Rating: 
Summary: Poorly Written
Review: This book could have been written by PT Barnum himself. Don't be fooled by the title. This is a woman who is trying to cash in on fear.
Rating: 
Summary: No wonder liberals are going bonkers!
Review: The amount of anger, hate and name-calling coming from the "left-wing" in America proves the point that Ann Coulter makes in her book. Liberals hate the truth, and their only way to respond to it is through attacking the messenger, rather than presenting a well-thoughtout argument on issues and ideas. Ann's book is excellent! It is well-documented, and like the lawyer she is, presents her case in a clear, concise and unarguable manner. My only suggestion is, if you already are aware of the bias of the "left," read this book only in small doses because it will make you angrier than you already are!
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Summary: More Republican Whining
Review: I guess if the Republicans didn't have so much to answer for, they wouldn't have to publish this kind of tripe. Please. As an Independent, no, the Democrats have not been lying about everything for the past half decade. Save your money for something without the right-wing bias.
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Summary: ann-dy kaufman?
Review: How you feel about Coulter's book depends on how you see Coulter. Either she's 1). a hypocritical harpie totally incapable of seeing subtleties or nuance, totally humorless, totally unable to see the disconnect between writing a book called "Slander" in which she calls Katie Couric an "affable Eva Braun" (what exactly does that mean anyway?)....OR she's 2) A brilliant performance artist who's been doing an Andy Kaufman-esque act for the last 10 years, never letting the character slip for a second- kind of a political Tony Clifton. Her recent TV appearances on Today, Hardball, and Crossfire almost have me convinced of this- maybe Andy really is still alive! Either way, she's the liberals' best friend, making extreme conservatives look ridiculous. No one with a brain on either side of the political spectrum could possibly take her or this book seriously.
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Summary: Liberals, YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT!!!!!!!!
Review: It is GREAT! Ann combats the Libs with VERIFIABLE and UNDENIABLE FACTS and WIT! The reader needs a fair understanding of National Politics to get full understanding and enjoyment. However, the novice will still get plenty from this book. It is worth the read unless you are a liberal than this book will make you mad because of how well researched and written it TRULY is!
Rating:
Summary: focused and factual
Review: It is pretty easy to find partisan opinions, but SLANDER presents a focused analysis that is backed up by facts. To a degree, one may judge conservative writings by how offended liberals become upon exposure. This is a doozey.I particularly like the way many attack her based on her looks. Nothing announces an "empty gun" in quite the same way as a pathetic personal attack. When you have nothing factual to say, one's choices are limited.
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Summary: Not an interesting or a well writen book...I'm sorry.
Review: The right wing fans of Ms. Coulter seem to be busy bees trying to defend this barely readable book. (I bought it out of sincere interest, and continued to plow through the nonsense considering it as a comedy script). Now, you could dismiss me as 1. a "left wing nut" which I am not, or 2. the biased "liberal" ( always Ms. Coulters explanation when the truth hurts) or 3. "never read the book" (untrue)... but in the end, the reality stands: this book is quite boring. I read it throught to the end rather quickly, trying to understand what her point was in writing such a laughable book...but in these conservative times, ANYONE can write a book slaming so-called liberals and make money. Don't make the same mistake I did in thinking you would get a reasoned "Pat Buchanan" intellectual argument ( even though I tend to disagree with him). With Ms. Coulter, we are dealing with a "lightweight". Be forewarned...don't waste money on this one.
Rating: 
Summary: $Rightwing Pap Smear
Review: ... The book is replete with irony, not the least of which, for a woman who
would like to see the nation's women totally lose their voice (she is
actually on record as advocating a repeal of suffrage(!) because she thinks
women voters support too many taxing social programs), Coulter herself has
quite a bit to say. Most of it is merely repetitive abuse and at least as
slanderous as that which she is castigating, but nonetheless entertaining.
Inaccurate, out of context quoting is a motif of the book. She starts
immediately with the charge that the "leftwing media" (where is this leftwing
media she seems to find everywhere? I would love to watch something left of
center in the mainstream media, if I could find it!) has labeled Rep. Tom
DeLay (R.-Texas) "the Hammer" and "the Exterminator". He does indeed have
these nicknames, but what many readers will not know is, he proudly adopted
them HIMSELF. I guess they feed his macho pride. And he literally WAS an
exterminator before he came to Congress, which is how that one got started.
When he was minority "whip" he kept a large leather whip in his office and
brandished it liberally (pardon the expression) at visitors. The guy is
nothing if not literal-minded. There are many other examples of this kind of twist; the "lawn jockey"
charge against the NY Times is another--that's the one where she cleverly
quotes a critical editorial headline from the Times and combines it with
out-of-context pejoratives aimed at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
from other sources--so the reader gets the (mistaken) impression that the
Times called Thomas a "lawn jockey". It would be quite a research project to
parse every one of her quotes and separate the wheat from the chaff, and
Coulter knows most folks don't have that kind of time--so her inaccuracies,
sadly, will probably stand. Life is definitely a comedy to those who think. Another amusing irony in
the book is her hoisting of the Paula Jones banner. I guess we feminists
should really thank Jones for turning every conservative Christian in the
country into a virulent feminist, frothing over the scourge of sexual
harrassment. Oh but I forgot--sexual harrassment is an outrage only when
it's committed by Democrats. Conveniently omitted from the book is the fact
that Coulter's very own marbled icon, Phyllis Schlafly, to whom she refers
often in wide-eyed adoration, has ridiculed the entire concept of sexual
harrassment and once stated primly, "Men don't make passes at virtuous
women." Before Clinton, most Republicans wouldn't even acknowledge that such
a thing as sexual harrassment even existed. It's wonderful how the law-and-order thumpers of the far right can always
generously excuse their own wrongdoers. In her torrents of sympathy for the inferiority complexes of Jones and fellow rightwing pawn Linda Tripp for how
they were "driven" to numerous plastic surgeries to satisfy the whims of the
sadistic media (!), Coulter doesn't mention how they amassed all the bucks
for these operations: mostly, by hitting up their conservative database for
donations towards "legal expenses." Last time I checked, a nose job,
facelift and liposuction were not exactly "legal expenses". So does
law-and-order Annie think that Jones and Tripp should be prosecuted for
embezzlement and raising money under false pretenses (felonies)? Don't be
silly---prosecution of criminal behavior is only for Democrats. I could go on, but on cursory examination those were the salient points I
noticed. Here's hoping some of her "facts" will be more accurately
deconstructed.
Rating:
Summary: You know, the reviews support her facts from the book!
Review: Amazing to see the response here. Just read the book. Amazing. Thank you Ms Coulter! Our eyes begin to open...
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: It is very clear that those with the one sentence, one star, reviews did not read the book. I did. It is very hard to argue with the well researched facts and logic.
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