Beck Glenn: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

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#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio and tv host Glenn Beck's ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life's most important arguments. FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes. Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is...this book. Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts. And this book is full of them. The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you'll tell them all about England's handgun ban (see page 53). When they tell you that we should copy the UK's health-care system, you'll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244.And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you'll stop saying "no, they won't" and you'll start saying, "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just 8 a year more on produce." (See page 139.) Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth. Z knihy rozhovorov Gustáva Murína znejú súčasne hlasy troch ikon československého humoru - Milana Lasicu, Stanislava Štepku a Jiřího Suchého. Všetci traja majú niečo spoločné: spočiatku boli súčasťou humoristickej dvojice, sú autormi textov pesničiek, ktoré sa hrajú dodnes, a z nadšených amatérov sa stali principálmi divadla. Hoci nechceli byť politickými glosátormi, dostali sa do nepriazne vtedajšej politickej moci. Sami seba považujú skôr za domasedov, no po zmene režimu prešli kus sveta. Ich výpovede úsmevne i vážne charakterizujú jednu veľkú epochu, ktorej úskaliami prešli - každý po svojom - a nestratili pritom chuť a silu rozosmievať nás....