The Glenn Beck Program - 7/6/17 - This Is What Happens To Socialized Health Care? (Ben Shapiro Joins Glenn)

Episode Date: July 6, 2017

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. Hello America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I don't think there is anything in the world, literally, that is more important than the case in Great Britain. I know our president needs to be prayed for, needs divine protection over in Europe. He's meeting in Poland. He is meeting with Putin, the G20. In Germany, they have said that the soldiers that are protecting the G20

need to take their uniforms off for their own safety. They're expecting major riots. We have North Korea on the edge. My wife was leaving this morning for the airport, and I told her, honey, I don't think this is going to happen, but you're gone for a week and a half. If war breaks out and I call you and say, Get on an airplane, please get on an airplane and come home.

The world is a mess. We are in a place where we could lose the Western way of life. But I am more concerned about us losing our own humanity. And it all comes down to a little child in intensive care, in a hospital that is run literally, by Peter Pan. The story of Charlie Guard vital to our humanity. We begin there

right now. Of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glen. Charlie Guard, a story that the English are very aware of. And it is a really important case

for the entire West. It's a story. story that up until Matt Walsh reported this on the blaze, it was not being reported here in America. Matt's going to be on with us next hour. He broke this story

really, or broke it into the consciousness of America, with a story that he wrote about this infant, this baby that is fighting for its life. Charlie Gard,

he's on life support in a London hospital. He has a rare genetic disorder. There's only 16 people in the world that have had this. It prevents his cells from producing enough energy to sustain his organs. At this moment, he can't move or breathe on his own. The parents have raised $1.6 or $7 million to move, Charlie, to an American hospital. Why would you move him to an American hospital?

Well, because socialized medicine is not as good as the medicine here in the United States. There is a doctor here at Columbia that has dealt with this very genetic disorder before, and there is a child that is living with this now five years after treatment, and is doing better off the ventilator, beginning to move his hands and his feet, and the parents say he's a happy child. But does he have a life worth living? What kind of life is that?

The hospital took the parents to court. They said they need to let the baby die. They won a series of court rulings, the final one last week in their Supreme Court. It was a EU decision. It allowed them to turn off the ventilator and the feeding machines that are keeping Charlie alive. They asked for just a few more days. They say there's this experimental therapy in the United States.

They have the money. The Pope has offered help. Donald Trump has offered help. And yet, Teresa May is saying the child has to die. We're going to tell you this story today because this is not about an isolated child. Slate magazine already, immediately, puts out a story. The right is going to make this into a horror story for socialized medicine and death panels. Yes, we're not going to make it into a story.

We're going to tell you the truth. This is what death panels look like. There is a group of people at the hospital who say this child has no livable life of quality and they don't want the child to live anymore. Why? Why? Why not give the child back to the parents? Why not let the child go overseas for experimental surgery or,

experimental treatment. Why not? Well, it's causing the child so much pain. They're living in pain. May I ask you a question? Do you know anybody who has cancer? Do you know anybody who has stage four cancer and has been given the death sentence by the doctor? Some of those people say, okay, you know what? I just want to live my life. I don't want to go on more chemotherapy. I don't want anything. I'm going to use the last five months, two months, a year of my life to live it as fully as I can. Other people that I know are in so much pain they can barely move and they're begging for experimental surgery, begging for experimental therapy, begging for experimental drugs.

And their case is the same. It might work even if it doesn't. it will further the medical understanding of cancer and perhaps cure people later. Since when do we accept a death penalty? Now that's different than somebody is a hundred years old and they've lived a great life. And we're doing everything we can and they have no money. Just to keep them alive, nature is calling them home. But you could make the case, yes.

But if there's experimental life-prolonging medicine out there, that is the fountain of youth, if that person at 99 or 100 years old says, you know what, I want to live longer, and I have the money, and I want that experimental treatment, I don't have a problem with it, do you? why should I care? It's their choice. Well, this is a baby. The baby doesn't have a choice.

And especially in the world of socialized medicine. Nobody paid attention to what was happening in the British courts. In the British courts in 2002 is where this started. It was a landmark case. There were two Siamese twins. and the Siamese twins, the weaker of the twin girls, was Mary. Her heart and lungs were not fully developed, and she was robbing the strength of the older one, Jody.

Had they remained conjoined, the judges believed that the best advice from the doctors is that they would both die. The parents said no. We don't want them split apart. Her lungs, we believe through faith and through medicine and through time, we believe her lungs will develop and she will be stronger for the surgery later. The courts said no.

Cut them apart. They did. As a result, Mary died. Jody lived. Mom doesn't know best. Father doesn't know best. England insists that the state knows best. They know what's best for other people's children,

and they have the power to act on it, even against the parents' wishes. So why is this happening? Well, this happens over in socialized medicine countries quite a bit. It doesn't happen so much here because we don't, we have the power. we still think we have the power. That power is slipping through our fingers right now. The accounts of two-thirds of the National Institute of Health over in the National Health Services, their socialized medicine,

two-thirds of the providers are in the red in 2015, with the combined deficit of $2.5 billion euros last year, alone. The prime minister is saying we're going to give you an extra 10 billion for the NHS by 2020. So they're into rationing. When you're into rationing, we taught all of this when I was at Fox at the chalkboard. When you ration, you need death panels to decide who's going to get the medicine, who's not. It's not some evil dressed-eastern. in black like the Gestapo death panel. It's a group of people that care about people

and they have to weigh the good of the many against the good of the one. Well, that's not how I view my child. But once socialism runs out of other people's money, then trouble starts. Because the NHS is paying for Charlie's, he doesn't have insurance. He has government insurance.

And because they are paying for the round-o-clock care, the medical staff believes that his condition is worsening. The NHS is the bank, the hospital, the parent, and the court of God. So they believe, governments believe, America didn't. But we are headed down this road, that the government manages health, well, education, and everything inside of our home. That they are the arbiter. They know best.

There was a court case here in the United States Supreme Court, Prince versus Massachusetts, 1944. The Supreme Court held that the government has, quote, broad authority to regulate the actions and the treatment of children. and that parental authority is not absolute and can be restricted if doing so is in the interest of a child's welfare. This will come here. You and I have spent a long time worrying about our country, and I have told you that we first had to restore honor,

which meant restore the truth. know what you believed and then be a person of honor and integrity. Then we restored courage because there was going to come a time when you were going to need to stand to defend that truth and it would be really unpopular and that we were headed towards a world where the most vulnerable, be it children, the Jews, or people without any kind of political clout or power,

we're going to come under attack. And we needed to stand even when it wasn't in our own best interest, even when it hurt, even when it was people we didn't want to defend. We had to stand for their constitutional rights. And the last one was restore love. make sure that your heart doesn't soften. And to do that, we all went to Birmingham. And we started to fight for the most vulnerable,

the Christians and their children who were enslaved by ISIS. This audience has saved 20,000 people we have moved. 7,000 people we have moved out. out of the Middle East, when the rest of the world said, they can't figure it out. We did. They can't figure out who the good guys and the bad guys are. We have.

We can't get involved. We did. We can't save those children from their prison rape rooms where the mothers are being forced to watch their daughters being raped five and six times a day. And the daughters are forced to watch their mothers being raped. the world sat on their hands and did nothing. Well, that's too complex. It's too difficult. It's too dangerous.

This audience knew every single life is worth saving. You don't know, Charlie. You don't know his parents. But the more that I read this story and the more I hear about their plight and his plight, we are all the parents of Charlie Guard. We'll tell you how you can help in just a minute. First, let me tell you another story. I want to tell you about William.

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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Hello. Hello, America. I'm just looking through some history. Matt Walsh, by the way, is going to be joining us here in just a couple of minutes. He'll be able to give you the whole story on Charlie Gard.

Charlie's parents are saying now, and I don't know if this is true, and I hope it's not. But Charlie Gard's parents are saying that Twitter is editing their Twitter, feed and their account. I can't believe that's true. But they're trying to get the word out all around the world. And they're asking

for your help. So please spread this news. He's only got about a week before they take him off. Yeah, it's only the Supreme Court. They're waiting on the Supreme Court decision in Great Britain. And it's going to come back.

