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Title: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
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| Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press Brilliant with Clarity | | I thought that I knew Miss Coulter from her television/radio appearances coupled with her columns. However, I was wrong. Her book is thoughtful and insightful. The rhetoric is far above her columns and while the bombs are there, she adds supporting data. Considering it was written in the last election cycle, it is very revealing in the Hilliary/Obama/McCain fiasco. I suspect that most of her detractors haven't read book because they focus on the minutae not the substance. It is a shame because she makes a very strong case about the bias in the MSM. | | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press Liberal "Arguments" Are Mostly Epithets | "Prevarication and denigration are the hallmarks of liberal argument. Logic is not their (liberals') métier. Blind religious faith is". This is Ann Coulter's thesis in "Slander", one of the must-read political books of this decade. It is devoted to the proposition that, due to the facts that a) liberalism is based on emotion, and b) liberals had monopolistic control of the media from about 1950-2000, liberals for a long time did not have to debate, and therefore no longer know how to debate--most of their arguments are not arguments, they are epithets.
Coulter comprehensively demonstrates just how liberal the mainstream media is. This is buttressed by the liberals' own denunciations of Fox News and talk radio--why on earth would liberals ever complain about other opinions being broadcast, unless they believed that their opinions should be the only ones broadcast? Coulter answers by stating that "liberals don't try to win arguments, they seek to destroy their opponents and silence dissident opinions". As Coulter explains in one of her other books, "Treason", "As long as liberals refuse to concede a point, it remains 'unsettled'...liberals think they can defeat the truth with loudness." (Loudness and repetition, I might add.)
This phenomenon was on display after the Democratic debate in Pennsylvania on April 16. Asking tough questions of liberals is simply not done. Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous of ABC found this out. They were excoriated for asking tough-but-fair questions that Hillary and Obama would rather not have had to answer.
If liberals are so secure that their ideas are better than conservative ideas, why not allow tough questions to be asked and allow all points of view to be heard? If everyone had access to the views of both sides, wouldn't the public simply reject conservative ideas if they were so manifestly inferior to the ideas of liberals?
This leads to the next theme of the book--liberals don't want alternative views to be made available because conservatives (and those who agree with them) are too "stupid" to see the merit of liberal ideas. Stupid, in the mind of liberals, is anyone who disagrees with them. When a conservative answers a liberal non sequitur with a cold fact or with logic, the liberal instantly denigrates the conservative as "stupid", "divisive", "extreme", "hate-filled", "insensitive", etc.
Liberals derided Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan, Quayle, and Bush 43 as stupid. They knew they could not get away with calling Nixon and Gingrich stupid, so they were labeled "evil". Someone like Bush 41, who cannot be pigeonholed in either of those categories, is usually lambasted as an out-of-touch patrician. Because he was very conservative, Barry Goldwater was even called insane in 1964. Coulter also compares SAT scores of some liberals and conservatives (and shows which ideology was on the right side of the Cold War and other policy disputes) to demonstrate just how baseless the "conservatives-are-stupid" charge is.
This book is essential reading for those just becoming politically active. It demonstrates some of the double standards inherent in our politics today, and how those double standards stifle and warp much of the political discourse on cable news channels and in other forums of our politics as well.
| | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press I've read this and Ann's got it right............one more time | | I've had the privilege of meeting Ann Colter, briefly, and she is so "right on". With Ann Colter, what you see is what you get. She is right in the middle of left ring writers and she knows that they stretch the truth and quite often lie. Ann does not lie...she tells it as she sees it. | | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press Enough documentation to take the left to court | Everything she writes appears to be backed up with a reference. Go to the back and see the impressive 36 pages of notes. She makes the same points repeatedly. But each time with different characters involved. It might seem like she's beating a dead horse with regard to a given point that is being made, but Ann Coulter is doing this because like a thorough lawyer she's trying to identify every last guilty liberal out there. That has to be kept in mind when you are reading otherwise the scope of the book might appear to be too narrow relative to the size of the research and writing effort involved.
If anyone tells you that the media does not have left wing/liberal bias just read one or two pages from this book and you will have proved to them how wrong they are.
| | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press What kind of walking cesspool reads Ann Coulter? |
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for accommodating religious and cultural differences, acknowledging that not everyone has exactly the same perspective on every issue, even making life a bit clearer for the common-sense-impaired.
But when it comes down to coddling the abjectly stupid, or those who seem to spend every waking hour looking for something to be offended about, I have to stand back and yell, "What the f*ck!"
Who are you people who think shopping mall Santas should refrain from saying "ho, ho, ho" because it might be construed by female passers-by as an insult to their sexual activities? Shouldn't such people be kept out of the malls because stupidity might be contagious, and we've already got enough of that going around?
Who are you people who report to parents of pre-schoolers that their children's tendency to nuzzle against your chest is a blatant sexual advance? Shouldn't such alleged `adults' be kept as far away from innocent children as possible? Just how repressed/sexually confused do you have to be before someone decides that maybe the `problem' lies not with the kids, but with you?
Who are you people who think they're being persecuted as Christians if the local department store wishes you a Happy Holiday instead of a Merry Christmas? Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I haven't seen any TV commercials advertising Christians v Lions events, nor read any reports about anyone being hauled off to prison in the dead of night after being rounded-up outside the local church.
