BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
BuzzFlash is offering this overlooked lacerating critique of Ann Coulter and the hate-filled winger gal pundits at $10.00 below the retail price, including shipping and handling.
From the publisher:
"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."
An online review:
"Estrich has finally dared to take on whom Al Franken once called the "reigning diva of the hysterical right", and really nails it, exposing her innacuracies, hypocrisy, and general hatefulness...notice how the 1-star reviews on this page do little more than attack the author's physical appearance, deride her for making the title a parody of Coulter's latest attack piece (um, didn't you neo-cons do the same 10 years ago w/"Al Franken is a Buck-Toothed Moron"?), and regurgitate conservative talking points (the book's an attack on GOPers, Christianity, etc.)..if you actually READ the book, you'd see it's actually a debunking of someone who's distorting these values you supposedly hold dear and making your party look bad by assocation. And if you do read the book, I'm sure you'll find it to be a real eye-opener."
Another online review:
"I'm glad to know that highly reputable, brilliant people such as Susan Estrich, are standing up to Ann Coulter and the rise of Nazism in our culture.
Ann Coulter is an obvious entertainer, otherwise she'd be running for office. Ann is a shock jock political mouthpiece, much like Madonna has been in music, where both made millions from such a strategy. Ann's popularity is primarily due to her adopting hateful male attitudes in her political views which is why you find so many male reviewers here attacking Susan as alleged "trash". Ann's views are so out there in shock value from a woman, many have questioned if she had a sex change, especially due to the abnormal size of her adam's apple."
From the publisher:
"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."
An online review:
"Estrich has finally dared to take on whom Al Franken once called the "reigning diva of the hysterical right", and really nails it, exposing her innacuracies, hypocrisy, and general hatefulness...notice how the 1-star reviews on this page do little more than attack the author's physical appearance, deride her for making the title a parody of Coulter's latest attack piece (um, didn't you neo-cons do the same 10 years ago w/"Al Franken is a Buck-Toothed Moron"?), and regurgitate conservative talking points (the book's an attack on GOPers, Christianity, etc.)..if you actually READ the book, you'd see it's actually a debunking of someone who's distorting these values you supposedly hold dear and making your party look bad by assocation. And if you do read the book, I'm sure you'll find it to be a real eye-opener."
Another online review:
"I'm glad to know that highly reputable, brilliant people such as Susan Estrich, are standing up to Ann Coulter and the rise of Nazism in our culture.
Ann Coulter is an obvious entertainer, otherwise she'd be running for office. Ann is a shock jock political mouthpiece, much like Madonna has been in music, where both made millions from such a strategy. Ann's popularity is primarily due to her adopting hateful male attitudes in her political views which is why you find so many male reviewers here attacking Susan as alleged "trash". Ann's views are so out there in shock value from a woman, many have questioned if she had a sex change, especially due to the abnormal size of her adam's apple."
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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.
Posted October 10, 2007 | 07:39 PM (EST)