Yeah. I mean, it's going to come back. Negative. Two courts of already ruled against them. Yeah. The interesting thing is they have said they are in touch with Trump and the White House. And he's been great with this. Right. And, you know, let me tell you something.

If Trump really, if I could give advice to Donald Trump, this is something that he should own. Yeah. This is something that he, and don't make it about politics. Don't make it about politics. Make it about this child. Do you know that Russia has stopped all? adoptions into Sweden and the Netherlands.

Do you know this? No. This is how, this is, remember I said that Putin would start to be the guy who held the banner up for the West and said you guys have gone insane and reclaim your values with me? They are killing kids and we'll tell you about it, how it's happening. euthanizing children. And so they don't want to do business with the Netherlands because they say life is sacred and they are going to exterminate children.

The Glymbeck Program. Mercury. Matt Walsh. One of the clearest thinkers available today. And that's saying something because they're not a lot of clear thinkers. out there. They're hard to find. Matt Walsh, you'll find

at the blaze.com. He's got to book out the Unholy Trinity blocking the left's assault on life, marriage, and gender. Make sure you pick it up. If you're a fan of Matt Walsh, make sure you grab the book, and also you can find him at the blaze.com.

Matt, welcome to the program. Hey, Glenn, thanks for having me. So you were the one who really has brought this story to the tension of of America. The Charlie Garde story, this story of this 11-month-old child

who has been fighting for his life against the socialized medicine situation in England for months. I can tell you why they're not covering it here in America. How are they covering it over in England? Yeah, well, over it for months.

It's been, you know, the story's been all over the place and the parents have been on all their, you know, kind of prime time shows. And it's been, I guess, sort of like what the Shivo case was here in terms of just the intensity of coverage. Are they, are they as divided as we were with Shivo? Yeah, I think from my reading the situation, they're, they're just as divided. And it's, you know, kind of cuts down the same lines.

And you have, although I think in Europe you may have fewer who are sort of on the pro-life side and you're here, although we don't have that many here anymore either. I don't know if you remember this, Matt, but Pat, play the audio clip. This is from a few years ago on like their breakfast show on the BBC. This is a guest and they're talking about socialized medicine and what to do with undesirable children. This may strike your listeners as way out. No, this is not it. True, no.

And I think that if I were a mother of a suffering child, I would be the first to want, I mean, a deeply suffering child. I would be the first to want to put a pillow over its face. Dr. Peter Evans is from... Good, golly. You know, any suffering thing. And I think the difference is that my feeling of horror suffering is much greater than my feeling of getting rid of a couple of cells, because suffering can go on for years. I'm sorry, I was just about to introduce another guest there, but that was a pretty horrifying thing to say.

What? What? You would put the pillow over... Of course I would. If it was a child. I really loved who is in agony, I think any good mother would. Wow, wow. Matt, where is this coming from?

Now that you play that, I do remember that. And that is just the idea that you're going to kill your own child out of love. This idea of killing out of love is it's not any different than you hear these horrifying cases of mentally disturbed mothers. What about Andrea Yates who drowned her five kids in a bathtub and did it because of, because she loved them. So how's that any different? It's no different.

So once you start going down this train, that's where it heads. But this, where it comes from is, you know, we know all across the West, there is a, it's just a fundamental inability that some people have to recognize that life is sacred, to recognize that life has inherent value. And so they start seeing, they see someone, they say, oh, they're suffering, or they're disabled, or they're poor, or they've got these other external factors that make their life less desirable. Well, we might as well get rid of them because there's no reason. to keep them around.

So there's this kind of like utilitarian materialistic view of life that as long as it's useful, as long as it's pleasurable, as long as it's convenient to those around it and to itself, then we keep it around. But once that ends, then we get rid of it. And it's just a, it's a horror. That's what I tried to explain when I wrote about it. This is like, once you put yourself on that side of the argument, and this is not hyperbole. You have put yourself on the same side as all of the worst people in the history of the

earth and all of the worst atrocities that have ever been committed have always been committed with that kind of thinking. So that's where you place yourself on that side. And good luck to you in that case. So Matt, is there, do you find any cause of concern? Have you read what the Pope actually said, not just the release, but or the newspaper account from it, but what he actually the entire thing? Yeah, well, this is the story with the Vatican. At first, the, you know, the Vatican comes out with a statement that all but explicitly endorses the courts and the hospital and takes their side in it, which was, which was horrifying.

I mean, I couldn't, as cynical as I am, especially about this Pope sometimes, I couldn't even, I couldn't believe that. I couldn't believe that they actually did that, you know, because we need, we need the Vatican and the Catholic Church to be pro-life, to be. It's been one of the only pro-life institution left standing. And the idea that that would go away, to me, especially as a Catholic, I just couldn't stomach. But then the Pope comes out, he sends out kind of a vague tweet, and then he comes out and he says that we need to support the child and the Vatican offers to, you know, take the child into the Vatican hospital, which, of course, the other possible declines that. But it's the same story where there's this kind of conflicted messages.

And obviously Pope Francis doesn't have control of what's going on over there. but I still to me it's still not enough I I need the Pope to come out in in stronger language and actually can I know it doesn't like doing this kind of thing but he needs to but there's no there's him he he condemns he condemns capitalism he condemns a lot of things um but he did not condemn um the snuffing out of this child's life um and here's what he said the complexity of the situation and the heart rendering pain of the parents and the efforts of so many to determine what is best for Charlie, we have to acknowledge, we do sometimes have to recognize the limitations of what can be done in modern medicine. Well, where's the talk about, you know, the sanctity

of all life? Where is the talk about miracles? Where is the, I mean, I don't understand this. We would stop all cancer treatment, except for the most benign of cancers. We wouldn't be doing experiments with people who are in stage four cancer. We would just say, you know what, let's accept the limits of modern medicine. If we stop trying to save lives, medicine stops moving forward, doesn't it? Yeah, well, it defeats the entire purpose of medicine, but that's the problem. Once you've introduced, as we have in the West, once you've introduced abortion, and then you introduce euthanasia. And keep in mind that in Europe, in some countries in Europe, you can get euthanasia, even if you're not terminally ill, you can get euthanasia.

They give euthanasia to alcoholics, depressive, to children. So they're just getting rid of everybody on both ends of the spectrum over there, and they've completely perverted the whole concept of medicine, which is to always, you know, do no harm, the Hippocratic oath, to always treat and heal and do what you can. And that's the thing that it's so horrifying to the Vatican missed this aspect. Not just, you know, it's bad enough that they didn't say enough on the sanctity of life issue of it. But this is, the fundamental issue here is that the parents have their own money,

and they just want to take that was donated to them. They just want to take the kid, bring them to America, and just try, try something rather than just letting him die. I mean, of course, any parent who want to do that if they had the means to do it. So this is just, it's just a, I'm speechless. Slate has written an article. The right is turning the Charlie Guard tragedy into a case against single-payer health care. It's just the opposite.

That's their headline. And first of all, is this not a case against single-payer health care? Even though these parents have the money, once you're trapped into that system, that system must be absolute. You can't let people make their own decisions. So it must be absolute. Is that not the only reason why they're not allowing this child to leave the hospital? because the state must have control and be able to say,

I have the control of God over life and death and what you do once you check into our system. It's Hotel California. Yeah, this is all about, of course, this is, well, that's a flight for you. You're always missing the point, but that's, of course, this is all about, it's about single-payer health care and it's about safety of life. Those are the two issues that this is about, and about parental rights, too. So those are the three. And it's all linked, of course, but in the issue is who should have the final say on these kinds of medical decisions?

