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Summary: WHO Warns of BFS Epidemic Among Conservatives
Review: The recent eruption of violence in Iraq is resulting in an outbreak of Bush Fatique Syndrome. Said one World Health Organization official, "We've seen this disease spread rapidly over the last three years but it has spread exponentially over the last two months due to the release of Richard Clarke's book, Bush's inappropriate WMD jokes, and now what looks like civil war in Iraq." Bush Fatigue Syndrome:
an illness similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. It is caused by the strain of the constant daily need to defend or rationalize the poor decisions, horrible domestic record, and foreign policy blunders of the president. Die-hard Republicans are especially prone to this disease. It reached epidemic porportions after no wmds were found in Iraq, and Bush supporters had to sell the case that we "really" went to war to "liberate the Iraqi" people. Additional flair-ups occured after the last SOU address, after every monthly employment report, general accounting reports regarding the historic deficits (especially when inheriting a budget surplus is referenced), and the president's fumbled interview on Meet the Press. Symptoms include extreme exhaustion, irritability, and dizziness. There is no cure for BFS. Those suffering from the affliction are asked to remain quarintined until after the November elections.
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Summary: ANN COULTER: INSANE OR MORONIC?
Review: Ann Coulter pulls out all the stops with this tome - part love letter to Joe McCarthy, part anti-Commie scream. Readers will find it hard to believe that Ms. Coulter has been outside her bunker for the last 25 years, her view of the world is so, so "duck 'n' cover." She rants at liberals with such unrelenting, name-calling shrillness it is almost kitschy, but sadly lacks the charm of other 1950's artifacts. Treason is also enormously error laden.
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Summary: Proof of the Lack of Thinking Skills in America
Review: Ann Coulter's book was a raging financial success. That is one of the saddest commentaries on the thinking skills of Americans that I've ever seen. This is a horrible, destructive, hysterical shriek of a book, and Ms. Coulter blows her credibility on page 1 for anyone who has the ability to think. She begins the book by saying that liberals are "Anti-American" and that liberals don't like America. On every issue, she says, liberals side with the enemy. From this very stupid premise, anyone who possesses the most basic critical thinking skills can put the book down and read no further. You can't trust any of the "facts" that she gives in this hateful book, because her facts are riddled with name-calling and bitter comments that destroy any effort to make a real point. I've voted for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush Senior, and became disgusted with the hate speech and attack squads of the GOP. This book is part of that hate speech. Any reasonable American should repudiate and shun this book and Ann Coulter.
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Summary: GREAT -- WITH PROBLEMS
Review: I knew Ann back when she called herself Tex Watson -- and it is truly thrilling to see how well she has done. She's been keeping her Adam's Apple mighty busy attacking liberals -- and she has a point. My only difficulty with Ann's material is when she delves into the politics of transgenderism. Christine Jorgensen still seems more intelligent, more cultured than Ann. But let's give the estrogen some time -- and greet Ann's book with the same generosity of spirit she has given to so many.
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Summary: Profiteer of Fear
Review: Life is very simple in Ann Coulter's world. In fact, it all seems to boil down to two equations: Democrat = liberal = Communist spy/aide = traitor Republican = conservative = anti-Communist = patriot In this latest volume of Coulter's revisionist history, these equations are repeated about five times per page for the entire book. If the reader is predisposed to accept the simplicity of her thesis, then the anger, name-calling, distortions, and outright lies may have the ring of truth. Alas, I was not among that group. Miss Coulter is undeniably correct on some of her points. But mixing perhaps ten pages worth of good points into a 354 page book doesn't make it any less of a finger-pointing hatefest. I grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, and got to see the unprincipled stunts of Joe McCarthy firsthand from his home district, even before he arrived on the national scene through the speech in Wheeling, West Virginia. For Miss Coulter to portray him as the hero of a generation was a difficult pill to swallow. But that was easy compared to the portrayal of JFK as a traitor. In a book like this one, a person is bound to pick a few fabrications as their personal favorites. For me, it was: "Thanks to the Army's incompetence in dealing with the Rosenbergs, nearly 300 million Americans would spend the second half of the twentieth century under threat of nuclear annihilation, to say nothing of the 500 million enslaved by the Soviet Empire." (p. 61) Miss Coulter believes that the Soviet Union would not have been able to develop an atomic bomb without the stolen documents from the Manhattan Project (by Klaus Fuchs, et al). Contrast her belief with that of leaders of the Manhattan Project, who estimated that once the "cat was out of the bag" (ie, Hiroshima), it would probably take about six years for the Soviets to have a working bomb. Yes, the espionage shortened the time to half that, which led to massive sweeps by the FBI and to vigorous prosecutions, all before Joe McCarthy got involved. I was going to end by comparing Miss Coulter to Charles Manson in her delusions, but that would perhaps be overly unkind. Some have said that she out-McCarthys McCarthy. However, there is a precedent to Miss Coulter, but we have to go back to 1692 and the Salem witch trials to find it.
