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Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
Exposing Liberals Gone Wild is Michelle Malkin's unrestrained and uncensored exposé of hate-mongering Leftists. With wit, wisdom, and a bullet-proof vest, Malkin ruthlessly and raucously skewers the myths of liberal tolerance, peace, and civility while responding to the incendiary insults and vile slurs directed at her and other conservatives. With infuriating details that are not for the faint of heart, Malkin chronicles the bizarre world of foaming-at-the-mouth Leftists in their natural the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and Washington.
231 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2005
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Michelle Malkin
16 books126 followersMichelle Malkin is an American conservative blogger, political commentator, and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She is a Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by Regnery Publishing.
Malkin began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market, anti-government regulation, libertarian think tank. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. Malkin became a nationally-syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.
Malkin began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market, anti-government regulation, libertarian think tank. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. Malkin became a nationally-syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.
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August 4, 2012
A phenomenal piece exposing the mainstream hypocrisy of the extreme Liberals. I decided to read this after becoming a fan of a liberal page on Facebook and witnessed first hand the shameful way the treat people with opposing views is intolerable. Reading this book highlighted some of the nation's craziest and well known liberals and exposes the hate they spew towards our troops. I applaud Michele Malkin for her integrity in standing up to the blindly led Liberals.
July 25, 2014
More screed than book
Was there anything at all I liked about this book? Anything positive I could say about it? Well, it was short, and that’s no small thing but as short as it was, it was a stern test of my resolve, to finish any and all books I started.
Disclosure – I skipped a section in the middle, page after page of mean things folks said about Michelle on her website (hello, it’s the Internet,) and I skimmed, OK, raced through the final 20 or so pages, not sure until the very end if I’d finish it or just throw it across the room.
A few years ago I tried to read one of Rush Limbaugh’s books. The Limbaugh book was long, really long, and I tried and couldn’t make it to the end. It was that awful. The theme - I’m the great Rush Limbaugh, here to tell you what to think and with my inimical humorous way of putting things, you know, that gift from God thing, you’ll be informed even as you’re entertained. It didn’t work for me. Rush is what the World Wrestling Federation used to be, before it was unmasked – serious sport or entertainment, depending on what best suited it at the moment and not so good, in this reviewers opinion, at either. The lesson I got from it was never again.
Until I decided to do it again.
The theme of Malkin’s book is simple enough, and hard to miss, with the way she beats you over the head with it. Liberals are deranged, violent folks who hate America; Conservatives (I only use the word because they use it) are God-fearing patriotic Americans under assault from the (who else,) deranged Liberals.
I finished the book in an afternoon, and not because I couldn’t put it down. I could, and did, a lot, but I was determined to make it to the end and it was a Saturday and I usually give Saturdays over to soft-reading - swashbucklers, Westerns, and I couldn’t escape the nagging injustice - I didn’t deserve to be reading a political diatribe on a Saturday afternoon.
The book was written in 2005 so it’s maybe not fair to review it now, it’s a book about the situation in America nearly ten years ago and things change, oh, do they change. If Liberals were angry and deranged back then, who’s deranged now, in 2013?
Why were the Liberals so angry? Well, 2 presidential elections, one ending when they stopped counting the votes, SCOTUS’s decision robbing President Bush of the legitimacy he might otherwise have had and robbing SCOTUS of legitimacy too. Folks who crowed when the court put their man in the White House might better have taken a more sober look. There were legitimate questions raised about the 2004 election too, particularly in Ohio, and the war in Iraq? Something fishy there. These were just some of the sources of left-wing anger in 2005, none of which the book explores. The book only looks at how angry the Liberals were, or were presumed to be, and doesn’t ask why.
It’s anecdote piled on top of anecdote. It’s proof, in case you didn’t get it from the Introduction or from the back cover, of just how unhinged Liberals had become. All those rampaging violent left-wingers and who are the victims? Conservatives. Make that God-fearing, rational, peace-loving Conservatives. The book is also filled with apologies. The anecdotes end with the Liberals apologizing or stubbornly refusing to apologize when an apology is clearly in order.
