The Glenn Beck Program - Bad Move, Lucasfilm | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Rep. Burgess Owens | 2/11/21

Episode Date: February 11, 2021

Lucasfilm announced actress Gina Carano has been fired from “The Mandalorian” after the Twitter mob complained about her “controversial” social media posts. Sen. Mike Lee talks the ongoing impeachment trial and address the controversy over his “mulligan” comment. A New York Times article claims Glenn and other conservative talk show hosts “stoked anger before the Capitol siege." Glenn shares a story about Gandhi before utterly debunking the article’s points about him and providing the context that the Times intentionally ignored. Author David Barton and Rep. Burgess Owens join to discuss Black History Month and the actual removal of black history by progressives — including attempts to cancel Rep. Owens himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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She made a historical analogy with the intention of giving people pause in the relentless crusade to ostracized non-leftist from society. This is what she wrote. in a post. Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors, even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their

own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views. She is absolutely 100% correct. They did it through propaganda. They did it through smears, and they did it through intimidation. And they praised the people who did it. So if you were beating Jews in the streets, you'd be held up by the Nazi party as one of the good guys.

You'd get special praise. if you said something in defense, the opposite would happen. Well, just to show how much they don't hate her political views and don't want to silence people or beat them into submission, they lobbied to have Disney beat her into submission. And when she wouldn't submit, they fired her. She is not currently employed by Lucasfilm. And according to Disney, there are no plans for her to be hired in. the future. Her social media post denigrating people based on their cultural and religious

identities are abhorrent and unacceptable. Her social media post denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable. What? To say, hey, uh, you know, you know how you get people to beat Jews? You run a campaign and you get the neighbors to beat the Jews for you. What? You know what? We should, you know what we should, we should start banning things like Schindler's list? Because that showed how the German people, not just the Nazis, how the German neighbors were involved, how people were involved in that that didn't wear the swastika or the uniform. We should ban that.

You know what? Stu, let's make a list of books we should ban. Always a good idea. And with no historical echo at all. Well, none that could be said. No, not the Nazis. We can't mention it. No, no, no, no.

No. All right, let me tell you what's going on. You know this already. This is just to intimidate you and everyone else. This is the way that dictators do it. This is the way. What does that mean? Is that code?

Is that a Zionist code? I can't talk about the code. Oh my gosh. Okay. This is the way dictators take over countries. They take over countries by propaganda. That's why propaganda is so dangerous, especially when it is being done by the state and, in our case, also powerful corporations. Now, let me give you one of those powerful corporations,

the New York Times. Now, I'm going to address the New York Times specifically on this article in about 50 minutes, so you don't want to miss that. but there's an article that runs today how right-wing radio stoked anger before the capital siege. The New York Times writes, shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk radio stars promoted debunked claims of stolen election and urge listeners to fight back. Two days before the mob of Trump supporters invaded the United States Capitol, upending the nation's peaceful transition of power and leaving at least five people. dead the right wing radio star glenn beck delivered a message to his flock of listeners it's time to fight it's quoting it's time to rip and claw and rake end quote mr beck said on his january fourth broadcast quote it's time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago

end quote hmm okay time to rip claw and rake and his january fourth broadcast it's time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago. Why is that a problem? Why is that a problem? Well, then you, because if you have a problem with that, you're criticizing how the left went to war four years ago, which I don't remember them doing. Okay.

I don't remember that part of the story. Well, you should listen to the monologue. Oh, okay. We'll get into that later. Former Fox News host, Mr. Beck, has speculated for weeks about baseless claims of voter fraud in the presidential race. He told listeners that Donald J.T. Trump had taught conservatives that you don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down when ridiculed into oblivion. You can fight back. Yeah, that's true. Is that a bad message? Is that a bad message to tell people that you don't have to cower? Don't live in fear. Stand up for what you believe in. Is that somehow now a bad message to reject the bullies?

I mean, would you? like to hear an anti-bullying message from, I don't know, the New York Times. It's amazing. Now it's not okay to say, stand up straight. Don't be ashamed of who you are. Stand up. If somebody calls you a name, dismiss it. Stand up, fight back.

Speak the truth. Mr. Beck did not lobby for his listeners to invade the Capitol. and a day later, a day later, so I've never done this before, a day later, he urged marchers in Washington to really kind of channel, quoting, your inner Martin Luther King. Wait, you ask people to channel their inner Martin Luther King, which of course I've heard you do thousands of times. Yeah. And the article is about how you tried to get people to riot at the Capitol? Yes. I don't remember that part of the Martin Luther King's story. Well, remember when Martin Luther King said, cower, you've got to cower in fear.

Don't stand up. Don't speak your mind. Remember he was saying, when you go in to the lunch counter, cower. I don't remember that. He said, sit down. That's what he said, sit down. I mean, I'm saying, don't sit down. Okay.

He said, sit down. I mean, I'm glad they included the Martin Luther King point, but doesn't it totally disprove their argument from the first paragraph? Yes, it does, but they don't care. Mr. Beck did not lobby for his listeners to evade the Capitol day later. He urged marchers in Washington really kind of channel your inner Martin Luther King, adding that violence is just quoting,

just not who we've ever been, end quote. Wait a minute. No, no, no. They also put that in there? Yes, they did. But the language he used on his January 4th show was typical of the aggressive rhetoric that permeated

conservative talk radio in the weeks before the Washington siege. Well, I can tell you this. The Martin Luther King point is typical of the Glenn Beck program for the last decade. Yeah. So, maybe decade and a half. At least. Yeah.

But wait. What? So there's a way. No, I need at least one moment on this. Right. They're saying on December 4th, you said, January 4th. Yeah.

You said, uh, we should, we need to fight. And then also said you need to fight like the Democrats did in 2016. Yeah. It's time to go to war as the left went to war. four years ago. And then you said the Martin Luther King thing, not on the sixth after the violence. Right. You said the Martin Luther King thing on the fifth before the day of the violence. Right.

And they're still leading a column about the violence with you? Yeah. Well, that's fascinating. They're using me as the rhetoric that is heard all throughout talk radio. It doesn't it seem like if, okay, you go down this road and you're like, all right, I'm going to write this thing. And here's a quote from Glenn Beck that looks really bad at a. context. I'm going to put it in there. When you make the decision that you add the Martin Luther

King point, which totally disproves what you've just written. That might have been added because we may have said, if you print this the way you say you're going to print this, your lawsuit will make your eyes bleed. Okay. They may have put the Martin Luther King thing in there because. So this was not their suggestion. This is not their suggestion. In fact, and I'm going to get into this, oh, because I have the email. I'm going to show you where they started, and it was, it's time to go to war. And they left out as the left went to the war four years ago. They left that part out originally.

So, yeah, that was a negotiation point. Oh, wow. In that sentence. Okay. So anyway, the reason why I'm bringing this up here is because I want you to know what is really happening in Washington. As we discussed yesterday, the Democratic. don't have a prayer of impeaching, I'm sorry, of convicting Donald Trump. Okay, they don't have a prayer of it. They're not going to win. So why are they doing this battle? Several reasons.

I'll give you the biggest in a second. First, it's a distraction. No, no, sorry. It's a distraction. First, it's a distraction. You have to distract from what's really going on in the first 100 days. The second thing that is happening now is they are trying to make sure that you understand don't stand up. Don't stand up. You cower in fear. If anyone tries to run for president and take on the machine, the machine will kill them. It will destroy them in every way possible. And they're teaching you a lesson by teaching.

