{"id":37802,"date":"2013-06-13T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/i-dont-know-if-i-would-ghost-write-for-glenn-beck.html"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:59:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T14:59:30","slug":"i-dont-know-if-i-would-ghost-write-for-glenn-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/i-dont-know-if-i-would-ghost-write-for-glenn-beck.html","title":{"rendered":"I don't know if I would ghost write for Glenn Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"
But if I did, I can guarantee you, with all due humility and honesty, that it would be better than this. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Or, put another way, If I ever wrote a paragraph — let alone the several quoted here — as … um … bad … well, I hope my friends would be kind enough to let me know, so that I could hang up my writing ambitions and … take up needlepoint, or growing roses, or something like that.<\/p>\n

And yet it will sell a zillion copies, like its predecessor, and net Beck big bundles of cash. Yeesh.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Eye Of Moloch: Glenn Beck Managed To Write A Novel Worse Than The Overton Window<\/a><\/p>\n

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But if I did, I can guarantee you, with all due humility and honesty, that it would be better than this. \u00a0 Or, put another way, If I ever wrote a paragraph — let alone the several quoted here — as … um … bad … well, I hope my friends would be kind enough … Continue reading “I don't know if I would ghost write for Glenn Beck”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24472,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/not-that-i-ever-listen-to-anything-glenn-beck-says.html","url_meta":{"origin":37802,"position":0},"title":"Not that I ever listen to anything Glenn Beck says","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Dec-11 2:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But it's sometimes kind of interesting, as Beck claims (inexplicably) that Gingrich and Obama are both \"big government progressives\" (um, definitely not and sadly not) and therefore if the Tea Partiers are supporting Gingrich, it must be a racist thing on their part.Yeah, it's more than a bit goofy, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/glenn-beck-is-a-dolt-but-i-repeat-myself.html","url_meta":{"origin":37802,"position":1},"title":"Glenn Beck is a dolt (but I repeat myself)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-May-13 9:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"I would dearly love to ignore Beck, but since one of the nation's most powerful lobbying organization his having him speak at their annual convention, I guess he's still newsworthy.In this case, Beck is all up in arms (so to speak)\u00a0about his conviction that the \"uber-Left\" ran\u00a0a phony\u00a0gun incident, just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48443,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/you-keep-using-that-word-glenn-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means.html","url_meta":{"origin":37802,"position":2},"title":"You keep using that word, Glenn. 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