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Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama [Hardcover]

Ann Coulter
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September 25, 2012
“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.” 

For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights move­ment—which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that liberals were black America’s only protectors.
 
It took the O. J. Simpson verdict—the race-based acquittal of a spectacularly guilty black celebrity as blacks across America erupted in cheers—to shut down the white guilt bank.
 
But now, fewer than two decades later, our “pos­tracial” president has returned us to the pre-OJ era of nonstop racial posturing. A half-black, half-white Democrat, not descended from American slaves, has brought racial unrest back with a whoop.
 
The Obama candidacy allowed liberals to engage in self-righteousness about race and get a hard-core Leftie in the White House at the same time. In 2008, we were told the only way for the nation to move past race was to elect him as president. And 53 percent of voters fell for it.
 
Now, Ann Coulter fearlessly explains the real his­tory of race relations in this country, including how white liberals twist that history to spring the guilty, accuse the innocent, and engender racial hatreds, all in order to win politically. You’ll learn, for instance, how
  • A U.S. congressman and a New York mayor con­spired to protect cop killers who ambushed four police officers in the Rev. Louis Farrakhan’s mosque.
  • The entire Democratic elite, up to the Carter White House, coddled a black cult in San Francisco as hun­dreds of the cult members marched to their deaths in Guyana.
  • New York City became a maelstrom of racial hatred, with black neighborhoods abandoned to crimi­nals who were ferociously defended by a press that assessed guilt on the basis of race.
  • Preposterous hoax hate crimes were always believed, never questioned. And when they turned out to be frauds the stories would simply disappear from the news.
  • Liberals quickly switched the focus of civil rights laws from the heirs of slavery and Jim Crow to white feminists, illegal immigrants, and gays.
  • Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz was surprisingly popular in black neighborhoods, despite hysterical denunciations of him by the New York Times.
  • Liberals slander Republicans by endlessly repeating a bizarro-world history in which Democrats defended black America and Republicans appealed to segregationists. The truth has always been exactly the opposite.
Going where few authors would dare, Coulter explores the racial demagoguery that has mugged America since the early seventies. She shines the light of truth on cases ranging from Tawana Brawley, Lemrick Nelson, and Howard Beach, NY, to the LA riots and the Duke lacrosse scandal. And she shows how the 2012 Obama campaign is going to inspire the greatest racial guilt mongering of all time.

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About the Author

ANN COULTER is the #1 New York Times bestsell­ing author of Demonic: How the Liberal Is Endangering America; Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America; If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans; Godless: The Church of Liberalism; How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must); Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism; Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right; and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. She is the legal correspondent for Human Events and a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate.
 
Visit www.AnnCoulter.com


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Sentinel HC; First Edition edition (September 25, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1595230998
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595230997
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (375 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Very informative, funny, well researched and important to read. Linda  |  82 reviewers made a similar statement
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210 of 288 people found the following review helpful
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If I had any doubts about the need for this book, all I had to do was open up my morning paper and see the syndicated column by Leonard Pitts - headline teased to the front page - about the sighting of a "Don't Re-Nig" bumper sticker.

Pitts, who bravely battles racism every day whether he needs to or not, quotes a woman he doesn't name who says she saw such a bumper sticker, and then uses it to launch an entire column on pervasive Republican racism. No effort to determine if it was true, it's second or third-hand by the time it gets to you the reader, but if it allows to let liberals put the N word in play in the service of Obama's reelection, who cares?

And that's what this book is about: Racial demagoguery, which Ann Coulter has touched upon frequently but focuses on here. Her overarching theme is the deterioration of both race relations and black fortunes in the country starting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her premise is threefold:

First: Democrats, after having been the party propping up segregation for decades, cleverly substituted themselves as the party of racial equality after most progress in that field had actually been made by Republicans. Desegregating the military? Eisenhower? Sending troops to desegregate schools in Little Rock? Eisenhower. Civil rights bills in Congress in 1957 and the early 1960s? Supported more by Republicans than by Democrats. Finally pushing through real desegregation across the South? Nixon. Segregationists? All Democrats, including some liberal ones, with a lot more liberals around the country condoning it for partisan reasons: they needed that Solid South on Election Day and in Congress.

Blacks around 1960, she says, were beginning to follow the same trail immigrant groups had, and it was only a question of time before they'd catch up.

Second: The institutionalization of white liberal guilt around the same time, as reflected in news coverage and politics, helped destroy inner cities and the black family and lead to skyrocketing crime rates, as attempts to crack down on black crime were labelled "racist".

Third: The 1994 O.J. Simpson trial derailed the white liberal guilt train, as no one could avoid noticing someone apparently guilty of two savage murders had been acquitted on racial grounds.

And a lot of the most sensational cases of racial demagoguery - unwarranted prosecutions of cops who had shot black criminals, victimization hoaxes and the like, cases she details extensively here - had taken place in the years immediately preceding it. After that, it was like the nation woke up. But this progress was undone by election of Barack Obama. "The postracial president, who was supposed to allow the country to move past race, mau-maued white America from day one of his campaign."

Coulter is careful not to point the finger at black people much, with a few deserved exceptions like Al Sharpton and Alton Maddox, the ultimately-disbarred lawyer in several of the most notorious cases including Tawana Brawley and Howard Beach.

