Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild

I have a ton of Conservative books. I wasnt going to buy another, until I read the reviews in here from the left. Thats when I decided to buy it and help Michelle out. Your attempt to stiffle the sale of this book has backfired. As a new the store.com customer, you made it easy for me to buy one more conservative book, just to piss you off. Thanks Liberals! Job well done!

It is a shame that liberals find Michelle Malkin's "Unhinged", unsatisfactory. They bash her and her principles to no end. They cannot seem to accept the fact that liberals are the ones bringing down the country. So, is Ms. Malkin a 'rightist' then? No, she is not a 'rightist'---she is 'RIGHT'.

Was there anything at all I liked about this book? Anything positive I could say about it? Well, it was short, and that's no small thing but as short as it was, it was a stern test of my resolve, to finish any and all books I started.

Disclosure - I skipped a section in the middle, page after page of mean things folks said about Michelle on her website (hello, it's the Internet,) and I skimmed, OK, raced through the final 20 or so pages, not sure until the very end if I'd finish it or just throw it across the room.

A few years ago I tried to read one of Rush Limbaugh's books. The Limbaugh book was long, really long, and I tried and couldn't make it to the end. It was that awful. The theme - I'm the great Rush Limbaugh, here to tell you what to think and with my inimical humorous way of putting things, you know, that gift from God thing, you'll be informed even as you're entertained. It didn't work for me. Rush is what the World Wrestling Federation used to be, before it was unmasked - serious sport or entertainment, depending on what best suited it at the moment and not so good, in this reviewers opinion, at either. The lesson I got from it was never again.

Until I decided to do it again.

The theme of Malkin's book is simple enough, and hard to miss, with the way she beats you over the head with it. Liberals are deranged, violent folks who hate America; Conservatives (I only use the word because they use it) are God-fearing patriotic Americans under assault from the (who else,) deranged Liberals.

I finished the book in an afternoon, and not because I couldn't put it down. I could, and did, a lot, but I was determined to make it to the end and it was a Saturday and I usually give Saturdays over to soft-reading - swashbucklers, Westerns, and I couldn't escape the nagging injustice - I didn't deserve to be reading a political diatribe on a Saturday afternoon.

The book was written in 2005 so it's maybe not fair to review it now, it's a book about the situation in America nearly ten years ago and things change, oh, do they change. If Liberals were angry and deranged back then, who's deranged now, in 2013?

Why were the Liberals so angry? Well, 2 presidential elections, one ending when they stopped counting the votes, SCOTUS's decision robbing President Bush of the legitimacy he might otherwise have had and robbing SCOTUS of legitimacy too. Folks who crowed when the court put their man in the White House might better have taken a more sober look. There were legitimate questions raised about the 2004 election too, particularly in Ohio, and the war in Iraq? Something fishy there. These were just some of the sources of left-wing anger in 2005, none of which the book explores. The book only looks at how angry the Liberals were, or were presumed to be, and doesn't ask why.

It's anecdote piled on top of anecdote. It's proof, in case you didn't get it from the Introduction or from the back cover, of just how unhinged Liberals had become. All those rampaging violent left-wingers and who are the victims? Conservatives. Make that God-fearing, rational, peace-loving Conservatives. The book is also filled with apologies. The anecdotes end with the Liberals apologizing or stubbornly refusing to apologize when an apology is clearly in order.

I suppose it might have made the book somewhat more bearable had Michelle been witty or clever, but her zingers are snarky-ugly, (even as she quotes ad nauseum, the ugly things she has to endure.) Again, the Internet can be a very ugly place.

Her barbs lack zing.

A sample:

A college kid throws a pie at Ann Coulter and Coulter gives the kid what Michelle calls a "trademark verbal lashing." You know that Ann and her rapier wit. The lashing goes like this: "From that far away and he can't even hit me?" (The kid was apparently up close to the podium.) Hey, I've never thrown a pie at anyone but I imagine it's difficult to actually hit a person with a pie, without smushing it in their face. It's not like throwing a Frisbee or a shoe. To actually hit someone in the face with a vertical and not a horizontal pie, would require the pie to travel or at least alight, in a kind of stand-up position, which I suppose is aerodynamically impossible.

Anyway, that's not much of a lashing and maybe there was more to it but that's all we got. Michelle can give over page after page to all the nasty things people say about her and she can't give us a taste of Ann Coulter's trademark wit? Guess we'll just have to take her word for it.

Then there's the bit about Ward Churchill. Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado, had much to say about the 9-11 attacks, some of it pretty outrageous, but none of it, in my opinion, outside the bounds of allowable speech. Couldn't the freedom-loving, always fair-minded Conservatives have stood for the man's freedom, if not for the man? Instead, they pilloried Churchill, harassing and hounding him until he lost his position at the university for reasons that had nothing to do with his 9-11 comments, reasons some feel were excuses.

