Glenn Beck to publish a novel

[Martinus]

Beck novel depicts America sliding into civil war

Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has indicated that his novel, due out in June, will portray America in the throes of civil war. In a recent appearance before about 8,000 supporters in Orlando, Fla., Beck described the book as "a story of America at a time much like today where the people are confused and they're being lied to," according to Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News, who attended Beck's American Revival event.

Bunch reported that Beck told the gathering the story depicts the rise of a citizen's organization called the Founders Keepers, "a group of people that just won't give up." What follows, Beck said, is "a battle and a civil war, and life is upside-down planetwide."

On its Amazon page, the book is titled "The Overton Window." Beck offered insight into his inspiration for the title on a Fox appearance during which he mentioned the book by a slightly different name: "We Are Americans: The Overton Window." The term Overton Window refers to a theory developed by Joe Overton, a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, in which political ideas move in and out of a window of public acceptability.

The storyline of the novel has prompted some in the blogosphere to worry that Beck is inciting civil insurrection. As he told the crowd in Orlando, "If we don't face the truth right now, we'll be dead in five years -- this country can't survive." He also advised his listeners to stockpile food, saying: "I am incredibly prepared."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/04/beck_novel_depicts_america_sli.html

What a loon

[Syt]

So ultimately all the fearmongering and madness he spouts on his program was a sales pitch for his novel? The man's a genius!

[Kleves]

The South shall fall again!

[DisturbedPervert]

Can't decide between this and the Newt Gingrich alternate history novels

[jimmy olsen]

Can't decide between this and the Newt Gingrich alternate history novels

Pick the latter, Grant saves the day and the North wins.

[Martinus]

History-inspired idiosyncracies must be one of the weirdest "folie a mille" types of delusions nations (or parts of them) suffer from.

One can have otherwise completely well adjusted and educated individuals (not saying Glenn Beck is one) who follow totally idiotic interpretations of historical facts. It would be funny if it wasn't so volatile.

[Razgovory]

I am ready and willing to sign up as one of Obama's commissars.

[Eddie Teach]

The South shall fall again!

More like the teabaggers who are from all regions of the country(i.e. you) would fall.

[Martinus]

I am ready and willing to sign up as one of Obama's commissars.

Would you send Princesca to a gulag?

[Razgovory]

I am ready and willing to sign up as one of Obama's commissars.

Would you send Princesca to a gulag?

Nah, I'm looking more of a General Blokhin type job.

[Caliga]

Beck stockpiles food because he's a Mormon, and all Mormons do that.  It's a sacrament or a mitzvah or something.

[Caliga]

Would you send Princesca to a gulag?

Her infatuation with Glenn Beck and these Tea Party loons annoys me.

Hilariously, she still tries to maintain that she's "not a conservative", despite recently changing her party affiliation to Republican so she could vote for Rand Paul in the Kentucky primary.

[Razgovory]

Beck stockpiles food because he's a Mormon, and all Mormons do that.  It's a sacrament or a mitzvah or something.

That because Mormons await the day they can revive the Nauvoo legion form the Theodemocracy.

[Grallon]

Would you send Princesca to a gulag?

Her infatuation with Glenn Beck and these Tea Party loons annoys me.

Is that why she no longer comes here?  Or did she get tired of our shennannigans?




G.

[Caliga]

Nah, I'm really not sure why she stopped posting, though she lurks from time to time, which I know because about once every couple weeks she'll mention some thread she was reading.