Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
- ISBN13: 9781416595014
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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FUNNY.FRIGHTENING.TRUE.It happens to all of us: You’re minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.Just go away! you think to yourself — but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can’t get away. Your only hope is……this book.Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York … More >>
Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
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Kristofer Felton said :
March 11, 2010 at 12:03 am
How can anyone take this book seriously when there is a distinct typographical mistake right on the cover? It should be completely obvious that the “R” in “Arguing” is facing the wrong direction. I can not understand how any serious and scholarly writer or editor allowed a glaring mistake of this sort to grace the cover of a nationally distributed work. How can I find reason to continue into this tome if such basic and rudimentary checks are not made? Imagine being handed a copy of “Moby Duck” or “A Tale of Two Kitties.” Laughable animal allusions aside, it is and would be difficult to remain seriously detached from the aforementioned textual blunders. Such is the case with Mr. Beck’s most recent volume of political discourse exactly. No reader can or will ever be able to disassociate Mr. Beck’s content from presentation. Would the Mona Lisa be as beautifully perplexing if it was painted with canine excrement? I do not wish to imply that Mr. Beck’s work is an example of scatological artistry, but the analogy seems apt. Perhaps the second pressing will correct the matter.
Rating: 1 / 5
Robert D. Hodson Jr. said :
March 11, 2010 at 1:24 am
I was really surprised to see this on the shelves. I flipped through this and found it to be completely incomprehensible to someone like me who does not watch any television at all, let alone Mr. Beck. I guess it doesn’t matter either way, but I was surprised to see an actual book with lots of words printed with Beck’s audience obviously in mind. Since when did they start putting the remote down and picking up books?
Rating: 1 / 5
Mick McAllister said :
March 11, 2010 at 3:34 am
Glenn Beck’s show is the NASCAR of television commentary: People watch in hopes of seeing an accident. It’s one of the crazies they loved on Jerry Springer with his own show. And they can yell with him, hate with him, dance around the fire with him, then go lynch a liberal… not noticing that Beck stayed back at the station.
I’ve been puzzling over the title and cover, trying to figure out what excuse for sanity would explain a fundie “patriot” dressing up in a Nazi uniform and scowling like an overweight adolescent couch potato. Then I looked through the book, which is essentially a picture book for his fellow travelers. It’s even printed on childproof 100-lb stock. Then I got it. When he says “arguing with idiots” he means like “dancing with stars” or “playing with big boys.” Here I had thought he meant with idiots as adversaries. It’s actually a call-out, arguing on the same side as idiots. Duh.
The fact that Amazon is puffing his book as “recommended” (for what? you can’t compost glossy paper) is just one more example of the 1984 madness of conservative sloganeering, which bellyaches constantly about the non-existent liberal (meaning ‘literate’) media. Meantime, Barnes and Noble is hiding (or simply not stocking) True Compass and declaring this flushing a “best seller.” Sigh. Beck will eventually disappear into his own surgically altered echo chamber. Meantime, if you are interested in his “book,” thumb through it at the supermarket. It’ll be with the “Idiot’s Guide to Counting your Change.”
Note: The comments gabble at me because I reviewed the book without buying it. For a giggle, read the five-star reviews and figure out how many were written by people who read the book. I spent a quarter hour looking through Beck’s reverse Rorschach in a grocery store. It is a seething tirade, a ugly blend of Torrett’s and ADD. As for facts: Beck’s idea of liberal-destroying facts is pointing out that Barbara Streisand has a big nose. After all, this is the man who claims John D. Rockefeller was a Communist. Someone should explain to Beck’s idiots that writing it down doesn’t make it a fact.
And finally, in regard to name-calling by Liberals: I won’t ask rhetorically if you are serious, but I’d like to point out that Beck and his “patriot” horde have no trouble calling names. They’ve been calling us traitors, queers, and cowards and worse for years. Come on, what’s the third word in the book title? (Hint: It comes after “with.”)
Rating: 1 / 5
Tony Pipia said :
March 11, 2010 at 6:31 am
Rut Roh, “Jeremy Spoke in Class Again.”
“Team Rodeo Clown” strikes again by cropping the scholarship of others into an ersatz rendition of George Shultz’s “Peanuts.” (Pictures and all.)
No sense in reinventing the wheel, right Butter Cup?
Just “stand on the shoulders of giants and take the next step.”
In the case of Team Rodeo Clown, though, this is a useful and necessary step backward.
“Arguing With Idiots” is an appropriate and important cut-and-paste for the class of Adult Discarded Accessory Children (see ADAC Anonymous) of government school Obtuseler Youth who have reached dangerous and critical mass.
(See Jay Leno’s, “Man on the Street,” Team Rodeo Clown’s “Moron Trivia,”or Paul Rahe’s, “Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift.”)
I’m glad somebody finally interrupted the `Bread and Circus’ fixations of sports fans, spendaholics and videogame addicts.
Lets just hope they can all stay focused and that this awakening is not too late.
If this art fosters an interest for deeper comprehension, detoxing fans can peek at Team Backbenchers’ (sometimes ignored) primary sources.
Here are some of the “Honorable Unmentioned” that you will not find in the chronologically horizontal and cumbersome indices.
Robert Bork
Lynne Cheney
Ann Coulter
Dinesh D’Souza
M. Stanton Evans
Jonah Goldberg
Christina Hoff-Sommers
Christopher C. Horner
Mark Levin
John R. Lott
Dick Morris
Charles Murray
Alvin J. Schmidt
Rating: 4 / 5
Moderate American Man said :
March 11, 2010 at 7:34 am
Unable to get thru even a quarter of this without wanting slam my head into a wall at the vast right wing idiocy on display. Arguing with idiots indeed…
Rating: 1 / 5