What I most hated about the book wasn't the politics. Michelle is syndicated in my local daily so I knew exactly what I was getting into before I checked the book out of the library. What I most hated was how tiresome it was. You want to make the case the Liberals are deranged, fine, go for it, but the next time could we have a little more in the way of analysis and not so many anecdotes? Why are they angry? Aren't you curious? Don't you care? Or are you content speaking just to the folks who think the way you do? Is what you're doing nothing more than confirming and rousing their indignation? But, wait. Your audience is conservative and those folks aren't angry, are they? Lighten up, Michelle. I know plenty of Liberals and they're not all angry and deranged.

The negative reviews of here book seem to validate her point. If anything it has its moments. If one cannot say something negative about a subject without lowering themselves to name calling and racial slurs then they probably haven't even read the book.

Some statements in this book are just her opinion. It is the author's opinion that Condi Rice is such a remarkable woman. An opinion I don't share. Yet the author presents this opinion like it is a fact. The democrats often stink with unbacked up "facts". But in casting that opinion on Condi like it was a fact so did Malkin.

[...] I found the book entertaining. It also is quite an indictment on politics as it stands today. Both the right and left have embarked on this course of ridiculous partisanship without regard to what is actually happening. The author has collected some pretty outrageous stories and presented them in an entertaining way.

Michele simply chronicals the hysterics of the left that the media ignores, and her own personal experiences with the left. Many of the experiences are racist, hate-filled attacks the left is supposed to rail against. An eye opener for those who aren't aware of the hate on the left. The book will leave you with questions as to why the media highlights right-wing hate, and ignores the hate on the left - especially since that hate has become mainstream. This book is especially valuable now with newspapers saying Clarence Thomas is not really black (does think "correctly"), and the pelting of a black conservative politician with Oreo cookies at ever stop.

Michelle Malkin once again hits the nail on the head and slaps the Left with a dose of reality. In her continuing series of well written, well researched books she provides us with endless examples of the Left's hypocrisy, double standards, and blatant racism. Those writing derogatory reviews here at the store provide eloquent proof of everything she writes. I commend those of you so willing to prove her point for all to see. Read the book and you will come away better for it.

Michelle Malkin turns over the vilest rocks and explores the murkiest swamps to expose the leftist creatures who call those places home. What she turns up is not so much insanity as it is treason. The hatred for their own country exhibited by the Left should leave any normal American enraged. Those of you who actually love America need to read this book immediately. If what these leftist traitors say and do doesn't spur you to political action against them, then don't be surprised when they attempt to appropriate and control your home, land, wealth and children.

These people don't believe in freedom. Instead they violently lust for absolute control. They show themselves to be the true enemies of liberty.

Michelle Malkin is a courageous reporter. She is not afraid to report the truth. It is sad that the truth causes so many to lay bare their "unhingment" for full public display as shown by the hate-filled reviews herein. However, these reviews only add weight to the authenticity of the books contents.

I have only read parts of the book at this time. However, each of the reported instances of liberals gone wild is documented. Each reported unhinged deed is verifiable by court records, newspaper reports, etc.

Finally, I suggest we all read the book before we render final judgment. If you haven't read Michelle Malkin before, you will be pleasantly surprised by her skilled writing, and depth of analysis and research.

When will we stop feeding the careers and pocketbooks of extremists such as this? The extremists on the left are no better, but Michelle Coulter and Ann Malkin seem to get an imbalanced amount of publicity, in comparison to their liberal counterparts.

And no, that wasn't an error, I just can't tell the difference between the two (2).

Read a book that contains an authentic thesis, making genuine arguments: [...]

Malkin proudly gives her contribution to the ever growing piles of short sighted "gotcha" cut & paste journalism that's become all too common in our nation today.

She selectivly cherry picks off color racial comments made by public left leaning folks as her evidence to build a case against liberalism in general, while ignoring a whole world of off color comments made by spotlight conservatives.

For example, Malkin makes a big point out of Hillary Clinton's comment made ealier this year in regards to the House of Representatives:

"has been run like a plantation...It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

While never mentioning the fact that Newt Gingrich, just before becoming Speaker of the House, made the same comparison in 1994:

"I clearly fascinate them," Gingrich said of the Democrats. "I'm much more intense, much more persistent, much more willing to take risks to get it done. Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I'm actually willing to lead the slave rebellion."

John McCain's 2000 racial slur was nowhere to be found either:

"I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live... I was referring to my prison guards and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend."

The bottom line is, anyone can make a laundry list of off handed racial comments, made by the left or right to make a distorted political point.

