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Summary: Great Read - (Libs, the truth hurts, don't it?)
Review: Laura writes even better than she looks, which is really saying a lot. Not only was this book substantive (Not like Riley's puff stuff)and amusing, it was very, very entertaining. Laura has her head on right, and right-on!
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Summary: "Moderate Speaking..." reviewer changed my life
Review: The profound expressions of truth expressed by the "Moderate Speaking My Mind.." reviewer from Houston have completely changed my life. I agree that the reviewers who have not read the book and are simply posting their conservative or liberal opinions in these book review pages are a severe detriment to the political climate in this great nation. I have started a movement to bring an end to the internet, so that crazy, simple-minded people like myself are not perpetuating their dangerous, uninformed and poorly developed ideas all over the world. Please join me in my mission to put an end to the internet, and it's infinite pool of misinformation and extreme ideological content, and endless scams and criminal activity and general annoyances. By the way, i have not read Laura's book, but I generally despise everything she stands for and am sure the book is just a pack of lies.
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Summary: BOwwoooooo!
Review: We have a large stuffed Panda called Esmerelda. She's about three feet tall, very cuddly, pretty nice, but ocassionaly... just ocasionally she emits that sort of noise, you know, ears back, full moon, the works. I like to think that she finds this what these days is termed "good therapy", and so it might be here. Now, if I hadn't mentioned Esmerelda, I would in any case say this is a sort of "letting off steam" book. We've worn out some of these. I think "Bored of the Rings" was another, a sort of fanatical stripping down of ... something dark...from the American Psyche. Well, let it be, is what I say to that. Personally, I reckon I would wear this sucker out just as soon as it arrived. I have memories of practically chewing the carpet raw with bored of the rings,but I was a student then, had long hair, and, I'm afraid to say, did not wash all that often. Perhaps this book would serve a few congressmen in the southern states well. I can sort of imagine it, but badly, and I know my limitations enough to know that comic book stuff has never been a strong point. There is a serious side to this. In spite of me lolling about like the daschund in the back seat shelf, somepeople are going to actually take this book VERY SERIOUSLY. Some might even have Phds. I don't. But I say this - I'm not scared of crosses,except to think that someone got banged up against one on my behalf a while ago and had a really bad time. He did that for ...er... me, actually. And I wasn't a very good bet. That being the case, I have learnt from deep thinking and scratching the head about this stuff that there is someone there who made black holes and mountains and babies and things and you don't mess with him. Oh no. This has nothing to do with elites, conspiracies, big war 3 in the middle east (at least, no way in the sense of doing this stuff and telling folks you do this FOR HIM). As for America being the righteous nation, oh...go and read a history book, and behave. Now, where did I put that panda...?
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Summary: She is not as bad....
Review: I like how she blames everything on elite left, but herself is doing the same thing on the right. She has some good points in the book, but her constant bashing of liberals gets very annoying.
I'd like to see Laura Ingraham, Ann Couler and Dennis Miller write a book together. When right wing fanatics get together and tell THEIR "truth", it gets entertaining.
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Summary: This book is outstanding.
Review: Laura Ingraham is a highly intelligent person. This book is a brave much needed expose of the left's desire to destroy this country. I read the reviews and expected nothing less from the liberal controlled press. Does she sound lonely? I think not. There are many more American's on her side. Thank God for people like Laura. Her deep love and concern for this country is refreshing.
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Summary: pre-emptive labeling will not work
Review: Interesting how a lawyer can write a book and the editorial reviews refer to it as a right-wing screed, but HS drop-outs and red-diaper babies can write left-wing screeds and they never are called that ! Read it and decide who who writes the so-called unsupported screed--Ingraham or Moore or Franken ..need I go on?
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Summary: A Lovely Blond Woman Spits Venom and Bile
Review: First off, I rather admire celebrities that have opinions - even if I disagree with them. I think it shows that they're thoughtful and concerned about the world, and are possibly willing to lose some future career opportunity for their beliefs. Sometimes if I'm really in disagreement I might lose interest in them (read: Dennis Miller). But I still think more of them than the bozos regularly seen committing professional hari-kari through 1-800 # commercials. That said, the 80 pages of Laura's book I read was mostly about how the Democrats and their "elitist followers" are treasonous vermin - and that they should shut up and mind their own business and leave the public airwaves to .. fire-breathing conservative talk show hosts. Nobody on the GOP pundit circuit can ever explain why a $550B deficit is a good, defensible thing. They generally don't address questions of substance. There's a major question here about the nature of objective truth. A true statement would be something like: "We will pay $300 Billion dollars next year on interest alone." A real political debate would be about whether this is a good thing or not - weighing the costs versus the benefits, etc. One could make an argument that 'there's no such thing as 'objective' - that's why there are two parties.
