Glenn Beck, how novel...

[Prolescum]

I'm loathed to post this in the literature section, but it is apparently a novel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/13/glenn-beck-overton-window-obama

He has a radio show that is the toast of conservative America and his extremist rants accusing President Barack Obama of being anti-white and a closet socialist have made him a star on Fox News. His speaking tours sell out like a rock star's and his published political diatribes are bestsellers.

Now Glenn Beck, loved by the right and loathed by the left, is promoting his anti-government conspiracy theories in a most unexpected branch of the arts: the novel. This week will see the publication of The Overton Window, Beck's near-future thriller that reads like a Tea Party activist's dark fantasy of brave patriots fighting for America against their own freedom-squashing government.

Judging by an audio excerpt of Beck's prose released last week, the book has no pretensions to the highbrow. Here is Beck introducing his hero: "He had spent a full decade building what most guys would call an outstanding record of success with the ladies. Good looking, great job"¦ Noah had all the credentials for a killer eHarmony profile." Noah's love interest is described as "hot, but it was an aloof and effortless hotness that almost double-dared you to bring it up".

Some people see Beck's entry into the literary world as worrying. There is a long tradition of stirring political debate via fiction that ranges from literary greats like George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm to underground tracts like the racist Turner Diaries, which described a race war in America and inspired the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh. The Overton Window is playing directly to conservative fears of big government and the loss of US power and the nation's way of life. "This whole nuttiness that the government is this big, bad thing that is against the people is becoming more common. This book feeds that paranoia," said Professor Jim Corcoran, an expert on far-right groups in America at Simmons College, Boston.

If anyone buys a copy, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

 

[Lallapalalable]

why is he allowed to talk?

I think he should be the exception to the first amendment.

 

[Aught3]

What do they mean loathed by the left? While Glenn Beck is the spokesman for right-leaning Americans the left knows there are no intellectual challenges to its position.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

What do they mean loathed by the left? While Glenn Beck is the spokesman for right-leaning Americans the left knows there are no intellectual challenges to its position.

He's loathed because he's advocating for sedition and treason. Since American progressives actually like America and respect its laws, we have a real issue with him and his supporters and their clear hatred for American values and principles.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Here's a bit about the novel:
Don't tease the panther!!!