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Summary: This book is a dream for both the conservative and liberal.
Review: I borrowed this book from my rather conservative father partly because I was curious what made him so damn angry whenever we discussed politics and partly because what little I had learned of Coulter from her appearances on Politically Incorrect had filled me with a sense of morbid curiosity. Turns out that it wasn't that I knew little about her -- it's just that there IS very little to her. Liberals bad. Liberals control media. Liberals abusive. Liberals kidnap Lindbergh baby. The usual. But then I got to thinking... the seething hatred and shameless hypocrisy of this book is just what those on both sides of the political spectrum ordered. First, it serves the interests of the perpetually abused and misunderstood (*cough cough*) modern conservative. For with this book they possess yet another round of "ammunition" (hollow point, of course) to back up their claims of the suffocating tyranny they face at the hands of the big, bad, hatemongering, intellectually dishonest liberals. As long as people like Coulter are willing to tell them that they're being persecuted and aren't being listened to by the evil commie liberal demonspawn, they can justify (or at least think they can) their complete abandonment of civil, intellectual discourse and instead rely on a steady barrage of hysteria-fueled venom. Sure, the hatred, the name calling, and the demonizing they dish out against the eviiiilllll liberals may be the EXACT SORT OF THING Coulter is accusing the left of doing, but that's okay because the poooor wittle conservatives have been persecuted for so long! I can't help finding a parallel between Coulter's victimization tactics and those employed by The Party in George Orwell's novel 1984, in which the oppressors (the government in 1984, Coulter's fundamentalist/corporate masters in real life) maintain their stranglehold on society by distracting it with a "war" against a soulless, supposedly dangerous fabrication of an enemy. So tell me, Ms. Coulter... are we at war with Eurasia or Eastasia? As for the liberals, SLANDER is also quite the treat. For with Coulter's hypocritical bigotry against anyone who dares stray from the views of the extreme right, the left is shown just how much the uberconservative has had to abandon reason and civility in order to keeps his/her beliefs intact. If someone is outright avoiding the discussion of issues simply because she claims "You're all against me! I'm being persecuted! You won't listen anyway!", one can't help wonder if she does so simply because she knows her views won't hold any water under the slightest bit of scrutiny. If conservatives are relying on things like SLANDER for their war of ideas against the oppressive liberals, then the left has won pretty much by default. [...] I had just read David Brock's BLINDED BY THE RIGHT before I read SLANDER, and I recommend that others try a marathon session with the two. Nothing better illustrates Brock's claims that the right has been overwhelmed with puerile, hypocritical, intellectually bankrupt psychopaths better than SLANDER. Perhaps Mr. Brock should send Ms. Coulter a thank-you note.
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Summary: Read the book, then try to deny the truth
Review: Ms Coulter has done an outstanding research job and tells it like it really is. It took me a little longer to read this book than the usual book simple because I would get so disgusted at the liberals and media who are so vicious in their attacks. I see this every single day when I open a newspaper or turn on network news. It should make every American mad and sick at heart to be subjected to the liberal airheads to have nothing to offer but character assignation or empty self serving agendas. THANK YOU ANN COULTER. Please keep up the good work and I hope your book encourages others to follow your lead. ...
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Summary: Best Book I've Read in Three Years
Review: Awesome. Spectacular. She nails it. And I love that she dedicates it to the NY Times (which I, too, read daily, w/often the same outrage at their lies) . . check out her recent column...where she rips apart the Times' attack on Ashcroft and the 2nd Amendment . . . and shows that within 400 words, there are at least two times where you have to ask: 1) Is the Times deliberately lying? Or 2) are they ignorant of the actual facts, more ignorant than even your average junior high schooler? You go girl. I wish some of the libs would cite specifics (I don't think they can, and that's why they don't). The only thing you could take issue w/is her tone . . but sometimes moral outrage is appropriate.
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Summary: Accurate Description of the Media as an Arm of the Democrats
Review: Ms. Coulter hits the nail straight. And more than a few times.
Her fast reading book is well stocked with fully documented examples of the half-truths, outright lies, and completely slanted outpourings from American print and television media. And her well known humor, sarcasm and wit are abundantly displayed.
You would think that the success of books such as this and Bias, the trouncing of long established CNN by upstart Fox, the general decline of liberal network news(there's a redundancy), and the total absence of successful liberal talk shows would send a message to media management. Most Americans don't like your product: Give us something else.
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Summary: a good book
Review: This is a good book but you have to read it with an open mind. Coulter points out some very interesting tactics that Liberals use. First and foremost, did you notice how liberals often resort to name-calling and ad hominem attacks? Of course you did, but Coulter offers solid documentation on how often this actually occurs. If you read the book you will be surprised at the level of research that went into this book. Most poli sci books like this lack any kind of serious research. In this book, the footnotes are quite extensive. It is impressive.
