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

Look!.....I love Ann Coulters's politics!... I"m a devout Conservative and know that "Capitalism" is the only way
for America!...so, I thought that her book would be a joy to read, but I was mistaken. Now, its probably ME,
who just simply does not want "fact after fact" on almost every page. Yes, I told you it was probably me!.

I mean if Coulter were running for President, I'd surely vote for her!..She's exactly what America needs, now
more than ever!..

I suspect that if her book would have been edited by any expert editor, that I would have then found
it easier to read. I guess, that doesn't say much for my intellect, but there you have it!..

God Bless Ann Coulter (without the e on Ann).....

I've just finished listening to the audio book and I wish it never stopped. Ann is a special lady and she takes a no holds barred look at liberals. Watch out if you happen to be one 'cause she'll make you very mad... mad enough to log on to the store to leave a one star review. So I had to counter balance those scathing reviews with my own five star review, so there. Nyah!

This book breaks down the constructs and misrepresentations liberals have used for ages to promote themselves. A must read for anyone (including liberals) who are interested in the state and direction of current politics.

Ann Coulter says everything we all should but are afraid to because we're not as brilliant as this woman. I will read everything she has out and will continue to keep up with whatever she is doing just to stay in touch with reality, she's doing the work, we can keep up with the truth through her hard work!

Just consider the title of this book. Of course liberals aren't going to like it, of course liberals aren't going to read it, of course liberals are going to give it bad reveiws. If you're a liberal you should be listening to Air America and not wasting your time on an the store.com review board for a book that you never read. Judging by some of the reveiws, many people did read this book and enjoyed it. Most of the reviews by people who read the book are also very honest and critical. Hats off to your honesty. That's what this reveiew board is for - to give people who have not read the book a sense of what it is like so as to help them determine whether to purchase it or not.

The book is, quite simply, a ripoff. There's very little new material here, it's simply a compilation of old articles w/a few that never made it to print thrown in. The name of the book is misleading - no tips on really how to talk with liberals.

Ann does what Ann always does - puts out very little effort to make a buck. The more famous she becomes the more vapid her writing. And the great "irony" is that most of the stuff in this book can be gotten off the internet FOR FREE.

Yes, I've read the book. Yes, I'm a conservative. Yes, I think Ann wastes her talent by writing hyperbolic screeds that while amusing at times, have no real substance. In that regard, this one doesn't fail, I'm very sad to say.

Don't waste your money! Buy Gertz's book instead.

Since this book was released today, I am impressed to find that Liberals are capable of speed-reading, because one would not post a review of a book he had not read, would he?

I have only finished the first chapter (took me three major bookstores to find a copy in my Liberal state---either they are selling out or, dare I say, in the stockroom still in boxes), and Ann is in her usual brilliant form.

For those of you who "do not get her," may I recommend reading with a dictionary handy?

A very informative book! Ann really nails it in this one! While there have been books written about liberals by psychiatrists in which they document the brain dysfunction among those who identify as 'liberals', Ann does a much better job of nailing them. Liberals NEVER answer questions with a straight answer. Asked a straight forward question they simply answer it by asking a question of their own. They lack the ability to reason and think logically. If cornered, they motormouth, obfuscate, yell, have tantrums, utter accusations of racism, homophobia, or anti-women and generally have a hissy fit - anything but simply answer the damned question! Liberals are very dangerous to both society and themselves because they lack the ability to think logically and act rationally. Further exacerbating the problem is the fact that the feedback mechanism in their brains tells them that they ARE thinking logically and acting rationally. Which is of course classic liberal psychosis. They lie like psychopaths. They exaggerate, bully, intimidate, shout down, hog the conversation, and generally behave in an infantile manner.

It is a great book that you find yourself constantly shaking your head in agreement. Ann Coulter shows how liberals side step a credible argument only to critisize the person and or change the subject. Maybe we could get some sense into the liberals if Ann would write bigger books so we could boop them over their heads with it... :-)

Ann is among the best authors, especially political authors around. I look forward each week to her columns and read them promptly. She uses great humour, ample facts and current examples to prove her points. This book is made up of old and new columns, a good collection her timely writings (unedited) and not a singular idea with a main thesis (as in her other books). I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to her next books. In fact, I love her.

