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Old 08-22-2010, 07:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm about 2/3 of the way through this book. I'd read about 1/2 of it a couple of years ago -- and got busy and put it down.

It is a pretty good book that talks about how Liberals from Neville Chaimberland to the the hypocrites who felt like it was alright to send our troops to Kosovo to fight in a war that had nothing to do with us -- but scream about the war on Terrorism. It talks about how Communism got a foothold in Liberalism and Democrats -- and how McCarthy was proven to be fighting the right fight years after his death.

Because of Ann Couter's humor and sarcasm (IE: Robert Byrd (D-KKK)) it is a fun way to learn history, and expose Democrats.

Worth the read.



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On chapter left to go

She combines the slap in the face truth about so much going on around us -- with funny sarcasm on every page
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Great book!
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I love funny, sarcastic people! She is one of my favorites. She pisses off Bill O'Reilly a lot. Will have to get the book.
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The only one of Ann Coulter's books I've read so far is SLANDER. But I've been meaning to check out more.

Despite being very opinionated, Coulter presents a lot of facts to back up her opinions.
In SLANDER, Coulter describes the way liberals slap labels on conservatives to discredit them, and the complicity of the liberal media at every stage in attempts to de-legitimize conservatives.

The most interesting part for me was about the 2000 election (pages 95-114), how CBS and the other liberal media falsely called Florida for Gore, which the other channels then picked up on as well, and then the error was not corrected until after the polls closed. Which suppressed Republican voter turnout by between 10,000 and 30,000 votes (comparing Republican voting patterns to those in the previous 1996 and 1992 elections), that would have decisively given the election to Bush.
And also how the liberal media is reluctant to publish and snubs conservative authors, despite that conservative books quantifiably sell far better than books with a liberal perspective.

A good companion to SLANDER by Coulter, is BIAS by Bernard Goldberg, where Goldberg as a 30-year veteran of CBS gives statistics of how the media is overwhelmingly liberal (upwards of 80%) and how that partisan bias colors the way they report the news, on issues like the homeless, gay issues, AIDS, racial issues, and so forth. The media has a tendency to give maximum skepticism to conservative perspectives, and just report verbatim whatever liberals tell them.
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Here are some great comments from a one-page TIME magazine
interview with Ann Coulter, regarding her book
Treason, when it first came out:

Quote:
( From the July 14, 2003 issue of TIME magazine )

TIME: So what's the new book about?

COULTER: The idea of the book is that liberals have a tendency to
take the position most disadvantageous to their country.
This isn't anything new. They have taken patriotism off
the table as a topic for political debate. And they've
done that by invoking McCarthyism, a myth of their own
creation.

Are you prepared for people to freak out when they
realize you're trying to rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy?


On the basis of doing my research, I've noticed that
liberals have been hysterical about McCarthy for 50 years
and no one's been arguing back. So now that someone's
arguing back, yes, I'm expecting candlelight vigils.

In Treason, you say, "Liberals' principal
contribution to the war on terrorism has been to bill
themselves as a corrective to 'jingoism.' Their real goal
is too appalling to state out loud." Care to state it out
loud?


They are rooting against America. I don't think there is
any other way to explain hysterical claims of a civil-
liberties emergency in this country every time John
Ashcroft talks to a Muslim.
No serious person thinks that we are in the middle of a
civil-liberties crisis. We have just seen thousands of
fellow Americans slaughtered by legal immigrants to this
country. And John Ashcroft has detained several hundred
illegal immigrants?

Your tone can be a little shrill sometimes.
Don't you think that what we need right now is unity, not
more acrimony?


What we need now is to fight the war on terrorism, and
liberals don't want to. I think it's more important long
term that we have two parties, both of which want to
defend the nation.

Do you see a way forward for Americans to come together
politically, as a country?


Oh, yes. I do. The Democratic Party has got to go away.
It's got to just hang up its stirrups. I really think it
has functionally gone the way of the Whigs, and it's just
a matter of enough Democrats figuring that out.

Can't both parties agree on the defense of America?
I mean, it was not like this in World War II. The
Republicans were not constantly taunting F.D.R., "Well, he
doesn't have Hitler yet! He doesn't have Hitler! Where are
these alleged death camps?"

The country pulled together! Both parties!
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