ANNE COULTER IS A DANGER TO AMERICA

I got a chance to glance through Anne Coulter's book, TREASON, today while I was volunteering at the Spokane Library book store, "Buy the Book", and her title's right on: her book IS treasonous in its intent to destroy trust in American government so as to make it an easier target for the wealthy, like Coulter, to control or to so devide us that the Chinese can run us easily into the ground.

Her book as far as I can see is without scholarly foundation. It's the rant of a political hack, full of generalizations and glib easy clichés. I see no real studious survey of the American condition with an intent to really inform the people about the troubles our government might be in. She is no deep intellect, yet, to our current batch of religiously political simpletons, she might pass as someone who has something to say.

One clear example of her distortions is how she brings in Kennedy's womanizing to tear him down and uses his womanizing to also attack the press. She claims that the "liberal" press was protecting Kennedy, thus belittling the press of the past, but she fails to mention that the press for years did not touch the sex life of any politicians, liberal or conservative. Her ommision of such an obvious detail is her standard practice, it seems, for the book goes on like that, falsifying by omissions and distortions and generalizations without detail. I was surprised to see that some reviewers gave her any credit at all.


YES—WHO DO WE RUN THE COUNTRY TO BENEFIT THE MOST?

"Do we run the country for the people, or do we run it for the nameless, faceless banks or international corporations?" asks Harvard Law School Prof. Elizabeth Warren. "That was the issue way back as far back as the Depression. The ultimate decision was we run it for the people. . . . And now we have made a complete turnabout: We not only don't invest in the middle class, we drain away from the middle class. We tax them harder; we leave them with bigger risks like never before in history. And we take away the last shred of a safety net—bankruptcy. It's war on the middle class." (from an essay by Lou Dobbs in U.S. News & World Report, May 2, 2005)


OF COURSE THE RICH GET RICHER IN REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS: SEE HOW

"Eliminating the estate tax on the wealthiest Americans is both reckless fiscal policy and deeply unfair to the rest of the nation. Plus, it's based on specious logic." —Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief (U.S. News & World Report, May 2, 2005)
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." —Albert Einstein [I didn't know Albert lived in this century during the current Bush administration with his fundamentalist voters.]