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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: Conservababe Laura Ingraham delivers a well-constructed outline of the liberal elites who disdain the values of Middle America. She describes how the Left has a sense of disgust for religion and patriotism, and she urges ordinary Americans to be proud of these values in spite of the Left's snobbery. It is wonderful that such a talented woman has the guts to take on the liberal establishment. She speaks for a lot of us who are tired of being bullied and chided for certain beliefs, and she does it with awesome humor and attitude. You will be in for an excellent treat when you read this book. The catchphrase "shut up and sing" should become a mantra for everyone fed up with lefty snootiness. Way to go, Laura!
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Summary: A Right Wing Me Too
Review: This book attempts to capitalize on the recent success of the many works of fiction being spawned by the right-wing. A K-Mart Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham has written a book that will probably be very compelling to anyone who only gets the news from Bill O' Reilly or their values from Pat Robertson. Laura would have us believe that a world without dissent or a free press would be a better place. Shame on those who dare to question authority or policy! She would probably be much happier living in China.
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Summary: This book hits the liberal right where it hurts..
Review: This is a very good book...I recently saw Bruce Springsteen..I love his music by they way..And Felt the same way as she wrote her title to this book...Just shut up and sing..I don't go to hear your left wing views I came to have a great time escape all the politics for the day...What was a great show was brought down to a bummer by Bruce Springsteen and his anti Bush ramblings..He actually tells us to go by Al Frankins Book.. Are you kidding me? Hollywood and most rock music stars today are out of touch with reality with middle America..What will it take for these leftist socalist leaning anti Americans to see reality? Another 9-11? I pray not..
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Summary: Anybody home?
Review: The sample pages alone contain contradictory ideas that reflect the author's confused thought process. Susan Sarandon elite but Schwarzenegger not? Does being non-elite involve lower intelligence? Jumbled speech pattern? Incoherent thoughts and and ideas? If so, then Ms. Ingraham definitely belongs in this latter bucket. What a muddled mind and screwy belief system.
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Summary: Shut up and act
Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger has made nonesense out of the book's premise. He traded on his celebrity status to be elected to a political position for which he had no qualifications. Apparently it is fine if members of the Hollywood elite like Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston trade on their celebrity status to promote right wing causes, but if a celebrity uses his/her status to support a liberal cause HORRORS!!
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Summary: A Moderate Speaking My Mind
Review: Reading a review of a book can completely discourage or encourage you to buy it. Reading a set of reviews about a book that has obviously encited both rage and rejoicing can completely discourage or encourage your faith in the American populace. To those of you who couldn't finish the book - don't review it; you don't know what happened in the end. Maybe Laura turned out to be the most liberal person - the last two words could have been "Just Kidding!" and you'd never know. To those of you who could finish the book and still found yourself appalled - more power to you. But my amazement stems from your ability to decry Laura's right to express her opinions while vehemently (and largely unintelligently) expressing your own. And finally, if you loved the book, I don't know who you think you'll convince to read it by saying you tripped a liberal elitist in a book store for sneering at you, or by saying that "obviously liberals don't know anything" because their reviews are deemed unhelpful when it's obvious to me that a book intended for a conservative audience will have more conservative buyers and visitors who will rate each review - and by and large, conservative visitors will vote that conservative reviews are helpful and non-conservative ones are not. Laura's book is what every other radio talkshow host, liberal or not, might publish. It's sexy, it's straight-talking, it's undocumented opinions, and it sells. Her arguments have little merit - her definition of elitist is fuzzy at best (in my opinion, anyone with prep school on their CV - unless they're there on a need-based scholarship - could be considered elitist), and she decries these "elitists'" ways of subverting America. And yet she seems to think little of subverting the First Ammendment to the Constitution herself. Our beloved Bill of Rights provides everyone with the right to speak their minds: including rap stars, movie makers, aerobics instructors, and any other bozo who can catch three minutes of a TV camera's attention. We cannot tell people to shut up simply because we dislike what they have to say. It amazes me that Laura worries so incessantly that these elitists will fill American minds with drivel. If we the poor non-elitist American masses are smart enough to think for ourselves, why is she so afraid we won't? The most important things about the people she denounces, it seems to me, she has left out - for instance: I find it more important that Jane Fonda, in all her professed humanity, got American soldiers beaten to death in the Hanoi Hilton, than that she holds great disdain for the American everyman. I don't care what she thinks - I do care that she got people killed through her influence. I find it more important that Michael Moore made a film exposing some of the deeply rooted tragedies of American culture - that we are so afraid of each other - and that our culture of fear breeds hatred, mistrust, and dissolution of community, than that he made an anti-war statement during the Academy Awards. I don't really care what he thinks about the war - his film was fairly (albeit not completely) objective and well made, and it's worth seeing. The list goes on. Perhaps if we stopped telling each other to shut up and started listening to the people who really matter, the people who live out there in the world every day, instead of the so-called, self-proclaimed mouthpieces of the masses - the politicians, the radio talk show hosts, and the TV talk show hosts, etc., on both sides of the fence, we'd learn something. We'd learn how to think for ourselves rather than let the loudmouths put thoughts in our heads for us. We'd learn how to listen to each other - and we'd learn where it is America is going, how it got there, and how we can get it going in a direction that brings the dream alive and KEEPS it alive for EVERY American, regardless of race, religion, sexual preference, or socio-economic status. While I won't say shut up, I'd advise Laura and the rest of you to stop shouting and start listening. Maybe you'll get the answers you're looking for.
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Summary: Another Hater
Review: It's clear this woman hates America. Why doesn't she leave if she doesn't like it here? Liberals, Bill Clinton, and the United Nations are the best things to ever happen to the world.
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Summary: Blonde on Blonde
Review: I haven't read the book and don't intend to, but I'd pay anything to see her fight a celebrity death match with Ann Coulter over whose hair is bleached the most.
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Summary: Well Said...
Review: As a Libertarian, I rather agree with Dennis Miller. The conservatives have some good points and so do some liberals. Saying that this book is awful however, is nonsense. It's well written; Laura is very funny; I saw no lies that I could identify, unlike the 'this book is awful' reviewers did (although I have a cynical suspicion that they are not objective reviewers). This is an excellent, easy and fun read. Want more in debth work??? "Losing Bin Laden" or "What Color is a Conservative" are also excellent.
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Summary: An elitists view of the elite...
Review: Laura Ingraham at least seems entertaining, at least from the short doses I've gotten on Imus. And, unlike her alter ego, Ann Coulter, she doesn't seem to be quite the "angry white woman" who spews hatred. That's the good news. The bad news is that her unbelievable arrogance comes across on every page (at least the 30+ that I could stomach) and her writing skills are about those of a typical college freshman.
Laura, Ann, Bill and their ilk are starting to implode, led by their fearless leader (and junkie) Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps this will see the return of the true moderate.
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