An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe was written to illustrate how to take concepts that conservatives hold dear to their hearts and apply them to "solve the world's problems." The authors take concepts like global warming (which apparently is a lie), and discuss how politicians manipulate these concepts in order to get their desired results or further their own agendas. He discusses other topics not so relevant to these political concepts, like blind dating, and then other political issues such as government spending. The title itself is a play on the Al Gore book An Inconvenient Truth, which in and of itself sums up the purpose of the book. It was, at times, a rather scathing annihilation of everything liberals hold dear to their hearts, and the title leads into the first chapter on the big scam that is Global Warming. .
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The book isn't so much a presentation of facts as a political commentary. Glenn Beck has a radio show full of talking points and this book isn't very different from that so the methodology is a sort of blend between autobiographical anecdotes full of his own opinions, his "common sense" approach to problems but also the use of primary data such as statistics. He manipulates these statistics in order to achieve his own agenda, which is to attempt to make you see things his way, which is slightly ironic as he bashes this practice of using, abusing, and omitting information to achieve one's political agenda.
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While usually I would take what Glenn Beck says with a grain of salt because I listen to his radio show regularly and know him to be pretty far to the right and not the Independent he claims to be, this book did occasionally surprise me with little bits that were not showing conservatives in the most positive of lights. Some of the things he said were also not in line with what you would think of when you think of Glenn Beck. His commentary on small business was a little disconcerting as it came across a little bit like he wasn't in favor of "making it easier" on small business which is a pretty universal Conservative ideal.
