Here is a strange thing your Wonkette had not heard about, because Glenn Beck whatever: the television child has a new novel coming out this summer. Give him credit, he admits it’s fiction this time. He has bizarrely named it The Overton Window, a political science term that we REALLY DON’T WANT to hear about for the next year after Glenn Beck mass-markets it and (in all likelihood) claims that it’s not the exact illustration of how Republicanism made the world insane over the past 30 years. Anyway you can choose the cover, YAY. Here are a couple of options, the naked monster vs. the three cocks. [Glenn Beck]
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Looks more like Overton’s Back Window.
Are the crayons included?
Hey, grab a copy while you can. This is the new “Turner Diaries,” and is 100 percent guaranteed to produce a terrorist attack within ten years of publication. So, collectible!
Who is Glenn Galt?
Hard to decide. They both look like Mormon pamphlets.
Oh, heck — Gotta go with the the warrior guy one.
Glenn Beck is all about taking inside memes and subverting them to make a clever political point. Thus, the sequel: “The Goatse Window.”
Needs moar phallic symbols.
Needz moar Fabio
i’ve seen the galley proofs. it’s ghost-written by sarah palin.
Will it be stocked in supermarkets or Barnes & Ignoble?
If it’s in the supermarkets — to make sure the reader cries the same crocodile tears as Glen or Glenda — will it be stocked next to the onions or the Vicks Vap-O-Rub?
Is Beck trying to act all smart pants now with using a fancy term for a book title? This is right after he invites a bunch of college kids on his show and tries to act like that professor who wanted to hang out with his students and ‘rap’ with them. I think Beck secretly wants to be a junior professor teaching political science at the local community college. This would explain many things.
Do we also get to choose the pictures for the pages themselves? Or is he just doing those on his blackboard?
A title that stupid can only mean that the entire book will be about explaining the acid trip context that allows it to be anything other than terminology for the GOP’s hijacking of public debate.
Beck’s site is a wealth of info:
You know who doesn’t think co2 is a pollutant? PLANTS.
Also, actual proof Obama is a Socialist or at least a red diaper baby.
Those make me feel so Ayn Randy.
Is it me, or do these look like rejects from cover samples for Atlas Shrugged?
If there’s an Overton window that lies between Mormonism and Scientology, either of those covers is going to push readers right through it.
Has Beck signed on to continue L Ron Hubbard‘s body of work?
Politcal theory made exciting by a Manbabypig!
I’m actually partial to Obfuscator’s masterful “Bowl of Dicks” as a suitable cover.
Looks like Megan McCain’s book has some competition. (Has she written that yet?)
It needs cheetos on the cover somewhere…maybe some fake crumbs or something.
The first image looks like it’s from a fantasy novel; and I shudder to think what the fake crier would do with elves and hobbits.
Hopefully he’ll do some other expensive live readings that no-one sees and actually ends up losing him money, like with Tthe Christmas Sweater.
[re=555150]montyburns4prez[/re]: Oh no no. Not “junior professor,” as that would indicate someone with tenure possibility. Beckster is all adjunct, all the time. Hell, he’d be lucky enough to be called “Instructor.”
“A Thriller”? So Beck is writing fiction intentionally now? The mind boggles.
[re=555174]mustardman[/re]: and some oil spots for ‘transparency’..
[re=555161]XOhioan[/re]: [re=555162]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: Beck will probably prove to be as good a writer as Ayn Rand. Of course, my pregnant cousin’s embryo is a better writer than Rand.
Somewhere, a ghostwriter is has just learned the exact cost a soul fetches.
I hear it comes with a recording so you can move your lips along with Glenn.
[re=555142]chascates[/re]: Sarah Palin could govern Glenn’s Gulch, until she quits again…
“The Overton Window 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.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Tune in for Beck’s next book “The More Stupid You Are, The More Money You’ll Give Me”.
Easy to see why Beckard would be in love with the overton window, “The discussion of the Overton Window is completely abstracted from Reality.” Just like his whole shtick is abstracted from reality!
Is this about Doug Overton, former backup point guard for the Washington Bullets?
Check out the street view for Overton, Tennessee on Google Maps. Beck Country!
[re=555185]ph7[/re]: Oh, come on. On a project like this, the poor guy’s sanity is on the negotiating table too.
[re=555185]ph7[/re]: Nice.
The official online store of Overton’s – Launching Life on the Water since 1976. Watersports and marine accessories. Deal of the Week: Poolmate Admiral Lounge Pool Float. Regularly $49.99, Special $39.99.
