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    Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
    Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
    Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
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    Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

    Written by Glenn Beck, Steve (Stu) Burguiere and Pat Gray

    Narrated by Glenn Beck

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    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, provides the ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life’s most important arguments.

    FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE.

    The #1 New York Times bestseller that gives you the right answers when idiots leave you speechless!

    It 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 get more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. But never fear, for Glenn Beck has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths and small minds: knowing the facts.

    And this book is full of them.

    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 insist 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 you hear how produce prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you’ll have the perfect rebuttal (from page 139). Armed with the ultimate weapon—the truth—you can now tolerate (and who knows, maybe even enjoy?) your encounters with idiots everywhere!

    *Idiots can’t be identified through voting records; look instead for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 22, 2009
    ISBN9780743596886
    Author

    Glenn Beck

    Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio host and founder of TheBlaze television network, has written thirteen #1 bestselling books and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture book genres. His recent fiction works include the thrillers Agenda 21, The Overton Window, and its sequel, The Eye of Moloch; his many nonfiction titles include The Great Reset, Conform, Miracles and Massacres, Control, and Being George Washington. For more information about Glenn Beck, his books, and TheBlaze television network, visit GlennBeck.com and TheBlaze.com.

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    • 5/5
      A straightforward, non-partisan look at the failings of Big Government.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Book on CD read by the author, Steve (Stu) Bergiere, and Pat Gray 1* I’d never heard of Glenn Beck, but apparently, he has a popular radio show. Now that I’ve heard of him, I’ll be sure to never listen to his show.My major problem with this was that, while Beck may have some coherent and well-researched responses to many issues, he chose to over-exaggerate the opposing viewpoint – i.e. calling anyone who voices an opposing viewpoint an idiot. In some cases he didn’t even argue the point. Painting the opposition with such a wide brush just reduces the effectiveness of his arguments rather than strengthen them. Beck voices the audio along with two talented performers. However, I was really irritated with the “voice” of the “idiots” and wished I could speed up the delivery. I wound up reading the last two chapters in text format. I’d give the audio ZERO stars.
    • 3/5
      Some good points, although rather inflammatory and confrontational in nature.
    • 1/5
      This book can be described in one word: specious.

      The amount of logical fallacies and sourcing follies for ten writers and nine contributors is mind-numbing. Red herrings abound. Implying that the cherry picked comparisons are the only options. The Logic 101 fails are beyond numerous and epic.Even more frustrating is their use of an index format collection of citations at the end - makes fact checking so laborious that I gave up after the second chapter. It took too much to try to figure out what was cited and what was editorial. And a majority of the citations were from blogs and tabloid articles! Some from Beck's own blog... Fact-checking books like these can be a fun exercise that usually counter balances the loss of brain cells suffered by reading them, but they made it too exhausting to get even that little benefit.

      He/they were so off base of two subjects I know quite a bit about: energy and health care. I was stunned at the wrong-wing rhetoric. well, not really. And the chapters on unions, presidents, economy, etc... inane and made worse by the perpetual random unrelated ad hominem pop ups saturated with sarcasm. The only chapter that had a semblance of intelligence was on education. Undermined, unfortunately, by his propensity for out-of-nowhere Pelosi-isms.

      Disclosure: I thought Beck was an idiot before I read this. Arguing with Himself confirmed my opinion.

    • 3/5
      Good read. Meticulously researched and well written. I enjoyed Beck's insights.
    • 4/5
      I consider myself politically illiterate to an embarrassing extent, so I've decided to do some reading, which I thought would be, uh, not so light. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was not bored when reading this at all! (Except maybe at the end, when he went through all the amendments and made comments about those--my brain shut off.) I was pleased that I understood more than I thought I would, most of it being simple and straightforward. The things he said really rang true to me, and it's an added bonus that he's funny. It also helped that there was an "idiot" in the book asking stupid questions. It was understandable, it was funny, and once you got the gist of what he was saying, it was a little scary. Will be reading more.
    • 3/5
      I'm giving this book 3 stars only because it's is so ADD that it made it hard for me to read. Can't beat Glenn's facts and thorough understanding of the culture we are presently enduring, though.
    • 4/5
      We just got assigned this book for our gov't class. Seriously. Well that was fun, I guess. I don't like reading for school, so I went into this book in a bad mood. As always, though, Beck is uproariously funny, and I just got a kick of the fact that he's "required reading" on the college level. Hey, I'm not complaining though. As long as it's not Franken :P
    • 5/5
      I great read. It's a bit time consuming to read, as it has lots of side quotes and sub readings on each page but it is filled with lots of details and facts from start to finish. Beck backs up all his claims with a long list of citations in the back of the book. Love him or hate him you will be hard pressed to challenge much of what he presents from a smaller government, Constitutional point of view.The book is also quite humorous. Beck has a certain writing quality that makes it enjoyable to dive into a big political read without losing interest.
    • 4/5
      It is astonishing to me to find myself being the first to list this book and to rate it.Mr. Beck must have a huge staff of busy little bees tabulating so many things as he reports in this book. Reading those numbers even got to be a bit tiresome until one took time off. The cover picture is grossly misleading -- this is a fine mind. He does have an agenda but he seems to have everybody on his radar screen. I would tell anyone and everyone this is worth a read, if for no other reason than to see there are two sides, at least, to issues.