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Summary: Conservative tells the truth!
Review: Slander is a great read. This book must be read by moderate Americans to open their eyes to liberal hate speech.As a conservative every day the networks tell me that I am evil.Thanks to FOX I have a more balance news program to watch. I feel diversity is important and the country needs political thought that is more diverse than Rather, Jennings, Brokaw and now Stephanoplis. How anyone can deny liberal bias in the media and keep a straight face is beyond me. Keep up the great work Ann.
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Summary: Speaks a Truth Liberals Continue to Deny
Review: This book covers, in the authors unique-take no prisoners style, the ongoing bias that the major media has against any person or organization right of center. Many comparisons will be made to Bernard Goldberg's "Bias", but while Mr. Goldberg thinks that the anti-right bias in the media is accidental, perhaps unintetional, Coulter demonstrates an intense desire by the major media to demonize the political right, and use the bully pulpit of television and newspapers to do it. If you have seen Ms. Coulter on one of her television appearances, you know that she is extremely intelligent, and has a quick, cutting wit. She also has a very good writing style that makes the book a joy to read. Reading the book reveals the passion she feels for the subject, but unlike many writers on the left, she also backs it up with intellectual thought. Ignore the 1-star reviews from the knee-jerk leftist reviewers and read this book. If you're on the right side of the political spectrum, this book will summarize all of those things you suspected about the major media. If you're on the left, this book may infuriate you... but if you're an intellectually honest leftist, it will demonstrate a truth you may not have noticed in the past. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Summary: Wrong Spokesperson for Conservativism
Review: I am a long-time conservative and wish to persuade fellow conservatives not to buy this book. Ms. Coulter is a poor spokesperson for our ideology. Her book is filled with a seemingly infinite number of misrepresentations and misquotes. If you doubt me, simply spend some time checking some of her footnotes for yourself. You will be, as I was, astonished with the number of misrepresentations that are in the first five pages of the book. There is no doubt that the media, in the name of self-preservation, will bring Ms. Coulter's lies and distortions to light, and her lies will tarnish the conservative movement. We conservatives are better served by relying on facts than distorting the position of those with opposing views. Our cause is not furthered by attempting to deceive people by attaching citations to misrepresentations with the hope that nobody will check them. It is furthered by engaging in intelligent debate about the issues. Send a message to Ms. Coulter that she is hurting us more than helping us--do not buy this book.
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Summary: Touche!
Review: Coulter's book is the first time that words and organized ideas have captured the bad tase in my mouth left by spin in the media and politics. I was extremely pleased to see her analysis backed with invoked evidence to combat the emotionally-based ideas of the left. I'll take fact over bleedy-heart activism anyday. It works.
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Summary: Don't judge a book by its cover...
Review: The fact that 6 people could review this book on the day it is published seems a bit misleading. Although Coulter is, to her own acknowledgement, a extreme right-winger, it doesn't mean she is the next Satan to invade the planet. She makes extremely valid points that are enhanced by her personal expose style. No one in academia will denounce the fact that there is extreme liberal bias in the media, and that only a few newspapers in the country (such as the Washington Post) can be considered moderate to slightly conservative. And if you're a liberal, you shouldn't be mad that the country is on your side. You obviously don't agree with what she has to say, but she doesn't agree about what you think either.
This book is a refresher for all who feel that they've been suckered into feeling or thinking things they truly don't believe in.
And to those who posted "reviews" on the day this book was published... it only shows a lack of tact and intelligence on your part. Be informed and know what's going on and make an intelligent assessment of something before you dare to propose your knowledge of it.
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Summary: What's with the paranoia?