Walking today through a local Barnes and Noble bookstore, it was interesting to note that both "How To Talk to A Liberal" and "Treason" were shelved in the Humor section. It is almost plausible to see these books as parody were they not so shrill, mean-spirited, and, at times, cruel. It is always important to remember that Coulter is not a journalist, but a pundit -- she makes opinion pronouncments on current affairs from an extreme political position. She is not presenting factual material, but her own impressions. When you forget this, you get in trouble. There are no facts to check -- amazingly, in the entire book there is not one footnote, one verifiable source, nor one authenticated criticism. Her material is anecdotal and mostly taken out of context. Even when she makes good points, she undermines her claims with spurious logic -- i.e., Coulter admits that Bush has frequently lied, but it is acceptable because Clinton lied; it is beyond dispute that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but the Bush administration shouldn't be held accountable because British intelligence was wrong, too. In a day when we need help understanding the real issues and positions of both conservatives and liberals, all we get is a constant diet of provocative, divisive diatribes from the likes of Coulter, Franken, O'Reilly, and Moore. We don't need all this lowbrow sniping -- we need real information that helps us make intelligent, informed decisions. Set the narrow-minded agendas aside. This book is one more insult in a growing corpus of contempt.

Brilliant, as always from Ann. Liberals never debate a point with Ann. Instead, they denigrate her, flaunting their literary ignorance by failing to grasp satire. Feeling the "golden rule" should be graded on a curve to ensure their fake moral superiority, liberal reviewers attack Ann, stupidly proving her very point-liberalism is a damnable lie incapable of logical defense.

If you've ever wondered why discussing anything with a liberal is so mind numbingly pointless, this book explains why. And it does so in a hilarious way! Unfortunately, liberalism lacks humor as much as it lacks credibility. A fun read, and the antidote to liberal insulation from their cherished willful ignorance.

Ms Coulter is an excellent journalist with sufficient political background to offer accurate information. She presents her views with a good mix of seriousness and humor. An enjoyable read plus very informative material.

In HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL, Ann Coulter continues the tradition of her last few best sellers SLANDER and TREASON, all three of which combine wit and savage irony in her withering denunciation of all things left-wing liberal. In her introduction, Coulter explains ten ways how to talk to liberals, ranging from a refusal to apologize to apology hungry democrats to never complimenting them. Coulter sends up a never say die flare of combativeness that no other republican spokesperson dares. She welcomes the controversy that inevitably accumulates over such Coulterisms as "I am often asked if I still think that we should invade their (Islamofascist) countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. The answer is: Now more than ever."

Her book is actually a collection of previously published essays from her syndicated news columns mixed in with a batch of new essays written especially for this newest text. The topics of all these essays are a diverse lot, with most of them pointing out what Coulter views as a never ending stream of hypocrisies spun by the Kerry and Clinton democratic attack machine. In her essay on Rush Limbaugh, Coulter brings the left to task by pointing out that the left never met a drug addict they didn't excuse-as long as his name was not Limbaugh. In another essay on Jayson Blair, Coulter notes that the New York Times happily published Blair's unsubstantiated and plagiarized articles on all matters pro-left and anti-right, but buried the annoying news on page twenty-seven that his articles were admittedly fake. What emerges from Coulter's book is a sense of her continuing attempt to point out some bitter untruths of a democratic party that used to honor decency, honesty, and national defense. Although her target audience is clearly tilted to the right, if enough leftist readers read this and her other and earlier works, then perhaps the seemingly inevitable choice of Hillary Clinton as the latest in a trio of failed democratic aspirants for the presidency in 2008 need not be inevitable after all.

In HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL, Ann Coulter continues the tradition of her last few best sellers SLANDER and TREASON, all three of which combine wit and savage irony in her withering denunciation of all things left-wing liberal. In her introduction, Coulter explains ten ways how to talk to liberals, ranging from a refusal to apologize to apology hungry democrats to never complimenting them. Coulter sends up a never say die flare of combativeness that no other republican spokesperson dares. She welcomes the controversy that inevitably accumulates over such Coulterisms as "I am often asked if I still think that we should invade their (Islamofascist) countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. The answer is: Now more than ever."

