A satirical "NOTE" from BecKKK to his ghostwriter of The UBERtonWindow but GHOSTWRITER is real

[UTUSN]

On Edit: Changed the thread Subject title to reflect that the NOTE is satire but the GHOSTWRITING is real.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-camp/leaked-glenn-becks-angry_b_639207.html

LEAKED: Glenn Beck's Angry Note to the Ghostwriter Who Scammed Him

Lee Camp
Comedian featured in new bestselling book "Satiristas!" & www.LeeCamp.net

Recently it came to light that Glenn Beck's new novel The Overton Window is rather similar to another crappy novel Circumference of Darkness. It seems that the reason for this is that the ghostwriter of Beck's novel, Jack Henderson, also wrote Circumference of Darkness. Now a correspondence has been found from an angry Glenn Beck to his hired hack. Apparently Beck thought he was buying a new novel to put his name all over.



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[arcadian]

1. Uhhhhh whaaaaa? Glenn Beck doesn't write his own books?

Shocking :sarcasm:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. As tempted as I am to revel in this, does anyone really believe this belongs to Beck?

Too many misspellings, too much profanity (even for Beck), and too much egomania (well, this is a toss-up). And just too convenient. It's something I'd make up for the sake of satire.

[UTUSN]

6. The note might be satire, but the ghostwriter, plot & suckiness are all REAL(from BillMAHER's writer

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/glenn-beck-says-i-say-hes_b_637440.html

Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist

Chris Kelly
Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher

Posted: July 7, 2010

.... Back in June, I posted something here about a novel with Glenn Beck's name on the cover called The Overton Window. I pointed out that it shared a lot of pretty tired plotting with a sad, self-published piece of jerk-off fan-fiction called Circumference of Darkness. And I pointed out that the similarities were hardly surprising, since a man named Jack Henderson was both the author of Circumference and the ghostwriter of Overstock, or Overweight, or whatever Beck's awful book was called. ....

My point was that Beck, a lazy chiseler, had done the literary equivalent of buying a term paper online, and that the bottom feeder who'd sold it to him had sold it elsewhere before. I don't know how much clearer I could have been.

It wasn't, as it turns out, clear enough for Glenn Beck. He says I've accused him of plagiarism. ....

(QUOTE from BecKKK: ) "While I was on tour I started to read Jack Henderson's book. And I said, "Well let's see if we can get him to write." Jack has been working on this... it's pretty hard to steal from someone you employ. ( :UNQUOTE)


Tell that to Rush Limbaugh's maid.

I'm in genuine awe of Beck's ability to get self-righteous about paying someone else to do his work, so he can put his own name on it and foist it on rubes. But the problem is I never said Beck stole anything. I said Henderson stole from him. By selling him a used book. ....


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[UTUSN]

10. O.K., it's OFFICIAL: the GHOSTWRITING is real. The note is satire.

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http://www.newser.com/story/92800/who-authored-glenn-becks-new-novel.html

Beck's Thriller a Ripoff of His Ghostwriter's Last Book?

(User Submitted) – The plot of Glenn Beck's new political thriller, The Overton Window, reads a whole heck of a lot like that of Circumference of Darkness, notes the Huffington Post. That just so happens to have been written in 2005 by Jack Henderson. Who just so happened to have ghostwritten Overton Window. Only in Beck's novel, the bad guy is no longer the right wing. Can you guess who is? Correct. The left. Click here to read about the plot similarities.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/glenn-becks-new-novel-abo_b_613861.html?ir=Daily Brief

Glenn Beck's New Novel About Liberals Staging 9/11 Is a Lot Like a 2005 Novel About Conservatives Staging 9/11

Chris Kelly
Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher

Posted: June 16

.... But mostly The Overton Window resembles a pretty feeble self-published 2005 techno-thriller called Circumference of Darkness. ....

So why -- except for the completely inverted politics -- does The Overton Window read so much like Circumference of Darkness? Because they were written by the same guy, a 52-year-old computer programmer named Jack Henderson.

He gets sole credit on Circumference. (And why shouldn't he? He published it himself.) On Overton, he gets thanked by Beck for "pouring his heart and soul into this project."

And, apparently, his leftover plot.




http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/06/16/the-f-up-world-of-glenn-beck/

06.16.10 The F—– Up World of Glenn Beck

Dick Destiny
Aka George Smith e-mail: webmaster at dickdestiny

.... Anyway, at the time, Henderson told me he was doing a writing gig for someone famous, a name he couldn’t disclose.

Given today’s news and what I remember about the conversation, and Jack’s comment that he hoped I wouldn’t think askance of it when I saw the eventual product, I infer he was actually the ghost-writer for Beck’s The Overton Window. Or something along those lines.

It’s no surprise.

Given what I’ve seen of Glenn Beck’s shows, the incoherent and/or nonsensical arguments delivered daily, it would be a stretch to expect lucid print from Beck sans substantial propping up. ....

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[UTUSN]

11. Here's Lee CAMP, the comedian/creator of the "note"

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http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/comedy/83915/lee-camp-three-to-watch-comedy

Lee Camp

By Matthew Love

Some people hate Lee Camp. It’s just something the passionate, opinionated stand-up has to come to terms with. And though his opinions about abortion and assisted suicide hurtle out with volume and vitriol, he’s not a blowhard; he’s a comedian talking honestly about what matters to him, looking to hook his audience with a tightly worded phrase or recognizable pop culture riff. “I do great with two thirds of the crowd; one third just stares at me thinking, This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen,” says Camp, 29. “I’d rather have some fraction of the crowd love me than have everybody think I’m pretty good.”

This underlying philosophy was evident in his now-famous 2008 appearance on Fox News, during which he stopped telling jokes about Mike Huckabee to call the network a “festival of ignorance.” His bold gesture earned him inclusion in Paul Provenza’s new interview collection, ¡Satiristas!, among heavy-hitters like Lewis Black and George Carlin; he’s also got a spot on Provenza’s new Showtime series, which should air later this year. “Our culture thinks dispassion and cynicism are more sophisticated than actually caring to communicate ideas and passions. What Lee does is more demanding, both intellectually and comedically,” says Provenza. “He’s waiting for a generation to catch up with him.”

This past fall, Camp challenged himself to create an hour of material; he’ll shoot a DVD of it, Chaos for the Weary, at the Tank Theater on March 26. Though this date sold out a month in advance, Camp will encore the set on April 29. Chances are, if the crowd doesn’t hate him, they’ll love him.

Lee Camp records Chaos for the Weary Fri 26 at The Tank with a repeat performance Apr 29. ¡Satiristas! (itbooks, $30) comes out May 11.

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[Deep13]

8. Yeah, there seem to be too many intentional ironies.

And I doubt Beck would be stupid enough to commit overt racism to writing. I also think he would have had his secretary type the note.

[burnsei sensei]

9. Beck is too cunning of a snake to be so

candid.

[ericinne]

3. Fake

OK, it had me for a little bit, but the more I kept reading, I was like... NO WAY.

I don't see Beck being THAT stupid as to write so much inflammatory stuff about himself.

[TheWraith]

4. Um, that is CLEARLY satire.

Not that it's not true, but Beck would never write that stuff about himself.

[n2doc]

7. Lee Camp is a satirist n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

5. It's funny. But I'd like to see some handwriting comparisons or something

like that. At this point is doesn't pass the old "smell test".