I almost feel like I have had a conversion experience, again.
I have always qualified myself as a conservative, both religiously and politically. But in reading Anne Coulter's book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), I feel like a whole new horizon has been opened up.
Hopefully you won't find this sacrilegious but, in my opinion, Coulter's book boarders on divine revelation. At the very least it is a refreshing spring of life for liberal beaten conservatives.
Like all Americans I am constantly exposed to what Rush Limbaugh dubs, the drive by media's take on current events. What passes as objective journalism today is nothing more than liberal trash. Fair and balanced reporting evidently equals harping on Republicans, lauding liberal activists, and deceiving, conniving, misquoting and any other additive you may have.
But Coulter, writing in her hard cutting, no-mincing-words way, helps to balance the journalistic scales. She digs into the main stream media, uncovers scandalous reporting, and gives a fuller story than what you would hear from CNN & other network cronies and most periodicals. If it wasn't so refreshing, you would probably be left feeling scandalized by network stations and their print buddies.
I listen to the audio version of the book, so most flies by quite quickly. But the book is so good that I am usually left saying, "Man, I want to catch that again so I can tell somebody." Therefore, if you can, read the book so you can soak in every jot and title .
I know that this would never happen (as it is a normal characteristic of a liberal not to listen to the "other side"), but I challenge anyone who would qualify him/herself as a liberal to work you way through the book. If I had such a conversion esc experience, perhaps you will too. At least you can find out what CNN didn't tell you.
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I know that this would never happen (as it is a normal characteristic of a liberal not to listen to the "other side"), but I challenge anyone who would qualify him/herself as a liberal to work you way through the book.
Wow, Matt, that's a pretty obnoxious blanket statement you have there. I wouldn't be caught dead making that kind of statement about "a conservative" in public, as an unqualified characteristic. Or perhaps it is not the characteristic of "a Christian" to listen to the other side, since they already have The Truth and can just divide the world into blank & white lines and never listen to the unbeliever? Wow. Just wow.
I really don't have time to read the book now, but if you would like to post some relevant revelatory passages, I'm sure I could read them and form a responsible opinion.
Oh, and this liberal does read and listen to the "other side." Some people on the other side decry the false claims recently perpetuated by Fox News about Barack Obama.
The tone in that blog post is more along the lines of what I would have expected from you Matt, honestly.
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