How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

by Ann Coulter

Book Overview

CAUTION: You're about to enter the world of Ann Coulter How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) , the instant New York Times bestseller, shows why Ann Coulter has become the most recognized--and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400054184
• ISBN13: 9781400054183
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Crown Forum
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and wise!

Ann Coulter is amazing. This book will keep you laughing while you receive an education on politics and other worldly facts. She is a strong, no-holds-barred writer.

a different view

Ann Coulter is so hated by liberals that she must be correct! I've read and heard a lot of liberal biased reviews of her books and usually they include "intellectually based comments such as "facist" or she's a racist pig" or someother intelligent remark and it only proves her points..Her charge against liberals is that liberals have no basis in reality..and she is correct..ann coulter no matter how she presents her arguements will be despised because anyone that disagrees with liberals is considered to be inferior and or a facist... it's funny because america has rejected liberal ideals as a whole since the height of liberalism in the 1960s.. liberalism is a case of 15% of our populations with the help of a disgracefully biased liberal media forcing their irrational and dangerous views on the rest of us.. Ann coulters delivery method in this book may seem extreme, but her message is right on the money..liberals are irrational and dangerous to America and if not for the lies of the media, liberalism would not have any platform to exist from in this country, and without bashing george w bush would not have any purpose in this century.. Really an entertaining and insightfull book from a very bold and politically incorrect author

When saying "here Fido---good dog" is not an option

OK, let's be clear on this: Coulter's latest little round of lib-bait- & -smash isn't an instruction manual, or even a primer on what a good American conservative can use as snappy comebacks & snarky rejoinders to liberal dunderheadedness, not at all. It's like that Alien diplomacy primer back in the Golden Age (the 1950's): It's a cookbook! A cookbook for serving up the peculiarly suicidal phylae known as the Genus Apologeticus Liberalis Americanus: the whiney, uber-politically correct American left-winger. Well done, baby. And it's admirably civil, compared to my own little book dictating personal conversations with Liberals. How to talk to a Liberal? Easy: *"I'd like fries with that." *"Medium starch on the pants." *"I'd like two tickets for the 8:30 show." *"Put some real elbow grease into it!" *"No, no, you're doing it all wrong---you need to use more tongue on the sole---it's not shiny enough!" And so forth. By contrast, Coulter's wicked little polemic cooks, bastes, boils, friccasees, and sautees the bane of American political discourse: the community-college educated leftist/statist, a creature in vast supply today (free range, no less!) running wild chiefly in newsrooms, Hollywood watering holes, faculty lounges, and in general on the blasted heath of the brain-dead, intellectually starved steppe-lands of what remains of today's American academy. Coulter's point is not anti-intellectual or ignorantly dismissive: "How to Talk to a Liberal" takes it as a given that the Liberal doesn't want real debate. He doesn't want to talk to you: he wants Power. Make no mistake about it: the American Leftist, or, as he calls himself (to better hide his goatish hooves and curling horns) the "Liberal", is a tireless enemy of freedom. He has had a major hand in creating the lifeless, lustreless, boil-covered society through whose grey streets the majority of our quivering population is now forced to scuttle. Think of what we've lost in ten years: having a cigar around the office to celebrate landing the Gorfingle account, having a nice cigar over a steak dinner at the Bull & the Bear, smoking ciggies in New York & El Lay bars, driving down the road with a Fuzzy Navel in one hand and your cellphone in the other, not worrying about the Gestapo pulling you over for not wearing a seatbelt, big dorsal finned roaring American cars built from Detroit steel that belch out black smoke and make grass die---God, man, you could go on forever. The Left has. The New American Liberal Man, the weenie-less equivalent of the New Soviet Man, has no real spine. Look at most snivelling college leftists: they'd gladly hold their girlfriend's rapist's assault gear if they thought it would save 'em a beating. But for all that, the American Leftist has been pretty macho when it comes to 1)castrating Free Speech through endless PC speech codes; 2) gelding the Free Market through tireless promotion of big government and high taxes; and 3) gutting America's

I have one criticism....

This book should have a strong warning label. My face still hurts from laughing so hard. This book is a masterpiece of sarcasm, irony and a good degree of truth. If you can't take a joke or don't appreciate mild scarcasm, it's probably not for you. But if you are familiar with any of Ms. Coulters prior works or her persona as a talking head, you will enjoy it thoroughly, as I did.

A nice trick...

... reviewing a book that you either chose not to read, or wont read. How helpful to us all. The hilarious thing about the so-called "one-star" reviews posted here is that the book actually anticipates this! A favorite tactic of liberals regardless of the medium - having an opinion without checking the facts, or in this case - actually reading the book! If you are fimiliar with Ann's books, you will find exactly what you've come to expect - wit, intelligence, and sarcasm that is often "too hip for the room". Her targets here are the no-so-elusive liberal. There is advice here on how to recognize and combat their favorite tricks (such as posting a book review without having read the book!) and how to respond in an intelligent, articulate manner. Look - if your bookshelf has Ann Coulter books in it, then this is must reading. If your bookshelf includes Michael Moore's nonsense - pass on this. You simply wont "get it". Ann's writing is no more suited to get a liberal to "change teams" than Moore's so-called-work is suited to be considered ligitimate political science. As far as the books entertainment value - it's hilarious! Ann often gets pegged as being "mean spirited". It's sarcasm, folks, and you either get it, or you dont. If you dont, the basic response is usually anger. No problem! You've just given us all a window into your intellect! If you're sick of the avalanche of pathetic and desparate pieces of anti-Bush, anti-conservative, and anti-America material out there, pick this up. Entertain yourself at the expense of your liberal friends, and take pride in the fact that your bookshelf includes witty, biting, intelligent political commentary written by someone that bothers to check their facts.