Let's get real, people. The fact that your local stores are wishing all and sundry, regardless of religion, a joyous holiday is a matter or embracing everyone, and not a personal affront to you or your beliefs.
And by the way, encouraging you to spend money you don't have under a banner of Merry Christmas flying over a manger scene in the parking lot is not meant to keep Christ in Christmas - it's meant to keep you shopping in their store. And as long as your credit card transaction goes through, they don't really care if those are Christian dollars or pagan dollars making the cash register go ca-ching, ca-ching.
Who are you people who think that a group of Muslims praying in an airport terminal before take-off are obviously terrorists about to take down the flight? Did it ever occur to you that if a group of people had such plans, they wouldn't be drawing any undue attention to themselves before boarding?
Honest to God, to Allah, to Buddha, to all that is holy, should people as dumb as you be allowed to fly without a psychiatric professional accompanying you from the terminal of departure to your final destination - and shouldn't a straight-jacket be part of your carry-on luggage?
Who are you people who believe there's such a thing as a Gay Agenda? Do you honestly believe that every homosexual belongs to a secret society, one that meets regularly in order to contrive ways to force you, a heterosexual, into their lifestyle?
Have you looked in the mirror lately? And if and when you did, did you actually surmise that the gay agenda will never be fully realized until a gay man or a lesbian can openly brag that they got you into bed? Think it through; you're probably less attractive to them than the last heterosexual man/woman you took home when the bar lights flickered, someone yelled "last call", and you didn't want to go home alone.
Who are you people who think that Harry Potter is the gateway book to adopting witchcraft as a religious belief, or The Golden Compass should be banned from school libraries because it was written by an atheist?
No, don't tell me - you're probably the same people who think that the earth (despite all scientific knowledge to the contrary) is 6,000 year old, that evolution is a myth, and the concept of global warming is being promoted by corporations that own weather networks.
I rest my case - and yet, I feel compelled to ask: Have you actually read these books before deciding to condemn them? More to the point, have you ever read any book?
This is only speculation on my part, but I'm figuring you people are the same ones who actually need that warning label on the electric hairdryer that specifically states - lest there be any confusion - that it shouldn't be operated while showering.
You're also probably the same people who think that Support the Troops is a bumpersticker and not something that should be backed up with actual support, that freedom of religion means your religion and not anyone else's, that flag-burning is the most pressing problem our nation currently faces, that "hot coffee" doesn't actually mean "hot coffee", so feel free to balance it on your lap while driving ... oh, and that "Not to be used as a step" warning at the top of a ladder is merely a suggestion, not meant to be heeded by the brain-dead who can later sue the ladder manufacturer on the basis that said warning did not contain their name specifically - therefore, how were you supposed to know they were talking to YOU!?!
I consider myself to be a reasonable person. But when I am expected to accept the asinine, incoherent ramblings of people who belong in long-term mental health care programs as part of the fabric of society who need attention, protection and validation, count me out.
In those circumstances, I can be as intolerant as the next person - who, like me, is probably sane.
| | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press Product Description | The hottest and most controversial book of the year! Find out who really controls the media in America.
“[Ann Coulter] is never in doubt. And that, along with her bright writing, sense of irony and outrage, and her relish at finally hitting back at political opponents (especially in the media) is what makes Slander such refreshing and provocative reading.”
—Los Angeles Times
“[Ann Coulter] is a fluent polemicist with a gift for Menckenesque invective . . . and she can harness such language to subtle, syllogistic argument.”
—Washington Post Book World
“The most popular nonfiction book in America.”—New York Times
“The real value of Slander . . . is not in the jokes or devastating exposés of liberal politicians and their allies, but the serious and scholarly study of just how entrenched the media prejudice is against anyone whose politics are even faintly conservative.”
—New York Sun
“Written with a great deal of passion . . . the real source of its strength—and its usefulness—was its painstaking marshalling of evidence . . . More important than [High Crimes and Misdemeanors] because it addresses a much broader issue, and one of lasting significance.”—National Review | | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Three Rivers Press Amazon.com | | "Liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half century," writes conservative pundit Ann Coulter, author of the bestselling anti-Clinton tome High Crimes and Misdemeanors. They've been especially wrong about Republicans, she writes. The bulk of Slander, in fact, is a well-documented brief dedicated to the proposition that most of the media despises anybody whose political opinions lie an inch to the right of the New York Times editorial page. This is hardly an original observation, though few have presented it with such verve. Coulter is the shock-jock of right-wing political commentary, able to dash off page after page of over-the-top but hilarious one-liners: "Liberals dispute slight reductions in the marginal tax rates as if they are trying to prevent Charles Manson from slaughtering baby seals." There's a certain amount of irony about an author who says "liberals prefer invective to engagement" also declaring, "The good part of being a Democrat is that you can commit crimes, sell out your base, bomb foreigners, and rape women, and the Democratic faithful will still think you're the greatest." But then carefully measured criticism never has been Coulter's shtick--or her appeal. Fans of Rush Limbaugh and admirers of Bernard Goldberg's Bias won't want to miss Slander. --John Miller |
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