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Summary: Indictment proved, case closed
Review: Ann Coulter, one of Washington's new breed of conservative women--media-savvy, smart, combative, and HOT!--takes on the media establishment. I must confess that I've heard the charge that the media suffers from a liberal bias for most of my life, but I have always been skeptical of the charge. Sure, most journalists--for reasons I don't understand--tend to be Democrats, and occasionally see things through "left"-colored glasses. I've always just accepted this as the price paid for having real, live human beings covering and reporting the news. Noone can be entirely free of their own biases, not journalists nor anybody else, no matter hard how they try.But Coulter charges something entirely different. She believes that among the American media there is an active, abiding, and hostile bias against all things Republican and Conservative. She flatly proves that the US media is constantly engaged in a never-ending campaign to push liberal causes, ideas and leadership while undermining the Right when and where possible. While I'll admit that through the first few chapters (rich in examples of liberal media bias, by the way) I remained very skeptical of her claims. But she keeps it up, page; after page; after page. She cites numerous example of media mistreatment of Republicans, countered by complimentary or flat-out fawning coverage of Democrats, time and again. By the end of the book, I came away convinced that America IS subject to an unrelenting media campaign to undermine the conservative and libertarian movements. I challenge any true liberals out there to read this book, the whole thing, and post what you feel. I give odds that you'll see the media in a new light.
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Summary: This book ought to be called: Slander, My Stock in trade
Review: ...I find this title laughable, and I only had to read a few chapters to see that the book, as I expected, has no insights, few facts, only snickering put downs, distortions, and outright lies. This woman has zero compassion for anyone but herself, and does not care who gets hurt. ...
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Summary: Coulter's Wit Drives Home Her Message
Review: Ann Coulter's strength as a writer lies not only in her blitzkrieg-ish sense of humor, but also in her intelligence and understanding of the nature of politics. Subtlety is not her modus operandi, so anyone searching for a drawing room discourse on the current American political scene should steer clear of this book. "Slander" is Coulter's fusion of facts and entertainment, and she mixes them well. One can actually sift the humor from the book and be left with a respectable body of well-documented information. Her wit is often scathing, so to those with tender sensibilities: beware. Coulter criticizes the American media for liberal bias, and so many people have raised a cry of "hypocrisy!" at Coulter's display of her biases in this book. This criticism is a non-issue, as books provide a perfectly respectable forum for presenting one's opinions, while the nature of journalism stresses reliance on facts, not feelings. Coulter provides plenty of both, and that is what gives this book substance. What Coulter implies in her book is that liberalism is a cancer that, if it goes unchecked, will eat away at America from the inside out. Liberalism weakens America; it feeds on the poor, the gullible, and those who seek personal (and unearned) gain based on race or social standing. It promotes the "what's in it for me?" mentality; it rewards mediocrity, at the expense of those who achieve; it seeks to model the world on that of an ant colony, while ignoring the vital difference between humans and ants: a reasoning mind capable of independent thought. "Slander" directly attacks the liberal mentality, not with a finely honed blade, but with all the finesse of a pickaxe. Whatever tools Coulter uses to drive home her message, it's clear that they are wielded by a master.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: With lots of humor, Coulter presents how the liberals have used their control of the media to distort the news and present it as objective.
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Summary: Slandering the slanderers
Review: Coulter commits every one of the "crimes" she blames on liberals. This book is a rant about people who rant. She starts out sounding like she will present actual facts, and she does have a few sprinkled throughout the book, but in the end she resorts to name-calling, baiting, and gleeful dancing on graves. There are a few valid points, some are even made without too much invective, but she commits every one of the sins of stereotyping she so decries. Phrases like "every liberal" and "all democrats" are everywhere. This would have made a good pamphlet.
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Summary: Reaping what she sews
Review: What was most startling about the book is that most of her footnotes are either inaccurate or misleading! I dare you. Randomly select 20 of them. Whether you are a liberal or a conservative (whatever that means) you should decide for yourself how many of her sources really say what she says they do. You can also decide for yourself whether or not a citation to a newspaper article or a non-refereed journal counts as scholarly. I checked a lot more than 20 of her citations. If she was writing a brief for a court or a article for a refereed journal she would be laughed at or sanctioned. Perhaps this is why she sticks to trying to fool lay people and not real decision-makers - then incessantly complains when they don't agree with her. Finally, in all her complains about "judicial activism" I find it ironic that she expects a court ever to understand her point when she does not even make the effort to correctly cite any authority (even a newspaper article.) Maybe her kind reaps what they sew.
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Summary: HURRAH!
Review: This book should be required reading for anyone who follows American Politics through the medium of the American News Media, both Conservative and Liberal. As a Conservative Republican who is married to a Liberal Democrat, I can say that Ms. Coulter's book is useful in political discussion not only for illustrating discussion from the Conservative point of view, but also for dispelling the naivite of some Liberals, whose main argument against such statements as "Liberals control the media" or "Liberals control the educational system" is that the "American" system would not allow such one-sidedness. While many of Ms. Coulters views are dismissed by Liberals as more "Right Wing" rhetoric, she points out that many Liberal arguments are simply more of the same but from the opposite corner of the political ring, and does it with a sense of humour that anyone can enjoy!
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Summary: ...
Review: ...I thought this might be an interesting read. I myself have no use for liberal propagnda we are inundated with on a dailey basis. However, I don't think Ann Coulter should be allowed to own a book much less write one after what I saw pressed betweent the covers of this one. I have never in my life read anything so BOOOOOORING and childish in my life ! Constant name calling and all the footnotes were ridiculous to say the least. When she paraphrased someone,I checked the footnotes in the back and saw the whole statement that person made, and she took it totally out of context ! If you are going to present your case about the drivel the liberal agenda thrusts on us, at leat do a better job of it than name calling and rhetoric...And I am a stauch conservative Republican by the way !!!!..
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Summary: She Makes a Great Case, But it's Heavy
Review: I completely agree and admire Ms. Coulter, but this book is a heavy read. It is taking me a while to get through it, and it's a lot to absorb. But she makes a great case against the liberal media and liberal politics.
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Summary: This book only makes the problem worse.
Review: I have seen or heard Ann Coulter interviewed many times, and I picked up this book in hopes of reading a lot more of her wit and her straight forward style. This book has neither her humour or straight forward style. This book is more of an "In your face" style. It's true that she has 36 pages of footnotes to doccument her quotes and comments. However; this books "in your face" style will be enjoyed by conservatives, but any open minded liberal will become quickly offended and put the book down in disgust and believe the book is more hate mongering by Republicans. In my opinion she should have offered her book AFTER removing MANY of the phrases that cause knee jerk reactions with liberals. Unfortunately; this book sheds more heat than light. Two Bears.
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