WaPo's review of Glenn Beck's new book "The Overton Window"

[seabelle]

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

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."

What a surprise, huh?  The above was the last paragraph of the review and all that was missing was "teabagger" 

[JohnnyReb]

Only leftist are allowed to write about revolution.

[zeitgeist]

Only leftist are allowed to write about revolution.

How about a wispering campaign that it was Ghost written by Bill Ayers.

[Duke Nukum]

downloading the audible version now.

[NHSparky]

I wonder how they'd react to the wise words of Ronaldus Maximus..."Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Damn teabagger Reagan.

[seabelle]

Glenn Beck just wrote this on his Facebook page.....

I feel pretty bad for Steve Levingston of the Washington Post. He soooo clearly wants to be an author, but, it seems, he just doesn’t have the talent. So, instead, he’s become a critic—and a pretty bad one at that. I don’t say that simply because he didn’t like my new book, The Overton Window, I say that because his... review of it makes absolutely no sense. Instead of criticizing my ideas or the way I develop the plot, he latches onto the idea that this book is…wait for it…DANGEROUS to the country! Yes, that’s right, according to this hack, this novel is “an extended call to arms, a rallying cry to his angry foot soldiers long stirred by his rantings on Fox News.”

Levingston says this book won't be a success until it's "found tucked into the ammo boxes of self-proclaimed patriots" and that the level of its success can only be measured by how much it "incites...anti-government extremists." I would normally be worried, but I quickly remembered one important thing: There is nothing a WaPo book critic understands less than how to define success.

Enjoy the review and try not to be TOO offended by his inference that all of you are basically domestic terrorists.

[Alpha Mare]

Touche! Mr. Beck.

[PatriotGame]

I wonder....how much would ACORN charge to bomb Levingston's home?
Think about it...

paging William Ayres....

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So what are these movies like Enemy of the State, Lions to Lambs, Valley of Elah, Green Zone, Rendition, Fahrenheit 911, 3 Days of the Condor, Network, Stop Loss, Jar Head, the Jason Bourne series, Sniper, etc etc etc?

Don't those feed into leftist fantasies?

[Duke Nukum]

So what are these movies like Enemy of the State, Lions to Lambs, Valley of Elah, Green Zone, Rendition, Fahrenheit 911, 3 Days of the Condor, Network, Stop Loss, Jar Head, the Jason Bourne series, Sniper, etc etc etc?

Don't those feed into leftist fantasies?

It isn't about the message.  It is never about the message.  It is all about the messenger.