I haven’t read Glenn Beck’s new thriller, The Overton Window. So I don’t have an opinion about it. (Though I did write this, yesterday.) The guy who read it for the Washington Post can’t find a better point of reference than an infamous racist tract and thinks it may inspire right-wing terrorism:

The danger of books like this is that radical readers may take the story’s fiction for fact, or interpret the fiction — which Beck encourages — as a reflection of a reality that they must fend off by any means necessary. “The Overton Window” risks falling into the tradition of other anti-government novels such as “The Turner Diaries” by William L. Pierce, which became a handbook of extremists and inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

The review’s headline calls the book “paranoid.” But that sounds like a more accurate description for the reviewer, Steven Levingston.

It’s a good thing those yahoos who cling to their guns and religion can’t read.

UPDATE: From a reader:

Whereas there was never any such danger with books, plays and films depicting the assassination of George W. Bush, or which portrayed him as the force behind the September 11th attacks. And there has never been a potentially dangerous *left*-wing anti-goverment tradition. Book and films like “The Paralax View”, “Executive Action”, “Three Days of the Condor” (six days in the novel) aren’t at all political or anti-government. They just depict the dangers of the American fascism that everyone knows is hiding just beneath the surface of everyone and everything that is not explicitly of the Left.