Reviewing Glenn Beck's Garbage Novel, The Overton Window
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This is one of Glenn Beck’s seven (!) novels. Honestly I regret choosing this one because the Santa/Jesus crossover book sounds so much more amusing. That said, I’m pretty sure the Christmas ones are much worse. This one has a sequel, The Eye of Moloch, which I may get around to some day, but I’m in no rush. From what it sounds like, it was actually the second half of this story, which explains why it ends so suddenly. There was also a stage production of this book. It was done ironically though, so I figured I could skip it.
I was disheartened to learn how little of his books Glenn actually writes. I think that’s what kept is from getting into some really awful crap. Ultimately it’s not as bad as Ben Shapiro’s novel because of that. And that was disappointing.
I added some context for people unfamiliar with who Glenn Beck was/is, and why he still matters today. Some of the history may not be exact, and I may have played down the racist elements of the Tea Party movement, but the important part is how it shaped politics today. Acting like a giant weight against progress.
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Glen "government is bad, but cops are great" Beck.
This is the neoliberal position. By small government, the neolibs don't mean weak. They want a government so trimmed down and strong that it can ignore the will of the people. The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Democracy) argued that democracy had gone too far in the West. Full text here: archive.org/stream/TheCrisisOfDemocracy-TrilateralCommission-1975/crisis_of_democracy_djvu.txt
Anyway, the neoliberals want the government to be boiled down to just police and military, national and international police forces. Or as Thomas L. Friedman puts it in “A Manifesto for the Fast World,” published in the New York Times, March 28,1999, and is available online: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist-McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
That's neoconservative, you say. Same thing. There were no neolibs left after 9/11. They all became neocons, including Christopher Hitchens. As Hitchens put it, "I once tried to calculate how long the post-Cold War liberal Utopia had actually lasted." Or as the Swedish neoliberal-cum-neoconservative newspaper Expressen put it in 2001: "The neoliberal laissez-faire mentality of the 1990s was a short parenthesis [in history]."
How come corporations are never corrupt in these conservative novels? I wouldn't be surprised if a conservative Superman comic cast Lex Luthor as a job creator and Superman as the unwitting villain. Conservatives have a tendency to be backwards and see things in an opposite light, so why not?
It's like: "Superman means well but he's a libtard who sees things as they should be instead of how they are." I can see that line being used in a conservative Superman novel or comic.
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 Of course they would put superman as the villain. He's an illegal immigrant.
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 Superman is also definitely an SJW. I mean, Justice League? Come on. They're not even hiding it.
That's pretty much the position of the entire right. Same thing with the military.
I like that the security guard didn’t notice that Molly wasn’t Natalie Portman but knows Natalie Portman is Jewish. This guy knows so much and so little at the same time
Chinta K maybe he has face blindness but knows all Natalie Portman facts.
Also, the droids reference is so basic that it wouldn't solve anything towards finding out if she's Portman or not.
@@The116thDoctor Hah, yup. Face blindness, the most useful trait in any security job....
Chinta K As if Star Wars fan tsa mall cop wouldn’t trip over himself trying to impress a girl by sneering at her that AKSHULLY amidala doesn’t have force powers and that’s obi wan’s line...
B C you get what you pay for
"Molly seduced Noah by dressing up as his dead mother." That's gonna be a YIKES from me, dawg.
Even the ghost of Siegmund Freud would sigh and go “Jesus Christ” after hearing that
I think he forgot the "sub" part of "subtext".
@@JackgarPrime
"I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards"
hey i mean beck knows a milf when he writes one
At least Oedipus stabbed his eyes out when he realised it was his mother he was banging.
"Don't tease the panther" - Chaddy McConservative flirting
60% of the time it works every time.
that one line made me a virgin again
MEOW MEOW IMMA KITTY.
@Plushypony 94 Dryer than the entirety of Mars.
There's nothing wrong with a man crying.
There is something wrong with someone fake crying in a laughably bad manner in an attempt to emotionally manipulate others.
Getting laid after saying "Don't tease the panther," will be the next internet challenge.
I think the real challenge is escaping the cops after saying "don't tease the panther"
@@siriuslywastaken especially after you say *panther*
Oh, no, that last one is easy. There's a community for everyone, and furries are very accepting people!
... Not sure I'd want to inflict someone like Noah on them though.
Conservatives: "Women can't lead. They're too emotional"
Also Conservatives...
"Alex Jones is a plant to make other conspiracy theorists look stupid" is my favorite conspiracy theory.