Her book is actually a collection of previously published essays from her syndicated news columns mixed in with a batch of new essays written especially for this newest text. The topics of all these essays are a diverse lot, with most of them pointing out what Coulter views as a never ending stream of hypocrisies spun by the Kerry and Clinton democratic attack machine. In her essay on Rush Limbaugh, Coulter brings the left to task by pointing out that the left never met a drug addict they didn't excuse-as long as his name was not Limbaugh. In another essay on Jayson Blair, Coulter notes that the New York Times happily published Blair's unsubstantiated and plagiarized articles on all matters pro-left and anti-right, but buried the annoying news on page twenty-seven that his articles were admittedly fake. What emerges from Coulter's book is a sense of her continuing attempt to point out some bitter untruths of a democratic party that used to honor decency, honesty, and national defense. Although her target audience is clearly tilted to the right, if enough leftist readers read this and her other and earlier works, then perhaps the seemingly inevitable choice of Hillary Clinton as the latest in a trio of failed democratic aspirants for the presidency in 2008 need not be inevitable after all.

Ann Coulter has penned three best sellers already, an accomplishment considering she writes intellectual political ideology. To most Americans, that is dry stuff, even if she writes well and possesses a biting sense of humor. I suspect the most dry-minded among us would rather read a thick, well written travel guide.

Still young, Coulter has already established herself as a leading American social and political intellectual, as the cute, mean political pundit on the far right. I wish her well and pray that she sees her way soon to a more mature, sophisticated way to employ her ample intellectual skills and analytical talents.

The best way to defeat a powerful enemy is not to meet them at the bottom of their gate but to to rise above them. So far, Coulter seems bent on defeating what she sees as an arrogant, intolerant group-think by assembling one of her own. Hearing from the likes of Michael Moore, new Radio left liberal propagandist Ed Shultz and intellectual pimp Al Franken, and then, hearing from Ann Coulter reminds me of the old "Mad Magazine" cartoon battle, "Spy VS Spy." The only way to tell the two spies apart was that one wears white and the other wears black.

For instance, Coulter coils and strikes at the left for being venomous, arrogant, incompetent. mean, & intolerant social engineers and for a marked penchant for bending the truth. Ann, then, bends the truth and spits venom brew in their eye. Yes, the Left's Senator Joseph McCarthy needs serious review, but Ann goes too far when she cleans up McCarthy with extra strength bleach. McCarthy was not quite the inhuman villain the left has indoctrinated two generations into believing but McCarthy did present a few serious character flaws for the Left to blow out of shape and two entire generations of Americans did not simply serve as blank minds for Left Academics to program.

I am no political ideologue. I am simply a lot more skeptical than my fellow Americans when it comes to institutions, isms, organized groups, or ideology. Often, what matters is the character of the people who staff them, not necessarily the institution or ideas themselves.

People really do need to be more careful with how they toss about terms like "right," "left," "liberal." These words are too often used as target labels with which to tag thine enemy. Like all bull's eyes, once painted on and the shooters are let loose, all discrimination and rationality is left behind the no-fire end of the firing line.

I would like to think my countrymen are capable of better. If not, the American era may well decline. Don't be fooled by present appearances. It took the Roman Empire over a century to burn out its lights.

I find in Ann Coulter a sort of barely controlled rage, a biting anger. I attended University of Michigan graduate school about a decade before Ann Coulter. I can see how the Law School could leave a bitter taste in the mind of a bright, traditionalist. It is time she moved on to bigger and better things. She should have plenty of money now to do just that, move on to more constructive intellectual pursuits.

Despite my reservations, I do recommend "How to Talk to A liberal." It serves as a corrective to the many even more vicious books Left Liberal intellectuals spew forth. "How to Talk..." is high class slant but high level extremism is still extremism, just as le Sade's "Justine" may be high literature, it is also high level porn. No matter how sophisticated or talented Coulter or le Sade may be, both are still perverted. I do not think we should invest more than an hour or two reading Right versus Left combat chess. I also caution fellow readers not to linger too long in the Franken-Moore versus Coulter-Mike Savage Tuff Guy pit. You may leave walking sideways.

This book is truly entertaining for the pure cynical viewpoints and hilarious extreme statements that are intentionally prickly at many popular political viewpoints seen in mainstream media. The author is often so purposely overwhelmingly conservative and stubborn in her writing it provides a unique level of enjoyment not often obtained from political books. However, the true beauty of reading this book is it offers a different point of view that provokes thinking and in the end encourages the reader to obtain a more balanced view of many current political issues.

