Peer Through Glenn Beck's 'Overton Window'

[swag]

Run time: 01:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcjYXoLdK2A   Posted on YouTube: June 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: mediamatters4america Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 15, 2010 By DU Member: swag Views on DU: 1285

 

[Crowman1979]

1. This book makes you think one thing.

Who was the ghostwriter? LOL

[Grassy Knoll]

2. How many versions of windows do we really need?

[Capitalocracy]

3. Sounds like a hoot. If they ever make a movie, I'll download it illegally.

That's a great photo of the Priest on your avatar, swag. Judging by his age, I'm guessing he was living in my home town when that was taken.

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[CHelms]

4. Just plain nuts

It's not an act. He really is three green stamps short of a toaster.

[Althaia]

5. Oh, it's bad. Really bad.

Media Matters has a plot summary
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006110032

[Turborama]

6. The Washington Post's Review...

Glenn Beck's paranoid thriller, "The Overton Window"

By Steven Levingston
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The success of Glenn Beck's novel, "The Overton Window," will be measured not by its literary value (none), or its contribution to the thriller genre (small), or the money it rakes in (considerable), but rather by the rebelliousness it incites among anti-government extremists. If the book is found tucked into the ammo boxes of self-proclaimed patriots and recited at "tea party" assemblies, then Beck will have achieved his goal.

The story line, which fictionalizes Beck's well-known paranoia about a secret Big Government plan to crush the liberties of well-meaning citizens, is an extended call to arms, a rallying cry to his angry foot soldiers long stirred by his rantings on Fox News. As the last line of the book warns, "We're everywhere. . . . The fight starts tomorrow."

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The danger of books like this is that radical readers may take the story's fiction for fact, or interpret the fiction -- which Beck encourages -- as a reflection of a reality that they must fend off by any means necessary. "The Overton Window" risks falling into the tradition of other anti-government novels such as "The Turner Diaries" by William L. Pierce, which became a handbook of extremists and inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. As Beck tells his soldiers in the voice of Noah: "Put up or shut up . . . go hard or go home. Freedom is the rare exception . . . not the rule, and if you want it you've got to do your part to keep it."

Full review: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/14/AR2010061405423.html

[Hugabear]

8. Sounds like Beck's using "fiction" to incite anti-government violence

"The Turner Diaries" is a very good comparison.

[Joe Bacon]

7. Please, The Grim Weeper can't write worth CENSORED

Really, this sounds even cornier that L Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth"