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Summary: All you phony lefty reviewers...
Review: Look, I understand that a lot of us review these books (and rate these reviews) based on our pre-conceived notions and political affiliations. But I have never seen a book so unreasonably castigated here at Amazon.
The venom spills forth, along with hyperbole and innuendo, regarding why intelligent Americans should not read this book. Only thing missing is: FACTS! ...What exactly has Ann Coulter got so wrong, can one of you bleeding hearts explain to me? (remember, use FACTS!)
I have read reviews on this book about Coulter's appearance on the cover, with nasty comments about her perceived personal life. Other reviews state that she makes up stats and references... again, with no FACTS to back it up.
In actuality, what Coulter has produced here is a massively researched and meticulously documented treatise on the terrible consequences of allowing liberals to govern in modern America. Quite the contrary to others' claims, I randomly researched a few of Coulter's endnotes, and had no trouble substantiating her references. I guess truth is not a relevant point when you we have a political axe to grind. Ironically, it is exactly this narrow-minded unexamined life that Coulter continually rails against, using modern US political history as a backdrop. And here all you hyperventilating libs are on this site, proving her point!
For those on the right, and you "moderates" (ie fence-sitters, undecideds, those above being categorized): get this book. Read it. Yes, Coulter has a biting, sarcastic style... that's who she is. But it just may give you a whole new perspective on the US history that you have been spoon-fed by the liberal establishment (public schools, Hollywood, the media) your whole life. The sections on Joe McCarthy are worth the price of admission alone. Warning: you may be challenged to actually do some thinking, possibly even some follow-up research on this topic, something the left would prefer you not do.
For you hopeless lefties: please just go away. I'm sure most of you haven't even read the book. Go back to your Michael Moore movies, and go give Clinton's book 5 stars. Unlike you shrieking lefties, I'm not trying to sabotage that review, I'm just ignoring it. Maybe he'll go away eventually...
For all of you reading this who are not here to demagogue, but actually decide whether to read/buy this book, ask yourself this: as you peruse all the drooling and maniacal negative reviews on this book, do you notice the glaring underlying sense of being threatened present? Do all these negative reviews truly convey that this is a "bad book", or rather that some lefty indoctranaire doesn't want you to read it, because they are so threatened by the truth within...? Me thinks they doth protest too much...
Now go ahead you shameless lefties... hit me with all your negative feedback. Not because I have failed to write a well thought-out and lucid review, but because you don't agree with my politics.
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Summary: Just the facts . . . with provocative opinion
Review: Ann Coulter, an effective legal scholar and political commentator, has marshalled the facts regarding the question, "Which party is more patriotic?" Using definitive scholarship on Joseph McCarthy from primary sources (the original transcripts of Senate hearings and his speeches), the Verona papers (the translation of intercepted Soviet cables), and a plethora of newpaper quotes, she shows that:
1. There were spies in the State department, as Senator McCarthy said.
2. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman did nothing about them, other than promote them, after being notifief of their communist sympathies.
3. Even when the communists were removed from government, their lives continued smoothly, either being employed by academia or by the Soviet or Chinese government.
4. The staunchest anti-communists were Senator McCarthy, President Nixon, and President Reagan, and they were the most vilified by the Democrats.Her provocative opinion is that since liberal Democrats consistently support Communists and oppose the U.S. defending itself, they are de facto guilty of treason, by giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If you want to read a challenge to the conventional interpretation of the Cold War and Senator McCarthy, be sure to read this book.
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Summary: RELY RELY GUD
Review: i can tel by reding this buk that an rely nos what she si saing its tim we had pepl that can spek th trut to pepl lik me lik an can wen she sas tat mcarti was a gret patrit an liberals are all trators u no she is rit becas it is in a buk also u can tell by her pictur dat she is a nic blond ladi who wudnt li.
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Summary: Total waste of the human mind
Review: She is fighting evil and defending goodness yet she does not know who is who, or where and how to find either. Her thoughts are bizarre and her constant posing on the cover of her books signals narcissism. Some of the bizarre thoughts in her book are as follows:
Chapter 1, "Fifty years of treason", she contends that liberals side with the enemy whenever the nation is attacked from within or without, respect the Third World savages, mock Americans who love their country, demand that the nation treat enemies like friends, lift sanction, pull our troops, and reason with adversaries. She does not explain how such labeling and stereotyping be distinguished from fascism.
Chapter 2, "Alger Hiss, liberal darling" takes the issue of a soviet spy and labels every opponent as disloyal to America.
Chapter 3, "No communist here" attempts to exonerate Joe McCarthy by claiming that he only fought communists loyal to Stalin just like apprehending al-Qaeda associates linked to bin-Laden.
Chapter 4, "The indispensable Joe McCarthy", contends that McCarthy never terrorized people purposelessly but rather was protecting the federal government from soviet sympathizers.
Chapter 5, "Victims of McCarthyism- the liberals' Mayflower" is the third chapter defending McCarthyism and blaming the liberals for inventing the insane "red scare" labeling of him.
Chapter 6, "But were there communists in the State Department" claims that liberals battle for the truth is propaganda and endless brainwash. How many conservative radio anchors profiteering from attacks on liberals 24/7 non-stop?
Chapter 7, "Vietnam: oh, how they miss Saigon" claims that Republicans proceed from American's virtue while Democrats are incompetent in military affairs and that JFK was not tough with the enemy. She does not explain why Nixon did not toughen up and do better job or how the Vietnamese became enemy in the first place. They did not have military power and never trespassed America's territories.
Chapter 8, "How Truman won the Cold war during Reagan administration" contends that Reagan single-handedly vanquished the evil empire that started during Truman's years.
