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Politico: Dana Milbank’s Glenn Beck Bio Not Selling Like Hotcakes

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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank‘s unauthorized biography of Glenn Beck, Tears of a Clown, came out with a splash earlier this month, but reports tell Politico the interest has not been sustainable in most bookstores. Judging from these numbers, seems like people would rather read about Glenn Beck straight from the source.

The Politico numbers are rather surprising, considering the sustained interested in Beck as a personality:

The Washington Times’s Jennifer Harper reported Wednesday that the sales of Dana Milbank’s new book on Glenn Beck, “Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Teabagging of America” were “tepid” and “in the hundreds” two weeks after publication.

A source in the industry gets specific with POLITICO about just how tepid: 914 copies the first week, and 663 copies the second, according to Bookscan. (Bookscan accounts for about 70 percent of books sold, and does not count e-books.)

That’s around 5 percent of the 38,700 books printed.

Random House, who published the book, refused to comment, and Milbank himself was tongue-in-cheek about the sames, calling these numbers “absurd” but adding that he was aware the book wouldn’t sell like, say, Arguing with Idiots or The Overton Window. Milbank also cites Amazon numbers in his defense and, yes, Tears of a Clown is #2 on the “History and Criticism” bestsellers list.

While the sources in the Politico piece are anonymous and Milbank has never quite been a completely partisan figure, Beck fans and allies have made all of an occasion out of the report with the comical Twitter hashtag #sellingbetterthanMilbank.

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  • ChiliPeppersFan

    of course it is not a big seller because everyone knows beck is just a lying sack of monkey shit.
    how can people believe the crap that comes out of his mouth? he says that the country is being run by communists/socialists/all around bad people who want to subvert the constitution.

    what are you guys gonna do when you only get some of your teajadists into congress and you are only successful in slowing down but not stopping the guy you think is hitler?

    i guess there are a couple deranged sheep who believe beck. the guy in california or beck’s pastor buddy in texas who says he won’t take a violent revolution of the table. then there’s sharon angle who wants a ‘second amendment remedy’.

    these guys are idiots but there must be a couple of people who listen to beck who actually think. you obviously don’t believe what beck says about obama or you would do something other than violence or something more than just getting together and praying they just go away.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Newton/1091627648 John Newton

    There will probably be more comments on this post than books sold. Milbank not partisan…please!

  • JimBob

    Tears of a Clown Number 2 on the History and Criticism Bestsellers List!
    Good Lord! That adds up to about 9 books.
    Bulletin. If you lefty Nutbags want to sell Books, write something people want to read!
    Check with O’Reilly, Ingraham, Morris, Malkin, Levin, Hannity, Gingrich etc. Be humble!
    Ask them for help!
    Couldn.t hurt!! Umm, maybe it would!

  • musiccityvic

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    of course it is not a big seller because everyone knows beck is just a lying sack of monkey shit.
    how can people believe the crap that comes out of his mouth? he says that the country is being run by communists/socialists/all around bad people who want to subvert the constitution.

    what are you guys gonna do when you only get some of your teajadists into congress and you are only successful in slowing down but not stopping the guy you think is hitler?

    i guess there are a couple deranged sheep who believe beck. the guy in california or beck’s pastor buddy in texas who says he won’t take a violent revolution of the table. then there’s sharon angle who wants a ’second amendment remedy’.

    these guys are idiots but there must be a couple of people who listen to beck who actually think. you obviously don’t believe what beck says about obama or you would do something other than violence or something more than just getting together and praying they just go away.

    Not the smartest one are you Chili. The book they are talking about is a hit piece that a progressive hack wrote about him. All of Beck’s books are best sellers, something that the left knows nothing about. You are obviously an Obama supporter due to your lack of intelligence, which is another reason I can’t wait for the election to get here to stop the loons from further damage

  • Big Eddie

    “The Teabagging of America ” , huh ? Milbank is writing that about his fellow citizens who are standing up against an out of control government being run by incompetents , union thugs and foreign gangsters . To use that term about good men and women doing what they must do is an outrage . Some would call Milbank no better than a steaming pile of hot garbage . They would be right .

  • Big Eddie

    And Big Eddie will never buy that book !