The funniest thing is, with the recent news and all, it might actually have some truth to it. But more likely Jones is just a massive grifter.
Someone recently fed me “Ken Kesey was a CIA plant to keep hippies stoned so they couldn’t start a revolution, and the guys who sell nitrous at concerts are all CIA,” and it rocketed way past every hare-brained theory that came before it to become my favorite
ikr.
I honestly want that conspiracy to be true. It would turn all the troubling crazy that is info wars into the deepest and funniest satyr ever. It would convert Alex Jones from rambling psychopath to comedy genius, and then my finding him super funny would be less dark.
@@MF-R Jones literally is though, that's his whole job, same thing with the whole Q psyop, it was all designed to make real truthers look crazy
Oedipus complex... Because, of course.
Quite nice see you guys around here
@@anarquia201 We liked José before it was cool. :-)
@@KingsandGenerals Love your channel and been a subscriber for a while.
But a question, is your channel run by a single person or multiple individuals, as you used the term "We" when describing your perspective.
Love your content! Cool to see you around UA-cam as well
@@adeebibrahim6349 there is a small team :-)
Ah yes, because when there's a terrorist attack, historically, the overton window shifts to the *left* :^)
*checks Bush approval rating after 9/11*
Good point, why didn’t I think of that.
Unfortunately a lot of the fascists look at the shift not being extreme enough and then retroactively present a shift to the right that wasn't as far as they like as a shift to the left from what they want.
To be fair he says that it's to allow more goverment oversight. But doesn't mention that it's already been done. It was called the patriot act and he approved of it.
@@patrickking3124 he wishes his book had 1/100th of a story that Deus Ex had
"guns are like cookies; the best ones are homemade"
is Glenn Beck okay?
MissPronounced
But for real, name brands never get the right chip to cookie ratio. lol
No. They're not. Professionally made firearms done with precise, high-quality factory parts are better than any jury-rigged firearms. When criminals use homemade firearms it is only because they cannot get firearms in any other way.
Well, he is right about cookies, about guns, not so much. Thankfully, or the attack in Halle would have ended even worse than it did.
Okay, I am not a gun expert, but aren't the best guns made in Belgium and Germany?
@Shane Gallagher You are being WAAAYYY too generous to Glenn Beck here.
Did Glenn Beck.. invent a word because he doesn't know what "speculative fiction" is? O.O
I'm working on a new genre that takes science and constructs a fictional narrative around it. I'm calling it Fictience.
Imma write a fictional book with lots of historical figures and events... I'm naming this genre Hiction or Fictory
Been a while since I heard that word : O
Yes
'They flew ONE banner...they were two completely different banners, but they were the SAME'.
There's a word for that.
It's... "similar".
Even though they were enemies in WW2
Why do both Glenn Beck’s garbage novel and Ben Shapiro’s garbage novel end with nukes going off being framed as vaguely good things?
Starting a nuclear holocaust to own the libs
I mean, so ended ww2 and many Americans are still justifying it.
also the turner diaries end with that haha, that’s basically the nazi bible
BEcAuSe tHeY’Re COoL
I think they might be so uncreative that they literally can't think of anything bigger to end a book on, than a big bomb setting off to end their books. Thing is, they're also loony, so they took a positive spin to an event that would wrought massive death and destruction in real life.
The book is an achievement, somehow a Nuke has gone off but at the same time it feels like nothing has happened in the entire story. That is impressive.
I'm still mentally stuck on the cover page why is the statue of liberty a dude
...Glenn Beck says Trans rights?
Pretending that the statue of liberty is a woman is just part of the femoid agenda.
Like, with someone like beck, wouldn’t feminizing a notable male statue be more on brand
It seems like it's supposed to be like a "masculine protector" god analogue to the Liberty goddess, which would be hilariously pagan for an evangelical audience
@@GBrown-ql6qn evangelicals worship Mammon anyway, it's not a big leap from money praise to statue praise.
"he made the jump from CNN to Fox news" say no more
From Shitty to Super Duper Shitty!!!
@@Ramblebar i mean one of them present facts and do actual news. and one of them is known for being nutty, so i dont know if they're on equal footing of shittyness.
@Flux Incapacitator jokes on you, i never learned how to swim
"Molly seduced Noah by dressing up as his dead mother."
That's a pretty big Freudian slip for a political thriller novel.
