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Summary: What Colmes Wishes He Could Say!!!
Review: When any self respecting intellegent American opens up the dictionary and looks up the words boorish, liar or ignorant, Sean Hannity's picture should be right next to it, in all it's chubby faced glory!. Shallow Angry Republican propaganda from the new King of Bile. This book makes excellent toilet paper, my sphincter was clean as a whistle. Poorly written and factually biased. For Mental Pygmies only.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I would just like to say how much I enjoyed this book. It only took me a few days to read and is definitely a page-turner. He makes many good points and backs them up with FACTS. America is the greatest country in the world to live in. Mr. Hannity proves this time and time again in his book. If only everyone can have the utmost respect and patriotism as he does, the world would be a better place. Those who dwell on the negative should pick up this book and learn something from it. He truly loves his country and is proud to be an American. I can also say the same. Let Freedom Ring!
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Summary: Its America, Anyone Can Write A Book
Review: In America anyone can write a book, but the trick is to get a publisher. The media people have a leg up - so almost every radio personality or TV commentator has a book or a bio. Okay that is fine. But are the books any good. If it were not a FOX personality would the book be published??Hannity is an attractive an energetic person. Many of his views are okay, some are not, but we like the radio show and many watch himon FOX. We like the callers and Marty's daily call, and I sing along to "Let Freedom Ring". Okay all that is fine. But the books do not translate so well and are just so so. I think if it were not for the radio/FOX there would be no book. Not enough literary and social value. It is just a personal philosphy of Hannity and not a basis for a book. My humble opinion. Jack in Toronto
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Summary: From a moderate, that's right, objectivism!
Review: Out of concern that I have abandoned my conservative upbringing, my brother bought me this book for Christmas to try to "win me back" to the "good side." To show him what I thought of the book, I gave him Marx this year, not because I'm a communist, but because Hannity is as extreme in a lot of ways. Hannity makes a few worthy points (I did give me him 2 stars), but on the whole, this book is little more than conservative propaganda. Hannity is a cheerleader, and nothing more. He does not raise any real issues in the books, but rather tells about how he is right, and half the country is wrong. His style is informal and overly simplistic, so it's hard to understand his tone. Sometimes he says such absurd things that I tell myself he simply must be joking. One of the most telling indexes of Hannity's manipulation in this story is the way he uses the term "Clinton-Gore administration." He does not associate any other president with his vice-president, but since Gore is still active in the political spotlight, and everything he says about Clinton is negative, he associates Gore with him. Now don't get me wrong, I am far from a Gore-lover, but did he really have anything to do with anything that happened the 8 years Clinton was in office? To try to shed light on some of the half-truths would take a book as long as Hannity's, but I will point to one other. He talks about the letter Clinton wrote to a col. during the Vietnam War. He says that Clinton openly proclaims that he hates the military, when he does no such thing. He tells the col. that he can see why some people do, but not that he does. Hannity even quotes it directly. He also says that Clinton justified the 9/11 attacks when he did no such thing; Clinton just pointed to other historical events to try to explain why people would do such monstrous things. Hannity never tries to explain why the attacks happened, probably because they happened because of narrow-minded, egotistical westerners like Hannity who are so busy loving themselves and their culture that the fail to see what is really happening in the world. Hannity's egocentric world-view is dangerous, and his inability to understand cultural relitivism is one reason he cannot explain any of the "why"s associated w/ terrorism.
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Summary: How dare he?
Review: Dear reader,
Despite the title of this review, I actualy intend to analyze this book, or what little of it I could stomach. Because I count myself a liberal, when I saw the title I wondered: How could a man who never met me presume to write a book about how I am the scum of the earth? I wondered this after I read this book too, but that was before I read Ann Coulter. She's funny, and horribly, horribly wrong. The fact is this: I can quote Newt Gingrich and still have evidence that his title is itself a lie. Ready? Here goes: "It was the liberal wing of the Democratic party that ended segragation." Now, given that the title implies that liberals, and thus by extension, democrats, would love segragation, who else finds it odd that a prominent conservative would credit liberals withe ending segragation. And one last question directed at Sean Hannity: "How, even in all of Dante's 7 circles of Hell, could you ever have presumed to say that I, and most of my friends, were evil? How could you ever say such an evil statement?
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Summary: Let Freedom Ring Hollow
Review: As the conservative half of Fox News' "Hannity and Combs" news show, Shawn Hannity holds classic Reagan era conservative beliefs, combined with a polarizing,
bombastic approach suitable to television. This remarkably unjournalistic stance carries over to his unimpressive book Let Freedom Ring.
The overall impression I got from this book is of unoriginality and close-mindedness. While he is clearly passionate about his beliefs Freedom is less a study
of 20th century conservatism and more a defense of Reagan and the Bushes. Hannity paints with broad strokes, touching briefly on issues like the War on Terror, the "liberal"
media, abortion, etc. These are all presented through standard conservative tunnelvision,echoing the official party mantra of lower taxes. Indeed, one could be forgiven for mistaking Hannity for the official White House spokesman instead of its unofficial
cheerleader.
For being, according the book flap, the hottest phenomenon in radio today, Hannity has little more to say than any other loudmouth Limbaugh clone. It is a shame that
someone who adds next to nothing to the debate has daily radio and television shows, book deals and ability to reach millions of people while freethinking, authentic journalists
and commentators go unheard. The book's prose is blasé and is riddled with personal anecdotes that fail to do anything but beef up the skimpy page count. Hannity does make
some good points about today's liberals but the have already been repeated many times by far more competent commentators.
Much of the above would be acceptable if Hannity wasn't so contradictory and didn't turn the other cheek to GOP follies. He roasts liberals for defaming conservatives yet praises Rush Limbaugh, who has single-handedly brought the amount of civility in the political climate to a new low with his accusations. Later on Hannity goes off on hand-picked cases of liberal outrageousness and celebrities while ignoring equally crazy
(but more important considering the power they have) quotes by evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Hannity also shies away from several issues that tend to make
Republicans look bad including the war on drugs, healthcare, the Patriot Act and many others. For me the most glaring incident of contradiction concerns Hannity's unceasing
praise of Oliver North and Ronald Reagan and how they ended communism in Central America. He devotes several paragraphs to this without mentioning that these countries
were "liberated" through the funding of death squads that absolutely decimated the civilian population. I guess to Hannity the truth is less important than losing his spot as one of the
GOP's favorite lapdogs.
Overall this book isn't very good. Hannity is not much of a writer or researcher and his book reads like regurgitated Limbaugh. No matter where you stand on the political
spectrum, if you have any respect for political civility you will agree with me that Mr. Hannity should stick to radio and let the real thinkers do the work.
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Summary: if only 0 stars were an option
Review: I listen to Hannity's radio show just to get pumped before I go work out. His lies and half truths...no they are lies...are absolutely preposterous. He then goes on to write a book full of these lies. I feel sorry for anyone who believes his stuff because you just have to do a little research and you'll realize that he introduces incorrect statments to throw off his 'opponents' on radio and with no one to argue with in this book, he has a real field day, building upon inaccurate statement after statement. If you really want to read this book, go to the library instead of wasting your money. You'll find this book in the fiction section.
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Summary: Text Version of Radio Program
Review: Hannity is on the radio way too much as well as TV and now "writes" a book and a second one, too. I disagree totally with his world view but find reading him better than listening to him. On air he is loud, whiney, self-absorbed and self-important. His entire radio program is about HIM, no matter who he is talking to and he is a most phoney, disingenuous, manipulative shallow radio host. In print, at least one does not have to listen to his truly grating, unpleasant voice. He has a polarized and polarizing view of the world, always "their side" versus "our side"and this is in reference entirely to Americans, as if there are "sides". He reminds me very much of Father Coughlin's broadcasts and writings before and during WWII and he is a virtual mouthpiece for the Bush regime and warmongering. I don't think he has anything of interest to say and suspect that people listen to him and buy his books because (women) think he is handsome and men think he is like them. He's a puffed-up self-promoter and doing very well at self-promotion. Radio, TV, books and a tv sitcom appearance, apparently. Please. Enough of this guy. If you want conservative brilliance, read Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley. Read Christopher Hitchens for intelligence if you want a pro-invasion of Iraq point of view. Read anybody but this pretty boy who has found a jingoistic niche and aims to fill it with himself. No stars if it were possible!
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Summary: Popular Conservatism
Review: Personally I think this guy as an editorialist stinks. Like most of the pundits at Fox he comes off with a biased slant and then has the audacity to call himself fair and balanced. I don't have a problem with conservative thought, and I like people like Saphire, George F. Will, and William F. Buckley.These guy's construct sound arguments and have a great command of the english language. Guy's like Hannity and O'reilly just set out to get people up-set about Madonna, hip hop, Hollywood, Michael Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, or some other liberal that may or may not be hurting this country. Sadly, these guys are probably the voice of those in the mid-west and the deep south and if you want to put your finger on the pulse of political thought outside of cities like New York, LA, and San Francisco then these are the sorts of guys you have to turn to as the values they argue for are very popular in these necks of the woods.
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Summary: doesn't really even deserve one star
Review: This is worth publishing???
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