Slog
News & ArtsWednesday, September 16, 2009
Media / Books Glenn Beckwatch: A Book Will Come
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Lacking Creativity says: "I read the book description to my coworkers and they all wanted to punch me afterward." Here is part of the description:
Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts.And this book is full of them.
...
Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.
Some days, being a bookseller is not an enjoyable job. Thanks to Lacking Creativity for sharing.
3
So he's a communist! Even worse!
At least Hitler had implicit approval from Christian churches, Communists are godless heathens who go against a capitalist Jesus.
At least Hitler had implicit approval from Christian churches, Communists are godless heathens who go against a capitalist Jesus.
4
Beck is: 1. A money whore, 2. a gadfly, and 3. a filthy Mormon bigot. All ingredients that lead to dangerous.
5
that he has the gall to put himself in Thomas Payne's league makes me really angry.
Also, am I the only one who read that descripton & though, "gee, project much?"
Also, am I the only one who read that descripton & though, "gee, project much?"
6
@1 I think you're right, he looks like an officer in the old Red Army. Which is pretty fucking funny given his anti-socialism screeds.
7
Man, I hate when people do that fake cyrillic thing. It's pronounced 'ya', not 'ar', and it always makes my brain throw a rod.
Had the same problem with Sorthrity Row.
Had the same problem with Sorthrity Row.
9
@6 This came out in two formats: book and audiobook. I believe the cover makes more sense when referring to the audiobook; in it, Beck plays the part of the "Idiot" while two other guys play the (apparent) voice of reason and fact. Thus, the cover is how Beck views us lefties with our crazy ideas. Makes sense. Also, it looks like someone jizzed in his eye.
10
But he does pretty much describe himself with his idiot definition... unfortunately the truth doesn't work against him.
12
Did you listen to the audiobook excerpt on the link? He contradicts himself in the first 20 seconds, it's amazing. Also, how can anyone listen to his voice? He sounds like the man in the Enzyt ads.
13
Let me guess: it's published by the University of I Can't Remember Press and has already sold 65 billion pre-release copies in 17,000 languages.
14
"Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth."
So he's explaining how to deal with Teabaggers?
Here's a concrete example that's good for the anti-Glenn Beck soul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq…
So he's explaining how to deal with Teabaggers?
Here's a concrete example that's good for the anti-Glenn Beck soul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq…
17
"President Barack Obama resigned today in wake of the controversy caused by Glenn Beck's frenzied denunciations after Beck reported that the President had been overheard calling opponents of his health-care reform "nitwits". In addition, Beck received information that back in his community activist days, the President had once joked that "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", the mythical character from the South Side of Chicago in Jim Croce's classic song, should "kick some ass" in the Chicago City Council."
18
He got you talking about him again. Limbaugh got big in the 90's by irritating liberals and having them give him more PR than he could ever dream of. As far as I can tell, he's just another talking head keeping people tuned in in-between car and bank commercials. Didn't we ever learn from Paul Anka back in the 90's?
19
George Orwell had a word for this.
So do I. I can't remember what George's word for it was (unspeak?), but I know what mine is:
Bullshit.
Bullshit, I say to you, Mr. Beck.
So do I. I can't remember what George's word for it was (unspeak?), but I know what mine is:
Bullshit.
Bullshit, I say to you, Mr. Beck.
20
@14:
Man, that is some crazy at work. Literally none of these people can provide a single concrete FACTUAL example of anything Obama (or anyone else in the current administration, for that matter) has done to justify their unmitigated outrage, but they're all absolute CERTAIN he's to blame - for something. Something bad. Something they haven't seen for themselves, but they just KNOW is out there in the shadows waiting to strike them down.
Hm, I wonder who's been feeding them all this paranoid, delusional B.S.?
Man, that is some crazy at work. Literally none of these people can provide a single concrete FACTUAL example of anything Obama (or anyone else in the current administration, for that matter) has done to justify their unmitigated outrage, but they're all absolute CERTAIN he's to blame - for something. Something bad. Something they haven't seen for themselves, but they just KNOW is out there in the shadows waiting to strike them down.
Hm, I wonder who's been feeding them all this paranoid, delusional B.S.?
22
Uniform fetishist. It figures. There's more thwarted nazi fetishism in the GOP and its apologists than Kraft-Ebbing could ever have imagined.
24
Meanwhile, mandatory attendance at the Tea-Party/FOX News sponsored "two minutes hate" has increased by 11% to 1.7 million, proving once again that the vile traitor Goldstein's 60,000 attendance figure is a a lie.
