Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Edition: 1st
- Author: Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe
- Publisher: Threshold Editions
- Release Date: September 2009
- ISBN-10: 1416595015
- ISBN-13: 9781416595014
- List Price: $29.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIt 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 become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is... Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts. 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 tell you 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 an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you'll stop saying "no, they won't" and you'll start saying, "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce." (See page 139.) Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth. |
Customer Reviews
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Great Book!
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Arguing with Idiots is a great primer for rebutting the idiotic talking points of liberals, communists and democrats. A must read
Content: Fantastic. Formatting for Kindle: Horrible.
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The way in which the print version of this book was formatted for the Kindle results in a thoroughly confusing read.
I believe that the information and arguments Glenn Beck makes in this book are well researched and presented, and leave Progressives with little or no room for their specious beliefs. It is an important read for any person who is unsure to the actual truth in life and who care about our country and wants help the "idiots" in their life get onto a path of conservative enlightenment.
In the print version of this title, Mr. Beck uses various colors and formatting to present not only the main text but supplemental information in the form of graphics, cartoons, images, and special commentary under special headings such as "A.D.D. Moment," or "Celebrity Guest Idiot," to name two.
This use of various formatting allows a reader to logically progress through the book as it lays out arguments and answers in a logical format. A reader can, at his or her will, stop at the end of a argument or section, as they choose, and go back and read the extra information.
In the Kinlde edition, this is not possible and leaves the reader confused and lost. In this version these supplemental items appears as regular text which interrupts the flow of the ideas being presented, usaully with no warning to what is going on. They appear in seemingly random locations within the primary flow of the text, sometimes even interrupting a sentence or paragraph midstream, then jumping to another stream of thought, and then after reading another "Kindle page" or two, jumping back (again with no warning) to the main text. As I read this book, I would often have to stop and go back in an attempt to mentally construct what the format of the text of the book was supposed to be.
Additionally, for many of the graphics which contain textual information in addition to the illustration, it is extremely difficult to read due to the small size in which it is presented on the Kindle screen. This left me wondering whether I was missing something important in argument being made, and how relevant was the information I was missing.
Unless this edition is reformatted into a "Kindle friendly" format, or you have no other option but to access to this book using the Kindle, I would avoid this version of the book and go through the trouble of getting the print version.
Arguing with Idiots:How To Stop Small Minds and Big Governement .
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Glenn Beck is Hilarious and informative and the book just proves that in doesn't bash liberals it bashes Failed policies,if any 1star paid liberal reviewer or hateful person would actually get past the title and cover then they could read for themselves,enlighten themselves,I don't listen to Beck alot or as much as I would like to,I see no problem with what he says,compare him to Someone who says "Worst Person in The World" and you will feel good that your on the Right side literally. From Amtrak to LBJ'S Great Society and to why Communism/Socialism doesn't work and how well intentioned Policies can leave to disaster,He even Mentions Nixon see Not so Bad after all To those of you on the left.
Thought Provoking and Witty
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Interesting points that made me think. I like the authors wittiness and appreciate that he tells it like it is.
The Triumph of Idiocy
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Here comes the charlatan who has never volunteered for military service, but who "condescends" to adorn himself in military attire, packaging and then selling himself as a patriot to his ignorant, slobbering worshippers.
In a typical non-scholarly fashion, the book embodies its author's challenges in the areas of truth, reasoning and facts. In years gone-by, the Conservative movement had credible gatekeepers of truth such as William Buckley. It is a pity that America is now tolerating the triumph of ignorance, anti-intellectualism and bold celebrations of wholesale stupidity. Our enemies need not do anything but sit back and watch in amusement as we self-destruct in hallucinatory inanities. A true American patriot is the one who rejects and speaks out against shallow rantings of this nature. Make no mistake, ignoring the fool can be dangerous.
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