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Summary: PARANOIA REIGNS
Review: This book is a perfect example why the conservative movement will always be a minority movement in America. It is impossible to prove your case when your argument is based on distortions and lacking in factual information. First, the book is poorly written. It was obviously targeted to appeal to the lower end of the IQ level, i.e., those who worship Rush Slimbaugh. Second, the book suffers from the same problem as Fox News in that it presents information without bothering to even attempt to be fair and balanced. It is as though she knows that her argument is so weak that she is unable to rely on a presentation of factual information. If anyone is sincerely interested in an honest assessment of the media, they can read Professor Edward Herman's definitive book, "The myth of the liberal media". This book documents ALL its material with case studies and relevant examples. Also, a person seeking the truth about the media can also subscribe to the Nieman Reports which is published by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Be forewarned though that the Summer edition which exposes the failure of the fourth estate in reporting on the Enron scandal is very depressing!
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Summary: Satire on a Swiftian Level!
Review: I haven't laughed this hard in years. "Slander" is easily the best work of comedic fiction since Steve Martin's "Pure Drivel". I believe it will one day rank among the greatest works of Jonathan Swift in the annals of satire. Alas, I could not give it a perfect score as the book is far too over-the-heads of the general population and does not go quite far enough. Though it may be redundant to the intellectual among us, I think it should be stated at the front that this is a work of fiction and meant to be comedic; in small print, of course. I've read through some of the reviews are there are a few people who seem to be under the impression that Miss Coulter is serious when she says that all liberals should be executed or that the liberals (who want to take God out of all the parts of American life) are working hand-in-hand with Muslim religious fanatics to destroy America - much like the people who believed that Jonathan Swift seriously believed that the Irish should start selling their children as food to get out of debt. I recommend this book to all folks of a left-leaning bent who enjoy a good laugh.
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Summary: SATIRE AND NOT FACTUAL
Review: If this is intended to a be a serious analysis of contemporary politics, then no stars should be awarded. If it is intended as satire which seems to be its aim, then it warrants one star. By no means though is it worth wasting hard-earned money to purchase. If you want to waste money, buy a share of WorldCom or Enron but not this book.
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Summary: A good book to take camping¿ soft absorbent pages.
Review: Coulter cannot answer any of the liberal points of fact, criticisms, or arguments, so she instead accuses the questioner of being a stalker, an idiot, or a child. She calls names and makes rude comments about people, in the same breath she whines about liberals being rude and calling republicans names. Coulter, a leading conservative thinker and easily one of the most intelligent figures on the right, really steps up to show us all what a hypocrite and a liar she can be when slinging propaganda for the poor abused disenfranchised right wing in America.. She rails against the liberal media boogie man by saying that evil liberals distort republican positions by using inaccurate paraphrasing and partial out of context quotes, and to prove it she uses inaccurate paraphrasing and partial out of context quotes from supposedly liberal columnists and news anchors. When questioned on these glaring hypocrisies and inaccuracies in her book, Coulter unable to address them, simply directs people to her book's 35 pages of footnotes, which upon review are found to contain the exact same kind of inaccurate paraphrasing and partial out of context quotes she's railing against. Then just to prove how liberals have lowered the bar on political debate with personal attacks and insults, she compares Katie Couric to Hitler's mistress. Then to show us how liberals try to insult republican's intelligence in an attempt to dismiss their positions, she accuses liberals of debating like children to dismiss their positions. ...
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Summary: Fascinating, yet Incomplete (4.5 stars)
Review: Coulter's "Slander" is enough to anger any conservative. She outlines the wide array of lies, insults, labels and venom that have been directed at conservatives and their leaders. Many of Coulter's topics will sound very familiar: the media's protection of Al Gore before, during, and after the 2000 campaign vs. the relentless (and baseless) concerns about Bush's intelligence; Reagan's accomplishments vs. the media's concern with, you guessed it, his intelligence; how conservative books, at least to the media, are always "surprise" best sellers, while liberal themed books tend to bomb at the cash register, etc. The main fault with this book is that Coulter spends too much time on the "religious right" and not enough time on the venom directed to Pro-Lifers. In all fairness, the religious right (a meaningless label really, and used pejoritively) is regularly maligned and labeled for their values and religion, but one wonders if such a lengthy discussion was necessary. Coulter concludes with some discussion on abortion, but not nearly enough to do the topic justice. Surely she is aware of the media's insistence to use the negative label "anti-abortion" rather than "pro-life" and she must know that Pro-Life incidents of clinic vandalism and bombings are overblown in proportion while violence by Pro-Choicers against Lifers (praying rosaries, no less) is completely ignored. Coulter may have been in a rush to publish this one, but nonetheless, it's a necessary discussion on the visicous misrepresentations and arrogance within the media in attacking anything outside the liberal ideology. And they call conservatives "intolerant"?
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