Slander

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Summary: Bias leans both ways
Review: Ann Coulter, the tall blond vixen who used to sprew nonsense on Politically Incorrect, is at it again...doing what she does best. Gripe.

With such silly suggestions recently for the conflict with Islamic fundamentalists, (convert them to Christianity, after all, Christians NEVER kill each other), and a complete disregard for talk radio...dominated by formerly overweight hosts who reak of cigar smoke, Coulter takes on the "liberal" media.

Gee, where was she during the 90s when each night on the news we got a blow by blow description (pun intended) of the President's love life...a liberal's love life?

Coulter is dreaming if she thinks that liberals gather each Wednesday night to plot the downfall of this country with the help of Ted, Dan, and Peter....(we meet on Thursdays).

With magazines like National Review, The Weekly Spectator, and US New & World Report all having a slant towards the right, not to forget most owners of stations are conservative...Coulter's arguments fall flat on their face.

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Summary: Funny and aware..Ann is great!
Review: Ann Coulter takes no prisoners, and this book is evidence of that.
At times hilariously funny, and eminently readable, this book is a fascinating piece if journalism. As an attorney, she knows the value of a footnote, and there are pages and pages of them. Her lightning-fast and knife-edge sharp arguments are incredibly well thought out, and even when you don't agree with her you have to admit she's made a good argument.
Don't miss this one if you have any interest in politics or society today.

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Summary: Three quick points:
Review: 1) Liberals invented the "personal insult" style of political commentary? Yeah, right. If I remember correctly, Rush Limbaugh pretty much pioneered that style, and it is perpetuated almost excusively by right-wingers (such as Coulter herself).

2) There's a liberal bias in the US Media? Huh? WHERE? Someone please point it out to me. Folks, the United States Media is owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the right wing. Liberal bias? Apart from Carville and Begala, name one strong Liberal voice on cable or network television. Allan Colmes? Forget him. He's a pushover, hired by Fox to make the left look weak--Hannity walks all over him every night, and the wimp just sits there and takes it. Phil Donahue? Forget him. The guy barely seems to know where he is half the time. So that leaves...NOBODY. The US Media is terribly skewed to the right. Want to know how I came to that conclusion? I didn't have to read it in a book; I saw it with my own eyes, night after night on my TV. I form my own opinions; I don't let Limbaugh, Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity, and the DOZENS of other right-wing commentators on TV do it for me. Yes, thinking for yourself IS hard work--that's why the Coulters of the world are making megabucks selling books to people who can't quite manage to do it.

3) Liberals have some sort of affinity with the Taliban? Oh, PLEASE! The Taliban was a right-wing--let me repeat that, RIGHT-WING--government. Politically, they had far more in common with George W(armonger) Bush than with Bill Clinton or any other Democrat.

This book is twisted fairytale, the world as seen by a clearly deranged woman. That must be some powerful stuff Coulter and her followers are smoking!

Welcome to the new USA!
Leave your brain at the door, and let the right wing issue you a new, government approved one!

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Summary: Does Slander = Hypocrisy? In this book it does...
Review: I'm about as politically conservative as a person can get without belonging to the "Religious Right." Yet, I found this book painful to read. And while Ann is right on track with much of her political philosophy, the method of her argument takes away her credibility. For example, the first chapter or so focuses primarily on how in place of legitimate debate, liberals resort to labeling and name-calling conservatives. True. However, in the very next breath so resorts to calling liberals names!!! That makes her a hypocrite.

Ann Coulter is to conservative Republicans what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are to liberal Democrats: people who, because of their over-zealous attempt to prove their point, sacrifice their credibility and undercut the very cause they are promoting in the first place. This book is merely a sensationalizing rant, much like her diatribes as the representative of the "conservative" position on national TV talk shows. And I guess when you rant in around 200 pages of print, the organization of your written argument also suffers, or at least it does for Ann. I wish I had known that before I added this book to my shopping cart here on...

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Summary: That's Why She Was Canned by the National Review!
Review: I came across this book in the bookstore. Once I got to Coulter's bashing of Michael Moore's lack of a college education, I returned the book to its display. That was enough. It seems that Coulter doesn't only hate Moore's political allegiance, but looks down on folks without a college education, which in America is about 80 percent of the population. In the rest of the world, that's about 99 percent of the people. When it comes to putting people down, Coulter is the Queen B.

