Ann Coulter’s “Godless” – A Book Review
Deborah Venable
06/13/06
Like
Joseph Farah, I did not rush to buy this book on its obviously
cute release date, 06/06/06, but I was more than happy to receive it as a gift
from my son a couple of days later.
Normally, I tend to be a speed-reader, but this one I savored slowly,
much as one who is used to a diet of hamburger would savor a good
Porterhouse.
Anyone
unfamiliar with Ann’s style of writing is missing out on one of the best
examples of masterful prose in America today.
She handles the English language like a master chef handles the kitchen
of a five star restaurant. (Come to
think of it, I’m handling this book review like a dieter about to fall off the
wagon or something.) Anyway, you get my
drift. The book, “Godless – The Church
Of Liberalism”, (Crown Publishing, a subsidiary of Random House, 2006), is an
excellent read, hilariously funny, excruciatingly researched, and thoroughly
educational. It is also self-justified
evidence that liberals are depicted with absolute accuracy in it because of
their current uproar over its publication.
It
seems that most of the hoopla stems from Coulter’s handling of four – count
them, four – 911 widows, AKA ‘the Jersey Girls”, who voluntarily stepped into
the media hyped political arena when they first complained that the 1.6 million
dollar average settlement was not enough*, and after winning that battle for
more money, they began assigning blame for their husbands’ deaths to none other
than George W. Bush. They kept
themselves in the spotlight long enough for the adoring media to make sure that
everyone in the world who had spent more than a few minutes watching any T.V.
news or entertainment program would know who they were and that they were
suffering widows because of George Bush.
Now, of course, with the very small mention in this new book, their
liberal heroes and heroines are Johnny on the spot to “defend their honor” and
demand that the book be banned or burned – or even worse, that its author kill herself.
The
Jersey Girls are a miniscule part of one chapter in Godless, with perhaps only
a brief mention afterwards. It isn’t
worth placing the few page numbers here that they are even mentioned on – and
they are certainly NOT the stars of the chapter – much less the book! They aren’t even the point – but the
controversy about them certainly validates everything else said about liberals,
the media, Democrats etc., etc., etc.
The
point of the book is to define liberalism as a religion in terms that cannot be
disproved. Gosh, I think that makes it
more than a theory, doesn’t it? Unlike
other theories the book mentions – such as Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution, which
has been picked apart like road kill by a flock of buzzards – but liberals
don’t want you to read about that either.
They also don’t want you to read about the many blunders made by
liberals in charge of “administering justice” to criminals. They don’t want you to ingest the facts
about how your money is being spent to “educate” children in the public school
system. And they surely don’t want you
to glean any more facts about abortion or the ineptness of fetal stem cell
research as opposed to the success of adult stem cell research. In fact, the glaring truth of the matter is
that Ann coulter hit every nerve that liberals have with this book, and the
best they can do is retaliate with a sham indignation over the “hurt feelings”
of some star struck, rich widows!
Please!
Do
yourself a favor and pick up a copy of “Godless” before the liberals either get
it yanked off the shelves or set about to barbeque every copy. (What a meal – there I go again!) If it were required reading in our public
schools, I wonder how many teachers it would take to read it out loud to the
students they haven’t successfully taught to read yet?
Footnote*
from page 103