That's simple. This is lazy, hack reporting at it's worst.

Racism & prejudism are human problems, not simply conservative or liberal.

This is what you wrote.......

"As a Christian I liked this book because it exposes Liberals in all their silliness. I am constantly suspicious of Liberals, they want everything to be "free and easy" but God did not want that and who knows best? God of course. He gave His seven commandments so that we would live by a set of concrete rules and not do anything fanciful. If you don't like it then you are a heathen I say. Why don't people just behave themselves?"

Seven commandments?.....Last time I checked God gave us TEN commandments.

If you are going to argue in the name of God or religion....at least get your information right.

Anyways....about the book.

There will always be extreme people in any organization.....anti-abortionists who bomb abortion clinics are not in any way a representation of all people who don't believe in abortion. And yet extreme liberals who do downright dirty things in the name of liberalism represent all liberals!?....I think not.

Wake up Michelle.....if you don't want to be classified along with the extreme cons who do ridiculous things in an attempt to further their cause, then don't generalize others the same way.

Malkin's book provides more than enough evidence to show that the Loony Left has taken over the once great Democratic Party. Her book is well researched. She covers everything from liberals swiping yellow ribbons from parked cars, to liberals trying to run their vehicles over elected republican officials, to assinine liberals ranting about the War on Terrorists. She calmly points out the histronics engaged in by Liberal Democrats since President Bush was elected. I suggest persons on both side of the political aisle read Ms. Malkin's book and give some thought to the information it contains.

Malkin's book would only be useful in a classroom unit discussing propaganda. It is little more than a casserole of cherry-picked statements and essentially served up in what could only be described as a "screed" fraught with "glittering generalities" and ahistorical claims to establish the existence of that old bogeyman, the "dark other." A serious student of this kind of work would be better served examining nativist literatures of the mid to late eighteen-hundreds which tend to be better written and less devious in their presentation. Irony, sarcasm, and context are all discarded in this work in favor of infantile literalism, paps for the "red meat" crowd for whom nuance and good research is secondary to the validation of already formed and stubbornly held neoconservative political beliefs. In short - the crassest kind of pandering at the expense of others.

Malkin was a reasonably good newspaper reporter in Seattle, but has become much better known as a conservative TV pundit and columnist. This latest book of hers is thin, and much of it reads like a rehash of her columns and enjoyable (if you're on the right) blog.

(Fair disclosure, I skimmed through a copy in under an hour, so I won't claim to have read the book with great care, though I've certainly read it more than most of those posting here!)

It's not bad. With a title almost calculated to offend (and sell), the book does accurately list a whole series of liberal misdeeds and unhinged words. I googled several of her examples (including the almost unbelievable and disgusting Democratic Penn. State Senator who screamed "faggot" at Republicans on the floor of the Senate) and she reports them accurately, though her reporting is more focused on liberal misdeeds than any possible mitigation of them in context. Mind you, in many cases, there doesn't seem to be much possible mitigation.

I think the contention that those on the left are far more unhinged than those on the right is generally accurate. Where I believe the book breaks down, is to fail to explore the increasingly unhinged nature of activists on both the left and right over the last decade. I'd contend that much of the left is unhinged precisely because Bush is in power, and that some of the right was similarly unhinged and angry during the Clinton years.

I believe a more serious (and longer lasting) work would have explored exactly this point, and looked at some of the bizarre shibboleths of the extreme right in the 1990's. But that might not have been as fun.

That said, it's very readable, and if you're on the right, or an open-minded independent with a serious interest in politics, it might be worth picking up. If you've a liberal friend who gave you a copy of a Michael Moore/Al Franken book you didn't like last Christmas, here's a good gift to get him or her, if he/she's got a sense of humor.

I'd give it 3.5 stars if I could, but I can't, and it doesn't deserve 3, so 4 it is.

Hate begets hate. A good section of this book is devoted emails and letters that Michelle has received over the years. Given the nature of some of her earlier publications and the anonymity that the internet / mail provides, her conclusions regarding "Bush derangement syndrome" are dubious at best. I mean, really... David Duke probably receives a lot of ugly correspondence. Is that proof that his opposition is "unhinged"?

Malkin also has included number of "liberal criminal" mug-shots to assist in her well-poisoning efforts. However, if one reads the fine print of her selective evidence, it becomes evident that Michelle has included a substantial number of individuals who were merely charged, but not convicted. As with "In Defense of Interment", Malkin's disdain for presumption-of-innocence is evident. And although it may be increasingly commonplace these days, Michelle certainly doesn't earn credibility points through her reliance on misleading and "cherry picked" data.

