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Summary: Factual "Invective"
Review: In the never-ending debate between "liberal" and "conservative," this book stands out as an well documented and well structured response to common perceptions the left has about the right. Few books articulate the frustrations of conservatives about liberal invective as well as "Slander." As a conservative, I found myself reveling in Coulter's one-liners (e.g., "Indeed, the surest sign that one is dealing with a liberal is his refusal to grant meaning to the word "liberal.") and even challenged by her thinking. As a regular reader of political history and thought, I found it very refreshing that her book was so thoroughly footnoted (35 pages of footnotes citing the time, place, or source of the facts that are the foundation of her arguments). So many books of this type lack adequate references. However, it should also be noted that Coulter implies all of the positions from the left that she cites (including news and commentary from major news outlets) is "invective." And, her arguments are hard to deny without having a thorough grounding in recent political history. But, this position is a bit ingenuous, as much of her own language is arguably "invective" by her own definition. That is to say: snide, sarcastic, and filled with hyperbole. If you voted for Bush (or belatedly regretted voting for Gore), you will love this book and find it refreshing in light of what conservatives see as the onslaught of the liberal ideas from major media outlets. If you disagree with conservative thinking, buy it only if you are willing to be exposed to truly challenging points of view.
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Summary: Unreadable and unuseable hyperbole
Review: Wow. So much hate and vindictive carping it is hard to believe this was written by only one person. If all you're interested in is reading someone trying to be clever while bashing everyone and everything in the world Coulter (allegedly) doesn't like (which is A LOT), then by all means, read this. I tried but couldn't finish the book. It is unrelentingly negative with absolutely nothing constructive to say at all. The sonic equivalent of reading this book is sitting in the middle of six, 500W stereo systems while each plays the loudest, most dissonant screeches ever produced from Yoko Ono, Bjork and My Bloody Valentine at full distorted volume on cheap Radio Shack speakers.
This book is all about being loud for loudness sake. To be shocking just to get attention. To make outrageous, over-the-top claims intended to evoke wide-eyed gasps of lascivious excitement from conservative readers much too civil to even consider this type of assault and battery.
This book is beyond worthless... it is destructive and poisonous. It will not make you feel better about yourself or your world. It will not teach you anything. It will not tell you what to do about the horrible feeling you'll be left with after reading it. It has nothing constructive to say at all and in that respect, it is repetitious and derivative. It breaks no new ground but simply repeats the same old verse, a little bit louder and a little bit worse.
The point of this book is to enrich the author's finances. It will not enrich you.
We don't need more screamers... no matter what their political persuasion. This book doesn't advocate anything, it doesn't propose anything and it offers nothing but the author's idea of clever, aren't I funny, vituperative and turgid claptrap.
Even for this conservative from the Rocky Mountain west, attempting to read this book was an utter waste of time.
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Summary: Proof is in the book.
Review: breathlessly footnoted. Every argument is backed up by facts. This book is proof positive (and the above bad reviews) that lies and "slander" are the only thoughts the "left" have left to argue. This book is simply genus! This book does to the liberal - what Bias did to the Press.
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Summary: The extreme far right's propaganda. Don't wast your $!!!
Review: This book has really hit a new low for the ultra far right Republicans. Ms Coulter has shown that she has the ability to take talk show dribble and try to pass it off as fact. Luckily I did not buy this book. I read it just to get insight after I saw her pathetic showing on the Today show. The book is poorly organized, there is no supporting data for her allegation. She must feel that she can get by on her looks because she can't get by on her writing skills.
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Summary: Venom-dipped pen
Review: I very much enjoy watching Ann Coulter manipulate liberals on television, and her latest book is more of the same. Saucy, sarcastic, high-handed, often brutal to those who are the target of her invective. Yet her points strike hard and true. The left in this country have only been effective in getting their message across when it is rolled in sentiment, not cold, hard facts. Certainly not truth. Ann Coulter is hard to like personally, but her sense of where liberals are coming from is most accurate. Of course, her biting sense of humor is often misinterpreted by her critics. She has entirely too much fun man-handling her opponents on the left...and oh yes, she has absolutely beautiful hair. (spoken like a true conservative).
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Summary: did you see her on the Today show talking about this book?
Review: I don't even need to read this book because, in a 5 minute interview, Katie Couric pointed out 4 or 5 blatant lies. Ann Coulter became very defensive and was clearly embarrassed. Why would someone write a book knowing that it's contents are false?
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Summary: Fevered Mind!
Review: Wow! Ann is so on the money! What really disturbs me though, is that she hasn't taken her argument far enough back in American history - to that golden time when women in the United States of America were not allowed to vote! I wish Ann had addressed why she thinks women should have been granted suffrage; surely she'd agree that that was the very first step towards the ruin of the USA. First women are granted the privilege of voting, next thing you know they want to join the workforce and write columns for the WSJ.
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Summary: liberal reviewers use one star rating to slander "slander"
Review: Be warned people. This book is being targeted by liberals who are going so far as posing as conservatives and giving Ann Coulter's book a one star rating.
My advice is BUY THE BOOK and form your own opinion.
For the anti-conservative brigade to be out in such numbers Coulter must have really struck a nerve.
Maybe Katie Couric called up all her Manhatten pals and had them write nasty reviews.
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Summary: Let's not miss the point
Review: She doesn't need to be right.
She doesn't need to be informative.
She doesn't need to be fair.
She doesn't need to know what she's talking about.She needs to shock people. To call attention to herself. To throw together a diatribe so outlandish that it will become an instant best seller (it has!) as soon as it comes to the public's attention. How do you achieve this? It's disarmingly simple.
You insult enough people in the media until they invite you onto their shows just so that they can argue with you. Like she just did with Katie Couric, whom she referred to as "the affable Eva Braun of morning television" (formulated deliberately to start a fight), resulting in the sudden skyrocketing of sales of this worthless book. And she walks away with the money, smug in the knowledge that we're all just sheep, completely under her control. The sales figures prove that she's right about this fact, even though she's so wrong about everything else.
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Summary: Slamming Katie!!
Review: I found this book to be very insightful. I bought it after I saw Katie Couric get very snippy with Ms. Coulter on the Today show so I had to buy the book to see why Katie had her back up and her claws out. While liberals always generalize about conservatives, Ms Coulter has done a terrific job of itemizing the specific issues and instances from reliable sources. What the liberals can't stand is that someone is smoking them out and calling them what they are, liars, slanderers and fear mongers
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