Fair enough. But they (the GOP) should at least have the decency to address real questions. This book of verbal fire-bombs and mud pies unfortunately is nothing but a vehicle for anger and mass-delusion. This is the only thing Laura produces. I believe she really lives for the mental spiritual charge she gets out of hatred. It's her dominent emotion. She works very hard at dehumanizing her 'enemy', that is, the 60M Americans who don't agree with her. We all hate America, Loved Stalin, etc. She's the ugly side of human nature at it's zenith.
I only hope nobody takes her seriously.
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Summary: Right-Wingers Are Not Good Singers:And Not Very Good Writers
Review: Somewhere in the editing rooms of the publisher of this vacuous
book is a dead question. It was begged to its demise by the unending harangues of a paranoid ideologue named Laura Ingraham. She uses 300 pages to say absolutely nothing she can demonstrate with fact. Her idea of argument is to give the position of the "liberal elite,"then ridicule that position. "He is against the war in Iraq" which must therefore mean that the person is wrong. She never really demonstrates why the war is a good thing--doesn't give any proof. It is just understood. And if you do not agree with the folk in the fly over states, then you are an elite.
She in essence says "our ideas are good; yours are bad," like a
fourth grader might who feels no compunction to support, with an arsenal of facts, the premises she forwards. That is because there really is no arsenal of facts to support the positions she supports, anymore than there are WMDs in Iraq. I read these conservative tomes and am amazed at the low level of debate. For example, Hollywood stars should shut up because they are not patriotic enough. She loves Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins as actors, but she thinks they should shut up about politics. Was she out at ground zero in the days following 9/11? Susan and Tim were there helping the rescuers. That is never mentioned, only their oppostion to the war is repeated by every two bit right wing hack out there included this ditzburger. She disses Julia Roberts for comments she made about the war. Did Laura mention that Ms Roberts donated 2 million dollars to 9/11 relief? Didn't read it. The book is an "us versus them" diatribe aimed at an audience
who buys into the notion that she is part of them, the common folk. Yeah sure! She talks about liberal pundits and celebrities that love humanity but hate people. She tells the audience that these elites look down their noses at the rest of us common folk. We are too stupid, too unchic, too ugly to bother with. She is different though. You folks out there who think I'm full of it, take your copy to her next book signing. If you are a guy, ask her out (I do not know or care about her marital status); if you're a woman, ask her to have a cup of coffee. Think she'll say yes? I have a hundred says otherwise. And its not that shes a snob any more than Susan, Tim or Julia are snobs. They are just all busy people with lives and lots of adoring fans. None of them have the time. If they did, they would accomplish nothing. Bottom line; she ain't one of you; she dissembles. At the beginning of the book she warns that her enemies will think that she is stupid. Reading the book certainly fullfilled that prophesy. A good patriotic American likes God, his guns, his SUV, his president, ad nausem. I cannot imagine a Christianity worth anything that loves war, hates the poor, the oppressed as much as that practiced by the Christian Right, nor can I imagine a Christian calling for a preemptive invasion of another country that has done nothing to us. It is not in the Gospel, and I have read the Gospel. How can anyone be so dense as not to see that YES, DRIVING A SUV IS NOT A GOOD WAY TO SAVE FUEL! YOU ARE INCREASING OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL! WE HAVE THE HIGHEST RATE OF GUN DEATHS OF ANY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCE NATION ON EARTH! These are facts and can not be denied. Finally, I sometimes wonder about the critical skills of some of the folks who gave this book five stars. On October 25 a reader from Macon Georgia wrote a review entitled "Even I Could Read his Book." The reader gave "Shut Up" five stars. The review was a toungue-in-cheek satire of the book. It made fun of Laura and her readers. I thought it was hysterical. Fifteen of nineteen readers (15 of 19 readers) found it helpful, not realizing, I think, that by endorsing it they were in effect deriding themselves. I think they just looked at the number of stars and clicked. If they did read the review, then maybe there is no hope. We are doomed, and Laura and her Gang win.
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Summary: Five Stars for Laura
Review: I give the book five stars before reading it to counter-balance the one-star-no-read infestation here. There are some books I definitely want to read solely because the reviewers are so hate-filled. This book is one of them. I now have "Shut up and Sing" on order and I can't wait to read it.
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Summary: This book clearly does it's job.
Review: What a great book. You know Laura is onto something when she gets this many hate-reviews from liberals who haven't even read the book. You can tell they haven't read it because Laura has told us precisely what they were going to say. It's funny how liberals can have hate mongers like Al Franken and Michael Moore with their "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot," "Liars and the Lying Liars who Lie and Lie to Liars, etc..", "Stupid White Men," "Dude, Where's my Mullet?" I mean the attacks never end.. Liberals fight wars with name calling. Conversatives do it with facts. But I forgot, conversative voices are the ones to which free speech doesn't apply. Go Laura!
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