Posted on 06/28/2011 9:00:52 AM PDT by RonDog
Ann Coulter’s new book "Demonic" is a terrific read—with one glaring exception. Overall, I give the book "two enthusiastic thumbs up," way up. More about the "glaring exception" in a bit.
A unifying thread that runs through Coulter’s book is the concept of Democrats as the party of the mob. She absorbed much of her knowledge on this subject from Gustave Le Bon’s 1896 classic, "The Crowd." Link... -- snip -- ...The core, or heart, of Coulter’s book is (IMHO) Part II: "The Historical Context Of The Liberal," in which Coulter gives an informative, concise description of the French Revolution, and comparisons with the American Revolution—"the history you’ve never read." For those who are unaware of the history of the French Revolution (or of the American Revolution for that matter) "Demonic" is worth purchasing, if for no other reason than to become informed about these two watershed movements—so similar, and yet so vastly dissimilar, at the same time. The one (French) a liberal revolution, and the other (American) a conservative revolution... -- snip -- ...In addition, Coulter does a fine job of exposing the arrogant, puerile, self-centered pathology of the liberal mind-set in such chapters as "The Totalitarian Instinct and Sexual Perversity of Liberals." Speaking of mind-sets, it is not too far "off message" to note that I believe that the liberal mind-set tends toward insanity like a compass needle tends to swing north. Given the blood-drenched history of the Far Left, to advance such a hypothesis is not exactly a daring gambit. Link Be that as it may, now we come to Coulter’s "glaring exception." Et tu Ann? Say it ain’t so.
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I’m talking about the fact that Coulter disses the "birthers" in her book.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Conservative pundit Coulter wraps up book tour in Auburn
[next stop: NIXON LIBRARY, L.A. FReepers!]
Ann Coulter is an entertainer. Yes, she has conservatives leanings, but no one around her takes her seriously any more as a strong conservative spokesperson.
June 30 [2011] – Meet Ann Coulter
[NIXON LIBRARY: live broadcast on KABC. L.A. FReepers will be there!]:
Same song, second verse. Ann has bills to pay.
I dumped Ann long ago when she was supporting Hillary for President and never looked back.
Canada Free Press ^ | June 25, 2011 | Jim O'NeillArticles from the Canada Free Press must be exerpted here on FR...
...but is worth going to their website, and reading the WHOLE ARTICLE......which, in general, is a VERY POSITIVE review of Ann's new book:
Up and down with Demonic
Born in June of 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jim O’Neill (constitutionalwrites.com) proudly served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. A member of MENSA, he worked as a commercial diver in the waters off Scotland, India, and the United States. In 1998 while attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student, O’Neill won “First Place” in the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award.” The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with the money she won from successfully suing the National Enquirer for libel. Jim can be reached at: lausdeo.jim@gmail.com
So the liberals got to you too, huh? You're in total agreement with the new your times, yet you call yourself a conservative?
So the liberals got to you too, huh? You're in total agreement with the new yoRK times, yet you call yourself a conservative?
She also called Palin supporters demonic.
Pray for America
Demonic and The Underrated Ann
Pajamas Media ^ | June 27, 2011 | Andrew Klavan
Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 8:02:08 AM by Kaslin
It seems strange to say that Ann Coulter is underrated. Every book she writes is a bestseller — her new one, Demonic, is no exception. When she’s on tour, you can barely turn on a TV or radio without seeing her face, hearing her voice.
I was in a restaurant with her once and she was so swamped with admiring members of the public I felt like I was part of a movie star’s entourage.(I don’t really do entourages, but if I had to be part of one, I was glad it was hers.) All the same, I don’t think she gets the respect she deserves...-- snip --
...When Ann Coulter is good — and I think Demonic is one of her best — she is doing something special and doing it at a level that makes her unique.
It’s not just the heavyweight research or the fearless disdain for received opinion. Her flexible, sardonic, rigorous and unabashedly jokey prose creates an iconic voice that humanizes her polemic and compels you to engage with her specific and original worldview.
People are wont to say off-handedly "you either love her or hate her," but they don’t seem to understand that that’s a writerly achievement of the first water.
Demonic makes an argument more complex than her other books.
Books like Slander and Treason tended to marshal legions of facts and examples in support of ideas like "the mainstream media lie," or "liberals are unpatriotic."
Demonic revives the 19th century science of "crowd psychology," and argues that left-wing politics descends from the brutal and ultimately enslaving mob madness of the French Revolution whereas conservatives have inherited the mantle of the American founders, who feared the mob above all.
The book operates like a prosecutor building a case and even at its most one-sided, is often scarily convincing.
The chapters in Part III on violence are brilliant.
Had I hair, it would’ve stood on end...
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It is an excellent book. I highly recommend it.
Me, too!
Was she supporting Clinton over Obama or over McCain?
Do you have a source for that?
That's not an exception. Birthers should be dissed in a rational book.
This isn't about ideology. Birtherism is a question of facts. You don't get to make up your own facts, regardless of your ideology. Birthers are just factually wrong.
She only said that given a choice between Hillary and McCain she’d support Hillary. Since Obama got the nomination she never had that choice.
I have a couple of her books in my personal library and will probably purchase more. I do this NOT for their entertainment value - I do it because they are extremely well researched and most importantly fully documented.
In her book “Guilty" (2008), the first chapter, 32 pages, had 61 footnotes where she referenced her primary sources. Chapter two had 138 footnotes for 38 pages of text. I have read doctoral dissertations with less footnotes per chapter!
Ann's works are not opinion based - they are fully documented historical research projects that are written in an easy to read and fully entertaining style. That's a rare combination.
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