I suppose it might have made the book somewhat more bearable had Michelle been witty or clever, but her zingers are snarky-ugly, (even as she quotes ad nauseum, the ugly things she has to endure.) Again, the Internet can be a very ugly place.
Her barbs lack zing.
A sample:
A college kid throws a pie at Ann Coulter and Coulter gives the kid what Michelle calls a “trademark verbal lashing.” You know that Ann and her rapier wit. The lashing goes like this: “From that far away and he can’t even hit me?” (The kid was apparently up close to the podium.) Hey, I’ve never thrown a pie at anyone but I imagine it’s difficult to actually hit a person with a pie, without smushing it in their face. It’s not like throwing a Frisbee or a shoe. To actually hit someone in the face with a vertical and not a horizontal pie, would require the pie to travel or at least alight, in a kind of stand-up position, which I suppose is aerodynamically impossible.
Anyway, that’s not much of a lashing and maybe there was more to it but that’s all we got. Michelle can give over page after page to all the nasty things people say about her and she can’t give us a taste of Ann Coulter’s trademark wit? Guess we’ll just have to take her word for it.
Then there’s the bit about Ward Churchill. Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado, had much to say about the 9-11 attacks, some of it pretty outrageous, but none of it, in my opinion, outside the bounds of allowable speech. Couldn’t the freedom-loving, always fair-minded Conservatives have stood for the man’s freedom, if not for the man? Instead, they pilloried Churchill, harassing and hounding him until he lost his position at the university for reasons that had nothing to do with his 9-11 comments, reasons some feel were excuses.
What I most hated about the book wasn’t the politics. Michelle is syndicated in my local daily so I knew exactly what I was getting into before I checked the book out of the library. What I most hated was how tiresome it was. You want to make the case the Liberals are deranged, fine, go for it, but the next time could we have a little more in the way of analysis and not so many anecdotes? Why are they angry? Aren’t you curious? Don’t you care? Or are you content speaking just to the folks who think the way you do? Is what you’re doing nothing more than confirming and rousing their indignation? But, wait. Your audience is conservative and those folks aren’t angry, are they? Lighten up, Michelle. I know plenty of Liberals and they’re not all angry and deranged.
Was there anything at all I liked about this book? Anything positive I could say about it? Well, it was short, and that’s no small thing but as short as it was, it was a stern test of my resolve, to finish any and all books I started.
Disclosure – I skipped a section in the middle, page after page of mean things folks said about Michelle on her website (hello, it’s the Internet,) and I skimmed, OK, raced through the final 20 or so pages, not sure until the very end if I’d finish it or just throw it across the room.
A few years ago I tried to read one of Rush Limbaugh’s books. The Limbaugh book was long, really long, and I tried and couldn’t make it to the end. It was that awful. The theme - I’m the great Rush Limbaugh, here to tell you what to think and with my inimical humorous way of putting things, you know, that gift from God thing, you’ll be informed even as you’re entertained. It didn’t work for me. Rush is what the World Wrestling Federation used to be, before it was unmasked – serious sport or entertainment, depending on what best suited it at the moment and not so good, in this reviewers opinion, at either. The lesson I got from it was never again.
Until I decided to do it again.
The theme of Malkin’s book is simple enough, and hard to miss, with the way she beats you over the head with it. Liberals are deranged, violent folks who hate America; Conservatives (I only use the word because they use it) are God-fearing patriotic Americans under assault from the (who else,) deranged Liberals.
I finished the book in an afternoon, and not because I couldn’t put it down. I could, and did, a lot, but I was determined to make it to the end and it was a Saturday and I usually give Saturdays over to soft-reading - swashbucklers, Westerns, and I couldn’t escape the nagging injustice - I didn’t deserve to be reading a political diatribe on a Saturday afternoon.