Should it be the patient or the patient's caregiver, the parent, or should it be the state? That's the question. When it comes down to it, who decides what kind of treatment is given and which lives are worth saving? And in a single-payer health care system, of course, we've given control over to the government, so the government's going to make those decisions because it's all about efficient. And it's all about, well, let's not waste their time or represhist resources on this life that's going to die anyway, which is a really troubling way of looking at it because, hey, we're all going to die anyway. And like you pointed out when it was thinking cancer.

I mean, there are many kinds of cancer that can be treated, but it probably will shorten your lifespan, even if you get past the first bout of it. I mean, there are many diseases like that. So once you start traveling down this road, it goes to some really dark places. And it's, it's astounding to me that so many people fail to. see that because it's so obvious to me. Matt Walsh, the author of the article that I believe

was the first article really to bring this to light in America, the story of Charlie Guard. Slate writes and just think about what you just said, Matt. Slate writes, the right will raise the specter of

death panels, which you just said, who makes the decision of who lives or dies, which is exactly what's happening. These outlets have turned one hard case into a sweeping referendum on the inherent justice and effectiveness of socialized medicine. It's as if the death of one child matters, but the death of thousands is the cost of reform. Or as if intervening in one complex and tragic case is heroic, but building a system that would prevent the suffering of many is more intolerable overreach. How do you respond?

to sidetrack, but this is not a hard case. This is not a hard case. This is a very basic no-brainer case that the parents should be able to go and get treatment for the child, period. There's no other way of looking at it. There's no other way to the sane person who look at it. But second, that's the whole point.

This is what we're trying to avoid, this idea of weighing the one against the many. Health care, it's not supposed to be that way. We don't look at Charlie Gard and say, well, let's weigh him against a thousand people. He is one individual. So every life is of infinite value, and that's how those lives should be, all of them should be treated when they're in the hospital. Certainly parents should have the right to treat their own children's lives that way.

And so we don't want to get into a situation where the government is coming in and sort of they have their formulas and their statistics. And they kind of have everybody on a spreadsheet and they decide, well, let's let's emphasize this life over that one. We don't want to do that at all. That's the whole point we're trying to avoid that. And so that's why you allow individuals to make these decisions and you allow the free market to rain so that we don't have these kinds of weighing this against that. Because it shouldn't be. There's no reason for it to be that way. There's no reason why we should have to weigh Charlie Garg's life against anything else because the parents have the money and they just want to get him treatment.

And so they should be able to do it. That's it. We don't need to look at anything else or any other situations. they should be able to do what they want to do and have the resources and capability to do. Matt, thank you very much. You can follow Matt at the Blaze. Also follow him at Matt Walsh blog and look for his podcast at soundcloud.com, Matt Walsh. Back in just a second, our sponsor, this half hour is Casper Sleep.

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Mercury. Charlie's Fight is the Twitter page. Charlie's Fight for Twitter. They had to put a new page together. It was Fight for Charlie. And this is according to the family. Twitter is censoring our page. And so Fight for Charlie.

account had 6,000 followers. They had to start a new campaign and change for some reason because of Twitter. This is what they say. I don't know. They've accused Twitter of being disgraceful and anti-life. You can now follow them

at Charlie's Fight and they're asking, this is the family. Twitter is censoring this page. Please head over to Charlie's Fight new page and get tweeting like crazy. We need to spread the word We need your help. Hashtag Charlie Garde and it's G-A-R-D, no you.

Charlie Garde. This is something that will determine who we become. I started the hour by saying, we have worried about our country for a long time. I am more worried about losing our humanity than I am about losing our country. We are on the verge of losing our human. humanity, and that will guarantee that we lose the Western way of life. I want to show you what some of the leaders are doing, what some people are doing,

some really inspirational things that people are doing all around the world to help and help children like this. And I'm going to take you down history when we come back. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. Hello, America.

Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. There is a story of Charlie Guard that you need to know about, and we only have days to spread the word. Charlie Guard is an 11-month-old baby in the United Kingdom that is being told by the courts that they have to starve him to death and remove the ventilator. The parents say, okay, but we've raised 1.7 million. dollars. There is a doctor here in America that will treat our child that gives our child a chance to live. There are only 16 children that have ever had this disease. Two of them are doing fine. Two of them are living today. One is in America and I think five years old now. The other one is over 10 living in

Italy and Boy Scouts and everything else. What does a family do when the government, because they're socialized medicine and they deem that they now have control over your life, won't let you take your child out of the hospital instead is giving your child a death sentence? Where is this leading? Well, you want to see the future? First glance at the past. We go there right now.

Entertainment and Enlightenment. This is the Glen. Russia has banned any adoption going out to Belgium. So if you're from Belgium, you are not allowed to adopt any Russian children. And Russia says that they will not do any business with adoption in Belgium because they may be euthanized. Now listen to this. This is from Russia. Quote, it is high time that we not only make friends, but also appreciate the condition of the society we plan to contact with. Therefore, we say that the society which officially favors murdering children is unhealthy.

Russia has decided to protect its citizens from euthanasia. People will often adopt children with disabilities. Russia has made a good decision to protect Russian children from being adopted by citizens of countries that allowed euthanasia of children. What are they talking about? What countries are allowing euthanasia of children? Well, we now have the case of Charlie Guard, the 11-month-old who is not being allowed, even though the parents have the money. they have doctors and hospitals willing to treat here in the United States the English government, the death panels. Make no mistake, these are death panels.

Yes, they're judges, but they are looking and saying, what is in the best interest of the child? He's in pain. Let him die. And the parents can do nothing about it. Is that the kind of medicine that we in the West feel is wrong? right and righteous and good. No.

It's not like the parents don't have other options. They do. And they have resources to be able to pay for them. Why would you stop this? Because there is something else going on. And it is socialized medicine. Russia making that stance is Putin following Dugin's plan. Dugan is one of the main advisors, and he said, basically, become the vicar of Christ.

Become the true vicar of Christ. Stand up for these principles and don't be ashamed of it. Now, here's a guy who throws people off of tops of buildings and shoots them in elevators, and he's standing up for life and traditional values. Yes, because he's trying to pull people over to his side by being the only person that makes sense, even though he doesn't believe it. Yeah, and when he said, we do not want to battle against Christianity.

On the contrary, we have to declare ourselves to be the only true Christians. Christianity is the slogan under which we will eradicate the preachers. Geez. I don't think that's Putin. I think that's Hitler, I think that's Hitler. Yeah, Edolph Hitler.

That was his quote. Right. He was doing it. It's the same thing. And yet everybody says that he was doing things in the name of Christianity. He was a Christian. The first thing he wanted to do.

He purported to be a Christian to endear himself to them at the very beginning. Within six months, he said we had to eradicate the Old Testament from the Bible because it had Jews in it. Yeah, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish influence on German Church Life, which aimed to say that Jesus was not Jewish and the Old Testament was garbage because it was written by Jews. Okay. He was Episcopalian, wasn't he? Let's take this. let's take this into modern day.

Can we look at what is can we look at what is happening in Belgium? Why did Russia say this? Belgium had its first case of child euthanasia in 2016. But the Netherlands have allowed minors to request and receive

euthanasia. Dutch children, down to the age of 16, can receive euthanasia without parents' consent. Children can be killed by doctors with parental consent, starting at the age of 12. Belgium has no age limit. And instead of requiring that a minor

demonstrated capacity to make decisions before receiving a suicide, they don't have to. So a child cannot enter into legal contracts. They can't even get a tattoo in Belgium. But at any age, they can request Dr. assisted suicide. This is where we're heading.

because of sanctity of life. They not just request, but they receive it. Now there are three things that they have to meet these requirements. The baby or the child has to have no chance of survival. Well. It's one of these. You don't have to meet all three of these. Just one.

My daughter right now is, I'm waiting for her to come in to the office. She's bringing something in from my home library that I need. Talk to her about an hour ago on the phone. And she said, okay, Dad, I know right where it is. I'll bring it in. By the way, I was told that she would never walk, talk, or feed

herself. But, you know, don't worry about it. They were completely wrong. And they often are. Yes. Baby has no chance of survival. Two, the baby may survive after a period of intensive treatment, but expectations for their future are very great.