A rare example of a literally Freudian Freudian slip
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@@DlúithLmfao
@mrnonsense1031 @twat3789 so, i know y'all's comments are very old. but. i just started the video. WHAT? where is that part 💀
I don't get Americans' reverence for their constitution. A constitution is supposed to be a living document, not unalterable holy writ. The US constitution is so old, it is barely fit for purpose.
Look up American Civil Religion. It’s just a theory, but it explains a lot of the pathologies I see in (mostly conservative) American culture.
We love our founding daddies
Pug isolation hi, how’s it going? Because you have written that, and because I’ve been cursed with literacy, you are now my arch nemesis! :) I hope you have a “good” day! :)))
It has lots of amendments
@m norton buswell 🤣 well they have those wigs because their hair fell out from fcukkng sex workers and getting syphilis, sooooo..... ya
"Don't tease the panther" is now my go-to pick up line.
Be sure to wear a chastity belt with all of the interested prospects coming your way!
@@MinisterSandman Way ahead you
I see her at the bar in a tight red dress. Smoothly sauntering over I lean up against the bar, " Hey babe. Don't tease The Panther."
'Babe' - "well would you look at the time..."
@@NyJoanzy best fan fiction and underrated comment! liked, reported, and blocked for being too hot and sizzling.
(kidding, of course).
Good luck getting laid XD
The statue of liberty is trans?? An ftm icon?? We stan
It even got a weapon to slayyy ✨ more
A LITERAL ftm icon
A torch to... wait no. Tiki torches.
...a book to criticize! There. Conscientious modern sociodemocratics.
@JoshSweetvale It would be cool and fun of you to write a comment that isn't complete gibberish
@@JoshSweetvale
What the fuck are you talking about
I love that Molly's paper was only on Episodes IV and V, not VI, where the Empire is America losing the Vietnam war.
Please, if Glen Beck watched the movies he would side with the rebels in episode 3 and never catch the political undertones in any of them.
Also too, if you watch carefully, the structure of the Empire seems to change between New Hope and ESB. (A few fans have talked about "the road not taken" regarding Vader and Palpatine (and just how much they are in charge) between the novelization of EpIV (October 1976) and the release of ESB in 1980.)
Of course, one kind of has to deduce from crumbs of info because George does not do politics well....
Lmao how have they all ended up publishing fiction
Maybe because it's an easy, sure-fire grift. My understanding is that all those garbage right-wing books end up on best sellers lists because think tanks like Heritage buy them in bulk. You make great videos, by the way, in case you or anyone else didn't know.
Because it allows them to call themselves publishers and make cash off of their audience without having to go through the amount of research one would theoretically have to go through for a nonfiction book. Here they can just throw their fantasies on to the page, no matter how stupid and nonsensical they are, and they'll at least trick a few of their audience into buying it.
I think you mean FACT-ION
@@Dorian_sapiens Thanks for the recommendation! :)
Basically everyone who has ever been on Fox News has a book. But it's usually non-fiction. No, I believe the ones who write novels are genuinely deluded. They think they have a gift to share with the world.
I enjoy Beck straight up saying he thinks the people of Puerto Rico, actually legal US citizens acording to the law, shouldn't be able to vote in elections of the country that controls them
Puerto Rico is a territory so my relatives there can’t vote
The star wars section of this video was legitimately difficult to get through, by no fault of yours.
Honestly, the thing that got me through it, besides Jose's delivery of it, was imagining the inherently comedic image of an old white Mormon dude sweating profusely in the middle of the night, trying to hide his "steamy" Natalie Portman fanfic from his wife while she looks at him like he's the most pathetic thing in the world: but he can't tell that's the case. That's the only way I can picture him writing something that embarrassing forced and obviously sexually repressed.
EDIT: That is, if it wasn't a retread from Jack's first novel...
@Alchemistmerlin "These aren't the droids you're looking for" Molly whispered, suddenly turning into Alec Guinness.
Also, is your icon from Norman McLaren's Synchromy?
What I find really cringe that I think people might not consider after the assault to their brain causing temporary confusion is that Molly wrote about the first two StarWars movies for POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Once again, conservatives only understand politics as the fantasy of good versus evil. They have a childish worldview.
“Dressed like his dead mother” *Freud intensifies*
@SIIrmax **Our** avatar, comrade.
and he's ready to create something real with Molly, giving her the polyamorous relationship she was hoping for-Molly, Noah, and *America*
That's beautiful.
I immediately thought of the Russian national anthem instead of the America's when you said that 🤣🤣
guess you could say its MOLLYgamy!
You shouldn't judge a book by its cover but...
