Let's get Glen Beck's new book taken off the shelves

[27inCali]

I am on German descent. Though I am lucky that my family left Germany during the rise of the Nazis, as a person of German descent I find Glen Beck's use of a Soviet border guard uniform, not only politically offensive, but racially/culturally offensive in the deepest possible sense. Being a white guy, I usually let unfriendly comments about whites go, reminding myself of the white male's atrocious history of chauvinism and bigotry towards everyone one else not white and male, but for some reason this shit gets the FUCK under my skin. Why on earth would he don the uniform of precisely the atrocious political philosophy who's imagined modern incarnation he claims to be a champion against?

I highly suggest that we all go to our local Barnes and Noble or Borders store take a copy to the front, ask for a manager and explain to them exactly how offensive we find the use of the uniform and explain also that if ALL the books are not removed from public display in the store immediately, it will be the last time you ever enter their store.

I also suggest e-mailing complaints concerning the cover to said bookstore's main websites. Enough noise and we shut the son of a bitch down. Maybe Amazon should hear about this too.

[Ian David]

1. Just go to the store and hide his books in the spaces between and under the shelves.

Not that I've ever done that.

[lib_wit_it]

6. I would never dream of doing that all the time, especially when their ugly mugs are on the cover.

[Donnachaidh]

10. heh -- I covered all his books with Kennedy's new memoir,

and the book about The Family, as well as some other great liberal books. All at a BJ's warehouse. I may go to Barnes and Noble and err, re-decorate as well....

[tabbycat31]

19. Liberal books are harder to find

for example my local Borders or B&N does not stock "The Family" (It finally came in for me at the library, can't wait to read it). I should replace BecKKK's books with Thom Hartmann's books on a display shelf.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. ROFLMAO! I like it. nt

[LeftyMom]

2. The right almost certainly finds lots of things I read offensive. I'd hate to set a bad precedent.

How about everybody reads whatever the fuck they want and the best ideas win? Since Beck couldn't reason his way out of a wet paper bag, the only people he's persuading are terminally clueless anyhow.

[MineralMan]

11. What a concept! People reading what they want and ignoring

what they don't. Nah...it'll never fly.

I've worked in a bookstore. People who hide books, whatever their political persuasion do not know what they are doing. They are morons of the first water.

[DoctorMyEyes]

15. Thank you!

A voice of reason. And to all you "book hiders" - what you're doing is childish and annoying.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. A better cover perhaps....

[cynatnite]

4. Rather than attempt to ban a book (which in itself is offensive), boycotting is better n/t

[IDFbunny]

14. Ignoring is better than boycotting.

I cringed at the outrage of the 'joker' Obama knowing full well that they made the image indelible. Had the offended let it roll off their back it would have been forgotten and obscure by now.

Boycotting is free advertising.

[BLUSH]

5. Beck does Cronkite ... kind of ...

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. And give him more publicity?

[Luminous Animal]

8. Please clarify.

What is offensive to whites about Beck's uniform? What, exactly, does a Soviet border guard uniform have to with being white?

Anyway, I suggest everyone carry a little packet of black tape cut into Hitler mustache-size portions the next time you go to a bookstore.

[27inCali]

18. being of German decent

and being blood related to the people tortured and killed by those bastards.

the white apart just meant, I rarely am racially or culturally offended, so if I am this time, it's pretty sincere. that's all.

[virgogal]

9. I don't believe in "book-burning". Sorry.

[TxRider]

22. +1

Once you start burning books, who decides what the next one to burn will be...

[The Straight Story]

12. Is he the Harry Potter for the left?

:rofl:

[JenniferJuniper]

13. "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out."

No banning, no burning, no burying. Keep it all out in the light.

[HopeHoops]

17. Redistribute them about the store.

Fiction, humor, JUVENILE, auto repair, female self-help, occult, etc.

[UTUSN]

20. Any thread about BecKKK needs THIS: He's ripping off this OTHER whackjob:: SKOUSEN

Whacked BecKKK's whacked hero:
One Willard Cleon Skousen, who worked/retired from the FBI and went on to be investigated by Miss HOOVER's FBI to the tune of 2,000 pages. I've always thought it was brilliant of LIMBOsevic that his main thrust in attempting to make Conservativism respectable when he first started was to ---purposefully, deliberately--- distance himself from the kooks, the BIRCHERs, the Trilateralists, etc. He would cut off all callers who started ranting on these topics. The same way he still cuts off those true followers who slip and let loose their true racist selves---------------INSTEAD of "disguising" themselves.