If you delight in caricatures, demonization of ideological opponents, and straw men... this book is for you. However, if page after page of hatemonger tit-for-tat and transparent well-poisoning aren't your thing, save your cash.

Being a true conservative I was eager to read Ms. Malkin's book to see if she shared some of the same values as mainstream conservatives. Unfortunately, after reading her book I found she does not. She is merely another neo-conservative who is a cheerleader and promoter of the elitist neo-con agenda. Now I know why FoxNews has her on as an "expert commentator" all the time. It is disappointing to see further promotion of the phony left vs right paradigm.

It is ironic that so many of the things she considers "liberal" are also promoted (most of the time under the table and behind the scenes) by the so-called "conservatives." Just look at how our "conservative" GOP representatives have voted. If you need further proof look at the abuse by Bush via executive orders. If she is a conservative, then believe me, most Americans need to get a new title because she, nor her FoxNews cronies, nor most of our elected GOP politicians represent the views of "we the people."

The main problem I have about Malkin's book is that she seems to be of the opinion that "Liberals" are the only ones who can be loony....or vicious...there seems to be plenty to go around on the neo-conservative side as well. Just watch her and her co-horts on FoxNews any day.

I have also noticed that some of her quotes were taken out of context and some "creative editing" has been used.

Overall a very disappointing book that yet again proves that Michelle does not represent "middle America" and true conservative values.

Michelle Malkin's maiden name is Maglalang,according to the Library of Congress' "Name Authroity," which doesn't sound as foreign as Malkin I suppose. This would not be an issue with me except that she cashes her checks as an author as Maglalang. That's the name she put on the Copyright form.

Most reviewers never read these books and just put out their own nonsense. That goes for the people who support her as well those who slam her. I am going to narrow my review to what she says about the military, under her chapter "They DON'T support our troops."

Her section attacking Sen. Durbin's remarks about abuses of detainees at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib are not ballanced. For instance, she never points out that Sen. McCain shut alot of people up with the statement, "It's not about who THEY are but who WE are." It is too bad no media person ever mentioned that Gen. Washington treated all British prisoners correctly. He was critized for this, pointing out that the British let Americans rot in barbaric conditions and on prison ships. Washington's response was very similar to McCain's. He said we were better than the British and this was proof. Maglalang makes the usual snide comments that detainees are eating Tandoori chicken and should not bitch. As usual with people of limited intelligence, this avoids the discussion of violations of the Geneva Conventions (something I followed in Vietnam) and the fundamental right of habeas corpus. Thanks for making us a banana republic Bush and Maglalang.

The yellow ribbon theft stories are just ridiculous. A Leftist conspiracy? Returning vets laugh at the yellow magnets, they are so meaningless.

The 4th of July parade in Bainbridge is completely mispresented. It is true that a Marine was booed at this parade. What happened is he lined up and an organizer asked him who he was representing. He was booed by a large group of jerks when he answered the Iraq War. Most people there did not know what was happening as it was isolated. The Right blew this up into something it was not. The mayor and others apologized--which Maglalang conveniently forgot to mention. The vet was invited back but did not go. People tried to make this right, but I can understand how he felt. In fact, it was another Viet Vet who came to his defense to shame the town nuts.

Pointing out that Markos Zuniga, the Daily Kos, said "screw them" regarding the four Blackwater men killed is a bit harsh. Unfortunately, Kos, who Maglalang points out is a Gulf War vet, is not alone. Soldiers in Iraq hate the KBR and Blackwater people. There is a very famous video of a helicopter gunner flipping off a Blackwater guard while making him lie down. Many vets, just read their books, think the Blackwater types are counterproductive to the war effort and cause huge problems with the Iraqis. They feel they, the soldiers, in turn get attacked for transgretions by Blackwater.

The war on military recruiters is, sadly, true. The best way to end that, however, is to go down and sign up like I did. Come on Michelle and Hannity, show how military service is honorable. Better yet, go with some recruiters to Yale and Harvard.

Her commentary on Ted Rall is really way off. I don't much care for Rall, but at least he can apologize. His cartoon on Pat Tillman crossed the line. His commentary, however, dates to July 14, 2004. Starting the same paragraph where he states he would rather sleep under a bridge, he states, "There was a time when service in the US military was honorable and professionally rewarding." This is correct, unfortunately. For our last two presidents we get a draft-dodger and a rich boy who buys his way into the guard and then still goes AWOL. How honorable is that?

With the publication of Ms. Malkin's new book, like Peter Schweitzer's newest, we see the neoconservative movement in its "last throes, if you will" (thanks, Dick!), reduced to ad hominem attacks, dubious charges of "hypocrisy" and shoddy scholarship. The Bush administration is bereft of ideas, of critical thinking, of morality in general. Ms. Malkin can offer nothing to reform, reawaken, or renew her movement; all she has is thrown feces. If I had a mind to, I wouldn't wanna be like you (thanks Alan Parsons!)

