Slander

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Summary: Public Health Warning for Conservatives
Review: The recent publication, Against All Enemies, by former counter-terrorism czar, Richard Clarke, is believed to be causing a wide-spread outbreak of Bush Fatigue Syndrome in the US, according to World Health Organization officials. Be on the lookout for symptoms referenced below:

Bush Fatigue Syndrome:
an illness similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. It is caused by the strain of the constant daily need to defend or rationalize the poor decisions, horrible domestic record, and foreign policy blunders of the president. Die-hard Republicans are especially prone to get this disease. It reached epidemic porportions after no wmds were found in Iraq, and Bush supporters had to sell the case that we "really" went to war to "liberate the Iraqi" people. Additional flair-ups occured after the last SOU address, after every monthly employment report, general accounting reports regarding the historic deficits (especially when inheriting a budget surplus is referenced), and the president's fumbled interview on Meet the Press. Symptoms include extreme exhaustion, irritability, and dizziness.

Suffers of BFT must stay quarantined until after the November election.

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Summary: She is not a Republican
Review: Don't be fools. Coulter is no Republican. She is a media hound who is running our party into the ground by making us look brain dead to the American people. I wonder which side she is really on?

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Summary: Hypothetically...
Review: If Ann Coulter teamed up with Laura Bush and had a 2 out of 3 falls tag-team 'rasslin match against Katie Couric and Paula Zahn for the women's rasslin tag team belts, I'm sorry to say Ann Coulter and Laura Bush would likely win : (

Ann Coulter would pin Katie Couric 1-2-3 by CHEATING.
Paula Zahn would pin Laura Bush 1-2-3
Paula Zahn would pummel Coulter - but then would TURN
on her partner, Katie Couric, while the referee wasn't looking
and Laura Bush would pin Katie Couric 1-2-3 for the win, and
the women's tag team belt!

Hypothetically speaking, of course, if they was ever to 'rassle.
Just my opinion, of course.

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Summary: Hypocrite Thy Name is Ann!
Review: I cannot say enough about the self-serving hypocrisy that Coulter displays in this book. She accuses liberals of refusing to have a fair debate on the issues because all they do according to her is persecute poor conservatives by calling them racists, sexists, anti-Semites, etc. Yet, in virtually the same breath, she demonizes liberals by calling them unpatriotic, amoral, etc. What a crock!
How dare she write a book criticizing the so-called persecution of conservatives (although I don't see calling a spade a spade in most cases persecution) when her entire argument is based on her own bashing of liberals. She is guilty of exactly the same crime she accuses liberals of committing...from the opposite end of the spectrum. The last time I checked that was hypocrisy.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. People like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly are the reason that true debate is dying in this country. Their version of debate is to either demonize a person who disagrees with them or yell them into submission. They aren't interested in anyone's point-of-view except their's or another member of their choir's. So, before Ann Coulter lectures me or anyone else on debate habits, she should clean up her own house of discourse because it's not only dirty, it stinks.

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Summary: LIAR
Review: Terrible, but wonderful at the same time. I am glad that she has become a leading spokesperson for the conservatives in this country. She is a liar, mean-spirited, and someone who only complains and doesn't offer any suggestions. Check out her attempt to document her "sources" and her flimsy endnotes. She bends the "truth" to suit her own needs. No she isn't the first, or the last, but I really don't know how this woman sleeps at night. Only in America.....

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Summary: Public Service Announcement for Conservatives
Review: Please be advised of the following diseases which are reaching epidemic porportions among conservative; the heartbreak of Coulteritus, and the debilitating Bush Fatigue, Syndrome:

Coulteritus:
a contagious mental affliction, similar to tourettes syndrome, causing one to speak and write in half-truths. It is characterized by the inability to consider competing ideologies and generate coherent, rational thoughts or ideas. Suffers from coulteritus are known to spontaneously espouse irrational ad hominem attacks against those holding opposing political views, and resort to hyperbole rather than reason in debate. Right-wing talk show hosts frequently suffer from coulteritus. Suffers from the disease commonly perceive the world in black and white only. Conservatives are especially susceptible to this tragic affliction.

Bush Fatigue Syndrome:
an illness similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. It is caused by the strain of the constant daily need to defend or rationalize the poor decisions, horrible domestic record, and foreign policy blunders of the president. Die-hard Republicans are especially prone to get this disease. It reached epidemic porportions after no wmds were found in Iraq, and Bush supporters had to sell the case that we "really" went to war to "liberate the Iraqi" people. Additional flair-ups occured after the last SOU address, after every monthly employment report, general accounting reports regarding the historic deficits (especially when inheriting a budget surplus is referenced), and the president's fumbled interview on Meet the Press. Symptoms include extreme exhaustion, irritability, and dizziness.

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Summary: Liberals' worst nightmare come true
Review: What really bothers liberals about this book is the fact that they basically wrote it themselves. Ann Coulter holds a mirror of truth in the face of liberalism and forces its practitioners to see themselves as they really are. Quite understandably, liberals do not like what they see. Any liberals who have actually read this book (and I doubt a single one of them has) obviously did not learn anything from the experience because they vociferously attack Coulter in the boisterous, hypocritical, childish manner Coulter herself is taking them to task for in these pages. This is a book every Republican - nay, every honest American - should read; even I found it more eye-opening than I anticipated. Knowing how pervasive the liberal bias in media is, I try to avoid the most galling of liberal demagogues, depending primarily on news sources that at least try to give the impression of impartiality. Thus, I was not fully aware of the degree of vitriol and unabashed truth evasion taking place in major media outlets. If Coulter seems a little bitter at times and goes a little too far in the tone of her criticisms (and I have to admit that she does upon occasion), it is perfectly understandable. Any self-respecting American who willfully subjects himself or herself to a detailed study of such sources as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, major television network news broadcasts, and the like deserves a medal of valor. Coulter supplies quote after quote after damning quote from these unabashedly liberal sources, and it is difficult not to be angry at the liberals in this country who behave in such laughably childish and hateful ways.