So, in other words, they don't have any real quality of life. Three, the baby does not depend on technology for physiologic stability, but has suffering that is severe, sustained, and cannot be alleviated. So in other words, they don't need anything, but they're in pain. You meet those three, or one of those three. And that third one is... And you can have the euthanasia. And they will inject poison into the child. But to be middle age in Asia, I think they don't allow that for some reason.

No, no, it's not youth. No. And the elderly in Asia, why is there... All they care about is the youth of Asia. So here's the thing. You can now... I mean, this is Peter Singer stuff. Peter Singer is the chair of ethics at Princeton University. and a despicable human being.

But I'm glad that he is teaching. I'm just glad that he's balanced by somebody like Robbie George at Princeton University, who is a total defender of life. But Peter Singer is the guy who says, you can kill a child really up until they realize that there's a tomorrow. As soon as they realize there's a tomorrow, that's what makes them human. Yeah, he didn't really even want to put an age on it because that could happen.

And as soon as you don't know there's a tomorrow, you stop being human. So you get, you know, you have Alzheimer's and you don't realize that tomorrow is coming, we can kill you. Because you're not a person. You're not a person. And a lot of people have bleak prognosis that turn out to be wrong. We have a friend who's had stage four cancer. 16? They told him when it finally got to that stage, they said you've got days or weeks, maybe months.

but they said nobody's lived past five years. Yeah. He's gone through 20 years now. 20. He's still alive. He just had like his 76th round of chemo. Yeah. He's still alive.

It's crazy. They don't know. And this guy has accomplished in those 20 years more than I probably accomplished in my entire life. Now, the reason why we're bringing this up is because this is what happens with socialized medicine. You must devalue life. because there's not enough money. Slate magazine is making this thing with Charlie Gard into, so he's got $1.6 or $7 million that the family raised for his health care.

That health care needs to go to somebody else. That money should be used for the masses, not for him. It's not about the individual. This is the danger of a we society. A me society, generally, because everybody's me, me, me, They don't group together and say, we are going to kill these people because they're in our way. Usually me's are stopped. But when you're in a we society, which we are now, and the whole Western world is in,

when you're in a we society, the West goes nuts. It's funny. I think people are getting caught up with the Charlie Gard thing on his chance of survival with this treatment. And even the doctor who would give the treatment believes, it might only help, might only be a short term, might help Charlie smile and hold on to things for a short time even. It might not be the solution. But take it out of that.

Remove the idea that Charlie could possibly be cured here. Why on earth wouldn't the family be able to take the child home into a hospice situation and die at home? I mean, that is something that happens all over the place, right? Why would he not be able to be removed from the hospital under that care and have his pain alleviated and die with dignity at home. I mean, you know, liberals love the fancy pet funerals where you like, you have the, you get to have your dog at home instead of at the cold hospital. You can't.

I did that. It's not just liberals. But liberals love it. You're being consistent. They're not. That's my point. And it's a situation where even if there was a zero percent chance of survival, zero, dead zero. why wouldn't they allow this child to be removed from the hospital anyway?

And the answer is, under this system, implicit in this system, is that you have allowed the state to make that decision. It is not your child. It is theirs. So now listen to this. It is really extraordinary that people refuse to apply to human beings such elementary knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to supply to his own stock breeding. any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed and let all the increase come from the worst stock

would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum. Yet we fail to understand that such conduct is rational compared to the conduct of a nation that permits unlimited breeding from the worst stocks physically and morally. While it encourages or connives at the cold selfishness or the twisted sentimentality as a result of what should, men and women ought to marry, and if married, have large families, remain celibate, or have no children, or only one or two. Someday, we will realize that the prime duty, an inescapable duty,

of the good citizen, of the right type, is to leave his blood behind in the world, so that we have no business to perpetuate the citizens of the wrong type. Who wrote that? Take a guess. Do you know, Stu? I think I heard you talking about it earlier. Theodore Roosevelt. This is the progressive mindset. That's a guy who a lot of Republicans say was their favorite president. And he was the first to suggest socialized medicine.

Listen to this. You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of a group of intellectuals. who are behind Hitler in this epic-making program. Everywhere I sense that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought, and particularly by the work of the Human Betterment Foundation. I want you, my dear friend, to carry with you this thought for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people. This is from the Human Betterment.

Foundation, a nonprofit corporation in Pasadena, California. Its date is 1935. You have the real document right there. Yes, this is the real document. And they worked with the doctors of eugenics in Sweden, in Germany, in New York, in Ohio. I told you this yesterday that it's this utopian view that life isn't worth living

unless you have the perfect life and some lives there's just too much suffering but once you start going down that road where do you stop yesterday on the air I told you the story about baby Naur Baby Naur was the first baby, patient zero of the Holocaust.

The baby's father had written to Hitler in 1939 asking for permission to kill his blind and deformed son. The doctor said the father of a deformed child wrote to the furor with a request to be allowed to take the life of this child or this creature. Hitler ordered me to take care of this case. The child had been born blind. seemed to be idiotic and a leg and parts of an arm were missing. So what happened? We know they killed Baby Nower, but how did they kill them? And what has just been confirmed now through research that happened after Baby Nower?

A child that had no chance at a future. was in pain, wouldn't have a life that was worth living. What happened? We'll share that next with the actual documents when we come back. Our sponsor, this half hour, we are pleased to have Simply Safe. Getting a good night's sleep is easier than done, especially if you think you heard a noise downstairs. Me personally, I go right back to sleep. My wife is up for an hour.

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Today at 5 p.m. Eastern on the Blaze TV. Glenn is taking your calls live for a full hour. Call 888727 B-E-C-K and ask Glenn anything. Today at 5 p.m. Eastern on the Blaze TV. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. The Glenn Beck Program. So, five-month-old boy, baby Nauer, was the first Nazi

euthanasia victim Adolf Hitler was convinced out of compassion to put this poor little boy that was blind missing a part of an arm and a leg to sleep

because he had no quality of life. Up until 2003, baby Naur was not known. They did not know who this baby was, it was just referred to as case K. And all of the doctors involved, everybody changed their name. And after years and years and years of researching, they finally know exactly what happened to case K, what we now is baby Nower, spelled with a K. We have, we have,

The evidence next. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. Who are we as a people? We must fix reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness. Who are we as a people? And sometimes those decisions are really hard and painful. And it's easier to look the other way.

because sometimes the wrong choice is cloaked as compassion and care. There is a baby, 11-month-old Charlie Gard. Please tweet your friends about it. We'll have all the information in the stories at Clembeck.com and the blaze. But he has days to live. They're waiting for another court, their Supreme Court, to rule, on whether or not the life support should be pulled from this baby.

Rare disease, no quality of life. Going to be in pain. The parents have the money, want to pull the child out of the hospital in London, bring them to America where there's a hospital. One hospital said we'll treat him for free. Another hospital said, we'll treat him. They have $1.7 million that they've raised. We'll treat them.

We have one of the best doctors in the world for this particular disease. Don't know how it's going to work out, but let's give it a try. England, the National Health Institute, says, no, the child has to have its life support pulled and die with dignity. This is really interesting because mercy killings started by putting children to sleep in Germany. Told you yesterday about baby Naur, a baby that was born without part of one leg, part of one arm. and was blind. And the father and mother just didn't know what to do. It would be a burden on the family and a burden on society.

