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Thursday, January 23, 2003

"At a time when Democrats and Republicans should be overwhelmingly congenial, American political debate has become increasingly hostile, overly personal, and insufferably trivial." Does this quote look like it came from a memoir on the Clinton impeachment? Guess again! This is from a description of Ann Coulter's top-selling Group 2 book Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. “The immutable fact of politics in America is this: liberals hate conservatives,” she says. And it's entirely the liberals' fault:

Cultlike in their behavior, vicious in their attacks on Republicans, and in almost complete control of mainstream national media, the left has been merciless in portraying all conservatives as dumb, racist, power hungry, homophobic, and downright scary. This despite the many Republican accomplishments of the last few decades, as well as the Bush administration’s expert handling of the country’s affairs in the wake of the worst attacks on American soil and of the war that followed. [Read More]
I thought it would be fun to take the review of Slander and replace every occurrence of "liberals" with "Jews" and "conservatives" with "Fascists." The modified version looks somehow familiar (you can read it here).

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