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Rating:  - A Strong Finish
There are few surprises in this book. I liked it, but then this is the type book that conservatives will like, liberals will not. If you watch Sean Hannity's show, or listen to his radio program, then you know what to expect out of this book, so if you buy it, don't complain if it isn't some great revelation for you.
I like Sean Hannity. He is someone who got passionate about something and ended up being very successful at it. That is always admirable. But I found this book lacking content. Maybe it's just that I am so familiar with Hannity that I wasn't reading anything I didn't already know, but I thought there was too much time spent just rehashing guests from the Hannity and Colmes TV show. But then I read chapter 11 and it turned the whole thing around for me. Chapter 11 appears to be Sean Hannity speaking from the heart and it is invaluable. Like Bill Bennett's classic, Book of Virtues, chapter 11 of this book should be required reading for every High School student in America. It exposes the cold hard truth about many of the liberal lies and tactics and how they should be dealt with. In fact, the last 3 chapters really make this book a worthwhile read.
Buy the book. If you're not a political junkie, you will learn a few things in the first ten chapters. If you are a political junkie, you'll get your money's worth in the last three chapters.
Rating:  - It's fluff
Let me start by saying that I am a huge Sean Hannity fan. I grew up listening to his radio show here in NY and was eagerly looking forward to reading this book. Despite my agreement with much of Hannity's philosophy, this book simply doesn't cut it. The writing style is choppy, the citation style is misleading at times, and the book fails to articulate a central theme other than "Liberals are bad, and Bill Clinton is especially bad." The transition from chapter to chapter is at times non-existant. I hope readers don't judge this book (or this review) simply based on whether they agree with the author's political philosophy. Just because someone has the right ideas does not mean they can articulate them effectively in every forum. Recent works by Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan make similar points but are immensely more entertaining, better written, and more thoroughly cited. Despite the fact that Liberals are a central target of this book, Hannity never effectively defines for the reader what a Liberal is. Compare this to Buchanan who delves deeply into the origins of today's Liberal ideology by introducing the reader to the writings of Marcuse and Gramsci. I suspect this book was more the result of Sean's burgeoning popularity (his radio show is now nationally syndicated) than any innovative thoughts that crossed the author's mind motivating him to write. Hannity knew he had a built-in audience and thus writing even the most intellectually shallow work would generate a huge return. For an adoring listener like myself, this was immensely disappointing.
Rating:  - Puts Liberals in their place - Go Gettem' Sean!!
Hannity ties together various points to produce this composite which thoroughly explains why America is the best country in the world. Liberals are simply unable to answer questions that destroy their intellectually bankrupt arguments that buckle under the slightest scrutiny.He explains why Liberals believe the following seven lies : 1) America is rich only because it has stolen money from other countries. Africa would be rich if America had not stolen from Africa. Even the wealth created in the last 10 years from software development was the result of exploiting the Amazon jungles and the Congo.
2) Blacks in the US deserve reparations, even from people who's ancestors came to the US much later than the Civil War. Even Asian American taxpayers who arrived in the 1970s must pay reparations to Blacks who would otherwise be wealthy in Africa had they not been taken from there. Blacks are continually discriminated against by whites to this day at every possible opportunity. The fact that black immigrants from Dominica and Jamaica are doing much better than African Americans means that they are selectively not subjected to racism, even though their skin is even darker. They should pay reparations too.
3) The SAT is racially biased. The fact that Korean, Chinese, and Indian students do better than whites still means that it is biased against blacks and no one else. The Math section is particularly rigged against blacks.
4) All rich people are rich because they had rich parents. If someone has poor parents, they have no chance. Communism, which fairly redistributes the fixed amount of dollars in the US, is the only fair solution. Even the immigrants who became rich after coming here have exploited others.
5) Bush's tax cut only favors the rich. The person making $300,000 was paying $100,000 in taxes, and now will only pay $80,000, getting a refund of $20,000! The person making only $20,000 was paying $2000 in taxes, and now will still pay $1500, getting a refund of only $500. It is unfair that the rich person gets a refund that is 40 times larger than the poor person! They should get a refund of the same size! The fact that the rich person is STILL paying $80,000 while the poor person is
only paying $1500, or less than 2% as much, is irrelevent. The rich are evil, and we have to take it away. Hard work never gets anyone anywhere in America, but smoking pot and having body piercings and tatoos do.
6) We have NO right to attack the Taliban, even though they don't allow girls to go to school and force women to wear a burkha. Women in the US, however, are still held back by the glass ceiling.
7) All the world's cultures are equal. The fact that immigrants from every part of the globe want to leave their countries and come to the US is not a valid point. I do not need to visit Africa, China, Brazil, or Iraq to know that their cultures are better than America. It is okay for China to massacre its own students at Tianamen, and conduct genocide against Tibetans and Uighurs, but it is wrong for the US to attack the Taliban while providing food for the Afghan people. America was also wrong to attack Germany in WWII to save the Jews. Whenever America has a war, it is wrong. If you are a conservative who is angered by liberals who put forth these arguments, you will find indestructable firepower for your next argument in this book. Few books provide so comprehensive an arsenal to demolish the liberal shibboleths as this one. You will also know when you have WON when liberals say 'you are dumb' or 'you don't know' without putting forth an
intelligent sentence. If you are a liberal who thinks the above are true, read this book if you actually believe in free speech (liberals usually believe in free speech when it consists of their own liberal intellectual incest.). Prove that you are not a hypocrite and read this book. Note that the fools giving this book one star do not actually point out any flaws in Hannity's reasoning, but just scream about things not relevant to this book. That is because HANNITY HAS ALREADY ANALYZED AND DEFEATED THEIR POINTS, and they have no choice but to cry in protest to their being outwitted and embarrassed. Their self-loathing ways have been revealed. Read this book before your next debate against some liberal pseudo-intellectual.
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