Probably become one of those useless eaters. They wrote to Hitler. Hitler sent his doctors out. And they euthanized the boy. Put him to sleep. Because he didn't have any quality of life. He didn't have. a future. As soon as Baby Nower, which was known as case K up until 2003, nobody could trace

everything back, but they have spent decades, decades looking for who was the first victim of the Holocaust. In 2003, it was directly connected to Baby Nower, which was a very public event, 1939. As soon as Baby Naur was killed, Hitler came and decreed that we needed to have, quote, mercy killings of 300,000 mentally and physically handicapped people. The children were forcibly taken from their parents to be killed. They were first institutionalized in the hospital, and then something would go wrong. Most of the parents got a fake notice that something had happened while they were systematically killing all of these children

because even the Germans back then would have been horrified to know that their government was killing the handicapped or children who didn't have any quality of life. even the Germans in 1939 would have known that was wrong. And so they kept it secret. And all of the doctors that signed the death certificates changed their names. No one wanted this to be known. 275,000 victims later. The Holocaust was moving in full gear.

there were six hospitals that were devoted to processing cases. Processing meant that they would be killed. Poland, in the Czech Republic, children and adults were drugged, gassed, or starved to death. The UK is starving this child to death. The guy who is in charge of a lot of this at the children's hospital, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was Dr. Mangala, who went on to do some other things with children that we all know.

This I had to take, I don't have the original. It's locked up in a safe off-premises, so I don't have the original, and I thought we did. This is part of the Mercury One collection. This is the last prescription written by Mangala, at the children's hospital. It's significant because he is ordering for the hospital a large quantity of luminal. We now know in 2003 that luminal was the way they were killing all of the children.

It would put them to sleep and within five days they'd be dead. This is Mangala's actual prescription to help those children die with dignity. This is what's happening. Now, you want to die with dignity. We follow the course of a man in Los Angeles who is adopting those children who nobody wants to adopt

because they're all dying and they're in foster care and he will only adopt children who are dying so they can die with dignity. He brings them into the family. How about this one? Elderly woman in China

rescues 30 abandoned babies from the trash, gives them all a chance at life. She saved the lives of 30 abandoned babies since 1972. She's 88 years old now. Now, in China, we don't understand this.

But remember yesterday, I was talking about the difference of being people from ancient Israel and being people of Rome. Christians of ancient Israel know that they serve God and it gives them humility. They know that God decides who wins, not man. Man does his best effort to serve God. Rome is all about man and winning and conquering. Rome, it was because of the Christians that this practice stopped.

But in ancient Rome, they had garbage barges and people would take their filth and throw it out into the river on these garbage barges. And the garbage barges at the time moved. I don't mean float. I mean rithed. Because people would go to the garbage barge and throw their unwanted babies

onto the garbage barge. And nobody cared. It was the Western idea of Jesus that saved those children. We were built on a different ethic. The guy who has a child like Charlie here in America, in fact, is the one who reached out overseas to the UK, to Charlie's parents.

and said, there's a doctor, you guys have to meet. But now the British government won't let them come to America for this treatment. His child was treated here in America. Same disease. His boy is now six years old. He says he's a strong and happy boy. The doctor said he only had two months to live. He's six now.

He said, I feel very fortunate to be an American and not British. If I lived in the UK, my son would be dead today. And let me give you one other story about a woman who refused to give up her disabled son. She and he, she gave birth to her son in China. In China, the doctors told that his life was not worth saving. because he had a birth complication and nearly suffocated, it left him with cerebral palsy. And the doctor said he doesn't have a life.

He's going to be disabled. He's going to have very low intelligence. Mom disagreed with the doctors. Dad agreed with the doctors. Kill him. He's going to be a burden on the family forever. You imagine saying that? Mom said, no.

Got a divorce, got her son from the child. Chinese hospital. She spent her entire life working with him. In her spare time, she took him to rehabilitation sessions. She taught herself how to massage his stiff muscles. She'd play educational games with him. She insisted from the start that he would learn and he would overcome his disabilities. Well, she worked so hard. She insisted she teaching him how to use chopsticks during meal times, even though he found it extraordinarily difficult because of his cerebral palsy. She said, I didn't want him to feel ashamed about his physical problems. I didn't want him to think that he had inferior abilities, which he did in many areas.

But I was quite strict on him to work hard and to catch up where he had difficulties. He graduated with a degree environmental science from Peking University in 2011. Oh, he's now working on his doctorate. while attending Harvard Law School. But remember, doctor said he didn't have a life worth living. Somebody else, Stephen Hawking, only had two years to live.

Look at the difference he made. FDR, polio, paralyzed from the waist down. Ralph Braun, guy you've not heard of, you should. He is a guy who was born with muscular dystrophy. He started his career in 1966 because he is the inventor of the wheelchair accessible van. How about Marley Matlin? Is her wife?

Stevie Wonder, was his life worth living? Did you know that Frida was in a wheelchair? The artist, Frida, was in a wheelchair? Helen Keller, my daughter. And the millions like her all around the world who, Most people in the world will not know her name. She hasn't done anything famous, but she has changed my life. She has changed the life of her family.

She has changed the life of others who know her. Who are you to judge who has a life worth living? What is it with this society that we think that it's compassionate to take away all consequences or all pain. Pain is a basic part of life. It teaches us the stove is hot. Don't put your hand on the hot stove. People who have a condition of they can't feel pain

have to walk around almost as if they're in a bubble. The pain that parents feel with a differently abled child is extreme at times. But it is glorious most of the time. We have to decide who we are because we're not in danger of losing just our country or our good doctors. or even the Western way of life. We are losing our humanity and rushing towards the garbage barges of Rome of days gone by.

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He'll be joining us here in just a second. An interesting thing about that baby now our story is when the parents requested the baby to be euthanized, the Hitler regime went to the parents and said, it can be done. However, it's not you requesting it. It is I, the purer. Because we will take that burden away from you.

We don't want you to wake up in 10 years. and think, did I do something wrong to my child? I will do it. I am the only one who can make that decision. And... So cloaked in compassion, taking full control of everyone's medical choices. Mm-hmm.

It was a nice. In one nice, compassionate move. How it starts. Fight for Charlie Guard. Hashtag, uh, Charlie Guard, know you in Guard. The Blaze Radio Network.

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Of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Ben Shapiro, good to have you on the program. It's an honor, of course. Good to have you here. So I just want to run down just a few of the things that are going on in the world and just get your take on where we are, what we're headed towards. First of all, quickly let's touch on the topic that we've been on all day. Charlie Gard, the little 11-month-old child whose parents have the money to take them to America to get treatment,

the courts and the national health care system in Great Britain. says no, he's got to die in a British hospital. Literally, he's got to die in a British hospital. Slate magazine just said that the right is going to use this as a case for death panels and against socialized medicine. Yeah. Where do you stand on this? I mean, it seems like a pretty solid case against death panels and socialized medicine.

I don't see why we wouldn't possibly use that as a cudgel. But, yeah, I mean, I think that my wife is a doctor. She's in residency, and she works in a hospital, and she deals. with terminal people all the time. And doctors will say that they'll give the layout all the choices for people who are terminal, and they say maybe you'd prefer not to be poked in prod at every five hours, maybe you want to die at home.

But this is all about the choice of the patient. And here, in Charlie Garde's case, obviously it's not about the choice of the patient, it's not about the choice of the parents. When a government and a society decide that quantity of life is less important than quality of life, you end up in a really dire situation because the goal of the government,

at least should be to preserve quantitative, of life. It's your job to decide what sort of quality of life you want to enjoy. And we all have our different moral standards on that. But once the government decides that it gets to decide what quality of life is worth living, then you run into some serious... So we were, I

had my staff reach out to leaders of churches and faith over in England yesterday. And I got several responses. One of them was from a pastor who said, look, the churches

in the pulpits, they are not dealing with this. They're not talking about it at all. However, the Christians in England are talking about it. It's interesting that he hoist the white flag and says, the pulpits, including

mine, have surrendered on this, but the people are talking about it. So there's a huge disconnect there. But he said, please tell Glenn that this is not a case of the government just taking away the rights of a child,

or rights of parents, it is more so that the government has paid for this child's health care. And he said, now that they have the money to take him to America, I see no reason why he can't go to America. However, there isn't enough money to work on cases like that here in England. So he was making the case that if, you don't have money, that it would be right and righteous to say, let him die.

