Slander

Liberal Lies About the American Right

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

“The immutable fact of politics in America is this: liberals hate conservatives.”

Ann Coulter, whose examination of the Clinton impeachment was a major national bestseller and earned widespread praise, now takes on an even tougher issue. At a time when Democrats and Republicans should be overwhelmingly congenial, American political debate has become increasingly hostile, overly personal, and insufferably trivial. Whether conducted in Congress or on the political talk shows, played out at dinners or cocktail parties, politics is a nasty sport.

At the risk of giving away the ending: It’s all liberals’ fault.

Cultlike in their behavior, vicious in their attacks on Republicans, and in almost complete control of mainstream national media, the left has been merciless in portraying all conservatives as dumb, racist, power hungry, homophobic, and downright scary. This despite the many Republican accomplishments of the last few decades, as well as the Bush administration’s expert handling of the country’s affairs in the wake of the worst attacks on American soil and of the war that followed.

With incisive reasoning and meticulous research, Ann Coulter examines the events and personalities that have shaped modern political discourse—the bickering, backstabbing, and name-calling that have made cultural mountains out of partisan molehills. She demonstrates how the media, especially, are biased—and usually wrongheaded—and have done all in their power to obfuscate the issues and the people behind them, bending over backward to villainize and belittle the right, while rarely missing an opportunity to praise the left.

Perhaps if conservatives had had total control over every major means of news dissemination for a quarter century, they would have forgotten how to debate, too, and would just call liberals stupid and mean. But that’s an alternative universe. In this universe, the public square is wall-to-wall liberal propaganda.

Refreshingly honest and unerringly timely, Slander continues where Bernard Goldberg’s number one bestselling Bias left off.

©2002 Ann Coulter (P)2002 Random House Inc.

Slander? more like Blander...

I can finally put away my sleeping pills...This book was nearly impossible to get through. I kept waiting for her to make a quantifiable claim about all of these supposed "liberal lies." Instead she spends all of her time calling people names, specifically liberals... She really does her cause a disservice by getting published. Don't waste your money and moreso your time listening to this book.

Leave your intelligence at the door

I am amazed at what gets into print (audio). Where did this lady come from, and who told her that she knows anything about politics/history/research/ANYTHING?!? Her "facts" are anything but, her arguments are inflamitory, and she flat out lies, assuming that the American public is just too stupid to verify her claims. Sadly, it appears that this is often the case. The best use of this book is as a case study of narcissism, delusion of grandeur, and possibly compulsive lying.

Faulty Research

If she is going to write a book, at least she could research what she saying and who she is referencing. I don't know if it is faulty research or possibly just trying to mislead the reader. Anyway, don't spend the money.

To all rating this book highly

I would not accept Ms. Coulter's research as accurate until you've had a chance to listen to Al Franken's latest book "Liars, and the Lying Liars that Tell Them". You'll see that her so-called endnotes have been researched separately and are nothing more than texts taken out of context. Anyone can spin Lexus-Nexus searches to mean anything they want. Did just a little deeper, and you will see the house of cards that make up her stance.

Overblown, misleading & repetitive

The Queen of the Sound Bite is Ann. Lots of snappy lines, but give me a break on some of the "evidence" she trots out ... over and over again. At least you know with Ann that her purpose is to be controversial and one way to do that is to reach sweeping outrageous conclusions from tiny fragments of information while ignoring any and all contradictory evidence.

Pure Fantasy

Ahhh if only something lower than one star existed. This book is appropriately titled, although really it should be called "libel". It's a work of pure fiction, the "documentation" for which, when examined, proves to be entirely lacking. As with any work by Anne Coulter the reader is left to wonder if she is intentionally lying to act as a well paid hatchet-(wo)man, or if she's so far into the stratosphere that she believes her own swill. Beyond that little debate, nothing else in this book will interest anyone with even the most marginal intelligence or character.

UnChristian and Hateful

I thought that this author was supposed to be one of the best conservative writers, but she is really unChristian and full of hate. She does not support any conservative ideas that I can see. She only only tries to build herself up by putting others down in vile and disgusting ways

Rantings by a deranged right winger

There is not only something definitely wrong with Ann Coulter, there must be something wrong with the tens of thousands of rabid right-wingers who swallow this tripe. Save your money and time and spend it on a more balanced treatment of the American political scene.

Not worth spending the money, go to the library

I've read both this book (and several others of hers) as well as books by Al Franken and several other political "commentators." The thing about these books, is anyone with half a brain can find isolated figures, embarrasing moments, and convoluted logic to make any point. Coulter does this, Franken does this, they all do it. The only reason to read any of them is so that you'll realize that you SHOULD NOT base your political views on the books of self appointed 'analysts.' (and also it's amusing to see them bashing the hell out of each other)

Whining and irritating, Do NOT waste your money

Conservative hate mongering, one-sided nonsense. It would be nice if she stuck to facts and possibly used correct statistics to tease out some interesting information. Taking comments from several public figures out of context, making up stories and misquoting to serve her needs is the bread and butter of this audiobook. It is difficult to listen to her for long periods of time, maybe its the lisp and Lilith-like voice (remember the show Fraser?). Get your serving of politics elsewhere.