The Liberalist Bah'haal is coming. There can be no more denial! They are coming for Christmas. Coming for our Bibles. Coming for our guns. Coming for our mega-churches and our American Pride. Coming for our SUVs and Wal-Marts. The hollow footsteps of the dammed march onward, unwaivering. We MUST be ready to defend ourselves! Thankfully we have Michelle Malkin! A Joan of Arc of the Glorious Conservative Cultural Crusade! A woman, so beautiful, so intelligent, so bright that she is destined for Sainthood!

Saint Malkin lays it out for us. She isn't afraid to 'tell it like it is' to 'call a spade a spade' if you know what I mean. She won't hesitate to let us know if it's getting 'dark out early' if you catch my drift.

"Look, it's simple America," St. Malkin says in her latest tome, "take up arms against the demonic hordes of Liberalism, or be prepared to watch our cities crumble and burn." These Liberals are UNHINGED and they will kill babies for their dark lord. We KNOW this already, yet there is more. Unspeakable things. Things no decent Christian can hear without being driven insane. But St. Malkin, God bless her sweet heart and soft, exotic skin, is willing to put her own sanity and life on the line to expose these horrible, horrible things. God bless you Malkin! We are praying for you. May no harm come to your sleek, supple frame!

Read this gospel if you can handle it. This is one that should not be given to your comely wives or obedient children. This one must be protected, read only by you, the MAN, for only us men have the strength to take the horrors Saint Malkin, the succulent saint, exposes here. You will see the Liberalist forces for what they really are. You will see the true blackness that lies behind their black, tattered robes and hard, obsidian armor. The evil beneath their sunken, hollow eyes and pale, scaly flesh. When the black curtain is pulled back you will see them for what they truly are: and it will make you vomit. (I vomited several times during the reading of this gospel) But you will be more determined to WIN after you see the Crimson River of Tortured Souls that feeds the Liberalist movement. You will be ready to do what it takes to protect Joey and Janey and OUR AMERICAN WAY of LIFE!

God bless you all!

(Note: This book has one star merely to dissuade the weak of spirit. This book is a test of your character. To peer into the eyes of the beast is something that can destroy the weaker men, and all women, except for of course St. Malkin and her warm, full lips.)

This book takes a broad swipe at liberals, cherry-picking the outliers and presenting them as representative of the Democratic Party and liberal thinkers as a whole.

Now-it would be awfully easy to do the same thing to conservatives and Republicans. Need I mention any of Ann Coulter's inflammatory rhetoric, where she equates liberalism with betraying our country?

Point being: there are plenty of nuts on the left and the right. Richard Scaife spent millions trying to dig up dirt on Bill Clinton (far more than Hillary pocketed on cattle futures, if anyone is keeping score). The "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" were funded almost exclusively by a member of George Bush's "Rangers" in Houston. Bill O'Reilly didn't remember that he had a privileged upbringing and registered as a Republican. Then we have Ted Kennedy, who tries to play a moral voice but is constantly undermined by his hypocrisy (Chappaquidick).

If one is content to simply reinforce one's own preconceptions, then this book provides ample confirmation of "what we always suspected". However, as a government teacher in a public high school, I must say that the author is engaging in one of the problematic activities I always warn my students against-mistaking the exception for the rule.

The folks over on our side of the blogosphere regularly track the Republicans or conservatives arrested for sexual perversion (too numerous to mention), or money laundering (Abrahamoff, De Lay), or espionage and treason (Hanson came before Rove and Libby, you know).

Maglalang- that's the real name of "Malkin" - doesn't mention these things, because, after all, it detracts from her "Liberals -baaad!" bleat, but to objective observers, and to the American people, who increasingly disapprove of this unpopular regime and its actions, Maglalang's rant carries no import.

Like much of the right-wing media, Maglalang can't face up to the objective reality that there are a bunch of really nasty folks in power, that she's supported. But Americans know better.

I'm sure that at this point Maglalang's screed will have about as much impact on the national discourse as Hugh Who?-it.

Michelle Malkin is on target as usual. (Her "In Defense of Internment" was quite simply the best treatise on the subject since Ilsa Koch put pen to paper.) The despicable liberals among us are like cockroaches who aren't satisfied with the crumbs but want to destroy our whole enchilada. This book goes on my shelf right next to Sean Hannity's "Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism," Bernard Goldberg's "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America," Ann Coulter's "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism," David Limbaugh's "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity", "Brainwashed : How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth" by Ben Shapiro, "Treachery : How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies" by Bill Gertz, "Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First" by Mona Charen, "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch, "The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith, and Military" by Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham's "Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America."

