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.

Editorial Reviews

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: 6.4 x 0.9 x 9.1 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: #83,682 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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 100 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A WAKE-UP CALL TO DEMOCRATS April 6, 2006

By Bonnie M. Parsley

Format:Hardcover

I had been warned not to read this book because it was just a book that bashed Liberals. In reading it, however, I found that it was really a book about Liberals bashing, maligning and vilifying Conservatives, Republicans, Christians, Red State inhabitants, and specifically President Bush, and his entire administration and anyone else who doesn't think the way they do. Michelle Malkin lets liberals expose themselves by quoting them directly and showing how they think.

It is a sad day for America to see how our culture has declined. Civility and respect for fellow Americans has been totally abandoned by many Liberal Democrats. It is not just the fringes either. Malkin quotes leaders of the Democratic Party shouting insults, not only in the heat of campaigns, but also in the halls of congress. Ugly language, profanity and over the top hatred have permeated the psyche of the far left who now control the Democratic Party.

Liberal hatred is not confined to rhetoric either. Malkin reports on numerous acts of vandalism, physical attacks, and terrorist acts directed at Republican Headquarters around the country before and after the 2004 election. These acts were not confined to a few loonies but were pervasive and widespread across the country. If acts like these were directed at Democratic Headquarters we would have never heard the end of it by the mainstream media. The fact is that the mainstream media looks the other way, laughs off much of the outrageous speech and behavior of the left as a joke, suggesting the Conservatives have no sense of humor.

You will wonder what has happened to decency-to sanity when liberals obsess about assassinating the President, wallow in conspiracy theories, compare America to the worst murderous regimes in the world, and accuse our military of crimes equal to head-severing terrorists. This book should be a wake up call to the Democratic Party. Liberals who have long viewed themselves as compassionate, tolerant, open minded, and smart had better take a long hard look in the mirror and see what they have become.

78 of 105 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Michelle Malkin on the mark again! November 25, 2005

By JanSobieski

Format:Hardcover

Michelle Malkin takes a close flinty eyed look at the Democratic party and draws the conclusion that it has become "Unhinged." This is a conclusion that will be met with anger and outrage by those whom she describes and with humor and concern by conservatives and "old school" Democrats alike. The Democratic party has taken a dangerous detour which is aptly described by Malkin in this book.

There is not an untrue word in this book. Not an untrue story. Not an untrue anecdote. And the overwhelming impression that one gathers after reading this book is that the Democratic party has so marginalized itself that it can no longer speak for a significant percentage of our great country. Sure, there are many in the Democratic party who do not subscribe to the shenanigans of Gore, Clinton, Kerry, Dean, Franken, Moore, Kennedy, Durbin et al, but they simply cannot be paying close attention.

The radicalization of the Democratic party cannot be good for the party nor can it be good for our great country. The party has become detached from truth and reality. Malkin tells the story of the disintegration of the party with hillarious examples that make this easy and enjoyable reading.

Other reviewers have reverted to the age old tactic of calling Malkin a liar. Problem is she has told absolutely no lies. She hasn't even embelished the truth. She has just told it like it is using the Democrats own words and actions over and over again. I'm not quite sure why the reviewers on the left would want to distance themselves from their standard-bearers. This is, after all, the modern Democratic party in all its glory. These ARE the party leaders! These are the most visible Democrats. This is the Democratic party.

64 of 86 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The truth hurts when you're a liberal! November 7, 2005

By Jaffy Rider

Format:Hardcover

Another informative book from Michelle Malkin. Liberals get mad as hell when you expose their lies; which is why they've tried to load this page with negative reviews without even reading the book.