Donald Trump a lesson. This is what you get if you come against us. But here's the third reason. And it is, I believe, a very important reason. In fact, I think it might be the most important reason. They are tying rhetoric directly to violence. Now, they will never tie their rhetoric to violence. But any time the right says something,

they tried to do this with a Tea Party, but we were so disciplined that we didn't ever give them an opening. And they were trying to tie us into violence. Well, now they have the one case where the Tea Party is violent. SEIU beating people in the streets during the Tea Party, they had no problem with that. No problem with that. But our violent rhetoric, which never turned to violence,

that's where they were headed. Now they have it. So this article, it's not a coincidence that, A, that monologue was a monologue that referenced Media Matters. I can guarantee you Media Matters has its fingers all over this story. Second, it's not a coincidence that it is coming out right now. As they are showing all the violence on television that happened on January 6th, which was despicable and we condemned it.

immediately. While it was happening. While it was happening. While that was happening, we're condemning it. They take this video now and they're pushing it through and they've got all the media showing Trump's violent rhetoric. See, this is what happens when you have a leader that does this. But now they also want to tie in and say, yeah, but the leader also had some helpers along

the way. he he had right wing radio they have been trying to shut us down for so long the targets in this article rush limbaugh dan bonjino mark levin and me well two out of the four have cancer so i think it's great that they're taking on cancer patients now uh and accusing them of horrible things as they are fighting cancer um but They're doing that for a reason. They need us to be removed. They need talk radio to be shut down. I guarantee you the House and the Senate will move.

And if they don't move, it will just happen through the FCC. They will do everything they can to silence our voices. Because they need you to not have a freedom of association. freedom of speech. They need you to stop having a place to where you can gather your thoughts. They need you to feel alone. But you won't be alone. You won't be alone in this fight.

You won't be alone in your stand. Because wherever, wherever there is a group of people that are truly, trying to erase our God-given, constitutionally protected rights, you will find good patriots willing to stand up and fight. How do you mean fight, Glenn? I know. We're not intelligent enough to know after a lifetime of using the word fight, having cheerleaders go, fight, fight, fight.

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Yes. It's great. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Well, in reading the New York Times, I find out that Mike Lee does not have a problem with the riots. I think he was cheering them on. And he thought that Donald Trump should get a mulligan for it. This is a story by Glenn Thrush. Mike Lee suggests Trump should get a mulligan for the Capitol Riot Day speech. Wow, that doesn't sound like Mike Lee in an email to Mr. Lee's

spokesman requesting an explanation of his remarks. It was not immediately returned, but some of his defenders on social media said that he was making a larger point about the need for civility in both parties, but that's only some in social media. As an example of what he viewed as a recent transgression, Mr. Lee singled out Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, for making it personal, end quote, when she recently took a swipe at his ally, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. A swipe. Wow. I guess that's what she said when he was planning on having her killed.

I guess that was a swipe to the New York. Calling someone a murderer is definitely a swipe. It is a swipe. It's definitely one word for it. Senator Mike Lee here to answer the charges. Go ahead. The courts are listening, Mike. Well, you know, unfortunately, she only accused him of attempted murder.

Right. Right. Oh, yeah, that's right. If it was actual murder, then that was. actual murder, then that wouldn't have been a swipe. That would have been important. But this was attempted murder, right? Exactly.

Yeah. Exactly. One of the things I've learned is that, you know, you've got a problem with your news source when every single time they print something as to which you have personal knowledge, that's wrong. Yeah. I'm sure that's just a massive coincidence here. Yes, I'm sure it is.

I'm sure it is. It's probably that you're listening to the wrong sources. You're part of the conspiracy, cabal, you know? Uh, that's probably what the, what the problem is, Mike. Um, tell me first of all, the interesting thing there. Yeah, go ahead. I just want, I just, I just, I just want you to, because I know the context. And what is so crazy is, the context that this was said in was to say, let's ratchet things down a bit. And I'm going to give everybody a mulligan because everybody makes mistakes. You were talking to the left. You weren't talking about Donald Trump.

That's exactly right. I was talking too. And in that sense, in defense of some of my colleagues on the far left, who had said some really inflammatory stuff, stuff that rivals a lot of the things that are being attacked that have been said by people on the right. And so I said, look, referring specifically to those people on the left, people like AOC, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer. Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer. I said,

everyone from time to time says something that they regret. And, you know, they probably ought to take a molligan on this one. Everyone's entitled to one of those once in a while. But the point is we shouldn't be saying things like this. In no way, shape, or form did I say that President Trump ought to be taking a mulligan on this? That had nothing to do with President Trump. And yet somehow the geniuses at New York Times and the geniuses that

Fox 13 in Salt Lake City and about 50 other news outlets throughout the country picked it up and took exactly that message directly contrary to the fact. And the truth is this reflects what can best be characterized is reckless disregard for the truth. But they're going to be the arbiters of truth here soon, Mike. They are pushing for it and trying to silence anyone that has a different opinion. Now, that's exactly right. And they're playing off of the famous Supreme Court case, New York Times v. Sullivan, basically gives them impunity to defame people so long as they're not acting with knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth. And yet, oddly enough here, they seem to across that threshold. And I've got another one for you. They just wrote a story about me today in the New York Times, that they knowingly, knowingly, are printing things that are just false as a news story. If it was an opinion piece, that'd be one thing.

But this is a news story. And it's despicable, Mike. Let's talk a little bit about the impeachment trial itself. First of all, are you seeing any movement at all with anyone on either side? The Democrats making a good case or any of the Republicans going, Well, I don't know. That's a good point. Okay, look, here's what I'll tell you on that front. There's no doubt horrible things happened on January 6th.

There's no doubt that we should have been able to avoid it. I wish we had been able to avoid it. I've said for a long time that I don't think that there should have been an effort to try to win the election on January 6th, because if you read the 12th Amendment, and if you read Article 2 of the Constitution, they don't make that possible. It is the states that decide these things and not Congress. Correct. Congress is there only to count.

It has one job, open and count, open and count. That's it. These things that happened on January 6th were tragic. They were horrific. All of that being the case, that is different than what is on trial this week. What's on trial this week? is different than that. There are a number of us,

44 of us, to be precise, that don't believe that it's appropriate for the Senate to exercise jurisdiction as a court of impeachment after a president's term of office has expired. Can I give you something on this? Just to play devil's advocate.

Give me a, give Mike the quote from John Adams. John Quincy Adams, yeah. Let's say, here we go. I hold myself, so long as I have the breath of life in my body, to impeachment by the House for everything I did during the time I held any public office. That's great, and I've seen that quote, and I understand his point. I don't think he's

necessarily approaching this as a tax ruleist. I don't think he's necessarily approaching this as someone who sees the abuse of government powers that can be brought to bear with an impeachment trial. I don't think he anticipated the issues that could arise as a result of it. Now, look, I will grant you this much. As a strict textual matter, it is a very close call. I actually think the text can be read one way or the other, thus requiring us to make some prudential judgment calls about how best it ought to fit into this framework.