And chocolate rations are up too!
And chocolate rations are up too!
25
@18, the difference is, Limbaugh was much less explicit in the John Birch Society roots of his ideology. Beck has crossed the line; his explicit intellectual mentor, whose book he wrote a new foreword for, is Cleon Skousen, who is one of the key pillars of white supremacist thought, and was so extreme during the 50s and 60s that J. Edgar Hoover disavowed him. He called Eisenhower a Communist agent, so Obama's in good company there.
In the early sixties, the Republicans in Washington State, led by Dan Evans (and including my dad) drove the Birchers out of the party. But now, they kiss these people's asses. Glenn Beck is seriously just a cleaned up version of David Duke, and he is genuinely dangerous.
In the early sixties, the Republicans in Washington State, led by Dan Evans (and including my dad) drove the Birchers out of the party. But now, they kiss these people's asses. Glenn Beck is seriously just a cleaned up version of David Duke, and he is genuinely dangerous.
27
Well, that picture tells me WAY more than I ever wanted to know about Glenn Beck's masturbatory fantasies.
30
Is this the same guy who yelled at a caller to his radio show and called them a "little pinhead"?
Why yes, yes it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0x-DOiDz…
But I bet he's even more effective now that he's discovered these magical "facts"!
Why yes, yes it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0x-DOiDz…
But I bet he's even more effective now that he's discovered these magical "facts"!
31
The blurb makes sense under the following hypothesis. For Beck-followers or truthers or birthers or 912ers, "truth" is not based on fact. "truth" is determined by gut feel. I asked a conspiracy theory friend of mine, "but how do you KNOW its true?" and he pointed to his gut. So for some what they believe to be true does not depend on reality or facts, but rather their own belief. This makes reasoned debate very difficult.
32
I'm amazed that he isn't writing a book to deny the allegations that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. Now, I'm not saying he did rape and murder a young girl in 1990, but if it’s not true, why have we not heard a single blurb in response to the rumors that Glenn Beck raped and killed a young girl in 1990?
Maybe I'll ask him myself in Mt.Vernon on Glenn Beck day Sept. 23rd.
Maybe I'll ask him myself in Mt.Vernon on Glenn Beck day Sept. 23rd.
34
Isn't this the guy who relentlessly went after Van Jones until he ended up "resigning" as the Green Jobs Czar? I watched several videos of this guy where he said that "white environmentalists were steering poisons into black communities" and some other extremely radical crap.
I believe Glenn Beck also led the charge in exposing ACORN's sickening corruption that has, so far, led to millions of our tax dollars being withheld from them - and the cancellation of their contract with the census bureau.
He seems to be right on some big things so I can respect him for that. What are some things he's said that he has been wrong about (that he hasn't admitted he wrong about)?
Conservative, liberal, Mormon, Catholic, Atheist, R, D, black, white, brown, or purple...if someone's getting it right, I'll pay attention.
I believe Glenn Beck also led the charge in exposing ACORN's sickening corruption that has, so far, led to millions of our tax dollars being withheld from them - and the cancellation of their contract with the census bureau.
He seems to be right on some big things so I can respect him for that. What are some things he's said that he has been wrong about (that he hasn't admitted he wrong about)?
Conservative, liberal, Mormon, Catholic, Atheist, R, D, black, white, brown, or purple...if someone's getting it right, I'll pay attention.
35
Wow, what a bunch of hate being spewed on this site. Obviously a bunch of left wingers. We conservatives for the most part (zealots on both sides of course) are a much kinder and gentler folk.
Advertisement
Most Commented on Slog
-
Hating People Doesn't Make Them Thinner by Jen Graves
-
Los Angeles Gay Bar Bans Bachelorette Parties Until Marriage Equality Is Attained by David Schmader
-
Fill in the Blank by Grant Brissey
-
This Reminds Me of the Great Calculator Scare of the Late '70s/Early '80s by David Schmader
-
Idiot Tries to Defend Bigoted Anti-Gay-Marriage Preacher on Anderson Cooper by Paul Constant
-
Six Moms with Too Much Time on Their Hands and a Shitty Website Decide to Fight Gay Superheroes by Paul Constant
-
Why Mayor McGinn's Wife Canceled Her Family's Seattle Times Subscription by Eli Sanders
-
What the Hell Is Wrong With Seattle's Pride Parade? by Dominic Holden
-
The Saturday Morning News by Unpaid Intern
-
NYC Man Ticketed for Not Riding in the Bike Lane by Jonathan Golob
RSS
Facebook
Twitter
Comments (35) RSS