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Jan 30, 2009

Garbo rated it:

The only people who read Coulter are Extremists; she fuels their political conviction. There is nothing moderate about Guilty. It doesn’t persuade, argue or take stance. It is a blatant venomous rant against the Left. It is too obvious to be humorous, too predictable to be exciting. Her research department is a handful of college conservatives running Lexis-Nexis searches for articles she can assault. Her proof of Liberal media bias consists of out of context quotes from obscure politicians and More...

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Jan 14, 2009

Winnifred rated it:

Wow! After I heard NBC banned Ann Coulter because of this book, I just had to read it. Liberals are just SO sensitive. She has all the names, dates and stats. Ambrose Bierce said "Use emotion when the facts are against you".

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Jan 17, 2011

Brian rated it:

This would be my favorite of her books because she really slams the double standard and silliness of the liberal position. The classless slander and debasement of anything to do with republicans or conservatives.

She over and over again shows the complete breakdown of the liberal logic, which is a brand of insanity rather than any form of logic. She clearly explains how liberals find a victim of some supposed atrocity that the right has done and then goes to work to either ruin the More...

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Jan 20, 2009

Lisa rated it:

Ann Coulter researches every possible case where liberals play the victims in order to advance themselves in some way. There are some interesting ideas in this book, and as always, Coulter's research is vast. In some of the chapters, like the first one, I started to get restless with all of the cases where liberals rescued or attempted to rescue victims. I wondered why we needed so many examples. I guess Coulter decided that if she didn't just pack each chapter with a million examples, her point More...

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Apr 07, 2011

Damon rated it:

Less a book than a piece of carefully calibrated propaganda for Ms. Coulter's tweets, GUILTY will find exactly the audience it is intended to, and speaks directly to their prejudices and anxieties, like all good fascism does. So you can expect middle class values ensrhined as a kind of self-congratulatory gospel of intolerance. No sense of global politics, no sense of history, and no real grasp of the imaginary statistics that might back up her (un)shocking assertions about the evils of social r More...

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Feb 27, 2009

Bethany rated it:

I used to like Ann Coulter's stuff, especially Treason, which I think is her best book... but this one was just irrational screaming. I only made it through about a chapter and promptly returned it to the library. She does bring up some interesting points, but she does it in such an unnecessarily inflammatory way, it undermines her credibility severely. She needs a good editor to tone down the crap.

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Feb 04, 2009

Ger rated it:

Ann, in her usual pointed way, makes a forceful case that those who claim to be victims are often the ones who have created havoc on others. There is plenty examples of liberal hypocrisy which should make any fair thinking person angry at the unfairness of it all. The main stream media is a rich target at which Ann takes deadly aim.

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Jan 21, 2009

Annie rated it:

Ann Coulter writes like she speaks which is entertaining in the spoken word but frustrating to read.

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Mar 19, 2009

Lynn rated it:

so sorry, but i must admit to a guilty pleasure. i love to read ann. she is witty and brilliant in her assessments of the people and times we live with and in. while one may not always agree with her analyses, she always tells it as she sees it. great fun to get a different perspective on the current culture. she knows it too. folks should just learn to take her statements and enjoy her refreshingly candid pronouncements and go with the flow. she is the conservative response to bill maher who ma More...

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Jul 29, 2011

Bonnie rated it:

When I picked up this book at the library (I wouldn't actually spend money on any book she writes) I was determined to read it with an objective focus, despite the hateful titles which one could judge by the cover. I just wanted to see what kind of arguments she presented. Yet I knew full well there'd be a lot of eye rolling.
Obviously I skimmed most of it but it didn't take long for me to surmise that very few people would actually take her seriously. She's there for shock value and the More...

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Jul 25, 2011

Patrick rated it:

I have only one problem with Ann Coulter, and that is that she writes books to settle scores. Unlike Inigo Montoya, who observed in "The Princess Bride" that "there's not a lot of money in revenge," Coulter has built a lucrative career on using her razor-sharp wit and impressive research to skewer progressives at every turn. She can be mordantly funny, but because -- in public, at least -- she has no "off" switch, she can also be mean. Those traits make her book wri More...

