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Media / Books Glenn Beckwatch: A Book Shall Come
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:30 PM
The way the synopsis sounds, it could be Beck's 1984:
"[Beck] described [the novel] as 'a story of America in a time much like today where the people are confused,' with a government in crisis and the rise of a citizens' group called the Founders Keepers, which 'leads to a battle and a civil war, and life is upside-down planetwide.'"
Fuck. I'm going to have to review that one.
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I highly doubt he wrote it. Considering all the "books" he's written, all the different genres, and the rapid turn-around time, I smell a ghost writer.
Microsoft Word drafts (with track changes on) or GTFO!
Microsoft Word drafts (with track changes on) or GTFO!
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I hope someday soon this man realizes his dream to be thought of as the reincarnation of Thomas Paine will never ever ever ever happen. Idiot.
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Paul, in all seriousness I think you should throw up (pun intended) the rights to review this on the next Strangercrombie auction.
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You should find somebody who might possibly be expected to give it a positive review. Everybody knows you're going to trash it so what's the point? Somebody who likes it and doesn't drool on the keyboard would be write an interesting piece. I bet Stanley Fish will find nice things to say about it.
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Can't wait. I hope I don't spill my skinny vanilla mezzo all over my iPad right after I download this gem.
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@8:
What? Again? That's like, the third time this month!
I keep winning teh Internets, but all I ever get is a "Pint of Whisky" t-shirt or a "Conan, What Is Best In Life?" coffee mug.
What? Again? That's like, the third time this month!
I keep winning teh Internets, but all I ever get is a "Pint of Whisky" t-shirt or a "Conan, What Is Best In Life?" coffee mug.
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If Beck insists on demonizing "progressives," can we start calling him and his ilk "regressives"?
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I sincerely hope his idiot followers don't read between his lines and start shooting. Obviously an out-of-shape middle-aged chicken hawk like Beck is too much of a doughy pantsload to be of much use in a real revolution, but his ratings seem to depend on appearing to be trying to incite one.
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@15 No but you don't!
Your joke is good but Not A Pun! A pun is based on a homonym. ONLY. "I'm gonna send you to the Punn-itentary in Punn-sylvania."
"Throw up" ISN'T A PUN. both words are still what they are. The context may change the meaning, but that's just CLEVER! Not a pun!
*end nerdy rant.
Your joke is good but Not A Pun! A pun is based on a homonym. ONLY. "I'm gonna send you to the Punn-itentary in Punn-sylvania."
"Throw up" ISN'T A PUN. both words are still what they are. The context may change the meaning, but that's just CLEVER! Not a pun!
*end nerdy rant.
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Paul, Dorothy Parker already did it:
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Quoted in The Algonquin Wits (1968) edited. by Robert E. Drennan
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Quoted in The Algonquin Wits (1968) edited. by Robert E. Drennan
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