Glenn Beck Dominates Bestsellers List With Children’s Books Too

by Steve Krakauer | 12:00 pm, November 9th, 2009

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We’ll just say it – there’s not a single thing Glenn Beck won’t dominate right now.

TV, radio, publishing, and now, Children’s book. That’s right, another New York Times bestseller.

In the wake of his last New York Times #1 bestseller, “Arguing With Idiots,” way back a couple weeks ago, Beck’s new Children’s book, “The Christmas Sweater,” reached #1 on the NYT list this week.

This makes it five consecutive publications to debut at #1 on the NYT bestsellers lists. His publisher believes he has made history. From the release:

Beck’s publishing house, Simon & Schuster, believes that Beck has become the only author in history to ever have #1 New York Times bestsellers debut on these four different lists: hardcover fiction (The Christmas Sweater), hardcover nonfiction (Arguing with Idiots and An Inconvenient Book), nonfiction paperback (Glenn Beck’s Common Sense), and now with The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book, children’s picture books.

And some of these books by Beck are still hanging around their respective NYT lists. “Arguing with Idiots” is #5 on the hardcover nonfiction list in its 6th week and “Common Sense” is #8 on the paperback nonfiction list. It was released June 16 and has currently sold more than 1 million copies. At this point Beck could release a collection of drawings from his chalkboard and it would hit #1.

As for the next time you’ll see Beck on TV or radio, he tweeted today that he’s slated to be back tomorrow. We’re sure he’s got a lot to say in the week he’s been off air.

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Nachi

A stark reflection of the state of the uneducated American mentality. The Little People – gathering up their nuts for the winter.
ImNotBlue

Man, Nachi… you really hate America.

Where are you from, again?
m

Beck watchers don’t represent America or American values. They represent what happens when you poison real American values.
timzank

I just love the mindset of people like nachi & m. Anybody you don’t like, that is able to garner favor from huge numbers of people is evil, and the consumers of the subjects products (books in this case) are all misguided morons.

I don’t like Ford Taurus’s, but I don’t think the millions of people that buy them are idiots. It must be a hell of a burden to be the only smart and correct people out of 300 million. Shame you can’t just have all of us non-thinking slugs simply “removed” from your presence to free up the “correct” line of thought.
Grammie

Right on, tim.

To be just half as smart and noble as the denizens of the left constantly proclaim themselves to be would require one to be the embodiment of both Albert Einstein and Mother Theresa in one person.
http://www.uselessbeauty.com Vidiot

His ghostwriters are working overtime. Has Glenn read the books yet?
http://trickletown.vox.com/ Trickletown

Grammie, interestingly enough, Mother Einstein wrote a nice blurb about Becks Pop up kids book. ;)
TfT

Congrats to Beck, he is really driving the lefties off the deep end.
timzank

Don’t throw stones unless you’re willing to throw them at everybody, like “In It Takes A Village, Clinton did not acknowledge ghostwriter Barbara Feinman, who Simon and Schuster paid $120000 to help Hillary write the book”

or Bill Clinton: Will North
or Al Gore: Will North
or Barack Obama: Bill Ayers
or Howard Dean: Wouldn’t disclose
or virtually any public figure that has penned a book and isn’t an author by trade.
Ted

America likes crap. Crap sells. And Glenn Beck is a master at marketing and selling crap. So it does not surprise me that his “books” are at the top of the best selling crappiest “book” list.

It has been rumored that his next “book” will be titled; Another Best Selling Piece of Crap for Kids: A Corollary to The Christmas Sweater. Don’t bust your appendix 912ers, it’s just a rumor!!!
tedneb

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Ted is right. America likes crap.

Look at the mindless garbage we bought last November. And we’re still paying for it. And paying for it.

Did somebody save the receipt?
Ted

tedneb – I think we’ve found some common ground!!!

Just remember that nobody serves up crap on stick quite like Glenn Beck and nobody likes it better than the 912ers, teabaggers, fruit loops crowd.