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Summary: Good Except ...
Review: This was a good book except her humor - present in the radio program - was largely absent. I recommend that you just jump around to the topics that interest you rather than read from front to back as I did.
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Summary: Put music back on AM radio
Review: This book sucks big time. Where these talk show junkies get their facts is beyond me. Ladies and Gents, listen carefully, These conservative rightwing talkshow extremists have been multiplying at an alarming rate since around 1992. They multiply like rats. And one thing is for sure liberal america, rats are a menace to this great liberal and independent society.
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Summary: Shut up, till the music starts
Review: To clarify a couple of points.
The title confused me too, until I actually READ THE BOOK is refering to people like Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks who should have kept her mouth shut till the music started playing. Anouther reviewer wanted to know why Laura ,whom he thought was an entertainer herself felt she was qualified to tell other entertainers to shut up about politics, should have atleast read the back of the book, then he would have known that Laura is a columnist, a former defense attorney, and a former law clerk for the Supreme Court of the United States, whick makes her more than qualified to talk about law, and gives her decent insight to politics. To the book reviewers of this world
Shut up till you have read the book!
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Summary: blah blah blah blah
Review: Shallow-minded "patriotism" for the easily-entertained reader. Country-club conservative Laura Ingraham, along with the Ann Coulters and Sean Hannitys of this world, perfectly illustrates the "ignorant American bully" stereotype and that's unfortunate.
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Summary: two thumbs up!
Review: WOW! she took the words right out of my mouth! i can't even begin to describe how true and well written this book is! Thank you Laura!
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Summary: Right On The Money!
Review: Sure she may be just another Conservative Pundit but I really agreed with Laura's latest book "Shut Up And Sing." I cannot believe how rude celebrities from Hollywood are getting at the current administration. I never noticed how far to the left Hollywood was until everyone talked about Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon etc. at the anti-War protests! Laura's book goes into detail how modern day liberals are attacking the values America has always charished. I like the little boxes in the corners of the book called "Elite Speak!" where she translates what Liberal Elites believe is "equality." Our society has always been based on majority rule with the protection of minority rights. HOWEVER we are not an entirely equal nation. That's the problem with the Hollywood Liberal/Liberal elites. They want EVERYONE to be equal, including criminals and communist spies. They care too much for the poor who actually compared to most of the world's countries are quite well off (75% of the US's poor own cars, 30% two cars and that's below the poverty line!) She talks about how they are trying to downsize our military (like John Kerry) and spend more money on social programs. The only problem is, the federal government's main purpose is to protect us. We can't be free if someone takes over our country. I also agreed with her on tax cuts and religion. Check out "Shut Up And Sing" if you're more on the right side of the fence. Also visit www.boycottliberalism.com
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Summary: More fuel to fan the fire of the smoldering ignorants
Review: If the author goes through any of these reviews and reads them, she'll see the kind of vitriol and danger her writing can cause. As in this from, where else? Ah yes, Mississippi. The great bastion of high educational standards: Great critique of the elites, February 24, 2004
Reviewer: Peggy Sue Johnson from Jackson, Mississippi, US of A
This is damn good book. It offers a grate look at the elites who hate America. It outlines the Hollywood elite that makes sinful movies to corrupt the youth, the Jewish elite that want's to spread Jewism, the snooty intellectual elite that wants the UN to approve all of actions, and the bum-pumping elite that wants to destroy marriage. This book is wonderfuly refreshing in a time of morale decay. Yes, I've left all the "spread Jewism", misspellings, "grate look", "want's to" there for your amusement. I bet this reviewer has a "grate look" too.... Generally I believe that everyone has a right to free speech...until I read something this ignorant.
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Summary: You go, girl!