But when you look at this floodgates this thing would open, you imagine what would happen just, for example, the next time we have a red wave election. You'd see massive calls for impeachment proceedings on Hillary Clinton, for Benghazi on Jim Comey, maybe even for Jimmy Carter going back to the fact that he gave away the Panama Canal. This would result in an interminable succession of absurd impeachment proceedings. I don't think that's good for the country. I don't think we ought to give Congress that power. So when the Chief Justice decided not to be seated for this, does this make this

a kangaroo court? I mean, isn't that part of the Constitution? It's not at all clear to me that the Chief Justice declined anything. From what I understand, the Chief Justice was never invited to preside. They knew that by, yeah, they knew that by the time we got the articles of impeachment, 10 days or so, mind you, after they had passed them, and nearly a week after President Trump had left office, they knew that he wasn't the president, and thus it wasn't appropriate to have the Chief Justice, attend. Someone floated the rumor that he had been invited and declined. Now, unless there's something out there that's changed, that's simply not true. My understanding is that he was never

invited in the first place. Why? They knew he's not the president, and therefore there's no reason to have the Chief Justice. Okay, so does it make this, I mean, is it constitutional to an impeachment? Doesn't it say the Supreme Court justice comes and is overseas it? Yes, yes. If, in fact, the president is being tried for impeachment. But here, we don't have the president or the vice president or any civil officers of the United States.

You have a former president. It's a different thing. It doesn't require the Chief Justice to preside. By my reading, it shouldn't allow us to have a trial at all. Now, this would have been different. That would have been a completely different set of questions we were facing. have the House of Representatives initiated this process and actually deliver the articles of impeachment right after they passed them. They didn't. They sat on them. Why? I'm not really sure. You're going to have to

ask Nancy Pelosi that question. But it makes a huge difference for them, and they really need to live with the consequences, and that's what they're facing now. So one of the reasons why I don't think there will be a shift in the outcome of this impeachment. Remember, in order for an impeachment trial to be successful. You can have no more than 33 senators voting to acquit. We've got 44 already who were saying just on jurisdictional grounds alone, we shouldn't do this. And so unless something dramatic changes, which I don't see, we're nowhere close. So then why are they doing this? Again, this is remarkable stuff. This to me leads to bananas. Republic kind of stuff, because as you've just said, you know, you get a red wave, then who do they take out?

This is what dictatorships do. This is what banana republics do. So what is their gain? What is the real goal? Do you think, Mike? It appears to me they're doing everything they can to smear Republicans, smear conservatives, smear people who support or supported Donald Trump at any moment. And all along the way, they're characterizing the evidence. In fact, it's not, at least so far, it's not like a normal trial. They're not bringing in witnesses. They're basically reciting things from news reports written by their liberal allies with the most smearing characterization they can possibly find.

Some of them turn out to be inaccurate. I made an objection last night. I saw it. To some evidence that they claimed to have that I personally knew about, and I asked that it be stricken because I knew it not to be true. Look, it's always hard for me to speak to another person's subjective intent. But what I do know is that they seem to be having a good time doing everything they can to just say Republicans are awful. And all of these people who supported Donald Trump are awful, and I think that's unfortunate. So the problem with this is, is they are not only saying they're awful, but they're also using social media, the media itself, and, you know, the New York Times article today, to silence people and to label them as violent extremists.

We have 5,000 troops still on the ground in Washington, D.C. without a defined mission. That doesn't happen. The Department of Homeland Security says there is no credible or specific threat. What is going on, Mike? You can't keep calling half the country violent extremists. And I mean, because at some point you're like, well, then we got to do something about it. If they're all violent extremists, we have to do. Well, what do you do?

This is not about an election anymore. You know, I'll tell you, Glenn, we have to take. down that wall. Every day when I come into work, I have to pass this enormous wall with razor wire, with armed military all around it. Not only are these bad optics, this is bad substance. This is not who we are. This is not what we need to do. And I call on Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and my colleagues in the Senate and counterparts in the House to tear down this wall and do it now. Mike Lee, thank you so much. Lee, Senator of Utah, I'd like to talk to you more about that.

It's interesting. I remember Reagan saying that. Never thought I would hear Mike Lee say those words to Chuck Schumer about a wall, let alone the wall around the Capitol. Tear down this wall. Tim lives in Maine. He writes about his dog, Sugar is experienced with Rough Greens after being a picky eater. He writes, I have been using Rough Greens for close to two weeks now. Sugar is almost 10 years old.

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You know, talking to Mike Lee, you know, when I, when I, when I asked him about the constitutionality, he was, he kind of deferred to the way it's going to be used. It's really wrong the way it could possibly be used. And I think John Quincy Adams did see that. I think that's what he was talking about, that some radicals could get in and they could come after me because of whatever. But,

you know, Mike has been the one who really changed my mind on, I said, why do we put these people in jail? Meaning like former officials that did things wrong. Did things like really wrong. Hillary Clinton, in my opinion she should have gone to jail.

And he said once they've left office, you don't, he said, in my opinion, you don't want to go after people because it will start this cycle. Yeah, of revenge. Of revenge. And he's been consistent about that for a long time. For a long time. And, you know, now that Trump is out of office, what are you doing? I mean, this is the second time they've tried to impeach him with nothing, with literally nothing, knowing they could. could not convict him.

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does media violence lead to the real thing? What? If you are consuming a lot of violence and you're hearing violent rhetoric, can it lead to the real thing? The New York Times wants you to know, yes. Now, we've talked about that with movies. We've talked about that with violent video games.

And we've told you that it doesn't lead. It just can lead to those people who are susceptible to it. And now apparently the New York Times has decided, oh, you know what? Maybe there is something to that. You don't think it has anything to do with what they're saying in the impeachment trial. Do you? Nah, that's too. Oh, also, the New York Times has come out with a new article about how Donald Trump has henchmen.

He's got some people doing his bidding. He's got right-wing talk radio. And how that has affected people all over this country to rise up in violence. Oh, yeah. My answer to the New York Times in 60 seconds. So you want one of the... Yeah, yeah. Gosh, and the Mandalorian, man, he scares me

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A woman who took her son to see Gandhi because she couldn't stop him from eating candy. And it wasn't easy to get to Gandhi. It wasn't easy to see Gandhi. But she did. And she stood in front of Gandhi and she said, my son, would you please tell my son how damaging sweets are that he has to have a balanced diet? and Gandhi said, come back in two weeks. She was really kind of smoked.

I mean, it was not easy. She walked for miles with her son under a scorching sun in India. And all the way, she's like, what was the point of that going to see him? And then he's like, come back at a couple of weeks. Well, they returned home. she was exhausted. Two weeks later, her son is still obsessed with sugar, candy, and she makes the trek again. Gandhi says, boy, you need to stop eating candy.

Sugar is bad for your health. She looked at him and said, you couldn't have said that the first time we were here? What was the two-week wait for? Why didn't you say? Because that's all he said. That is what? He looked at her and he said, I told you to come back in two weeks because I have an unhealthy love of sugar myself.

And I needed two weeks in order to give up candy before I told someone else to do it. Now, the reason why I know this story is true, because there's some speculation that this is myth. But I know it to be true because Al Gore used it in his 1992 book, earth in the balance. So if anybody wants to fact check that, you better talk to Al Gore because I believe everything that Al Gore writes. The reason why I am starting with that is because I have an unhealthy, an unhealthy attraction

to sweets myself, sweets being what I'm about to talk about. So I'm not one to judge, but I'm at least one to recognize. when there's a problem. I at least am striving to do better every day. I am striving to rise above my own personal petty emotions, my own personal gains or losses, and just do the right thing. Because I don't believe God is on my side or God is on your side.