If you are in a socialized health care system and you don't have the money, is it wrong? What do you do? Well, I mean, this is why socialized health care systems don't work. I mean, eventually somebody's making the final call. I mean, it's not like these parents were born into wealth. I mean, they raised this money from a bunch of charitable people so that they could take their kid out and try and save the kid. As far as the issue with the pulpits, I mean, this is something that happens in the United States also. I think one of the great tragedies of the latter half of the 20th century is that pulpit figures across the board in Judaism, in Christianity, have fled from crucial moral battles that are happening in the now in order to keep on the good side of government because they're afraid that the government is going to come against them.

And so they've run from these moral battles, and you see it all the time. And it's really devastating. It's sucked the marrow from the bones of religion. So then let's go to another moral question, much less important. Yeah, less importance. The CNN battle with the WWF video, okay? I'm having a really hard time with this because I don't see a good guy on either side. I see the president doing something that if Barack Obama would have had, if he just would have retweeted, not saying that Donald Trump did anything but retweeted.

If Barack Obama would have retweeted something that had an old clip of him beating the snod out of somebody and it superimposed a tea bag over the guy's head, we would have gone ape crazy. We would have become animals and gone nuts. Oh, yeah. Right? For sure. Okay. So why don't we see now?

that we would have reacted the same way that the left is reacting to this and, and forget about how others are acting, worry about how we're acting. Because we don't care how we're acting anymore. I mean, all we'd care about is the reactionary nature of politics right now. It's why President Trump has like a 90% approval rating among Republicans and a 10% approval rating among Democrats. And the same thing by the end of the Obama term was basically true. We're so polarized that we're using the polarization as an excuse for bad behavior.

And listen, I've spent my entire life, my entire adult life fighting the left. And I was not expecting moral leadership from the left. I've never expected moral leadership from the left because they don't believe in the same values that I believe in. But I did expect moral leadership from the right. And I don't really see how moral leadership is advanced by tweeting out, you know, gifts of WWE wrestling CNN logos. I mean, this was once in office occupied by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. It's a little bit clown-tastic to watch the president.

So have we just surrendered to clown-taz-man? Yeah, I mean, I think that the Republican Party has broken down into, and the conservative movement has broken down into maybe three groups. Group number one are people who say this is ridiculous and silly, and there's no way he should be doing this. And group two is, this is ridiculous and silly, but at least we got Gorsuch. And then group three are the people,

and this is the growing group, this is the one that I actually worried the most about, is people who actively celebrate this, where this is a feature, not a bug. It's not, well, you're going to get the stupid tweet from time to time, but at least you get Scott Pruitt over at EPA pairing back the regulations. It's the people who say,

I don't really care what Scott Pruitt is doing so much. Like, I don't pay attention to that. And Gorsuch, yay, but what I'm really interested, what really gets you jazzed up is the tweets about Mika Brzynski's bloody facelift or Trump tackling a CNN logo. Like, that's really what gets me, Well, it's amazing because we used to say, what I was at Fox, watch the other hand.

And the other hand, well, A, I don't think they're coordinated. I think both hands are just flailing, doing whatever they want. But you could make the case that they're very strategic because as we are, as we're not talking about a health care reform that is absolutely awful. It's not, it's not any better. I'm always hesitant to credit strategy to President Trump when sheer unbridled id would do it. You know, I think that this wasn't, he thought, you know what, I really need a distraction from my health reform bill, so I'm going to tweet out a dumb gif. I think it was, somebody forwarded me a dumb gif, ha, ha, ha, wouldn't it be hilarious if I put it up on my Twitter feed?

And it really was that amount of consideration. Right. So in order for it to be a diversion, a diversion usually requires something for you to divert attention from. I don't think he's diverting attention necessarily from the health care bill, because that's, a giant, like right now it's a cluster. What kills me is that there are a lot of people that are

willing, very smart people that are willing to say, and help me understand it, Ben, that are willing to say, this is okay. The health care bill. Let's just say everything else is saying, but this is, that the people I trust now

are not Mike Lee. They are what's his face, turtle face from Kentucky. McConnell. McConnell. Okay. They're trusting McConnell over people like Mike Lee. Yeah. Help me figure that out. So, and not to, you know, break too many groups down to other groups, but I think there are two groups of people here. One is the people who just want to see a win for Trump, and that means something has to pass. And since we're not going to pass simple repeal, because Trump basically foreclosed that. I mean, he forbade that

during the campaign. He made a bunch of promises that are not in, in coordination with simple repeal. And he said we're not going to let anybody go without health care. The government's going to make sure that everybody is covered. I mean, he said this stuff in the campaign. So it's kind of difficult to say then, now we're going to repeal and we're going to cut back Medicaid. So there's group number one that just wants to see Trump get a win. And then there's group number two who say, okay, now we're going to be honest. We were lying for seven years. Republicans were lying for seven years when they said they're going to repeal this thing. Now we've got to be honest. We're not repealing it. But the best that we can do is a Medicaid restructuring and a tax cut. And that's the best that we're going to do here.

And we'll call it Obamacare Appeals so that all the idiots out, all the Roots will believe it. Is there a group, a growing group of conservatives that believe in socialized everything? Yeah, I mean, I think there's a growing group of conservatives who at least don't care, or apathetic, who are more interested, again, in the fight against what they perceive to be the left than they are in the fight against leftist policy. So there's a mistake that's been made, which is you identify the entirety of leftism as, residing in the halls of CNN or the New York Times or at the universities, but when leftism actually starts to infect your party, then it can't be infecting your party because, hey, we're Republicans.

We're not, we're not, we're conservatives. We don't believe in those. We're not leftists. I mean, come on, we hate those guys. And it doesn't matter. This is why, you know, Steve Bannon in the White House chief strategist, he was out there floating trial balloons about raising taxes on the rich. And there are a bunch of people going, well, yeah, why not do that?

I'm like, well, where were you? What? I've been here for a while. This is a new one. But people saying, well, I mean, if that's a good policy and if that'll help us win Democratic voters and all the rest of it, then why not do it? Again, I think that what people, the stuff that you and I were looking at during the campaign, and we were saying this is really like some of the activity that Trump was pushing or things like Gianforte, the candidate Montana body slamming reporter, things where you and I were going, this is crazy. Like, how is this happening? There are a lot of people who are seeing that not as a, in spite of that, we're happy because we're getting some good. policy, the policy doesn't actually matter. All that matters is we have for so long hated losing to the left that people literally body slamming reporters or just going out there and labeling everything fake news or wrestling gifts or all this stuff is actually, that's what we wanted. We elected that, right?

What we wanted was the Twitter. Okay, the Twitter is not an obstacle to getting what we want. The Twitter is what we want. The policy is the obstacle to getting what we want because we might not get more Twitter if he doesn't get policy passed that allows him to get re-election. And I think we have to be honest with ourselves about whether we're more jazzed up about the wrestling gif or whether they're more jazzed up about gorsuch because i think that we're more jazzed up about the rest i think that's right and i think trump thinks that's right too which is why he keeps doing it right he gets more applause doing that than he does with uh with conservative policy back with ben shapiro here in a second um while we are celebrating our country's independence this week keep in mind

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It's the Glenn Beck program. Sign up for the newsletter and get all the info you need to know at Glenn Beck. Good friend of the program, good friend, and also a good friend to the Constitution, deeply rooted in logical thought, which is rare. Ben Shapiro from The Daily Wire is here with us. And a lot smarter than us, so let me ask a question. The CNN thing, their reaction to the wrestling situation, which was them saying, well, we won't release a name. But, you know, if you act badly, we might. Yeah. I don't even understand that.

It was a weird way of phrasing it. And I'm not defending CNN in the way they handled. It was very clunky at best. I was a little surprised on that sort of uniform reaction on the right, though, at least the passionate response from the right, saying, sort of giving this real reverence to an online pseudonym, like as if this really means that you're anonymous. I mean, like, you know, you could try to be anonymous,

but that does not guarantee your anonymity. And beyond that, the idea that you can kind of go, you know, who are you mad at? You're mad at CNN here who's essentially, let's say in the school situation, the principal, punishing your kid for doing something wrong, right? They're doing, they're punishing your kid for being something wrong. I always see the right as the people who are mad at their kid, not at the school. Right. The left is the one that goes and whines about the school. Hey, why did you get my kid in trouble? You're causing real detriment.