Take the words in this book purely for its surface value, the easy thing to do is to dismiss the author as a right wing extremist or praise her as a champion for the conservative. However, this is a book that challenges independent thinking and encourage the readers to explore and find out answers on their own and not to be too swayed popular opinions. Oh, did I mention how entertainingly stubborn the author sounds in this book.

Keep in mind, read between the lines, and keep your mind open and actively working while reading this piece.

As a self professed Independent in ideology and vote, I have to admit I kind of liked Ann's book from the standpoint of a weathervane pointing to the right. This writer ain't got any doubt about it. "It" being anything that ain't RIGHT ain't right. This is southern talk for ya'll that don't know it. This book is a compilation and reinteration of Coulters' writings over the past few years condemning liberalism and the Democratic party as the new "Evil Empire", (my words). I saw a humorous ad for an cell phone company the other day about a skunk being "part of the package" in a car buyers deal. "Can't unbundle the package" was the retort to the dismayed buyers query as to why there was a stinker in the automobile. Everybody has the stinker or the spoiler in America. It grates us to the core that somebody won't see things our way. Look at Michael Moore's F911 or-even better- here, just two days away from the election of 2004, The advertising barrage on both sides of the issues. Coulters' book spends a lot of time on the Clinton years and Ted Kennedy. I suppose there was not a lot on John Kerry to admit him to those hallowed halls of disgust. Ann Coulter does a lot of explaning, albeit skewed and caustic; which sets her apart from a Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity who just yap and fawn over their conservatism at the expense of hard journalism. Anybody can pay lip service and be a lap-dog to a cause. Ann Coulter, man , holy cow, don't go there unarmed... Republican, Democrat, Independent, Conservative, Liberal, Believer, Atheist, Human, Alien... You get my point. You Better. Miz Ann is a force to be reckoned with. Ya Hear?

Air America's Stephanie Miller used to refer to the author of this book as "noted transsexual plagiarist Ann Coulter" until the transsexuals got their panties in a Frist over being lumped with Ann Coulter. Miller is the damaged daughter of Barry Goldwater's Veep running mate of 1964, and uses the tag line, "Abandoned by wolves, raised by Republicans." I suggest that "Abondoned by Republicans, raised by rodents" would be closer to the truth, but rodents would get their panties in a Frist (that's another Miller tag line) about being lumped with Miller. But that's off topic; inquiring minds want to know if Ann Coulter, incomparable & inimitable, is a plagiarist. Miller, often confused, must be thinking of Molly "Messkins" Ivins.

Coulter frags illiberal liberals in this excellent collection of essays. In her only self-referential essay, the allegedly self-absorbed transsexual Ann Coulter talks about liberal rodents who confect Coulter quotes out of dirty air or who string them together from a few words spoken or written in one decade and a few words from the next. Miller merrily calls this liberal pasttime No-Context Theatre, and Coulter mercilessly nails them on it.

Then Coulter gets down to business, mercilessly nailing the high-class rats and ferrets who call themselves responsible journalists. Main-stream liberal journalism is a redundancy, and Coulter demonstrates again and again in this book that main-stream liberal journalists are, redundantly, lying liars and whores. More than Rush, who is often killing time and killing pain, more than the F-word Faux News Network, Ann Coulter does the dirty work of bringing fairness and balance to a new national debate that was, until Rush and Fox and Kaus and Coulter, a national monologue. When Coulter, Miller, and I were young, the world was what the New York Times said it was and what Cronkite or Rather read from their cue-cards: And that's the way it is. Then, without mercy for bloated media monopoly, Coulter started taking the Times apart. The Times marches on, losing credibility and losing readers, never saying they're sorry or posting corrections unless they're pushed into a corner beyond the last ditch, but the times are changin'. Coulter, Rush, and the rest have shown that we don't have to take it any more. We don't have to get fooled again. We can MoveOn.

For the reasons listed by another reviewer (who only gave it 1 star), this was my least favorite Ann Coulter book. It was particularly mean-spirited to the point where I was distrcted from the original point Ms. Coulter was trying to make. As always, I appreciate that her research is second to none. It is what it is! Anyone who bashes this book for being "conservative" is just silly. She brings out some interesting information which much of the media has downplayed, put a spin on, or flat out ignored. Personally, I would be much more impressed if she could do it without insulting on levels that have nothing to do with politics. Know what you're getting in to and enjoy!

