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Summary: What's with the paranoia?
Review: Does the far right have some need to feel persecuted? Conservatives have been calling the shots in America for the past two decades. In politics, three of the last four Presidents were conservative Republicans. Reagan succeed in making "liberal" an insult. Clinton was hobbled by the Republican opposition, so much so that he abandoned any attempt at health care reform and ended up passing a welfare "reform" bill that any of his Democratic predecessors from FDR on would have choked on. Us liberals--oops, I mean "progressives", we don't use the "L" word any more-- were lukewarm at best towards him until the far right started its scurrilous jihad against him. In the media, Rush is still huge, O'Reilly is huge, those "Left Behind" books are huge, right-wing diatribes like Coulter's regularly make the best-seller lists, Time Magazine made George W. Bush it's Person of the Year...I tells ya, I just don't get it. Conservatives like Coulter, they're like Iranian clerics or Communist secret police or something. They want it all. No opposition. Our side gets some little crumb like "Will and Grace" or Jim Jeffords switching sides and they think they're under siege. I wish we had as much power as they think we do.
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Summary: This book only goes to prove...
Review: That any idiot can get published. If you want to read something that is devoid of any kind of intelligent, rational thought on politics and society then read this book!
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Summary: Truth is a powerful weapon
Review: This book hits the mark perfectly by showing how liberals rely on invective rather than cogent debate. Just read the reviews here of those who don't like the book for more evidence. They do not site any specific examples from the book; they just hurl insults and unsupported assertions. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't even read the book, since it was only released a few days ago. What are the odds that a Liberal is going to rush out and spend $[money] for this book, read all the way through it in two days, and come here to post a review? Not likely I think. Coulter is right on when she points out the way media liberals make a feminist hero out of the virtue less Gloria Steinem while ignoring the documented accomplishments of the brilliant Phyllis Shlafly. For anyone who is truly opened minded this book will be an eye-opener. When modern Liberalism is defeated this book will be remembered for helping to expose its moral deficiencies and hypocrisy.
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Summary: A needed polemic on the left's pathetic tactic of slander
Review: Ann Coulter, author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, has written another hard hitting polemic targeting the left's sacred cows. Ann has managed to become a lightning rod for Clinton supporters and leftists, and so has first hand experience of the topic she discusses. The main focus of the book is the inability of the left to debate politics and policy on their merits. Instead personal attacks, invective and an almost reflexive use of reducto ad absurdem has become the norm. She peppers the book with witty examples of this. One need look no further than the 'seminar callers' reviews posted here on Amazon that claim she is inciting militias, advocating the round up of liberals, etc. The constant refrains from many leftist and socialist writers is "George Bush is an idiot" not "we disagree with his policies for these reasons". This represents a breakdown of political discourse. This extended essay may be a case of preaching to the choir, as most conservatives probably are familiar with the dishonesty and absurd name calling that are the base of too much of the lefts rhetoric these days. All in all a solid follow up from an author who's previous book arguably effected politics more than any in the last 20 years, as it laid the foundation for the impeachment of Clinton. Ann shows she was not a "one hit wonder" and offers up an engaging and thought provoking book.
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Summary: I laughed until I cried
Review: ...I couldn't put it down, and I was laughing so much my wife moved to another bedroom for the night. There is humor everywhere in this book (sample chapter heading - "The Joy of Arguing with Liberals: 'You're Stupid!'"). Coulter is certainly funny, but she is also brilliant (law degree from U. Michigan, then clerked for a federal appeals court - a job offered to only the best and brightest law grads) and her insights on this country's recent political history are fresh. Even better, every example of liberals' conduct she cites is footnoted, so there can be no question as to authenticity (and some of the items are so outrageous one would expect them to be fabrications). Even some of the footnotes are good reading, and I enjoyed reading them along with the chapter to which they refer. Coulter argues that liberals have had hegemony over the media for so long that they have gotten lazy. They don't have any original ideas and don't have to meet conservatives' substantive ideas (school vouch-ers, Strategic Defense Initiative, welfare reform, flat tax, privatizing social security, to name a few) on the merits to be covered. As Coulter shows, they can just label Republicans "dumb" and their ideas "stupid" and their remarks still get broadcast and covered. Coulter proves this over and over. Liberals should read this book (perhaps getting it at the library to avoid paying royalties :>)) if only so they can avoid the bad rhetorical habits that so many on the left have adopted. In these times above all, we need honest debate in our public discourse -- not name-calling, fear, envy and race-mongering.