Having the statue of liberty become a statue of Mars/Ares just leaves so much to unpack
I feel like I need ten consecutive showers after that TSA checkpoint scene.
This hurt me. The cringe was too strong.
22:00 Calling Native Americans part of the "FOREIGN HORDES" is pretty bold
It's from Bioshock, I think, it's a satire.
@@notrod5341 I wanna see someone say it with absolute conviction though, it's too insane to not be an actual racism
@@edgarcardiff7874 I'm sure if you stare hard enough into the abyss of open racists you'll find something similar. I really wouldn't recommend trying though, you won't gain anything from it
@@notrod5341 This Nietzsche guy cooked some delectable cuisine 🥶
But yeah, I'm well aware. I see it kinda like a controlled fire: racists saying this online on a 4chan board is very, very different from a politician saying it, in that the latter is harmful and should be challenged while I wanna hear the former say it for quick laughs
I commend you on finishing this. I grew up as a teen as deeply right wing, watching and reading Glenn Beck. I bought this book at the height of my belief, at a point in my life where i had all the time and energy in the world to read, and i couldnt finish this book. Now im a pan, trans, poly leftist so *shrug*
The sheer number of leftists that started off having shit like this shoved down their throat is staggering. I say this as one myself.
Wait are you me? Fellow trans pan poly leftist ❤
We could start a club lol
"Cops always know when they're being lied to, unless a hot chick flirts with them in nerd."
"I'm not a journalist," there, done. That's all you need to know about Glenn Beck.
It's interesting how like five or ten years ago, gamers hated Glen Beck because of his attacks on violent video games and now many of them have an identical political philosophy, minus the violent video games being bad part
I dont see "gamers" as being a group with similar political views. I think being a "gamer" doesnt necessarily indicate that someone is right or left wing.
Xvladin of course I know that, I play video games and I'm left wing but a lot of people who strongly identify as "gamers" often are right wing or at least centre right, I know this cause I was exactly like them but I snapped out of it before I fully turned right wing
@@jonnysac77 hmm, I havent really had that kind of experience. I've always been pretty far left in most regards and so are most of my friends, and we are what I would call "gamers". From my own personal experience, I havent ever seen a correlation between "gamers" and any particular political direction. But that's just from what I've seen personally
Xvladin most of my friends, have had very similar experiences of being directed toward the right before ultimately moving far left, mostly because of all the anti-SJW and gamergate stuff of the early 2010s
Xvladin Were talking about the kinds of people who treat being a gamer as an identity on par with an ethnic, class, gender, sexual, gender, or religious identity.
These people treat this identity as extremely exclusive and will frequently engage in gate keeping and purity tests so as to expose “fake gamers.” Or in other words anyone who doesn’t think Gamers are an oppressed underclass of people and treat gaming as a core part or ones identity.
These kind of people typically skew far right and were probably either involved in or supportive of the GamerGate fiasco.
If for some reason you want to see these kind of people in the wild you can see them at r/GammersRiseUp. Which used to be a satire of these kind of people until they got taken over by the very people they were mocking.
**Edit: r/GamersRiseUp has since been banned for white supremacy.
I know this is an older book but I still burst out laughing that our 28-year-old protagonist could have an eHarmony profile.
As for cops being intuitive: tell that to all the ones that let me go on my way while tripping balls on mushrooms. One time they even found me atop a church, and I still convinced them I was both sober and not up to anything.
So Glenn Beck's rhetorical style is the "haha jk... unless?" style of arguing whenever he wants to go off about his conspiracy theories.
Yo, Glen, the Russian Communists fought the Nazis. Also just because the Nazis called themselves socialist doesn't mean they were, they called themselves that because it sounded good when in reality they were a fascist dictatorship. Just like The Democratic Republic of Korea is literally none of those things. Also "we need to defend America, even from other Americas by force." is literally fascism.
Thanks for this, lol. "What!? But they call themselves socialist, they can't lie >:O"
The early NSDAP had a "left" wing with people who considered themself to be socialists first, nationalists second, in the 1920s and early 1930s, namely the circle around the Strasser brothers. Hitler hated those people and did whatever he could to isolate and oust them from the party if they didn't convert to his ultranationalist fascist ideas, like Josef Goebbels did after a personal long brain washing session from him. Goebbels renounced and disavowed all socialist ideals after that and became a "true believer in the Führer". As soon as he had the power to do so, Hitler forced them into exile (Otto Strasser, for example), incarcerated them, or outright had them murdered. The last remnants of that wing of the NSDAP were murdered during the "Night of the Long Knives", Gregor Strasser included. Every last bit of socialist ideals or influences was eliminated from the party by mid-1934.
