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Reader Feedback: Glenn Beck and the Overton Window

(June 18) -- Editors note: The op-ed by TV and radio commentator Glenn Beck ("What's the 'Overton Window' and Why Should You Care?") generated a tremendous amount of reader feedback, both positive and negative. Below is a sampling of those sent to the opinion@aolnews.com e-mail box. The letters have been edited for length...

Opinion: What's the 'Overton Window' and Why Should You Care?

(June 15) -- If you aren't the least bit concerned about the health of America's freedoms, you are either a) in a multiyear-long drug induced coma, B) Sean Penn, or C) dead. And you've definitely never heard of Overton's Window. The Overton Window is a political theory developed by the late Joseph Overton, a brilliant...

Background on Overton Window

The Overton window, in political theory, describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue.

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