Chapter 9, "Liberals in love: Mash notes to the Kremlin", labels liberals as communists.
Chapter 10, "Cold War epitaph: the Hiss affairs at the end of the Cold war" rehashes the same theme of chapter 2, of stereotyping opponents as enemy of the nation.
Chapter 11, "Neville Chamberlain has his reasons too: trembling in the shadow of Brie" likens Saddam with Hitler and the Democrats with Chamberlain. The author is oblivious to the fact that America allowed Hitler to rise to the top from 1933 till 1940 without the slightest interference in his maniacal politics and that Chamberlain knew that Britain could not face Germany alone. America was able to avert WWII had it not been dominated by right-wing racist isolationists. George W. Bush ran his first campaign on isolation from international affairs. Only after 9/11 and while learning on the job when he shifted his policy abruptly to international engagement. And, what a tragic mistake he made by his arrogant character and inexperience in global issues?
Chapter 12, "North Korea- another opportunity for surrender" contends that the liberals' upset for the "axis of evil" speech by GWB was ludicrous because it is against national security. Thus, any foolish action or arrogant statement by the Republicans should go uncriticized according to this paranoid nut.
Chapter 13, "Celebrity traitors: now that I' am sober I watch a lot of news" is the last chapter of her labeling campaign.
The book conclusion is typical of all right-wing loyalists who seem to get their instructions from a single source of tyranny. It claims that Israel is the only outpost of democracy in the Middle East and ignores the fact that Israel practices democracy by exclusion of the natives of the land. If the Republican Party practices democracy by denying all Democrats the right of citizenship, would that be called democracy? Israel denies the Palestinians their citizenship in their own land. Could any state in America expel citizens based on religion and allow others of specific religion? Israel does that too.
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Summary: The Lowpoint of American Politics
Review: I'll own up that I'm one of those people who fail all liberal and conservative litmus tests. I have strongly held beliefs that I came to one issue at a time. I suspect I am like most Americans in that respect.
Having said that, the fact that a best selling author can distort the facts or use blatant falsehoods to slander fifty percent of Americans as traitors is a lowpoint for America. Doesn't anyone remember the warning "United We Stand...Divided We Fall"?
I highly recommend the Christian Science Monitor's series "Talking with the Enemy" that came out before the 2004 election and shows how American citizens of varying political viewpoints reach out to each other and, in the process, work together to make America the best it can be.
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Summary: A book with a whole lot of nothing in it.
Review: Finally there is a book by Ann that has toilet paper potential.
Until Ann gains some intelligence we wont have any shortage of it.
Can Ann make a single paragraph without the use of the word "Liberals"?
Knowledge is undoubtedly something she lacks since this book has no real points.
Books like these are meant to be entertainment for the ignorant.
Unlike others of her age Ann's behaviour is really immature and unprofessional.
She is very narrow minded and conciders all against Bush to be idiots.
Hence all she does is argue like a child calling everyone "Liberals".
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Summary: Take me to the height of abuse and arousal!
Review: In Treason, Ann Coulter finally shows the world what makes her the CRUDEST, RUDEST HARLOT IN AMERICA. But I loved her for that long before she became a household name.
I remember first meeting Ann back in Manhattan in 1993. She would meet me at the Affinia Beekman Tower Hotel, tie me to the bed, then verbally and physically abuse me, and I assisted in financing her living arrangement for it. This literary dominatrix may not be one of the smartest people in the room, and yes, she has the body of Estelle Getty, but no one - NO ONE abuses as good as her. If you take delight in the mindless, thoughtless ridicule and abuse of yourself and others, this is the book for you! I love this hateful b**ch, and so will you!
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Summary: Coulter Hits the Nail Head!
Review: I could not put this book down. Point after point after point, Coulter defines liberalism as what it is at the heart. Liberals side with the enemy over and over again throughout the history of this great country. At least some of the Libs will leave and infest Canada now that the Presidential election is over. Fingers crossed.
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Summary: Wriiten by a woman who should be in an Asylum
Review: I have read several pages from Ann Coulter's book, "Treason", and I, being a liberal, am very personally offended by it. Never have I, or any other liberals I have heard of, felt as though America is a bad place. I do not think it is fair for Coulter, or any other conservative for that matter, to call liberals "America Haters". Liberals do not say Republicans are unpatriotic, bat-s*** insane, or any other cruel name. We are not baby killers, we are just the only ones smart enough to see that an embryo is not a living thing. After the baby can be considered living, it IS wrong to get an abortion.
And just because some liberals have distorted veiws, that does not mean all of us are. Bill Clinton was by far one of America's best presidents. Bush is a complete idiot. Michael Moore never once said he wants more people to die in Iraq [he has done an awful lot to try to get the troops back home]. John Kerry never once 'flip-flopped' on a subject.
All Ann Coulter does in every book she writes is distort the truth, misenterpret what liberals say, and makes things up. Yes, some of her opinions are correct in retrospect, but just because words came from the same article, it doesn't mean you can rearrange them to your own choosing.
Liberals are not power-hungry. How can anyone say that about a party who has lost more than 40 percent of the Senate, White House, and every other political election of 2004?
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Summary: A great book
Review: I enjoyed Coulter's voice and her humor in this book. It's not easy making a hero out of somebody like McCarthy, and going against the strident voices of Hollywood cannot be something one does without plenty of good, solid ammunition. Ann simply analyzes the information that everybody has had, and puts her spin on it. While some might question her conclusions, none have come out to prove she's wrong. She's not nearly as mean-spirited as many anti-Bush "comics" are, but it's still nice to hear someone stick one to the liberals now and then.
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