The main goal of the "Night of the Long Knives" was to eliminate Ernst Röhm, leader of the SA and the second-most powerful man in the very early Third Reich. Röhm was basically the only person who still could have overthrown or replaced Hitler. He was outspokenly, aggressively anticapitalist and wanted a "second revolution" to nationalise agriculture and the heavy industries. His streetfighting, strike supporting (during labour disputes), rowdy, usually drunk SA men were a severe danger to the regular German military - massively weakened by the Treaty of Versailles - and to regular law enforcement.
Hitler was bankrolled by influential super-rich industrialists (the Rhenish steel magnates) and needed to win the trust of the military to consolidate his power. What he did NOT need anymore were hard-to-control violent drunk streetfighters (now without their main enemy, the communist streetfighters of the KPD) and Nazi leaders who threatened the military-industrial complex and capitalist elite in Germany. Also, Röhm was a very openly homosexual hard partier, he even had his own supposed "gay orgy island" in a Bavarian lake for a while. Hitler was his "best friend and closest ally" in the official propaganda, including Leni Riefenstahl's movie "Victory of Faith" about the Nuremberg Rally of 1933, the Nazis' big celebration of their takeover - so rumours that the Führer was gay developed quickly, too. Röhm had to die.
National _socialism_ in the Nazi party effectively was killed off in June/July 1943. All other communists, socialists, and social democrats had already been "taken care" of. 80% of the prisoners in the early concentration camps in 1933 were Communists, 10% were Social Democrats, the remaining 10% were trade union activists and members of other parties. The "S" and "A" in "NSDAP" were completely redundant and meaningless after the first one and a half of the twelve years and change the Third Reich lasted
Anybody who wants to claim that Hitler's wing of the NSDAP, that took over the entire party and ran Nazi Germany without any intraparty opposition from mid-1934 all the way to the end in Mai 1945, was "socialist" is completely clueless or intentionally spouts ahistorical nonsense to smear political opponents in the present.
Anybody who thinks that somebody like Hitler-megadonor Fritz Thyssen, who controlled 75% of Germany's iron ore reserves, had 200k employees, and was one of the richest, most powerful industrialists in Europe, would have financed a socialist of any kind is either delusional or dangerously ignorant. Same with Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, albeit he initially somewhat opposed the Nazi "proles" before he became a "Hitler superfan" and megadonor in February 1933. He basically ran the German military-industrial complex during WWI by himself as a quasi-monopoly. Claiming that paternalistic monster industrialists like that, who basically ran their own personal autocratic fiefdoms within the state as they pleased, would have supported Hitler with even a single cent if he had shown just the tiniest traces of socialist convictions in their conversations, is infinitely more ridiculous than claiming that the Koch brothers financed Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. Just beyond ridiculous.
@@henrygvidonas9573 fantastic comment
@@henrygvidonas9573 They were just as right wing. It's like saying that Italian fascism is left wing because it has social aspects
Brilliant Comment.
"the best guns are home made, like cookies" and "she looks like my hot mom!" XD wtf
Remember when Jon Stewart did parody segments of Glenn Beck on The Daily Show?
That's about 95% the reason I still remember Glenn Beck
same
Actually this makes me quite sad, it reminds me of a time when i thought 'the right have gone so far now, there is no way they'll ever be electable' god i miss that time.
That feel when you realize why fascism works
Noah, re Molly: "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIGHT!"
Lmao! DMC ref
But I thought the right hated it when you call things Nazis.
Oh no no, only when you call the Nazis Nazis.
They hate when YOU (or i) call people Nazis. They're perfectly OK with they themselves calling people Nazis.
Nope. Don’t ever believe the right when they say they care about a thing. Nothing really matters and they will do and say whatever they need to win.
Green-infested Left-Fascists (rough translation) is what right-wingers sometimes call everything left of right-conservatism here in germany. I love getting called fascist by Neo-Nazis. I wish we could have firearms here...
No. The Right hates it when you draw attention top their ceaseless hypocrisy.
What a stupid name for a book. Like it just screams on the cover "I have a clear and obvious political bent that's going to bleed through in every single page" before you even open it. I don't understand the appeal of "fiction for people with no imagination and who detest hearing about people unlike them". It's a very strange subgenre, and I'm fairly convinced people buy these books just to put them on their coffee table to signal their beliefs to their likeminded house-guests, not to actually read them.