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Summary: The nemesis of the left and new standardbearer of the right!
Review: Bill O'Reilly began the hunt for truth by asking elementary and tough questions of the filthy rich, overpaid, left leaning elitist in the News Media and entertainment industries. Bernard Goldberg then exposed the middle-school truths about the corruptly biased superstructure of the media and so-called mainstream newsroom anchorpersons and the manipulators of information. Now Ann Coulter puts faces to actions and throws on the finishing touches to the disgustingly open, manipulative and blatant hypocrisies, hate and camouflaged anti-conservative rhetoric of those who falsely profess to be liberal, independent, moderate and/or centrist. The other day I had the good fortune to watch several interviews between Ann Coulter and a number of clearly liberal and bias talk show hosts and interviewers. The fireworks were magnificent and I could not for the life of me initially understand why all these people who normally hoodwink the American audience with their fake composure, self-control and false sophistication seemed to be so animistic towards her. So, after she beat James Carville down to parade rest for being an interrupting overbearing fool and offensive slob on crossfire. I decide to get into her book, which I had ordered through Amazon.com, immediately received and placed on my shelf for future attention. Fifteen pages into it, I found the answer I was looking for. It was staring me right in the face and continued throughout the book. The reason these people, who have been so grossly overpaid with their six, seven and in some cases idiotic eight figure salaries, were so upset when Ann when she comes onto their shows. Is because she just out classes them so profoundly that they are intimidated. She is so intellectually and educationally beyond their level of competence that they cannot possibly debate, dispute, counter or contradict any of her well-founded assertions. So they simply hate her. They find that they are so far below and out of her class that it drives them nuts. Mr. Spock once made an observation on the original Star Trek that a newly discovered alien species was so far evolved above humans...that the only appropriate comparison would be human evolution above that of the amoebae. This analogy works perfectly for where Ann Coulter is above these liberal spinners of the news. These, manipulative, intolerant liberal, egotistical charlatans on ABC, NBC and CBS like Ted Koppel, Katie Couric, Dan Rather, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Bryant Gumbel, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung, Mat Lauer and others are simply unable to hold a candle to her in an honest, courteous and professional debate. As she so aptly says, "it is a stunning reflection on the left's monopoly of the news that an opinionated, partisan talk radio host is more accurate than television news programs." They will try anything to catch her in a way that will allow them to show her up, humiliate her or catch her in a too hastily thought out response to leading or nonsequitur questions. They fail miserably because she is right. They have no basis from which to debate, but to attempt character assassination, word confusion and false innuendoes. The wonderful and challenging verbiage, candidness, interwoven humor and sagacity of this book strikes a note of understanding, of just how this uneven match up would irk these inept liberal interviewers. Only fifteen pages into the book and you realize these misfits, who have helped to dumb down our children and our nation themselves are simply put, dumb compared to the likes of Ms. Coulter. Even I, who prided myself on a rather vast vocabulary, believing as one of our past Presidents, that one should learn and use a new word every day, could not readily keep up with her. I found that I had to place a dictionary and thesaurus next to me while reading to keep from skipping an unfamiliar word. An act I swore I would never do as a child. If nothing else Ann has made many of us aware of our incompetent lack of mastery of the English language. Could this be the lefts negative influence on our public schools, when they care more about outlawing prayer, God or the Pledge of Allegiance and more about teaching the forced acceptance of deviant homosexual conduct...than actually educating us? The unquestionable command of the English language Ann uses no doubt causes liberals to scamper for their dictionaries and more than likely irks them to no end. This book has placed her head and shoulders above the everyday anchorperson, interviewer and talk show host. I also appreciated the wonderful opportunity she gives us to highlight the good guys from the bad because unlike Bernard Goldberg. She puts the names there of the good, the bad and the hypocritical in plain sight for you to circle, highlight and/or underline for future references. I once watched Katrina Vanden Heuvel speak at a Democratic Fund Raiser where she just raked conservatives over the verbal rhetorical partisan coals and called them things I did not think appropriate in public discourse and I thought to myself, my, what a neo-leftist fanatically liberal hate-monger she was. Well I think she has finally met her match from the conservative side in Ann Coulter although I must add, Ann fights back superbly and does it with much more style and class. So bring on the titans of the left and the right, "We the People" are sitting in the gallery watching this spectacle unfold. A terrific book, great read and an honest evaluation and no holds barred open exposure of her opponents. This book should be the required main course after Bernard Goldberg's initial appetizer. It exposes the liberal bias run amuck in our society, which produces not one but two idiot Judges who can ban the Pledge of Allegiance merely over the term "under God"...