(Actually, since I organize my books alphabetically by author and sub-alphabetically by title, this book will go on my shelf after Michelle's "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores" and just before Bill O'Reilly's "Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Murder and Television.")

And for anyone who likes this book, I recommend "War Crimes : The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror" by Buzz Patterson. It's not out yet, but you can bet that it will be every bit as important a contribution to rational discourse as "Unhinged."

I flipped though this book (it's a lightweight read) and thought, "Wow, how many hours would it take to write a parallell book, printing crazy emails from republicans, citing evidence of right-wingers attacking and harassing left-wingers, quoting calls for murder from neo-cons, etc. etc." This is a lazy book. She is a weak thinker and damages important and legitimate conservative philosophy.

With her latest book length op-ed Michelle Malkin dishes out the "dirt" on all the "loony" liberals in an effort to convince the American public that the left/right paradigm is doing anything other than hurt our country. All the usual suspects are here. Al Franken, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and pretty much anyone in Hollywood who hasn't come out in support of the president.

In the past few months books have been released by Byron York, Bernard Goldberg, Peter Schweizer, Mona Charen and Mike Gallagher that all tackle the same subjects and repeat the familar talking points. SO my question is, is this book really necesary? If you see yourself as right winger who can't get enough of dishing dirt on people who will probably never directly affect your life in any way, then this book is for you. It's a quick, simple read (Malkin has never been one to demonstrate any kind of literary gift).

However, if you're an American who would rather see our country come together, no matter which side you're on, then this book is a worthless partisan endeavor. This isn't going to educate anyone who claims to be a "conservative" about anything they haven't already read on worldnetdaily or newsmax.

Ok, we get it. You don't like these people Michelle. And you feel they're hurting America. But from where I stand you're all guilty (both left and right) of advocating a divide and conquer element in American politics that this writer is more than happy to advance.

As a member of the national alliance I can honestly say that I love this book. The way she supports concentration camps for people who happen to be born a certain race is great! She is finally putting into book form what I have been yelling at my rallies! Its too bad she doesn't represent my heritage (if you know what I mean) but clearly she is trying to redeem herself.

Looks like Ann Coulter has a sister who needs some quick cash, so she uses an alias, throws in a few buzz words and phrases, picks on American patriots who feel this country doesn't have to settle for mediocrity, and spews out some literary diarrhea. Apparently, if you like wars, scandals, deficits, and decaying values, then you have alot in common with this those in this administration.

"This is the woman who went on Hardball before the election and declared that she believed John Kerry shot himself on purpose in Vietnam..." She never said anything of the sort. This writer shares the confusion Chris Mathews showed when he went apoplectic at the phrase "self inflicted". No wonder Liberals are so often confused, they don't understand the language.

Malkin said Kerry was accused by his fellow officers (and I have no idea who's correct here, Kerry or his fellow officers) of receiving a Purple Heart for shrapnel received from his own grenade that he, himself had tossed into a rice bin (his own report said he used the grenade in this fashion). What Mathews and the nutcase above don't understand is that "self-inflicted" doesn't necessarily mean you did it on purpose. Neither Malkin or anyone else ever accused Kerry of injuring himself on purpose.

Malkin's premise is that some liberals are looney (eg. unhinged). "Evidence: includes reports of Democrats becoming depressed after Bush's re-election (given his record on Iraq, taxes, the environment, etc. - that's understandable), Cindy Sheehan's upsetness with Bush (she'd be insane not to, having lost a son in a useless war), and a picture of a Bush-bashing license plate. True, some liberals crossed the line, defacing signs and damaging other property, and Al Franken often goes "over the line" - no excuses.

On the other hand, there are certifiable, goofy Republicans as well! Worse yet, there are dishonest and/or abusive Republicans - eg. Karl Rove (Bush's Brain), Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon (big-time lobbyists), Scooter Libby (Cheney Chief of Staff), George Cunningham (Ca. representative on the take), Richard Cheney (9/11 = Iraq, "the terrorists are in their last throes,"), Tom ("storm-trooper") Delay (illegal money transfers; stayed tuned re the Abramoff scandal), George Bush (lies about EVERYTHING), and Donald ("low-budget") Rumsfeld (not enough soldiers or armor). And then there's former CEO Ken Lay of Enron - record-setting swindler and con man, Bernie Ebbers at Worldcom, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco, and others.

So what does "Unhinged" prove? Nothing.