A witty book, entertaining and very true. If you do not believe me just read some of the other (offended) non reader reviews. Folks need to stop writing reviews to express their opinions. These reviews are for those who have read the book. Besides, the constitution does not guarantee the right to not be offended, but it does give the right to freedom of speech and expression and that is what this book champions. Whether I agree with you or not, I respect your right ot say what you think, and I will listen to it or read it. I will also thank God that you haave the right to say it and respect your point of view no matter how ludicrous it may be. Coulter actually backs up her statements with published fact in most cases, which is unlike Michael Moore's spewings. Coulter is highly intelligent and that makes for a quick witty read. I think most would enjoy this book. It proves it's points well, after all just read the negative reviews and the ravings of those who pan it before reading it. Plus the cover picture was enough to make me buy. Anyone know if she is single?

You know it's Christmas (or some other break away from the grind of school) when I start reading and reviewing political screeds! The controversial conservative talking head Ann Coulter is someone I've wanted to read for a long time. I checked out a few of her relatively short articles on the Internet, but not enough to get a real feel for her sarcastic writing style. I passed on "Slander" and "Treason," choosing instead to peruse her latest work "How to Talk to a Liberal." I think reading this book was a good choice for an introduction to her worldview. It's a compilation of her articles on various topics dating back to the 1990s, touching on everything from the pernicious lying at the New York Times, the Clintons, gun control, drug legalization, activist judges, CBS news, the 2000 Election imbroglio, feminism, Teddy Kennedy, terrorism, Elian Gonzalez, the Confederate flag, race, John Kerry, and just about any other issue of concern to both liberals and conservatives over the last ten to fifteen years. If you've ever seen Ann Coulter tearing it up on the television talk shows, you know what you're in for with "How to Talk to a Liberal." Terms like "polemicist" apply in spades here.

And thank goodness someone like Coulter finally came along. For far too long we've had to sit by while kooks like James Carville, Paul Begala, the entire editorial staff at the New York Times, and dozens of other card carrying members of the American Left debase the public forums. Yes, I'm saying Coulter goes over the top, but I'm also saying, "Who cares?" I agree wholeheartedly with her assertion that conservatives unfortunately strive to earn the Left's approval no matter what the cost. Late stage democracy simply doesn't abide such quaint, antiquated concepts like personal integrity or public virtue--which explains why Clinton served two terms in the White House--so the conservatives might as well get down in the gutter and bellow with the best of them if republicans want the public to hear their opinions over the babble. Coulter says as much in the introduction to the book, a lengthy list of what one should do when confronted with a member of the leftist species: don't back down in a fight, don't give up before the argument even begins, make every effort to outrage liberals and leftists, don't be defensive, never apologize for anything, never compliment a Democrat or play nice with them, and do not allow liberals to bribe you into joining their cause.

The introduction is a smorgasbord of pithiness, sort of a rapid fire version of Ann Coulter whittled down to a few pages, but the real joy are the dozens and dozens of articles that follow. Never afraid of calling it like she sees it, the author blasts our lovable left-wingers every chance she gets. You want to talk about Ted Kennedy? Ann does, bringing up again and again his failure to open a car door for a lady at Chappaquiddick, his penchant for drinking, and his rapid removal from college for cheating on a Spanish test. Best Kennedy rebuke? Ann imagines herself at a confirmation hearing responding to an inquiry from the senator with, "We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy." Ouch! Of course, none of these comments would be necessary if the good senator from Massachusetts quit trying to set himself up as the irreproachable voice of the Democratic Party. To be fair, I think Coulter goes overboard with the frequent references to Kennedy's well-known love for liquor since he supposedly quit the sauce a few years ago, but that is really beside the point according to the author. Liberals refuse to play fair, so why should conservatives persistently take the high ground only to fall prey to the Left's scurrilous attacks? Call her what you will, but at least she's up front about where she stands.