  • Powerslave

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    of course it is not a big seller because everyone knows beck is just a lying sack of monkey shit.how can people believe the crap that comes out of his mouth? he says that the country is being run by communists/socialists/all around bad people who want to subvert the constitution. what are you guys gonna do when you only get some of your teajadists into congress and you are only successful in slowing down but not stopping the guy you think is hitler? i guess there are a couple deranged sheep who believe beck. the guy in california or beck’s pastor buddy in texas who says he won’t take a violent revolution of the table. then there’s sharon angle who wants a ’second amendment remedy’. these guys are idiots but there must be a couple of people who listen to beck who actually think. you obviously don’t believe what beck says about obama or you would do something other than violence or something more than just getting together and praying they just go away.

    lLet me guess, you are one of the few who bought the book.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    The fact that Milbank and his book are failures should be a surprise to no one.

    The real lesson to be learned here is that in the Left’s world view, the exceedingly low sales numbers are actually a sign of success. To them, the American people are nothing more than a large ocean of uneducated, gullible bigots. Therefore, they think, popular failure is a sign of quality and intellectual heft.

    The same thing will be happening here on Mediaite in the coming days. Tommy Christopher (a failed liberal, but a very fine writer who I really, really enjoy reading) predicted many months ago after the passage of Obamacare that Democrats would gain seats in Congress as a result. Obviously, that’s not going to happen. When Tommy’s prediction fails spectacularly, one would think that it might be a source of embarrassment and introspection. It won’t be. Instead of thinking, “How could I have been so very, very wrong?”, Tommy will look at the election results and think, “How could the American people been so very, very wrong?”

  • Ted-

    Big Eddie said:
    And Big Eddie will never buy that book !

    I’ll bet big eddie don’t read do he (Becks “books” don’t count)? And if you did actually read Milbanks book you would have to rethink Beck or in your case, go into convulsions.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Jonathan Scott

    I am not at all surprised, everyone knows Glenn Beck fans don’t read. Put a fork in this guy he is done.

  • michiganruth

    come on people, do you really think Glenn Beck fans are going to buy a book with the word “teabagging” in its title? I’m delighted and not at all surprised that nobody wants to read this piece of crap.

  • musiccityvic

    Jonathan Scott said:
    I am not at all surprised, everyone knows Glenn Beck fans don’t read. Put a fork in this guy he is done.

    Hey Stupid, let me explain it to you like I had to do with chili, but I’ll use smaller words so you can understand. Beck fans wouldn’t waste their cash on a hit piece from a failed, bitter progressive like Milbank. Like most progressives he has less than no credibility so 1000 books across the nation would be about right. Maybe we a strong push from Acorn he can pass Sanchez’s book and sell 2000 books which is a blockbuster best seller for the left.

    Your a little over 2 weeks away from a beating that you loons won’t soon forget. I can’t wait to watch all of the comments on this site on the day after. It will be the best entertainment I’ve had all year, except of course from watching the TV loons on Tuesday night wondering what happened.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    holy shit music city
    you are one ignorant bastard. the book is about how full of shit glen beck is and how he is fooling everyone into believing he everything he says is not for his own wealth and fame.
    glen beck is full of shit, that is what the book is about and it’s people like you who think he is a genius.
    now i know how idiots like christine oddonell win their primaries.

  • Ted-

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    holy shit music city
    you are one ignorant bastard. the book is about how full of shit glen beck is and how he is fooling everyone into believing he everything he says is not for his own wealth and fame.
    glen beck is full of shit, that is what the book is about and it’s people like you who think he is a genius.
    now i know how idiots like christine oddonell win their primaries.

    Remember that “ignorant bastard” is viewed as a compliment by these tea-baggers. For lack of a better word, stupid is good.

  • musiccityvic

    Ted- said:
    Remember that “ignorant bastard” is viewed as a compliment by these tea-baggers. For lack of a better word, stupid is good.

    Maybe we like to get our fiction writing from some other source other than a progressive. So your not surprised that a book that supposedly exposes Beck is not a best seller. Why wouldn’t all you Beck haters at lease support the likes of Milbank and buy the book. I suppose you’ll say that all you Progressives are already enlightened because your smarter than the rest of us because you read Obama’s books so there is no need to read a book that states all the “facts” you already know. With that logic I suggest you be first in line to purchase Beck’s next book so you can study what he is writing and then maybe do a column for Media Matters or the Huffington Post. Maybe you can even do a guest spot on the Lean over network.

