How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (Hardcover)

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This forceful, sarcastic, and often hilarious book offers tips on arguing with liberals, which include the following: don't be defensive, always outrage the enemy, and never apologize to, compliment, or show graciousness to a Democrat. Welcome to the world according to Ann Coulter. Ever combative, Coulter is unafraid to court controversy or confront her detractors head-on, whether they are mainstream journalists and talk-show hosts who have misquoted her without apology or "weak and frightened conservatives" craving liberal approval. Though the writing is often over-the-top, the book if full of one-liners that will delight conservatives, such as "the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes." But there is more here than just insults and countless jabs at Bill Clinton, and even her most devoted readers will find much new material in the book. Largely a collection of her syndicated columns from the past decade, How to Talk to a Liberal also includes columns that were never released or were rejected by editors--in Coulter's words, "what you could have read if you lived in a free country." --Shawn Carkonen

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From Publishers Weekly

Never mind this book’s title; from the writings collected here, it sounds like Coulter has never talked calmly with anyone, much less "liberals." In her view, "liberals" aren’t even "sentient creatures." Rather, they are conspiracy theorists and "street performers" who "traffic in shouting and demagogy." Following her previous bestseller, Treason, this book reprints installments from the last five years of Coulter’s syndicated column. Her modus operandi is to "start with the maximum assertion about liberals and then push the envelope, because, as we know, their evil is incalculable." If the title isn’t clue enough, the "we" in that quote demonstrates her assumption that the reader is as angry as she is, which frees her to make any accusation, whether grounded in reality or not. Coulter’s favorite target, hands down, is the New York Times, which she claims distorts the truth, ignores the facts or gets them wrong altogether. Her proposed solution for the 2001 incident in which China’s "three-foot-tall dictator" held an American flight crew hostage: "give us the Americans and we’ll let them keep any New York Times reporters." Not surprisingly, she was in favor of attacking Iraq, and many of her columns dating back to the first months of the invasion sound exceedingly out of touch now ("The rebuilding in Iraq is going better than could possibly have been expected"). Besides previously printed columns, the book includes a few new pieces on Coulter’s pet peeves (like Democrats’ "double standards"), as well as articles rejected by editors at magazines like the National Review and Good Housekeeping. Frequently funny, if only for its sheer audacity, this book will gratify "cranky conservatives" and outrage everyone else.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Crown Forum; First edition (October 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400054184
• ISBN-13: 978-1400054183
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (713 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #180,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really depends, doesn't it?, December 27, 2008

By	R. Carney (Kernersville, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you like Anne Coulter, you'll enjoy this book. If you don't, you won't. That's about the long and short of it.




P.S. I LOVED IT.

32 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious., September 10, 2005

By	M. Snow "hater of you" (VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It would be cool if maybe one out of every five people who reviewed this book had some sort of sense of humor. Ann Coulter is hilarious and witty, and if you don't understand that many of her comments are just there to twist your nipple, you're slow.
It would also be cool if people who reviewed this with one star would figure out they're not fooling anyone into thinking they actually read it, instead of jumping on Amazon to insult her.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Edgy, but truthful, July 9, 2009

By	An Historian (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (Hardcover)

This is a compilation of Coulter's columns where she defends her views and points out the mistakes or outright omissions of other newspapers. As usual, Coulter is abrasive which I find distracting but like Savage, this is her style. There are many times she says what many conservatives are thinking and then some. Either way, she exposes the liberal media for the biased and hypocritical lot they are while showing us that not all liberals, especially with the last name Kennedy, are annoyingly narrow-minded. It is a shame John Jr died so tragically and early, who knows what kind of world we would have with him still here in charge of George...