Slander

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Summary: Lump it Lefties!
Review: To those who claim its all lies, do you watch the news? What about the 30+ pages of footnotes? Hmmmm. Now if Michael Moore could only prove his ranting 1/1000th as well, Liberals wouldn't be so far off their rockers. You want truth, documented truth buy this book. If you're a lefty and want to put your head in the sand even further buy the bile and hate of Mikie Moore.

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Summary: Sub-rational!
Review: The most anyone has praised Ms. Coulter for her columns was when someone used the word sub-rational. If you read this book(which I stopped at page 36) you will no doubt describe her work as irrational. She has an agenda and she spits enormous amount of venom to prove her point. No wonder after a few pages her arguments sound like the bickerings of 10 year-olds (Sorry, I have nothing against 10 year-olds' intellects)

Moore is far funnier and does make some sense.

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Summary: I'm MAD AS HELL
Review: This book makes me so mad I got to whack myself in the face with it just to stop sputtering! Ann nails me and my ilk with her intelligent and insightful writing. I am especially angry with my fellow travellers who gave this book 1 star, because they showed themselves to be as STUPID as I am!! DOG GONNIT!!

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Summary: How did this twit get a book deal?
Review: This is a great example of having a conclusion and trying to find anecdotes to support it. If you already agree with her premise, then you'll find quite a few things to shout "amen" about.
Write style is reminiscent of early "Weekly Reader", appropriate for the target audience.

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Summary: Review of the book, not the author
Review: I read the entire book, cover to cover. Based on the other reviews, I think that is a valid point to start with.

The book contained almost 40 pages of references alone. This was a well reasoned book with a great deal of supporting evidence. The supporting evidence is well documented and can be verified by anyone, including exactly where the sources are found, LexisNexis.

The book was amusing to read and kept you going most of the time. There were points at which it felt a bit belabored. I do not think this is so much a fault of the author, but more a result of the content. It indicates the constant repetition of the media in their treatment of conservatives, using the same old adjectives over and over.

I particularly liked the discussion of the religious right. It is absolutely hilarious to hear the media constantly talk about it as though it is an actual organization with members and leadership, etc.

To be part of the 'religious right', you need only 2 things, 1. Be an evangelical christian, 2. Be a Republican.

There is no central leadership, not Buchanan, Robertson, Falwell, or Bauer. There is no yearly dues, no organized bloc voting, no secret meetings. It is just a subset of unaffiliated people who are socially conservative and fiscally conservative.

In closing, the book was interesting, it was well documented, and it was accurate. It could have been 30 pages shorter, as the extra content was alot more of the same, which re-enforced the point of how pervasive this 'slander' is, but did make for a bit much repetition.

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Summary: Wake up and smell the reality.
Review: Ann H. Coulter is a shock-jockey in the same vain as Rush Limbaugh. Whenever I hear some of these over the top, all liberals are the scum of the earth garbage, it just seems that she is desperate to have her views, no matter if they are right or wrong, heared. How can you people on the American right have this woman represent your views? I will admit that liberals have made mistakes and will continue to. But take a look in mirror Ann. The American right has make just as may mistakes and taken advantage of the American public as anybody ever has. Maybe you should listen to John Maccain sometime. His views on social issuses I may not always agree on, but does he ever know what is wrong with Politics in US, yet no one wants to listen to him and clean up the dirty politics in Washington certainly not President Bush. And certainly not Ann H. Coulter.

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Summary: Telling and timely ...
Review: Well documented expose of the damage the liberal "progressives" do to US policies. To the point and at times laugh-out-loud funny, this book is to be feared by every elitist, limousine liberal, hypocritical leftist. It's entertaining, well written books such as this that will, one can hope, finally bring to account the liberals and the sycophant media pushing the liberal agenda!

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Summary: ...
Review: Ann Coulter and her upholding of Traditional American Values? Define "Traditional American Values." And for whom are they to be allocated? Those who conform to the widely accepted social and political mores of the times? The Constitution in its original conception was a remarkably liberal document that got skewed by Republicanism over the past two centuries. I don't see how I can possibly rate postively a book that represents the glorificaion of an American Dream that has ceased to exist and the antithesis of what "democracy" SHOULD be - this endorsement of white supremacy, social homogeneity, and heterosexism. Books like this leave me disturbed and disgusted at how how little things seem to have changed. And heightens my own passion for social activism and public service - so I can exercise MY own American right to deconstruct this kind of hegemonic discourse...

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Summary: for the one-dimensional
Review: Ann Coulter's brand of American political sphere of today. Her writing is inspired by a reactionary, one-dimensional 'which-side-of-the-fence-are-you-on' dialectic. What her writing lacks (as does much similar liberal writing) is a foundation in an understanding of the complexities and interdependence of various disciplines. Her diatribes are informed by a shallow, selective reading of history, philosophy and political science. If she took the time to train herself in a few things other than surface polemics, her irrational ravings might gain some illuminating wisdom. As it stands, she plays the shock-jockey "tell-it-like-it-is" role of Howard Stern to a large group of similarly undisciplined people who suppose themselves to be far above such juvenile antics. 'Slander' is no exception. It's too bad so many folks will read this who still have not read Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Thomas Paine, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Stephen Hawking, Michel Foucault, Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy, etc., etc. I would advise picking up any book by any of the aforementioned authors before reading 'Slander'.

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Summary: Do conservatives really want this bleached mop. . .
Review: representing thier positions? Sure, slander can come from left-wing sources (thus the "bleached mop" comment), but she has made a career (including two books now) based upon slader and ad hominem attacks. Even her current book which attempts to blame liberals for wantonly engaging in such illogical assaults upon "sound conservative positions", engages in routine slander and missrepresentation of liberals and thier positions. It's like Groucho Marx catigating comedians for using word-play to elicit a cheap laugh. No credibility whatsoever.

This book is clearly a self-indulgent tirade written to make right-wingers feel good about themselves and should not be digested as anything other than that. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Michael Moore's recent book does the same for the left-wingers (which also reached number one BTW). But unlike Moore, Coulter's book is packaged and presented as more than this,which it is not.

I am definately NOT sympathetic to her particular positions and analysis of the data she presents. I find them to be unprincipled, selective, illogical garbage. I am also NOT sympathetic to conservatism. But I have read and heard MUCH more effective support for conservative positions than her comic book attempts. If you believe right-wing conservative arguments are capable of standing up to those presented by left-wingers, then you have no buisness supporting this womans approach. Resorting to such flim-flam Machiavellianism in the sphere of ideas only serves to legitimize the claim that conservative arguments are baseless and hollow.

Have more respect for your views, and endorse a differnt mouthpiece.