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Summary: projection (noun)
Review: The attribution of one's own qualities to other people. A defense mechanism used by people who cannot tolerate their own feelings who cope by imagining that other people have those feelings. ("... but it must be true, look at all the footnotes!" If one actually checks out the book's footnotes, what is usually found is that they are taken out of context and often outright distortions.)
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Summary: You go girl!!...
Review: Awesome, concise and cutting revelations about the media. I loved her sometimes caustic and sarcastic barbs - pointing out the absurdities and slants in the left wing dominated media. She doesn't mince words. She calls a spade a spade - and completely ignores political correctness. Loved this book!
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Summary: I Couldn't Put The Book Down.
Review: I had never read a book that had so much research in it. Each chapter has a ton of footnotes. Once I started reading, it was very hard to put down. Not only informative, but clever, provocative and deliciously sarcastic. What a great mind! I've told my [friends] about one of the many points made in this book and they are now determined to read this book. If you consider yourself well-read, or a well-rounded individual or you think
you are on top of your game; you really need to read this book to graduate to being well informed.
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Summary: Blah
Review: I'm somewhat liberal, and her personal vendetta of generalizing liberals makes her sound as evil as those she hates so much. Bias, by Bernard Goldberg is a much better book. I do agree that many liberals name call, avoid the issues, etc., but assuming that ALL of them do it is offensive. Media should always be critical of what a government or any organization (left or right) is doing; so if that makes them liberal, so be it.
A pro-government, "gung-ho" press worries me more. . .
She does make valid arguments, and valid arguments should always be welcome. Goldberg's Bias is much better.
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Summary: Smart woman writes smart book
Review: I just finished my second reading through this book and I must say I'd love to sit down and actually talk with Ann Coulter, her wit and sense of humor are only shadowed by her ability to faithfully articulate logic in a debate. She tears down walls of liberal arguments and asides and exposes the torrid of lies and slander that liberal celebrities and liberal journalists have been perpetrating on the American public for years. Any criticism channeled at this book that doesn't give multiple and specific examples explained in a coherent fashion is most likely from a liberal that hasn't read it but feels that they "know" it must be bad. When it was first published most of the low ratings were simply from people calling Ann Coulter names (many of those reviews were eventually removed).
Coulter points out that this is how liberals debate, not just here reviewing books, but in the news, in magazines, on tv variety shows, etc., they call those they disagree with names. They impute all types of horrors on those they disagree with and provide the evidence by calling them "stupid", "dumb", "hate filled", "homophobes", "racists", or the worse of all "right wing Christian" a name which implies all the previous bromidic epithets rolled into one. She points out that all serious new ideas in the last fifty some years have come from the conservative side of the aisle. Conservatives debate each other with actual ideas. They don't always agree but at least they don't have to spin their wheels fighting nonsensical charges and trying to defend their character against lies from the left. It takes a Tom Dashel to accuse Rush Limbaugh of inciting terrorist acts, but it takes conservative leaders to actually do something to fight terrorism. The most important chapter chronicled how liberals attack of the "Religious Right". How the left has build itself a straw man to knock down again and again. She chronicles how the left builds up this amazing force that is so powerful and dangerous. And then notes how every few years the media will report how this same force is losing its power and grip. I found it enlightening to read her description of how the left sees this great vast conspiracy they so fear (and expect the public to fear) contrasted with reality. There is no organizational unit which can be called the "Right Wing". There is no group to which any Christian can get a card to and thus be called a "card carrying member" of the "Religious Right". In fact the very idea that Christians vote in bloc is shown by the data to be seriously flawed, blacks, hispanics, Jews, etc. voted in bloc to a much higher degree than do those that call themselves Christian. Coulter shows the amounts of money donated in a particular year to PACs and it is clear that unions, lawyers and other special interest groups give far more money than any religious group does. And funny thing, there is no donation going to the RNC from "The Religious Right Inc". I think my main compliant about this book is that the chapter on religion needs to be devoted to an entire book. Coulter mentions in a few paragraphs about how the left has become a religion of its own and gives this as one of the reasons it fights so hard against conservatives, especially Christians. I hope this subject can become the next book project she writes about. The Atheist Left votes as a bloc but it isn't likely to be written about in the mainstream press. Much of the doctrine of the left is exposed in Slander. Some things may very well be debatable, but with all the footnotes and documentation it is hard to argue that she is out in left field just making this stuff up. I found this book to be very readable (the second time around was still enjoyable) it is filled with footnotes, quotes and lots of examples. I give this book a strong recommendation. Ann Coulter is funny, witty, smart and strong. And she tells it like it is. The kind of woman that feminists can't help but hate.