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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him

By Alexander Zaitchik



.... But more interesting than the contents of "The 5,000 Year Leap," and more revealing for what it says about 912ers and the Glenn Beck Nation, is the book's author. W. Cleon Skousen was not a historian so much as a player in the history of the American far right; less a scholar of the republic than a threat to it. At least, that was the judgment of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which maintained a file on Skousen for years that eventually totaled some 2,000 pages. Before he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen's own Mormon church publicly distanced itself from the foundation that Skousen founded and that has published previous editions of "The 5,000 Year Leap."

As Beck knows, to focus solely on "The 5,000 Year Leap" is to sell the author short. When he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen had authored more than a dozen books and pamphlets on the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy. It is a body of work that does much to explain Glenn Beck's bizarre conspiratorial mash-up of recent months, which decries a new darkness at noon and finds strange symbols carefully coded in the retired lobby art of Rockefeller Center. It also suggests that the modern base of the Republican Party is headed to a very strange place. ....

...The city's ultraconservative mayor, J. Bracken Lee, fired him in 1960 for excessive zeal in raiding private clubs where the Mormon elite enjoyed their cards. "Skousen conducted his office as Chief of Police in exactly the same manner in which the Communists operate their government," Lee wrote to a friend explaining his firing of Skousen. The man is a master of half-truths. In at least three instances I have proven him to be a liar. He is a very dangerous man (and) one of the greatest spenders of public funds of anyone who ever served in any capacity in Salt Lake City government." ....

...Skousen laid low for much of the '60s. But he reemerged at the end of the decade peddling a new and improved conspiracy that merged left with right: the global capitalist mega-plot of the "dynastic rich." Families like the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Skousen now believed, used left forces -- from Ho Chi Minh to the American civil rights movement -- to serve their own power. ....

"Skousen's personal position," wrote a dismayed Quigley, "seems to me perilously close to the 'exclusive uniformity' which I see in Nazism and in the Radical Right in this country. In fact, his position has echoes of the original Nazi 25-point plan." ....

Skousen may have been too extreme for the Quorum of the Twelve in Salt Lake City, but he soon found rehabilitation on the intellectual margins of Reagan's Washington. In 1980, Skousen was appointed to the newly founded Council for National Policy, a think tank that brought together leading religious conservatives and served as the unofficial brain trust of the new administration. At the Council, Skousen distinguished himself by becoming an early proponent of privatizing Social Security. He also formed relationships with other evangelical church leaders and aligned the LDS church with an increasingly religious GOP. ....

..."The Making of America." Besides bursting with factual errors, Skousen's book characterized African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. ....

"The 5,000 Year Leap" is not the only Skousen title to find new life on the 912 circuit. The president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, Dr. Earl Taylor Jr., is currently touring the country offering daylong seminars to 912 chapters based on Skousen's "Making of America." For $25, participants will receive a bagged lunch and stories about America's religious Founders and their happy slaves. An ad for Taylor's "Making of America" seminar, currently featured on the Web site of the Tampa 912 Project, claims that Skousen's book is "considered a great masterpiece to Constitutional students (and is) the 'granddaddy' of all books on the United States Constitution."

Like so much declaimed by W. Cleon Skousen and his 21st century acolyte Glenn Beck, this last statement is fantasy. But it is also a profitable and popular one. In coming to terms with a movement that has an ever more tenuous relationship with accepted fact, we relearn that perennial lesson grasped even by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Fantasies can have serious consequences.

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[Think America]

21. Being of German decent I find myself more offended by book burning

I too remember the Nazi offenses, such as book burnings, why were they burned? Because someone felt they were socially and culturely offensive, now what was his name.........

Look if a books facts are wrong disput them,

I certainly don't let it get under my skin, I save that for real autrocities, like the report I saw today where a 16 year old mom and her 18 year old boyfriend made here two year old smoke pot............book covers? silly