The book was written in 2005 so it’s maybe not fair to review it now, it’s a book about the situation in America nearly ten years ago and things change, oh, do they change. If Liberals were angry and deranged back then, who’s deranged now, in 2013?
Why were the Liberals so angry? Well, 2 presidential elections, one ending when they stopped counting the votes, SCOTUS’s decision robbing President Bush of the legitimacy he might otherwise have had and robbing SCOTUS of legitimacy too. Folks who crowed when the court put their man in the White House might better have taken a more sober look. There were legitimate questions raised about the 2004 election too, particularly in Ohio, and the war in Iraq? Something fishy there. These were just some of the sources of left-wing anger in 2005, none of which the book explores. The book only looks at how angry the Liberals were, or were presumed to be, and doesn’t ask why.
It’s anecdote piled on top of anecdote. It’s proof, in case you didn’t get it from the Introduction or from the back cover, of just how unhinged Liberals had become. All those rampaging violent left-wingers and who are the victims? Conservatives. Make that God-fearing, rational, peace-loving Conservatives. The book is also filled with apologies. The anecdotes end with the Liberals apologizing or stubbornly refusing to apologize when an apology is clearly in order.
I suppose it might have made the book somewhat more bearable had Michelle been witty or clever, but her zingers are snarky-ugly, (even as she quotes ad nauseum, the ugly things she has to endure.) Again, the Internet can be a very ugly place.
Her barbs lack zing.
A sample:
A college kid throws a pie at Ann Coulter and Coulter gives the kid what Michelle calls a “trademark verbal lashing.” You know that Ann and her rapier wit. The lashing goes like this: “From that far away and he can’t even hit me?” (The kid was apparently up close to the podium.) Hey, I’ve never thrown a pie at anyone but I imagine it’s difficult to actually hit a person with a pie, without smushing it in their face. It’s not like throwing a Frisbee or a shoe. To actually hit someone in the face with a vertical and not a horizontal pie, would require the pie to travel or at least alight, in a kind of stand-up position, which I suppose is aerodynamically impossible.
Anyway, that’s not much of a lashing and maybe there was more to it but that’s all we got. Michelle can give over page after page to all the nasty things people say about her and she can’t give us a taste of Ann Coulter’s trademark wit? Guess we’ll just have to take her word for it.
Then there’s the bit about Ward Churchill. Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado, had much to say about the 9-11 attacks, some of it pretty outrageous, but none of it, in my opinion, outside the bounds of allowable speech. Couldn’t the freedom-loving, always fair-minded Conservatives have stood for the man’s freedom, if not for the man? Instead, they pilloried Churchill, harassing and hounding him until he lost his position at the university for reasons that had nothing to do with his 9-11 comments, reasons some feel were excuses.
What I most hated about the book wasn’t the politics. Michelle is syndicated in my local daily so I knew exactly what I was getting into before I checked the book out of the library. What I most hated was how tiresome it was. You want to make the case the Liberals are deranged, fine, go for it, but the next time could we have a little more in the way of analysis and not so many anecdotes? Why are they angry? Aren’t you curious? Don’t you care? Or are you content speaking just to the folks who think the way you do? Is what you’re doing nothing more than confirming and rousing their indignation? But, wait. Your audience is conservative and those folks aren’t angry, are they? Lighten up, Michelle. I know plenty of Liberals and they’re not all angry and deranged.
April 24, 2008
If Ann Coulter being on my list didn't clue you in to the fact that I am conservative, this will. The lengths liberals will go to to try to prove a point is, frankly, quite scary, as this book will show you.
April 10, 2009
Good; not much extremely new, except a few more revelations of the insanity of the left (and terrible racist screeds to/against her).
