Posted on 09/03/2004 1:12:54 AM PDT by raccoonradio
It's happening again--liberals are all over amazon.com giving "reviews" to upcoming books like Ann Coulter's "How to Talk To A Liberal (If You Must)". Just as with the Swift Boat book, they're slamming a work before it's even out...and they clearly haven't read it, of course.
I complained to amazon.com about this. For an example, see below:
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A pile of strawman arguments and distortion of truth, September 2, 2004
Reviewer: Crowsdreamofdeth (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
The worst thing about this book is the cover. When and why did Marilyn Manson with dyed blonde hair pose for the cover of Ann Coulter's book? Doesn't the values and principles that she stands for oppose everything that the shock rocker represents? What is with that?
Anyway, the book itself is just a libelous pile of slanderous, inflammatory, and misleading remarks coupled with the most gross distortions of fact since Stalin's Russia and penned for the purpose of not only inciting the fury of the liberal left by its xenophobic and prejudiced philosophy that would seem more fitting in a film about Conan the Barbarian, but also to gain ratings through its shocking, very un-PC manner. The rabid guardians of political correctness may very well have become overbearing in their paranoia in accusing all individuals who could be percieved as prejudiced or biased of "racism" or "Nazism", however,to cower behind journalistic dishonesty and strawman arguments is to show what looks conspicuously to me like cowardice.
....I still can't figure out why the very un-conservative Marilyn Manson is on the cover. Did he become a Republican recently?
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What an idiot. I love how they assume, "Well, he looks weird, so he must be a self-loathing leftist like me."
I thought Marilyn Manson was a Repub?
...and the same "reviewer" gave an IDENTICAL review to Ann's "Treason"! Only thing different was the review's
title:
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When did childish name calling become "intellectual?", September 2, 2004
Yeah!
BTW ... I just told Mother Nature the same thing about Frances.
When Saddam was captured, the very next day on Amazon I recall one liberal going crazy, cutting and pasting the same exact negative review for well over a dozen conservative books.
Now its in response to the convention.
Here's another example of a liberal who cant keep his meds in check:
Seems like the review was removed, but its still listed in the guys list of reviews. How did he get to review the book anyways? I thought they didnt open the reviews comments section untill the books release date.
I had complained about it so if it was removed, great. amazon needs to find a way to prevent people from reviewing a book well before its release date--now,
maybe some people get an advance copy as a preview, but reviews like this one are obvious slams to convince people not to buy it. ultimately it could affect their sales.
Imagine a car company announcing a new model will be coming out in six months, and someone goes online to offer their highly negative impressions of it, even though they didn't test drive it. Some readers may think, "well, maybe this guy got to test drive the prototype..." But when you have a book that won't be out till a month from now, and you see all these lies about it (AND the same identical
review, save for the headline, about an earlier Coulter
book) you know that lying liberals are at work. Thanks to amazon for removing the review and I hope they ban this
"reviewer".
I have done a couple reviews for them (one was for "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man") but _I_
bought and read the book(s) and specifically pointed out
what the book has to say, giving precise examples, etc.
hmm, actually looks like it's still on there...
Availability: This title will be released on October 5, 2004. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. from Amazon.com
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Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter
Rewriting History by Dick Morris
Product Details:
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum (October 5, 2004)
Amazon.com Sales Rank (Books): 361
He is. I guess I didn't make that clear.
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