  • Ted-

    musiccityvic said:
    Maybe we like to get our fiction writing from some other source other than a progressive. So your not surprised that a book that supposedly exposes Beck is not a best seller. Why wouldn’t all you Beck haters at lease support the likes of Milbank and buy the book. I suppose you’ll say that all you Progressives are already enlightened because your smarter than the rest of us because you read Obama’s books so there is no need to read a book that states all the “facts” you already know. With that logic I suggest you be first in line to purchase Beck’s next book so you can study what he is writing and then maybe do a column for Media Matters or the Huffington Post. Maybe you can even do a guest spot on the Lean over network.

    Why don’t you at “lease” learn how to communicate.

  • murf

    Ted- said:
    And if you did actually read Milbanks book you would have to rethink Beck

    Yep that’s it Ted ! Let’s all read Milbank’s NON-BIAS , FAIR take on Glenn Beck ! Y’know the guy who week after week writes bullshit in the Post about him.

    Not sure who is more paranoid/delusional you or Dana .

  • Ted-

    murf said:
    Yep that’s it Ted ! Let’s all read Milbank’s NON-BIAS , FAIR take on Glenn Beck ! Y’know the guy who week after week writes bullshit in the Post about him.

    Not sure who is more paranoid/delusional you or Dana .

    Open wide and strap on the feed back numb nuts – it’s time for Beck to feed you a great big helping of bullshit; come on back for seconds as I’m sure you will. Tell us, is ignorance really bliss?

  • murf

    Ted- said:
    Tell us, is ignorance really bliss?

    Only if you allow it to be Ted, hopefully one day you’ll grow out of that comfort zone .

  • george L

    I know enough about him to know he is as good at propaganda as any man ever was.
    I know because I have watched him.
    So, I don’t need to read the book.
    He will fade as fast as he got popular because he keeps crying that the sky is falling, but it won’t.

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    It’s now moved down to #3 in the “Television/History & Criticism” category behind the Smothers Brothers and “Days of our Lives” and for fun, it’s also number three in “Writing/Journalism”, a list topped by a book called “What the Dog Saw”.

    I haven’t read it and the fact that the excerpt linked from this site was just a rehashing of mostly previously published material (as I noted in my comment) didn’t make me want it, either. But as I see it, the problem is that there isn’t a market for the subject.

    As others have said, the Beck fans aren’t going to read it and those who might have an interest don’t really care that much about the subject to buy a book.

    Add all this to the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans have never heard of Glenn Beck or they only know him from seeing a bit on SNL or Stewart, Random House probably should have saved their money and perhaps Milbank should have considered publishing via Lulu or another on-demand printer, so that he’d get a better share of the take.

    After all, Lulu books can be marketed through Amazon, so based on the author’s name recognition and his reputation, it still could have achieved the same Amazon rank.

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  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    ETA: Though now history has a copy of Mr. Milbank’s book and in a hundred years, when some kid is doing a report about this era, they’ll be able to download a copy or get one from a Google Kiosk.

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  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    …and that’s a good thing.

  • Cancon2

    “Milbank is not partisan”, After writing something like that, how the hell can anybody take anything that the author writes seriously? You can’t, so toss it.

  • Azarkhan

    Magister said:
    Add all this to the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans have never heard of Glenn Beck

    LOL. How many do you think have heard of Dana Milbank?

  • disenlightened

    Dana Milbank, who couldn’t sell a book to his own mother, thought by using Glenn Beck’s name he might make a few bucks, like Al Franken used to do with Rush. Not going to work anymore. Liberals have no spare cash these days – just food stamps, and unions have all their workers’ dues tied up in electioneering.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Stupid idea for a book…

    People who like Glenn Beck are certainly not going to read it and people who don’t like Glenn Beck don’t want to read about Glenn Beck.

    Full of fail, it is.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Azarkhan said:
    LOL. How many do you think have heard of Dana Milbank?

