Slander

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Summary: Entertaining and Informative!
Review: I have to chuckle to myself at the complete disdain liberal reviewers are giving this book...like we expect anything else from them on the topic!
The rants about a lack of balance, or this book being a vehicle for hate and lies are either written by those who have NOT read the book at all, or ignored the fact that it's designed to be a vivisection of the liberal media machine and the lies they help perpetrate about the conservatives of America.
This book is very entertaining, yet still smart and appropriate. A must read for any conservative looking for ammo for their arsenal, and a source for introspection for liberals, if they'd even try to read it!
Kudos to Ann for her excellent work! Every claim is backed up with documentable FACTS, and she footnotes each and every one.

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Summary: Great Book - Read it in One Sitting
Review: This is well researched and very funny. A fun book to read even for those that may disagree with, or hate to hear the truth about, some issues raised. Enjoy.

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Summary: Excellent Eye-Opener! Can't Wait For More!
Review: Hmmm, 213 good reviews, 79 bad reviews. Sounds like good ol' Ann hit the nail right on the head. This book details the fact that libs are incapable of anything but lies, attacking and name-calling. AND it happens in the one-star reviews right here, just as she said in her book. Upon watching her promoting this on the airwaves, it's nice to see nervous libs do exactly what she said they are famous for. The Coulter/Couric exchange, for example: Couric said a lie and she was caught at it (You aired the "Airhead" statement FOUR times, Katie. Not ONCE.) Nice to know that we "Evil," "racist," "homophobe," "redneck," "stupid," Conservatives have got the last heartiest laugh after all.

BTW, If you're a hardline Gore fan, this book might be hazardous to your nerves....

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Summary: Frothing from a Woman Who Favors Genocide Against Muslims
Review: After seeing Ann Coulter on Crossfire I borrowed the book from a conservative friend. As a liberal I wasn't ticked off by the book per se, as I expected what I would find. What ticks me off is that somehow a book like this can become the number 4 ranked item on amazon.com's sales list. It's yet another of a seemingly never ending series of books - which all say the same thing and are apparently made up as the author goes along - bashing the political left. Has America's educational system become so poor that the only stuff the masses are capable of reading is name calling? Is debate and intelligent inquiry dead? Perhaps so, and that is what upsets me most.

This book is one slander after another, therefore deserving of its one star for an appropriate title. Truth be told, the media leans to the right and not the left. 75% of partisan politicians on ABC, NBC and CBS are Republican, and the newscaster typically agrees with everything they say. Dan Rather, a supposed liberal has repeatedly said he'd do anything George II told him to do. The few Democrats on tv are usually defending themselves in some media fabricated scandal. Lets not forget that all major news anchors gush over George II as if he's the messiah, supported his terrorism against the peasants of Afghanistan, kept Enron out of the news to keep his popularity polls up, and censored the results found in October that Al Gore won the election.

Save your money and visit a KKK or Christian Coalition website. Their pretend quotes and statistics will say the same thing.

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Summary: I just don't get it. Why do people like this book?
Review: Now I'm no liberal. I called for Clinton's resignation and vote by the issue or how I feel about the candidtate, and I am certainly no fan of mainstream media or the Democrats. But I just can't understand how somebody as successful at Ann Coulter could take such a 1 sided view on so many issues, then proceed to preach using vague anectdotes and not giving any merit to the other side. If you really want to read a good book on the state of politics and the media today, read "Stupid White Men". It takes no prisoners and tells it like it is.

As for the "Liberal Biased Press", I think the press isn't biased to one side or the other, it just doesn't want to make any waves. Look at the way it portray's GW, according to CNN he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and you'll never hear any more about the election

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Summary: Completely Successful
Review: If Coulter's goal was to rile up controversy, puff up the faithful with self-righteousness and make her opponents angry, she succeeded brilliantly.

If Coulter's goal was to entertain and put together a fast, enjoyable read, she succeeded again. If she just wanted to make a lot of money, again she hit the mark.

Coulter's goal wasn't, however, to add anything useful to public debate. That's fine - there are writers on the left, such a Michael Moore, that are Coulter's equivalent. If you mistake either Moore or Coulter for a person providing genuine analysis or debate, you really need to read more.

