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Lädt ... Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hatevon Susan Estrich
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"A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have written or said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can." -Ann Coulter, 2006 Is she ever! Ever since the publication of her Clinton-bashing debut, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, right-wing fire-brand Ann Coulter has made herself one of the most talked-about figures in contemporary American life--and has done so by issuing a near-continuous barrage of insult and invective, which has been described as "shameless," "cruel," "shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited," "grossly inappropriate," "hate speech." She has called the 9/11 widows "witches" and "harpies," referred to Muslims as "ragheads," called Al Gore a "total fag," and said that both New York Times editor Bill Keller and antiwar congressman Jack Murtha deserved to die. Yet with each new statement--and each new book launch--Coulter somehow manages to co-opt the media as a megaphone for her attacks, while emerging from the backlash miraculously unscathed. Until now. With Soulless, political commentator Susan Estrich takes on Ann and the "Coulter culture" she has created, exposing how the pundit provocatrice has downgraded our political discourse with her irresponsible rhetoric, personal attacks, and slanderous asides. Trawling through Coulter's history of often-violent public statements, Estrich asks which are more cynical: the pundit and her headline-grabbing drive-by character assassinations, or the networks who happily bring her back for more. Soulless also casts a light on "the Anns," wannabes like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, whose imitation Coulterisms coarsen our culture with every passing news cycle. And, most important, she challenges us--the readers, the voters--to remember that behind the huckster's rhetoric lurks a dangerous reactionary whose real agenda is wildly out of step with the American public. As Estrich says, "She knows exactly what she is doing. And she is scary as hell because of it." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Susan Estrich dismantles Ann Coulter, not without interjecting personal feelings, and provides the reader with the sources of Coulter's comments. There's a paraphrasing of the three laws of thermodynamics that puts them in laymen's terms: 1) You can't win, 2) You can't tie, and 3) You can't even come close. With Coulter's insanity, no rational person can use reason to win, tie, or even come close - she is worse than Pat Robertson, worse than any other televangelist, worse than James Dobson, worse than Sean Hannity, she's pretty much the worst. When backed into a corner with reason, she shows her true colors, a vile, mean, genuinely evil person who spews hateful lies and has absolutely nothing to back up what she says.
This book will not convince her fans that she is a liar but it does collocate some of her more egregious offenses for those of us who do not want to support her filth by buying her books. ( )