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Summary: history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.
Review: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." --Hermann Goering
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Summary: And "Ouch!!" cried the liberal....
Review: I resent the fact that liberals invade the review forms with obviously ill-informed reviews, bringing the average review from it's deserved 5 stars, to a meager 3 star rating. However, I do take great enjoyment in the fact that these pathetic reviews reveal what Ann has been saying for the past few years: liberals will always use insults when met with scrutiny. This book grates against the raw nerves of liberals, proving them to be liars, so they call her a "liar", "bigot", and are indecent enough to hope for a way to "stop her from reproducing". These reviews are nothing but slander from hurt liberals, who haven't read the book, but are childish enough to flood the reviews with slander. One of the most prominent claims is that Ann is a liar. Unfortunately for the libs, this is an impossible claim to prove. Considering the fact that she provides 46 pages of notes and sources. For all you pathetic reactionary liberals who flood the reviews with 1 star ratings: grow up and read the book if you are going to review it. Otherwise, wallow in "Stupid White Men" and ignorance, and lead a pleasent life.
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Summary: Hate-triots Rejoice!
Review: Dissent is unpatriotic. The First Amendment is for wimps. Being wrong or disagreeing with authority is treason. Oh, and Joe McCarthy was a misunderstood, good guy. What a sad, deranged person the author is. Where does she go from here, Holocaust denial?
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Summary: Dont pay any attention to the 1-star reviews
Review: Obviously, they have no knowledge of basic history. This book is by far one of the best ever written on the subject of conversatives/liberals, or just politics in general. Anyone interested in knowing the TRUTH of past events covered up by the liberal media owe it to themselves to purchase this book.
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Summary: Lying is not journalism
Review: This book is simply a pack of falsifications and lies. I don't mind a person's politics as long as they tell the truth, but this is just a silly, ugly, and hateful book. Too much of conservative "thought" is just hate thinly disguised as thought.
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Summary: Joe McCarthy and Me
Review: Thank Heaven for Ann Coulter and her blockbuster new book, TREASON. Following is a true personal story that relates to this book... At the time of the "McCarthy Hearings," I was sports editor for a city evening newspaper. We started early in the morning and put the paper to bed in the afternoon. The McCarthy hearings were on TV, so I'd rush home and view a good part of the proceedings (we did not have a tv, but had nice neighbors who let us watch at their house). If I had any political bent at the time, it was liberal -- as editor-in-chief of our college weekly, I'd been an admirer of such as "The New Republic" and had actually editorialized that our 150-plus-year-old college ought to admit WOMEN, never done to that time. I also believe I appointed the first black editor to the college weekly. OK, on to the Hearings... what I saw with my own eyes was a careful Senator Joe McCarthy bending over backwards to be fair. What I read in the newspapers the next day was a travesty of justice. The media defended the accused traitors while crucifying McCarthy. One specific example: Annie Lee Moss. This woman actually worked in the Code Room of the Pentagon, was identified as a Communist by an FBI informant, and was listed in the Communist Part's own records. But the Democrats made the Moss inquiry a fiasco, asking how McCarthy could be accusing this poor black washerwoman of treason. [Sen. Stuart Symington asked her, "Did you ever hear of Karl Marx?" Gales of laughter from the liberal press as Moss answered, "Who's that?"] Fast forward to the Venona Project, begun in 1943 by Col. Carter Clarke, chief of the U. S. Army's Special Branch. Cloaked in secrecy, Col. Clarke set up a special Army unit to break the Soviet code. [Personal observation: in one of the finest decisions in the history of the USA, Clarke's compact unit did not inform the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, laced with traitors, of their findings.] Author Coulter sums up: "This was a matter of vital national secutiry: the Democrats could not be trusted." Note that some of the Venona findings were finally released to the public in 1995. The Venona cryptographers found that "the Roosevelt administration was teeming with paid agents of Moscow." As Coulter concludes, McCarthy's gravest error was in "underestimating the problem of Communist subversion." So, after a half-century of trying to defend the late great patriot, Joe McCarthy, this poor reporter feels vindicated. Thanks, Ann Coulter, and where will we erect a monument to the "REAL American of the Twentieth Century?" Why no 4 stars? Coulter homes in almost exclusively on the Democrats. Yet, here under Mr. Bush and a GOP Congress, many horrific expenditures and programs started by the nefarious Clintons are still going strong (or even worsened).