The title is okay. Glenn Beck didn't invent the concept of the overton window. It's an interesting concept, in my mind, having studied advertising, public relations, propaganda. But, yeah, Beck appropriates the concept for the dumbest reasons.
And then he proceeds to beat us over the head with his political views for a few hundred pages and either praise us for agreeing with him or curse our very existence for not.
conservatives cant make art they can only appropriate it.
Virtue signaling perhaps?
Yeh, you got it.
"Faction" ??? It's almost like he has never heard of realism before?
literally lmao
I almost cringed *too* hard when Molly passed as Natalie Portman.
Well now I can never look at Natalie Portman the same way again
I just got to the "Founder's Keepers" part of this video, and I had to stop to keep from physically cringing and making my co-workers wonder if I had a stroke of some kind.
Got to the cringe of the TSA passage. Maximum cringe attained.
This man has the key to my hometown. I would run for mayor just for the chance to rip it out of his hands...
"Giving her the polyamorous relationship she was hoping for; Molly, Noah, and *AMERICA*"
That was great
Little known fact, the Mormon Church does literally teach that the Us Constitution is a Divinely inspired sacred text like The Bible and the Book of Mormon. Also Glen Beck is a Mormon.
I was kind of genuinely surprised by Molly's character, she's a lot like a Femme Fatale even though she's a hero of the story, something I do not generally expect from Conservative writers.
The fuck? No it doesn’t.
conservatives nowadays love the femme fatale trope because it lets them get off the hook pretending to have written a compelling female character with her own goals and interiority while still making her love-bait for the main character. See Jenny Nicholson's video on Trigger Warning, for example
I was raised Mormon and yes that is what they teach.
I see this book at my local Goodwills ALL the time and I read a few chapters each time I’m there and it’s SO bad. Like I didn’t think there could be creative writing worse than Shapiro’s. Lol
I got that book at home.
"Guns are like cookies - the best ones are homemade"
Oh boy do I love the flavour of hot metal shards piercing my cheek, eyes, and nose.
It be that way
Ben Shapiro’s book is very similar to this one. Interesting
Conservatives don’t know how to write because they aren’t creative.
He copy paste it and changed character names
They're a hive mind.
What is it with these conservatives and nukes? You'd think they would both research them a little to find out how they work, but nope. Bad people set nukes off in NYC and all it did was send a gust of hot wind to someone outside the immediate fireball.
It's almost like they're copying each other.
Just going from the opening paragraph about Noah, this is going to be a shitty book. Glenn makes two rookies mistakes in one paragraph; one, he starts of by blandly and uncleverly describing how his character looks and acts instead of spending some effort to show us. Second, he ties a date to the book by mentioning eHarmony, which already makes it harder for future readers to get into.
I went to Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in DC in 2010. I was a young kid who was brought there by my parents. I didn't fully get it all at the time, but looking back, that dude is fucking insane
When I heard of the Tea Party - Some guys were talking about it in a bar, and I corked off -"a bunch of racist guys in a bar talking about how best to do things in the country with a new political party ...how could that go wrong? Oh, yes, tell that to the Munich Beer Hall Putsche." I was never allowed in that place ever again. I am glad I did it
This was a wild ride. Thank you for your service!
He kept the dress though I see.
Changed the gender.
Kept the dress.
Super interesting psychologically.
I love it. Why should the statue of liberty be binary? Yas beck. I see your inner gender bender. I did this to characters i admired too.
My neighbor and I were talking at a party and politics came up because that was what I had studied in college, and he mentions this book that he had been reading. The next day, my neighbor shows up with this in his hands. I took it from him out of politeness, but I had no intention of opening it after seeing Glenn Beck was the author. Thank you for reading this garbage to prevent me from getting curious out of boredom one evening
Sometimes I'm reading a book that is a bit struggle to get through. Now I can always remind myself that Jose read The Overton Window and feel great with whatever book I'm reading.
Have you ever considered voicing audiobooks? At least for me, you made a Glenn's book review enjoyable EVEN after the fact that you recited textual passages of his book (the same with Shapiro's books). Imagine what you could do with something that's actually readable (let alone barely good)!
Glenn Beck: for the book trailer I want someone who sounds like Optimus and Megatron at the same time, can you do it??
Trailer guys: book trailer?
Book trailers are a thing.... Just not like the one he did
I was rewatching this video, and I realized that Glenn Beck never distinguishes between different types of freedom, or how reducing one freedom could expand another.
