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Superbelt · 01-14-2004, 05:24 AM

I think there is a difference between the two though.

You have two sides, liberals and conservatives writing these books. The liberal side is "attacking" specific people. They aren't broadly generalizing conservatism as evil, flawed or anti-american. They may hit people like Bush, Cheney, O'Reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh, DeLay etc... as liars or bad people. But not every Conservative.

Conservatives DO hit that blanket statement that all liberals are evil, anti-american, anti-patriots (traitors) and need to be wiped from the face of this country. And they are high profile.

For example:

---Conservative---
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism
Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith, and Military
The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture

---Then Liberal---
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Really, those two are it, and as bad as the titles get on the liberal side without going off the deep end into any whackos. I'm trying to stay on people of comparable national attention. Franken and Conason, both of whom I have read, even start their books out telling us their books are not an attack on conservatives. The premise behind Conasons books is to debunk many of the slanders done against liberals. Myths like Elite Liberals control the media, Democrats are spendthrifts who bust budgets, Bill Clinton is the root of all evil.. It's pretty much a direct response to Coulter. Same with Franken. He does much of the same thing, but he does attack some of the Republican who he says are "playing lose with the facts" but never just attacks conservatives.
I'm sure you could find an exception or two to the rule. But then I could find a dozen more examples of the same thing out of conservative writers and commentators who have a much larger segment of the publics ear.

01-14-2004, 05:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
Superbelt This vexes me. I am terribly vexed. Location: Grantville, Pa	I think there is a difference between the two though. You have two sides, liberals and conservatives writing these books. The liberal side is "attacking" specific people. They aren't broadly generalizing conservatism as evil, flawed or anti-american. They may hit people like Bush, Cheney, O'Reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh, DeLay etc... as liars or bad people. But not every Conservative. Conservatives DO hit that blanket statement that all liberals are evil, anti-american, anti-patriots (traitors) and need to be wiped from the face of this country. And they are high profile. For example: ---Conservative--- Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith, and Military The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture ---Then Liberal--- Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Really, those two are it, and as bad as the titles get on the liberal side without going off the deep end into any whackos. I'm trying to stay on people of comparable national attention. Franken and Conason, both of whom I have read, even start their books out telling us their books are not an attack on conservatives. The premise behind Conasons books is to debunk many of the slanders done against liberals. Myths like Elite Liberals control the media, Democrats are spendthrifts who bust budgets, Bill Clinton is the root of all evil.. It's pretty much a direct response to Coulter. Same with Franken. He does much of the same thing, but he does attack some of the Republican who he says are "playing lose with the facts" but never just attacks conservatives. I'm sure you could find an exception or two to the rule. But then I could find a dozen more examples of the same thing out of conservative writers and commentators who have a much larger segment of the publics ear.