Where the left, where the right is supposed to be the one saying, wait a, moron a kid, don't post anti-Semitic stuff. Don't post stuff online you want on associated with yourself. What am I missing there? Well, I mean, I think there, I don't think you're missing anything with a basic calculus as far as the right is supposed to be chiding people when they do this sort of stuff, although during the last election cycle, as the number one recipient of antisemitic tweets in the journalistic community, according to the ADL, 40% of all antisemitic tweets directed a journalist came to me personally. Congratulations. Thank you. It's great. I have a trophy on my desk. Most hated you in America,

which is a real accomplishment. Yeah, it's great. But the, you know, I think that this story is a little bit more than that for a couple of reasons. One is that the attempt to link Trump with the guy who created the meme and then to link him with all the other stuff that this guy had ever created was obviously a stretch. And unfair.

And unfair to Trump. Totally untrue. And it's in obviously a hit job on Trump. So that was CNN going over its skis on that. Okay, so assume that and say, okay, fine. Well, they disagree. They think that if you, that Trump associating with the Reddit crowd, he gets whatever he's linked to, we're now going

to search for all their ancillary material and link him to that, which again, I have a problem with. That's only mistake number one. Mistake number two is that apparently they got the wrong guy, so apparently they actually didn't even get the right guy. And then mistake number three is that they apparently called him and before he returned their call, he said, okay, CNN's on my tail. I'm going to apologize and pull all this stuff down before I call them back. He does that, he calls him back. And then they run that story where they say, and we'll keep him anonymous if he obeys our orders. Okay, that's no longer journalism. That's now activism. So if you're an activist, group, that's okay, right? I mean, it's still

what do you think of the idea that Stu floated yesterday, that that's really the BuzzFeed crew that kind of came in that was pushing back against CNN because they are more activist. Don't give me wrong, I worked at CNN. They are activists as well, but not like the BuzzFeed people. I mean, I do think

that the media have become just generally more activists since Trump was elected. I mean, I think they now see it as their, I wrote a column for National Review where I said that the dichotomy right now in the American discourse is that left sees themselves in the media see themselves as these, you know, battered hat, trench coat wearing guys who are snooping on the streets and every nook and cranny for all the corruption over Trumpany Hall. And then the right sees Trump as a sort of playboy billionaire

Bruce Wayne type, who, you know, is an idiot during the day, but then at night he dons the bat cape and goes out and brings justice to Mika Brasinski's face. Right. So I'm not sure that it's a bridge that can never be a gap, a gap that can never be bridged. But, you know, as far as CNN's behavior on this, I think I reacted very strong. strongly to this because CNN is not the gatekeeper of telling people what they can do or we're going

to release X. It's either newsworthy and release it or it's not newsworthy and let it go. You don't get to just hold things over people's edge. I mean, today I saw this for the first time. This apparently what was on that guy's feed or whatever, yeah. This comes from a pro-Hitler group and you're not on this, but this is

all the Jews. I don't know if they missed me. I mean, that's all the Jews that work at CNN. I mean, guys, we're in Kippa. Come on. Okay. So, There are Jews that work at CNN. Yes. It's amazing. So this is amazing because it has all their faces with a star of David next to it. I mean, it's so clearly Hitler anti-Semitic kind of stuff.

By saying, hey, we're not going to release this stuff. They actually, I don't think did go as far as they could have to tie Trump to this kind of stuff. If they would have spent two days showing this stuff and saying, this is the kind of stuff that he was doing, blah, blah, blah. Then it would have been worse. I don't understand their strategy. I'll get to that in just a second. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to the program and to Ben Shapiro, who is from the Daily Wire, and a really bright guy who is not afraid. We have very different approaches, the two of us, but I think we believe much of the same stuff. Right, you're a nice person. I'm not. so that definitely. No, it's just, yeah, I want to talk to you a little bit about that, too, before we go,

because that's not it. I mean, I don't think you're a bomb thrower by any stretch of the imagination. We were talking about this earlier today. You're very logical, and you don't mind confrontation. But you're not a bomb thrower. There's a difference between a bomb thrower and a, you know, you're not quite Ravi Zacharias. I don't know if you know who he is. Yeah.

But you're in that, on that road. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I like to think that I'm more interested in saying things that I think are true that I'm in offending people. And if the things that I think are to offend people, then so be it. But it's not. I mean, some people go out to make headlines and to offend. I don't think you've, I've never seen you do that. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. It's something that I do take some pride in. And it's one of the reasons why it's so funny, I'll speak on these college campuses and there'll be these major protests and quasi-riots and all this. And then when people who are on the left actually come to the lecture, they'll say they don't understand. understand what that was all about. Yeah, I know, I know. Okay, so let's go back to where we were before the break. You were about to answer something. That's the CNN thing. CNN, yes. Okay, so what is CNN's strategy on, on the way they dealt with all of this? I think that the entire media right now are so, as I say, I think we're in a reactionary period, which is really dangerous, because whatever happens out of a reactionary period, it's really good. But the media are so reactionary, They think every story is a killshot.

And so they're interested in just getting the story out fast. Don't think there's no kill shot on this one. Yeah, exactly. But they think everything is, right? I mean, you have Democrats who are saying based on his tweets last week with MSNBC, he should be impeached. It's like, really, that's your ground? Yeah.

Like, that was it? Like, we didn't, have you not seen this Twitter feed? Is that a high crime or a misdemeanor? Which one is that? It's the Twitter clause of the Constitution. Hey, I mean, they've put a lot of other clauses in their stories. The thing they can't put that one in there, too. but they really are in order for them to maintain ratings,

and also because they actually believe this, they are living in this mythical world where if they break the right story, then Trump will just collapse and he won't be president anymore and the entire reality will change. And this is why CNN was pumping the Trump-Russia collusion stuff, not just saying that there are people who Trump was associated with who have Russian connections, which is true,

but saying there was active collusion and trying to blow this up into some big scandal with no evidence. There's no evidence of that. None. And they were doing this for a year, year, and particularly post-election they were doing it because their viewers are invested in the idea that if they want to be watching CNN at directly the moment when Trump goes down. Yeah, but don't they, yeah, that's true. But don't they understand that we kind of already paved

that ground? And it gave birth to the birthers. Okay. And, you know, four years into it, Donald Trump is doing the whole birth certificate thing, which only hardens his supporters. That's all that that does. And so by CNN making everything into an impeach, grounds of impeachment and a constitutional crisis, they're only hardening both sides.

They don't care. I mean, why would they care? And I think that on the right, why would people on the right care? I mean, you used to be able to say two things. Number one, it's bad for the American body politic to have these hardening of positions. And number two, it's not going to bring a victory. But clearly that's not true.

Right? I mean, clearly, like, on the right keep saying, where are the Democrats going to propose something? When are they going to bring their solutions? They don't need to. Okay, let's not pretend here. The Republicans brought no solutions for eight years while Obama was president, and they yelled at him. And then the guy who said that he was born in Kenya is the president of the United States. So it's very difficult to make the argument that what we really need is a great unifier in order to win elections when I can't say that we were exactly the party of unification. Now, that doesn't say there was something to unify with. The left wasn't providing a lot for us to unify over while President Obama was president,

was providing his own form of polarization and racial extremism in terms of polarizing various racial groups for political gain. But right now there's not a lot of incentive on any side for a rhetoric of unity or for a rhetoric of reason. A rhetoric of reason in unity, and I don't like his policies at all, was Mitt Romney. Yes. And he was right down the traditional middle and everything else. he was much more conservative than this president is in many ways.

