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"How To Lie To A Liberal" (12/19/2004)

oger Ailes (not the slimy one) is asking for nominations for Worst Book of 2004. Since the rules require that you read at least part of the book before nominating it, I was forced to read the first chapter of Ann Coulter's How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must). (I read it at the New York Times website in order to nominate the book without further enriching the anorexic dominatrix).

Actually Ann's book ought to be titled How To Lie To A Liberal since the truth to lie ratio of the first chapter puts it on par with, say, The O'Reilly Factor. In fact, if Ann would eat as often as she lies in this book she would look more like Mama Cass and less like Karen Carpenter. Some examples:

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.

Hmm. That's an odd thing to say since Pelosi voted to authorize the first Gulf War. (Click here for the roll call.)

There is probably no conservative student newspaper in the country that has not been trashed or burned by liberals. Meanwhile, there is no known instance of College Republicans burning or trashing liberal student newspapers.

You can find some known instances of trashed liberal papers here, here, and here.

College dropout Michael Moore put a microphone in Republican Congressman Mark Kennedy's face and asked for his help in getting more members of Congress to send their own family members to fight the war on terror. Kennedy replied that he would love to and that he already had two nephews in the military, one on his way to Afghanistan. Moore's documentary shows Kennedy's image-but cuts his answer from the film

Yet another lie from Ann. Moore asked Kennedy about helping members of Congress "get their kids to enlist in the Army and go over to Iraq." He didn't ask about sending "family members to fight the war on terror," so Kennedy's comments about his nephew going to Afghanistan were beside the point. (Click here for a transcript of the entire exchange between Moore and Kennedy).

If a good liar is, as Samuel Butler asserted, someone who can make a little lie go a long way, Ann is a really bad liar -- telling big lies that only get her from one paragraph to the next.

Replies: 2 Comments

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on Tuesday, December 21st, yank in london said:

I would like to "thank you" for including the link to the anorexic one's chapter in the New York Times. Having read it I am now nauseous and the piece of left over poached salmon I was planning to have for lunch will now be wasted.

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on Tuesday, December 21st, Clif said:

Sorry, Yank. Of course, now we know the source of Ann's eating disorder. She reads her own stuff and loses her appetite!

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