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Book Excerpt - How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
ABC News ^ | October 5, 2004 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 10/05/2004 5:14:28 PM PDT by buckeyesrule

She's a staple of television news talk shows, a syndicated columnist and the author of three best-selling books. In her latest book, conservative pundit Ann Coulter offers her analysis of the American political scene.

Read the following excerpt from How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter.

Chapter One

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes. But if this doesn't work, you might have to actually argue with a liberal. This is not for the faint of heart. It is important to remember that when arguing with liberals, you are always within inches of the "Arab street." Liberals traffic in shouting and demagogy. In a public setting, they will work themselves into a dervish-like trance and start incanting inanities: "Bush lied, kids died!" "racist!" "fascist!" "fire Rumsfeld!" "Halliburton!" Fortunately, the street performers usually punch themselves out eventually and are taken back to their parents' house.

Also resembling the Arab street, liberals are chock-full of conspiracy theories. They invoke weird personal obsessions like a conversational deus ex machina to trump all facts. You think you're talking about the war in Iraq and suddenly you start getting a disquisition on Nixon, oil, the neoconservatives, Vietnam (Tom Hayden discusses gang violence in Los Angeles as it relates to Vietnam), or whether Bill O'Reilly's former show, Inside Edition, won the Peabody or the Peanuckle Award. This is because liberals, as opposed to sentient creatures, have a finite number of memorized talking points, which they periodically try to shoehorn into unrelated events, such as when Nancy Pelosi opposed the first Gulf war in 1991 on the grounds that it would cause environmental damage in Kuwait.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: New York
KEYWORDS: coulter; goddess; newbook; talktoaliberal
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To: andyandval

To quote a great American, Frank Costanza.... "Hootcie Mama!"


21 posted on 10/05/2004 6:22:37 PM PDT by Feckless
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To: subani

Better than Slander?


22 posted on 10/05/2004 6:24:11 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism)
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To: zip

ping


23 posted on 10/05/2004 6:35:45 PM PDT by Mrs Zip
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To: TheLurkerX

As I recall, the Babel fish was responsible for more wars because it prevented lack of communication. Evidently, if we really understood each other, we'd be more p***ed off.


24 posted on 10/05/2004 6:57:03 PM PDT by eccentric (aka baldwidow)
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To: buckeyesrule
"In this movie (The American President), Michael Douglas plays Bill Clinton as Clinton would like to be — handsome, thin, courageous, liberal, and widowed."

Zing!

25 posted on 10/05/2004 7:32:15 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: TheLurkerX

Much <3 for mentioning Douglas Adams (R.I.P) masterpiece.
Good analogy of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. :)


26 posted on 10/05/2004 8:06:37 PM PDT by ktt52krabbidake
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To: buckeyesrule

Was listening to Ann on John Gibson today on Fox - great interview.


27 posted on 10/05/2004 8:12:03 PM PDT by Ciexyz (At his first crisis, "President" Kerry will sail his Swiftboat to safety, then call Teddy.)
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To: Billthedrill
***The American President...In this movie, Michael Douglas plays Bill Clinton as Clinton would like to be — handsome, thin, courageous, liberal, and widowed.****

That was funny. I underlined it in my book.

28 posted on 10/05/2004 8:42:16 PM PDT by buckeyesrule
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To: ktt52krabbidake

I hope the movie doesn't suck. I loved the Dirk Gently books as well. May your couch never be stuck in your stairwell. :)


29 posted on 10/05/2004 8:45:39 PM PDT by TheLurkerX (John Kerry, better living through multiple choice since 1972.)
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To: andyandval

so new, and yet you already know The Rule!


30 posted on 10/05/2004 9:33:23 PM PDT by King Prout (yo! sKerry: "Live by the flip, die by the flop." - Frank_Discussion)
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To: Snake65

"In Oak Park IL they actually had a poster advertising Coulter in the window. I almost fainted. Oak Park, for you non-Illinoisans, is a little bit O'Berkeley here in the Midwest."

Whoa, having lived my very early childhood in Oak Park, and now residing in DuPage County, a bastion of conservative republicanism,I am totally surprised that socialist, bordering on communist Oak Park even had a single copy of Coulter's book in the village, much less prominently advertised. Wonders never cease.


31 posted on 10/05/2004 9:55:13 PM PDT by flaglady47
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To: buckeyesrule

Thanks very much for the post. It was good to read the first few pages. I think I'll have to pick this one up soon. So far, each of her books has been better than the last.


32 posted on 10/05/2004 10:20:20 PM PDT by Auntie Mame ("Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." Henry Ford)
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To: buckeyesrule
The perfect example of the difference between a Republican and a Democrat are their candidates for POTUS and VPOTUS...No need to elaborate. The more I hear from a democrat, the more I know I made the RIGHT CHOICE.

VOTE SMART - VOTE RIGHT

33 posted on 10/05/2004 10:24:48 PM PDT by Two-Bits (I am voting in memory for those that can not vote since 9/11! Vote George W Bush)
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To: buckeyesrule
Took me an hour to get it at CostCo today but they surely had Fat Boy's books and movies on display.
34 posted on 10/05/2004 10:26:12 PM PDT by radicalamericannationalist (Kurtz had the right answer but the wrong location.)
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To: swilhelm73

THey had a gore version, one episode of which he becomes cnfused with a robot double.


35 posted on 10/05/2004 10:56:16 PM PDT by radicalamericannationalist (Kurtz had the right answer but the wrong location.)
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To: buckeyesrule

The opening and concluding chapters are worth the price of the book even if the rest is a collection of Ann's columns over the last few years from various periodicals.


36 posted on 10/05/2004 10:57:46 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: radicalamericannationalist

I liked the one where Heston had to kill a rampaging bear in the White House. Nothing like a tv show slamming gun control. ;)


37 posted on 10/05/2004 11:03:14 PM PDT by swilhelm73 (The road to heaven on earth always seems to detour to hell on earth. --Daniel J. Flynn)
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To: buckeyesrule

Hubby came home with her book tonight. Bought it at BJ's in liberal S. Florida.


38 posted on 10/05/2004 11:44:18 PM PDT by Brytani (A changing mind is a terrible thing to waste - Vote John Kerry)
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To: flaglady47

I live in western Wisconsin, but I have two very liberal sisters who have resided in Wheaton since the seventies. They are forever bemoaning the strong Republican presence among their co-workers (they both work for a very prominent corporation in the area) and neighbors. Maybe someday some conservative Republican thought that is prevalent around there will sink into them. Unfortunately they're both exceptionally bullheaded despite one sisters husband being a Republican. They believe everything they're told by their Dem heroes.


39 posted on 10/06/2004 3:03:53 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: CenTex

I remember her well. It is a shame she was lost.


40 posted on 10/06/2004 3:22:29 AM PDT by solsrchr2 (solsrchr2)
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