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

ABC News ^ | October 5, 2004 | Ann Coulter

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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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First I have a question. The listing at Barnes and Nobles showed "Format: Compact Disc - Abridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs."

The copy I got from Barnes and Nobles had only 4 CDs in it. Is this listing wrong , or did I get a bad box?

Now ... The book is excellent and I highly recommend the CDs for a long trip in the car. My book Hardcover edition was, of course, marked with the 30% discount sticker over Ann's Face. And the cashier was, to say the least, offended with my purchase. But I love buying my books where the sales tally counts.

Thank you very much Ann for your outstanding work. The CDs express the right emotion with the book. I just wished they were unabridged.