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Of Thee I Zing

By: Laura Ingraham
Narrated by: Laura Ingraham,Raymond Arroyo
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While Laura Ingraham was walking through a Northern Virginia shopping mall one Saturday afternoon, it all became clear to her. Everywhere she turned, she saw signs of the impending disaster: zombie teens texting each other across a café table; a man having his eyebrows threaded at a kiosk; a 50ish woman shoe-horned into a tube top and skinny jeans; and a storefront ad featuring a Victoria's Secret model spilling out of her push-up bra and into the faces of young passersby. Ingraham wondered to herself, "Is this it? Is this what our forefathers fought for? What my parents struggled for? I wonder if Victoria's Secret is still having that two-for-one sale?"

A menacing force surrounds us. We see it, we feel it, we know it. The country we love is in grave peril. While politicians and "experts" prattle on about the debt crisis at home, and terrorism abroad, a more insidious homegrown threat is emerging. It endangers our future and undermines our present. The uncomfortable truth: We have become our own worst enemy. The culture we have created is now turning on us. We're on the verge of drowning in our ignorance, arrogance, gluttony… can you believe there are only three shots of vanilla in a Caramel Macchiato?!?

Now, in an act of patriotic intervention, the most-listened-to woman in talk radio casts her satirical eye upon all that ails American society. In this sharp-witted, comic romp, Laura Ingraham takes you on a guided tour through 10 levels of our cultural hell.

You know we're in trouble when:

  • Airplane seats shrink - just as the passengers expand.
  • Celebrity baby names go from the peculiar (Apple, Stetson, and Daisy Boo) to the pathetic (Bamboo, Blanket, and Bronx).
  • People meticulously tend their virtual crops on Farmville, while their children eat takeout.
  • "Breaking News" usually means it happened yesterday.
  • The weddings last longer than the marriages.
  • Facebook has become a verb and reading has become an ancient art form.

Of Thee I Zing is cultural commentary too funny to ignore, igniting a national conversation long past due. America, your cultural recovery begins here.

©2011 Laura Ingraham (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

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Laura Is brilliant. As usual.

If you could sum up Of Thee I Zing in three words, what would they be?

Politics is serious stuff. Sometimes it's hard to understand Laura breaks it down and makes you laugh at the same time. Wear a seat belt while listening to this one.

What did you like best about this story?

The author's use of homor to bring the facts out.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. Break it up.

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Wonderful and refreshing

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Excellent book. Says in words what we are all thinking. Would recommend it to anyone with a brain.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Drop dead funny!! My husband asked what I was listening to because I laughed until I cried.

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Well Done Laura

If you could sum up Of Thee I Zing in three words, what would they be?

A very well written and documented book that I listened to right through and plan on listening to again very soon. I have already recommended this book to my family and friends.

What other book might you compare Of Thee I Zing to and why?

Its hard to compare this book to other books written by conservative writers, at least those I have listened to.

What about Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo ’s performance did you like?

Well written and well read.

Any additional comments?

Keep it up Laura!!!

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What made the experience of listening to Of Thee I Zing the most enjoyable?

Enjoyed Laura's wit and sense of humor. Have been in many of those situations as described in the book.

Would you be willing to try another book from Laura Ingraham? Why or why not?

Yes

What about Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo ’s performance did you like?

Voices were not overpowering.... while thowing in humor. Felt like a question and answer session with Laura asking and answering. Done very well.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No extreme reation just moments of

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Sometimes Funny

I listened to the end so that's saying something. Basically, it's just Laura ranting. It's hours and hours of complaining. Sometimes it was funny. Sometimes it sounded elitest and snobby.

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Right on Target

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this very accurate description of today's social activities here in the United States.

Ingraham nails it and says what we all know to be true, but because of our newly found position of "always being politically correct in what we say aloud" we don't dare utter these things where others can hear.

On the up side: I love her honesty.

On the down side: To me, and I might be the only listener who says it, I found the male speaker, Raymond Arroyo, that introduces the next main topic during the audio, to be very distracting to the overall flow.

I do guarantee that you will bust out laughing at her comments because they strike a real nerve in all of us. Great Job Laura.

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Great Book!

Laughed a bunch. Well written. Laura used humor to help take the edge off some very disturbing moral, social and religous problems. She said a lot that needed to be said and if we learn from her points we could benefit greatly and the world would be a better place to live and work. Great to see someone who is not afraid to be politically incorrect!

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Laura has a voice for writing

the content was good but Laura's delivery is so distracting that i would not download anything by her again.

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A Zing for Laura!

I was very disappointed in this book. It amounts to a few hours of random criticisms of virtually everyone that Laura runs into. I pity her friends, acquaintances and casual contacts as they all seem to have been savaged in this book.

Her recollection of a Tony Robbins "dream" she claims to have had sounds suspiciously like a clip from a "Family Guy" episode. I felt that Laura decided she could "whip out" a book by documenting her countless critical thoughts as she plowed through her busy daily life and that the words, by virtue of deriving from her brilliant observations, would be a best seller.

For someone who frequently rails against the "Elites" in our culture, her recounting of her daily interactions indicated to me that she seems to socialize with them on a regular basis (at least she did before this book was published).

As a fellow Christian I have heard Laura speak of her conversion to Catholicism later in life. I agree often with her observations of how religion and religious people are portrayed in the popular culture However, just as a reformed smoker can become annoying with his or her anti-smoking zealousness, I found her criticisms of other attendees at her own church ("the two times a year crowd") as offensive and unnecessary. One does not have to appear in a church pew to express one's faith in God or to believe in and try to live by its teachings. During my lifetime I have witnessed many regular church attendees who's primary function on Sunday seemed to be to gossip about someone's clothing choices or some other distinctly critical comments. Her criticisms of fellow parishioners during the "Sign of Peace" ceremony just blew me away for their poor taste. I listened to some parts of the book with my 20 year old daughter and I found myself turning it off at various points because it was so overly critical.

Laura is an amazing woman with a humble background (as was mine) but this book just reeks of arrogance. You owe your fans an apology

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Well worth the read.

As always, I enjoyed Ms. Ingraham's wit and commentary. She doesn't let her readers/listeners down.

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