Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild [Hardcover]

Michelle Malkin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

Malkin offers a hilarious proof of the utter hypocrisy of Democrats who fashion themselves as role models of tolerance and civility.

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From Publishers Weekly

The spewing of vitriol, epithets and wild conspiracy theories suggest a collective nervous breakdown among liberals, according to conservative commentator Malkin who, in her latest book, makes no distinction between moderate and extreme liberals; everyone left of right is a nut who suffers from PEST-Post Election Selection Trauma. This syndrome, she explains, is democratic (small d), affecting stuffed-donkey clutching college students and seasoned congressmen and journalists whose overweening diatribes and hand-wringing Malkin has seized to illustrate an emotionally charged and irrational hatred of everything conservative. Malkin scoured blogs, speeches, media commentaries and even transcripts from Oprah for material, though she misses the boat in a number of instances, most notably in her obliviousness to sarcasm and irony, and she overextends her analytical prowess by offering shallow, shoddy critiques of theater, literature and modern art. Malkin uses extremist bloggers and airheaded celebrities as exemplars of the left, cherry picking the most egregiously tasteless examples of ill-conceived commentary or inflammatory behavior to bolster her case that liberals, as a whole, have gone off their rockers. Right-wingers looking for affirmation will enjoy.
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Un·hinged

adj : affected with madness or insanity; [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced]

- The American Heritage Dictionary

*** Warning: Unhinged liberals are hazardous to the nation’s health.

They’re slashing your tires. Burning your lawns. Heaving pies at Republican pundits. Hurling racist epithets at minority conservatives. Nursing nutty conspiracy theories. And pining publicly for the murder of President Bush.

And they call us crazy?

In Unhinged: Liberals Gone Wild, Michelle Malkin plays conservative Margaret Mead to the alien political creatures of the American Left. With uproarious detail and rollicking reportage, Malkin chronicles the bizarre world of leftists gone mad in their natural habitats: the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and Washington.

Unhinged unmasks liberals who’ve completely abandoned rationality and reality. They’re taking chainsaws and bayonets to campaign signs. Running down political opponents with their cars. Setting fire to political opponents in effigy. Defacing war memorials. Swiping yellow ribbons off cars. And supporting the fragging of American troops.

In Unhinged, you’ll meet:

- The Top 10 Unhinged Leftists, Celebrities, Media Liberals, and Politicians. - The Pennsylvania Democrat who repeatedly screamed "faggot" at his Republican opponents on the Senate floor. - The Florida Democrat who tried to run down former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris with his Cadillac. - The Democrat congressman who claimed the capture of Saddam Hussein was staged by GOP operatives to help the Bush re-election campaign. - The veteran newsman who claimed that Bush advisor Karl Rove and Osama bin Laden are working hand-in-hand to help the Republican Party. - And hundreds more unhinged liberals gone wild!

With wit, wisdom, and a bullet-proof vest, Michelle Malkin ruthlessly and raucously skewers the myths of liberal tolerance, peace, and civility. Unhinged shows how conservatives are driving their opponents mad. The good news for liberals? Self-help starts here.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 231 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing; annotated edition edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895260301
• ISBN-13: 978-0895260307
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (232 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michelle Malkin is a New York Times best-selling author, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and FOX News Channel contributor. Malkin lives with her husband and children in Maryland.

She has never cried over an election, marched naked in Berkeley, thrown a pie, or tackled a liberal heckler. Yet.

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43 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth Drives The Left Wild, November 9, 2005

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C. Buskuhl "Whirrled Peas" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild (Hardcover)

Michelle Malkin is rapidly becoming one of top ten bloggers with factual information that adds context to the bias of mainstream media. Her new book goes beyond exposing the bias, and focuses on the unfortunately not-so-isolated cases of liberals gone mad. Some of these barely made the papers, but taken together, they are instructive of a left that has taken on bullying ways to 'sell' its agenda. Obviously, none of this works, and is driving less 'passionate' democrats away enough to turn over the numerical advantage to self-confessed conservatives by about 2:1. And numbers like that only drive the left into even greater rage.

29 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Malkin on Target Again, November 25, 2005

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R. C Quinn (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild (Hardcover)

Great read although quite scary at times. The venom with which the Left attacks this successful minority woman is staggering. Just as Islam is the religion of peace, the Left is the the ideology of inclusion (unless you happen to be a minority who is an independant thinker). Malkin's book exposes the Left as a hypocritical, mean, divisive force in America today. The best part is that she uses their own words, actions and, especially, e-mails to out them. Congrats to Michelle on a great and humorous look at American politics.

29 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Radical Left's ..., April 1, 2006

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K.H. - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild (Hardcover)

Michelle Malkin not so much demonstrates or argues, but as her subtitle suggests, exposes the hypocrisy and immaturity of the far left's dialogue and discussions in the public square. The far left knows no lows, as many of them willingly distort facts, lie, and rage against those of whom they disagree with (namely conservatives). The left, who in the mass media, congratulate themselves on being enlightened, caring and tolerant, or shown here to be anything but - on all levels.

Since generally speaking, the far left's ideas cannot win in the public square, they often resort to dishonest tactics like professor McKenna's staged "hate crime" by way of vandalism to her vehicle (I remember this making national headlines, then when the truth was exposed, it was barely mentioned). Further, there are those who make the unfair and incorrect comparison between [...]and President Bush, or the 9/11 conspiracy "nuts."

Mrs. Malkin, surprisingly keeps the over-polemic rhetoric scaled down, but then with so much fodder, she really only lets to have people like Churchill, Diaz, Moore, and host of other radical e-mail bloggers speak for themselves. Again, Malkin mostly exposes them and provides some commentary to provide analysis on the hypocrisy and intellectual debasement of many on the far left.

Now, many may argue, and rightly so, that there are many far right wackos as well. The essential difference is that not many on the left pay attention to the far right (after all, I cannot think of one segregationist who is on the Rebuplican ticket in a major city, state, or federal board or program or in the major media outlets). The far left, however, are everywhere and their positions highlighted on morning program shows. Lastly, the ones who claim to be open and tolerant are exposed as anything but.

In addition, the book is an entertaining read.