Generally, she's sympathizing with the regular folks in the black community, the primary victims of crimes unleashed by a system that suddenly didn't know how it felt about arresting and jailing black thugs. She notes many blacks sympathized with the forces of law and order - for the same reasons white people do - and stunningly, tended to support Bernie Goetz, the white man whose shooting of four young black muggers on a New York City subway in the 1980s was a cause celebre. Coulter quotes interviews done at the muggers' own housing project with neighbors, people who knew them, some who even said they liked them, but knew they had it coming. Translation: black NYC residents didn't see the muggers as beleaguered fellow people of color. They saw them, properly, as muggers.

She pounds much more heavily on the white liberals who manipulate these issues, whose bad social policies did so much damage, and who are never made to own up to it as a compliant media sweeps under the rug their errors - their rushes to judgment in racially charged cases later shown to be unfounded.

And meanwhile some real hate crimes are committed by people whipped up by a media frenzy.

She lays the blame for the Rodney King riots, which killed more than 50 people nationally, squarely at the feet of the LA television station that cut the initial 13 seconds of the beating tape from the tape it then ran hundreds of times on the air - the part showing King failing to be subdued by not one by two Tasings, a big man continuing to come at police with a frenzy that both they and his own friends attributed to angel dust, which makes people insane, violent and difficult to subdue. Police, jurors and even liberal journalists who saw the complete tape and had it put in context at trial, ended up seeing things the same way the police at the scene did - that this was the least violent and most legal way to subdue a dangerously out of control man. The acquittal of the cops was proper and just.

Like any Ann Coulter book, the writing is half the fun. She doesn't write for dumb people. Just on principle, I like any book where the expression "mau-maued" gets used even once. Every page is like that.

This book couldn't be timelier. Keep it up, Ann. They'll scream that it's all lies, but those of us who read the thousand or so footnotes know it's not. Illegitimi non carborundum!
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157 of 216 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Ann gets it right September 25, 2012
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There are a lot of folks out there who dislike Ann, even on the right, and I'll freely admit that I used to be one of them. I thought she was a haughty, misinformed purveyor of lowbrow conservatism. She was the most non-PC personality I'd ever read.

What I didn't realize is that she is intentionally incendiary in order to make points that more PC people are incapable of. "Mugged" is quite possibly the most inflammatory thing she has ever written, which puts it very high in the running for the most non-PC collection of ink and paper in the last two decades. What business does a rich tall skinny white woman have talking about race?!...Well, as it turns out, this is the best treatment of the issue I've encountered.

This book is crucial because the point is even MORE important than the theme she takes on in Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, especially going into the election. Read properly [fairly], "Mugged" is a de-hypnotization manual for those who have always (falsely) assumed that Democrats are the party for racial minorities.

As we head into an election where minorities are expected to vote for Obama by an overwhelming margin, this book is an excellent reminder that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are most closely aligned with the values and policy positions of minorities. You must read this if you are interested in the truth of race in politics.

Other must-reads for the 2012 Election include the AMAZING quick read 2012 Election: The 106 BEST Reasons NOT to Vote for Obama from Lawrence Allen and Michael Medved's hope-giving The Odds Against Obama: Why History and Logic Make the President a Likely Loser. Throw in Dinesh D'Souza's awesome Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream just for good measure, and your conservative reading list for the next 40 days should be complete.

Sept 25, 2012
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120 of 165 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Right on the money September 25, 2012
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Nobody has the courage to cut thru the garbage like Ann Coulter. She helps me feel sane in an insane world. I am half way thru this book and I find that all this needs to be said and there is not one talking head or yacky face as my husband calls them save Ann Coulter. Thank you Ann. I am 60 years old but I want to be you when I grow up. God bless you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An eye opening read.
Entertaining as well as informative. It is SO nice to hear about historical events that were ignored or misrepresented to me in school.
Published 6 days ago by James B. Stark
5.0 out of 5 stars Exposing the race-card playing Left
Ms. Coulter thoroughly covers the subject, pulling no punches, exposing race-card carrying leftist frauds enhancing their careers by finding "racism" anywhere they look.
Published 8 days ago by Ray Batz
5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent
Ann Coulter always brings the facts and insight to all her books and Mugged is no different. Coulter is the best conservative writer out there. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Factual and Concise
Unlike too many political books, this one manages to avoiding long dragging lists of irrelevant data, and also the all to common error of stating opinions as facts. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Pen Name
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You have to read this book.

It exposes the hypocracy in racial politics and synthesizes the history while displaying the change in positions of politicians after an... Read more
Published 18 days ago by Joseph J. Hines
5.0 out of 5 stars Pulling the Race Card before it was popular
Ann Coulter is not a racist. She just tells it like it is. No politically correct excuses for bad conduct, Coulter cuts right to the chase. Read more
Published 22 days ago by A. Berkowitz
3.0 out of 5 stars Ann did her research
I purchased this book on Kindle and have read it through twice. I have a few complaints about this book :

First, the picture of the author on the cover - at her age,... Read more
Published 22 days ago by RannW
4.0 out of 5 stars Anne Coulter is Anne Coulter
Anne makes some very good points in the book that need to be made and should be understood by more people. She does bang on the same points over and over in this book at times.
Published 23 days ago by T. Mains
5.0 out of 5 stars My Comment
Ann is spot on with her assessment of the democrat party and the people in the Main Stream Media. If any of the things that she wrote about in the book had been about a white... Read more
Published 24 days ago by Rich Bach
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and researched
Well written and researched - Coulter points out in Paul Harvey fashion "the rest of the story". The media has a tendency to ignore stories they got entirely wrong, Coulter reminds... Read more
Published 1 month ago by C. Denver Mullican
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