Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America

I live in the most liberal bastion in the U.S. I need books like this to keep my wits about me. The negative reviews dwell on freedom of speech, truth, love of country, etc...something the writers are trying to control and eliminate, but use it as a weapon to beat the less informed into submission. Oh, the poor children, racist, tolerance are the words they usually use in the street. A very odd turn of events for these situational ethics cretins. The liberalism here and the liberalism in Europe is much different, however, it does seem to be lumped in the same kettle of fish. Talking to most liberals here is like talking to a braindead zombie, while talking to liberals in Europe, one can talk about the many sides of an issue and even convince them of a more conservative viewpoint. I.E. their thinking is not rigid as thinking has become on both sides here. Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung too far to the left at the moment and it must be thoughtfully and convincingly be centered with more compromise from both sides on issues that are important to our future. Anyway, Laura is 95% on from my viewpoint and her detracters need to inhale.

Congratulations to Laura Ingraham on a fine, well-researched book that was fun to read as well. I guess what her critics find so infuriating about her latest work is that she so accurately quotes the liberal elitists. Nothing is made up or taken out of context here. She crystallizes what many of us have thought all along - that the liberal/elitist mentality is one of hatred and vitriolic contempt for all who disagree with them. The best part of all this is reading the reviews of those who obviously didn't read the book at all. I must say that I relish the hyper-ventilating and foaming-at-the-mouth screeds from the know-nothings. They only prove Laura's point. I honestly wonder if some mischevious conservatives aren't writing some of the one-star reviews in order to make the liberals look foolish. When Franken and Moore write their lowbrow tripe - the liberals gush over their "brave" attacks on the right. But when Laura writes a book critiquing the left, suddenly these same people bluster about her book as a threat to free speech. The irony is thicker than a whale omelette.

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.

An awesome book. No, Laura is not an investigative reporter, but she articulates well the views of many of us in middle america rather nicely. Ie, that Hollywood and many universities in the US are no longer moderate on the issues and willing to openly debate substance but have instead become bastions of speech codes where 98% or more of the faculty are far-left liberal and won't tolerate free speech of those with contrary opinions. Thankfully she has finally taken them on.

I'm sick of seeing people bash books when they haven't even read one page of them. They clearly go out of their way to do this. This book came out yesterday. I got it and couldn't put it down. I finished it this morning. And guess what? I'm a liberal. This book is excellently written and her points about elitists ring quite true. To my fellow liberals, stop being jerks...you're only vindicating the conservative movement.