I believe we have to work for us to be on God's side. He loves all of his children. and he's dismayed whenever we have an unhealthy attraction to sweets. With that being said, let me explain what has happened on a new story from the New York Times. There's a new story out from the Times that says how right-wing radio stoked anger before the capital siege. Shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk radio stars promoted debunked claims of a stolen election and urge listeners to fight back. Okay, that's the headline. Let me just tell you what really happened.

On Friday, Michael Greenbaum, who's the author of this ridiculous opinion piece that is disguised as news, he wrote to me, Hi, Glenn, Michael Greenbaum here at the New York Times. I'm a reporter covering media and politics. My hand was already on delete. We're writing an article on conservative talk radio, specifically the content that aired in the period shortly before the attack on the U.S. Capitol. You are mentioned along with other prominent hosts, including Limbaugh and Hannity, et al. Oh, man, I wonder, they must be doing an honest search for the news. They want my opinion because they want to be set straight.

They want the other side. One example we cite is your January 4th, broadcast in which you said. Now remember, this is one example where we will cite you saying, quote, it's time to fight. It's time to rip and claw and rake. It's time to go to war. Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find patriots fighting. You don't have to cower anymore. You don't have to back down. The country as we know it is over and we're going to have to find ways to Stop them. Wow, that's one powerful example.

What else did I say? I want to go to the capital right now after hearing it. Right. Now, in that, quote, one example, there are ellipses. Oh. Otherwise known as dot, dot, dot. It's time to fight. It's time to rip and claw and rake.

It's time to go to war. Dot, dot, dot. Everywhere you can find a battlefield You'll find Patriots fighting Dot dot dot dot More than one You don't have to cower anymore You don't have to back down

Dot dot dot dot dot The country as we know it is over We're gonna have to find ways to stop them Wow Wow that's a lot of dot dot dot dot dot dots And I'm sure those dot dot dot dot dot dot The four? They really don't matter

You know what I'm saying? They didn't remove anything They probably removed like a commercial Right they did You know, this portion of the program brought you by. Probably did that. Yeah. I'd like to ask you if you'd like to comment about that broadcast.

Or in general about the impression that your show gave listeners about the accuracy of the election results. My email is, I'm so tempted. My phone number is. I live in those times. So he didn't technically say, don't give out somebody's phone number. But my deadline is Friday evening. happy to answer any questions you have as well. Thank you, Michael. Oh, well, Michael, thank you so much for that. So I didn't call back. Uh, I know exactly what they're going to do. I was my, my response was,

well, it wasn't my index finger, but I know I, I know I used a finger in my response. Um, and that was wrong. Jesus wouldn't have done that. But I still have an unhealthy, taste for sweets. I'm a work in progress. Luckily, my, my CEO of Mercury, Tyler Cardin, he got the same email, and he decided to send that to our attorneys

and also our PR firm, you know, along with a transcript, to find out what that was. So I want to give you exactly what I said. on January 4th. It's time to decide who we are. That's kind of the theme of today's program. Next hour at this time, I'm going to specifically ask who we are, who you are.

Because it's time to decide. But I'll tell you this, it's time to give the left exactly the same thing they have been giving us for at least four straight years. It is time to fight. Now, what would that mean, Stu? If I said prior to, it's time to give them the same thing that they've given us for at least four straight years. It's time to fight. Was I referring to the nonviolent protests that have been happening over the summer? Or was I referring to the fight that they put up in Washington and the people that were colluding to slow down or stop Donald.

Trump because his policies were crazy. Because to accuse you of saying something wrong there, you would, by definition, unless you, of course, dot, dot it, dotted it all. You yada yada it away. Right. But you have to basically say that what the Democrats had been doing for the past four years was terrible too, because you're specifically saying the same tactics. Now that's weird, isn't it?

Because I don't remember those stories from the New York Times. times, where they were highly critical of all the Democrats and all things they were doing. No. When you specifically say the same way they've been doing. Right. And if you were going to say that's violent, well, then are you saying those peaceful protests are violent? Are you saying Antifa is somehow or another wrong and violent? Because that's a new story to me.

But we haven't even gotten to it yet. It's time for us to be given to them at least. what they have given us for the four straight years. It's time to fight. It's time to rip and claw. It's time to go to war. That's where it went, dot, dot, dot. But it's not a period there and it's not an ellipse.

It's actually a comma, which generally denotes that there's something else that is important that is following now as a part of that sentence. Did you just maybe say dot, dot, dot, dot? and then they were just transcribing you say, dot, dot, dot, that's what it was. It's time to go to war, comma, as the left went to war four years ago. Wait again, that same issue comes up. It's weird. Where they would need to be highly critical of Democrats for the last four years to be critical of you now.

What's weird about this is you had to read the line right before it and the line rightly after. Seems like too much work. I mean, you can't expect the New York Times to go through that much. material. No. You know what I mean? You'd expect them. I, you know, I know that they get the facts for media matters and they could not be expected to go and look this up. I mean, our transcripts are available and that's weird. They were available, at least some transcripts were available to the New York Times. Such an odd part of the story where they go through and they cite Hannity who said, I guess, things they didn't like about the, this, the election being stolen in 35.

of the 45 episodes and Limbaugh and 32 of the 45 episodes as transcribed by MIT. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Maybe. Why would they be doing? You know what it is? Is there another MIT? I'm not thinking of here. You know what it is?

We're just so dumb. They need some of smart pay bill to translate what we're saying. Maybe that's it. You get some of them fights and people up of MIT to transcribe. What is MIT doing? Is it the same MIT? I don't know. just as MIT. Again, if it's not MIT, as we all know, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

there's another misleading comment from the New York Times in the story. Actually, it does say, okay, a system maintained by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which monitors radio broadcasts transcribed what was said on leading conservative programs between November 22nd and January 5th. Okay, so then they had the transcript for me, too. Isn't that interesting that they didn't that they give you the list of how many times you sit. Yeah. Isn't that interesting?

It's so frustrating, especially after how many years, how many shows, how many times, how many major public events you have held with the sole focus of being peaceful at rallies.

Like it's been, you've talked about it no offense, a hundred thousand times more than it was necessary. Like, I have no offense to you, but you have hit that so many times. Yeah, my staff hates me because of this. We got it, man.

We got it. Martin Luther King, we got it. All right, okay. And then to take that, then to rip you out of context, to fill the entire show with ellipses. We haven't even started yet. We haven't even started yet.

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as the left went to war four years ago. Well, even if you condemn the left and you win, because now you have to condemn what the left has been doing, I'm still uncomfortable with that. And when I read that, I thought, yeah, okay, well, they'd have to admit that they've been violent because I'm saying, let's do what they've been doing.

But I don't want to do what they're doing. And that's my first thought before I'm reading all of the transcript. But I had to read all the way, all the way down to the very next sentence. Oh, well, you can't expect. I mean, they're busy. Now, that's two sentences away from what they printed. So, again, you need a team of researchers from MIT to go that far. Yeah, they do have that.

So, oh, it did put it. Oh, this, well, that's a victory. Yeah, we should also point out there were one, two, three, four separate reporters who had the byline on the story. Oh, okay. So they had the four reporters plus MIT working on this one. Could get to the next sentence. So did they write the butt? Did they write the whole thing?

But our playbook will be different? No. No, no, okay. See that in here. All right. Because I want to go back to how they actually did print and how they. They got around those ellipses here in a second. It's time to fight, time to rip and rake.