    I kept thinking it was a woman when they introduced him on cable news. Dana Milbank is a sexy name.

    Then he came on and I was disappointed. :(

  • Bill Mahwer

    Why would someone buy a book to hear about him crying. You can just tune in his radio show daily and hear the crybaby cry for free.
    Just his schtick.

  • TfT

    I don’t know how anyone can say this with a straight face:

    “Milbank has never quite been a completely partisan figure”

    Dana was a regular hate spewer on MSNBC and with Olbermann for a long time; he sealed his fate as a completely partisan figure though that alone.

  • RIChris

    Milbank, like Obama, is finding out that insulting those whose support and money you seek, is embarrassingly stupid.

  • Pablo

    Jonathan Scott said:
    I am not at all surprised, everyone knows Glenn Beck fans don’t read. Put a fork in this guy he is done.

    And yet every book he puts out winds up at #1 on the NYT and Amazon bestsellers lists. I think everyone knows you’re illogical.

  • Pablo

    Milbank also cites Amazon numbers in his defense and, yes, Tears of a Clown is #2 on the “History and Criticism” bestsellers list.

    That’s the Books > Entertainment > Television > History & Criticism category. It would be tough to narrow it down much more than that, but if they added >Progressive Hacks to the category, Milbank would be #1. Beck’s new book, Broke, though not yet released, is #10 in Books. All books, that is. It’s also #1 in every subcategory Amazon lists.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Beck is a fake. I’ve written this many times, but now it’s been realized on another level. I’ve read analysis by Paul Waldman and heard on some show that this next Congress will be more divided than the one we have if the Republicans take over there.

    There is only one better argument for voting for Democratics than to realize that no domestic issues will get resolved if the R’s control Congress. Instead progress already made will get defunded, they will attempt to shut the gov’t down and some moron or two will want to impeach Obama because he hasn’t personally shown some Tea Party Congressman from the state of Dumbfukistan his birth certificate. Everyone who wants a dysfunctional government should vote Republican Nov. 2nd.

    The biggest reason to unseat Republicans is because of the Dred Scott decision of our time, i.e. CU v FEC. Everyone who wants to have a government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich (plutocracy) should vote for R’s this November. That’s the overriding issue of this and probably the next elections. The Party of Lincoln has become the Party of “Don’t tax the rich” and to hell with the middle class.

    Spread this far and wide. Take 10 minutes. Using e-mail, FB, Twitter, etc, please share this URL with every undecided and independent voter you know. Have them share it. “Populist” Glenn Beck was caught hobnobbing with the plutocrats. Share this URL:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/becks-fake-populism-exposed-he-sides.html

  • disenlightened

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Beck is a fake. I’ve written this many times, but now it’s been realized on another level…

    When did Glenn Beck define himself as a “populist”? You’re accusing Beck of not being true to YOUR definition of him. Hobnobbing? Plutocrats? Was your hair standing on end when you feverishly wrote this? Quit reading those stupid emails you get and start reading actual news.

  • Latin2

    The only Leftest who has sold a book with good number has been Jon Stewart, all the rest have sold miedra…este libro no vale madre.

    Fallo Epico!!!

  • JimBob

    I find this man GBR’s fetish, for want of a better word, for anything Glenn Beck very wierd
    indeed! What the hell is the point and why does he think anyone gives a damn what he thinks.
    Just curious! No disrespect intended.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Latin2 said:
    The only Leftest who has sold a book with good number has been Jon Stewart, all the rest have sold miedra…este libro no vale madre.

    Fallo Epico!!!

    Ummmm…then was that great rivalry O’Reilly had with his book and Hillary Clintons. He was a man POSSESSED with not being beaten by her on the NYT bestseller list., He lost to her quite a few weeks in a row if I recall correctly.

    Short memory you have.

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    xinren46 said:
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  • JimBob

    BFD. I think the public was curious to see if Hillary really would
    outline her real feelings about her husband, The President of the United States
    at the time having a little lardass intern, about a third his age under his desk while he was conversing
    with a member of congress or another Head of State! She didn’t!
    Not very many lib books do well, But you know that!
    Now books by conservatives————————–

  • JimBob

    What can I say!! :-))

  • Latin2

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Ummmm…then was that great rivalry O’Reilly had with his book and Hillary Clintons. He was a man POSSESSED with not being beaten by her on the NYT bestseller list., He lost to her quite a few weeks in a row if I recall correctly.