Review: Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham decided to write a book called "Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America" in an effort to throw a spotlight on the folly of our so called "leaders." Dismissed as a hateful screed by hysterical shills for the Left, the author's book is in reality an intriguing, funny, and forceful call to action for American citizens weary of the idiocy that passes as "liberalism" today. Far from being the friendly, inclusive ideology of the common man, many of today's leftists are narrow minded, intolerant bigots full of self-loathing guilt about the success of America. By the way, I don't pay attention to any particular radio programs endorsing either side of the political spectrum, largely due to my increasing annoyance with both right and left, but I would definitely give Ingraham a listen based solely on this book. Would I condone everything she said lock, stock, and barrel? Definitely not, but it's always fun to see one of these self-righteous leftist zealots take a shot on the chin. Who are the elites who spend every waking minute making the rest of us miserable? According to Ingraham, they occupy prominent positions in the entertainment industry, politics, academia, the judiciary, and the United Nations. You know a lot of them by sight: Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Barbra Streisand (grrr), Jane Fonda (double grrr), Ted Kennedy, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, and a million other dupes espousing blatant "Hate America" ideologies. Ingraham even includes a pictorial "rogue's gallery" in the middle of the book in case you don't know the faces of our anti-American enemy. Many of the individuals listed above work in Hollywood, a place that has had such a corrosive effect on this country that anyone who says and believes otherwise ought to reserve themselves a padded room at the local mental motel. Through certain movies, public appearances, and other media driven avenues, these elites attempt to instill their unhealthy ideas on the rest of American society. According to Ingraham's elites, America is an intolerant society dominated by ignorant bumpkins suffering from a mental disability called religion who want to impose their backward, parochial views on every other part of the globe. The elites urge us to take the United Nations and socialist Europe as the model for what America should become: a powerless cog in a world government presided over by leftist overlords. It seems communism never went away. What a surprise. The author heaps scorn upon Hollywood, but reserves most of her venom for other areas of elite control, specifically academia, politics, and religion bashers. Loads of books outline in greater detail the horrific conditions of America's left wing indoctrination centers (read: colleges and universities), so Ingraham's summary doesn't add much to the historiography. What it does do in relatively few pages is introduce the novice reader to some of the wackos in higher education. Unfortunately, the insanity found at the university level has now filtered down to the earliest grades in public schools. Subversion of the education system wouldn't be possible if the political organs didn't provide a comfortable home for cranks, and the author writes in detail about the lunacy taking place in the federal government. The judicial branch carries most of the responsibility for the problems we face. Instead of interpreting the law, these guys and gals use the bench to launch convoluted social programs impervious to the will of the electorate. One field of contention with the courts concerns the status of religion in the public sphere. The author outlines elite efforts to make secularism the state religion. While I am definitely not a Christian (or a member of any other faith), I cannot wait for the day when some lawyer steps up in front of a court and successfully argues secularism has become a religion endorsed by the government in direct violation of the Constitution. You know it will happen. "Shut Up and Sing" isn't a perfect book by any standard. Ingraham, for instance, fails to recognize the true nature of the elites in America. What she describes in this book transcends the political labels of "Republican" and "Democrat." And while the author takes President Bush to task over the mess that is immigration policy in the United States, and criticizes corporate greed and the increasing monopolization of American business, she simply cannot bring herself to elevate the debate above right versus left. Both parties are taking us down the road to ruin because both parties pay homage to the idea of "democracy." Democracy, like communism, sounds great on paper but has been a disaster in practice. A slothful, indifferent public too busy enjoying bread and circuses cannot make democracy work. Turning over your civic duties to others leads in large part to the types of problems described in this book. A return to the republican virtues our founding fathers endorsed in the Constitution is the best hope for the country. "Shut Up and Sing" is an intriguing book well worth your time. I fear for the future every time I read books like this one, regardless of their political orientation, because the country has degraded so far in such a short time that revolution is probably the only possible remedy now. Since revolutions tend to be rather messy affairs involving the deaths of thousands if not millions of people, and usually take divergent courses never imagined at their inception, I would rather see a more rational solution to our problems.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: After 3 chapters i found this piece of junk so bad that i just threw it away. She does'nt know the first thing about the United Nations. Always continuing to bad mouth the great college educational system we have in this country besides being a graduate from one of them. She must not been a good student. Deep down in her own mind you can bet she would love being in the shoes of a Barbra Streisand or Cameron Diaz.
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Summary: Too Contradictory and illogical...
Review: Ingraham, a lawyer, seems to be making the best of her American education and while she didn't go to Harvard Law, she's not exactly "average, middle America." Why she think she speaks for average America, I cannot fathom. While she wishes Hollywood celebrities would stay out of politics, her own entertainment radio show and "television background" don't seem to make her one of those celebrities. She appears to have particular distain for people who question politicians, the President, or US policy yet A) she has a show designed for that purpose among others and B) without informed, citizens who want the best and question the not-so-great, is this "democracy" really any better than a dictatorship where blind obedience is demanded rather than suggested? I think there is a difference between "eradicating religion" and shoving one religion down a population's collective throat. As a nation predominately founded by and populated by Christians, Christianity certainly has its place in the history of the United States and its place in current American culture. People go to churches for a variety of reasons and I don't recall any initiative calling for this to cease. That said, this is also a nation founded by those seeking freedom from persecution for their beliefs and if we, as a nation, decide to stamp out or persecute the beliefs of others, how are we different from England at the time our forefathers set sail? So many people at this point have explained that there is a massive difference between opposing a war and opposing the individuals serving the country during the war that it seems terribly redundant to mention. Furthermore, I believe this was essentially covered above. If Ingraham could put this much energy into coherent research and writing on important issues like the prison system zero tolerance has effectively turned our schools into; the need to reform the juvenile justice system with something less punitive that keeps us from spending more and more of our tax money on housing and processing adult offenders; the need for child protections that face many of the real issues faced by today's youth (children have a drastically greater chance of being killed, seriously injured, or sexually abused outside of schools - in their own homes, the streets, friends' houses, etc. - than inside schoolhouse walls); the economic ramifications of steadily increasing the numbers living in or near poverty including increased crime, the fact that the children of the "teen mothers" there is so much talk about usually have adult fathers (most often age 20 or older); the fact that most US oil comes from places like Canada and Venezuela rather than the middle east...
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