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Summary: You can dress a pig in lipstick
Review: Self-delusional hack and supporter of Bush's arrogant, imperial presidency doesn't write about how George W. screwed up on Osama or Saddam. No, she's busy demonizing liberal Democrats.
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Summary: I wish I could give this no stars
Review: As an independent, I pride myself on having an open mind on important issues. But this pile of propoganda that Ann Coulter has throuwn into American media is an insult and is untolerable. How can someone claim that McCarthyism never existed? Speeking as someone who grew up during it, I can tell you that it most certainly did happen and its effects were devestating. McCarthy was not a loyal American, and as the prosecuting lawyer said during his trial, McCathy was the only man in the united States without a speck of decency. What Ann Coulter has given us is not a conservative book, but is unstudied filth that only has evidence that she creates out of her mouth. A shame for both Liberals and Conservatives alike
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Summary: This gal has guts
Review: Though the book is little repetetive in parts, it's a very important read. If you depended on what you learned in school about McCarthy and are at all interested in the truth, read this. If nothing else, it will remind you that there are a lot of folks out there who will stop at nothing to preserve their power, not only turning a blind eye to dangerous traitors, but also collaborating with them. Too bad the truth comes out so late. Thank goodness FDR didn't die sooner.
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Summary: Eye opening
Review: This book was an eye opener for me. I also mistakingly thought that McCarthy was on the House of Un-American Ativities Committee & didn't know he was a Senator. Just this fact changes my thinking. I have also asked a lot of my friends & they had the same misconception. I can't believe that Liberals still defend this myth even in the light of the Verona Files.
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Summary: Dangerous Times A Head For Our Nation
Review: If it wasn't so sad it still would not be funny. Not only is the book full of half or out right lies it is a shabby attempt to distort history. This is validated by reading the text of the book and then going to the end notes and discovering though research that the text is simply not correct on a number of items. I don't know Ann Colter but she is obviously lazy in here research or just doesn't care about accuracy. I tried one of her books, didn't like it, and I won't be reading anymore.
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Summary: Who Is This Retard?
Review: Ann Coulter should look into modeling instead of writing books. She might find more success in that arena.
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Summary: Facts, Facts, Facts!
Review: Wow. Eye opening facts. And I thought I knew it all. I couldn't find anything in the internet attacks on this book that refuted her facts and thesis. Zilch.(Presumably anticipating attacks, she footnotes almost everything.) "McCarthyism" means "blacklist" to most, but McCarthy was only concerned with Communists in sensitive places in the US government. Period. And there were more than a few who worked for Stalin. McCarthy never targeted average folk and had nothing to do with Hollywood (which was the House---McCarthy was a senator.) Basically, the left, now as then, hates loudmouth Joe McCarthy more than the murderous Joe Stalin. Their political blindness and support helped Stalin kill tens of millions. At least they could say they're sorry...
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Summary: Contrivance vs. Reason
Review: Ann Coulter's style is to blend reason and contrivance into what is mostly rhetoric posing as intellectualism. The Verona Papers are hardly the last word on Mc Carthy if we consider that the attacks on Mc Carthy focus on both his substance and his style. Ms. Coulter fails to make this basic differentiation and instead contrives to make Hiss the linchpin of her argument whereas Mc Carthy's blacklisting and career-ruining were anti-Americanism at its worst. It is as if Ann has learned the power of political pornography via provocative rhetoric. In doing so, she has become
conservativism's wannabe Camilla Paglia. Of course, Ann lacks the academic horsepower of Paglia and so, in a typical right wing manuever, seeks to co-opt liberal pop-culture to appear "cool", this in the same way that Christian Evangelicalism first condemned rock music and now copies it and profits it. Ann is contouring GOP prejudices and is following the Limbaugh methodology of seeking to legitimatize these prejudices via an appeal to the masses. It is a feedback mechanism that the GOP relies on to keep its propaganda on track and Ann is part of this well-oiled machine. Technically, Ann is a very good writer, but she has intellectually saddled herself with sometimes preposterous contrivances which I suppose she has fabricated for effect and television appeal. Unfortunately, it is hard to disentangle Ann the television pundit and GOP spokeshead from Ann the writer. I think Ann devised it this way so that her books are seamless with he sound bites and short, frequent appearances on FOX, etc. What we see emerge is a packaged "Ann product", a brand name, and not a great writer or thinker whose work will endure. If anything, Ann will simply be a role model for other angry young conservative women who, like Ann, want to transform their squirrel rifle -- you know, the one Ann shoots on the back porch? -- into a law degree and a GOP spokeshead/rubber chicken circuit career. Yet if this makes one a lot of money, then why not contrive? Personally, I will never take Ann seriously until she tacks a Ph.D onto her name and does a decade teachning in a major university. Only then will she be able to claim the title of intellectual that she know steals for convenience -- this in the tradition of Peter Jennings and Rush who made it acceptable for media figures to lack formal intellectual compentencies. Of course, all conservatives know that colleges are "liberal" and so this argument, like all things liberal, can be easily dismissed. This is the essence of Ann and her ilk.
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Summary: excellent writing and so very true
Review: Once again, Ann Coulter knocks media-anointed liberals off their golden perches with her stunning, exquisitely documented writing! Bravo, Ms. Coulter! The LaBrea tar pit of vitriol bursting from liberal reviewers--including those masquerading as "Republicans"; we know better--further reinforces the truth of Coulter's judgment that liberals are hateful creatures. One might argue about Coulter's sarcastic style--I personally would prefer that she tone down the constant, biting quips in her works--but if the style inflames the political left and emboldens the political right, it has served a worthy purpose. No wonder the cockroaches of the left are scurrying for dark corners; Ann has exposed many of their leaders to the light of day for the first time, and their dirtiness cannot be easily re-hidden!
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Summary: Full of foot-noted facts
Review: This is an interesting read and difficult to counter. It is extensively footnoted and direct. Ann, as typical, uses her direct, no prisoners approach and succeeds on many levels. You can tell that it is a great book based on the screaming leftist reviews here (especially the ones who claim they are "conservatives", yeah right). When they get so riled you can be sure Ann Coulter must be hitting a nerve....
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