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Summary: A great work...
Review: A superb work of fiction indeed. This book really aims to stretch every paranoid sinew of the brain, using fear and loathing as a clever narrative device to advance the plot. The plot itself is fantastic - in the sense it cannot be believed - that there is dark conspiracy between the communists, terrorists and liberals in order to destroy the USA. A great collection of "sources" which give the book a great feeling of authenticity. Whats that? Oh, its written as a factually based text? That is a shame, I'll have to give it just one star.
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Summary: Political dynamite
Review: This well researched book contains political dynamite for those of us who were brought up with the leftist point of view on early prosecution of the Cold War. Publicizing the reality of McCarthy's Senate hearings and the now declassified Venona intercepts are the primary contribution of this book. The author cites the Venona project, a secret DOD code breaking project that decrypted Soviet cables in the early Cold War, to show that under the Truman administation there were some three hundred Soviet spies running around the highest levels of government. This was worth public scrutiny and Senate inquiry. She also reveals Truman's unwillingness to fire known security risks (some of whom turned out to be spies) from the top ranks of his administration. It is my feeling that Ann's research should be addressed in history books covering the Cold War. What I didn't like was the tone. By being flippant and partisan rather than dispassionate and scholarly, she undercuts her research. I suppose that she had to make a decision as to whether to be popular, as she choose, or make a lasting contribution, which she is quite capable of doing with her impressive legal background.
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Summary: The easiest sport in the world...
Review: ...is bashing liberals - particularly in light of our nation's newfound emphasis on nat'l security and aggressive foreign regime change. The fact that it's easy, however, doesn't make it right, historically or ethically. Coulter takes the standard, predictable pot-shots at liberals' fears of McCarthyism, and dismisses those concerns as being unpatriotic and somehow dangerous. This despite the blatant conservative political agendas that led to McCarthy's rise in the first place. Heck, Ike Eisenhower himself kept his distance from his fellow Midwestern conservative, realizing that JMC was taking the party and the nation in an irrational direction that would make the fight against Communism all the more difficult. Coulter lays the blame not on the conniving, insinuating liar, but on those who, even half a century later, dare to question his intents and motives. Coulter also wields her pen against those who dare to take issue with America's resurgent foreign imperialism. Never mind that both political parties have moved far to the right over the past three decades, and that the conversation has already shifted to "how the US should impose its will on other countries" rather than "how we could work better with those nations". Coulter misses (ignores?) this reality completely, and treads the familiar conservative ground of "aggression first". Finally, Coulter says that attacking liberals on their patriotism has been out-of-bounds, and shouldn't be. Excuse me? Liberals constantly get bashed (directly and indirectly) for not being "American" enough, as if having a balanced view of the world and other governments makes you less of an American. However apparent their faults may be, I rarely hear conservative idealogues portrayed as un-American, even when their ideals are in direct conflict with Constitutional doctrine. In Coulter's worldview, Christian ultra-fundamentalists and military extremists are within the protection of free speech, but dissenters against the new conservative agenda are putting this country at risk. Jimmy Carter draws boos and verbal snipes, Timothy McVeigh draws shrugs. Coulter's views are dangerous and polarizing at any time, but particularly in our current world of heightened sensitivity about all elements in the world around us. This isn't a time to shrink away from a progressive world view, but rather an opportunity to examine exactly how the US can best lead the world in the future. Sadly, Coulter's book misses this entirely.
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Summary: DOn't buy or sell this book
Review: The writer and publisher of this book is on a subversive mission to undermine democracy and the rights of those who live in this country and are not a paid member of their treacherous group. Stop advertising, selling and buying anythig to do with them. They are worse than the Mcarthyites they support .
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