Coulter brilliantly analyses the liberal means of communication and debate in America; basically, she argues, liberals do not debate because they cannot do so. The only core belief they have to fall back on is their assertion that conservatives are evil incarnate. Thus, they endlessly resort to name-calling, labels (conservatives are "stupid" and "dumb"), hissy fits, and invective of all sorts. Their only burden of proof is the endless repetition of their claims. They invent non-existent groups such as "the religious right" and then blame them for everything they don't like (yet can never actually explain just who these groups actually are). In between diatribes on the alleged hatefulness and divisiveness of conservatives, they attack their foes in the most hateful of fashions; if you disagree with liberals, you are dismissed as a Nazi, storm trooper, goose-stepper, woman-hater, racist, sanctimonious Christian, right-wing nut, etc. This sort of invective is all you hear from liberals when a conservative actually offers to debate them, and the proof is right here in Slander.

According to liberals, the religious right are a bunch of dumb, ugly, uneducated hicks, yet these poor and stupid sheep somehow manage to enforce their will on America with huge sums of money. The Christian Coalition is supposedly the most pervasive and dangerous lobbying influence in Washington, yet the facts show that liberal PACs put religious right lobbying amounts to shame. For years, liberals were able to make up facts and pursue their arguments with impunity, knowing that no one in the media would try to check their accuracy and would certainly never dare to point out any errors. The Internet and radio have changed that. Coulter mined these new sources to great effect, pulling out quote after quote from liberals over the years that shows the hypocrisy and utter disdain they have for the American people (whom they hate for not voting Democrat in sufficient numbers). Their hypocrisies and constant reversals are laid out for all to see in Slander. They cannot fight back against Coulter because not only do they no longer have any ammunition, the ammunition they used to rely upon is exactly what Coulter is using to attack them in this book. Watching liberals react to Coulter would be comical if it were not so shameful and pathetic.

Ann Coulter's Slander is not going to help civilize the attacks one constantly sees in the realm of politics, but that is not the point here, really. She is exposing liberal tactics for what they really are, truths that are made even more evident to Americans in the tone of liberals now pulling their hair out over having been forced to look at themselves as they really are. Conservatives should be outraged at the material filling this book, for the material Coulter collects from such "prestigious" media outlets as the New York Times is nothing short of outrageous, offensive, and unbelievably audacious (as well as oftentimes inherently false, as recent events at the paper have made abundantly clear). Anyone who respects the truth and serious discussion of the issues should be flabbergasted and deeply disturbed at the weight of the evidence Ann Coulter has supplied in this very important political monograph. Liberals will react to this book the way they always react to any sort of challenge, thus making Ann Coulter's point for her time and time again.

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Summary: Spare me...
Review: Coulter first stumbled into the public eye as one of the "elves" providing clandestine legal services for Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against then-President Clinton. Although Jones would have wanted to settle out of court, Coulter sabatoged this possibility by leaking attorney client privileged information to the press. Coulter's interest was not in helping Jones get what she wanted, but in bringing down the president, by her own admission. After the case was dismissed, and Jones retired to obscurity (save for her starkers in Penthouse), Coulter dismissed Jones as a "fraud" and "trailer park trash."

So upon reading the opening paragraph, "Political 'debate' in this country has become insufferable... at the risk of giving away the ending: It's all the liberals' fault," my first thought was, "Her failure to bring down the Clinton administration has left her terribly bitter."

The books most outstanding characteristic is its blatant hypocrisy. Coulter accuses liberals of destroying the national dialogue but does so with the most ruthless and often inaccurate invective. For those who wish to believe that conservatives are right, right, right in everything they do, this book will have undoubted appeal. For those a little less indoctrinated, it's apt to induce migraines. It's simply a 208 page harangue.

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Summary: THE TRUTH HURTS!
Review: This book is very well researched,and written. It points out the inconsistant elite media. How they build up left wing political hacks, while trying to destroy any conservative voice. It also shows the pure hatred towards talk radio, Fox News, and some of the print media by left wingers. Ann Coulter holds nothing back. The gloves are off.

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Summary: RIGHT WING LOONEY TOONS WILL LOVE THIS BOOK
Review: I started reading this one afternoon at the bookstore and got about 20 pgs in before I became disgusted and had to put it down.

before some yokel accuses me of not being handle to "handle the truth" Let me assure you that it's anything but that. Unless the world is a place where right wing zealots (masquerading as conservative Republicans) are always right and everyone else (liberals) are always wrong. Something tells me that unless you live in a trailer park and watch NASCAR every Sunday, that's not how the world really is.

This is "book" titled Slander (someone should inform Coulter, a lawyer that the correct term is libel, not slander) is about as one-sided it gets.

At least Michael Moore, Al Franken, Bill O'Reilly, and even to a slight degree Rush Limbaugh are sane. This book was nothing more than the ranting of a lunatic.

Again I made an attempt, which is more than I can say for some of the negative reviewers of the Moore and Franken books.

FYI: He only reason this book was ever on the best seller list is that Conservative book clubs buy it in bulk and sell it for $.99 as part of their marketing ploy to lure new members.

I don't see any liberal book clubs doing that. Come to think of it, I've never seen a liberal book club.

In short. Don't waste your time or money, not even the $1 to join the book club.