    Short memory you have.

    …and as the song goes;

    It used to be so natural
    To talk about forever
    But “used to be’s” don’t count anymore
    They just lay on the floor
    ’til we sweep them away

  • Phocus2

    Dana is a hack. Hacks are out of style, along with left newspapers, left networks, left cable ‘news’, and left everything else. The brooms are out, the dye is cast, and Milbank should find honest work…immediately.

  • Jelperman

    The reason this book isn’t such a big seller is because right-wing foundations aren’t buying it in bulk.

  • musiccityvic

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Beck is a fake. I’ve written this many times, but now it’s been realized on another level. I’ve read analysis by Paul Waldman and heard on some show that this next Congress will be more divided than the one we have if the Republicans take over there. There is only one better argument for voting for Democratics than to realize that no domestic issues will get resolved if the R’s control Congress. Instead progress already made will get defunded, they will attempt to shut the gov’t down and some moron or two will want to impeach Obama because he hasn’t personally shown some Tea Party Congressman from the state of Dumbfukistan his birth certificate. Everyone who wants a dysfunctional government should vote Republican Nov. 2nd. The biggest reason to unseat Republicans is because of the Dred Scott decision of our time, i.e. CU v FEC. Everyone who wants to have a government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich (plutocracy) should vote for R’s this November. That’s the overriding issue of this and probably the next elections. The Party of Lincoln has become the Party of “Don’t tax the rich” and to hell with the middle class. Spread this far and wide. Take 10 minutes. Using e-mail, FB, Twitter, etc, please share this URL with every undecided and independent voter you know. Have them share it. “Populist” Glenn Beck was caught hobnobbing with the plutocrats. Share this URL: http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/becks-fake-populism-exposed-he-sides.html

    This may be the single most ignorant post you’ve ever made on this board and that is saying alot since you set the bar so high. The single reason to vote FOR republicans is to stop every one of these terrible bills from seeing the light of day. Last week you lumped Dana Milbank in with this Paul Waldman and some other progressive nut who created a fake foundation to rip down Christianity. I’m glad that businesses can actually fight back now from all the business killing, job killing policies from Obama and his cronies. I’m sure your all for Unions spending millions and millions of dollars on elections because they support the Dems and I don’t remember seeing any uproar from the Left when Obama shut his verification software off when he was breaking fundraising records with foreign money. You leftists are hypocrites beyond belief. Twitter that to your friends.

  • http://thereaganomicsreport.blogspot.com Austin Reagan

    The only real master of the hack-job “unauthorized biography” is Kitty Kelly. And we all know how well she’s done since her smear of Nancy Reagan. (Let’ me think about it. . . didn’t I recently see something on “Entertainment Tonight” that she’s writing a tell-all about Tom Cruise’s second makeup artist?) Let’s face it, nobody with a multi-digit IQ is interested in reading such badly-written tripe. And in 100 years, history students won’t be downloading this book because nobody will care what delusions the brain-dead members of the left had about major media figures.

  • Alz

    Liberalism isn’t based on seeking the truth so a book like this from a liberal isn’t very appealing.

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    Azarkhan said to me:
    LOL. How many do you think have heard of Dana Milbank?

    Exactly.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Alz says:
    “Liberalism isn’t based on seeking the truth…..”

    You really believe the nonsense they tell you on FoxPAC; don’t you. Sad and pathetic. I wrote on another board:
    Part of the problem is that the distinction between liberalism and radicalism is not taught in schools. Therefore, Beck and others on FoxPAC can conflate the two different world views and render them equivalent. They’re not of course. Liberals strive for a level playing field; radicals strive for equal results, a tie (more or less) for everyone. For more on this, see: http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/what-is-glenn-beck-politically.html

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Just so happen to have published a Lawrence O’Donnell interview with Dana Milbank:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/milbank-explains-strange-man-glenn-beck.html

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Alz said:
    Liberalism isn’t based on seeking the truth…

    Conservatism is based on killing dark-skinned people and stealing all their shit.