And yet we didn't unify around that. We unify against somebody who's going to punch back. And that's the whole thing. I think that this is a rage moment. And one of the things that's happening for politicians and the media is there's a lot of money and a lot of political gain to be made in humoring people's anger. You know, as a parent, one of the things,

I have two kids who are under the age of four, which means you deal with tantrums a lot. And one of the things that you do with the kid who's having a tantrum is you have to say, you know, why are you having the tantrum is the anger justified, right? And usually the anger's not. It's a three and a half year old, right? I mean, the anger usually isn't. When people who are adults are angry, we no longer even bother asking them,

is your anger justified? Are you mad for a good reason or are you just mad? And then if they're mad, we say, okay, well, we can grab that. We can use that. We can channel that anger into something politically useful, electing me or raising money for this cause. And so if there's nothing to be angry, at or if there's less to be angry at than you think,

then how are you going to take advantage of that? And I think that that's what you see happening on both sides of the house. On the left, they're saying, this is the worst president of whoever was. He's hilarious. Nothing's happening, guys. Like nothing. Zero things have happened, right? I mean, Judge Gorsuch replaced Justice Scalia. Right. Okay, nothing

happened. Nothing's happening, right? And there's been zero major pieces of legislation passed and signed by this president. There have been a bunch of repeals of small laws under Obama, but like, come on. This has been a transformational presidency? Not in any way has it been transformational, but the left is treating it like, you have a reason to be angry. There's a reason you're mad. Not really.

And on the right, you have people, like, President Trump's doing this during the campaign to great effect, where he was going into these small towns that were shutting down because the industries had left and saying, well, the reason that you have a right to be angry. And not a right to be angry at the overregulation, which is legit, but you have a right to be angry because the Chinese and the Mexicans are stealing your job. And if we just win again, if we didn't have all these idiots and we would just win again, then we would be able to bring everything back. All these factories would come flowing back in. And of course, none of that is true. And so what you have right now is the media trying for a buck to promote anger.

And you have the politicians for a vote to try and promote anger. And never at any point does anybody, it makes a pathological country. Jonathan Haidt and social psychologist over at NYU, he talks about how when it comes to psychology, the single best method that's been devised for psychologists is cognitive behavioral therapy where they try to take somebody who's having a chain of bad thoughts that's leading to depression and then they try to say okay well why is it that you're is it possible you're exaggerating the situation is it possible you're reading somebody wrong you break the chain of bad thoughts by saying maybe your feelings are not justified maybe you should reexamine your own feelings and get control

over your own feelings and then you can control yourself as a human being politics is the opposite of that now it's to take that rage and exacerbate it and magnify it and make it bigger and broader and louder so Ben, that brings me right to you and me. And I wouldn't even put us in different categories. You just approach it differently. You are approaching it with reason, but you don't mind the battle. I kind of want to see Ben Shapiro as a dad with a logical argument to the three and a half year old. She's a pretty logical three and a half.

She's still three and a half. Actually, the macaroni and cheese is the correct temperature. And you'll... Right. Are you seeing... and are you even looking for those people, not on the left, but the reasonable people, I think there's, I don't even know what the number is.

And a bad day, I think it's 30%. On a good day, I think it's maybe 70% of Americans who, if were presented with a group of adults that could all get along, even though they disagree. And we're saying, you know what, just come over and watch that stuff burn down over here. We're just going to start moving and getting some things done. Kind of the Republican Party in the 1850s that really was mainly made up of Democrats at the time that said,

you're not serious. And the wigs that joined them and said, my side's not serious either. And we actually want to solve this slavery thing. do you see do you see those reasonable people out there I do actually I think it's a growing number of people who are disillusioned with the with the WWE of it all and are sick and they see that it's kind of fake

that really it's a lot of people who are making money and and you see it on the left as well I think yeah I mean I think that when I get a lot of letters from college kids because I speak a lot to college kids and they watch my videos and I get a lot of letters from college kids who say I was on the left and I was you know motivated to believe the people on the right were nasty and mean and cruel, and then I watched some of your stuff, and now it's opened my mind and I'm doing some reading of my own, and I'd like to kind

of examine ideas differently. And I think that there are those people who are getting over this. I think that what's, the future for conservatism is not going to be complete Reagan conservatism. It's going to be almost a conservative libertarian merger. It's going to be a leave me alone thing, because we're so sick of everybody in our business. In fact, I think that that's actually the strongest pitch that conservatives can make right now to people on the left is not come on over here and join us on the Trump train. I agree. You hate Trump?

Okay, well, I hated Obama. I thought he was terrible. Well, I have a solution for all of this, which is, how about we just take the power away from everyone in Washington, D.C., and then you don't have to care who's the president. He's just some guy who lives in a house. And we're not going to change your life. You live what you life.

Don't change how I live my life. Let's just live side by side. I think there is a real case to be made. I think that's what's going to come out of this. I was just in, I was in Hollywood, of all places. all last week. And I met with group after group after group. Some of them were hardened

at least one in each group of the probably 10 meetings that I had. At least one was hardened against me when I first walked in. And it became a joke of the team that was going with me because they were like, how long before they turned? How long before they turn?

Turned every single one of them because of Jonathan Haidt actually used his method of talking their language, speaking reason, being humble, friendly, likable, laugh, laugh at yourself, laugh at the other side, immediately turned. I had huge liberals come to me and say, I am more afraid of the left than I am of your side now because of what's happening on college campuses. this is the kind of round people up, and it's usually Jews. You know, they were the liberal Jews that were saying these kinds of things to me.

I think the political situation right now, it's sort of a game of ping pong. And eventually the people are just going to get tired of bouncing between the two polar extremes, between the Bernie Sanders left and the Black Lives Matter left and the, you know, hardcore. Do you think that there's enough Democrats that are still out? out there that say, I don't want Bernie Sanders, because the Democrats are moving towards that kind of a... I think Bernie Sanders is an interesting case, because Sanders is smart enough to actually not play the intersectional game as much as he plays the socialist game.

So he's actually a more unifying figure for Americans than Kamala Harris, for example. Yes, yes. And so Sanders is actually... The great danger from the Democrats is coming... I agree with the hard left of the Democratic Party who's Bernie Sandersite that the actual future of the Democratic Party and their victory is going to lie with people like Bernie Sanders and not with not with this separate people by their race and then run on the typical democratic platform i mean i think that it's if sanders had actually been the nominee i think there's a much more

significant chance that he is president than than Hillary i think he probably wins michigan pretty easily i agree um so it's you know that that's the danger but that's not just because of his ideas it's because he it's because he has steadfastly refused to engage in some of the play the game exactly he's not playing the game That's right. Yeah. We'll do you one more without no politics at all here. I'm fascinated by something that you've done recently,

which is I just took my kid to hit our first baseball game. He's five. I'm indoctrinating him to be a Toronto Blue Jays fan for absolutely no explainable reason. But you actually just wrote a book about your experience going through the 2005 White Sox Championship. How did that come about? That's really, I think that's a fascinating thing. My dad and I are huge White Sox fans. I picked up all my dad's sports allegiances.

So he's from Chicago. My mom's from Chicago. I was born in L.A., so that means I've never really been to a home game. I've just been to visiting games. And so we're huge White Sox fans, and in 2005 I was at Harvard Law, and it was kind of a rough year, and he was having a rough year, and so we just decided we were going to watch every White Sox game. So between the two of us, we watched every White Sox game that season, and they ended up winning the World Series. And so we wrote this book where we were really half the book is us writing notes to each other,

how are you doing? And we just compiled all of that into a book. So took notes on the games and then. See, I wrote you about that. You said it's a sports book, so really no big deal. That's not a sports book. That's a dad and that's a father and son book. Oh, that's great. It is, it is, I mean, it's a lot of fun. It is, if you're a baseball fan, you'll get a lot more out of it because there is a lot of baseball.

I mean, we do love baseball, so there's a lot of baseball in there. But yeah, it's, it's my dad telling stories about his dad and me and my dad interrelating. And so that's the name of the book? It's called Say It So. Okay. Ben Shapiro, he'll be on with us. I think we're doing a Facebook thing. And we're so.

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