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Summary: Blistering polemical against liberal media
Review: ...While I understand the need for books like this one, I'm not sure I altogether like it. I would prefer that conservatives take the high-road and dispense with all these blistering polemics, especially when it comes to a topic as controversial and important as media bias. Coulter's obsession with raking the liberal media over the coals for its intransigent unfairness limits her book somewhat. Let's be honest about this: liberal bias is only one of the many sins committed by our news media. Professional new journalists also suffer from laziness and a bias towards establishment figures. One cannot completely understand the liberal bias of the media without discussing these other problems, because they are related. The media's bias towards establishment figures is especially tricky, because it seems to contradict the media's bias in favor of liberalism (or so the Left would have us believe). But this contradiction is largely apparent rather than real. Reporters don't like going after powerful individuals in the establishment because their afraid of reprisals. They'll criticize them often enough, because that attracts viewers. But they will avoid the real big story -- e.g., any of the stories that could have gotten Bill Clinton indicted or thrown in jail. Hence, Clinton was criticized for his sordid affair with Monica, but was more or less given a free pass on Chinagate, which happened to be a much more serious matter. These are, to be sure, complicated matters, difficult to thresh out, and not easily made the stuff of polemical writing, which tends to remain on a highly general level, free of the nuances and subtleties characteristic of reality. Hence my slight dissatisfaction with Coulter's book. I think it could have been a lot better.
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Summary: Bile-soaked tripe
Review: This is possibly the worst written piece of tripe I have ever had the misfortune of wasting my time on. By page 15 I just could not take any more, and I hastened it back to the library from which I had borrowed it. The only saving grace was that I did not spend a dime on it. It's tedious, poorly written, unendingly repetitious, and an insult to educated minds. If there was a rating of less than 1, I'd give it a -10. Ech, let me get the foul taste of it out of my mouth!
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Summary: Coulter Returns Fire With Fire
Review: After I saw Ann Coulter on Hannity & Colmes, I realized just how willing to take on the liberal left and the biased media Coulter is. There aren't many people willing to expose the media for what it is: a left-leaning, "some of the facts" news reporting that is insanely biased against the right side of the political equation. It was a breath of fresh air watching her duke it out with Alan Colmes (a commentator I always disagree with, but whom I deeply respect for his down-to-earth, consistent belief system, and his humility in presenting it; Hannity is cocky, much as I agree with him on most things), and I was compelled after her appearance to buy her book to see what else she has has to say. It's safe to say I was shocked at the way she goes about tearing the liberal left to shreds. Rush Limbaugh's books in the early 90's were harsh on libs, but whoa! Coulter is harder. She makes a bazillion and one good points on topics ranging from liberal bias in the media to religion to how liberals operate and she neatly exposes their shortsightedness and inconsistencies. I like the book for those reasons, and the fact that she's very hard-line on a wide range of issues. However, I am disappointed with the way she goes about it. Limbaugh was able to make many of the same points, but he was not nearly as invective as Coulter is. Granted I agree with Coulter 100%, but I see an almost hypocritical method she used to make her points: she (rightly) criticizes the left and the media for bashing conservatives, but her return fire (besides presenting irrefutable facts) is to slash and burn with the same hateful tone that the libs and the media use when they attack conservatives. I disagree with the invective manner with which she fires back. Still, the book is a breath of fresh air for the conservative audience. Instead of being criticized (a daily occurance in every media outlet save for the Fox News Network), conservatives get a chance to fight back, even if all they do is agree with Coulter as they read. It's nice not to have one's opinion thrown in their face once in a while. Sean Hannity has just released a decent publication, and we're all still waiting (some of us more patiently than others!) for Limbaugh to pick up the pen again...
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Summary: convoluted elocution
Review: I purchased this book hoping to enjoy more of Ms Coulter's wit and straight-forwardness. Instead I found her paragraphs hard to comprehend and chocked full of phrases that could only be appreciated by a PhD in Thesaurus Science. Did Ann Coulter really write this? Ms Coulter, in my opinion, has gained the admiration of conservatives and even the respect of liberals by her oral communication. It is a shame that her 'sit-up and take notice' style did not come through in her written media. If her editor reads this, please delete her dictionary and disable her thesaurus for her next book. Possibly let her talk into a dictaphone to let her natural, familiar, and relatable persona shine through. Then let someone else wield the pen(or keyboard). Her messages are enthralling and her passion is compelling. This book contains some dynamic revelations. We still love you, Ann, but I must admit I was disappointed in your writing style.