I mean, you don't wanna have a single point of failure with just one nuke. If you're out picking up a nuke you might as well just get two nukes.
I really appreciate the way you read the text to us. A lot of booktubers, for whatever reason, are just not good at reading out loud and sound like they're mocking the text or just trying to get through it when the teacher made them read out loud in class. I really appreciate that you read the words with all the sincerity and animation they were intended.. they mock themselves after all, they don't need you reading them poorly to sound bad. So thanks for the effort and resulting immersion
I vividly remember Glenn Beck's 5PM show on Fox News the day after Obama was sworn into office. It was day one and it was the most batsh*t crazy nonsense I had ever seen. Made Alex Jones look like Mr Rogers. I knew the next 4 years were gonna be a complete circus.
The "now I herd everything " Bible joke also appears in the evangelical conspiracy "fact-ion" thriller BABYLON RISING by Tim LaHaye. Wouldn't be surprised if Beck was stealing from it, or used the same ghostwriter.
There’s no way Founders Keepers was not a name choice designed to make me in particular laugh every time I hear it
This man (Mr Beck) was my greatest source of political knowledge in my teen years. I will never not be ashamed.
Mallory Worlton Same here.
I was equally as stupid. I try and own the shame as a way to shrug it off but it really does make me cringe when I think about it with any serious reflection. I owe a lot to Sam Seder for helping me see how stupid I was.
Plus one for using that piece of propaganda from Bioshock Infinite. The one the actual Tea Party stole for a Facebook page despite it clearing being meant to mock Tea Party members... man 2013 was sure something.
No way! Are they that dumb ?
I was raised by a dad who had been listening to Glenn's radio program for just about as long as I could remember. Eventually, as I reached my tween/teen years, I started to pay more attention, and, since my dad agreed with it all, I bought in. I remember reading this book and thinking it was good. My critical thinking skills and storytelling craft were hardly developed, and it was just more of the conspiratorial bullshit I'd been fed, so it confirmed my biases. I even begged my dad for us to go to that infamous 8.28 rally in Washington.
The thing is, I didn't know any better. I was too young, sheltered, and naive to know any better. Being raised Mormon (which, as far as I know, Glenn still is), it ironically took going to BYU for me to begin to break down my childhood ideology and see all the ways it was unfounded and wrong. Nowadays, I can't believe I gave that guy so much credit, even though I understand that I had no other voices to counter him at the time. I don't consider myself a Mormon anymore, but the fact that he still is one despite his very real harm done to this country's politics makes me angry all the same. Now if only I could find a way to gently pull my dad out of the far-right conservative zeitgeist... He doesn't listen to Glenn Beck anymore (as far as I know), but the bullshit he parrots so casually in everyday conversation shows me if it's not Beck it's someone else these days.
I was raised Mormon too… raised by a Mormon mother and a father who is a Taiwanese immigrant (citizen now). My mom is great but unfortunately she listened to rush Limbaugh every morning driving us to seminary. My dad now watched Fox News every evening (even though they’re divorced).
I adopted those horrible god awful opinions as a teenager too and soon became addicted to drugs (not just bc of those opinions, more so bc of the belief system that they reinforce and the larger issues they’ve caused in my entire family… abusive issues) and ended up married to a violently abusive former marine who was 38 when he got me pregnant at 19.
My mom leans left in every single way except her belief in the Mormon religion. Same with my sister. Both went to byu… Provo and Idaho, respectively.
Now my mom is a professor for byu in the education department, but she remarried to (another) awful, very selfish man. I am glad that she’s at byu teaching a lot of silly, naive kids a better perspective about the realities of the world we live in. For example- she’s told me how she has many times had to correct kids who thought that having “food stamps” was “robbing” or he government.
She’s also told me about the rape problem on campus (just like every campus… but people don’t expect this to be an issue at byu).
I also no longer consider myself Mormon… and the more perspective I have, the more and more I am disgusted with that ideology/religion.
It’s so cute that Beck must imagine his fan base is young and multiracial and not just older white people.
19:40 "Imagine this argument being used against giving women the right to vote" That was literally an argument both for and against giving women the right to vote. Winston Churchill, who was against women's suffrage when it began, later said he would've been openly supportive of it if only he'd realized this.