The book appears to have been written under extreme (or was it extremist?) duress (of Coulter's own making, of course) by a woman who imagines that the American media is against conservatives. If so, I have a question for you, Ms. Coulter. Why have you had little trouble getting media coverage since 09/11, despite being fired by the National Review, while the liberal Moore has had little success getting access to the same media (aside from his movie)? I doubt that it's because of your good looks.

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Summary: A humorous, yet serious perspective
Review: Writing with the cajones so many other commentators lack, Coulter goes right for the leftist jugular, sinking her well-sharpened fangs in its flabby neck. Laser-like in its focus, "Scandal" scrutinizes the leftist bias in the news from a true conservative's viewpoint, further expanding on the basic theme of Goldberg's "Bias".

Rather than rehash what many reviewers have already noted, I'll stick to what is most compelling. Coulter makes her case on several topics and provides details rarely heard or seen elsewhere. For one, I was not aware at the incredible time differences of the news outlets in calling states for Gore and calling them for Bush in the 2000 election. Without fail, they rushed to call states for Gore and held off calling them for Bush (even though the Bush states were less close between the two candidates.) Coulter also thoroughly dismantles the "Christian right" voting bloc construct so often cited by the liberals who run the media by showing less common ground in right-wing voting patterns than in those of the liberal left.

Others have noted that Coulter stoops to namecalling and some of the dirty tricks she accuses liberals of using. There is a distinction, however, that is being forgotten. Coulter claims that liberals say, "Bush is dumb," and they leave it at that. Coulter's namecalling takes more of the form "Gore is dumb because...." It's one thing to call your opponent a name, but it's entirely another to call them a name and then prove why that name is appropriate.

Personally, I found this to be the book "Bias" was not: thought-provoking and well-written by an erudite insider. While I enjoyed her deft wording, most liberals will be unable to complete "Slander" simply because they cannot handle the multi-syllabic words. Still, the audience for this is a puzzler; if you are conservative, she preaches to the choir, and if you're not, well, you probably won't get past the first few pages without your head exploding.

Amusing and witty throughout, "Slander" is a worthy bestseller and a compelling look at the leftist obfuscation in the news.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: From the looks of the Nov. 5 election results, somebody must have taken this book to heart. The more people read about the politics of liberalism, the more likely they are to vote Conservative, that is, Republican. Coulter painted a very unflattering picture of the liberal "thinkers" and commentators in this book. Anyone who reads this book is certain to do some thinking of their own. Read it carefully, learn from it, and vote Republican from now on.

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Summary: The Bias in the media is all too clear!
Review: What I enjoyed most about this book was Ann Coulter's challenge to prove her evidence to be in error. I myself have looked up and seen many of the examples she uses in the book, and almost all facts are easily verifiable by looking at past media sources and incidents.
I think the most disturbing thing pointed out to the reader is how Liberals say that we have free speech in America, but only as long as you don't disagree with them. That statement is supported VERY clearly in this book! If you do disagree with them, you get called 'racist', 'homophobic', 'extreme right-wing Christian', and so on!
While I do not believe that the Liberal party controls everything, it is clear that many in the media try to exert extreme and, many times, very unfair bias in their stories. Those people in Television and Newspapers must remember the need to look at facts objectively, and not let personal opinion determine the what is being told to the public and how it is presented!

The only fault I could find with the book was that in some instances it was clear her anger at the slander being perpetrated made her writing some what difficult to follow at times. On the whole, though, it was remarkably informative and interesting reading.

Keep it up, Ann!

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Summary: Those nasty liberals...
Review: ...first they had the nerve to drag us out of the Great Depression. Then they pulled us through WWII and out of Viet Nam. That perverted SOB Clinton cleaned up the economic mess that Reagan and Bush I left behind just in time for Bush II to do it all over again...and we're so glad W ignored all those damn chickens that squawked about the sky falling before 9/11/01.

I can seriously say that I find the scholarly works of Lee and Kirby, circa 1965, far more believable than the anecdotal ramblings of Ms. Coulter. What a long way we have come since then, when people like her would have been routinely committed to the nearest psychiatric facility!

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Summary: Cold Hard Truth
Review: This book is fantastic. I know it makes some of the other reviewers outraged because of the tone taken, but there are only so many ways you can sugar coat the truth. She could have tried to just list the facts, but her points tie everything together! She has woven a blanket of facts that have exposed the media. Media convinces themselves that they don't have a bias. I'm sure there are some well-meaning journalists out there. But, the totality of the facts listed in this book makes it indisputable. Excellent, well researched book! ALL AMERICAN'S SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!