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-[[Ann Coulter's]] second book, '''Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right''', was published by Crown Forum in 2002. In the text, she blames [[liberals]] for the fact that American political debate has become increasingly hostile, overly personal, and insufferably trivial.
-==Bush and Gore==
-She argues that the media's coverage of [[President Bush]] is unfair and [[Liberal bias|biased]].
-Her book is packed with well-documented examples:
-* Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) attacked Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign [saying] "All over this country people are asking whether or not George Bush is smart enough to be president of the United States."<ref>Coulter cites Michael Finnegan, "Campaign 2000; Bush, Gore Sprint as the Race Comes Down to the Wire," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 6, 2000, p. 1; Katharine Q. Seelye and Kevin Sack, "The 2000 Campaign: The Vice President; Focus is on Crucial States in Campaign's Fanil Hours," ''New York Times,'' November0 6, 2000, p. A1.</ref>
-She notes that the press praised Gore for being smart and Bush for being dumb, although:
-:In his sophomore year at Harvard, Gore got one D, one C-minus, two Cs, two C-pluses, and one B-minus. This the ''Washington Post'' reported, "placed him in the bottom fifth of th eclass for the second year in a row."(37) Gore's grades that year "were lower than any semester recorded on bush's transcript from Yale".
-Yet the ''Post'' ran a headline saying, "Gore's Grades ... are a Lot Like Bush's". (38)
-However,
-:After college, Bush earned an M.B.A. from Harvard; Gore failed out of divinity school and dropped out of law school at Vanderbilt University. (Page 156)
-==Phyllis Schlafly==
-Coulter wrote:
-* There is no more pristine example of the left's "in"-crowd snobbery than their treatment of conservative author and activist [[Phyllis Schlafly]]. ... The  national news media maintain a rigid radio silence on Phyllis Schlafly, while endlessly celebrating mediocre feminist shrews.
-* In fact, Schlafly is one of the most accomplished and influential people in America. (Page 35)
-==Other quotes==
-* Liberals are in a panic about the Internet. They believe conservatives should be prevented from speaking. (page 116)
-==Notes==
-{{reflist}}
-[[Category:Books]]
-[[Category:Liberals]]

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