October 3, 2015
This book about how liberals are unique in their paranoia, bitterness, and hatred is a funny read after 6 years of Obama as president. It's basically cherry-picked quote after cherry-picked quote designed to flatter herself and her (conservative) readers by comparison. A surprising amount of quotes are just lifted off of the comments sections of various websites. It's humorous to think anyone might actually believe a similar book couldn't be put together with conservative theories about Obama's birth certificate, Benghazi, the Clinton body count, and fantasies of killing liberals (or cleansing the country of other "undesirables").
There's no real substance here beyond what can be found in the comments section of some political article on Yahoo.
There's no real substance here beyond what can be found in the comments section of some political article on Yahoo.
January 14, 2011
Ok, I admit it, I have become a polical junkie. The last three years I have become more politically active reading, writing my representatives in Washington D.C. and Salem, and the President. That is why I picked up this book. It points out the wingnuts on the left and how they operate. Wow! Talk about hate speech. It was timely read that corresponds with the current events in Tucson. The subject of civil speech is being pushed because the left is on their ear and this event gives them the opportunity to clamp down on political speech. That is my take anyway.
October 13, 2015
In her 2005 book this conservative author lists many examples where liberals/Democrats/radical leftists have given vent to mean or hateful, sometimes even vicious, statements and behavior. An interesting book but one I would not really want to recommend because many of her examples and quotes (for which the author does give copious references) are too full of foul language.
June 18, 2008
Michelle Malkin is awesome!
September 20, 2009
Documentation of oh-so-sensitive liberals run amok. Fun read.
February 18, 2013
Michelle Malkin catalogs the indecency and intolerance of the left as they seek to discredit everyone with whom they disagree. Argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad nauseum, and argumentum ad misericordiam (appeal to emotion) are their favorite methods of attack, and are reproduced in stunning detail.
PLEASE NOTE: I do not recommend this book unreservedly. Malkin takes the position that if someone else wrote/printed it, she should too, for the sake of accuracy. Contains a good bit of strong/offensive language. With that note, it is still an informative read on the tendency of crazy leftists to plumb new depths in their smearing of oppponents.
PLEASE NOTE: I do not recommend this book unreservedly. Malkin takes the position that if someone else wrote/printed it, she should too, for the sake of accuracy. Contains a good bit of strong/offensive language. With that note, it is still an informative read on the tendency of crazy leftists to plumb new depths in their smearing of oppponents.
September 20, 2016
"Unhinged" by Michelle Malkin is an okay read. I began this book with hope that their would be policy and substance. However, the more I read I began to realize that was not the case. The book is basically a combination of liberal hate speech against Malkin and other shocking examples of their intolerance. The examples she gave were shocking and showed the double standard conservatives receive from the media. Overall, I understand the reasoning behind the book. However, I would have liked more policy to fight back against liberalism.
April 30, 2016
The book really deserves more like 3 1/2 stars. It's pretty funny, and very spot on. Of course, I've heard a great deal of this before, but it's intersting to have it all in one place. Malkin certainly carries her point!
January 19, 2016
Malkin is a pretty solid, witty writer, who could carry that through to whatever topic she chooses to write about. While overall this was an entertaining piece, parts of it were repetetive (I wish I had counted how many time the term "knee-jerk" was used).
September 16, 2008
Didn't learn much new, but it was funny.
August 14, 2009
Michelle Malkin's views on the political Left's hysteria over Conservative reactions to their own extreme agenda.
July 28, 2012
5-28-06
April 22, 2012
Her writing style is very boring and she tends to give a lot of attention to/sensationalize the routine behavior of politicians.
February 27, 2018
I read this entire book, every single word and seems to me that I am left with a bad feeling that the fact that this book had to be written is a horrible statement to where America is today.
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February 1, 2021Review written 2005
Just finished (did you know that the book review heading on my old web site was called "Just finished...," because I almost always started my review with those words?) reading Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, which, depending on your political persuasion, is either an extremely biased rant against the forces of Liberal reason and rationality, or an objective look at the excesses of the "barking moonbats" of the Leftist horde, or maybe just a bit of both.
