Posted on 06/18/2010 2:16:04 PM PDT by Rhonda Robinson
If you guessed “far-right garbage,” give yourself a cookie. John Avlon reviews the punditry giant’s just-released The Overton Window for the Daily Beast, and, wouldn’t you know it, his diagnosis dovetails nicely with the thesis of Avlon’s own book (funny how that works out…).
Avlon finds Overton to be “an instructively bad book because it offers a complete color-by-numbers picture of the contemporary Wingnut psyche,” exposing Beck (and, by extension, his conservative allies and sympathizers) as a paranoid crank (perhaps-unwittingly) ginning up the fears of various malcontents on the verge of armed rebellion.
Glenn Beck has his moments of rhetorical recklessness and strange priorities (I’m especially wary of his closeness to Alex Jones fanboy Andrew Napolitano and neo-Confederate revisionist Thomas Woods), so it’s entirely possible that The Overton Window (which I haven’t read) goes off the rails in places. But I’ve heard enough Beck to know that his grasp of America’s founding principles is basically solid, and that his efforts to educate the public about progressivism are extremely valuable. Moreover, there are several telltales in Avlon’s piece that reveal what’s really irking him:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
“I just ordered it just to make the left mad. I also ordered “The Road to Serfdom” and “The Federalist Papers” (which I should have had already, but didn’t).”
I had the Federalist Papers, so got The Window, Serfdom and a new copy of Atlas Shrugged, since mine is falling apart.
Ripped my heart out and put it back with that book!!!
Sounds like an endorsement to me. I’m getting it for Father’s Day!
If I get another copy of Atlas Shrugged, I'll need one with larger print. :-)
No.
"Marshall Law" is an unknown non-existant thing.
"Martial Law" has a definition.
I looked for a large edition and Amazon didn’t have one.
I understand there is a poem in the book. One of the critics ripped the poem apart thinking it was Beck’s.
Beck said the poem was by Rudyard Kipling.
I thought liberals were supposed to be ‘educated?’
I’ve baited others using Kipling before. He’s quite a talented poet, the best poet liberals won’t read.
The book arrived yesterday and I’m reading it today. It’s getting scary.
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