How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) : The World According to Ann Coulter

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Summary: How to talk like a clueless hag
Review: Ann Coulter is a joke. People who take this female neanderthal seriously are a joke. She's an ill-informed goofball that caters to the angry white man in america who thinks he's "losing the country". That's why i found it entertaining when recently a canadian journalist exposed "Anorexic Annie" to be the misinformed twit that she is.

Don't bother reading this putrid junk. Save your brain cells folks.

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Summary: Another outstanding read from Ann Coulter!!!!!!!!!
Review: Ann is fun and informing as usual. Her wit and research once again prove unstoppable in this newest addition of "inside the mind of Ann Coulter". She truly is unique and a blast to read. Sorry libs, better fact checking and faux memo production is necessary in today's world....

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Summary: Another fun read by Ann Coulter!
Review: Ann's books are great. I for one love her style of being very abrasive, brash and honest and that is why she is so great. I think she is dead on in her views and she picks apart the liberals with ease. I admire her and cant wait to read her next installment. I read this one in just a couple of days and it was well worth the 20+ dollars I spent.

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Summary: Do consider the audio version.
Review: First up, Thanks for taking the time to read my words herein. OK, that said, I'd like to recommend this book, but particularly the audio version of this book. Miss Coulter only reads the first chapter, but the (female) reader who handles the rest does so remarkably in the cadence of the author & does so with professional aplomb. To be honest, I rather dislike collections of essays and/or previously published material packaged in book form, but this work is an exception herein---not only because listening to such journalistic writings makes it fresher, but also because this is not your typical collection of disparate dozens of essays. Rather, Miss Coulter has included many magazine-lenth articles of hers (both published & and those rejected---with the reasons why added), as well as a selection of her columns. The result makes this work a lot less superficial than one (especially her detractors) might expect. For instance, she provides a historical argument concerning an issue related to the American Civil War; one that goes on for around 20 minutes in the audio version. Other issues she devotes similar time to include, the Elian Gonzalez story, judicial appointments, the war in Iraq, the 2000 presidential election and, of course, quite a few other issues with less depth (handguns, capital punishment, Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy Jr.---she respected him, feminism, et al.). What ties everything together, however---and what makes this work more coherent than similar compilations---is that it has a unifying thread. That Miss Coulter is a lawyer is unmistakable here, for her arguments are often based on legal premises (laws that exist, moreover, not how liberals would like to see them interpreted). This book was, in short, a lot more informative than I expected & that made it that much more interesting (whether one agrees with ALL her legal briefs and/or opinions---or not---being beside the point). It's a 3 1/2 star effort (an option Amazon does not permit---hence my rating above), as it does contain much that has been previously published. (One & five star reviewers herein are either doing Miss Coulter a disservice or those who have published scholarly tomes of research---to be fair we ought reserve perfect scores for accomplished historians and the like, don't you think?) I would hope you will consider the audio version of this work---if I may reiterate that suggestion---as I found this format particularly appropriate herein. Cheers!

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Summary: Evil, evil woman
Review: I cannot get past page 21, so if you want to disregard this review because I haven't read enough, then go ahead. But I cannot get past page 21, wherein she writes, "I am often asked if I still think we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. The answer is: now more than ever."

I don't care what context she is using. This is just plain evil. I am a humble man, and I follow a humble religion. I would not want to be part of such an arrogant religion as Christianity when it professes to be the One True Way and seeks to convert everyone else to it (sometimes rather forcibly). It is pure arrogance to believe that yours is the only right faith. How do you intend to prove it? What demonstrable evidence can you give that proves this belief? There is none. Beliefs are not facts. They and the religions they form are nothing more than opinions on matters no one, including Ms. Coulter and myself, can prove to be true through demonstrable methods.
I wish her book to do well, however. It seems to be a sad sign of these times that we are living in.


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Summary: Just her columns
Review: I'm a big Ann Coulter fan and hard core right winger. Ann is awesome, witty, funny and hot too! But sadly all this is is a collection of her columns arranged in chronological and subject order. It would be good for liberals to read to help cure the disease of liberalism, but for me I was somewhat disappointed in that there was nothing new. All of her columns are available at her web site and I have already read them so there was nothing new in this book for me.

