Glenn Beck publishes another sacred turd

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Glenn Beck publishes another sacred turd

Postby Xenu » Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:49 pm

From Amazon's description of his new book. I've bolded the fun part.

In this appraisal of America's woes, conservative TV and talk-radio host Beck (The Real America) lays lighthearted siege to everything that makes the world worse. [P]olitical correctness is the biggest threat this nation faces today, he declares, as it makes us prey for Islamic fundamentalists, renders taboo the roots of our economic troubles (poor people are, in fact, lazy, he argues) and creates rampant distortion in the media. Beck goes paragraph for paragraph with global-warming alarmist Al Gore, merrily slaughtering the sacred cows of the environmentalist crowd. Not sated by the hide of the former vice president, he goes after everything and everyone from poverty to perverts, offering solutions to these and other problems (e.g., the key to success in the capitalist system is to believe in it). While often informative, as in his chapter on global warming, Beck is sometimes tedious, particularly when dealing with Islam and education (France is literally teetering on the edge, and our biggest ally, England, is about to be turned inside out as well). He's at his best when most absurd, and funniest when he's his own target (the father of four is little more than a flesh-and-bone jungle gym). This should make a good read for conservatives. (Nov.)


Wow! Capitalism, like Tinkerbell, works best if you just close your eyes and believe! Poor people aren't just lazy; they want to kill Tink!
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Postby Bennett Cerf » Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:51 pm

[P]olitical correctness is the biggest threat this nation faces today, he declares


WTF? I thought the gay agenda was the biggest threat this nation faces today.

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Postby Rspaight » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:21 pm

"Political correctness" = Calling out conservatives for being stupid bigots

"merrily slaughtering the sacred cows of the environmentalist crowd" = providing rationalization for continuing uncontrolled consumption

He's at his best when most absurd, and funniest when he's his own target (the father of four is little more than a flesh-and-bone jungle gym).


If that's the "funniest" stuff in the book, it sounds like a dreary read indeed.

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Postby Xenu » Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:56 pm

Flesh and bone jungle gym...sounds like the training ground for the gay agenda warriors!
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