Glenn Beck's Common Sense - #1 on Amazon.com

[FrankRep]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books

Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine (Paperback)
by Glenn Beck

Any good?

 

[FrankRep]

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (Author)

Ranked #21

http://www.amazon.com/Common-Rights.../dp/0451528891/ref=pd_ts_b_21?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

[MRoCkEd]

Has anyone read it here?

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

No it just came out ..maybe only a week or two. tones

 

[disorderlyvision]

I haven't read it yet, but my dad gave me a copy today. i will probably chck it out. My dad is a big beck fan, me...not so much

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

I want to read it though. I'm building a Liberty Library. I just finished the Judges book "The Constitution in Exile"...really great. It was like my Constitutional Law class in college. I am now reading DiLorenzo's Lincoln Unmasked. I wrote an op ed piece for my local paper...Lincoln-Man, Myth, Legend. I used a lot of footnotes from several good books. After Lincoln Unmasked, I have the Israel Lobby and USA Foreign Policy, then 1984, then Atlas Shrugged..whew..got a lot of readin to do! Tones

 

[raiha]

I don't think Thomas Paine would lke Glen Beck. He's a spoilt, self-indulgent brat.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Why on earth did he feel the need to rewrite a classic?

 

[ClayTrainor]

I think i'm going to read Thomas Paine's book, before i take the time to read Beck's.

 

[Pennsylvania]

lol glenn beck

 

[emazur]

Why on earth did he feel the need to rewrite a classic?

Campaign for Liberty supports Common Sense Revisited:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=20144

 

[krazy kaju]

I don't think Thomas Paine would lke Glen Beck. He's a spoilt, self-indulgent brat.

Thomas Paine was probably more leftist than Glenn Beck. For one thing, Paine supported public education, a progressive income tax and a guaranteed income. Our welfare state doesn't even have the latter.

Why on earth did he feel the need to rewrite a classic?

He isn't rewriting it as much as he's writing a book inspired by it.

 

[angelatc]

Why on earth did he feel the need to rewrite a classic?

I had the same initial reaction, but if putting his name on it gets people to read it, then it isn't a bad thing, I guess.

 

[Kade]

It's an insult of Thomas Paine.


For an actual book worth reading:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Common_Sense

The added benefit is that it is free, and comes with audio reading for the half of you who can't read... just click on the link and then click on the little grey with blue arrow buttons.

Learn something.

 

[columbusviking]

Beck trying to update Common Sense? Isn't this blasphemy or something? I highly encourage people to read Common Sense by Thomas Paine, but I don't trust Beck one bit.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

It's an insult of Thomas Paine.


For an actual book worth reading:

[url]http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Common_Sense[/URL]

The added benefit is that it is free, and comes with audio reading for the half of you who can't read... just click on the link and then click on the little grey with blue arrow buttons.

Learn something.

I'm pretty sure all here can read (this site is mostly text, after all), but many have problems with comprehension(especially the Statists who can't understand even simple articles about autarchism).

 

[jmdrake]

Loud mouthed entertainer - common sense = Glen Beck

Beck keeps stabbing us in the back. I don't know why anyone listens to him.

 

[Cowlesy]

I'd strongly suggest folks read the real Common Sense before reading an interpretation of it.

 

[silverhawks]

Loud mouthed entertainer - common sense = Glen Beck

Beck keeps stabbing us in the back. I don't know why anyone listens to him.

This, a thousand times over. I cannot fathom why anyone here takes Beck seriously after his comments towards Dr Paul, the C4L and now anyone daring to question the official story behind 9/11. He's a corporate military-industrial-Congressional shill, trying to incite violence as the trigger for government to declare martial law.

The revolution when it finally comes will NOT be televised, and it will not be started by a two-faced hack who does not deserve to share even a cover credit with Thomas Paine, let alone comparisons of patriotism.

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

I read common sense. tones