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Summary: I'd give it -10 stars if I could...what an idiot
Review: Reasonable, intelligent political discourse in America is dying a slow, painful death, and Ann Coulter (along with Michael Moore, Bill O'Reilly, and others) is among those doing their best to try and kill it off completely. The death of intelligent public discussion is an unfortunate thing to behold, but Coulter and others like her don't care as long as there are people willing to cough up cash in order to have their politics spoonfed to them in simple, easily-digestible doses. Coulter, like other popular political pundits, speaks in sweeping, ridiculous generalizations ("liberals hate America") that sound really good to members of her target audience who've just spent $16.99 to have their worldview re-affirmed for them, but are of absolutely no value to those looking for anything resembling political insight. I love how Coulter's conservative audience can't stand Michael Moore (and his liberal audience can't stand Coulter), even though each of these morons is the flipside of the same coin. Reading Coulter is the exact same thing as watching 'Farenheit 9/11'; opposite ends of the spectrum, sure, but either way, you get poorly-researched garbage from an obnoxious idiot shouting way too loud and saying much too little. Either way, it's political pornography for idiots with short attention spans, and know-it-alls who know absolutely nothing (and when I say "political pornography," please believe I am in no way referring to how "hot" many of Coulter's right-wing fanboys would have you believe she is...seriously, I don't want to know what's going on in the mind that finds this woman attractive). Coulter, Moore, O'Reilly, etc. are the political version of those shows on ESPN where a few guys sit around with a list of topics on the bottom of the screen, each topic gets a minute on the clock, these blowhards shout a whole lot of nothing back and forth until the buzzer, and then it's on to the next topic. Don't buy this book. If you want to read about politics, find books containing actual historical documents, or impartial works by credible historians, and draw your own conclusions. Just think for yourself, whatever your views may be; and if you're making up your own mind already, there's no sense in dropping $20 to have someone recite your views back to you. You don't need these snake oil salesmen to tell you what to think.

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Summary: alternate title: How to be an idealogue
Review: This book is rife with single instances that loosely conform to what Coulter is talking about being distorted and then used to paint all "liberals"... whatever a "liberal" even is in Coulter's odd logic.

In essence, Coulter's lesson on how to talk to a liberal is to do exactly what she accuses "liberals" of doing... screeching loudly, shouting others down, being ill-mannered and rude, not letting truth stand in one's way, never backing down, never treating the person you are talking to as human or even semi-intelligent, and always say something outrageous about "liberals"... whether it actually applies to the person one is talking to or not, as "liberals" are all exactly the same.

John Zerzan, an oft lambasted author proudly emblazons his book Against Civilization with excerpts of truly aggregious reviews of his work by many foremost liberal/radical publications as a sort of badge of courage. Ann Coulter would rather turn these reviews into faint praise for her book jacket. Does anyone believe for a single second that Bill Maher has anything that positive to say about Ann Coulter? The only praise ofher book that looks to truly be nothing but praise, not an excerpt of a review that could have gone either way in the end is Rush Limbaugh's assertion that "Ann Coulter is a pundit extraordinaire."

Thank god and Ben Franklin for the concept of the lending library so I never have to encourage Ann Coulter with my pocketbook.

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Summary: awesome read
Review: This is yet another WINNING book from Miss Coulter. She knows all the right liberalese buttons to push as evidenced by the gross hostility shown in many reviews here. ;)

The world would be a much better place without liberalism.

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Summary: Entertaining and Well Researched
Review: `How to Talk to A Liberal (If You Must) is a collection of columns that Ann Coulter has written that were apparently `too hot' for newspapers to run.

These columns run the gamut and include such topics as: war, terrorism, judicial nominations, gay marriage, capital punishment, double standards, and media bias.

It is filled with her trademark controversial positions and sizzling one-liners. Liberals will likely not enjoy it too much as her criticisms are uncompromising and well researched.

Although written about serious topics of public policy, it also has a lot of humor and great quotes. Even some of the chapter titles are funny. A few examples are: Elian Gonzales - The Only Immigrant Liberals Ever Wanted to Deport; The Only Cop the New York Times Likes is the One in the Village People; and Give Us Twenty-Two Minutes, We'll Give Up the Country.

In a piece on the Elian Gonzales situation, she wrote: `Liberals lost 300 million people when their beloved Soviet Union was defeated by Ronald Reagan, but Elian gave them a chance to grab one back'.

While addressing double standards in reporting, she contrasted remarks made by two sitting US Senators about two of their colleagues and the vastly different treatment they received. She compared the case of then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott with that of Sen. Christopher Dodd. Lott simply complimented Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday with a statement that didn't appear to have any racist undertones, whereas Dodd made an expressly racist comment in complimenting Sen. Robert Byrd, who is a former recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan. Dodd said that Byrd `would have been right during the great conflict of the Civil War in this Nation'. Yet, the media made little mention of it while hounding Lott out of his leadership position for a much tamer remark that didn't even appear to deal with race.

It is not just Democrats that Coulter blasts. She is bipartisan in her critiques. In reviewing the inane security procedures that the Bush administration enacted in airports after 9/11, she remarked that these measures will do `absolutely nothing to deter hijackers' but `will be incredibly burdensome for millions of American travelers'. She then went on to suggest several common sense solutions to airline security.

Besides being highly entertaining, this book takes a serious look at the American political scene today and current issues. It is sure to either entertain or enrage, depending upon one's perspective. Certainly no one is likely to find it to be boring.