Regarding the Kipling poem from the trailer, the poem is about two sets of values/modes of thought, represented as two competing pantheons of gods. The gods of the copybook headings (the name comes from how when Kipling was a boy, he had to copy lines from his textbook, which were often moral instructions) represent traditional modes of thought and how society used to be, as Kipling perceived it. The gods of the marketplace represent newer ways of thinking. In each verse of the poem, society worships the gods of the marketplace in some way or other (by creating welfare systems, not being draconian, etc), and then things start falling apart, and each verse concludes with the gods of the copybook headings sternly rebuking society. The final verse, and the one that made up the trailer, is about how society has completely fallen apart and only a return to tradition can revive it.
"The Eye of Moloch" features a villain who is described as a "living trillionaire" and is obviously George Soros...so yes, we want to see it.
"Molly seduced Noah by dressing up as his dead mother. Let's move on."
I really, REALLY think we need to linger there a bit longer, sir! Sir! SIR! I demand explanation!
Just leaving a comment to drive up your engagement. I have nothing to add, great video
The concept of the faction novel has been in use since the 1960’s. Capote has described his controversial True Crime novel, ‘In Cold Blood’ as a faction novel.
All those in favor of making "don't tease the panther" Jose's new catchphrase say "Aye"
btw, everyone here in Puerto Rico is a tax paying US citizen, living on US land.
And we still don't get a single electoral vote even though if we were a state, we'd be the 14th most populous state
No taxation without representation
Hearing Glenn’s pillow talk has convinced me that Glenn has never had sex in his life
this is my favorite Star Wars fanfiction.
"Don't tease the panther"
I think I cringed so hard I turned into a subatomic particle
"She hadn't seen the movies but had written a paper about them in college." Can confirm. Completely realistic.
20:40 Is this a Bioshock Infinite prequel novel?
Somebody is trying to be the next Ben Shapiro of literature!
this was published before shapiro got real popular
@@scottyrobot he obviously used a time machine
Never forget: Ben Shapiro once wrote a vore story!
This book makes no fucking sense! I listened to this like 4 fucking times and I still don’t get it! Who’s side is the dad on? What is Molly’s driving force? Who the fuck is Arthur and what is his role? H my god Beck stick to radio you Ghoul
@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
Wait. WHAT
I think its funny when people write books and in the intro think they've invented the concept of talking about the "truth" via fiction. Because it really tells me they've not really engaged with a lot of other writers, because the concept of discussing reallife issues via fiction is writing 101. It just tells me they're thinking about the documentary talking about how awardwinning and profound their work is before thinking about how to actually make their writing good.
This video is an entertaining look into what Glenn Beck finds entertaining. I really liked this video.
Oh my god. I read this when it came out when I was firmly under the ideological thumb of my tea party parents. I had totally repressed it, but this was a SCREAM - so glad I got deprogrammed from that. Thank you for dredging through the muck for us!! XD XD
Sex Panther. 90% of the time it works *all* the time.
Noah falling in love with Molly because he looks like his mom is so Freudian and gross.
Thank you for choosing Natalie Portman's image to stand in for "Molly." It made the whole novel a bit easier to bear.
and it's an incredible picture of her
@@anthonyhenriques7654 Indeed
JOSE! We met on Surf's skeleton crew... and UA-cam just recc'd this to me. Glad to see you again.
faction: a blend of entergagement and edutainment
I remember the old days when he did 4 hours of radio each day, a tv show in the afternoon, and wrote a new book every month. Boomers ate that stuff up. Made this doofus a rich man.
It bugged me that the C in Beck was so much bigger than the rest of the letters.
Regarding the religiosity of the leaders of the American Revolution: some of the founding fathers themselves were religious, others weren't; but some of the people who did the most to spread the popularity of revolutionary ideas among the masses were religious leaders. This makes sense, as especially in the wake of the First Great Awakening, clergy were some of the most influential people in the colonies. In fact, not only did many ministers serve during the war as chaplains, but some participated even more directly in the conflict. There is a fairly well-known instance of a minister, during Sunday service, removing his collar and producing a musket from behind his pulpit, and raising up a militia unit from among his congregation. However, while these ministers no doubt were influenced by their faith and saw participation in the Revolution as being in accordance with their religious principles, there is a huge difference between choosing the side in a conflict which you believe is most closely aligned with your own principles, and viewing that side as directly inspired by God.
“Glenn Beck......now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a loooooong......looooong time....”
Glenn Beck is a comedic genius. He's the Tommy Wiseau of political intrigue.
I've watched this video like 30 times, and I still don't understand what a "$600 haircut" is supposed to look like..
I feel a little bad for the guy who had to remember everything Alexander Hamilton wrote