    Tag, you’re it! ;-)

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    musiccityvic says: “The single reason to vote FOR republicans is to stop every one of these terrible bills from seeing the light of day.”

    Well, that’s the reactionary, Glenn Beck POV, for sure. Luckily, most people actually want effective government, not Beck’s reactionary, minimum, 19th Century Libertarianism. (That’s why Libertarians virtually NEVER get elected.)

    This is the choice voters really have: effective governance or defective gridlock in Washington for two years. Reactionaries fear progress and the rest of the world — including conservative — fear reactionaries.

    Also, because he ignored it, let me repeat:
    The biggest reason to unseat Republicans is because of the Dred Scott decision of our time, i.e. CU v FEC. Everyone who wants to have a government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich (plutocracy) should vote for R’s this November. That’s the overriding issue of this and probably the next elections. The Party of Lincoln has become the Party of “Don’t tax the rich” and to hell with the middle class. Spread this far and wide. Take 10 minutes. Using e-mail, FB, Twitter, etc, please share this URL with every undecided and independent voter you know. Have them share it. “Populist” Glenn Beck was caught hobnobbing with the plutocrats.

    Share this URL: http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/becks-fake-populism-exposed-he-sides.html

  • CAconservative

    An unauthorizes biography is like watching a documentary with only half the facts. The only thing interesting about this book is the cover. Whenever I see a grown man whining and crying over matters that would make anyone else mad, it tells me that person has deep-seeded emotional problems. Every time he goes into his irrational blubbering girly-man silliness, I turn the channnel because it’s embarrassing to watch.

  • cd ohio

    you guys crack me up, you really believe the reps or dems care about you lol, its power dummies

  • Alric_IV

    I wouldn’t expect this book to sell that much. Most of us already know what a douchebag Beck is, and I’d rather spend my time reading a book about something else altogether. If everyone would stop giving this man so much press — even the negative press, which only feeds the delusion that he’s some prophet persecuted because he’s a conservative — even his followers would eventually diminish in numbers. They’re only happy when they’re stirred up and think they’re defending something. Stop feeding into their delusion and the whole thing will deflate.

  • disenlightened

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Just so happen to have published a Lawrence O’Donnell interview with Dana Milbank:

    Was the interview about black men eating friend chicken while frantically tap dancing for their masters? Larry and Dana like that stuff.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    GlennBeckReview said:
    “Just so happen to have published a Lawrence O’Donnell interview with Dana Milbank:”

    disenlightened says:
    “Was the interview about black men eating friend chicken while frantically tap dancing for their masters? Larry and Dana like that stuff.”

    Disenlightened, when, if ever, were you enlightened? Seriously, you should change your sock puppet name to Unenlightened Racist or something along those lines.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    musiccityvic said:
    “Maybe we like to get our fiction writing from some other source other than a progressive.”

    Then read The Real America, Arguing with Idiots, Broke or any number of fiction based books from Beck.

    What you don’t know about Tears of a Clown is that everything is based upon WHAT BECK HAS SAID.

    Fiction? What Beck says is fiction; what Milbank shows are Beck’s words, his entertaining but ultimately deceitful words.

  • CosmosDan

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Stupid idea for a book…

    People who like Glenn Beck are certainly not going to read it and people who don’t like Glenn Beck don’t want to read about Glenn Beck.

    Full of fail, it is.

    That’s what I was thinking. What was the marketing strategy for this book. It may be good and full of interesting details, but I don’t need any of those details to help me decide about Beck. His loyal fans won’t read it because they’re immune to any criticism of GB , warranted or not.

  • cd ohio

    people can interpected words and what people says any way they want, just look at the constitution

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Stupid idea for a book…People who like Glenn Beck are certainly not going to read it and people who don’t like Glenn Beck don’t want to read about Glenn Beck. Full of fail, it is.

    CosmosDan says:
    “That’s what I was thinking. What was the marketing strategy for this book. It may be good and full of interesting details, but I don’t need any of those details to help me decide about Beck.”

    There’s another category of person, people who don’t know much of anything about Beck. They can get the information (pro and con) they seek online.

