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)

Ann knows how to deliver

Where does Mugged rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Mugged ranks in the top half of all the audiobooks I've listened to so far.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

Ann's delivery and voice really make this audiobook come alive.

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

Yes, I've heard Ann narrate other books. She's in fine form here.

Any additional comments?

I wish Ann would narrate all of her books. A listener can get Ann's true meanings by listening to the original author's inflections and intonations. Third party narrators usually can't accomplish this feat, but some do come close.

Informative

great read! highly recommend this book to educate yourself about how the black community changed over time. real eye opening

Prophetic for 2020 (written 8 years ago)!

Great reader she is, and yet the story mid-way was hard for me to pay attention to. The theme is using black Americans for political and monetary gain and it's right on the $.

Another Coutler book that begged to be written...

Ann Coulter refutes the myth that Republicans are racist, and the Republican party, is the party of racism. She does this by recounting much of the actual history of the civil rights movement in America, from Reconstruction through the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Coulter's thesis is that, far from being the party of racism and bigotry, the Republicans are responsible for the advancement of civil rights for Blacks in America since the Civil War. It was only after the Democrat party realized that losing the Black vote would consign them to irrelevance that they moved from their position of opposition and obstruction to civil rights legislation, to embracing it, beginning with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Coulter makes the case that, because Republican Barry Goldwater voted against the 1964 legislation (on purely progressive grounds, having supported prior civil rights bills), Democrats were able to seize on that opposition and spend the next 30 years painting the Republican party as the party of racism. She goes on to make that case that the Democrat party has always been the party of institutionalized racism, and makes a lucid, compelling, well-documented case for her thesis. The history is there, and verifiable, but largely unknown by the general public, who seems to only be able to digest 30 second sound bytes. Of course, fans of Ann Coulter will cheer when they hear her make her case using the sharp tongue and cutting jabs for which she is known. Coulter also narrates the book herself, and her argument is therefore delivered in a natural and convincing style, as opposed to previous Coulter audiobooks, which sounded less authentic because of their use of a professional narrator. Love her or hate her, if you are a person who will investigate facts apart from your biases presuppositions, Mugged gives lots of facts to investigate.

One of her best yet!

As informative as anything you will read about politics, and filled with her usual wit and insight. Highly recommended!

This is true, and everyone should read it.

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

The liberal left want everyone to think they are the party of the Minorities, but they also want the minorities to stay in the place the liberals put them. They do not want to have to contend with them. They will also sell them out if the issue they are fighting at the moment requires a sacrificial lamb. It is more loving to tell a people, pull yourself up, work hard, and no one will ever take what you have earned. No one in the USA is holding minorities down except the modern left!!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Mugged?

The meeting called by Spiro Agnew on the assassination of Martin Luther King

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

Her voice inflection adds immensely to the experience. Her passin for the subject comes through in her words.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No, it made me think.

Never Disappointing, FANTASTIC!

What made the experience of listening to Mugged the most enjoyable?

Ann Coulter reads the story herself, and the way she tells the story, bring a lot to the table.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Mugged?

Thats the DEMS hijacked the civil rights issues.

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

The depth of the detail of her facts make her arguments for her. She does all the research. Her conclusions are based on facts, and she clearly spells them out. She never follows through an idea without backing them up with the facts to support them. It really makes her books necessary reading for anyone searching for the truth.

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

You can't absorb all the information in one sitting. I would say you need to listen to this book more than once, and you'll enjoy doing so over and over again. Thats how good this book was.

Any additional comments?

Ann Coulter's books are wonderful. She has a way of telling a story, supported completely by the facts. It makes you think. It tells you things you definitely didn't already know. She has a unique prospective to any topic. Having her influence the political debate, whether you agree with her or not, is a great thing for our society. Because she has the facts to support her arguments, its difficult for the opposition to win with simply commentary.

Love Anne Coulter

Anne Coulter is incredibly smart... she delivers all content with that delightful wit she is known for...

Compelling Listen

Any additional comments?

Once again Ann Coulter defies the conventional wisdom foisted upon us by the "mainstream" media to poke holes in the leftist/Marxists tactic of labeling to vilify and silence the opposition. I love her brilliance and ability to to make highly logical arguments in a helpful and often humorous way. I can see why the left hates her - darkness cannot stand the illuminating light of truth borne out by facts.

Good review over several decades.

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

I thought it was well thought out and put together. I am not a fan of hers and read the book on a recommendation. Now if she would please do just as good in her next book about the lies and demagoguery from the side she isn't so inclined to disparage. The chronology is easy to follow and research seems complete. If she puts her mind to it things turn out very well in her story telling. As I suggested, I would a more balanced approach from her. Not in the same book for sure.

What about Ann Coulter’s performance did you like?

I liked that she read the book.