Review: Does the far right have some need to feel persecuted? Conservatives have been calling the shots in America for the past two decades. In politics, three of the last four Presidents were conservative Republicans. Reagan succeed in making "liberal" an insult. Clinton was hobbled by the Republican opposition, so much so that he abandoned any attempt at health care reform and ended up passing a welfare "reform" bill that any of his Democratic predecessors from FDR on would have choked on. Us liberals--oops, I mean "progressives", we don't use the "L" word any more-- were lukewarm at best towards him until the far right started its scurrilous jihad against him. In the media, Rush is still huge, O'Reilly is huge, those "Left Behind" books are huge, right-wing diatribes like Coulter's regularly make the best-seller lists, Time Magazine made George W. Bush it's Person of the Year...I tells ya, I just don't get it. Conservatives like Coulter, they're like Iranian clerics or Communist secret police or something. They want it all. No opposition. Our side gets some little crumb like "Will and Grace" or Jim Jeffords switching sides and they think they're under siege. I wish we had as much power as they think we do.
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Summary: This book only goes to prove...
Review: That any idiot can get published. If you want to read something that is devoid of any kind of intelligent, rational thought on politics and society then read this book!
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Summary: Truth is a powerful weapon
Review: This book hits the mark perfectly by showing how liberals rely on invective rather than cogent debate. Just read the reviews here of those who don't like the book for more evidence. They do not site any specific examples from the book; they just hurl insults and unsupported assertions. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't even read the book, since it was only released a few days ago. What are the odds that a Liberal is going to rush out and spend $[money] for this book, read all the way through it in two days, and come here to post a review? Not likely I think. Coulter is right on when she points out the way media liberals make a feminist hero out of the virtue less Gloria Steinem while ignoring the documented accomplishments of the brilliant Phyllis Shlafly. For anyone who is truly opened minded this book will be an eye-opener. When modern Liberalism is defeated this book will be remembered for helping to expose its moral deficiencies and hypocrisy.
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Summary: A needed polemic on the left's pathetic tactic of slander
Review: Ann Coulter, author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, has written another hard hitting polemic targeting the left's sacred cows. Ann has managed to become a lightning rod for Clinton supporters and leftists, and so has first hand experience of the topic she discusses. The main focus of the book is the inability of the left to debate politics and policy on their merits. Instead personal attacks, invective and an almost reflexive use of reducto ad absurdem has become the norm. She peppers the book with witty examples of this. One need look no further than the 'seminar callers' reviews posted here on Amazon that claim she is inciting militias, advocating the round up of liberals, etc. The constant refrains from many leftist and socialist writers is "George Bush is an idiot" not "we disagree with his policies for these reasons". This represents a breakdown of political discourse. This extended essay may be a case of preaching to the choir, as most conservatives probably are familiar with the dishonesty and absurd name calling that are the base of too much of the lefts rhetoric these days. All in all a solid follow up from an author who's previous book arguably effected politics more than any in the last 20 years, as it laid the foundation for the impeachment of Clinton. Ann shows she was not a "one hit wonder" and offers up an engaging and thought provoking book.
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Summary: I laughed until I cried
Review: ...I couldn't put it down, and I was laughing so much my wife moved to another bedroom for the night. There is humor everywhere in this book (sample chapter heading - "The Joy of Arguing with Liberals: 'You're Stupid!'"). Coulter is certainly funny, but she is also brilliant (law degree from U. Michigan, then clerked for a federal appeals court - a job offered to only the best and brightest law grads) and her insights on this country's recent political history are fresh. Even better, every example of liberals' conduct she cites is footnoted, so there can be no question as to authenticity (and some of the items are so outrageous one would expect them to be fabrications). Even some of the footnotes are good reading, and I enjoyed reading them along with the chapter to which they refer. Coulter argues that liberals have had hegemony over the media for so long that they have gotten lazy. They don't have any original ideas and don't have to meet conservatives' substantive ideas (school vouch-ers, Strategic Defense Initiative, welfare reform, flat tax, privatizing social security, to name a few) on the merits to be covered. As Coulter shows, they can just label Republicans "dumb" and their ideas "stupid" and their remarks still get broadcast and covered. Coulter proves this over and over. Liberals should read this book (perhaps getting it at the library to avoid paying royalties :>)) if only so they can avoid the bad rhetorical habits that so many on the left have adopted. In these times above all, we need honest debate in our public discourse -- not name-calling, fear, envy and race-mongering.
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