Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

5 Responses to “Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government”

1. Kristofer Felton says:

   March 28, 2010 at 9:13 am

   How can anyone take this book seriously when there is a distinct typographical mistake right on the take in? It should be completely obvious that the “R” in “Arguing” is facing the incorrect direction. I can not know how any serious and scholarly writer or editor allowed a glaring mistake of this sort to grace the take in 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 hard 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 perfectly perplexing if it was painted with canine excrement? I do not wish to imply that Mr. Beck’s work is an example of scatological invention, but the analogy seems apt. Perhaps the second pressing will right the matter.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
2. Robert D. Hodson Jr. says:

   March 28, 2010 at 11:11 am

   I was really surprised to see this on the shelves. I flipped through this and establish it to be completely incomprehensible to a name 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 alternative up books?
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
3. Mick McAllister says:

   March 28, 2010 at 1:11 pm

   Glenn Beck’s show is the NASCAR of television commentary: People watch in hopes of seeing an manufacturing accident. It’s one of the crazies they loved on Jerry Springer with his own show. And they can yell with him, despise 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 take in, trying to figure out what excuse for sanity would clarify 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 huge boys.” Here I had thought he meant with idiots as adversaries. It’s really 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) Right 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 lacking 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 back Rorschach in a grocery store. It is a seething tirade, a hideous blend of Torrett’s and ADD. As for facts: Beck’s thought of liberal-destroying facts is pointing out that Barbara Streisand has a huge nose. After all, this is the man who claims John D. Rockefeller was a Communist. A name should clarify 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 question rhetorically if you are serious, but I’d like to point out that Beck and his “patriot” horde have no distress 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.”)
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
4. Tony Pipia says:

   March 28, 2010 at 3:03 pm

   Rut Roh, “Jeremy Spoke in Class Again.”
   
   “Team Rodeo Clown” strikes again by cropping the erudition of others into an ersatz rendition of George Shultz’s “Peanuts.” (Pictures and all.)

   No sense in reinventing the veer, 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 vital cut-and-paste for the class of Adult Discarded Accessory Children (see ADAC Anonymous) of government school Obtuseler Youth who have reached treacherous 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 all ears 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

   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
5. Moderate American Man says:

   March 28, 2010 at 5:48 pm

   Unable to get thru even a quarter of this lacking wanting slam my head into a wall at the vast right wing idiocy on spectacle. Arguing with idiots indeed…
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5