Outside the Spectrum

   So I was bored recently and reading Laura Ingraham's monumental and intellectual tome of political and cultural criticism, Shut up and Sing. I have a few truly choice excerpts:

Remember what happened to the Roman Empire after its elites no longer believed it was worth defending against the onslaughts of barbarians. (page 66)

[Talking about Michael Moore's Stupid White Men] To call the book sophmoric would be an insult to sophomores in high school and college. Don't come a-lookin' for a piece of the pie around Michael. He ate it all. (page 104).

We're the most powerful nation of all time and one that could rule the world if we wanted, but we don't want to. (page 320).

   Honestly, this book was like a master class of how to write a shitty book. I had to skim the last half of this shitburger because it was close to the worst book I have ever read, and I make a habit out of reading the demented writings of right-wing commentators.

   Seriously, just take a look at the top three. Laura honestly thinks the Roman Empire collapsed because some bisexual elite class decided not to fight for it. Her second quote is my fave: she criticizes Moore for being sophmoric by being unintentionally sophmoric. I actually reread that chapter to see if she was some kind of subtle genius but, no, she's sophmoric talking about pretty much every subject she talks about. Quote number 3 reinforces number one: Laura has no grasp of history or military strategy. Although we were straining our society and economy to the breaking point just to try to hold on to South Vietnam or Iraq somehow we could conquer the whole world if we wanted to. Even though we were fought to a standstill in Korea by Chinese infantry and a detachment of the Soviet airforce we really could have just conquered the whole world.

   This book is a 6th-grade-level screed against "elites" and it wouldn't have been published by anybody but Regnery Press.