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Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
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by Ann Coulter
Sales Rank: 128792
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Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
Published by: Three Rivers Press September 16, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1400049520
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1400049523
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 9.6 ounces
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (Hardcover)
The danger, of course, of naming a book "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right," as Coulter has done, is that you're inviting people to check out your own accuracy. And, unfortunately, in Coulter's case, that was a big mistake. That's why the Weekly Standard, right wing but with integrity, panned the book. Let's start with the very title. Coulter named it "Slander," but, of course, what she means when speaking about the media, whether print or electronic, is "libel." Sloppy? Just a preview of things to come. Coulter slams "liberal" newspapers for using the term "Christian right" and "religious right." She says that shows the evil of the mainstream press. But she's SO lazy that she never ran a Nexis search on the term. If she had, she'd realize that The Washington Times uses the same term all the time. Coulter contends that Maureen Dowd attacked Tom DeLay for his religiosity in a June 20, 1999, column. In fact, the object was Al Gore. Sloppy? Par for the course. I'm not going to go into Coulter having to backpedal on her charges against Katie Couric, even on the puffball kind of interview she was subjected to on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor" on July 11. More serious is how incredibly lazy she was in putting this book together. She laments on the hard time George W. Bush got in campaign 2000. A Nexis search for 1999 and up to the election in 2000 reveals that The New York Times had two stories mentioning Harken Energy. Gee, that was probing! No major newspaper investigated Bush's 1976 DUI conviction in Maine until a smalltown paper broke the story late in the campaign. They were just as lazy -- well, just as lazy as Coulter! Who did a story on Bush's being AWOL from his Air Guard commitment for a 17-month period in the early 1970s? Well, except for The Boston Globe, no one uttered a peep until days before the election. The "liberal" media certainly didn't put Bush under the same microscope as Bill Clinton, whose Vietnam woes surfaced early in 1992. But then the well-funded right-wing media network isn't interested in exposing Bush's faux pas. Oops! Coulter maintains that there is no Richard Scaife-funded media machine. She'll be writing that the world isn't round next. That's why she conveniently left this episode out of her book: In February 2001 at a media panel, Paul Begala noted that, on Nexis, he "found 3,641 stories about Bill Clinton 'dodging the draft' ...and there were 49 stories about Bush and the National Guard." A lot of people think Coulter twists facts. She does, of course, counting on the fact that most people don't have access to Nexis to doublecheck her sources. But, mostly, she's too lazy to research and, therefore, relies on her own prejudices to fill out a book. Do women get a harder time about looks in the media, as Coulter contends? Of course, they do. But it's been N.O.W. and Ms. who make that point -- not the Independent Women's Forum that gave Coulter her start. Funded by none other than that non-existent right-wing conspiracy.
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