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Title: Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter ISBN: 1-4000-4952-0 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (1006 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Preaching to the choir
Comment: More garbage from another garbage pundit. Al Franken, Michael Savage, Jim Hightower, Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Hillary Clinton, Bill O'Reilly.... all wannabe politicians pandering to those who follow their agenda. Books like "Treason" do NOTHING to stir reasoned, intelligent debate. Rather, they set agendas based on historical facts (that are sometimes bent or changed to support their views), and those who read them already agree with the author. So what's the point?
Over the past year I've watched as conservative and liberal morons scream and spit at each other, wagging their fingers about the latest "facts and figures" from their favorite political authors. Usually, neither of them have read each others' book in question, so the argument consists mostly of gibberish with no valuable conclusion of any sort.
I say these sorts of books have no redeeming social value, and I mean that because only people that already agree with the authors read them. Occasionally, a wary person who opposes the author's beliefs will pick it up and thumb through it, but not for the purpose of learning or opening creative debate. All they really want to do is find some tidbit or poorly constructed sentence to ridicule. Basically, the books just preach to the choir and then encourage the choir to fight with each other.
All this political trash that sits on the bestsellers shelves at Borders and Barnes & Noble is not important information. They are each merely disgusting pieces of agit-prop fueled by individual agendas of the authors, not by ideals of compassion and cultural interest of our whole society. Despite how well these books sold over 2003, I noticed that they were all conspicuously absent from individual "best of" lists at the end of the year. I can't say I'm surprised. You'll never see a single one of these books with a cracked spine on the shelves of your favorite used bookstore.
Trash, pure and simple. Avoid these books at all cost and think for yourself.
Rating: 1
Summary: Please.
Comment: If you believe, as Ann Coulter evidently does, that life is fundamentally simple - that every issue can be pared down to a choice between "us or them," "patriots or traitors," "Christians or the damned" - then you too can write a book like this, a horrible little tract that celebrates the virtues of divisiveness, raw anger, and unfounded belief.
I've recently been reading Ayn Rand's ouvre, and I am dismayed by the clear parallels between Coulter and this novelist/philosopher from the '60s and '70s. Both authors have (or had) a strong following in their time, with multiple books on the bestseller lists. Yet reading either author produces a sensation much like having a hammer smashed repeatedly against my forehead. The writing is not merely harsh or insistent, it is programmatic, it is propogandistic. "THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD IS," both women scream. 'YOU WILL BELIEVE WHAT I AM TELLING YOU AND, IF YOU DO NOT, YOU ARE WORSE THAN THE PIECE OF EXCREMENT I STEPPED IN THIS MORNING ON MY WAY TO WORK." Objectivity is out of the question. Fact-driven discourse is out of the question. With writers like these we are forced to walk reluctantly in the world of Faith, and True Believers, and The Gospel According to So-and-So, Acid-Tongued Celebrity Pundit.
Rubbish. Might as well ask me to take literally every word of the old King James, or believe everything I hear on network news broadcasts. Or, for that matter, trust what comes spinning out of the Bush White House these days.
Is American democracy based on free speech and free thought, or isn't it? Do I have a right to make up my mind based on hard evidence and reason, or don't I? Perhaps I am simply doomed to subscribe to one or another of the COMPLETE WORLD VIEWS championed by self-appointed experts like Coulter or Rand. I fear it is only a matter of time before I am completely brainwashed by either the Left, the Right, the Above, or the Below. Is there no place in this world for rational, hate-free discussion?
To sum up: If you're the kind of person who likes to split everyone into two clearly defined camps so that you can belittle, harass, disenfranchise, or perhaps even prosecute or imprison those who think differently than you, then this book is for you. Coulter's heroic recasting of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the widely discredited '50's mindset known as "McCarthyism" should clue you in to the true nature of "Treason." If you liked Senator Joe, you're gonna love Ann.
For my part, the best thing I can say about "Treason" is: Ms. Coulter looks stunning in a little black dress.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Substantiated & Accurate Reporting
Comment: Ann Coulter carefully portrayed the liberal biasness that I have personally seen in our news media. Ann successfully backed up her claims of biasness with pages of reference citations, which anyone can verify if they wish. Ann Coulter really looked at the facts and wrote a very effective argument that such liberal bias exists. READ IT!!! It will help you develop your own opinion of the news without the media telling you otherwise. After reading this book, you will not see the media the same way again, NOR SHOULD YOU!!!
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Title: Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter ISBN: 1400050308 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton by Ann Coulter ISBN: 0895261138 Publisher: National Book Network Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by Sean Hannity ISBN: 0060514558 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Bias : A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg ISBN: 0060520841 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security by Robert Patterson ISBN: 0895261405 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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