While many of Michelle's observations and anecdotes are oftentimes hilarious, it is equally hilarious and obsurd to somehow presume that only one political ideology (something even more general and amorphous than an actual poltiical party) is guity of one-sided "wildness." That is, ad hominem attacks, bizarre leaps in logic, and overall irrational beliefs. It's all the more puzzling that this book was written by Malkin, who is one of the more vitriolic political pundits writing today. It is obsurd to quote Sean Peann and say that his words represent all "liberals" and the beliefs of "liberalism." It would be equally obsurd to say Pat Roberton's remarks about assassinating the president of Venezuela as belonging to Republicans and conservatives in general. Indeed, if any such remark was made, Malkin would be the first to pounce on it, and likely attribute it to the liberal media.

Five stars? You bet! This is high octane garbage, produced by one of the most acute minds of political lunacy.

Malkin's latest effort at typing is another toilet bowl in need of a good flushing and thus connect to the nation's conservative cesspool where the floaters are the usual assortment of fecal punditry, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingram, Bill O'Reilly, some log-like, some runny. I guess this testifies to the nation's current political diet that it's excrement consists largely of trust-funded politicos, free marketeers on the take, thieves in the executive suites, souless wonks, idiot ideologues, Republicans nutjobs, Democrats who confuse demur with demure, and cranky kooky Christians. But its the faux-journalists, that motley crew of gasbags, windbags, animated farts, and three-dimensional odors, to which Malkin belongs and which lingers in nostrils after the monring's constitutional.

Its not that Malkin's targets aren't deserving of criticism or even ridicule. It is, however, a matter of credibility and perspective. An author who defends this country's internment of Japanese-Americans and recommends a similar policy toward Muslims is clearly one who understands the limits of tolerance. As someone who labels opponents and critics moonbats is, well, a paragon of civility. As some who shows no limit for her ardor for the war in Iraq, our intrepid observer definitely knows a thing or two about the value of deception and having other people die for one's cause. For the sane, however, the author fails to inform her readers just what she uses as a benchmark for intolerance, incivility, jingoism, elitism, and paranoia. To do so would expose her and her audience of bigots, mouthbreathers, flat-earthers, and rapture-waiters as archetypes of the political unhinged.

Something tells me that Malkin's email inbox has nothing on Margaret Cho's for racist invective and sexist haranguing. Remember, when leftists get angry they light candles. Wingers have been known to blow-up a federal building.

From Wikipedia:

In April of 2006, a popular blog Spittle And Ink revealed that Malkin is in fact one of the "anchor babies" she rails against in her writings as her Philippines-born parents were in the United States on work-visas when she was born.

Why would you even want to read a book by such a terrible hypocrite?

The previous reviewer has it right, albeit with the following changes:

First, he has to change the words "expose" and "turns up" to "protect,"
the word "read" to "denounce",
and "leftist", "Left," etc. to "right-wing".

The same alterations can be suggested for the choices of some of the key figures in Malkin's book.

Do the reviewers here seem unhinged? Of course they do, which proves Michelle Malkin right again.

Her quick wit and sharp eye for irony make this book entertaining, but there is a larger point. How can a democracy survive if people become unhinged when they lose?

The flame war erupting over this book is ironic confirmation of its thesis, which is that liberals have become irrationally unhinged on account of conservatism's political success and the slow, steady and probably irreversible slide of American liberalism. People should feel free to disagree, but one aspect of Ms. Malkin's books is that they are thoroughly researched, which is one reason why Malkin's critics resort to name-calling instead of disputation.

More than a few smart liberals have noted that they would be better off if the unhinged, Michael Moore wing of liberalism were isolated and read out of the Democratic Party, the way Buckley isolated and rejected the Birchers 40 years ago. Smart liberals will wince in recognition of the examples Malkin offers here, but should be grateful for the inside-out blueprint it offers for renewal.

Once again, Michelle Malkin states best what the loons on the left think they're still hiding. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this book is worth a thousand liberals squirming on the floor, with gnashing of teeth, eyes bulging, tongues a waggin', and hair standing on end. This one is guaranteed to push them right over the edge. The THUMP of their hard heads hitting the rocks of their own stupidity will not be pretty. Let's face it folks ... those certainly aren't brain droppings.

Teddy Kennedy would step over a thousand drowning women to get away from this truth.

While I'm a conservative, I truly do weep over the state of the Democrat Party. Riddled with self-confessed irrationalists, it is truly unhinged and has been so since Al Gore's self-imposed loss in 2000. The man couldn't even win his own state! If he had, he would have been President; and yet, Democrats would have us believe that the election was "stolen." I guess someone "stole" the sensibility of those who know him best and didn't vote for him as well. Yeah ... uh-huh ... sure ... and the Monica-Bill (yuck) affair was just a "vast right-wing conspiracy," as ascribed by the ever-faithful and adoring Hitlery (oops!), I mean Hillary Clinton.

