Shut Up and Be Quiet 

Shut Up and Be Quiet: Thoughts on the American Dream (2005) is a book written by conservative commentator Archie McPatton.

The cover of Shut Up and Be Quiet

Shut Up and Be Quiet, published during the height of McPatton's popularity as host of TV's The McPatton Thing, combines autobiography with the abrasive political commentary McPatton's viewers expect. It contains many of his most controversial statements, including, "The liberal Democrats would like nothing more than for your money to be spent on ignorant poor people, your God to be removed from the heavens, and your daughter to be molested by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed." This was quoted on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. McPatton also reveals some details of his troubled childhood and adolescence, which led him to the understanding that "if I was ever going to be successful, I would have to systematically destroy other people's lives."

In 2008, on his program Fuck You with Archie McPatton, McPatton compained that Shut Up and Be Quiet was "stuck on the back shelf" by biased liberal booksellers. "What do I see in those nice big displays at the end of the aisle?" he asked. "Liberal filth and pornography! I don't know this F. Scott Fitzgerald queen; all I know is that my book is nowhere to be found, and that homo's vile hate tracts are all over the place."

The book is divided into ten chapters:

• Chapter 1: "Born in the U.S.A."
• Chapter 2: "Shunned and Rejected in the U.S.A."
• Chapter 3: "Chicks' Rights"
• Chapter 4: "Red, White, and White"
• Chapter 5: "Reagan Cometh"
• Chapter 6: "Bush Cometh"
• Chapter 7: "President Lewinsky"
• Chapter 8: "Bush Cometh"
• Chapter 9: "Liberals and Prostitutes"
• Chapter 10: "The Future of the U.S.A."

See also

• Archie McPatton
• The McPatton Thing

Photograph: Corey Moosa as Archie McPatton