Tears of a Clown Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Dana Milbank
SCORE
1.5
TOTAL RATINGS
179

Tears of a Clown by Dana Milbank Book Summary

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he’s the patriot or the tyrant, he’s definitely full of manure.

The wildly popular Fox News host with three million daily viewers perfectly captures the vitriol of our time and the fact-free state of our political culture. The secret to his success is his willingness to traffic in the fringe conspiracies and Internet hearsay that others wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: death panels, government health insurance for dogs, FEMA concen­tration camps, an Obama security force like Hitler’s SS.

But Beck, who is, according to a recent Gallup poll, admired by more Americans than the Pope, has nothing in his background that identifies him as an ideologue, giving rise to the speculation that his right-wing shtick is just that—the act of a brilliant showman, known for both his over-the-top daily out­rages and for weeping on the air.

Milbank describes, with lacerating wit, just how the former shock jock without a college degree has managed to become the most recognizable leader of antigovernment conservatives and exposes him as the guy who is single-handedly giving patri­otism a bad name.

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Book Name Tears of a Clown
Genre Political Science
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Language English
E-Book Size 2.25 MB

Tears of a Clown (Dana Milbank) Book Reviews 2024

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Terrible. If Glenn Beck is "full of manure" the author of this is obviously full of much worse. The book attacks his values rather than actually arguing political points.

A sight 4 sore eyes!!!ii. Any one who dismisses a critical review of beck NEVER had a Socratic thought process in his or her life. Most beck enthusiasts unfortunately don't spend time in a library let alone read any credible American history. An accurate quantification of beck's delusions that we ultimately realized is ZERO. One obvious example of an education deficit is when a beck follower mentions socialism or communists in a pejorative manner they fail to realize those "horrible commies" have over the years, made it possible for anybody who must work for a living to get a paycheck that sustains human life while working in safe conditions. We adults used to hound you about doing your homework when you were kids so you don't sound like idiots when you opened your mouth. Unfortunately reading and following beck has the same detrimental effect. This book is a sight for sore eyes.

No Substance. This book seems like a typical cheap-shot piece. It launches personal attacks on Beck's values and personality, but doesn't argue his ideas or reporting.

Great. Awesome!

Boring. Makes a good coaster or pillow.

Poorly written. More communist garbage. Author should stick to books for kids. Glenn is a good guy.

Complete trash. Sorry I wasted my time reading this garbage

One big long rant. This "book" is just one big long rant ridiculing Beck from an obviously biased viewpoint. There is no objectivity whatsoever. A horribly written piece of literature, and a lowly thing to have one's name associated with. Write something worth reading, for goodness sake.

Wow. Pathetic book...it's easy to make fun of someone who is passionate in what they believe in get a life

Tears of a Clown. What should concern the people reading these reviews is that the description of the book is already in the form of an opinion! Shouldnt the description of the book be neutral, just telling what is in the book and what it is about? It sounds like to me that whoever wrote the "description' of this book has already made up your mind for you!

Hit job. Not accurate at all

Seriously?. This might be the worst thing that ever happened to literature.

Obvious garbage. Just from reading the sample of this "book" I learned that this i nothing more than garbage with no literary worth at all. I am glad that I was able to sample this and see how useless this piece of garbage is. When will the left finally grow beyond throwing mud and start discussing the issues? It is so terrible to see a former drug addict turn to Christ and turn around his life and go from nothing to a massive success.

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Summary of Tears of a Clown by Dana Milbank

The Tears of a Clown book written by Dana Milbank was published on 05 October 2010, Tuesday in the Political Science category. A total of 179 readers of the book gave the book 1.5 points out of 5.

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