Author: Gandalf GreyGandalf Grey Date: Oct 6, 2006 09:23
"Shut up and sing!" Conservatives Stifle Patriotism and Disregard Our Bill
of Rights
By Nick Paccione
Created Oct 5 2006 - 9:19am
"Shut up and sing" is a conservative's acerbic advice to liberal
entertainers who dare to speak about their political convictions. It's a
phrase that's been directed at Barbra Streisand and the Dixie Chicks. I
heard it with my own ears when someone in the audience at an L.A. concert
yelled it to Linda Ronstadt when she praised Michael Moore's film
"Fahrenheit 9/11." Laura Ingraham, a bubble-headed Anne Coulter wannabe and
rightie talk show host, went so far as to write a hypocritically one-sided,
critically-lambasted book titled "Shut Up and Sing" rebuking public figures
who disagree with her political views.
When Dick Cheney had a disagreement with Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy on
the house floor, Cheney hollered, "Go f*#k yourself." (It makes you wonder
if the country's number one censor, Mrs. Lynn Cheney...
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