Slander

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Summary: Beyond Belief
Review: Ann Coulter's book "Slander"is just about the worst written diatribe I have ever seen. It's a wonder even the most conservative of publishing companies gave it a second look. The book is filled with hypocrisy and a writing style incongruent with that of a 12 year old. I have to question the intelligence of any person who takes this woman seriously.

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Summary: Standard snarl here from liberals
Review: One thing Ann does well in this book is clearly demonstrate the "pit-bull" liberal who cannot argue substantively so quickly resorts to name calling and sophmoric disparagement. "Ann, ditch the Veronica Lake look, already" is a fine example of the liberal tactic to which she refers.

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Summary: Coulter's a lawyer - does she believe the junk she writes?
Review: This book was a quick grab at an airport terminal on a delayed flight. Throughout, she decries people called 'liberals' as the reason there are problems in the world... But, Coulter says the US is infiltrated by a massive, secret army with a defined anti-good agenda that does everything it can to bring the country down.
...In any case, Coulter writes down to her audience, since I can't believe anyone with the intelligence to get a law degree can see the world in such a simplistic way...
...Also, Coulter's views on race issues in this country are hilariously skewed. Anyone who says the days of racial inequality are dead and gone has never set foot in an average town in America. Racism is still alive and well, and, despite the progress being made on both sides of the color line, will be for many more years.

Dividing millions of Americans into two camps - evil liberals and God-chosen conservatives, is an assault on the intelligence of anyone with the brains to read books. It also makes it difficult to have intelligent discussions about government in this country without resorting to babyish name-calling and partisanship.

I guess this book was simply a drive at political comedy, since I can't believe the author took her own rhetoric seriously.

-- JJ Timmins

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Summary: ANN COULTER CONSERVATIVE GODDESS EXTRAORDINAIRE
Review: As the Leftist Bill Maher states on the back of the book, "The conservative movement has found its diva." I couldn't agree more. Although she's a woman, and a fine one at that, she has more balls(and intelligence) than college dropout liberal Michael Moore and all of the other liberal pundit demagogues combined.

"Liberals dispute slight reductions in the tax rate as if they are trying to prevent Charles Manson from slaughtering baby seals." Coulter takes no prisoners in Slander as she unabashedly & indiscriminately slams all pretenders and contenders with a refreshing candor and humorous intellect rarely witnessed in today's insipid Leftist liberally-biased media. This book is a must have for all conservatives. Funny, engaging, and educational ammo to fend off the pesky bed-wetting liberals.

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Summary: I don't entirely disagree with her views, but....
Review: When I turn on the TV and this sneering, snarling harpy is on yet another news debate show, I change the station immediately. Or not....it's like a train wreck. You can't look away.

This woman's arguments are PERSONAL. I have no idea why.

And Ann.....ditch the Veronica Lake look, already.

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Summary: Fun to read, with more than a little truth to it.
Review: Reading this book didn't open my eyes to the liberal media bias in America today-- I already knew it existed. Instead it helped reaffirm my long held view that trying to engage in rational discourse with any dogmatist such as liberals, radical feminists, or even hard core Islamists, is a waste of time. Sooner or later, and usually sooner, the dogma-spouting true believers resort to name calling and personal attacks in lieu of reasoned arguments.
Ms. Coulter's book does an excellent job of calling attention to such egregious actions as attacking conservative women based on looks, calling conservatives "Nazis" and "Uncle Toms", and resorting to invective as a standard means of refuting conservative debate. The fact that she used such meticulous research tools and endnoted her thoughts so well serves as a fine counterpoint to her admittedly antagonistic use of similar terms such as "Halfwit" and "Felon". In essence, she supports her statements with fact, rather than simply calling someone a name based upon their political views.
In one of her interviews she mentions that originally her book was over 600 pages, and that she cut it down greatly in order to meet publishing requirements. I hope that is so, because it would mean that there are at least two other great books out there waiting to be published from this outstanding, thought provoking author!

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Summary: OK, but "Bias" was better
Review: This is, like most recent books on politics, an obvious case of preaching to the choir. If you want to see liberals get trashed, it doesn't get much better than this. Most books of this genre seem to come from radio talk show hosts and it shows in the writing, which is often chatty and lacking in depth (as if their authors, befitting their trade, simply dictated the text into a microphone) but Coulter is a skilled writer and it shows. This is PJ O'Rourke on PMS, and when she sharpens her poison pen, look out! This book is loaded with zingers, early on we get this about the war on terror: "Here the country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they didn't want to fight it. They would have, except it would have put them on the same side as the United States." For 205 pages Coulter launches a relentless attack on the Left, focusing the bulk of her ire on the liberal media. She makes many of the same points as Bernard Goldberg does in "Bias", only she does so with considerably more gusto. People who are tired of feeling that the media elites sneer at them and their values will find much to like here, she channels their anger and focuses it like a laser beam on her targets. Their vacuousness, mendacity, and one-sidedness are exposed for all to see.