Both Coulter and Moore have the same world view: there is an "enemy," be they the "liberals" or the "conservatives," that embodies a relatively monolitic and purely evil philosophy, which manipulates the incredibly gullible citizens of this great country with pathetically illogical arguments and outright lies. These people are dangerous, and Moore and Coulter are sounding the alarm. There is nothing good, pure, or sensible in the so-called ideas of the enemy, and the opinions of the faithful are the purest common sense.

The reality, of course, is that 75% of the population is somewhere in the middle, and "left" and "right" are simply labels used to demonize those on the other side of an issue. Politicians don't follow a philosophy, or they are tossed out - their main job is to bring home the bacon for their states or districts, and dress up the rationale in the empty catchphrases of the party platform. This isn't a bad thing: it is the way a representative democracy works.

Having watched Bill Clinton sign welfare reform and Ted Kennedy campaign with George Bush on education reform (although the alliance was short-lived) gives most people a clue that the world is not black and white. Once someone (like Moore or Coulter) announces that he or she is going to advance a vision of politics that makes Star Wars seem morally complex, they forfeit any claim to be considered as anything more than entertainers. The fact that these sorts of authors throw in footnotes to support their overblown claims doesn't exactly make them scholars.

If you want to learn about policy, read a book that covers a limited number of topics in detail, by someone with the credentials to explain it with authority. For example, if you are looking for conservative social commentary, try Alan Bloom or Richard Posner. If you want to escape into a fantasy of pure good versus pure evil, watch a John Wayne movie. If you want to be entertained by the excessive rantings of people like Moore and Coulter, go for it. But you'll only embarrass yourself if you take them seriously.

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Summary: Rambling Biased Nonsense
Review: According to Ann Coulter, there isn't a single decent person who is politically left of Dick Cheney. Every single liberal lacks morals and is involved in some evil conspiracy in Ann's world. The book is strong on emotion(hatred mostly)but weak in every other way. This totally biased book actually accuses liberals of name calling when in fact she name calls and libels the left through the entire book. In fact the title should be "Libel" instead of "Slander".

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Summary: Hypocrisy - plain and simple
Review: this bitter woman makes the absurd claim that liberals are poor at debates and resort to name-calling. how would she know? everytime she's on a panel, her tactic is just to scream over everyone else and be as sensationalistic as possible. this woman who routinely accuses democratic leaders of being "america-hating" (real mature, ann) suddenly wants to enliven public discourse?!?
---give me a break

to give you an idea of her meticulous "research" to prove her point:
she cites FAIR's report "Rush Limbaugh:reign of error". this is an extensive compilation of many, many blantant untruths spewed by limbaugh on the air.

she's able to "disprove" ONE. yes, just one.
(actually, it's sort of inconclusive who's right. but given page after page of examples by FAIR, this is the best she can offer? hardly legitimizrs limbaugh, as she would have you believe)

don't waste your time on this book. buy something by jim hightower or ralph nader. you'll probably learn something.

--by the way, ms coulter, democrats are hardly "liberals". they're corporate puppets, just like the republicans.

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Summary: Good Book, not great or awful
Review: ...

I read it and agree with a good deal of it but I don't think it's the best book ever written. It's great that everything is documented with footnotes, but it makes her sarcastic tone seem out of place. Even if you don't mind it in small doses, it gets anoying after 200 pages.

It would have been better if she just stuck to the subject of the liberal media and not slipped into criticizing liberals in general. You can say conservatives are in general more polite than liberals (true) or you can ridicule liberals, but doing both in the same book is a little odd.

Although she sometimes overstates her case, she has some great -- and witty -- observations you won't find anywhere else. And with her handy dandy LexisNexis search engine, she shows no mercy as she exposes one hypocrisy in the media after another. Read it with an open mind and don't be afraid to challenge your beliefs....

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Summary: unmitigated BS
Review: This woman is simply being bankrolled by several wealthy conservatives who want working class america to go on paying their country club dues. There is, in fact, a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country. And the people who think that that is a ludicrous statement are clueless. This book is being written by a blonde figurehead for the real movers, the ones with the money, who will enslave you and your grandmother before they'd give up their rarefied billionare lifestyles.