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Summary: elites preaching against elites
Review: Another book by one who hates America whining about those that don't. It is true that the elites want to subvert America and take away your rights. Look at the Dixie Chicks. One makes a statement concerning Bush. Although this statement is constitutionally guaranteed, the media elites (Clear Channel) organized hate rallies and destroyed their CDs. "They that start by burning books will end by burning men."
--Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), from his play Almansor (1821) Who is going to protect us from these elites? Not Ingraham. I agree that the courts should not be running things. That is why W is president. Ingraham is very lusty about her views, but they lack veracity. Remember, the right wing wants to take your money so they can buy drugs or gamble. Ignore them!
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Summary: This Book is Stunning!!!
Review: Say folks, this be a good book. I mean I done just read it and it is real good. I don't live in them flyover states. But, that Laura she makes some real good points. For example, them elites think they are real smart. But what do they know? I got out of the 10th grade and I got me a real middle class job making new doors for the rich people. I think these elities--like the teachers and TV news talking heads people and doctors just don't know whaat the heck they are talking about. So just shut up and do your jobs. Just because some-may of went to college and some of them movie types of people worked real hard and learned from their real world experiences, don't give them the right to tell us real people like you, me and Laura what to think about. So read this book. It be good. Huh, What....
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Summary: Shut Up And Goosestep!
Review: Yes, Laura, shut up. Once and for all. And by the way, your roots are showing. What an awful, shrill book. It has some entertainment value to be sure. But it is so whiney, so preachy, so painfully and utterly shrill. The author is just another rich, spoiled brat looking down her pointy little nose at the rest of us common folk. Sorry, Laura, we all have a right to free speech in the USA. So none of us have to shut up if we dang well don't want to. In her fascist uber-right wing world we would have no freedom of speech, and no one would be allowed to disagree with her wet dream rightist government. But that's not the way the world is. In this book the author puts down all the so-called elites. When the author is the biggest elitist of the bunch! Avoid this book. Root canal is more fun.
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Summary: Shut up and leave us alone
Review: What a great book and a call to action by those conerned about the elites trying to take over the country from average Americans. Ingraham carefully details who elites are and what their goals for a "post-modern America" are. I strongly recommend it to anyone concerned about the direction of this country.
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Summary: A great book from a great lady.
Review: I love Laura Ingraham. The book is great. I do not think the courts should be running the country. The people should!! But that is not what liberals want you to think. They're all about appointing atheist judges who don't agree with our country's traditions. But we will win! Don't even try arguing with a liberal. They will bring up things like how the economy was better under Chimp-ton and government spending was lower too. But Bush's faith-based initiatives are putting this country on the "right" track! Liberals will also try to indoctrinate you with what they call "education." Ha! Their idea of education is big elite colleges and universities where you need high test scores to get into, and that are full of "smart" liberal professors who don't support the war on terror. The only way to avoid this is to homeschool and then, if you need to go to college, go to a Christian one. If more people did that, we would have had eight years of Bush the elder, eight years of W, and would be looking at Jeb come November. Just imagine a world where Clinton's America never existed, and the 90's, instead of being a time of sinful decadence and indulgence, would have been a time of great personal sacrifice and prayer. Also, we wouldn't have had to worry about the sins the president was committing on a daily basis. We could have a stronger military right now, and we could have beaten Saddam and killed Osama. Anyway, enough ranting, just buy the book.
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Summary: The Elites Are Everywhere -- Be Afraid...
