Slander

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Summary: Ann is right again
Review: Ann Coulter is a breath of fresh air to the never ending political debate in the country. She is smart, funny, pretty, and straight to the heart. She documents everything in her book with footnotes, and the ones I am familiar with all check out. Because she is so good and honest with her documented facts of liberal media bias and namecalling, there is an orchestrated effort from the radical left to discredit her on minor points (if she's wrong on minor points, then how can she be right on anything, the far-left logic asks). That alone should tell you that she is right. In the light of the last election where the mainstream media got all of the close races wrong in favor of the liberals, it is refreshing to find someone who gets everything right. She is the female version of Rush Limbaugh, and in an America where the NY Times and Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings and CNN have shaped the news from their liberal slant too long, that is a good thing. I can't wait for her next book to come out. It was the most entertaining book I have read in a long time, and very TRUE..Go ANN.

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Summary: Coulter mows down liberal lies like a freight train!
Review: This is one of the funniest and wittiest political tomes I have ever read. There are passages that caused me to laugh out loud. I am reminded of the sarcastic style of PJ O'rourke and William F Buckley in terms of her style. Her points are meticulously backed up with facts and are credited with pages and pages of footnotes. Ann uses sarcasm like a deadly double edged dagger.

You will laugh at loud as she sets up her points and tees off with a mighty wack at liberal lies in a merciless fashion. Among her targets are The NY Times, Katie Couric, Newsweek, Time magazine, Jonathan Alter, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Gloria Steinem and too many other 'out of the closet' liberals too mention. Of course she enjoys outing the self described 'unbiased' journalists and publishers as the liberal Republican haters they really are.

If you want to see her destroy, liberal icons, biased editors and reportrers, publishing bias, liberals calling opponents 'dumb' like 6 graders, liberal fear of the choice found on the internet....and others in a highly entertaining fashion, GET THIS BOOK! You will not be disappointed.

ps- the bashers who wrote reviews like "what liberal bias?! Where is it?!", obviously did not read this book. Negative non descriptive rants bashing this book without addressing her arguments are PERFECT representations of shrill sore losing liberals who attack without substance. This ties in well with Coulter's chapter on liberals calling people dumb when they have nothing else to say.

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Summary: re: three quick points
Review: This is a respose to three quick points, the reader so proud of ex-KKK member Robert Byrd.

1) Ann's point is liberals would rather name call than talk about the issues. Invective is fine. Lies are not. Read the book to learn more.

2) Yes, Ann extensively points out the liberal bias in the media, as does the book Bias by Bernard Goldberg. Read them before writing such foolish commentary. You want to know why you don't see liberal talking heads? Because no one wants to listen to them. Donahue's ratings are in the toilet. Don't blame Republicans for a lack of charismatic and thought-provoking liberals on TV.

3) This part of your rant is just silly. Right-wing and left-wing loses it's meaning when talking about other parts of the world.

Trust me, any government issued brains will be coming from a Democractic administration. You want to be one of the first to check theirs in?

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Summary: She talks bad. But she writes worse !
Review: I thought she talked bad. I change my opinion. She writes worse. This is the third joke book in the series after "Mission Compromised and Invasion." She forgets that after the war is over, it it is the liberals who take care of the victims - not her blood soaked conservative hangers on.

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Summary: Best book on the truth yet!
Review: I love reading some of the reviews from the "one star" idiots that I guarantee never read the book. Ann has simply lists of fact after fact about REAL media statements and print stories -- this is the best book ever written on the topic! I highly recommend this as a eye opener to the tactics of liberal democratic hypocrites in the media. Information is power!

