A Power to the People serenade
posted at 7:00 am on September 20, 2007 by Bryan
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According to Drudge, Laura Ingraham’s latest book debuts at #1 on the NYT best seller list. As our way of saying congratulations to Laura, Hot Air joins up with some special, surprise guests to sing in P2TP’s smash debut.
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Congrats LI :)
trailortrash on September 20, 2007 at 7:01 AM
The NYT must be wallowing in their latte’s right about now. Probably spikin’ their moccacino’s with bourbon. Oh the humanity!
Tony737 on September 20, 2007 at 7:08 AM
This is true. I saw Laura last night in Omaha on her P2TP book tour. She said they got the call yesterday at about
4:30 cst that confirmed it will Numer ONE of the TOP the NYT best seller list.
ordi on September 20, 2007 at 7:30 AM
Extra sweetness is that she is beating Billy Jeff’s little story book.
Magically delicious!
bbz123 on September 20, 2007 at 8:13 AM
Nice! Hopefully Ann Coulter will do the same next month.
wryteacher on September 20, 2007 at 8:16 AM
Clever marketing ploy of Laura to plant herself in that Pinkook crowd and lead the chant! I believe the title of the book is also clever in that unsuspecting/unknowlegeable RDDBs will buy it thinking it is a leftist book.
Brat on September 20, 2007 at 8:17 AM
Congratulations to Laura. I would love to hear that arranged and preformed by the Ventilators!
And congratulations to Michelle, the signature website should register it’s 100,000,000 visit today!
Zorro on September 20, 2007 at 8:17 AM
That is just wrong!
Funny but wrong.
:)
LakeRuins on September 20, 2007 at 8:19 AM
That was great.
Thanks Bryan!
Congratulations to Laura.
BobH on September 20, 2007 at 8:19 AM
Bought the book last night at B&N. Can’t wait to start on it tonight.
The cover photo really doesn’t do her justice though.
BacaDog on September 20, 2007 at 8:31 AM
Heh
Jaibones on September 20, 2007 at 9:18 AM
It’s so unfair! Code Pink and ANSWER hold a “die-in.” It looks like they’re dropping by the dozens, but then the bastards get up again! It makes one feel like a kid who just got handed a big lollipop, then had it torn from his grasp
morganfrost on September 20, 2007 at 9:26 AM
The book is awesome and funny at parts. I love listening to Laura Ingraham. I’m glad to see her at number one
aclark on September 20, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Sounds great but in theory Laura Ingraham represents the Right Wing – the Establishment, hardly “The people”.
We are not the people, we are the ruling class, the Left Wing is “the people”, were always “the people”.
AprilOrit on September 20, 2007 at 11:19 AM
We’re all “the people”. Liberals, Conservatives, Moonbats, sane people, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Left Wing, Right Wing, the part of the bird that went over the fence last. And so forth.
The left has hijacked the term “The People” for itself. Maybe this book (which I haven’t read yet) will at least remind everyone that the Left aren’t the only People.
NoSquids on September 20, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Right On! Has a good overtone, yeah!
Left On! Doesn’t make the same context, does it?
Kini on September 20, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Not true. Throughout history “The People” have always been the masses, the working class, not the ruling class. Laura Ingraham is hardly a member of the masses or the people, she is a member of The Right Wing, which does not represent the masses. The Left throughout history has always represented the common worker.
The Framers were “The People” who fought against the Crown -King George – who represented “The Right Wing” or the ruling class.
This idea that The Right Wing is now representing “the people” is misrepresentation, or that the Right Wing is suddenly the underdog, well is just erroneous.
Sorry guys, I am a Republican and am proud to be an honest one. I will not rewrite history for partisan purposes.
AprilOrit on September 20, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Indeed. If they are unsuspecting of who/how the author is, they might think it’s another Marxist manifesto. Clever indeed, though I don’t think that’s what was in Laura’s mind.
Entelechy on September 20, 2007 at 1:11 PM
AprilOrit on September 20, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Nice try April. Laura talks about today’s people. The left has no trademark on the term “the people”. We’re past feudalism, and for that matter old-time capitalism too.
Entelechy on September 20, 2007 at 1:15 PM
Maybe in the world of partisan politics, but in the real world that is what The Right Wing is, what is stands for. Embrace it, accept it, be proud to be a member there of, it is what it is. No books with misleading titles or revisionist dialogue is going to change the meaning.
Nice try but people are just not down with this kind of chicanery.
AprilOrit on September 20, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Another book of Laura’s I’ll be buying.
Our side is blessed with so many intelligent, erudite, women who can express our point of view so successfully. We have Laura, Michelle, Tammy, Coulter, Mona Charon, and so on. And they all do very well in sales, despite the attempt of the big-box stores to bury them in the stacks instead of showcasing them as new books.
The fact that these conservatrive authors (the men as well as the women) CONSISTENTLY rise to the tops of the charts of the (enemy) NY Times book list must give Pinch heartburn. It certainly drives the nutjob morons at DU and DKOS crazy.
georgej on September 20, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Laura didn’t pick the title as a chicanery. Some commenters did interpret it that way, or suggested that the left could…The book is about something totally different. From Amazon.com:
Entelechy on September 20, 2007 at 4:17 PM
I’ll bet it took a shower or two to remove the smell.
All right, more John Lennon songs!
No, April, the left has always claimed to represent the working class, but the reality has been far different. For example the communists (i.e., the farthest left) have always claimed to represent the “workers” or the “proletariat”, but instead of giving power to the workers, they seized it for themseves, merely replacing the rulers that they overthrow. And if you look at many of our Democrat-created (such as by FDR and LBJ) social programs here in the U.S., such as Welfare, Medicare, Medicade, Social Security, you’ll find that most often what they do is take money from workers, and give it to people who don’t work.
Bigfoot on September 20, 2007 at 5:01 PM
In this country, anyway, the People means everyone: rich or poor, ruling or ruled.
Too many people have forgotten that (including many of the politicians). In my opinion the Democrats elected to office have forgotten that more than the Republicans.
The authors of the Preamble saw it as an agreement between the people and the government of the United States, and they would have considered themselves among the people even while they were among those governing, since holding office was supposed to be a finite duty not a lifetime appointment.
Our government is a construct designed to be run by the people, not a dictatorship, not an “us” vs. “them.”
NoSquids on September 20, 2007 at 5:07 PM
Maybe so in theory, but that is not really how it is in reality. Politics is very “us vs them”, this blog is “us vs them”, as is most on either side. Karl Rove was one of the biggest and most prominent “us vs them” promoters and enforcers since the days of Lee Atwater.
So it may be how it should be, but it’s not. In a capitalist society, modern or archaic, there is and always must be class distinction.
AprilOrit on September 20, 2007 at 8:02 PM
Before reform, Welfare and Medicade were always for the unemployed, people with jobs would not have qualified for benefits.
AprilOrit on September 20, 2007 at 8:19 PM
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