It's time to go to war as left went to war four years ago. But our playbook will be different. Now, they don't expect us to actually stand up and stand together. They believe through their algorithms they can control and convince you to sit down. They believe they can convince you that you're all alone. Well, you're not. They think that you're going to roll over and show them our bellies. But you're not.

then I went into a little rant about Mitt Romney Mitt knows how to lose Yes, he does, he's a loser Yes, he didn't lose like Donald Trump lost He lost because he was a bad candidate Don't tell me oh no harm, no fouls Let's move on, let's come together There is no coming together

I would love to come together But I can't, I cannot stand With someone who won't stand for the Bill of Rights You see, the left has a very different definition of words. Come together with Joe Biden means us when he says he wants us to all come together. What does it mean? Submit.

That's what it means. The only thing that they have in mind is uniting the country into going in one direction. Theirs. No, the Constitution forbids me to go there. I talked to the president over the holiday and I'll tell you about that coming up.

But after I hung up, I thought there was so much more that I had to say to him. He has done a ton for this country. Maybe the most important thing was reminding us that you don't have to play by their rules anymore. You don't have to cower anymore back to the dot dot dot. This is how long you've had to go for that dot dot dot. You don't have to cower anymore. You don't have to back down when you're ridiculed into oblivion. You can fight back. You just saw somebody do it. No, I'm not going to surrender and I'm not going to shut up. Now, I have to go two more pages before I get to the

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It's the kind of journalism that was done in the late 1950s. and early 1960s, you know, on people, you know, that were standing up for their rights, but then called violent, you know, like Martin Luther King, I think it's great. I've only got 10 years of saying there's going to come a time where you're going to want to physically fight. Don't do it. Turn the other way. Don't do it.

You've got to listen to Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Bonhofer. 15 years of saying that, relentlessly. And the New York Times just can't seem to find any transcripts of me talking about that relentlessly. So I know who my audience is. I know who they are. And I know what they're capable of. And I know they're not morons like apparently the readers of the New York Times that need to just, I guess, be, bamboozled by the way you weave stories and use ellipses and don't give the full picture.

I guess your readers you think are morons that they won't figure it out. I don't think my listeners are morons. I think my listeners know when I'm full of crap and they know when you're full of crap. But Michael said one example we cite in your January 4th broadcast in which you said, time to fight. It's time to rip and claw and rake. It's time to go to war. I already told you that's not a period there. That's a comma. And it says like the left went to war four years ago, but they just went dot, dot, dot, dot. Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find Patriots fighting. Dot, dot, dot, dot. Okay. So, wow, time to go to war. Everywhere you can find

a battlefield, you'll find Patriots fighting. Where was that in the monologue? Well, that was three pages after the last quote. And here's what I said. I'm totally good. I'm good. I don't need fame. I don't need fortune. You know what my need is?

My need is for someone to stand up and say, no, I'm not going there. It's pathetic to think that they all think we're going to back down and go back to usual. I have news, gang. You opened a can, a way. whoop-ass and you're about to get a dose of your own medicine and it's only fair. Wow, that's threatening. Why didn't they include that one? Get ready for the fights in the courts, the fight in

Congress in the media in Silicon Valley. Get ready for special prosecutors, maybe even an impeachment. Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you will find patriots fighting. And I'm sorry that they're shocked we're fighting the election. But the attacks on Donald Trump began before he was even inaugurated. And so will ours. But ours will be truthful. Ours will be constitutional. Ours will be righteous.

And yes, ours will be relentless. Is the riot at the Capitol constitutional? No, it really wasn't. No. It really wasn't. Now, you gave a few examples there. There was what impeachment was the last one. Impeachment, special prosecutors.

Special prosecutors in the courts, in the media, Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. I didn't hear the Capitol. I didn't hear hitting police officers over the head with flagpoles. Well, they did say there. They did say in that read, you have the article in front of you? Yes. You got to read it because they did say, while I didn't specifically call for riots.

No. They do this thing where they're like, well, a lot of times Republican talk show host people will say all these things like, fight, fight, fight. And then they'll back off and hedge it with but fight legally or nicely or peacefully. Like it's a dog whistle. Right. Again, it's a dog whistle argument. They are trying to make that point. However, it's, you know, obviously, again, over a decade of you saying over and over again, be peaceful at rallies in particular.

I know. But the other thing we should also put into context here is this is not just any day. It's your first day back from vacation after Christmas vacation. First monologue. The first monologue. And it's the big story of the day is the job. Georgia elections where you're talking about fighting to win these seats in the Senate that were really important.

That was the overwhelming topic of the day. You mean fight at the polls? No, that couldn't have been it. It was. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, just read the article without the ellipses. So this is what they actually printed after, you know, after a few talks with our team.

Okay. This is what they printed. Now listen. Two days before a mob of Trump supporters invaded the United States Capitol. upending the nation's peaceful transition of power and leaving at least five people dead. The right-wing radio star Glenn Beck delivered a message to his flock of 10.5 million. Two days before. Two days before.

10.5 million listeners. What was that message? Quote, it's time to fight. It's time to quote. End quote. Now, read this exactly. In this, it said, we have one example. It's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw and rake. It's time to go to war. dot, dot, dot, dot. Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find Patriots fighting, dot, dot, dot, dot. You don't have to cower anymore. You don't have to back down, dot, dot, dot. The country, as we know, it is over. We're going to have to find ways to stop them.

Now, your pushback obviously did something because they did include more than they initially were going to include. Correct. They say, it's time to fight. It's time to rip and claw and rake, end quote, Mr. Beck said on his January 4th broadcast, start quote, it's time to go to war. Stop. So they've replaced the. ellipses with their commentary, Mr. Beck said.

So it looks like it's the same paragraph. Well, this one, come on, you read. It's time to rip and claw and rake. Was that in the... That's the first one. I thought it ended with it. No, no, no.

It's time to fight. It's time to rip, claw, and rake. It's time to go to war. That's one sentence. Right. So they keep that all together. Correct. Instead of the dot, dot, dot, though, they do now add after it's time to go to war.

they say, as the left went to war four years ago. Yes, which it's hard to cut a sentence in half. But, you know, so. A former Fox News host, Mr. Beck, has speculated for weeks about baseless claims of voter fraud in the presidential race. I have all sorts of problems with that summary of that situation, but we'll leave that because we'll run out of time. He told listeners that Donald Trump had taught conservatives that you, quote, don't have to cower anymore. You don't have to back down when ridiculed into oblivion. How is that bad?

end quote. How's that bad? Of course. How's that bad? Saying you don't need to power. We've always been like, oh my gosh, okay, I guess we are racist. No, you're not. You're not.

There is real racism. Just because you're white, you're not a racist. And I'm going to stand up against that. Exactly what a white racist would say. Exactly right. The article goes on. Mr. Beck did not lobby for his listeners to invade the Capitol. Oh, there you go.

Yeah. Yeah. It actually put that in there. And a day later. And just tossed it in the fourth paragraph. after saying you're so evil. And a day later, he urged marchers in Washington, quote, to really kind of channel your inner Martin Luther King, end quote, adding that violence is, quote, just not who we've ever been,

end quote. You notice, I mean, I've been very eloquent on nonviolence. Yes. But they take the quote where I say, you know, kind of just channel kind of your, you know, that Martin Luther King thing. Of course. I mean, you've got amazing. You get the theme of the speech you gave in Washington, D.C.

