Rating:  Summary: Fair and Balanced? Review: Looking at the photo of Sean Hannity on the cover of Let Freedom Ring, you can just tell that this is a man who takes an issue, looks at it from all angles, and then comes up with his own point of view. So it came as a shock to me that his point of view happened to be the exact same view of other unbiased professionals such as Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh.Seriously, until we stop considering poorly argued propaganda valid attempts at political discussion, Americans are going to have a very hard time understanding the things that affect them on a daily bases. Hannity uses various forms of deception (Check out www.spinsanity.org for a relatively unbiased look at this) to paint a picture in which liberals are always wrong and conservatives are always right. If you, the reader, have bought into this world view you have done yourself a great disservice. This book is a very unpleasant read for anyone who isn't already indoctrinated into Sean Hannity's point of view.
Rating:  Summary: Another disappointment Review: Sean Hannity is no help to the right-wing cause. This is important to consider, because if you plan on spitting out his arguments verbatim, you should realize the quality of his book does not rise to the level of what he does on the radio. The book is merely Sean Hannity spewing invective about his hatred for Bill Clinton. Just as he does on the radio, Sean will defend any point or any issue labeled "conservative", even if it means advocating the death of panda bears and hanging children from trees. Some of his arguments are just plain silly, and I didn't find any of the chapters to provide great new logic. Furthermore, the book is no great literary wonder; it reads like a transcript of Hannity & Colmes with Colmes edited out.
Rating:  Summary: Great Book!!!!!! Review: He exposes the left's role in the demise of our values and our way of life. Every patriotic American should read this book, it makes sense. Mr. Hannity should run for president and should kick people like Mikey "mouse brain" Moore's and their brainless banter out of our country. We Will Win!!!!!
Rating:  Summary: A Frightening Man Review: Mr. Hannity, (not "Hanity") as the 5 star reviewer wrote, is not a complete idiot as one reviewer wrote. But he does have very dangerous ideas. He talks about freedom being the most important thing in his life, but supports wholeheartedly the current threats to American freedom and democracy being demonstrated by the right-wing members of our government: John Ashcroft, Tom DeLay and all the others. I wonder how Mr. Hannity would feel if, instead of being a nice, safe, Irish talk-show host, he was a poor, struggling, honest Islamic Arab-American who was currently being held in jail simply because of his appearance and background. Of if he were an African-American living in a Texas town about to see his representative kicked out of office because of redistricting. Commentators like Hannity and O'Relly and Limbaugh and Coulter are such complete hypocrites that it is astounding. I pray that some of you right-wingers wake up before it's too late, although it may already be.
Rating:  Summary: How do morons like Hannity find publishers? Review: Sean Hannity seen smiling proudly behind an Amercan flag may confuse you into thinking he is someone worth paying attention to. However, he is nothing more than Rush Limbaugh's little nephew. His book spews anger toward anything and everything liberal. Like the arrogant, obnoxious Limbaugh proudly proclaims how things really are. This might seem okay but the fact is arguement is fundamentally flawed. No, I am not a liberal but the way that Sean Hannity correlates liberalism to marxism and slavery is ridiculous. No the democratic party is not trying to take away freedom and enslave the population. By the way reagon and bush 41 are the people to thank for our enormous national debt, not congress as Hannity claims. This text is mostly composed of distortions and half-truths. This kind of writing in general should not be payed attention to (this includes the lefties such as michael moore). The sole purpose to writing books like this one are push peoples' buttons regardless of the stance. Do not pay any attention to these uneducated, unfounded views.
Rating:  Summary: For People Who Can't Form Their Own Opinions Review: Can't think on your own? Need someone to tell you how to think? Sean Hannity will be glad to think for you. All you have to do is regurgitate it exactly the same way he tells you how to think. If you don't, then you are one of those dirty "liberals". Be careful now - don't mess up! Make sure you embellish the facts and twist things to meet Mr. Hannity's prejudices. Don't forget character assasination - that's important too! And by all means, do not form an opinion of your own or seek out the facts. That's it. Don't think. Feel better? Mr. Hannity does.
