Tuesday, January 29, 2008

If you believe in truth , fairness, balance, objectivity , there's nothing here for you, move on. Ms Coulter has written one long hysterical rant, for a set audience (rabid conservatives) and if you dont fall in that category , you wont like this book. According to Ms Coulter

1) The Republicans have all enacted successful policies, the Democrats have screwed up everything, and where they haven't its because they inherited the good work of the republicans and where the republicans screwed up is because of democratic policies previously enacted(e.g. 9/11 happened because Bill Clinton didn't act on the evidence he had).

2)Ms Coulter goes after the people the Democrats put up to state their case who cant be touched or criticized. e.g. The widows of the people who died in 9/11. The mothers of soldiers who have died in the war. She then proceeds to accuse these women of all sorts of things(like they did it for the publicity, they did it for the money, they took so much pleasure grieving for their husbands deaths) while repeating that nobody is allowed to criticise them. Leading to the obvious inference Ann Coulter = nobody.

3) Onwards to teachers who according to her are above criticism and nobody is allowed to criticise them or public schools either. So nobody i.e. Ms Coulter, than proceeds to do exactly that criticise public schools, bring out statistics to number of children abused by school teachers v/s number of children abused by priests. I'm not sure what she wanted to prove there.

4) Ms Coulter attacks evolution and brings up fact after fact that evolution cant explain. She evidently is of the school of thought that believes that attacking Evolution proves that Intelligent design or Creationism must be correct(a false dichotomy). She repeats her contradictory statement that Darwin made that shows that evolution can never be disapproved and how theories that cant be disapproved aren't science and then proceeds to write four chapters trying to disprove evolution. Which is it Ms Coulter?

The sad bit is , this book is a bestseller.

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