In front of 500,000 people. That they reported it was meandering and they didn't even understand. It was nothing but eloquent speech about being peaceful and being a peaceful movement in emulating Martin Luther King. Okay, but they go on. But the language, so they say, look, channel your internet Martin Luther King, adding the violence is, quote, quote, just not who we've ever been, end quote. but the language he used on his January 4th show was typical of the aggressive rhetoric that permeated conservative talk radio

in the weeks before the Washington siege. So like the fact that you, again, what else is typical about your show? A decade of blathering on about Martin Luther King and how great the guy is. God to God to Goddy. We used to mock you incessantly

about how often you talked about that. They don't put that in. They act as if it's some throw-in statement the next day. It's been the theme of the show. Over a decade. Because to them, it is a throwaway line. Because they don't listen.

I cannot program to people who don't listen to the show. I can't speak to those who don't listen to the show. I'm not going to write or formulate thoughts for people who don't listen. I mean, the posters of all of these restoring events, we walked through Birmingham. We did an event in Birmingham. We walked through Birmingham. Does anybody remember any of this? You did an event called Restoring Love.

A conservative talk show host, got 100,000 people to go to Cowboys Stadium, AT&T Stadium, so they can restore freaking love. And that's how they summarize your career. Yeah. What you, one quote completely out of context with 9,000 ellipses. It doesn't. Oh, it's so frustrating.

So here. So here. I thank you for that because Gandhi would, Gandhi wouldn't have said those things, but I'm glad. My, this Gandhi has you. All right. It wouldn't be funny if Gandhi was like, but they, peace, just let's peace. Yeah, you know what other thing. These bastards.

Indeed. So listen, listen, listen, listen. Here's what I really want you to know. I want you to picture this. Two big horn rams on a hill facing off. They're about to headbutt each other. And the instigating ram charges forward. Well, usually the other ram will start charging back.

If that ram just steps to one side, the other ram goes off the cliff. Whoa, you were supposed to stop me. The New York Times is the first ram. They're the instigator. They pick to fight. They're barreling towards us. They expect us to fight back. You know, take the hit and make it worse.

Yeah. That just really proves that their ridiculous statement has some validity. No. The New York Times is the one, and we're going to be posting things on Glenbeck.com. The New York Times is the one that has excused violence and now have people working for them that would say that Martin Luther King's message is wrong. So I'm not, I'm not even, it doesn't bother me. Gandhi defined his form of civil disobedience as a force of truth in love. He wrote, and I quote, nonviolence is in its active form, goodwill towards all life. It's pure love.

again, I'm addicted to sweets. I am having a hard time with that, but I'm trying. He believed the permanent good can never outcome the untruth, can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. He made no exceptions. He said, I reject violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent. Now, at one point, a British politician came up to Gandhi

and tried to connect with him and said, look, Mr. Gandhi, we're both men of God, aren't we? And Gandhi said, no, you're a politician disguised as a man of God. I'm a man of God disguised as a politician. The New York Times is an activist disguised as a truth teller. The opening chapter of his book, Power of Nonviolence,

Gandhi wrote, Beyond the limited truths, there is one absolute truth in which is total and all-embracing. But it's indescribable because it's God, or say, rather, God is truth. Other things, therefore, can only be true in a relative sense. The New York Times will never understand that. The New York Times looks for relative truth. They look for their own personal truth. I look for eternal truth, and all things are measured against eternal truth. truth. That's why violence in the streets never works.

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from me to say that Oprah isn't the greatest historian of all time. But I think that we need to look at some of the things that she said and and fill in some of the blanks. Oh, by the way, I'm going to be tweeting out something from the Rand Corporation, you know, the Vietnam papers, CIA front people, it was great. The domestic violent extremists will be harder to combat than homegrown jihadists. So, you know, the people that were involved in that capital attack, they have larger consistent larger larger

I'm now larger groups of people domestic extremists are better organized the nation has not been galvanized against them because we haven't had a 9-11 yet they're far better armed they're more white right-wing

experience the people that have military and police training and preventing the radicalization may not work this time It's an amazing, amazing story about the right-wing extremist, formerly known as the GOP. Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. There is an editorial about one of our guests coming up, Burgess Owens, who misunderstands

American athletes who seek a better America. Well, thank you, Gordon. I appreciate that, and I'm sure Burgess appreciates. being talked down to, being pretty much labeled a white guy, even though he's black. He misunderstands, but you as a writer, well, you understand him. We're going to talk about that with Burgess here in just a second. We're not concentrating on that. We are concentrating on the point of what Burgess is doing.

We're going to talk a little bit about the importance of black history on Black History Month. This is going to drive all of the left out of their mind. But as we have told you for almost 20 years now, black history has been erased. And people have been, the culture was disemboweled. And they tried to tell blacks that you don't have any heroes. You don't have any good connection to this country. It's absolutely untrue. And it's getting worse.

David Barton is also here to tell us about that and share some really cool historic stuff in 60 seconds. So we got a little cold snap here in Texas. Everybody is freaking out. You know, the people who grew up in Texas are like, it's got ice. There's ice, I guess, somewhere on the ground, it's cold. It's like 30 degrees. What do we do? Shut everything down.

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Joining us now, David Barton, founder of wall builders and the author of The American Story, which is a book everyone should own. Get the American story by David Barton. It is pithy in its stories. It is comprehensive. It's the best starter kit on American history I think I've ever seen. It's called The American Story. You can buy it on Amazon or wherever you buy your books by David Barton. Welcome, David.

How are you? Hey, Glenn. Hey, Stu. Not a bad little endorsement there. No, that's pretty good. I'll keep that one. He's paying me. I didn't mean a word of it, Stu.

We have Burgess Owens on with us as well. Congressman, how are you, sir? I'm doing good, Grant. Good. So you're talking, what you're looking forward to, for sure. Well, I don't know if we can really, you know, as two white guys, you know, as I've learned from Salt Lake Tribune, white guys can probably understand the black plight a little bit better than you because you were an athlete. You made a lot of money, you know, white privilege, white privilege, white privilege, white privilege.

So what do you really understand about the black culture and plight? Well, I think it's interesting. This is the condescending attitude of these leftists. And by the way, I want to make a very clear point. I'm not talking about liberals. I'm talking about the leftists. These are folks who don't have the same values, the same desire to have the endgame

that conservatives and liberals have. Good people have. He's, this is probably the only time he's ever thought about the plight of black Americans, particularly our young kids, if we watch them go down the tubes for decades. And he stands up and puts me down because I say we need to be proud of our country.

Look at the history we've had. Look how far we've come. And if we can do it back in the 60s, we can do it in 2020, 21. But no, the leftists like this Salt Lake Trail, And by the way, can I say this also? Yeah. Do not take, do not take the lead of leftist papers, read the, reading the headlines.

They don't believe that we have the intelligence to read through the article to find a truth. So they have these remarkable headlines that people get caught up in. Just know, that's another tool that the left does. But you'll find again that my message very simply is that Americans, no matter where they come from, what background and color can make in this country by working hard. and going by the tennis that we've been talking about throughout the last year. So I've been talking with you. And that is the thing that we all used to melt in.

We used to have a melting pot and we melted in. We brought our own culture, our own things, but we melted into this idea that anybody can make it here, that all men are created equal when we lived up to our highest values, which is not all the time, but when we live up to those, that's what Martin Luther King was saying. America. He wasn't trashing America. he was saying, live up to your founding words. It's the same thing that I think Frederick Douglass, you know, at first he didn't like the Constitution.