What it is, is a pretty well documented book about a number of instances of extreme insensitivity, race baiting, ad hominem attacks, and even criminal behavior by spokesman, self-appointed or otherwise, of the Liberal Left. Malkin explores PEST, Post Election Selection Trauma, which apparently severely affected many of those who campaigned for or voted for John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential race, incapacitating them for days, weeks or months after his loss to Bush. She explores some of the liberal conspiracy theories, such as believing that the CIA blew up the World Trade Center towers, that the capture of Saddam Hussein was staged at an opportune moment; he'd been in custody for months previously, or that Bush has secret plans for a military draft.
She talks about liberals' failure to support our troops during the War on Terror and the War in Iraq, their attacks on campus recruiters and recruiting stations, and their abusive behavior towards war veterans and their families. She talks about college environments which condone and even encourage viewpoints such as Ward Churchill's, that the people who worked in the WTC deserved what happened to them, for their complicity in the military industrial complex's bid for world domination (Gosh, some people never really grew out of the sixties, did they?).
She spends some time discussing the rabid anti-Bush sentiment of many of the entertainers in Hollywood. Given the total fantasy of the world these people generally live in, who relies on them for any kind of reality check, anyway? (digression here - I was watching an Oprah-clone talk show one day, and the topic was successful relationships. The host had three guests (models and actresses - C or D list, I can't really say) who were there to give us their sage advice. The first one says something along the lines of "I've always been single," the second says her longest relationship was 1-1/2 years, and the third was married for several years and got divorced. My first and last thought - I turned to another channel at that point - was "why in the world would you ask one of these people how to sustain a long term monogamous relationship?" If I want to know how, I'll ask one of my acquaintances who have been married for 20, 50, or 65 years. - end digression).
Malkin also has a chapter filled with the venomous attacks upon her personally from liberals who have taken great offense to the opinions she expresses on her blog, and/or the columns she writes for conservative web sites, and/or the bloviating she gets to do on Fox News, especially The O'Reilly Factor. If you're at all sensitive or easily offended by foul language, I suggest you skip this chapter, or perhaps use a black magic marker to clean it up a bit. The rest of the chapter is the same sort of thing that she's collected from other web sites, posted by people who disagreed with some poor conservative schmuck.
Ok, so I was shocked and appalled by the obscene personal attacks on Mrs. Malkin. I, personally, wouldn't dream of talking to my worst enemy in the world that way, even if they'd spoken to me in that fashion first. However, from my surfing excursions, I've noticed that this stuff is pretty common on political blogs -- why, I can't imagine, as it doesn't further rational discourse in any way, shape or form. Perhaps I'll even receive some of it for posting this review.
To be as objective as possible here, there's a ton of invective being tossed back and forth in the political arena these days, both online and offline, that falls far beyond the pale of what not so long ago was considered common courtesy. I'm not even talking dirty politics, here, but rather the vicious attacks - verbal and/or physical - which evoke Wrestlemania far more than boxing by Queensbury rules.
All in all, a quick and entertaining, and sometimes maddening, read.
Just finished (did you know that the book review heading on my old web site was called "Just finished...," because I almost always started my review with those words?) reading Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, which, depending on your political persuasion, is either an extremely biased rant against the forces of Liberal reason and rationality, or an objective look at the excesses of the "barking moonbats" of the Leftist horde, or maybe just a bit of both.
What it is, is a pretty well documented book about a number of instances of extreme insensitivity, race baiting, ad hominem attacks, and even criminal behavior by spokesman, self-appointed or otherwise, of the Liberal Left. Malkin explores PEST, Post Election Selection Trauma, which apparently severely affected many of those who campaigned for or voted for John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential race, incapacitating them for days, weeks or months after his loss to Bush. She explores some of the liberal conspiracy theories, such as believing that the CIA blew up the World Trade Center towers, that the capture of Saddam Hussein was staged at an opportune moment; he'd been in custody for months previously, or that Bush has secret plans for a military draft.