Review: Laura Ingraham is incensed at the elites - it's just that she has a difficult time explaining who those elites are, and that's a major stumbling block in her new book, "Shut Up & Sing." Unlike her fellow conservative Ann Coulter, Ingraham is a halfway decent prose stylist and, far more importantly, not a complete lunatic. She makes a decent enough (if somewhat demagogic) case that America is under attack by elites who despise right thinking decent patriotic God-fearing Americans. If you read this book quickly, or just skim it, you might find yourself agreeing with some of her points. The trouble is that under any real scrutiny her argument falls apart. She is sometimes wrong on the facts: for instance she claims on page 27 that in 1980 President Jimmy Carter "almost lost to Ted Kennedy" when Kennedy was effectively crushed by Carter winning two-thirds of the primaries -- try asking John Kerry if he'd mind "almost losing" like that. She also claims that the Nazis were deeply anti-Christian -- if that's the case, why did Himmler specifically bar atheists from joining the SS (a fact you can find on page 197 of "The Third Reich" by Michael Burleigh)? She's sometimes mean-spirited (her attack on Michael Moore is even nastier and more personal than Ann Coulter's, which you have to admit is saying something), and, more disturbingly, her discussion of European intellectuals is ripped off wholesale from John Carey's book "The Intellectuals and the Masses" without giving the author any credit whatsoever. Then there's the problem of the very definition of elites. Who makes up these nasty elites anyway? Are they liberals? Well, no, not necessarily, because according to Ingraham the Wall Street Journal's rabidly right-wing editorial page qualifies. "Of course when I use the term 'elite,' I mean elite in their own minds," Ingraham writes -- and what does this mean exactly? Does Ingraham think that fundamentalist Christians who fervently believe that they alone will go to heaven while the rest of us poor slobs roast in eternal hellfire aren't "elite in their own minds"? Try asking Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson that question. A term that encompasses Noam Chomsky, Enron, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Dixie Chicks is so elastic as to be totally meaningless. What the argument of Ingraham's book boils down to is that Laura Ingraham doesn't like people who disagree with her and/or her values. Well, Laura, that's just too damn bad. Last time I checked this was still, in spite of the attempts of George W. Bush's White House and John Ashcroft's Justice Department to make it less so, a free country -- and if Laura Ingraham doesn't like it, I would contend that that's her problem.
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Summary: Not too bad, but some people miss the point
Review: The book was well thought out. The writing wasn't too bad. I also had trouble disagreeing with her.
The problem arises when some people take what Laura wrote the wrong way. Many revierws on this site have accused Laura of being a close-minded bigot. What they fail to realize is that Laura does not disagree with the right of "elites" to have and voice opinions. What she disagrees with is the use of those elites to use their popularity and celebrity status to cram those opinions down our throats. Of course, she does the same thing. But then, Laura has at least some experience and expertise in the area of which she speaks. Being a famous singer or actor does not give a person any special insight into complex political situations, yet they (the celebrities) feel free to share their often poorly-informed opinion with their adoring audience.
Of course, most people don't think about the source of the drivel they get these days. The news media prints off anything a celebrity says, and the majority of the people feel that there is a good reason for the media printing it. People need to think for themselves.
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Summary: Everyone who disagrees must be an America-hating liberal.
Review: Gross simplifications, and cheap pandering to the most extreme views of her party (much like Michael Moore for the far left, whom I also despise), makes for some boring fodder from another bleached-blond "pundit". Childish sniping by the likes of Ingraham & Moore only serve to antagonize the vast majority of Americans who are centrists and who have a little common sense. I'm not sure how stupid you have to be to buy this line of argument: if you think SUVs unnecessarily waste gas, then you're an America-hating liberal, and if you don't approve of George Bush's handling of our country, you must be an al Qaeda-loving terrorist. Let's hope that the majority of reasonable-minded people can look past the divisiveness of today's politics and relegate people like Laura Ingaham's junk to the garbage can.
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Summary: Utterly Asinine
Review: This book is utterly asinine. How can someone blast most liberals and the French (!?) for speaking their mind? Isn't this a democracy? We are allowed to speak our mind. We wouldn't 'hold dear' President Bush, guns, SUVs, etc., if the average American were given sufficient information on the problems with them, and alternatives. Unfortunately, under this current Administration the Truth seems to be false, and fiction seems to be reality: 'Global Warming? What's that? It might exist.'
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This book is simply brilliant! Laura correctly points out that time after time, liberals are getting their brains beat in at the polls. Their only recourse has been to use and abuse the liberal courts of this country in a desperate attempt to maintain power. Face it, liberals. Conservatives are in the majority in this country and the trend will only continue!
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