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Summary: Talk about slander...
Review: This is the single greatest literary example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Ms. Coulter is betting people will be bowled over by her footnotes. Call her bluff. Go to the library, take this book and look up some of her footnotes. Several of the articles she cites do not say what she says they say. Either she is a liar or she has a severe disability in reading comprehension. Whichever is the case, it certainly calls into question her credibility as a pundit.
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Summary: Leftists must have this book.
Review: This book could be summed up with: "I know you are but what am I."
The best way to win this fight is to deflect the issue as Ann has done here. By redifining the word Liberal and redefining the word media and if we use a different context of the word proof, we can show that 1 + 1 = blue. Although I hated sitting through this much empty rhetoric that I could have absorbed from two hours of mainstream mass media, I must recommend this book to anyone who is an evil liberal. It is a wonderful text to use when explaining how conservatism communicates. Conservatives once told us what to think, now they tell us not to. The book does have a few errors and distortions as all books do, but is not worse than average in terms of writing style. It is important to understand what conservatism teaches if you are to help someone free themselves (e.g. under conservatism, adding a superlative to a statement makes it a fact).
The myth of the liberal media is a myth created by the media. Ann is very much a part of that beast (are we down to 1 media corporation yet?) The only way to make the propaganda machine more effective is to show that if it is called the 'bad guy', media conclusions are still upheld. The other big error is that Ann considers Democrats to be the Liberals. She fails to consider that many people, myself included, consider the Democrats interchangeable with the republicans (compare them to a Socialist or an Anarchist who never is invited to participate in CNN roundtables). How does Ann chastise the media as though she is not a part of it? The truth is that the media will continue to cultivate their crop (you).
Media will continue to sell this crop to the highest bidder.
The highest bidder is the corporations that sustain conservatism. It's more fun to watch wars than coverage on the environment.
Its more fun to watch sitcoms for hairstyle changes than learn about the perils of capitalism.
It's easier to do what your told than to fight back.
It's easiest to agree with Ann and not question her. How is a media liberal when owned by conservatives, run by conservatives, and given oversight by conservatives? Look into independent media after you read this book. It may explain much of how we react to the media since we are the commodity on which it survives.
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Summary: An accurate look at liberals!
Review: If you want to read an all out bashing on liberalism this book does the job, and then some! Conservatives will love, absolutely love the way democrates and the liberal media are presented in this book. You'll be amazed how liberal the media really are and points out who these people with a liberal agenda other than reporting the news are. The book will open your eyes on how bias the media really is with the exception of the fox news channel. Great book!
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Summary: Can't Ann Fact Check?
Review: What is it with Ann and her inability to have her work properly fact-checked before publication? From the first mistake (in the first chapter regarding Jefford's voting record) to the last, this is just shoddy workmanship. Not only shoddy workmanship, but arguments are made with such venom and hysteria that they can't be taken seriously. Gee, who's guilty of slander now?
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Summary: Bravo!
Review: Coming from an ex-liberal. Coulter has written a very factual, detailed account of what the liberal left thinks about those on the right. Her book is very descriptive with wonderful footnotes. I commend Random House for publishing this much needed book. The only thing Ms. Coulter might have added for those liberals who don't understand the logic of their ways would be illustrated pictures.
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Summary: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Review: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right written by Ann Coulter is a well written book with a pitbull approach in exposing the liberal adgenda as she examines with incisive reasoning and meticulous research the events and personalities that have shaped modern political discourse. I found this book to be an eye-opening account of the biased media exposing namecalling, bickering, and backstabbing as the bill d' fare of the liberal side, but that's politics as we now know it when a liberal has a comment or point of view. Ann Coulter can be a real bull dog in her prose and cut to the chase, where she puts a line in the sand and dares the reader to cross it. This book is very well written and makes her point with cogent intellect without the artificial pretenses. The narritive is fast paced and reads more like an editorial in the newspaper as she takes mainstream media to task. For a fresh and fascinating look at what makes Ann Coulter tick read this book and you'll find out... she really is one of the best women in politics with level-headed approach with a conservative leaning, but that really balances, what for years has been, the liberal biased media. She really makes her point... like Rush Limbaugh... only much better on the eyes. A conservative tour de force... against liberal propaganda.
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