We're everywhere. . . . The fight starts tomorrow - Beck's New "Faction" Book-Turner Diaries?

[RamboLiberal]

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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In a foreword, Beck notes that his thriller belongs in a category called " 'faction' -- completely fictional books with plots rooted in fact." He attaches an afterword of nearly 30 pages that contains citations to references in the story: information on the financial bailout, unemployment, measures to ensure government operation after a disaster and the like. He laces his plot with these facts in the same manner he employs them on his TV show, to lend credence to his fantasy of a nefarious government scheme to subvert the Constitution.

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Thrillers often are marred by laughable prose, but few have stumbled along with language as silly as this one. When Gardner's son, Noah, meets patriot Molly Ross early in the novel, Beck writes: "Something about this woman defied a traditional chick-at-a-glance inventory." It gets worse: When Noah notices that a few strands of Molly's hair have fallen out of place, Beck tells us, "these liberated chestnut curls framed a handsome face made twice as radiant by the mysteries surely waiting just behind those light green eyes."

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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."

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

So, is this the new Turner Diaries to the RW whackos?

[mix]

1. Tomorrow?

What kinda chicken shit tells you they're gonna kick your ass...tomorrow?

:rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

7. "I luvs you tomorrow. You're always a day away." - Annie American

"And you anti-American Homelanders can stay a big fat day away."
- Annie American

[YOY]

2. I love their little "Big Gubmint" whine...

While the real government is owned pretty much by the corporations.

Fucking tools who wouldn't know the real enemy if it held a gun to their guns.

[meegbear]

3. "Don't tease the panther" ...

An exclusive look at Glenn Beck's The Overton Window

[blogslut]

6. I'm submitting that sentence for a 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Award.

I've got some rules, too, and rule number one is, don't tease the panther.

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

[MineralMan]

4. Beck writes a "heaving bosom" romance, except that

it's the male hero's bosom that's heaving.

Excuse me. Now, I'm heaving. :puke:

[murielm99]

5. I used to be a librarian.

I wonder what the demand for this dreck will be by the library-using public. Surely some libraries will have to purchase it.

In the years that I worked for the public library, I did have one patron request the Turner Diaries. I hoped later that he did not notice my shocked expression and my stare. I told him that it was not available at any public libraries in our area. I invited him to google it at one of our computers so that he could purchase it somewhere.

[MicaelS]

8. About 20 years ago, I borrowed the Turner Diaries

Through the Fort Worth Public Library Inter-Library Loan. IIRC, it came from a library in W. Texas. I wanted to see what all the fuss was, and read it as quickly as possible.

My reaction afterwards was "Hitler and George Lincoln Rockwell would have loved it."

[murielm99]

9. I didn't even check interlibrary loan.

I was not going to lift a finger for this redneck. I had never seen him in my life, and I think I would have had to issue him a library card before I would have been able to loan him anything.

I suspect that our system could have found it out of state. I remember getting books from as far away as Colorado. (I live in Illinois). My behavior was against all librarian codes of conduct. It was one of the few times I ever did anything like that.