Rating:  Summary: THE ULTIMATE IN PHONY RIGHT WING SHMALTZ! Review: Sean Hannity continues to push the envelope when it comes to sickening republican propaganda. The cover of this book alone is enough to make me want to puke. Hannity is the whitest man in America, and his "Bush can do no wrong" mentality is what destroys this country. Buy this book only if you're out of firewood.
Rating:  Summary: No substance Review: I have no problem with well reasoned political views backed up by facts. Facts are facts, and can't be argued with. Unfortunately, the facts only rarely support Reagan-boosting, Clinton-bashing positions like Hannity's, so he misrepresents them or omits them altogether when they're inconvenient. As just one example, he presents a chart cribbed from a Web site that purports to show the massive spending deficits under the Reagan administration were the fault of a Congress that spent far more money than Reagan wanted. The chart includes a "cumulative difference" column that adds up the percentage difference for the Reagan budget proposal vs. the actual expenditure year by year from 1982 through 1989. Hannity claims it proves that federal spending would have been 25 percent less if Reagan's budgets had been adopted. The problem is, it doesn't work that way. Each budget is independent of the others, they are not linked to budgets from previous years. In reality, if you add up the amount Reagan proposed vs. the amount spent, the difference is only 2.8 percent. ($7.4 trillion proposed over the eight years, $7.6 trillion spent.) There's another problem too: The amounts actually spent are not, as Hannity claims, the budgets that Congress approved. In fact, for at least most of the years, the amount is much closer to the proposed levels. Spending in a budget year often exceeds the amount budgeted (otherwise there would be no ability to respond to unforseen events), for reasons that are not the fault of either Congress or the White House. (In 1982 for example, Reagan proposed $695.3 billion and Congress approved $696 billion. The difference is hardly worth mentioning. But the actual amount spent that year was $745.8 billion, which Hannity incorrectly blames on Congress.) That's just one example out of many. Want another? Hannity claims that after 9/11, Democrats "showed little interest" in an investigation of the intelligence failure that allowed it. Anybody who followed the news in the year or so after the attacks knows that Democrats in Congress pushed repeatedly for a commission to do just that, and the Bush administration refused for months until finally having to give in. This was documented in practically every newspaper in the country multiple times, but Hannity is banking on the likelihood that his readers didn't pay much attention or don't remember. There may be good factual reasons to champion conservatism, but if that is the philosphy you want to hold, you should find better spokespersons. I'm sure some people will dismiss this review as just "liberal bias." But I'm talking about facts. Truth. Honesty. It seems to me that people who claim to be patriotic people of integrity would want to stand on truth rather than lies.
Rating:  Summary: I wouldn't write a review if it wasn't for the 1-star ediots Review: Sean Hanity's book, "Let freedom Ring" is the most thoughful and thought provking bought I've read. Hanity is a common sense type of guy with a sound value system and this definetly reflects in his book. I dedicate this review to the dumb, ignorant and valueless reviewers who want to censor Mr. Hanity by saying stupid things like, "Take him off the air and off the bookshelves." If you are so closed minded then don't read his book, but don't try to silence him just because you don't agree with what he has to say!
Rating:  Summary: Overall lack of substance Review: As a very conservative, Republican American, I must state that Hannity's book, "Let Freedom Ring" was a tremendous disappointment. In summary, I was not challenged intellectually by Hannity's inarticulate writing style. His writing ability is perhaps on a junior high school level as the only term he used that I was partially unfamiliar with was "sacrosanct." I generally prefer to read books that stimulate my vocabulary growth and intrigue me to think deeply about the polemics of our day. Furthermore, Hannity does not have the creativity that Rush possesses nor does he appear to be as intelligent. Rather, Hannity, who lacks substance, is a malcontent person who is angry at the world and offers no solutions to resolve the very issues that perturb him.
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