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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To quote a great American, Frank Costanza.... "Hootcie Mama!"
Better than Slander?
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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.
Zing!
Much <3 for mentioning Douglas Adams (R.I.P) masterpiece.
Good analogy of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. :)
Was listening to Ann on John Gibson today on Fox - great interview.
That was funny. I underlined it in my book.
I hope the movie doesn't suck. I loved the Dirk Gently books as well. May your couch never be stuck in your stairwell. :)
so new, and yet you already know The Rule!
"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.
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.
VOTE SMART - VOTE RIGHT
THey had a gore version, one episode of which he becomes cnfused with a robot double.
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.
I liked the one where Heston had to kill a rampaging bear in the White House. Nothing like a tv show slamming gun control. ;)
Hubby came home with her book tonight. Bought it at BJ's in liberal S. Florida.
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.
I remember her well. It is a shame she was lost.
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