How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)

The World According to Ann Coulter

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental best-sellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years - and certainly the most controversial. 

Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she offers her most comprehensive analysis of the American political scene to date. With incisive reasoning, refreshing candor, and razor-sharp wit, she reveals just why liberals have got it so wrong.

In this powerful and entertaining book, which draws on her weekly columns, Coulter ranges far and wide. No subject is off-limits, and no comment is left unsaid. 

After all, she writes, “Nothing too extreme can be said about liberals because it’s all true.” How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) offers Coulter’s unvarnished take on:

• The essence of being a liberal: “The absolute conviction that there is one set of rules for you, and another, completely different set of rules for everyone else.”
• John Kerry: “A reporter asked Kerry, ‘Are you for or against gay marriage?’ As usual, his answer was, ‘Yes.’ ”
• Her 9/11 comments: “I am often asked if I still think we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. The answer is: Now more than ever!”
• The state of the Democratic Party: “Teddy Kennedy crawls out of Boston Harbor with a quart of Scotch in one pocket and a pair of pantyhose in the other, and Democrats hail him as their party’s spiritual leader.”
• Her philosophy for arguing with liberals: “Tough love, except I don’t love them. My ‘tough love’ approach is much like the Democrats’ ‘middle-class tax cuts’ - everything but the last word.”
• The “Treason Lobby”: “Want to make liberals angry? Defend the United States.”

In this full-on Coulterpalooza, you’ll find the real, uncensored Ann Coulter. A special concluding chapter even includes the pieces that squeamish editors refused to publish - “what you could have read if you lived in a free country,” says Coulter. 

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) is a stunning reminder of why Ann Coulter’s commentary has achieved must-read status.

“A fluent polemicist with a gift for Menckenesque invective...and she can harness such language to subtle, syllogistic argument.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Ann Coulter is a trailblazer.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“She can zing one-liners faster than Zeus can throw lightning bolts.” (Kansas City Star)

©2004 Ann Coulter (P)2004 Books on Tape

Critic reviews

"A great deal of research supports Ms. Coulter's wisecracks." (New York Times)

I loved it!

It's not for the faint of heart, but you gotta admit: No one turns a phrase quite like Ann Coulter.

She rocks, and this book rocked. (It came out yesterday, and I stayed up most of the night listening to it. note: the other reviews today did not even listen to it!)

Thanks, Audible, for giving us the Unabridged version. (I hate abridged versions.)

My only complaint is that Ann only narrates part of this book. I love her voice, so miss it when the narrator takes over. That said, the narrator is good too.

More of bs by Cruella Deville of the right.

Just plain bad. No footnotes = straight bs.

Again, Ann does not dissapoint

Audible should be able to cross-reference the one star listeners to see if they actually bought, let alone listened to the book, I doubt it 'cause this book is HOT! There is no other author that I await more than Coulter because of her biting and witty style. If you are a liberal let me give you a suggestion, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! You will come away with two black eyes and a bloody nose, not to mention the hurt "feelings. She is vicious, pulls no punches and best of all, spits on political correctness.

No nonsense men who are sick of walking on eggshells will love this book. She lets the cat out of the bag on her debate strategies which many, go along to get along politicians unfortunately ignore.

I caught myself laughing out loud on many occasions as she taunts the left with her well thought out and logical arguments.

funny...but....

Coulter has a knack for delivering memorable punches and articulating amuzing, bruising ironies. But while there is no end to the number of internal inconsistencies I hear in liberal rhetoric, I have to admit I'm a mostly embarrassed to have Ann as a mouthpiece for modern conservatives. The depth of her reflection seems shallow compared to many other conservative and libertarian pundits - I certainly wouldn't pull out her quotes in serious political conversations with friends. I'd be taken down for hypocrisy in twenty different ways. I wish she could combine her lively style with more authenticity. She seems to be less about factual reporting and careful, synthetic analysis and more about pushing emotional hot-buttons without even establishing a factual ground for doing so. If you really want to talk to a liberal, you need to be able to communicate that you are listening to them and understand them. If you talk to a liberal the way Coulter does, well - you'll have many fewer friends and you'll never really persuade anyone of anything. Persuasion is one of the most important arts of our time. It involves highly skilled communication. Coulter bludgeons this art. So yeah, I chuckle. But I'm deeply disturbed that she's reinforcing the very attitudes and perspectives that make Americans a dysfunctional citizenship with a dysfunctional government.

How does she look at herself in the mirror

Unchecked facts and a lot of bile! No wonder we are so divided in this country. What a waste of money.

A boring diatribe

Save your money; this is so boring... she must have been short of cash and churned this out to make a quick buck.

Spend your time and money elsewhere

Ann Coulter is one of those media pundits who thrive on the "us vs. them" mentality - you are either a conservative or a liberal and if you are the latter, then you are a miserable, loathsome moral degenerate. That is nothing new since most commentators fall into one of the two categories, but what sets Coulter apart is her vicious and unapologetic nature. Her latest book is merely a collection of her columns written during the last five years. Some of them were so outrageous that they were refused publication by USA Today, National Review, etc. Coulter's condescending smugness and sometimes humorous (but desperate) one-liners grow tiresome *very* quickly. Only hard core conservatives who revel in vitriolic idealogical self affirmation will truly enjoy this book; if conservative talk radio makes you warm and fuzzy inside, plunk down your coin here. If, however, you're tired of body-slamming right-wing vapid babble like this, check out a genuinely thoughtful, articulate and smart convervative writer like George F. Will.

A Veritable Laugh Riot

Ann Coulter is one of THE MOST talented political humorists around. If, like me, you are an average working Joe, who battles with the challenges of life with honor and as little sniveling as possible.......you will LOVE Ann Coulter! You will laugh until you cry with gratitude that Ann Coulter can so eloquently express the stream of consciousness Right ( with apologies to Jack "Being a Drunk is Really Hep" Kerouac).Both the abridged and unabridged are enthusiastically recommended.

A commentator is a terrible thing to waste

As an Audible offering, "How to Talk..." is of acceptable quality. The switching between narrators is a bit grating, and detracts somewhat from the overall recording. But there are other reasons one might wish to skip this and spend your time more productively. The single greatest problem with Ann Coulter's latest book is its relationship to reality, or rather its lack thereof. Simply launching ad hominem attacks against those with whom we don't agree is no substitute for detailed discussion of the issues they raise. This is one of the most rookie of errors possible in logic, and would be funny if it weren't so Orwellian. What we need from someone of Ms. Coulter's obvious intellectual capabilities and achievements is a little less rookie error, and a lot more open discussion to advance the debate. Regardless of whether you agree with what she has to say, there is just too much bathwater here and not enough baby. Unless you derive pleasure listening to a biased presentation to salve your own biases, skip this one.

Awful Junk

This book is terribly written, and devoid of any intellectual merit. Utterly without facts or even an attempt at backing up a single statement, this book is a transparant rant by a woman who has already proven that she's either a lunatic, or soullessly mercenary.