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Summary: Abridged?
Review: Those of you who cannot handle the literary intricacies and subtle poetic symbolism of the unabridged writings of Ms. Coulter take heart! This will help you! All I can say is, and I don't understand why racist and ridiculous reviews keep getting posted and mine keep getting rejected when none of them have anything the least bit objectionable in them (hmmm...wonder why that is?), is that Ann Coulter is symbolic of our horribly depraved culture. That such a figure could write a bestseller shows how entirely most Americans have been won over by the most thinly veiled cheering squads for materialism, imperialism and an unfettered agenda of helping the rich get richer while further crushing the poor. I think that's great, especially considering that most Americans are poor and powerless. If you buy into the message that if you're a white conservative male the world should drop at your feet and if it doesn't that's the "liberal media" making it happen then you deserve your poverty and disempowerment. Because the money isn't going to affirmative action and the "welfare state", it's going to subsidize globalization and allowing 1% of the nation-less really-reach superbly undemocratic levels of influence. Look into the facts, it's all there. But, no, sit in your trailer park and be mad at black people instead of the super powerful. Be mad at the (conservative!) media and buy into the idea that it is responsible for your problems! Because if you looked into it you'd realize the media is conservative and owned by rich corporations! The progressive press never gets any attention. This is not a fringe belief but what all intellectuals from reputable institutions know. But I guess you know better.

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Summary: worthless garbage
Review: To say that Ann Coulter is blinded by ideological zeal is to put it nicely. She is so blinded, in fact, that she fails to see that she is guilty of exactly the same kind of invective that she accuses liberals of. This book is filled with some of the most inane, stupid, and flat out incorrect nonsense I've ever seen. Coulter paints with such a broad brush as to lose all credibility. The only thing this book shows is her level of ignorance.

This is yet another hate-filled book from a conservative author that seeks to demonize liberals and wrongly paint them all as unamerican, athiest, evil, etc--truly the enemy of all good people. Is there anyone else out there who is as tired of this as I am? Who can deny that for the past twenty years that the shrillness, extremism, and anger in political discourse has come from the right? We've had to deal with the explosion of conservative talk radio, militia movements, and an absolute right-wing obsession with destroying a popular president. I find it laughable that Ann accuses the left of intolerance. Everytime I see a political debate it is always the liberal being shouted down by a conservative. Whenever liberals reacts to this conservative onslaught they are accused of being intolerant and bigoted. Conservatives need to look in the mirror and they need to grow a thicker skin. The real reason, however, that they react so violently to liberal opposition is that they will absolutely brook no challenge to thier new found momentum.

Ann Coulter states that liberals have been wrong about everything. This is an untrue statement, and it would be equally untrue to say that conservatives have been wrong about everything. Intelligent political discourse naturally avoids such absolute statements. So if you're looking for intelligent political analysis, look elsewhere. My copy of this book is going right into the trash--where it belongs.

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Summary: worthless garbage
Review: ...This book is filled with some of the most...incorrect nonsense I've ever seen. Coulter paints with such a broad brush as to lose all credibility...This is yet another hate-filled book from a conservative author that seeks to demonize liberals and wrongly paint them all as unamerican, athiest, evil, etc--truly the enemy of all good people...Ann Coulter states that liberals have been wrong about everything...if you're looking for intelligent political analysis, look elsewhere. My copy of this book is going right into the trash--where it belongs.

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Summary: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Review: Very excellent account of the low-level to which power hungry politicians stoop, specifically those who tend to be of the liberal persuasion. Lying, name-calling, personal insults are among the childish means by which they distract attention from their own incompetence. Incidentally, these same tactics are employed by those individuals providing negative reviews of this book, certainly suggesting that the author has achieved a high degree of accuracy in her characterization of the liberal mentality.

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Summary: Well-Documented
Review: Let's be clear here: some people don't like Ann Coulter's views and so they criticize her style. They should deal with the facts for which she provides documentation. Some examples:

1. The spate of cruel comments about the physical appearance of Linda Tripp, Paula Jones or Katherine Harris (pgs. 17-19)
2. The fact that on a poll, three fifths of the American people who heard Juanita Broaddrick claim tha Bill Clinton raped her thought it was true (pg. 19)
3. That ABC News used two former Clinton staffers to balance each other's political commentary (pg. 61)
4. The interesting and under-reported fact that in the 2000 election CNN tended to call close states for Gore a lot faster than it called states that Bush won handily (pg. 87) Why is this important? In the closest election in American history, this slanted coverage created the impression that Bush's campaign was going down and arguably suppressed the vote.

There is a lot more.

This book is well sourced and poses a significant challenge to those who would criticize it.