Vote For The Cover Of Glenn Beck's New Book!

[BlooInBloo]

I'm with Digby - this one is theshit! :rofl:



(I thought it was a joke at first too, so you're in good company, fellow reader.)

Linking directly to Beck's site is probably a bad idea, So I'll link to digby, who links to the site, if you wanna see the other candidate covers.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/muscle-skirts.html

[and-justice-for-all]

1. Did he write a forward in Mein Kampf? nt

[Donnachaidh]

2. Hey Joey - Do you like movies about gladiators???

LOVE that link at Digby. And he's right -- WTF is it with pukes and musclebound men in mini-skirts? :rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

3. I lol'd at that. And then was sad thinking of Peter Graves' recent death.

:(

[Donnachaidh]

5. we watched Airplane last night - watching 2 tonight.

He's probably still giggling over those classic lines.

[BlooInBloo]

8. Nice montage on youtube I just saw btw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CMSyr9zr1I&feature=related

Very nice.

[Wraith20878]

11. There was one sword and sandal epic that they didn't like

The 1960 Kirk Douglass epic "Spartacus" based on the Howard Fast novel

[Donnachaidh]

15. because of the bath scene?

Spartacus is a great movie.

[Wraith20878]

16. That scene

and the fact that Fast was a communist, and the film used some Black listed writers. Great movie and a great book.

[guitar man]

4. I vote for this one

[YOY]

6. Lemme guess...set in a horrible world taken over by liberals...

Why didn't we listen to the scratchings of a chalk scribbling alcoholic Catholic convert to Mormonism with a High School level of education and the ability to summon tears on command...

[guitar man]

10. The Oligarhy!!

The Oligarhy!1!!1!

[rurallib]

7. I like the one with all the erections.

[chollybocker]

9. Homoerotic, much?

;)

Can't wait to hear how he mangles the Overton Window theory. Many lolz to be had.

[zbdent]

12. I thought I ran across a Glenn Beck book ...

but then I realized I had just followed my dog too closely, and wasn't paying attention to where I put my foot ...

damn, now I have to clean my shoe ...

[RamboLiberal]

13. Ahh his new work of fiction

I voted for the cover in the OP cause it's so damn stupid looking.

Here's details on the book.

Will Bunch has the name of Glenn Beck’s upcoming adult novel (he’s already written a Christmas story for children) to be released in June. The news comes in Bunch’s extremely entertaining report on a Beck speech and rally in Orlando. The book, explains Bunch, will be “‘a story of America in a time much like today where the people are confused,’ with a government in crisis and the rise of a citizens’ group called the Founders Keepers, which ‘leads to a battle and a civil war, and life is upside-down planetwide.’”

On first blush it sounds like “Atlas Shrugged” with a bit more violence, and with 9-12 Tea Partiers taking the place of underground intellectuals. And it will also ruin for all time a term political scientists have enjoyed and Beck recently discovered. (In that clip, an early title for the book is “We Are Americans: The Overton Window.”)

http://washingtonindependent.com/80738/glenn-becks-new-novel-the-overton-window

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

I wonder if it's not a cleaned up Turner Diaries?

[RamboLiberal]

14. Here's how Wikipedia describes the term Overton Window

The Overton window is a concept in political theory, named after its originator, Joe Overton, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. It describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on an issue.

Details
Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique relies on people promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous "outer fringe" ideas. That makes those old fringe ideas look less extreme, and thereby acceptable. The idea is that priming the public with fringe ideas intended to be and remain unacceptable, will make the real target ideas seem more acceptable by comparison.

The degrees of acceptance of public ideas can be described roughly as:

Unthinkable
Radical
Acceptable
Sensible
Popular
Policy

The Overton Window is a means of visualizing which ideas define that range of acceptance by where they fall in it, and adding new ideas that can push the old ideas towards acceptance merely by making the limits more extreme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window