Coulter's primary target of attacks is the New York Times. We all know how secondary and tertiary newspapers and television stations rely on the Times for their news leads. We also know the Times is so biased toward the left that it barely qualifies as journalism let alone as an independent news organization. Jayson Blair, anyone? You remember him: he was the Times reporter that sat in a bar somewhere in New York City all day inventing his stories. The newspaper, afraid to fire him because of his race, printed retraction after retraction while they shifted him around to different departments. When the story finally broke in the national news, the New York Times tried to shrug the whole thing off. Coulter reminds us how the Blair incident constitutes only one small part of a larger, more dangerous ethical quandary faced by a newspaper proclaiming to be an unbiased source of information. She exposes the left-wing partiality at the Times repeatedly, proving how the paper unswervingly supports radical social, political, and economic positions near and dear to lefty hearts. I wondered if it was a joke that a blurb from the New York Times on the back cover of the book said, "A great deal of research supports Ms. Coulter's wisecracks." Do you think the paper fired the employee who wrote that comment?

Every conservative or libertarian, and even political moderates for that matter, should enjoy the articles contained in this book. You definitely don't even need to be a diehard right-winger to giggle over Coulter's acerbic witticisms, just someone tired of listening to the same "progressive" drivel day after day. I think I may yet get around to reading "Slander" and "Treason" if they share in any way, shape, or form the keen insights and amusing quips found in this book.

Initially I discovered Ann Coulter on Bill Maher's show, and I thought that she was hot. Crazy, but hot. After the last time he had her on, during which she was treated horribly (it appeared to be a really gender-specific sort of vitriol) I decided that I should read her to discover what was causing all of the hostility.

I am glad I read this book. I am everything about America that the author hates. That said, I think she is a good writer. If she shared my point of view, people would be falling all over themselves about her style, her sense of humor etc., but since she is conservative, that gets lost in the put-downs. She writes like a cosmopolitain intellectual. In other words: she writes like a "liberal".

And, if read as over-the-top parody, the book is a great read. Seriously, I know it wasn't written as parody, and that makes it chilling. But it is important to know what "the other side" thinks, and this is a rather entertaining way to hear that other side.

Typical Coulter here: many scathing attacks on the Left, some accurate, some off the mark. A witty polemicist, Coulter is enjoyable to read, but I would take much of what she says with a grain of salt. She is incapable of admitting that any liberal might be right on any issue, for any reason. Another weakness of the book is that many of the columns are from the Clinton years and are fairly irrelevant today. I still enjoyed reading it for all its flaws, nevertheless.

Ann Coulter is talented. In her essays, collected here and elsewhere, she demonstrates a true wit -- biting, harsh, and often on-point. I enjoy the experience of reading what she has to say.

That said, her motives are often questionable. I'm no liberal, but I have known one or two over the years... and I must report that I did not find them to be the soulless, blood-drinking, baby-eating caricatures that Coulter paints them to be. I'm sure Ms. Coulter has lead a full life, and I'm sure that she's known a liberal or two, as well. I believe that, somewhere, she must know that her invective is filled with hyperbole.

So, what do we make of that? Does Coulter purposely exaggerate to draw controversy/ratings/success? Does she view it as a necessary counter-balance to the extreme rhetoric that often comes from the "other side"? Is it a rhetorical choice, just meant to draw her lines more clearly and re-enforce her more central positions to her readers; "dramatic license"?

I don't know.

But, living in this country and loving it as I do, I am often saddened by how divisive, angry, and low political debate has become. I respect that there are true and important differences between conservatives and liberals, but I maintain a (perhaps naive) belief that we can handle those differences civilly, and with a mutual recognition of the other's intelligence, morality, and basic humanity.

In writing as she does, I believe Coulter does our nation a fundamental disservice in giving more power to our hostility, and our collective refusal to understand any position other than our own. In her writings, she often makes a valid point -- even insightful ones -- but anger is not conducive to rational discourse or debate, and she enjoys drawing out anger from both her opponents and her allies.

Perhaps Ann Coulter has no particular responsibility to "play nice." I get it that she believes she has the truth on certain matters, and that it is a point of courage to shout it out without reservation. I respect that. But I think that the good she could do, in pointing out certain things that need pointing out, is often drowned in the furor that she creates with her needless (and inaccurate) demonizations of those who disagree with her.

If there are liberals out there who can choke back their own understandable rage, and see what morsels of truth shine out in Coulter's writings, I recommend this book. I know that most liberals (at least as many as conservatives) are genuine people, who are committed to finding and implementing what is good and what is true. There is some good and some truth in Ann Coulter, and as a challenge I invite you to find it out.