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May 18, 2011

Bojan rated it:

Many people, and not just liberal, see red when the name of Ann Coulter is brought up. This has very little to do with the design of her book covers, and everything to do with the perception of her being unduly confrontational and mean-spirited. And yet many of her critics when pressed are seldom able to come up with any particular statement of hers that is outrageous, but rather relay and hearsay and other secondary sources. Granted, she does make many outlandish statements, but they are made a More...

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May 12, 2011

Johnrh rated it:

She's smart, very smart. She's good looking. She has a supremely acerbic, acidic, wryly humorous wit. She's in love with herself I suspect. I know I am. In love with myself that is, or very very fond of at least. A healthy dose of egoism along with a pinch, dash, or splash of egotism might do us all a bit of good. My motto (one of many) the last few years is that I'm contributing to my fellow man by taking care of myself, at my own expense and not someone else's. Rational self-interest. More...

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Nov 17, 2009

Nate rated it:

I realize this author has burned a lot of bridges with people by not speaking in tones deemed appropriate by the media, but I found the examples and arguements she raised in this book very telling of the left's tactics in our evolving democracy.

I have been involved in several political campaigns and organizations over the year's and the idea of being forced to apologize for not wanting a bigger government, higher taxes, and more people assessed based on where they or their parents ar More...

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Oct 16, 2009

Leo rated it:

Shrill, opinionated, one-sided and poorly argued: Personal versus substantive attacks. If this book was researched like her other books, a lot to the "facts" about the "Liberal Media" are based on misleading Nexus/Lexus search results. Takes offense at the mainstream, and calls it Liberal. Bunches together all sorts of groups into an amorphous mass of undifferentiated "Liberal."

And, she is wildly inaccurate in a lot of places. Take, for instance, her sco More...

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Sep 18, 2009

Rebecca rated it:

Wow.

Okay, so let's get this out of the way first. There is very little middle ground with Ann Coulter. You either love her and probably have little bad to say about this book, or you hate her and have nothing good to say about this. So, spare me the comments of SHE'S SO EVIL AND SO BAD AND I TOTALLY DON'T RESPECT YOU AS A PERSON NOW BECAUSE YOU'VE READ HER YOU CRAZY RIGHT-WING BITCH.

That said, let's move on.

My theory is that, for any portion of the political s More...

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Jan 14, 2009

Varmint rated it:

the book has been out a few days now. so we can begin to see ratings from people who've actually read it. this is an indictment of the media, pure and simple. coulter acts as prosecutor, judge and executioner. she goes about it like a chess player, anticipating counter arguments, and then the counters for the counters. three or four moves ahead.

so far all the media attention has focused on two or three "mean" comments about single motherhood. well, it's really an entire ch More...

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Feb 23, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

I read this because I think occasionally you should read opinions other than your own, even if they are really annoying. Her book is well-written, but she certainly seems to extend several of her arguments well beyond actual facts. Her whole take on single mothers is ridiculous.

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Jun 19, 2009

Katie rated it:

This book was AMAZING! Ann Coulter speaks the uncomfortable truths that many of us want to ignore. She seemlessly blends the serious nature of the topics with her "Coultertarian" humor that made me feel at some points like I was laughing at a funeral. It was the comic relief that helped Coulter transcend the issues and bring to light those things in our society that, unless controlled at the root, will eventually lead to our demise.

Regardless of your feelings, this boo More...

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Mar 04, 2009

Holly rated it:

Here are some things about Ann Coulter

1. She's a bitch (at least her "writing" voice is bitchy, she may be perfectly lovely in person)
2. She's a hypocrite (she "whines" more than any liberal I've ever met)

But on the other hand

3. She is brilliant
4. She is funny

I read her stuff because it gets me thinking, I always have a visceral reaction and would love to meet this woman in person and argue with her.To be fair and o More...

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Feb 05, 2009

Tyra rated it:

I enjoyed this book and it certainly was an interesting read. While the tone is a tad on the sarcastic and biting side for me, I felt that she made her points well and made me think. I think if she left out some of the snide and sarcastic remarks and just stuck with the facts that she lays out, I think she would give herself a tad bit more credibility, although its her tone in some ways that makes the book conversational and easy to read. I thought she was spot on on a lot of issues and presen More...

