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A hilarious proof of the utter hypocrisy of Democrats who fashion themselves as role models of tolerance and civility.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #37245 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780895260307
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From Publishers Weekly
The spewing of vitriol, epithets and wild conspiracy theories suggest a collective nervous breakdown among liberals, according to conservative commentator Malkin who, in her latest book, makes no distinction between moderate and extreme liberals; everyone left of right is a nut who suffers from PEST-Post Election Selection Trauma. This syndrome, she explains, is democratic (small d), affecting stuffed-donkey clutching college students and seasoned congressmen and journalists whose overweening diatribes and hand-wringing Malkin has seized to illustrate an emotionally charged and irrational hatred of everything conservative. Malkin scoured blogs, speeches, media commentaries and even transcripts from Oprah for material, though she misses the boat in a number of instances, most notably in her obliviousness to sarcasm and irony, and she overextends her analytical prowess by offering shallow, shoddy critiques of theater, literature and modern art. Malkin uses extremist bloggers and airheaded celebrities as exemplars of the left, cherry picking the most egregiously tasteless examples of ill-conceived commentary or inflammatory behavior to bolster her case that liberals, as a whole, have gone off their rockers. Right-wingers looking for affirmation will enjoy.
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From the Inside Flap
Un·hinged

adj : affected with madness or insanity; [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced]

- The American Heritage Dictionary

*** Warning: Unhinged liberals are hazardous to the nation’s health.

They’re slashing your tires. Burning your lawns. Heaving pies at Republican pundits. Hurling racist epithets at minority conservatives. Nursing nutty conspiracy theories. And pining publicly for the murder of President Bush.

And they call us crazy?

In Unhinged: Liberals Gone Wild, Michelle Malkin plays conservative Margaret Mead to the alien political creatures of the American Left. With uproarious detail and rollicking reportage, Malkin chronicles the bizarre world of leftists gone mad in their natural habitats: the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and Washington.

Unhinged unmasks liberals who’ve completely abandoned rationality and reality. They’re taking chainsaws and bayonets to campaign signs. Running down political opponents with their cars. Setting fire to political opponents in effigy. Defacing war memorials. Swiping yellow ribbons off cars. And supporting the fragging of American troops.

In Unhinged, you’ll meet:

- The Top 10 Unhinged Leftists, Celebrities, Media Liberals, and Politicians. - The Pennsylvania Democrat who repeatedly screamed "faggot" at his Republican opponents on the Senate floor. - The Florida Democrat who tried to run down former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris with his Cadillac. - The Democrat congressman who claimed the capture of Saddam Hussein was staged by GOP operatives to help the Bush re-election campaign. - The veteran newsman who claimed that Bush advisor Karl Rove and Osama bin Laden are working hand-in-hand to help the Republican Party. - And hundreds more unhinged liberals gone wild!

With wit, wisdom, and a bullet-proof vest, Michelle Malkin ruthlessly and raucously skewers the myths of liberal tolerance, peace, and civility. Unhinged shows how conservatives are driving their opponents mad. The good news for liberals? Self-help starts here.

About the Author
Michelle Malkin is a New York Times best-selling author, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and FOX News Channel contributor.Malkin lives with her husband and children in Maryland.

She has never cried over an election, marched naked in Berkeley, thrown a pie, or tackled a liberal heckler. Yet.

Customer Reviews

Scary and Infuriating!
Wow! Malkin has really hit the spot with this quick, but comprehensive read on how the Democrats and their fellow travellers have lost it since 9/11. By dividing the book into easily digested, topical, anecdotal accounts, she does a wonderful job of capturing how the liberal/left has shown its true colors during one of our nation's most trying times. As I read about the extremism, lies, distortions, ignorance, brutal uncivil behavior, hypocritical doublestandards, and how their "mainstreamers" cover-up or ignore the conduct, I couldn't help but be frightened. I've personally witnessed some of that behavior - it concerned me then, and really bothers me now. As you glide through the pages you can't help but conjure up scenes like the brutal "acts of repudiation" conducted by pro-government crowds against peaceful opponents of Cuba's Marxist dictatorship. It was especially sickening to read how poorly certain Iraq War Veterans were treated simply because they served in or supported the war effort.

With this book, Malkin has done us a favor by compiling the absolutely unconscionable behavior of a political movement, and its media facilitators, that daily displays why they shouldn't be given our popular trust. The book will infuriate the liberal/left (witness the poorly disguised disdain shown in the Publishers Weekly review) because it reveals them for what they are. However, it is a timely and necessary product that all common-sense driven Americans should read. Buy it, read it, cringe, then decide for yourself if it isn't a bit "scary and infuriating."

A WAKE-UP CALL TO DEMOCRATS

I had been warned not to read this book because it was just a book that bashed Liberals. In reading it, however, I found that it was really a book about Liberals bashing, maligning and vilifying Conservatives, Republicans, Christians, Red State inhabitants, and specifically President Bush, and his entire administration and anyone else who doesn't think the way they do. Michelle Malkin lets liberals expose themselves by quoting them directly and showing how they think.

It is a sad day for America to see how our culture has declined. Civility and respect for fellow Americans has been totally abandoned by many Liberal Democrats. It is not just the fringes either. Malkin quotes leaders of the Democratic Party shouting insults, not only in the heat of campaigns, but also in the halls of congress. Ugly language, profanity and over the top hatred have permeated the psyche of the far left who now control the Democratic Party.

Liberal hatred is not confined to rhetoric either. Malkin reports on numerous acts of vandalism, physical attacks, and terrorist acts directed at Republican Headquarters around the country before and after the 2004 election. These acts were not confined to a few loonies but were pervasive and widespread across the country. If acts like these were directed at Democratic Headquarters we would have never heard the end of it by the mainstream media. The fact is that the mainstream media looks the other way, laughs off much of the outrageous speech and behavior of the left as a joke, suggesting the Conservatives have no sense of humor.

You will wonder what has happened to decency-to sanity when liberals obsess about assassinating the President, wallow in conspiracy theories, compare America to the worst murderous regimes in the world, and accuse our military of crimes equal to head-severing terrorists. This book should be a wake up call to the Democratic Party. Liberals who have long viewed themselves as compassionate, tolerant, open minded, and smart had better take a long hard look in the mirror and see what they have become.

Moonbats Exposed
Don't let your four year old read this book. Good grief it is frightening to see how much deranged venom there is out there in blog land. I've got a few friends and co-workers that I thought were bad, but they are sane and sober (not to mention g-rated) compared to Malkin's email friends.
Other than an occasional short article this was the first Malkin I had read. I had the impression that she was an extremist and had not paid her any attention. I'm sure she is an extremist to some, but little in this book seemed extreme to me other than the comments from her critics.
The book isn't just a collection of email rants, although for some reason that part stood out to me (I don't get to read that much profanity that often is probably why), it also chronicles many of the more and more inane comments from high party leaders, the kind of comments that once would barely have been suggested behind closed doors (Bush knew ahead about 9/11, etc), much less said aloud on network TV. That probably has to suffice for the theme of the book- the disconnect from reality of many "mainstream" party figures and "respected" party leaders. In all candor, while Malkin has a nice sense of humor and a pleasant conversational writing style, this particular book is more of a compilation of anecdotes than any kind of serious look at liberalism and its impact on the society.
She offers some armchair observations as to why things have degenerated, and seems fairly insightful to me, but still this is more entertainment than anything. That said, she writes well, and if you suspect she is correct you will probably enjoy the read. If you are one of the moonbats (and I doubt you were going to add twenty dollars to the coffers of the other side anyway) do yourself a favor and pass on this book.