Glenn Beck new novel The Overton Window - The next "Turner Diaries"??????

[RamboLiberal]

Over the last few years, conservative host Glenn Beck has emerged as a publishing star. This summer, he'll test the waters with an adult novel published by Threshold Editions--the Simon & Schuster imprint publishing Lynne Cheney and Karl Rove.

Entitled The Overton Window, the novel will be released in June 15. Through pre-orders, the title is already rising up the Amazon rankings.

At an Orlando rally led by Beck, Philly.com gleaned this novel intelligence: "(Beck) described (the novel) as 'a story of America in a time much like today where the people are confused,' with a government in crisis and the rise of a citizens' group called the Founders Keepers, which 'leads to a battle and a civil war, and life is upside-down planetwide.'" (Via Gawker)

After the jump, watch a clip where Beck explains the Overton Window--the political theory behind his new novel.

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/celebrities/glenn_beck_unveils_his_upcoming_novel_156793.asp

[hatrack]

1. "Founders Keepers, Droolers Dweebers!"

:eyes:

[maxsolomon]

2. busy beaver, isn't he?

daily radio show, daily tv show, novelist.

it's almost as if he someone doing some of his work for him...

[kestrel91316]

3. I read all the postapocalyptic dreck I can get my hands on, but I think I'll

pass on this one.

[corpseratemedia]

4. He should name it something about...oh I dunno...

"My Struggle" or something like that:P

[GrantDem]

5. +1

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Maybe a German translation would be kinda catchy.

Meine Suche...Nah.

Meine Jagd…Not quite.

Mein Unternehmen… That's not it either.

Hey, I've got it!

Mein Krieg. Yeah, that's closer.

Oh, wait; I know--

[verges]

9. I was thiking...

Glen Beck Shrugged or The Fountainhead of Stupidity.

[RamboLiberal]

6. BTW meaning of Overton Window

The Overton Window is a concept in political theory, named after its originator—Joe Overton—former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. It describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on an issue.

Details
Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique 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.

The degrees of acceptance of public ideas can be described roughly as:

Unthinkable
Radical
Acceptable
Sensible
Popular
Policy
The Overton Window is a means of visualizing which ideas define that range of acceptance by where they fall in it, and adding new ideas that can push the old ideas towards acceptance merely by making the limits more extreme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Sounds like what Beck is doing on his clown show.

[Lint Head]

7. Oh! He's soooooo clever. A turn of the elementary school phrase

'finders keepers'. Typical coming from an immature child in an adult body.