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Summary: Superb and Intelligent
Review: Also wonderfully sarcastic, bitingly funny, resourceful, exhaustingly researched, so smart, such fast-reading. Ann Coulter is fantastic, and her critics cannot argue with her on the merits, because they would never win, so they end up, as usual, with ad hominem attacks that only prove what she's saying in this book. The book is remarkable and thought-provoking. I'm going to get High Crimes and Misdemeanors instantly.
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Summary: Factual, not babble
Review: As a fiscal conservative, many books - whether liberal or conservative become personal crusades, or light weight, resume-building endeavors. THIS IS NEITHER. This book is the most well-documented, concise reading of what is really happening in America. The only partisan book I can strongly reccommend. Wich I had written it!
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Summary: This book makes Liberals mad.....GOOD!
Review: This book makes liberals mad. Why? Because it is TRUE! Dennis Goza wrote a rather aweful book review and he stands guilty of the very thing that Ann Coulter accuses Liberals of doing. When a liberal is cornered in a debate and the liberal cannot obviously engage him or herself with rational, logical, facts all they can do is use personal attacks and sarcasm but say nothing to literally counter the claims! Thanks Dennis Goza, your review of the book will surely help to sell more copies! I suppose these same liberals who hate this book actually are ignorant enough to believe Al Gore's statements on the "Conservative Media Machine"! How insane! One has to be blind AND deaf in order to not see the fact that the mainstream media is saturated with liberals!!!
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Summary: Great!!!!
Review: A rare voice of sanity, will be viewed as a major assault on the liberal megacomplex. Highly reccomended to conservatives, moderates, or liberals who think they know anything.
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Summary: Shrill straw man logic sells (books)
Review: In a few words.
--Nothing new but new gunslinger in town.
--Bad guys are liberals, left, worse than the enemy; insidiously persuasive, ignorant, covert and messing things up for the good guys.
--Tired stuff. Content? Read 50 of the same books left or right but with different pictures and dust covers.
--Thirsty public likes made for TV critics, train wrecks, and road rage stories.
--Public doesn't read or if it does, bought this book by mistake. A few more:
Another yawn from the legion of wanna be political commentators. Proof that if you throw enough against the wall something will stick. Throw it harder and maybe more will stick. Set up a boogeyman and then shoot him down with twisted aplomb and arrogance and you have this book. Also, footnote extensively (and stridently) and your argument is the Truth. Oh, my aching back. There is nothing here. No words on paper. It's blank. Finish reading this and its vapor. Put a new dust jacket on and you have a clone-another jacket-a clone of a clone. The book's premise: there is a vast left leaning conspiracy. This is so because I say so and here are ten million-at least-reasons and footnotes why; with telling quotes, nimble quips and exhaustive research. This stuff is painful. Why can't anyone write about the talking head-expert-guest host-radio, TV, newspaper column-internet media boondoggle space junk? That has as much validity and importance as this "they're all out to get us and we must stop them" volume.
The message is shrill for sure. Shrill here means spewing absolutes to the point where she becomes the very sinister target she seeks to disembowel. Forget right, center, left, up, down, turn around. The entire running invective is made to order for a debating, psychiatry, English or law school class. The debater would learn the fallacy of straw man logic, the psychiatry student would scratch the head, the English student would understand "he doth protest too much" Shakespearean languaging and the law student could bolster his sagging ego by thinking "if she can do it anyone can". I will see many copies of this book at my library's annual spring book sale. The book has one point in its favor--if she is signing books then she's not talking on TV.
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