Slander

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Summary: The nemesis of the left and new standardbearer of the right!
Review: Bill O'Reilly began the hunt for truth by asking elementary and tough questions of the filthy rich, overpaid, left leaning elitist in the News Media and entertainment industries.

Bernard Goldberg then exposed the middle-school truths about the corruptly biased superstructure of the media and so-called mainstream newsroom anchorpersons and the manipulators of information.

Now Ann Coulter puts faces to actions and throws on the finishing touches to the disgustingly open, manipulative and blatant hypocrisies, hate and camouflaged anti-conservative rhetoric of those who falsely profess to be liberal, independent, moderate and/or centrist.

The other day I had the good fortune to watch several interviews between Ann Coulter and a number of clearly liberal and bias talk show hosts and interviewers. The fireworks were magnificent and I could not for the life of me initially understand why all these people who normally hoodwink the American audience with their fake composure, self-control and false sophistication seemed to be so animistic towards her.

So, after she beat James Carville down to parade rest for being an interrupting overbearing fool and offensive slob on crossfire. I decide to get into her book, which I had ordered through Amazon.com, immediately received and placed on my shelf for future attention.

Fifteen pages into it, I found the answer I was looking for. It was staring me right in the face and continued throughout the book. The reason these people, who have been so grossly overpaid with their six, seven and in some cases idiotic eight figure salaries, were so upset when Ann when she comes onto their shows. Is because she just out classes them so profoundly that they are intimidated. She is so intellectually and educationally beyond their level of competence that they cannot possibly debate, dispute, counter or contradict any of her well-founded assertions. So they simply hate her. They find that they are so far below and out of her class that it drives them nuts.

Mr. Spock once made an observation on the original Star Trek that a newly discovered alien species was so far evolved above humans...that the only appropriate comparison would be human evolution above that of the amoebae.

This analogy works perfectly for where Ann Coulter is above these liberal spinners of the news. These, manipulative, intolerant liberal, egotistical charlatans on ABC, NBC and CBS like Ted Koppel, Katie Couric, Dan Rather, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Bryant Gumbel, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung, Mat Lauer and others are simply unable to hold a candle to her in an honest, courteous and professional debate. As she so aptly says, "it is a stunning reflection on the left's monopoly of the news that an opinionated, partisan talk radio host is more accurate than television news programs."

They will try anything to catch her in a way that will allow them to show her up, humiliate her or catch her in a too hastily thought out response to leading or nonsequitur questions. They fail miserably because she is right. They have no basis from which to debate, but to attempt character assassination, word confusion and false innuendoes.

The wonderful and challenging verbiage, candidness, interwoven humor and sagacity of this book strikes a note of understanding, of just how this uneven match up would irk these inept liberal interviewers. Only fifteen pages into the book and you realize these misfits, who have helped to dumb down our children and our nation themselves are simply put, dumb compared to the likes of Ms. Coulter.

Even I, who prided myself on a rather vast vocabulary, believing as one of our past Presidents, that one should learn and use a new word every day, could not readily keep up with her. I found that I had to place a dictionary and thesaurus next to me while reading to keep from skipping an unfamiliar word. An act I swore I would never do as a child.

If nothing else Ann has made many of us aware of our incompetent lack of mastery of the English language. Could this be the lefts negative influence on our public schools, when they care more about outlawing prayer, God or the Pledge of Allegiance and more about teaching the forced acceptance of deviant homosexual conduct...than actually educating us?

The unquestionable command of the English language Ann uses no doubt causes liberals to scamper for their dictionaries and more than likely irks them to no end. This book has placed her head and shoulders above the everyday anchorperson, interviewer and talk show host.

I also appreciated the wonderful opportunity she gives us to highlight the good guys from the bad because unlike Bernard Goldberg. She puts the names there of the good, the bad and the hypocritical in plain sight for you to circle, highlight and/or underline for future references.

I once watched Katrina Vanden Heuvel speak at a Democratic Fund Raiser where she just raked conservatives over the verbal rhetorical partisan coals and called them things I did not think appropriate in public discourse and I thought to myself, my, what a neo-leftist fanatically liberal hate-monger she was.

Well I think she has finally met her match from the conservative side in Ann Coulter although I must add, Ann fights back superbly and does it with much more style and class. So bring on the titans of the left and the right, "We the People" are sitting in the gallery watching this spectacle unfold.

A terrific book, great read and an honest evaluation and no holds barred open exposure of her opponents. This book should be the required main course after Bernard Goldberg's initial appetizer. It exposes the liberal bias run amuck in our society, which produces not one but two idiot Judges who can ban the Pledge of Allegiance merely over the term "under God"...