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Aug 11, 2009

Andrew rated it:

Coulter is at her best when she writes like this. She argues her point clearly and aggressively, backing it up with lots of citations and facts. I can see why liberals would dislike her. She not only opposes what they stand for, but she is willing to call them on their beliefs and highlights that which they would prefer to keep hidden. Her chapter on single parents was particularly enlightening. Given the media's strong liberal leaning, it is good that there are voices like Coulter's to present More...

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Mar 18, 2009

Ann rated it:

As always, Ann Coulter makes her points by using fully researched facts and examples ...her main point in this book being that liberals are hypocrites that constantly "cry foul" in order to create diversionary smoke screens for their own underhanded schemes that are designed to clutter the truth and advance their hard left, socialist/marxist agenda. They create as many phony "victims" as possible with the resultant tug at the sympathies of those who don't have the facts ... More...

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Aug 07, 2010

Lisa rated it:

Ann does here what she usually does--she's mostly right on the money. She had me with all of the chapters except the single mother diatribe. I have to ask myself, what could such an obviously intelligent woman be thinking with that piece of garbage in an otherwise dead on account of the liberal victim mentality? Stop doing this, Ann! It is as ill advised as those bat wing false eyelashes you've been sporting on Hannity lately! You're smart, you're astute, you're even funny. Don't go off on insan More...

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Feb 24, 2009

Kirsten rated it:

Coulter does it again. As usual she is frighteningly accurate and bitingly sarcastic. Although I enjoyed her well done research and unique views on single motherhood, this entire book could have been about the media's love affair with Obama and the 2008 election. It's almost as if she started a book on one thing and then got caught up in the election and changed topics. Her information is sound, but it's a bit choppy hence my four star rating. It just doesn't flow the same way Godless, Slander a More...

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Jul 20, 2011

Lou rated it:

I don't think the book was intended to be a demonstration of the Godwin's law but with a comparison between Nazis and liberals in the fourth paragraph of the "essay"... well, unfortunately, it is not the only one...
So, for Coulter, liberals are actually fascists and the real victims are rich and powerful conservatives like herself, Bush or Palin. Radical? no, of course not! Ridiculous? How dare you say that? Just dumb and written like the speech of a teenager? If you ask that, it More...

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Nov 02, 2010

Crixly rated it:

This book caught my attention at the bookstore because of the title. With political books becoming a little more popular to read in my opinion I loved the carefree attitude in the writing. I felt like it was her opinion which it was but there was an enticing way and humor that made you want to keep reading more. Obviously to read something which touches on serious topics you have to be able to see the humor in things and not necessarily take things literally. Being able to play around with humor More...

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Jul 29, 2011

Ken rated it:

In her 7th book attacking liberalism, controversial political satirist Ann Coulter cuts through the pervasive left wing bias of the mainstream media to proclaim liberals GUILTY of opportunistically portraying themselves as victims. In GUILTY: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, Coulter is at her mordantly witty best castigating liberals as faux victims. Chapter 2 where liberals complicit with the established media venerate single mothers to the detriment of their children was partic More...

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Jul 25, 2011

James rated it:

It's good be be a victim in America, argues Ann Coulter. Using a variety of media sources, polls, etc., Coulter shows that liberals have carefully created special classes that they claim to be victims of whites, capitalism, the wealthy, males, or any other politically unpopular class, race, philosophy, etc. (Coulter emphasizes that what she is talking about is above and beyond the real racism or prejudice that rational people acknowledge has actually happened.) However, in the process of trying More...

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Apr 06, 2010

Lacey rated it:

I finished it this morning on the metro! I absolutely love Ann Coulter! I highly recommend her. She's ballsy on a whole new level. If you get the chance, look up her interview with the View's Joy Behar about waterboarding and you'll see what I mean.

Joy: You're for waterboarding, how about we waterboard you?!
Ann Coulter: You're for abortion, would you like to be aborted? I have an idea, let's abort the terrorists then we're all happy.

Bah ha ha ha! She's awesome. More...

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