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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I must say for all the stories we've heard of booksellers hiding conservative books Annie's book was on display in the front of the store.
I'm #8 on the reserve list and they have dozens of copies coming in so I'm hoping to be able to read in w/in the next couple of days.
MKM
Heh heh...
Bought it today and read half on the train. Coulter writes spendidly and is as snide as ever.
I like Coulter and Ingraham. They are gutsy, they don't back down, they speak their minds with passion and humor. Republican men can learn from them.
The last 2 Ann Coulter books came out in July or late June and I read each of them in a day or so almost as soon as they were available.
Is this one actually in the stores yet?
Yep, it was prominently displayed right in the front of the local Barnes & Noble here in Evanston, Illinois right next to some book by none other than Michael Moore. I was pleasantly surprised to find the woman at the register polite and friendly, and she even told me to "enjoy your book", as Evanston is a pretty liberal place. I was expecting to get the look of disapproval and some rude under the breath comment as I have received numerous times back home in Ohio.
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.
Hahaha, Annie... You gotta love her.. I gotta get that book.
Maybe if you had a Babel fish, like in HHGttG? Talking to a liberal is like going on a trip with Ford Prefect. Don't forget your towel, and Beware of the Leopard. Oh, and if Kerry gets elected, we're all going to near bumper stickers that read 'Don't Panic' in reassuringly large letters.
SFS
Heard one about "Independence Day" Question: "Could you see Bill Clinton jumping into a fighter and facing the aliens?" Answer: "No, but I could see him and Randy Quaid out in the cornfield 'burning one'!"
My copy was delivered today.
Barnes and Noble and Borders and Books have both assured me it is in the front of their stores in Connecticut, and so, I bought a copy at Borders and Books today.
I only read the first 30 pages so far, the second chapter starts with reprints of her columns that were most controversial and those that were censored and some never seen.
I read at the gym when I am on the stairmaster...looks like I am going to be sore by Friday...
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