Then he was asked, did you read it? And he read it. And David, what happened? He completely turned around. He said there was not a single anti-slavery word in that document. He'd been taught there was by white abolitionists who were really anti-constitution. When he became a full-time speaker for the Massachusetts Abolition Society, he said, I have a responsibility to know what I'm talking about.

so he read the Constitution, he said he went through an epiphany, completely changed his view of founding fathers. It's interesting. Frederick Douglass in his life wrote an autobiography three times. He wrote an autobiography when he was young, when he's middle age, and when he's older. And you can see the transition he went through. The love and respect that he comes up with for the country that he did not have at the beginning. A lot of activists love to quote his speech on the 4th of July where he thinks we're not included,

we're not part of this. That's earlier in life. As you see him get later in life, he has a whole different viewpoint. and that inclusion comes from knowing history and that's something he did not know as a slave once he studied out once he found it there was a whole different american story than what he knew and i will tell you this i feel the same way on on american history the white aspects of it the black aspects of it the the yellow and i mean it just doesn't matter what color you are but when you see how history has been shaped and written and then rewritten

and deleted, you could spend a long time, especially if you're an African-American going, what the, who did this? How come I don't know those stories? How come I only know these four people? And I've never heard of people like Phyllis Wheatley. Well, there is a reason you don't know it. And it is the progressives that did this. Yeah, a real change, a visible change you can see in 1902 when Woodrow Wilson came out with his five volumes of the history of the American people. And in that five-volume set, and it's a comprehensive history, except it has not a single black person, not even Frederick Douglass, who is more photographed than Abraham Lincoln was. Wow.

This is a guy that was, Wilson was alive with Frederick Douglass, and he doesn't even put him in the book. Not a single person at all. Clan is in that book, though, isn't it? That's what? The Klan is in that book, I think. Yeah, that is the book that the Klan used for the rebirth of the Klan, the second revival of the clan. And so, but academics look at and say, my gosh, he's the president of Princeton University.

He's a president, he's a professor at three universities. This is such a smart work. This is such a brilliant guy. Let's use this. And that's the basis of black history today, which is why on Black History Month, you usually get MLK and Rosa Parks and 20th century folks. You get Malcolm X and W.B. de Bois, but you get very little of the Jack Sissons or the James Armisteads or all the heroes from the American Revolution that were genuine heroes. Well, you know, it's funny because Oprah, magazine just did something on Apple and I was looking at the Apple News app today.

And Oprah teaches black history. And the first one she taught was Phyllis Wheatley. However, she's leaving out an awful lot. And what's amazing is she's like, hey, these are people you've never heard of. And I thought, no, people in my audience, they know them. We've talked about Phyllis Wheatley forever. But in this, she says, Phyllis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry. Poems on various

subjects, religious and moral in 1773. Born in Gambia, sold to the Wheatley family in Boston when she was seven. Wheatley was emancipated shortly after her book was released. Wow, is that the Phyllis Wheatley story? I think they missed some major points in this story. Some major points.

Yeah. First of all, she was the first African American to publish a book as a slave? Yeah, she didn't publish a book. She did not publish a book. Her book was published, but she did not publish a book. Who published that? It was published by Selena Countess of Huntington, English sponsor. She was in England and the book published in England, not in America.

And so she was actually taken to England for her health. Her health was not good while she was there. This great lady, she's called Lady Bountiful. I mean, she put her money into really good endeavors. This is a woman who really changed everything. Nobody knows who she is. We should talk about her sometime. She's a white woman.

Nobody knows who she is. but she actually changed the course of the country and religion. You know, it's interesting that in the founding era, the concept of separating whites and blacks is not nearly as prominent as it was of the Civil War. And so in so many places, even where there was slavery, there was not the segregation. Let me just give an example. Something we found just in the last few months was in the American Revolution,

we cannot find a single battle that had segregated units in fighting. All blacks, all whites fought together throughout the American Revolution. It was a total volunteer army, which means you had to reenlist if you wanted to fight more than the six months. You sign up for six months. I said, the average black soldier served nine times longer than the average white soldier did, and that's on voluntary reenlistments. They average nine enlistments, the average black soldier did. Average white soldier was white, was one.

So nine times longer with black guys in a volunteer army serving side by side, No segregated units. I mean, the narrative, you said earlier, we were melting pot even back then. We looked at George Washington's generals. Out of 76 generals he had, 28 of them came from foreign nations. So just over one-third of his generals, foreign nations. You look at all the ladies involved. You look at all the black heroes involved.

We used to know that. Thank you, Woodrow Wilson. We know none of that now. Phyllis Sweetly. I just want to go back to her real quick. Emancipated shortly after her book was released. What she leaves out is the important part that Ben, Franklin, if I'm not mistaken, used to take her from town to town and would bring her in front

of white audiences to read her poetry basically in a way of saying, uh, anybody who says black people are stupid, uh, I like you to meet somebody. George Washington did the same thing. George Washington had her kind of as the first USO for American troops. George Washington had Phyllis Wheatley read her poetry to the officers at Cambridge when they the siege of Boston going on. He brought Phyllis Wheatley in to read to the truth. Why would you do that if you hated all black people? Why would you do that if you thought they were animals? Well, you wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do that. But you don't hear this because it goes

against the narrative they're trying to create today. They're cutting out major portions of black history in order to create a new narrative that goes in the wrong direction. And I want to talk about that. Let me give me one minute. I'm going to go to you Burgess on on what we were just talking about and I want to change it a little bit to what's happening right now because Burgess, you've been doing a great thing on Twitter. You've been tweeting out Black History. You're getting hammered. You're getting hammered. And I want to talk to you about that coming up in a second because something else is happening around the country where we're changing history again and it is not in a good way. Let me tell you about our sponsor. It's Goldline. They are still offering their 6% promotional

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866 Goldline or Goldline.com. 10 seconds station ID. Burgess, let me pick it up with you. Okay. You wanted to comment on what we were just talking about. Yes, I do. And this is why history is so important. And by the way, I'm blessed.

when I was raised my segregated community of the 60s, we were taught history. We were taught pride in our country. Matter of fact, what we had in common with all the other different cultures around our country, Jewish, German, Polish, we were not assimilating at that time. But what we had in common is love for our country. We had love for our history. And the fact, we call Americans, our goal very simply was to gain respect, command respect my fellow Americans by beating them out.

It's called meritocracy. That's where we're going. So I understand that this has been an attack on our country for a long, long time. was Karl Marx, the Marxist Karl Marx, they said the first battleground is your writing of history. Because in our history, we find pride. We find pride in our past,

we find an appreciation for what we are today and a vision for our future. And our vision for America has always been to look at each other better for inside out versus outside in and to understand what we have in common is what makes us so unique and so great as a nation.

I can tell you, I can tell you something right now that I never thought when I was in the 60s growing up that I'm not just part of my family. My family is black, white, Hispanic, American Indian, Trinidadian, and if I did some more, genealogy, you'd probably find some more. That is the way our country has always been defined.