Of course, much of her book simply backs up pre-existing views. The notion that the media tilts left is hardly new; she simply provides evidence to back it up. If nothing else, she certainly didn't slack off when it came to research, the book contains something like 800 footnotes, so it's obvious that she did her homework. It is enlightening to learn, for example, that conservative authors vastly outsell books by liberals, yet publishers routinely offer the latter much larger advances, the implication being that publishers are willing to let ideology trump basic business sense. And she performs the valuable service of debunking the notion that the success of Rush Limbaugh and other conservative pundits are "proof" of a lack of media bias because this fails to make the distinction between the "opinion" media versus the "hard news" media. After all, Rush and his ilk make no bones about their political leaning whereas liberals like Dan Rather insist on calling themselves "objective" when they simply aren't. All in all, Coulter, like the lawyer she is, argues a convincing case.

Of course, the counter to this book is to say that, as an author playing the role of advocate, it's obvious she's only doing what a good lawyer does, namely argue the best case for her cause, which naturally means that only facts that support her point of view will be given. Informed readers will take that as a given, and judge accordingly. The down side, however, is this means authors like Coulter (and left wing counterparts like Mike Moore) simply contribute, not enlightenment, but further polarization. Coulter's acerbic wit is quite capable of becoming shrill, even bitter at times. Her fans love her for this, but in addition to antagonizing her foes, she also runs the risk of alienating centrists who might otherwise be persuaded to see things her way. In contrast, readers of Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" are also presented with a strong case for the notion of liberal bias in the media, but he's much less strident and he's willing to appeal to both moderates and liberals. The other night he was on Hardball with Chris Matthews doing a live show on a college campus. With a combination of facts and solid arguments delivered with a serious, yet pleasant, demeanor, he worked the crowd like the media pro he is. The audience, which was mostly young and liberal, listened respectfully to his points. He may not have changed many people's minds outright, but I'll bet more than a few students at least will give the matter some thought. In contrast, it's a fair bet that, had Coulter been on that show instead, she would have succeeded primarily in convincing the majority of that audience to reject her views while winning little, if any, support.

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Summary: Mighty Mouth to the Rescue!
Review: Well, if there was a half of star, Ann would get it...
Now that Ann is part of the Fox deal to pay a million dollars to interview the Glove Boy, let see...can she still hate movie stars and the likes? WAIT! but isnt Ann one of the bad TV movie star who makes her living being on TV? Come on people, we have seen this before with Martha Stwart, and do we still love her?
Please dont get sucked in by any TV news movie stars. Democrat or Republican.
Can anyone who hates movie stars soooo much continue to sit in a movie theater and not feel guilty? Or is she is just your basic hippi"crite from the big cities who writes poorly and appears to be the poster child for republican Charles Manson. I suspect Ann has never met a democrat who had a son that joined the miltary and never made it back. To bad. When she generalizes and uses "all" democrats or movie stars you know that its a wash. In additional, how can she support Enron and the likes?

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Summary: godawful stuff
Review: coulter has no idea where to begin. the book is a poorly mashed together collection of invective nonsense. utter garbage, and her grammar is atrocious to boot. dont conservatives have editors like the rest of literary society?

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Summary: How the Left Indicted Itself Over This Book.
Review: This book should be a must-read for conservatives. Coulter convincingly demonstrates and documents (with thirty plus pages of endnotes) the way the liberal Left caricatures the right as mean, uncaring, stupid and intolerant. The mainstream media response to the book simply served to confirm Coulter's basic premise. Of the five or so interviews with Coulter I saw on the cable news networks only TWO interviewers attempted to take the book seriously, Judith Reagan and Sean Hannity, both on Fox. The other interviewers attempted to pin Coulter into a corner arguing with her over trivial details in the book having no direct correlation to the book's premise. No one on the Left could make cogent, intellectual counter-arguments so they just nit-picked the book to death or went after Ann personally. Unfortunate as this was for an author trying to discuss her work intelligently and have it taken seriously, nevertheless it also made for great PR as it demonstrated exactly the point Coulter makes in the book. I think what bothers the Left is that Coulter is able to use reason, logic and sound scholarship to make her point. This is something the Left doesn't seem to know how to do. The Left can't or won't defend its position in an intelligent, reasoned fashion. It is therefore left with name-calling, character assasination and avoidance of the issue. Which Coulter masterfully chronicles in the book. As demonstrated in the interviews with Coulter, in its response to this book, the Left indicted itself.