Say the Right Thing: Talk Radio's Favorite Conservative Quotes, Notes, and Gloats [Paperback]

Kirby Wilbur (Author), Floyd Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010

" Evey talk radio listener in America needs this super book of great 'quotes, notes and gloats,' as the editors say it. It's perfect for that snappy retort to phone in and rell off some sassy guest, the kind of things you usually don't think of until the next day And even if you never call in, here's an arsonal of intellectual ammunition to tell your friends what the talk show host should have said.

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Review

Here's an arsenal of intellectual ammunition to retort all liberals with. Every talk radio listener in America needs this super book of great quotes, notes and gloats! -- Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, Talk America Radio Network

About the Author

Kirby Wilbur is one of America's best known radio talk show hosts currently with hot talk 570 KVI radio in Seattle, Washington. He serves as a director of Citizens United, one of the nation's best known conservative lobbying organizations. Floyd Brown is a writer,activist and businessman. He is Chairman of Citizens United. His book Slick Willie:Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton was a national best seller.

Product Details

• Paperback: 170 pages
• Publisher: Merril Press; 1 edition (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936783222
• ISBN-13: 978-0936783222
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,735,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best deffense for conservatism is this book!, November 17, 1999

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Say the Right Thing: Talk Radio's Favorite Conservative Quotes, Notes, and Gloats (Paperback)

I was once asked to give a speech on the Constitution, and the audience was filled with left of center questions. I wished I had had Say the Right Thing to refer to before hand.

This book is not a storybook, nor is it a book with a plot; it is a reference manual for the conservative to use when confronted by the liberal with an obvious agenda. You'll find the right thing to say for every situation.

The authors cover every issue from Americans to war and everything in between. They give you the ammunition to fight back when confronted. This should be a must reader for every conservative.

John Adams, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Einstein, Carnegie, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel and Noah Webster and even the bible are just but a few of the people included in this book. A certain bestseller if I have ever seen one!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 'Conservative' quotes, if not always quotes by conservatives, December 13, 2001

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Andrew S. Rogers (Stamford, Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Say the Right Thing: Talk Radio's Favorite Conservative Quotes, Notes, and Gloats (Paperback)

Living here in Seattle [as I was when I posted this review], I've had the opportunity to wake up to Kirby Wilbur's daily radio show most workday mornings for the last six years or so. I feel like I know him and what he stands for fairly well. This book of quotes is a pretty fair reflection of the true-blue mainstream, God-and-country conservative Kirby is (I've heard Floyd Brown on the radio a few times, and friends of mine are friends of his, but I don't know him nearly as well as I "know" Kirby).

As other reviews on this page have noted, this is a great source of quick-fire ammunition for speakers and writers looking for pithy statements from a right-of-center standpoint. As you'd expect, there's a lot of Reagan here. A lot of Thatcher and Churchill, Jefferson, Burke, Eisenhower, Lincoln, Goldwater, and Theodore Roosevelt. Surprisingly, there are also a fair number of entries from people you wouldn't expect to find in a book of "conservative" quotes, including George Bernard Shaw, Louis Brandeis, Russell Long, William O. Douglas, and even Chairman Mao.

That brings me to what I think is an important point to make about this book: While many of the quotes are, taken entirely on their own, expressions of conservative sentiments, "Say the Right Thing" isn't, by any stretch, a comprehensive treasury of conservative thought. Among the conservatives (or at least right-leaning people) I was surprised not to find included in this collection were: Albert Jay Nock, Murray Rothbard, John T. Flynn, Lysander Spooner, Robert A. Taft (the original "Mr. Republican"!), Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, or Randolph Bourne ("War is the health of the state."). Mises and Hayek have two and three entries respectively, Russell Kirk and Robert E. Lee (a surprise, given that Kirby's an American-historian from Virginia) none at all.

Still, as a handy reference for reliable quotes, 'Say the Right Thing' is a good title to have around. It's organized into logical sections, and also indexed by name -- although the index could have used another pass by the editor: there are separate entries for 'HL Mencken' and 'Henry Mencken,' as well as 'Napoleon I' and 'Napoleon Bonaparte.' Republican speakers and newsletter editors, I'd bet, would find this especially useful.

If you're looking for other powerful quotes combined with an easy-to-digest look at politics and philosophy, I very highly recommend Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered by the pseudonymous 'John Galt.' Despite the author's nom de plume, it's not as Randian/Objectivist as it sounds.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A source for educated speakers, July 15, 1999

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This review is from: Say the Right Thing: Talk Radio's Favorite Conservative Quotes, Notes, and Gloats (Paperback)

If you speak to groups and need a great source of quotes on life, politics, government, et al, this is a must-have source. It is a well organized tome that provides cogent quotes for almost any occasion, particularly for those who routinely speak to motivate others and need a historical basis for their own remarks. The sections of the book make it easy to find and choose the correct quote for the occasion. The compilation has a historical perspective that provides us with the wisdom of those who came before us and seems to always have just the right quote for the occasion. If you speak formally to groups, your speeches will benefit from the quotes gathered by Kirby and Floyd. I found that I was constantly wishing that I had said that. You will too! Besides serving as a souce for speeches, it is just an inspiring and fun read!