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Summary: These 1-star reviews prove Coulter's thesis
Review: Unlike others who have posted reviews here, I have actually read the book. It is brilliant. Coulter mixes her scathing wit with an overwhelming amount of evidence to make her case that liberals are incapable of dealing with facts and attempt to dismiss them by demonizing the messanger. Nearly half of the book is composed of footnotes and documentation. So go read the book and then re-read these 1-star reviews. You'll get a big chuckle over how correct she is.
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Summary: Stop the madness
Review: Along with the denizens of Barnum's museum and the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Americans never tire of freak shows and horror stories. One of the favorite horror stories on the right is the myth of the liberal media. This myth works in the following manner, despite the fact that most of the media outlets are owned by large corporations who use these outlets to feather their nests (look at all the Disney tie ins on ABC for example), somehow the onair talent and writers apparently have free reign to determine content and pursue a political agenda as independent actors. Even though this is at odds with the practices of any other profession, job or career in the world. The myth of the liberal media came about in the days of Richard Nixon because Nixon could not fascinate like the Kennedys. Rather than focus on the personal, Nixon saw this as a "vast left wing conspiracy" and such one of the treasured myths of late 20th century politics was born. This lie has been a convenient one for the Republican party, which despite (what they would have one believe) an unending stream of left wing propaganda, they seem to have done remarkably well in politics (controlling 2 1/2 branches of government aint chicken feed). Despite the complete lack of liberal voices (as opposed to Democratic party hacks who seem chosen for their stupidity) on radio and TV, the conspiracy industry, like old man river, just keeeps rolling along. Ms. Coulter is only the latest to take up this well-worn flag and to fly it. In doing so, she indulges in the hyperbolic language so common to right wing commentators who are paid from a variety of sources to sound indignent. Will we one day see a David Brock-style confession from her at some point when she has the falling out with the people that underwrite these efforts? One can only wonder. The people who really have a right to be annoyed are the electorate who are routinely fed pablum by both parties who find it easier to go negative than to actually explain positions to the electorate (these positions are all to often shaped not by philisophical stances, but by servicing constituents whose views frequently clash with the best interests of the nation and the best interests of the people who live in it). If someone wishes to learn the real truth about American politics, don't read this book by Ann Coulter, pick up a copy of Democracy by Henry Adams. It may be set in the 1870s, but the comings and goings of his senators and congressmen are all startlingly familar to anyone who reads the newspapers.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: If you like Ann, you will love this book. The McCarthiests on the left, wish no one would read this book, as leftist idealism fails time after time. None of the reviewers who negatively reviewed this book has even bothered to open a page of this book. They are just fueled by hatred about views which counter theirs. Their reviews just reaffirm what Ann has written. The left does not desire free speech or have any tolerence.
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Summary: An engaging and refreshing breath of fresh air.
Review: If Ann Coulter is so off the mark, why is this book a best seller out of the gates? Because Ms. Coulter offers insightful perspectives on the sad state of our perpetually liberally biased media, and how it has brainwashed the American public into believing that all conservatives are racist, heartless ogres... And well done Ms. Coulter.
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