If you care about this country and preserving our freedoms, if you do not ascribe to the notion that the Constitution is a "living, breathing document" (in other words, you have a brain!), buy this book.

There's nothing better than an ice cold glass of truth to quench your thirst.

I remember before the 2004 election, back when the lies of the Swift Boat guys came out, here was our little author on Hardball with Chris Matthews. And what did this little Ann Coulter wannabe have to say - that John Kerry shot himself to get medals for his future political career. That's right, she actually said that he shot himself to get medals. And we are supposed to believe that only the left has slimeballs writing about right, and there is no flip side?? Come on, stop the spin sister. Your book is more of the same crap. Another to add to the 101 people hurting America (and Rupert Murdoch is #1).

Michelle Malkin is the cute, clever kid in class with a lousy childhood and big resentments, who tries extra hard to annoy people so she will be noticed. She's good with words and has a knack for turning cute, derogatory phrases, but has nothing of overall value to say. Anyone who wastes their money on this book is just encouraging her to continue, like feeding a stray dog encourages it to hang around the house. Malkin is to 21st Century American politics what flatulance is to a dinner party.

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Michelle is, like everyone not a flaming neo-Communist (i.e., Liberal, "progressive," etc.), is constantly attacked by the Looney Left simply because she still breathes.

The negative reviewers of her book HAVEN'T EVEN BOUGHT IT, but that -- a fact -- never stopped the Left.

The Modern Democratic Party, like its predecessor -- which started the Civil War to keep blacks in bondage and, having lost, used Jim Crow and now welfare to keep them on the plantation -- is a study in hypocrisy, and Michelle points it out.

I say the book is incomplete because, like another reviewer before me, there's no way she could keep track of the insanity of the Looney Left. The one good thing about it is that it continues, and they're going more and more nuts. I mean, hey, when you have Al Franken as your hero, you've got to be unhinged, if the pun be pardoned.

But that's okay -- the grown-ups are in charge now, unlike from 1993-2001 -- and we'll go ahead and keep the Libs safe despite their best efforts to aid and abet those sworn to kill us all.

We don't even expect their thanks; as long as we have people like Michelle out there reminding us they're too insane to acknowledge anything that's not the polar opposite of common-sense logical, we don't need to hear anything from them.

There's a reason the jackass is the Democratic party's symbol, folks...

I haven't been able to stomach reading the entire book, but what I have read is pretty darn incoherent. It's a strange and nasty little screed with a lot of made up "facts" and bizarre anecdotes. Other than informing us that Ms. Malkin doesn't like liberals (which, I believe, we already knew), it doesn't seem to have any particular purpose as it rambles along. Stuff like this should be e-published because a lot of paper will be wasted after the book languishes for a while on the remainder table.

Michelle Malkin is nothing more than a hatemonger. What country has she been living in for the last four years? There's no mention in her book about Bill O'Reilly's sex scandal, Rush Limbaugh's drug case, Tom DeLays indictment, The CIA leak Investigation or the misuse of intelligence to take the country to war. Instead she focuses on meaningless trivial nonsense! Like what the folks in Hollywood are saying. It's astounding to me that Michelle and many like her can't comprehend why people on the left are angry. An optional war, leaking the name of a CIA agent, blurring the line between the separation of Church and state, and not allowing non Bush supporters into his rallies is enough to make anyone angry.

Throughout the book Michelle gives examples of Liberals lashing out, Yet she fails to mention Christian Conservatives who advocate killing abortion doctors, she fails to mention the lies that the Swift Boat Vets told on Kerry( The Navy Investigated and found John Kerry was truthful) She fails to mention Rush Limbaugh going after a then 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton. She fails to mention Trent Lott's racist remarks. In Michele's world anything that isn't a Republican Conservative is bad.

Her book was written for people who still believe Saddam attacked us on 911, people who still believe that Libby acted alone, without Cheney's blessings. Basically her book was written for the intellectually challenged. With all of that being said, I still think people should read the book. . . Don't spend your money just check it out at the library. Everyone should see how twisted Michelle's views are.

Oh my! Another insta-book from a radical conservative bobblehead that parrots all of the talking points from the insta-books of all the other radical conservative bobbleheads! (Really, without the pictures on the cover, could you tell if it was Laura Ingramn Ann Coulter, or Michelle Malkin who was the author?) Who could be the publisher? Why, Regenery! Wow! Well, they're still in business, so they either have a good sugar daddy or the same thousand people on the mailing list buy every book they publish. Bully for them. The rest of you, don't waste your money. If you really want to sample Malkin's Mania, go to her website. She says everything she does in the book, but you save your $$$.