Unlimited "Glenn Beck is a nutter" thread

[Lord Quantum]

is technology, progressive?

YES!

[Iason Ouabache]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006110032

The opening lines of Glenn Beck's yet-to-be-released novel, The Overton Window, read as follows: "Most people think about age and experience in terms of years, but it's really only moments that define us."

In a quirk of convenience, this line also describes the best way to deconstruct The Overton Window, a copy of which Media Matters obtained and read -- nay, devoured -- with great relish. As we slogged through its many plot holes, ridiculous narrative devices, and long-winded limited-government sermonizing passed off as dialogue, we singled out ten moments that define The Overton Window as the truly and remarkably awful novel that it is.

First, a quick summation of the plot, such as it is. The protagonist, Noah Gardner, works for an impossibly powerful public relations firm in Manhattan that has been the driving force behind pretty much every political and cultural movement of the 20th century. Their latest and grandest scheme is the culmination of a lengthy plot to change the United States into some sort of ill-defined progressive plutocracy, and the catalyst for this change is a nuclear explosion that will occur outside the home-state office of "the current U.S. Senate majority leader," which happens to be at the same address as Harry Reid's Las Vegas offices. The nuclear attack is to be blamed on the Founders Keepers, a Tea Party-like group -- led by Noah's love interest, Molly Ross -- that is working to foil the plot.

1. Rule number one is: "Don't tease the panther"

Noah and Molly find themselves in bed together early in the book after a harrowing experience at a Founders' Keepers rally. They agree to sleep in bed together because Molly is too scared to sleep at home, but Molly insists that nothing sexual will take place. Noah agrees, on the condition that she "not do anything sexy." She presses her cold feet against his legs, and Noah responds:

    "Suit yourself, lady. I'm telling you right now, you made the rules, but you're playing with fire here. I've got some rules, too, and rule number one is, don't tease the panther."

[Juana]

Wow. Fucking wow. 

[Freeky]

  Those excerpts were pretty bad. 

[Requia ☣]

I still can't decide if Beck is trolling or not.

[Iason Ouabache]

OMG!! There's an ad for it too!!!

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-becks-overton-window-ad-try-no



He has to be trolling us!

[Freeky]

Okay, that poem got ganked from somewhere, I just cannot for the life of me remember where.

I think I read it here on PD.

[Requia ☣]

God's of the Copybook headings.  It's a Kipling.

[Chairman Risus]

Calling the book the Overton Window has to be a shot at how ridiculous the right has become, right? I cannot think of another reason to title it that.

[Requia ☣]

No, the book is about a leftist conspiracy to move the Overton Window.

[Freeky]

God's of the Copybook headings.  It's a Kipling.

Oh sweet thanks.

[the last yatto]

I still can't decide if Beck is trolling or not.

 assumes Founder Keepers is referencing to 'the Finders' a pagan cabal rumored to run the government

[Iason Ouabache]

No, the book is about a leftist conspiracy to move the Overton Window.

Ironic considering how much the right used 9/11 to move the Overton Window waaaay to the right.

[Requia ☣]

Thats part of what makes me think he's trolling.

[Cain]

http://feeds.wonkette.com/click.phdo?i=577bd862b7c0072b957b3554e6ab7e47

OMG, you guys, Glenn Beck is dying! At least we think so, as he is very cryptic about it. He got all teary and such on his radio show today, and while that's pretty much an every-second occurrence for him, this time he seemed resigned to the fact that he will die or something soon. No, sorry, we heard that wrong: "What is happening to me mentally is not a depression, is not a death, it is a transformation," he said, because Mormons don't actually die, they just transform, like in those Animorphs books. But the word "mentally" in that gives us pause, because maybe it just means Glenn Beck is finally realizing he should trust his doctors when they say he's insane. Holy Shutter Islandz!

What is this theory? Someone injured his soul? What the hell is he talking about? Did Dana Milbank get in the Magic School Bus, drive into Glenn Beck's body, and take home a piece of his soul?

"I have been drinking that poison," Glenn Beck also said, after announcing doctors were looking for toxins in his body. What?

Yeah, we're gonna say Dana Milbank is murdering Glenn Beck. But Fox News is an equal-opportunity employer, so they will still pay Ghost Beck to host a show after he dies. No big deal! Don't cry about it! Ghostbusters don't exist, Glenn!

Or if Glenn Beck is not dying, he will probably get to hang out with Margaret Thatcher at the dementia palace, transforming at will into snakes and puppies and penguins. Still fun!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/glenn-beck-reveals-hell-undergo-medical-tests-for-combination-of-problems/