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October 19, 2009
Exclusive: Book Review: ‘Arguing with Idiots’ by Glenn Beck – Prepare Yourself!
The holidays are fast approaching, bringing great food, good cheer and…the in-laws. You stare out the window, waiting with bated breath as your spouse bastes the turkey, the heavenly scent of the roasting bird doing little to calm the dread that accompanies the sight of the Prius turning into your drive, parking behind your vehicle. They get out of the car that resembles a sardine can. The ‘60s hippies, brains still fuzzy from Woodstock, walk up porch steps, pompously scowling at your SUV, wearing their “Save the Earth” t-shirts. They’re carrying the little biodegradable containers (no plastic Tupperware for these enlightened folks!) of tofurky and one of those “reusable, Earth-friendly” shopping bags that you see popping up at your local grocery store, filled with video from their recent trip to see some washed-up college professor’s speech filled with whatever anti-American socialist rhetoric is “hot” this week. The little recyclable gift boxes they are carrying as hostess gifts are probably filled with florescent light bulbs as usual.
In times past, you would have endured their mind-numbing liberal propaganda not with a Chris Matthews-style “tingle in your leg,” but with yet another glass of wine to keep you from going totally insane. Not this year, you smile to yourself as your spouse warmly greets her family. This year you are prepared. You have read, studied and re-read Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck, host of a popular radio talk show and an opinion hour on Fox News.
Yes, as the public school teachers who have never had a job outside the government system chastise you for homeschooling your children, you can trample them with the facts outlined in Chapter 3 of Arguing with Idiots , smugly knowing that your facts are based on reality, not some fictional account written by an “expert” on how self-esteem and government handouts will lead the nation’s young people into prosperity.
You will blindside them with indisputable evidence that it is capitalism that drives this great country’s economy, not a socialist Utopia of free health care and cookies for all. As the tapes are pulled out of the tote bag made of recyclable material, your spouse giving an Oscar-winning performance showing interest, you instead ask your in-laws if they want to check out your new Ruger long-barrel .22 pistol. As their faces grow pale, your spouse sending you that “I will kill you” look from across the room, they begin to stammer. Guns kill people, they sputter, as you begin calmly discussing Chapter 2, “The Second Amendment.”
Arguing with Idiots entertains and enlightens, educates and informs: From such topics as the Constitution to illegal immigration, it is a book to read, study and share. And share you will. As your in-laws quickly stuff their tapes and tofurky leftovers into their little tote bag, muttering apologies of how they need to get to the local “Save the Opossum” rally, you accompany them to the door and hand them a gift purchased especially for them – their own copy of Arguing with Idiots.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Renee Taylor is a licensed private investigator with The Taylor Company, an investigations and research company based in Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas.
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Wow. That whole thing makes perfect sense.
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