- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Threshold Editions; Reprint edition (Sep 14 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416595023
- ISBN-13: 978-1416595021
- Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 17.1 x 23.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #312,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE.
The #1 New York Times bestseller that gives you the right answers when idiots leave you speechless!
It happens to all of us: You’re minding your own business, when some idiot* informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.
Just go away! you think to yourself—but they only get more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. But never fear, for Glenn Beck has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths and small minds: knowing the facts.
And this book is full of them.
The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you’ll tell them all about England’s handgun ban (see page 53). When they insist that we should copy the UK’s health-care system, you’ll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244. And the next time you hear how produce prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you’ll have the perfect rebuttal (from page 139). Armed with the ultimate weapon—the truth—you can now tolerate (and who knows, maybe even enjoy?) your encounters with idiots everywhere!
*Idiots can’t be identified through voting records; look instead for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense.
About the Author
Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio and former Fox News television show host, is the author of Being George Washington, Broke, The 7, and 7 #1 New York Times bestsellers: An Inconvenient Book, The Christmas Sweater, Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, Arguing with Idiots, The Original Argument, the children's version of The Christmas Sweater, and The Overton Window. He is also the author of The Real America and publisher of Blaze online. Visit GlennBeck.com.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Missing the point,
By Dewey Finn (School Of Rock) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Hardcover)
Glenn Beck scares me, I'll be honest. He has this closed-minded, black-and-white way of looking at the world. Liberal = bad, Conservative = good. Obviously, the world doesn't work that way. Don't tell Beck that, or he's likely to write another book just to refute (or as Sarah Palin says, refudiate) you.There's some pretty solid ideas contained herein, and I think 99.9% of people think smaller government is good. The other 0.1% are lobbyists. The problem that Beck consistently ignores is this. Liberal or Conservative, the big policies never change. Witness: Stimulus packages started by George W. Bush, and continued by Barack Obama. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started by George W. Bush, and no end in sight under Barack Obama. Health care? Drug companies and insurance companies are still filling their coffers with fat, fat profit on the backs of the sick. Change? Nothing's changed. The problem isn't Liberal governing vs. Conservative governing. The problem is that neither are calling the shots. The shots are being called by the Military-Industrial Complex and their powerful lobbyists. Bottom line. Beck needs to open his eyes. Truthfully he has some good ideas in this book, when he's not sniping away at his much-hated Liberal foes. If Beck could have the guts to place the blame where it belongs, we'd have a book here. Big government isn't the root problem. It's a symptom.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Ce commentaire est de: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Hardcover)
A really funny book about serious topics. I loved it. It's right on the money and nails issues on head with precision that can only be found in Glenn Beck. I make time to watch his daily Fox News show everyday at 5pm ET and I think he has done a great service to his own country by doing what he has so far. A great book that, if you buy it as a gift, will make lefties' heads explode. Awesome!
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Finally A Modern Primer for the Political Dissident,
By Ian Gordon Malcomson (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME) (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
Ce commentaire est de: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Hardcover)
The popular right-wing TV talkshow host, Glenn Beck, has finally come out with his rubric on what makes for sensible and effective government in the United States. In the space of three-hundred pages, Beck and an associate lay a blueprint by which America can survive quite handily with considerably less government. The book, while heavily encased in political rhetoric and polemic, does a thorough job in raising public awareness as to why 30-40% Americans feel that Washington - a euphemism for big government - continually gets in the way of progress and common sense with some of its heavy-handed approaches to problem solving. The basis for this argument is a straightforward question-and-answer format that probes why many people still cling to the notion that government is there to help them in their economic and social needs. In a nutshell, governments get in the way of progress and individual freedom of choice because they create dependency on badly-run programs, they discourage competition, they squander tax dollars on boondoggles, and, above all else, they manipulate the truth by not fully informing the public as to the true facts of the matter. For each of these contentions, Beck trots out some pretty-standard statistics that reveal in his mind the glaring truth that big government is patently incompetent. While he might be making a philosophical case on one hand for less government, he doesn't make strong case for how it might look in terms of greater deregulation. Conveniently, very little is mentioned as to how deregulation of the banking industry got us into this present fix. His only answer to overcoming a recession seems to lie along the lines of letting market forces do their thing in creating a stronger economy. For him, Washington's bailing out companies with TARP money is what has caused the present deficit crisis. This colorfully-presented book makes for interesting reading if only to present why a certain portion of the American public is sworn to defend the constitution in the interests of eliminating what they see as excessive and unwarranted interference in their personal lives. Read this book with the idea that reality lies somewhere in between too much and too little governmental presence.
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