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Summary: These 1-star reviews prove Coulter's thesis
Review: Unlike others who have posted reviews here, I have actually read the book. It is brilliant. Coulter mixes her scathing wit with an overwhelming amount of evidence to make her case that liberals are incapable of dealing with facts and attempt to dismiss them by demonizing the messanger. Nearly half of the book is composed of footnotes and documentation. So go read the book and then re-read these 1-star reviews. You'll get a big chuckle over how correct she is.

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Summary: Stop the madness
Review: Along with the denizens of Barnum's museum and the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Americans never tire of freak shows and horror stories. One of the favorite horror stories on the right is the myth of the liberal media. This myth works in the following manner, despite the fact that most of the media outlets are owned by large corporations who use these outlets to feather their nests (look at all the Disney tie ins on ABC for example), somehow the onair talent and writers apparently have free reign to determine content and pursue a political agenda as independent actors. Even though this is at odds with the practices of any other profession, job or career in the world.

The myth of the liberal media came about in the days of Richard Nixon because Nixon could not fascinate like the Kennedys. Rather than focus on the personal, Nixon saw this as a "vast left wing conspiracy" and such one of the treasured myths of late 20th century politics was born. This lie has been a convenient one for the Republican party, which despite (what they would have one believe) an unending stream of left wing propaganda, they seem to have done remarkably well in politics (controlling 2 1/2 branches of government aint chicken feed).

Despite the complete lack of liberal voices (as opposed to Democratic party hacks who seem chosen for their stupidity) on radio and TV, the conspiracy industry, like old man river, just keeeps rolling along. Ms. Coulter is only the latest to take up this well-worn flag and to fly it. In doing so, she indulges in the hyperbolic language so common to right wing commentators who are paid from a variety of sources to sound indignent. Will we one day see a David Brock-style confession from her at some point when she has the falling out with the people that underwrite these efforts? One can only wonder.

The people who really have a right to be annoyed are the electorate who are routinely fed pablum by both parties who find it easier to go negative than to actually explain positions to the electorate (these positions are all to often shaped not by philisophical stances, but by servicing constituents whose views frequently clash with the best interests of the nation and the best interests of the people who live in it).

If someone wishes to learn the real truth about American politics, don't read this book by Ann Coulter, pick up a copy of Democracy by Henry Adams. It may be set in the 1870s, but the comings and goings of his senators and congressmen are all startlingly familar to anyone who reads the newspapers.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: If you like Ann, you will love this book. The McCarthiests on the left, wish no one would read this book, as leftist idealism fails time after time. None of the reviewers who negatively reviewed this book has even bothered to open a page of this book. They are just fueled by hatred about views which counter theirs. Their reviews just reaffirm what Ann has written. The left does not desire free speech or have any tolerence.

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Summary: An engaging and refreshing breath of fresh air.
Review: If Ann Coulter is so off the mark, why is this book a best seller out of the gates? Because Ms. Coulter offers insightful perspectives on the sad state of our perpetually liberally biased media, and how it has brainwashed the American public into believing that all conservatives are racist, heartless ogres... And well done Ms. Coulter. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition

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Summary: A waste of money
Review: Too boring to finish. I suppose her fans will like it, and the talking heads who will promote the book will babble about the supposedly hard hitting prose, but for everyone else it is a waste.

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Summary: terrific
Review: This book will drive the far left crazy. Ms. Coulter does a wonderful job of exposing how pervasive the misrepresentation of conservatives in America has become. She supports it all with references, and adds a touch of her special wit. Well done.

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Summary: Terrific Read!
Review: This book is a well-written, witty chronicle of bias. She uses example after example to prove her points in a biting but delightful fashion. She tackles a serious subject with humor. The result: a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience. I strongly recommend this book to all!

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Ann H. Coulter's "Slander: Liberal Lies" is nothing but brilliant. I have not read a book so backed by extensive research. It is a true and vibrant reflection of what the liberals in this country really think and believe about conservatives. A must read for anyone who wishes to understand what is really happening.

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Summary: CRUSHING THE LEFT UNDER THE SHEER WEIGHT OF THE TRUTH
Review: Ann Coulter is anything but subtle....and this is exactly what is needed to fend off the vicious attacks of radical leftists on what remains of a once-great republic.

As in the war on terrorism, the Right needs to heed the strategy that will ultimately conquer terror:Namely, getting in and brawling with the liars, bullies and cowards who hide behind platitudes and fiction and propaganda.

Ann Coulter leads the way for others to follow. This is a take-no-prisoners, bare-knuckle, wade in and slug away bloodbath, with the pinko left on the receiving end of an unrelenting pummelling. It is a delight to read.

It is a quick but very deep read. There are profuse footnotes from a wide variety of sources. But Coulter is most effective when turning the weapons of the left against the left:
Countering lies with truth, hysteria and emotion with reason and calm.

The effect is devastating, and it is a shot of adrenaline for any member of the "silent majority" that may be getting weary in the war for the soul of America.

Lead the way, Ann, and TAKE NO PRISONERS!!