She talks about liberals' failure to support our troops during the War on Terror and the War in Iraq, their attacks on campus recruiters and recruiting stations, and their abusive behavior towards war veterans and their families. She talks about college environments which condone and even encourage viewpoints such as Ward Churchill's, that the people who worked in the WTC deserved what happened to them, for their complicity in the military industrial complex's bid for world domination (Gosh, some people never really grew out of the sixties, did they?).
She spends some time discussing the rabid anti-Bush sentiment of many of the entertainers in Hollywood. Given the total fantasy of the world these people generally live in, who relies on them for any kind of reality check, anyway? (digression here - I was watching an Oprah-clone talk show one day, and the topic was successful relationships. The host had three guests (models and actresses - C or D list, I can't really say) who were there to give us their sage advice. The first one says something along the lines of "I've always been single," the second says her longest relationship was 1-1/2 years, and the third was married for several years and got divorced. My first and last thought - I turned to another channel at that point - was "why in the world would you ask one of these people how to sustain a long term monogamous relationship?" If I want to know how, I'll ask one of my acquaintances who have been married for 20, 50, or 65 years. - end digression).
Malkin also has a chapter filled with the venomous attacks upon her personally from liberals who have taken great offense to the opinions she expresses on her blog, and/or the columns she writes for conservative web sites, and/or the bloviating she gets to do on Fox News, especially The O'Reilly Factor. If you're at all sensitive or easily offended by foul language, I suggest you skip this chapter, or perhaps use a black magic marker to clean it up a bit. The rest of the chapter is the same sort of thing that she's collected from other web sites, posted by people who disagreed with some poor conservative schmuck.
Ok, so I was shocked and appalled by the obscene personal attacks on Mrs. Malkin. I, personally, wouldn't dream of talking to my worst enemy in the world that way, even if they'd spoken to me in that fashion first. However, from my surfing excursions, I've noticed that this stuff is pretty common on political blogs -- why, I can't imagine, as it doesn't further rational discourse in any way, shape or form. Perhaps I'll even receive some of it for posting this review.
To be as objective as possible here, there's a ton of invective being tossed back and forth in the political arena these days, both online and offline, that falls far beyond the pale of what not so long ago was considered common courtesy. I'm not even talking dirty politics, here, but rather the vicious attacks - verbal and/or physical - which evoke Wrestlemania far more than boxing by Queensbury rules.
All in all, a quick and entertaining, and sometimes maddening, read.
March 2, 2019
This account of an enormously successful woman, who boasts a net worth of around $22 million. I am surprised she is not lauded as an example of a very successful woman by liberals. She studied at the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School and later attended Oberlin College. She is a political analyst, and her book is about the opposition to her views, focusing on how nasty those who disagree with her can be. No doubt part of the reason for this nasty response is her Catholic conservative views. She is loved and hated by her viewers in about equal numbers. Most liberals do not agree with her conservative political values, but this does not justify the vitriolic response she faces as documented in this book, which may do more to hurt liberals than conservatives. In this book, she documents and responds to the incendiary insults and vile slurs directed at her and conservatives in general. I am all for reasonable debate, but such has become very difficult in today's climate, especially at universities, as this book documents. Of all places that should welcome open discussion should be universities, but not so today. Regardless of your view, this book is a must-read. I read books on both sides and liberals likewise need to read the side they do not favor to be able to, at least, understand the other side.
October 9, 2019
As with many of Ms Malkin's books, they are well researched, documented and entertaining.
She doesn't sugarcoat the facts and delivers her opinions with stark, unfiltered truth.
The reader will find this book no less honest.
Liberals may not like her observations and opinions, but will he hard pressed to disputes many of them.
Highly recommend!
She doesn't sugarcoat the facts and delivers her opinions with stark, unfiltered truth.
The reader will find this book no less honest.
Liberals may not like her observations and opinions, but will he hard pressed to disputes many of them.
Highly recommend!
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