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Summary: Coulter debunks the myth of no American Communism
Review: Treason is a book heavily annotated witha copious 'notes' section that comprises 1/6th of the total volume. This rather well researched, and Ann Coulter uses Lexis-Nexis extensively, which is why you hear liberals squawking so much in a wounded furor: she has found their own words, indisputable, in context, to be verified for anyone willing to follow up on her research ('no shred of evidence' is clearly untrue). (...)Coulter has the chapter content comprising six times the bibliography, again, is a testament to this. You will not see this type of studious research in Al Franken's or Michael Moore's book(s). A six to one ratio is not bad for research notes. (...)Her invective humour is only funny though if you are not liberal. Her words sting, but she predicates jocularity on fact, and the prose bites with her cynicism about the liberal world-view. Her tenacious grasp on Christianity may put some off if they are not especially religious, or agnostic, as I am, but nonetheless, her words have logic and a general commonsense. You would have to be rather indoctrinated by the propaganda of the left and socialists or severely daft to deny any basis for many of the claims she makes. She makes the distinction, albeit indirectly, between treason in defense of America, and treason against it. The former liberals and world-government socialists fall into the latter. (To answer the 'review' below: Nixon commited crimes, perhaps, but they were not treason against his country. He was never charged with treason, just breaking the law. There is a difference. (...)Reagan, on the other hand, brought the hostages HOME, after weak-willed Carter left them to rot in Iran. Again, even if Reagan had 'played with the lives' of the Teheran hostages, this isn't treason: America has a policy of non-negotiation with terrorists. Even so, Reagan brought them home, some 444 days later. Finally, Oliver North is a patriot for using money from Iran to fight Communists in Nicaragua. Indeed, he broke the law, and Reagan is known to have not really known. At worst, this was not treason because the act was FOR America, not against it. Only a liberal would be unable to make that distinction.) She also makes the distinction between the claim that todays liberal are an intellectual descendancy from Jefferson, and who liberals really are: socialists from a page of Theodore Adorno's life work. Claimed to be hate speech, the left-leaning fasicist have no desire to have the truth set out, plainly, clearly, and with a acerbic spin of humour.(...) Readable, the syle is simple and concise Finally, her comparison between Communists and contemporary socialist Democrats and librals is clear: she compares them not only because much of their ideology is similar and has the same root, but because they both work to erase the memory of this countries' foundations by changing it inexorably to a fascist, immoral state. The left calls the right fascist, but only the left tries to pass fascism into law.
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Summary: The War & Peace for the Under 70 IQ
Review: Absolutely unreadable!! One of the least coherrent and morally repugnant books ever written. You'll feel robbed if the book is sent with a 50 dollar bill taped to the cover. It would be somewhat frightening if you felt Coulter even had a shread of evidence or a modicum of intelligent thought put into this drivel but alas it's just the typical hate-filled right-wing propoganda you can get from any no mind conservative talking head these days. Buy and read at your own risk!!!
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Summary: Coulter's Wet Dream
Review: A college professor is seated before a congressional committee. An hysterical congresswoman wearing a black micromini asks, "Are you, or were you, ever a member of the liberal Democratic party?" Have you no sense of decency, ma'am? Obviously not.
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Summary: Where's the Republican treason?
Review: In an attempt to get a balanced look at the world of politics today, I decided to read Coulter's book. What a mistake. If you can get through the circles that Coulter writes in you are still left with a sense of confusion. I can understand the outrage for treason that has occurred, but her outrage is one-sided. Where is the outrage against Ronald Reagan, Ollie North, and company for the Iran Contra scandel. Why isn't she upset that Reagan went behind the back of the US President and negotiated with Iran to hold innocent people longer so they would be released when he was president? What about the selling of arms to the Contras? Nixon, Reagan, et al, were the best thing to happen to the US? Please, one committed severe crimes while in office and the other about bankrupted the country, not the mentioned playing with the lives of the Iran hostages. Coulter's outrage is relegated to anything done by Democrats. Everyone should take the immediated word of a former Communists about 'spies' in government. I thought America was the land of the free? Yet, in the 1940s and 1950s you could not be a Communist in the US, whether in government, Main Street USA, or Hollywood. Coulter refuses to see how HUAC and McCarthy destroyed and or changed lives in America. How free is that? Coulter is an angry 'lady' (and I use that term lightly) and that anger destroys any semblance of good writing skills.
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Summary: RE: The Truth Hurts
Review: Agreed. This must be why Condoleeza Rice and other Bushies are going nutty over the release of Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke.
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