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 ...
Nothimg kind I’d bet.
Hey!
My wife got me a Kindle for Father’s day and The Overton Window is already in the top 100 downloads. I’m going to get it soon, too.
And I will HOWL when Glen’s book makes the #1 spot on the NYT Bestseller list. Popcorn anyone?
In my Gomer Pyle voice: “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
The fact that the left feels obligated to comment on it shows Glenn is making headway. They reserve their hate-filled rants for only those they feel threatened by.
Can't say I'll be buying it either though.
Or even worse.. MARTIAL law!
That's where they mess with folks who can write English.
run to the boarder with yer 12 guage to protect free speach before marshal law is declared.
I just recieved two copies yesterday and started reading my issue last night. I bought the other one for my mother for her birthday 86 who just happens to be a Beck freak!!
Guess what the Right thinks of the far Left. If you said a bunch of %$%*&^( $%#@$ &*^%^^$^$^& *%%*, give yourself a prize!
>>The fact that the left feels obligated to comment on it shows Glenn is making headway. They reserve their hate-filled rants for only those they feel threatened by.<<
When you are taking flak it means you are over the target...
Did you do that on purpose? (I hope.)
I just want to say for the record that a RAT Congressman who is sure that GOP tricksters hacked voting machines to give Alvin Greene his party's Senate nomination is completely sane and should never be considered a wingnut or a paranoid crank.
/s
Because the Far left gets such press coverage, it’s numbers are falsely projected. I would say the country is now at least 45%moderate, 45% Conservative and a measly 10% Socialist, if that. So why is the elephant afraid of the mouse?
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 ordered mine yesterday. Glenn is quite the talented writer. I enjoyed the heck out of The Christmas Sweater.
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