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Summary: Outstanding Expose of Liberal Lies
Review: Outstanding Expose of Liberal Lies
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Summary: She tells it like it is
Review: I love ya Ann. You not only speak the truth, but you back it up with footnotes (proof).
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Summary: Treason
Review: Finaly some facts after so many years of deciet. I'm 61 and remember these hearings and more. We have been fed spin for so many years it's past time to wake up to reality.
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Summary: Terribly Entertaining, Provocative and compelling
Review: While this book is highly readable, and right on the spot in many ways, I do believe we could see improvement. At times, her facts seemed to be her elaboration. At times she built her assumptions upon her thesis rather than her thesis, which is correct ideologically, upon her facts. That is a grave error. I do think she carries some of the name calling a bit too far, though it is fun to listen to a raw blooded Reactionary. The war she is engaged in will and does take dramatic tactics at times, as reflected in this work, However, we must abide by certain commands. I know all Liberals will Loath this book with all of their being. I know even democrats will fall into that camp. I almost wonder how she can walk in public. Yet, the book is entertaning and as I said, compelling. I do believe it is a must read for any "get at the truth" minded American, or any thinking, consitutionionally minded Conservative. There can be no doubt that the LEFT is set Against that which our nation was founded on. Their aim is after all the concentration of power in Washington, the distribution of wealth as the Oligarchs or the controlling Liberal see fit. At the end of the day, like Soviets, Liberals cannot trust anyone to run their own affairs and they believe they are more able to run it for them. Not strange that so many blind lambs in our country cannot tell a lie from the truth, cannot see slavery differed from the welfare state. The Democrats are committed to breading a SLAVE class of Americans that they might reign over them all. They must be stopped. And, if it comes to it, yes, by rebellion. Yet, we must be careful every step of the way. guarding our tongues and holding our swords close at bay in hopes they will never be used. And, we must know the enemies of Freedom loving humans, and this book helps.
Yet be leary of those that protect Republicans from all critique. Republicans in large part, especially the Senate and the White House, are centrists. Centrists are now, regrettably, rather blindly liberal, if Liberal means a change from what we have known - i.e. the rule of law, the free market exchange, capitalism, The Freedom of the Church and so on. Liberal oppose these things. Or rather, they like law, so long as it reflects their will. Read it, but think every step of the way.
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Summary: Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Review: I read a number of public and private comments on Treason before I had a chance to read it for myself. From those comments - including more than a few from the right - one would be led to believe that Ms. Coulter reverentially sets Joe McCarthy on our national pantheon aside George Washington while demeaning all Democrats in history - including Truman, JFK, RFK, and Scoop Jackson - to communist sympathizers. What book were they reading, I wonder? As for the latter point, Ms. Coulter, in fact, promptly (page 11) recognizes the contributions of those earlier members of the Democratic party who were genuinely interested in defeating communism, and she never rescinds that recognition (albeit she does soundly dispose of the absurd contention of a tired generation of left-wing revisionists that it was Truman, and not Reagan, who won the Cold War). Accusations that she ignores those contributions are false and seem malicious. In fairness to her (imagine that!!), she should not have to devote chapters to the anti-communist crusades of a limited number of Democrats to avoid that charge. On the other hand, Ms. Coulter is legitimately vulnerable to accusations that she conflates "left-wing" with "Democrat". But that is interesting because it indirectly raises a challenge: Would anti-communist Democrats such as Truman, RFK, JFK, and Jackson still be Democrats today? Would they fit in with a party whose leaders are Howard Dean, John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Tom Daschle? Maybe this is Ms. Coulter's real trap. After all, it is wonderful to watch current Democrat/left-wing proponents of the Castro dictatorship defending their deities -- and Castro's would-be killers (a good thing, mind you) -- JFK and RFK as "their" contribution to the fight against communism (or, for that matter, their reaction to the on-the-record fact that JFK supported and RFK worked for Joe McCarthy). Ms. Coulter's treatment of McCarthy is more complex. Any serious and objective person (a phrase that I have borrowed with gusto from the left) now recognizes that, in fact, there was an infestation of Soviet agents in our government in the 1940's and 1950's. There cannot be any serious doubt about the traitorous acts of the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White (the economic equivalent of the Rosenbergs), and so on. Given this, nobody can seriously propose any longer that McCarthy was the drunken, paranoid "flat-out liar" in the history that I, for one, was taught in the 1980's. He was, in fact, pursuing a thoroughly legitimate and simple objective: People of unconfirmed loyalty ought not be in positions of trust in our government. So, it is clear that - if we are going to be honest with ourselves -- McCarthy deserves a more objective analysis than has been his pop culture treatment over the past 40 years - whether or not you'd want him living under the same roof. By stridently, factually, and articulately challenging the accepted wisdom, Ms. Coulter advances the important cause of discovering the truth about that period. One important illustration. If for no other reason, Joe McCarthy has been condemned to purgatory (and I am being kind) by the audio-visual impact of Army lawyer Joseph Welch repeating "have you no decency, sir" forever in our pop consciousness. If Ms. Coulter's recounting of that exchange is even half-right (and I bet it's double that), it represents one of the great frauds perpetrated on the American people. If readers take nothing away from this book other than a seed of doubt about whether Welch was the scheming attacker (yes) or the innocent victim (no) in that exchange, Ms. Coulter has accomplished a monument. Finally, a few words about Ms. Coulter's style. She is, after all, a potent mix of George Will and P.J. O' Rourke, and she is decidedly not politically correct. I, for one, love it. Her prose and arguments are devastating, and those whom she devastates don't like it (and don't like her); but those devastated, I have found, fully merit her devastation. Her writing style is far more intelligent and restrained (yes!) than Krugman, Dowd, Begala, Dionne, and so on ad infinitum. She is, however, conservative, and that means that her aggressive writing style must be deemed "controversial". Nonsense. If you have the sensibilities to read the New York Times editorial page on any given day, you should have the sensibilities to read Ms. Coulter (though you might disagree with her message). In any event, buy or borrow this book, read it, and be challenged by it. If I can sum it up in a thought: remember that she cannot simply be making all this stuff up, and let that sink in for awhile.