    So Milbank’s target audience are offline people who don’t know about Beck but care enough about him to buy a book. I have to agree with your Big F-ing Deal; it probably won’t sell much. And still Milbank won’t give me an interview.

    The last time I contacted Alex Zaitchik, his book Common Nonsense wasn’t selling very well either.

  • Alz

    Man, you liberals are really sensative. Look, few people want to read left wing nonsense. Everyone knows the positions can be changed anyways so why bother reading.

  • Nahu Tuk

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Spread this far and wide. Take 10 minutes. Using e-mail, FB, Twitter, etc, please share this URL with every undecided and independent voter you know. Have them share it. “Populist” Glenn Beck was caught hobnobbing with the plutocrats. Share this URL:

    Just out of curiosity, how much money do you get for each person who clicks on your website or links you post to your website?

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Alz said:
    Look, few people want to read left wing nonsense.

    Few people want to read nonsense of any kind and yet you continue to post comments. Go figure. ;-)

  • Nahu Tuk

    http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/47006/

    Unlike some others who get money when people click on a site they post, I do not. This one is a story of how Politico posted an interview attributed to Glenn Beck, but it was NOT Glenn Beck. Has Politico stepped over the line? You decide.

  • Sunnyr

    Poor Dana. Now that Glenn Becks new book “BROKE” came out, it will be on the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER LIST for weeks and YOU will be sucking wind.

    Leave the books to the big boys, Dana. You just aren’t up to it.

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Just so happen to have published a Lawrence O’Donnell interview with Dana Milbank:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/milbank-explains-strange-man-glenn-beck.html

    Just now, I clicked on the link to see if there may be some truth to Nahu Tuk’s allegation and your thing up top, the stuff about Vapo Rub and the crying photo… John Cook and Gawker published a three and half minute video from the photo shoot, starting with the Vapo Rub last June and though his fans might not like the tone of the post, the video makes it look like everyone was having fun.

    Oh, and the crying, plus the Vapo Rub was the photographer’s idea. So, you know.

  • Bad Wolf

    Beck’s believers only want to read books that confirm he is their Messiah.
    No one else cares.

  • Bad Wolf

    Sunnyr said:
    Poor Dana. Now that Glenn Becks new book “BROKE” came out, it will be on the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER LIST for weeks and YOU will be sucking wind.

    Leave the books to the big boys, Dana. You just aren’t up to it.

    BTW- Who was the ghost writer for this Beck inspired “best seller.”

  • Bad Wolf

    Alz said:
    Man, you liberals are really sensative. Look, few people want to read left wing nonsense. Everyone knows the positions can be changed anyways so why bother reading.

    Liberals just don’t need the “hand holding” that their reassuring books provide.
    Guess it comes from a sense of security.

  • Bad Wolf

    Liberals just don’t need the “hand holding” that conservatives find in their reassuring books..
    Guess it comes from a sense of security.

    (Guess I was feeling too secure!)

  • Pablo

    Bad Wolf said:
    BTW- Who was the ghost writer for this Beck inspired “best seller.”

    It’s a collaborative project produced by Mercury Radio Arts. It isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. It will, however, reach #1 on both Amazon and the NYT lists.

  • Bad Wolf

    Pablo said:
    It’s a collaborative project produced by Mercury Radio Arts. It isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. It will, however, reach #1 on both Amazon and the NYT lists.

    I’m guessing it’s the warmed over narrative from his radio and tv shows.
    Makes the perfect Christmas gift. Donate one to your local halfway house today.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    disenlightened says: “When did Glenn Beck define himself as a “populist”?”

    When he said, “We surround them.” The uber-fat cats do not surround us. They are buying this election, so they may surround us. Check it out:
    Connect with Facebook; it’s pretty awesome. http://cnnbc.moveon.org/?id=24638-18093351-A_hvjcx&t=2

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Nahu Tuk says:
    “Just out of curiosity, how much money do you get for each person who clicks on your website or links you post to your website?”

    $0.00 Some people are actually concerned about their country first, unlike Mr. Beck’s self-promotion that does make him wealthy.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Magister says:
    “Oh, and the crying, plus the Vapo Rub was the photographer’s idea. So, you know.”

    And that makes Beck’s tears less fake?

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