if only a woman lost in the self-hatred many women believe they must embrace to make it in the sectors of the economy dominated by men--in this case, the homoerotic ultra-conservative shock jock world--could hold such views of people in our country with a kind of synthetic vitriolic pride; the kind of pride her oh-so-beloved Christian Bible must have told her goeth before the fall. Is Coulter a pseudo-intellectual "private dancer" (Tina Turner) with conservatism for money (more commonly known as a, well, you know)? Or is she simply just a hired pseudo-intellectual assassin of the Left, with delusions of someday being either Limbaugh's mistress or the radio version of Condoleeza Rice? And does anybody really believe either of the two are relevant, let alone synonymous? I found nothing of value in this book. I doubt anyone else will--or really does.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This book cuts right to the matter of the out of control liberal bias and indoctrination in this country. The author gives numerous examples in razor sharp prose and for the sceptics she backs everything up with thorough footnotes and documentation.
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Summary: Holes in the Swiss Cheese
Review: Coulter's theories don't stand up under scrutiny. Her list of people who got their media positions as relatives of prominent Democrats ignores those (like Michael Reagan and G. Gordon Liddy) who were hired because of Republican nepotism and not because of journalistic experience. The radio station courting a local politician for talk show host wouldn't even return the calls of an acquaintance with a solid reporting background who would have done a better job. Her claim that book publishers are biased anti-conservative is belied by the fact that her own book is published by giant Random House. While she may be right that the evidence doesn't show that conservatives read and liberals don't, what sales figures may actually show is that liberals are more likely than conservatives to check books out of the library than to shell out thirty bucks for their own copy -- the real issue may not be popularity of the opinion, but finances. My liberal friends will read conservative books, but my conservative friends flat-out refuse to read any book with a liberal slant. Her notion that liberals completely control the media wholly flies in the face of her own statistics that the two top-rated radio shows are conservative. All Limbaugh's prominence proves is that there are people who are able to listen to the radio during business hours. And who is most likely to be at home during the day or immune from a supervisor's reprimand for listening to talk radio when they should be working? Retirees, those who can afford to not work, and senior management -- all of whom are, statistically, more prone to being conservative. Poor, hard-working Democrats don't have three hours to listen to Limbaugh during the day! The city where I live had two newspapers -- a very small conservative one and a very large liberal one. In a clear-cut case of the population voting with their pocketbooks, the conservative one went out of business while the liberal one continues to thrive. Clearly, at least in my city, the liberal bent is more popular. The media gives us what we want, and the audience for a quick half-hour of liberal news after work is larger than the audience for three hours of conservative talk during the day.
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Summary: good title
Review: The sad thing is that someone like this even gets to appear on television, not to mention gets to publish a book. It shows the sorry state of the American media that she is regularly paired up with serious commentators (from both sides of the political spectrum). But I have to admit that the title is correct - because slander is just what it is...
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