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Summary: A Well-Researched and Written Book
Review: It is difficult to believe that many of the reviewers who rated this book so poorly have even read it. It is one of the best researched and documented books I have read in the last decade. Coulter provides 46 pages of resource citatations for the infomation she presents and discusses. For those who claim that it is mere opinion I would ask how one explains away all of the sources that are so carefully referenced? If you are a conservative or a moderate you should really read this. If you are not, then you probably won't like it. But not because the information is not factual, but rather because of the irrefutable(so far) information that it so carefully presents(saying Coulter is a right-wing extremist is not a refutation...it is a reaction). I highly recommend this book. For those that would disagree with it, at least READ it first!
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Summary: She Really Has The Liberals Shook Up.
Review: ...However, in spite of the caustic reviews from these liberals, Ms.
Coulter has many pages of bibliography to back up her statements, as well as many direct quotes from the people she derides. I have long believed that which Ms. Coulter writes in her book to be true, and now here comes a documented work to validate those beliefs. After they have read this book, I would
hope that some liberals may have the good sense to re-think their
positions. Conservatives need to read this book, also, in order to arm themselves against the liberal rhetoric of the last seventy five years, and then they need to talk it up to their friends and colleagues. I believe a little preaching to the choir is necessary in order to spread the truth. Be prepared to give your little grey cells a good work-out with this intellectual and enlightening read. I suggest you have your dictionary handy, also, because this book will tax your vocabulary just a tat.
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Summary: Hateful Book
Review: This book slanders liberals. It says Sen. Joseph McCarthy is a hero for making false claims against innocent people. And anyone who wishes to engage in democratic debate and not just go along with conservative ideas is a traitor. This is a very sad book. I cannot believe a book could be so hateful. But then again look at her other books.
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Summary: Further Evidence of the Narrowing of the American Mind
Review: This book is NOT a well-reasoned, substantiated argument against Liberal politics. It is a Rorschach Test for Conservatives seeking validation of their current bent toward political and social hegemony. Given the substandard quality of the content and writing, this book will prove to be no more than a flash in the pan. Otherwise, we might expect "Coulterian" to replace "Orwellian" (now that Communism has been deposed) as the catchphrase for intolerance, anti-intellectualism, and heavy-handed obliteration of dissention.
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Summary: long on mouth, short on knowledge
Review: The problem with America today is not Democrats or Republicans, not liberals or conservatives. The problem today in America is the pundits themselves. Whether they are right wingers or left wingers, there are two big problems with pundits and anything they write, to wit: 1. They are preaching to their own choir. Whether liberal or conservative, they are not out to create a convincing argument and logically prove their points. On the contrary, they are only aiming their writings at people who already agree with them, in much the same way that fans of the same football team sit around and talk about how great "Da Bears" are. That's why most books by pundits from both sides have titles that say basically, "Why we are right and they are wrong". This feeds on, and further inflames, a problem that both major parties face -- partisanship for it's own sake. 2. They write to make money, not not to contribute to thoughful dialogue. They say the most outrageous things because it sells. Books and articles written by the pundits are not to viewed as serious attempts at problem solving, they are nothing more than money making ventures which have to be more shocking and outrageous than the last book in order to sell. This is the same marketing technique that the National Enquirer uses. I often get the impression that Rush Limbaugh, for instance, doesn't believe half of the things he says, he just likes to cash in on the controversy he can stir up. And thoughtful observations don't sell -- outrageous diatribes do. This book is perfect case in point. It is aimed at people who already agree with Coulter and need no convincing arguments. It is full of oversimplifactions and half truths. As usual, the real truth lies in middle ground between two extreme points of view. Liberal and conservative pundits have in one short decade destroyed what used to be America's greatest strength -- the ability to disagree respectfully, and to find common ground. Democracy collapses when compromises cannot be reached. Perhaps what this country really needs is a rabidly moderate pundit.
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