Glenn Beck’s educated, sophisticated critics have never heard of Nobel Prize winning poet

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | 6/10/10 | Kathy Shaidle

[nhungerford]

Sad, but predictable.

Glenn Beck’s publisher made a “trailer” for his forthcoming novel, The Overton Window (see below).

The reaction to the poetry chosen to accompany the trailer drew predictable reactions from the “Bush is a moron” crowd at the Huffington Post:

With lines like “The dog returns to his vomit” and “The burnt fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire,” it’s very clear what this book is about. Nothing.

Too bad nobody in the comments section — until the thread got way out of control — recognized these lines as those written by… Nobel Prize Winning poet Rudyard Kipling, in his very famous poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings.”

[BelegStrongbow]

Glenn had a lot of fun with this this morning. I was pleased that I knew who wrote it just by hearing the title.

[Maverick68]

Not surprising...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

My memory may be faulty but does not the phrase “The dog returns to its vomit” come from the bible?

[Kozy]

Liberals don’t or can’t read

[Da Coyote]

Made my day. Libs are turning out to be the least educated of us all - whilst making the claim that it is us who are the fools.

[cvq3842]

Absolutely it does.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

My memory may be faulty but does not the phrase “The dog returns to its vomit” come from the bible?

Prov 26:11. My first thought too - Nobel Prize winning bible?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

You are correct. I don’t remember the exact chapter and verse, but it’s from Proverbs: “Like a dog that returns to its own vomit is the fool who repeats his folly.”

[rjsimmon]

Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

[CaptainK]

“As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”

[HighlyOpinionated]

HuffPo readers are either educated by the “Government” aka Public School System with Liberal teachers who had them reading Marx and Alinsky rather than Literary Prize winners.

Or, they’re people who think they already know all there is to know and don’t do any additional reading.

Cokie Roberts books “Founding Mothers” and “Ladies of Liberty” are good reads for the summer, btw.

[muawiyah]

Yeah, everynow and then one of the DU Dummies fesses up that he or she has some knowledge of religion ~ now that’s just “some”, not a “lot”, and probably not enough for salvation to kick in (if you know what i mean, wink-wink).

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

With lines like “The dog returns to his vomit”...it’s very clear what this book is about. Nothing.

It's from the Bible. Read it lately?

[expatpat]

Poets of Kipling’s era often made reference to ‘classical’ material from Greek, Roman, and Biblical sources, believing that educated persons would readily know them.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

You can read the poem here:

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm

[kosciusko51]

Reminds me of an old comic I saw:

Boy to Girl: Do you like Kipling?
Girl to Boy: I don't know, you naughty boy. I've never kippled.

[MozarkDawg]

Glenn had a lot of fun with this this morning. I was pleased that I knew who wrote it just by hearing the title.

I was LMAO when he was reading the *critiques* -- the one who accused Glenn of copying Dr. Suess, LOLOLOLOL!!

I recognized the lines from the poem when he first played the audio of what they're calling the trailer earlier in the week (or was it last week?) -- what an ominous-voiced recitation! Whoever they got to do that, brilliant, it makes the poem come alive!

[loveliberty2]

The Left is largely ignorant of ideas derived from religious sources, or from the great thinkers who lived by those ideas. Although they are elitists who consider themselves "intellectuals," they are, in fact, incapable of debating great ideas.

Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.

In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, including words from Kipling's work cited above, and quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.

For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:

"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."

Does this sound like anyone you see frequently on the TV? The pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves somewhat above the likes of the dedicated students of history who make up much of the TEA Party movement.

By their words and actions, however, they display a provinciality reminiscent of that Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.

America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their teens in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.

It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because it does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).

Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.

[tophat9000]

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