Conservatives can also gain in Coulter, by trying to understand the mistakes she makes in her slander of people who are, for the most part, good at heart (and who also, it should be mentioned, have some good ideas of their own). Some liberals *are* Godless Crypto-Communists Who Hate America -- no lie -- but what Coulter does is just as accurate as painting all conservatives as Dumb KKK Rednecks, and just as helpful. Some conservatives are, in fact, like that, but not many and not most.

Coulter is a good and witty writer, and the articles collected here are entertaining, and sometimes demonstrate a welcome insight. They are unfortunately enveloped, however, in a hateful (and almost certainly exaggerated) anger, which serves to create more controversy than converts.

Three stars.

Conservatives, you really cannot go wrong with anything written by Ann Coulter. Unrelenting, entertaining and full of the one thing liberals hate almost as much as America (the truth), How to Talk to a Liberal is a joy to read. From page one, unfamiliar readers will get a strong sense of what Coulter's all about. People familiar with Coulter will greatly enjoy what many of us love most about her: she doesn't mince words. The book is a good length, consisting of a large collection of column pieces, making it very nice for light reading. It is also very cool to have a collection of her columns like this for folks who don't have access to a newspaper that prints her column or the internet where one need only visit her website.
The long and short of it is that Coulter never disappoints. She is a consistently intelligent, witty, and most of all unapologetic. Of course liberals will hate it. They thoughtlessly throw out insults (which liberals consider valid arguments) like "fascist", "racist", "garbage" and even "pig vomit". Go check out the list of all 98 tags that customers associate with this book and you'll realize quickly the kind of maturity level common with liberals. They range from the mean to the offensive to the downright vulgar. It has been said that if you're not making people mad then you're not telling the truth. That is certainly the case here.

Ann Coulter is to American politics and policies what Howard Stern is to human sexuality. Read/listen to both, if you must, but only for entertainment value. I admit, I do sometimes enjoy both of these bizarre people's abilities to highlight absurdities in our society, and, if I were them, I'd get a great laugh over anybody who mistakes the sicko-slapstick for gospel.

Once you've had your Coulter-induced laugh, put down the book. Then, whether you're conservative or liberal, begin to learn about your nation: America's history, government, policies, people, concerns and issues. Then use your knowledge, insights, and American freedom to make a better America.

Four stars for comedic value.

Not to be taken seriously for any other purpose.

I purchased this book after mistaking the title as a tell-all autobiography, and was interested to see if she had indeed dedicated two pages of this book to publish a list of all the men she has not slept with, as was rumored to me by a friend. Alas, no list was to be found (I am fairly certain my name would be on it).

This book is more of the same from Ms. Coulter. If you hate Democrats and other left-leaning misfits, you'll love this book. If you don't, well, there's always that chateau on the French Riviera (that joke is always a crowd-pleaser at my local Republican Party functions).

On a final note, however, can whole-heartedly recommend that you don't talk to liberals in the fashion that Ms. Coulter recommends: I have a latte-drenched Armani blazer to prove it.

I long for reasoned arguments and witty diologue from informed sources, whether left or right. I miss the days when a person could mount a reasonable attempt to defend their positions.

We never get that from Ann Coulter. she never properly defends her positions, she merely insults anyone who disagrees with her.

She displays liberals in a minstrel show fashion of charicatures and exaggerations. and displays them before the world the way the Nazis scapegoated the jews.

This isn't about left and right, this is about the loss of civil diologue in America. Her hate speech, and that's what it is, is a thousand times more dangerous than any tax cut or social program.

To put it simply, Anncoulter reads less like Buckley's "Up from Liberalism" and more like Mein Kamph.

Ann Coulter properly points out that civil discussion in this country has been reduced to liberals spitting out slogans in a loud enough voice to drown any opponent out. Turn on any of the alleged news channels to verify this for yourself. Logic, facts, rational discourse are all submerged in ranting and chanting. Ms. Coulter has been on the receiving end of this first hand.

To me, the situations she describes are similar to the lack of discourse in the late 60s. "Make love, not war" was never a rational argument or a basis for intelligent discussion. Neither is "F'ing Bush and his f'ing oil buddies are in this war for profit."

We need more rational voices, like Ann Coulter's excellent presentation in this book. Read it for yourself with an open mind and see if she doesn't have valid points.

p.s. It's also a lot of fun if you have any sense of humor at all. I used to think the Republicans lacked a sense of humor but now it is the rabid Left that shows no appreciation.