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ChuckW 4:16 am on June 19, 2009 Permalink
Plan to buy and read Glen Beck’s new book, Common Sense, in the next week or so. Would like to hear comments and thoughts of any who have read it.
I hope that we will have some blue state conservatives get motivated. It doesn’t do a lot of good for me to write my senators and my congressman because they are already conservative. If we conservatives cannot mobilize a PEACEFUL resistance to the liberal wave that is gushing forth from Washington, we won’t even recognize this country in ten years….or less
Tom 6:54 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink
I picked this up and read it this past weekend. It was better than I thought it would be. I find Glen Beck’s show less incisive than several others of the conservative talk show hosts. He rants more. He is entertaining, but doesn’t make me think as much. So I was surprised that I got just the opposite reaction from his approach on Common Sense.
Thomas Sowell has an interesting piece out this morning (http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/28/disaster_in_the_making) on how Obama is not leading us in a post racial society; quite the opposite. He is inciting worse race relations. Beck echoes the same theme where, on page 104 as one example, he talks about how future generations will look back at what we are doing today and ask the very rationale question – “Did you not see it coming?” I have made the same statement in the context of slavery being a dark segment of our history. Today we look back at that and ask, “How could they have been confused about that?” I fully expect that future generations will look back at us and ask, “How could they not see the right answer to the abortion issue?” I also have suggested that slavery, like abortion, is not a political issue. It is a moral issue. And I confess to some concern. We do not act as moral individuals far too often, and as a result, not as a moral society.
Beck addresses that as well. I really like the quote he has from Arthur Ashe where he observes that the 1972 race riots in LA were not “us”. He laments that the black society was one of dignity and morality that wanted fairness for everyone. He further observes that such dignity has morphed into retribution and retaliation; revenge, not justice. I had not seen it articulated that way before, but it clarified my thinking on the subject.
I also like his concluding sentiment where he tells the story of Ben Franklin and George Washington at the signing of the Constitution in 1787. Franklin noted that the back of Washington’s chair had rays of sunshine in its styling and he had wondered if it represented a setting or rising sun. He concluded that it was rising. Maybe that’s what is wrong with California. The sun is always setting on California.
So my vote is a thumbs-up. Worth the very short time it takes to read. It puts a lot of context around current events, and makes a strong call to action before it is too late. And maybe I will pay a little more attention to his TV show.