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Summary: Love her articles, disappointed in book
Review: I was so excited when Coulter's book arrived and I sat down comfortably to what I felt was going to be a treat of conservative insight into liberal lies. The lies were there, but far too often Ms. Coulter was doing the exact same thing she accused the left of doing, name calling. Her own name calling of the left was childish and detracted greatly from the message, albeit, an important one that she was attempting to make in this book.
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Summary: Christian?
Review: Every time I read this book I fail to understand where "Christianity" enters her writing. I also fail to understand where the "liberal lies" are that the vast majority of Republicans are no longer moderate, intellignet people of the same cut as Eisenhower, Regan or others that I know. This woman is simply seeking to rial people and that sells books. Her writings have nothing to do with what christ teaches. Stay away from those that seek to create problems between christians. Republicans seek out the true history of the party and adhere to it - dont be given to rancorous rhetoric...
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Summary: Bargain Bin Fodder
Review: Anyone who pays full price for this book is nuts. If you MUST buy an Anne Coulter book, just wait a few months and you can pick up a nice remaindered copy from your local bargain basement trash bin for just a few bucks. That's because the intrinsic value of books like this is very low. In terms of literary merit, is there a less than one star rating?! Be forewarned: nothing good or uplifting or truly illuminating has ever come from the pen of AC. On page after page, all we see is a woman more smitten with her own bile and cleverness than a genuine interest in balanced reporting. Liberals dis the American Right. Gosh Ann, what a perfectly obvious subject for tiny minds like yours to pursue.
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Summary: Author's Writing Style Is A Drag
Review: As its title suggests SLANDER is not really a book about issues. It is instead a long harangue about how the liberals and the media they control attack conservative politicians and their ideas. Naturally a few issues do get mentioned in the process.Coulter is at her best in the concluding chapter where she cites such conservative public policy ideas as Privatizing Social Security, the Strategic Defense Initiative, Pollution Tax Credits, Welfare Reform and the Flat Tax. Throughout the book she also frequently gives credit to Reagan for ending the Cold War. SLANDER may serve a purpose in reminding conservatives that they have a tough opponent in the media. However, the book is very repetitious and Coulter's writing style can get wearisome.
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Summary: Fighting Fire With Fire
Review: I have enjoyed Ann Coulter as a commentator on television. For this reason I was disappointed in SLANDER. She reminded me of some of the liberal attack dogs many of us have learned to discount. The author could have done a better job of exposing the liberal media without indulging in so many of her own personal attacks.
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Summary: Very Repetitious
Review: The best parts of SLANDER occur when Ann Coulter sticks to the facts. I always welcome receiving intriguing information about such topics as voting patterns or PAC contributions. The rest of the book seems very repetitious as if there is no need to divide it into chapters except to allow the reader to come up for air.
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Summary: Anti-Coulter
Review: When you come right down to it, despite all of Ann Coulter's standard simplistic right-wing hyperbole that the "liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half century," it really is about the economy, stupid. Without wading deeply into her pool of shallow distortions, some of which other reviewers have detailed here, what Coulter and her fellow reactionaries currently located primarily in the Republican Party don't understand (or refuse to publicly acknowledge) is that "the liberals," with their pump priming (and associated civil reforms), temporarily saved the economic system for the capitalists from more fundamental socioeconomic change when the overheated laissez-faire market of the 1920s crashed and burned. (Hardly an original observation on my part.) But then, she did specify "the last half century." In that case, look where more than two decades of bipartisan "deregulation" and "privatization" by neoliberal "New Democrats" and far-right Republican "free market" cultists alike have gotten us: a kleptocratic corporate culture built on insider trading and cooked books. (And this, by the way, is the basic economic model that US policymakers seek to impose on the entire world, via unfair and undemocratic trade agreements, at the point of a boycott or a bomb!) And I suppose the liberals alone are to blame for Enron employees losing their pension plans, not to mention Wal-Mart workers being locked in and forced to work overtime at no pay. But somehow, I don't think that's what the de-slanderer has in mind. However, if Coulter and her ideological cohorts want to clear the political field of what nominal mainstream liberals remain, go right ahead. Ultimately, the failure of US "liberalism" (or more properly, social-democratic reformism of a sort) is really the failure of capitalism to meet the needs of all the citizens in a world where the growing disparity between rich and poor -- within and between nations -- poses the single greatest threat to peace and security. Strange, though, how Coulter and other political celebrities on the rarefied fringes of the extreme right avoid serious debate with authentic leftists. Well, maybe not so strange, preferring as they do to engage in hackneyed diatribes against liberal straw men -- paradoxically, in a mass media these self-styled conservatives continually condemn as being run by the hated liberals, who, by their nature, would have to prefer "invective to engagement." Unlike Ann Coulter, of course, "if only conservatives had had total control over every major means of news dissemination for a quarter century," this being her ridiculous lament, perhaps hoping that if she makes enough outrageous assertions sound like self-evident truths, maybe some will stick. But reality intrudes into the lives of everyday people. And just as a wise old Republican observed that you can't fool all of the people all of the time, outside of Coulter's hard-right claque, nobody will be fooled by this volume either.
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Summary: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Review: Ms Coulter is a credit to the conservative right. Those subscribing to the conservative right must certainly embrace this work and this author. After all, she employs the same logic as those who fill the ranks of this ideology: Promote belief over facts and empirical evidence, and engage in non-stop rhetoric so that listening is ultimately impossible. As a person who leans to the left, I am so very happy that this author is embraced by the right. I must admit that I read only the first 100 pages of this book--my stomach could not possibly tolerate any more. I am anxiously awaiting winter to see if I can find an acceptable use for this book--I hope my fireplace can digest the pages better than I could. Thus, if one has money to "burn" I strongly suggest this book for cold winter nights with the lights out.
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Summary: Truth--What a Concept!
Review: If you have an ounce of critical thinking in your body, you owe it to yourself to buy this book, study it, and then use it in defense of common sense--and hence against liberal blather. She is to conservatism and critical thinking what Rush Limbaugh is to conservatism and humor (with appologies to P. J. O'Rourke and Glenn Beck). I found myself wishing that she had written this while I was in grad school, so that I could have realized that I was fighting a losing battle by trying to use logic and facts against liberal emotion and name calling.
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Summary: This should be required reading in our schools....
Review: This book puts to shame anyone who claims there is no media bias in this country. The author does a wonderful job of dismantling the most often used liberal arguments and deceptions. My favorite feature is that it is simply loaded with footnotes to back up the arguments being made. If you are conservative you will love this book. If you are liberal you will hate it, either way you will be glad you read it.
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