Mugged

Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

"This isn’t a story about black people - it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else."

For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights move­ment - which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that liberals were black America’s only protectors.

It took the O. J. Simpson verdict - the race-based acquittal of a spectacularly guilty black celebrity as blacks across America erupted in cheers - to shut down the white guilt bank.

But now, fewer than two decades later, our "postracial" president has returned us to the pre-O.J. era of nonstop racial posturing. A half-black, half-white Democrat, not descended from American slaves, has brought racial unrest back with a whoop.

The Obama candidacy allowed liberals to engage in self-righteousness about race and get a hard-core Leftie in the White House at the same time. In 2008, we were told the only way for the nation to move past race was to elect him as president. And 53 percent of voters fell for it.

Now, Ann Coulter fearlessly explains the real his­tory of race relations in this country, including how white liberals twist that history to spring the guilty, accuse the innocent, and engender racial hatreds, all in order to win politically. You’ll learn, for instance, how:

• A U.S. congressman and a New York mayor con­spired to protect cop killers who ambushed four police officers in the Rev. Louis Farrakhan’s mosque.
• The entire Democratic elite, up to the Carter White House, coddled a black cult in San Francisco as hun­dreds of the cult members marched to their deaths in Guyana.
• New York City became a maelstrom of racial hatred, with black neighborhoods abandoned to crimi­nals who were ferociously defended by a press that assessed guilt on the basis of race.
• Preposterous hoax hate crimes were always believed, never questioned. And when they turned out to be frauds, the stories would simply disappear from the news.
• Liberals quickly switched the focus of civil rights laws from the heirs of slavery and Jim Crow to white feminists, illegal immigrants, and gays.
• Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz was surprisingly popular in black neighborhoods, despite hysterical denunciations of him by The New York Times.
• Liberals slander Republicans by endlessly repeating a bizarro-world history in which Democrats defended black America and Republicans appealed to segregationists. The truth has always been exactly the opposite.

Going where few authors would dare, Coulter explores the racial demagoguery that has mugged America since the early 70s. She shines the light of truth on cases ranging from Tawana Brawley; Lemrick Nelson; and Howard Beach, New York; to the LA riots and the Duke lacrosse scandal. And she shows how the 2012 Obama campaign is going to inspire the greatest racial guilt mongering of all time.

©2012 Ann Coulter (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Mugged is not just a book - it's a public service." (The American Spectator)

"A refreshing and informative antidote to the divisive narratives about race perpetuated by politicians and the mainstream media." (The Washington Times)

Interesting and scathing

Well, it's Ann Coulter. Her voice is strident, her tone scathing, and this book becomes an endurance test to see if you can get to the end before you gouge out your ears. The overall theme is that liberal politicians have used racial issues to bolster their political positions without regard to actual social outcomes of their policies. She cites multiple historical examples as well as statistical evidence in her argumentation, some of which is interesting and some of which is hard to sit through (for example, she breaks out which "Goldwater states" supported which presidential candidates over the last 40 years). This book is interesting if you're conservative and probably intolerable if you're liberal.

Great history lesson!

Thank you Ann for the thoroughness and vast research used for writing this book.

Looking forward to your other books!

Great!

Would you listen to Mugged again? Why?

This was very informative. I like how fact based Ann's books are and Mugged is full of detailed info on the subject.

I Learned more from this book!!

If you could sum up Mugged in three words, what would they be?

This book was so eye opening. When I read a book I might mark a page 3 or 4 times tops, usually to go back and learn more about that subject. In this book I wanted to flag about every 3rd page. This book should be the basis for a history class in High School and College.

What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?

The American press is out of control, yhey have an agenda in mind and truth or no truth it doesn't matter who it hurst, who's lives are destroyed by their lies the only important thing is that they keep this lie of a racist america alive. I am refering to the several cases of false racist points published in the many articles that Ann covers in the book.

Any additional comments?

Democrats are power hungry racists.It still goes on today right under our noses. Example of Democrats racist continue in public housing. It keeps a lot of the blacks in one area, Republicans want to go to the “voucher system” so that they can choose where to live and apply the voucher towards an apartment or house in a nicer area.A perfect example is in Galveston Texas where a large area of public housing was destroyed in the hurricane. The city mayor wants to go to a voucher system but the federal government is forcing them to build what will again become slums.

Coulter loads up on references. Great preperation.

Would you consider the audio edition of Mugged to be better than the print version?

Not better. The printed version has all the footnotes.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

This isn't a story.

What does Ann Coulter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her delivery of humor.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Not film material; ionly a documentary.

Any additional comments?

Tyopical, well reasarched book by Ann Coulter. That's why those who dispise her can't criticize content. A super historain.

Awesome

What else can you expect from Ann? Truthful, accurate and on point, let alone funny at times, this book will open up your mind.

This is a book that all white people need to read immediately

This book demonstrates and lays bare the devastating consequences of our obsession with race. If you have any propensity to make political decisions based on white guilt, real or imagined, read this book immediately, before you inadvertently harm people with your naive genuflecting.

Right on the mark

Great read. Well-written and well-documented. Another gem by Ann Coulter. Definitely worth a listen.

It will make you sick, in a good way.

Would you listen to Mugged again? Why?

Yes. There is so much information. I want to re listen so I can write down the cases and research them myself. I also want to read the books written by other authors she mentions.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

The overwhelming evidence of media bias. The shameless race baiting by liberal journalists. They salivate over human misery and create it when it doesn't exist. They will not allow racism to die. They lie. They sympathize with murderers. They are the worst racists of all. They use race to leverage power, and they know they can use racial demagoguery to simultaneously increase power amongst their piers and bully dissenters into silence.

What does Ann Coulter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I like watching Ann being interviewed, she is really funny. This is no different.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes and no. It is very interesting, but also made me so disgusted I had to take a break now and then.

Any additional comments?

Like I said, this book will make you sick, in a good way, and it is oddly empowering. If what Ann says is true, then we should all be truly brave like Ann Coulter because to do anything less is cowardly and complicit with the worst kind of bigotry, racism, and evil.

Too Opinionated with Half Truths!

What did you love best about Mugged?

Book was very informative.

If you’ve listened to books by Ann Coulter before, how does this one compare?

NO.

Have you listened to any of Ann Coulter’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

She captures and holds her listeners as with TV interviews.

What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?

Amazed to learn that Al Sharpton was in an FBI Cocaine Sting and that Black Muslims got away with brutal attack on New York police officers.

Any additional comments?

Ann Coulter is not a racist, but can understand why most Blacks would believe so according to this book. The police shootings were too one-sided with no cases where the black victims were innocent, and there are plenty. Her continued statements about illegitimate black birthrates made blacks appear immoral when she stated that something is wrong with a people who behaves in that manner. And as if so-called Black-on-Black crimes gives license to police to murder innocent black men without any complaints from the black community. There is no such thing as black on black crimes. Ordinary black people don't kill each other. These are crimes committed by young gang members fighting over drug turf. Get rid of the drugs and we'd get rid of the black on black crimes. MS. Coulter meant well, but this book is simply too one-sided with many facts left out.