Glenn Beck's, "The Overton Window," essentially a copy of another book?

[Jim__]

Sounds like it (review by Chris Kelly):

Glenn Beck's The Overton Window has all the elements of a great political thriller. An underground movement that's the opposite of what it seems. A vast media/government/business complex where conspiracy theories themselves are the tools that let the people with power get more. A shocking twist where the ultimate conspirator turns out to be the hero's own father. Like I said, all the elements of a great political thriller. And that thriller is Richard Condon's Winter Kills.

The Overton Window also contains the elements of a pretty funny black comedy disguised as a thriller. Potshots at marketing and the mass media, loose nukes, false choices and a terrorist plot that turns out to be a charade to help insiders fix an election. And that pretty funny black comedy would be Charles McCarry's The Better Angels.

But mostly The Overton Window resembles a pretty feeble self-published 2005 techno-thriller called Circumference of Darkness.

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So why -- except for the completely inverted politics -- does The Overton Window read so much like Circumference of Darkness? Because they were written by the same guy, a 52-year-old computer programmer named Jack Henderson.

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[Vogon_Glory]

1. An Interesting Project for Somebody--Plagiarism Check

Some progressive with time on his or her hands might want to check Beck's Overton Window to see if he plagiarized parts or all of his book from someone else.

:evilgrin:

[MadMaddie]

3. Plagerism and honesty don't appeal to the other side

It could be word for word and they would suck it up as if "Glen" wrote it himself.

[rocktivity]

2. More likely ghostwriting

Which, to give Beck credit, he admits:

So why -- except for the completely inverted politics -- does The Overton Window read so much like Circumference of Darkness? Because they were written by the same guy, a 52-year-old computer programmer named Jack Henderson.

He gets sole credit on Circumference (and why shouldn't he? He published it himself). On Overton, he gets thanked by Beck for "pouring his heart and soul into this project." And, apparently, his leftover plot.

Which wasn't good enough to get published the FIRST time around? LOL!!! Thanks, Glenn--I knew you wouldn't let me down!

:rofl:
rocktivity

P.S. Maybe this Henderson guy wrote Bush's and Palin's upcoming books, too. How convenient that literary stature can now be ordered like a pizza--"I'd like an autobiography with some political philosophy on the side--hold the onions!" But a buck's a buck, especially these days.

[Mad_Dem_X]

4. I knew that SOB didn't write a book!

I knew that scumbucket did not sit down and write a novel; he had to have stolen it or had it ghostwritten. What an ass.

[petronius]

5. Jeez, put a spoiler warning up there - some of us haven't read Beck's book yet

;)

This isn't a surprise, but it is a bit disappointing: just imagine what sort of horrific nonsense he'd come up with if he actually did try to write a novel...