Dr. Gene Scott – brains = Glenn Beck
[re=555164]One Yield Regular[/re]: There’s barely enough space to squeeze a child-size glory hole between Mormonism and Scientology, let alone something as big as a peepshow booth window.
[re=555172]SmutBoffin[/re]: Ms. McCain’s upcoming book is titled The Drive-Thru Window: A Filler, and it’s set to hit Happy Meals mid-May.
[re=555202]norbizness[/re]: No, but when I lived in Washington, I once dug some bullets out of the awning over my front window.
If the writing’s anything like this Beck’s Soulmate post I peeked at, we can expect to see the phrase “deathless prose” in any legit reviews.
I think it’s ought [sic] on newsstands today, the cover. And it starts with the opening line of, I could give a flying crap about politics.
Three cocks is enough to make Glenn airtight, no?
If you’re a rightwing nut you are guaranteed huge amounts of sales from rightwing nut outfits bulk buying your crappy book. Which is not exactly competing fairly in the marketplace of ideas, or books.
Kind of how they do with affirmative action (Justice Thomas, Michael Steele), perhaps this is their way of proving themselves right about socialism?
Just thinking, isn’t this a little meta-ironic for Beck? It’s almost as if he is thumbing his nose at something.
I voted for the one that made me think…
Scantily Clad Gay Giants Will Attack NY & Cause Apocalypse
The Overton Window? Could I have purchased this at Lowe’s? Is it double pane and high efficiency? Ah phukit, I just purchased about 6K worth of Andersons.
I will just wait for his Overton Door.
BTW: I vote for the warrior. The other cover is just too Anti-American and thrice phall-icky.
How much do you wanna bet the cover will have raised letters and a picture of him with a dog on the back.
Have the cover printed with a “Now Only $3.98″ sticker, will save the publisher a lot of time later on. Better yet, ship books directly to the pulp mill.
Needs moar tears.
Fatlass Shrugged
Option 2: But eeds 3 more vaginas
“NEEDS” more vagaygays!
[re=555329]Luke Warm[/re]: ..him & his wife.
[re=555141]Lazy Media[/re]: Not to mention the gun-crazy book Unintended Consequences, which has a wonderful cover illustration of Lady Justice getting teh rape from a BATF agent.
Army of Darkness II
That does it–next time someone asks me what my college major was, I am lying and saying history. The mere thought that anyone might think my studies had anything to do with any of Beck’s interests makes me want to crawl through a window…no, not that one…
Here’s what I love with my heart about the internet. Wonkette can talk about a book, and not one person who reads about that book will buy the fucker. Not one.
needs moar gold
Aha, the Overton Window. Very clever technique for manipulating public opinion. And naturally the best way to use the Overton Window is to not tell people that’s what you’re doing, hence Beck never mentioning it. Oh wait…
Also Overton, Texas housed the ‘official’ headquarters of the Republic of Texas separatist wackos.
Coincidence?????
Hmmm, so my choices are “Gay” and “Moar Gay”?
The Overaton Window is the one they cut in the side of a teabagger’s house so they can remove his/her corpse with a crane.
I think Glenn’s definition of “thriller” is going to disappoint. I do, however, look forward to snarky reviews of said “thriller”!
I, for one, look forward to Beck’s sequel, The Uncanny Valley, in which the author seems almost lifelike.
“stretching the window to the extreme”, huh? i’ll go with the goatse.
These are the choices? What’s the matter, could they not find a picture of Gleck weeping like a huge middle-aged baby, as he does from time to time to mark such occasions as the end of a sentence? That should be a pretty good illustration of this “Overton Window,” whatever the hell it is (since, apparently, some wiseass already thought of “Manufacturing Consent”).
[re=555516]Allyson[/re]: If your college major was *anything*, you shouldn’t worry about being compared to Gleck. Apparently he got into Yale through a program for “non-traditional students” (meaning, not the smart kind) and took ONE class, “Early Christianity.” He immediately dropped out when they told him that Jeebus didn’t ride a dinosaur. And that was the whole extent of his fancy-pants ‘leetist schoolin’ — paid for, as it should be, by commie muslin libruls.
At least Ayn Rand gave us women into kinky sex. I highly doubt that Beck will give us anything quite so interesting.
Glenn Beck wrote a novel based on the Kinsey Report, is what I gather from that link.
[re=555678]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: what kind of kinky sex was Ayn Rand into? Jerking off while watching someone die of a preventable disease?
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