A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos: And What to Do About Them (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Alan Lipton (Author)

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Here's everything you need to know about Anarchists, Peace Moms, Granolas, and many other types of left-wing wackos . . . so you can annoy them before they annoy you!

Dreadlocks. Megaphones. The stench of patchouli oil and bad ideas. Who are these ridiculous characters clogging our streets and college campuses, protesting everything from "American imperialism" to genetically modified food to tax cuts?

And how can an articulate, employed, sane person like yourself glean entertainment value from their antics?

Kfir Alfia and Alan Lipton, the founders of ProtestWarrior, America's leading antiactivist organization, have spent years studying the eighteen distinct species of leftist protesters in our midst-everyone from Blacktivists to Hacktivists to Islamothugs. And in this hilarious guide, they will teach you:

% How to easily differentiate among similar species like Communists, Anarchists, and College Students.
% How to recognize the subtleties of the Performance Artist versus the Dylan Wannabe and the Acid Freak versus the Granola.
% How to confront, tease and taunt these wackos with witty comebacks, demolishing zingers, and infuriating facts. (Here's one: "War never solved anything ... except for slavery, fascism, Nazism and communism!")

A Field Guide to Left Wing Wackos is the manual you want at your fingertips to defend yourself and the American Way-and have some fun while you're at it.

About the Author

Kfir Alfia and Alan Lipton are the cofounders of ProtestWarrior, which has been exposing the truth behind liberal protesters since February 2003. Alfia graduated from the University of Texas at Austin then worked in Silicon Valley as a chip-design engineer. Lipton graduated from Syracuse University and attended USC's film school.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sentinel HC (June 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595230378
• ISBN-13: 978-1595230379
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #733,106 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious must read for conservatives., August 13, 2007

By	Julie Rhodes "JulielovesGabe" (Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a really fun book with a great idea. Protest warrior goes to liberal protests and holds up signs in oppostion. Filled with sarcasm and wit this is a must read for conservatives everywhere.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Well-overdue, February 14, 2008

By	James D. Crabtree "Doc Crabtree" (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I have to share my own personal story with this book...

I had just started on the first chapter, which deals with Anarchists (Anarchist wannabes, actually) and I turned on the news as I got ready to report to work.

Canadian TV was on and had a story about a Starbucks which had blown up in Vancouver. I flipped open the book. It mentioned Starbucks being the number one target of Anarchists. I looked back at the screen. They were interviewing the only witness, who said he saw a guy all dressed in black running from the scene. Back to the book: Anarchists prefer to dress in black. Back to the TV: police said the main clue they had was a balaclava which had been discarded at the scene of the crime. The book: see figure 1.2.

I laughed out loud. Already I had identified my first leftist even though the news program never suggested the crime had been committed by an anarchist wannabe.

This is a funny book. Worth it just for the sign examples in the appendix!

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, July 23, 2007

By	John - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Great book. Great idea, to use the 1960s tactics of the left, on the left. The authors went to lefty parades and brought signs that said stuff like "War Never Solved Anything - Except winning World War I, the Civil War, and beating Fascism". Or having a placard at an anti-war demo, showing Kurds gassed by Saddam, with the text that reads "Yep, no WMDs here !". Brilliant. My personal favorite is the one proclaiming to be in favor of pacifism and non-violence, unless of course, the guy holding the machine gun is a 'romantic' lefty guerilla, like Che Guevara. The hypocrisy of the radical left is clearly exposed. I remember the crappy lefty demos from college: tenured private college professors (who live off the capitalist dime) travelling down to Nicaragua to do "coffee picking solidarity" with communist farmers. A teacher who wore a Mao suit in class(I am not making that up). "Smoke Ins" at the capital in Madison (Wisconsin), involving aging hippies lighting up marijuana, while the Wisconsin state patrol looked on. Let's face it, the Left is almost a parody of itself these days. Someone made the point that soon some lefty author will come out with an 'original' book called "Field Guide to Right-Wing Wackos". And there are a lot of them too. They also would be easy to make fun of (the libertarian nut jobs, the guys who think bazookas and full-auto machine guns shouldn't be regulated, the Christian Right, spouting on about the "End Times" and Satan, etc, etc.). The only difference is, the Right doesn't parade itself out in public the way the Left does. You find the Right in their living rooms, or at the gun range, or in Church. You don't find them blocking traffic with Martin Sheen or Sean Penn. Thus, the "field guide" won't work as well for the Right.