About this title: "Guilty" explodes the myth of liberal victimhood to reveal that when it comes to bullying, no one outdoes the Left. Citing case after case, ranging from the hilariously absurd to the shockingly vicious, Coulter dissects these so-called victims who are invariably the oppressors.
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Description: Good. Ex library copy with usual library markings. Slight rise at edge of front cover when book lies flat. Otherwise nice copy! Pages are clean, straight, & otherwise unmarked. C2a. read more
Description: Octavo, hardcover, near fine in near fine red and white pictorial dj. Giftable. Liberals always have to be the victims, particularly when they are oppressing others. they are victims of convenience for the Left...says author. 311 pp. including index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780307353474ISBN:0307353478
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Forum
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9780307353467ISBN:030735346X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9780739328064ISBN:0739328069
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"I realize this author has burned a lot of bridges with people by not speaking in tones deemed appropriate by the media, but I found the examples and arguements she raised in this book very telling of the left's tactics in our evolving democracy.
I have been involved in several political campaigns and organizations over the year's and the idea of being forced to apologize for not wanting a bigger government, higher taxes, and more people assessed based on where they or their parents are from rather than how good they are at what they do is a huge negative for our economy, and I believe our country.
Ann writes in a very entertaining, engaging way that certainly is a breath of fresh air for the typical NPR, CNN, and the L.A. Times reader like me.
Her endings are always a bit abrupt and she doesn't really suggest realistic courses of action to fix the problems she assualts the left with, but raising the issues themselves into the political discussion in our country is, I think, a needed thing in a free country.
I would recommend this book to any non-cry baby person who pays taxes and votes."
"I finished it this morning on the metro! I absolutely love Ann Coulter! I highly recommend her. She's ballsy on a whole new level. If you get the chance, look up her interview with the View's Joy Behar about waterboarding and you'll see what I mean.
Joy: You're for waterboarding, how about we waterboard you?! Ann Coulter: You're for abortion, would you like to be aborted? I have an idea, let's abort the terrorists then we're all happy.
Bah ha ha ha! She's awesome. In her past books I thought she was a little too partisan and defended the Republicans too much but in this one I really enjoyed her pitch not so much as a Republican but more as a conservative and let the Republicans have it also. She especially attacks, as I call them, the Democrat-envy stricken Republicans. They wish they were Democrats and pine to the media, giving apologies when none are warrented or go out of their way (and outside their "Republican" platforms) to please a media that will not be pleased. This book centered entirely on the victim complex and showed the insane arguments that are associated with liberal "victims". Her writing style flows as if you were having a conversation with her. It is easy to imagine her right there talking to you, which I really enjoyed. Plain, logical, bold. Regardless of sides, I think this book is certainly worth a read if, for nothing else, to explore whether you agree and disagree and why."
"Shrill, opinionated, one-sided and poorly argued: Personal versus substantive attacks. If this book was researched like her other books, a lot to the "facts" about the "Liberal Media" are based on misleading Nexus/Lexus search results. Takes offense at the mainstream, and calls it Liberal. Bunches together all sorts of groups into an amorphous mass of undifferentiated "Liberal."
And, she is wildly inaccurate in a lot of places. Take, for instance, her scoffing at the Obama campaign's fears of the "Right-Wing Attack Machine." Yet this machine actually does appear to exist, just below the radar.
Here's an example from "W's" 2004 bid: In the SC Primary, ads suddenly "appeared" hinting that John McCain had a love child w/ a black woman. Asinine. Unfounded. But the target audience is clear: either overtly or covertly racist white people. Follow that up with the Swift Boating of Kerry in the general election.
Twice, the same thing happened: An unfounded, hearsay attack, running counter to established facts appeared at the right time to push W into office. Plausible deniability from the campaign. Empirically, such strongly correlated phenomena point towards one conclusion: Something is likely happening. I doubt it is a conspiracy. But it does smack of a well run marketing campaign.
So, here's the net result of W's election and the "Right-Wing/ Republican (Rove's ?) Attack Machine:" Two Vietnam vets who served with honor are dragged through the public square. A half informed public running around, trying to distinguish the real from the false--If they have the time or energy after school and soccer practice and laundry and dishes and home improvement projects. Is that the America we want? Is it ethical for political wonks, who know the facts, to willfully deceive? Is there no decency left in this country? Think of that when you listen to claims of Right-Wing patriotism.
The likely reason why the attacks did not take place in 2008 is that A) Democratic strategists, by mentioning the attacks before they actually happened effectively "inoculated" the masses against spurious, viral smears; and B) McCain was, at base level, a man of extreme honor. Not perfect, but a man worthy of respect.
Coulter's style throughout the book is more mean spirited than funny. Though I thought that her calling Obama O-Bambi was witty. But not particularly moving.
BTW: I found her take on the potentially destructive impacts single motherhood has on children and society thought-provoking. Even through her insensitive shrillness. But I question whether her data is accurate: Is it coming from peer reviewed sources? Or from rightist think-tanks without the requisite intellectual rigor that peer review entails, like the Cato Institute? Is single motherhood the cause or the symptom of societal ills?"
Okay, so let's get this out of the way first. There is very little middle ground with Ann Coulter. You either love her and probably have little bad to say about this book, or you hate her and have nothing good to say about this. So, spare me the comments of SHE'S SO EVIL AND SO BAD AND I TOTALLY DON'T RESPECT YOU AS A PERSON NOW BECAUSE YOU'VE READ HER YOU CRAZY RIGHT-WING BITCH.
That said, let's move on.
My theory is that, for any portion of the political spectrum, there are two types of opinion writers. There are the people who want to explain and persuade others to their point of view, or at least make the reader go "Hm, I never thought of it that way before. Let me research it and get back to you." And then there are just the pitbulls/cheerleaders, who really aren't trying to win any new converts, but who are just trying to energize people who already agree with them. It's not rocket science to figure out which Ann Coulter is. It's her purpose, and to some degree I think it's her persona.
As to the book itself, someone else's review, which I can't find now, mentioned that she writes like she talks. The book almost sounds in places like it was dictated, with no editor to go back and say "yes, that's how you'd say it, but that's not how you need to write it." There are parts that were funny, funny, funny...too far. Maybe they wouldn't have sounded like they were just that bridge too far if they'd been spoken with proper inflection, but when you're just reading them, you're left going "really? You...really?" Sometimes I was left checking the location of the endnotes to see when she was reciting things that actually happened, and when she started her commentary. "Is she seriously saying that happened? Because I don't think--no, the endnote was two sentences ago, this is the joke. Okay. Got it." Again, that's something that comes from writing like you speak, but without spoken inflection it's difficult to tell.
As a side note, there's an amusing typo in the last chapter that says that Teddy Roosevelt was shot in 1921. This left me completely confused for a few seconds, running the timeline in my head. The date is correctly cited endnotes as 1912, but it gave me a bad couple of moments when I thought that I had suddenly lost my mind."
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