And what we have to understand is there are people out there do not want us to come together. The we the people, the most powerful three words in history of mankind, says that we see ourselves as a unit, as a team, and we get past our difference because we have the same endgame. This leftist group, the cowards and the bullies, the people who hide behind liberalism,

they hide behind media, they hide behind a computer screen. see them, but they're empowered by destroying people's lives. And that's what we're up against right now. And understand it, the more we know about our history, the more of those guys lose, because we become proud of who we are. And by the way, that's why they've been trying these leftists in the NFL, the NBA, trying to get rid of our flag, our national anthem, our worshiping God. Those are things that keep us as a unit, focus on something we have in common. It allows us to go to a game. And whether we are conservative or liberal, we can root for our team and high-fired

because we're on the same team. So understand that's what they're trying to do, divide us, and they take that, they do that, but take away our history that shows what we've done together is remarkable. By the way, Jeremiah Hamilton, and 1821, before the Civil War, was a stockbroker in New York. He died in 1874 worth over $240 million today. That's the kind of things that happened.

You have Betsy Coleman. Wait, wait, wait, wait. He was black. Black. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. In 1821, he's a stockbroker. How's that possible worth $200 and some million in today's dollars? At his death, how is that possible?

We don't know that man. Yep. And it's possible because here's the deal that we have to understand in our country. It doesn't matter how we get here, how long we've been here. We'll language and speech. If we focus on four things, our faith, the free market, education, and our family, we can become part of the middle class or beyond. Everyone who succeeds this country does it through meritocracy.

They do it to the fact of a commanding respect. And people like Jeremiah or Betsy Coleman are the first black pilot, international and national pilot. She passed away in 1960 and 1934 and an accident. But those are the kind of folks we don't know about. Dr. Drew, I'm sure you know, Dr. Charles Drew, the founder of the blood bank. There's so many of this. There's so much of our history that goes on. And if we were to know that, guess what happens to black Americans, black youth?

They said, if they can do it back in those days, I can do it today. I'm so proud to have this lineage that shows what great Americans can do. I'm just thankful I grew up in a time when I saw them first time. I'm so blessed. It's not hypothetical to me. And, David, it is becoming more and more difficult to find that. You saw something happen this week that you've never seen before. Yeah, we have seen, we really encouraged legislators to really get into black history as in a way to expand the names.

The names you just got from Burgess, you know, that. You had a Biddy Mason, you had a Clara Brown, you had a Stephen Smith, a Charles Patterson. To guarantee, I don't know any of those. We have legislators now standing in the four of the legislatures in the mornings with a three to five minute reading on a black hero that they've never heard before. The kind of people we're talking about right now, just expanding the field. And so two black history resolutions were voted down just in the past week. And the argument was that you're presenting blacks in a way that make them look like they're victors and overreferrals. overcoming, not like they're victims, and that hurts the movement. So we're voting this down because

we don't want that image out there. Right. It does hurt the movement, but by doing the reverse, it hurts the people. That's right. Well, it hurts truth. And truth is our objective. You always tell the truth, the good, the bad, the ugly, and there's plenty of bad and ugly with racism and discrimination. But what I'm saying is if you're only telling the downside, you're not only just ignoring the truth of the full picture. You are hurting people because all they hear is you can't make it. You're a victim. And that is destructive. That's battery acid to the soul. That's right. That will destroy. That's battery acid to the country as well. You will not survive that. So go ahead. Can I add this to that point? Because it really is all about stereotyping.

And what I knew growing up is that there was a mentality, particularly by the Democratic Party, that blacks were not capable. We're not intelligent. We were not. We were not. discipline. We're not all those negative stereotypes. And when you look back and see Martin Luther King marching during the summer months down south, understand, see, remember this, they're walking in

white shirts and dark ties. They're walking dressed, they're walking in a way that's very disciplined because they were not only beating out the Jim Crow laws, they were beating out the democratic stereotypes that black people were not capable. When I came in NFL in 1973, there were no black quarterbacks, no black middle line

backers, no back free safeties because those who quote white men leadership positions. We don't think that way anymore. Any position that a person is able to win out, they earn it and they get millions of dollars to do it. So we've grown in that area, but only in athletics. Why is it that the leftists do not want, have us in a firm of action when it comes down to thinking, but does not have us in terms of affirmative action when it comes down to

sports. That's one of the stereotypes that we have to understand this against us. we do more than sports and singing and dancing. We can compete in any area that we go up against. If we study, we work, and we feel good that we can achieve those opportunities. That's what they're taking away when we have Snoopy Dog as our hero instead of Ben Carson. All right. I'm going to come back in just a minute.

We're going to continue our conversation and tell you some stories that you've never heard before as we celebrate Black History Month. And do it really in spite of all. all of the haters and the cancel culture that will come after the three of us for doing this hour when all we're trying to say is blacks have a rich, rich American history that they should know. This is the Glennback program. Relief factor. Connie lives in Nevada. She had come to some bad news a while ago. She was told nothing could be done for her back and hip pain that she'd been plagued with for a while. Pain just kept getting worse and worse and worse. And when somebody says there's nothing you can do about it, it's really right. And for a while, you'll fight that. And then, you know, you go more people and they say there's nothing really can do about it. And when you see a glimmer of hope, you jump on it. Well, she saw an ad on TV for Relief Factor.

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The promo code is Glenn. 30 bucks off your subscription to Blaze TV. This is the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to it. We are talking Black History Month in a way that will make, you know, the cancel culture, scream with glee because, oh my gosh, I can't believe they're talking about it. Yeah, we're talking about it in an accurate way. And we're giving the balance.

There's a lot of, there's a lot of really bad. in American history. And there's also a lot of really good in American history. And we cover the bad and the good. Let's start with a, let's start with an early war hero, David. Let's go to the American Revolution, to a guy named Jack Sisson. In 1778, America's second in command militarily had been captured, Charles Lee. He's right behind George Washington. We are a volunteer citizen army. We need our military commanders. So we just lost a second of command. Only way you get him back is to have a prisoner exchange with someone of like value. That means Richard Prescott, who is the second command for the British under Cornwallis.

So Colonel William Barton in Rhode Island says, I think I've got a plan to capture the second of command. He says it's going to be really hard. It's a suicide mission, and he laid out his plan. He asked for volunteers because he said, you're not, this mission, you're not allowed to take any guns. Because if you shoot a gun, the British will know we're coming and we'll all be dead. So you can't take any weapons with you. It's a complete suicide mission. I need only volunteers.

20 blacks and 20 whites volunteered for that mission. This is essentially kind of the first special forces or seal team mission. And what happened was Richard Prescott is sitting on an island in the middle of the harbor in Rhode Island. They're outside of Providence. The British fleet is surrounding the island. They're all parked there. There is a fortress in the middle of the island. And General Prescott is barricaded inside the fortress.

Jeez. It's going to be a piece of cake. Yeah. Yeah, easy. Don't worry about it. So what happens is they take out about two in the morning with several boats and they put these 40 guys in the boats, Jack Sessions in the first boat right up front, and they put what they call mufflers on their oars.

They have to row under the British Navy. And they just, like, towels around the oars, right? It wrapped the end of the oars with claws. So as you go through the water, you're not splashing. So they row right under the British fleet. They get to the island. The British guards aren't expecting anyone. quickly knock out all the British sentries and British guards around the fortress.

They look to find out where the general is, General Prescott is. He's barricaded inside a room, wrought iron hinges. It's an oak door. It's an oak bar on the inside of the door. And they say, oh, my gosh, to beat that down with hammers, everybody's going to know we're here. And that's when Jack Sisson said, get out of my way. And he backed up down the hall. He charged the door with his head and shoulder, popped the hinges, broke the oak, broke the inside bar of the door,

kept going right inside the room. General Prescott set up in bed to see what was happening. He knocked him out cold with one hit. He picked him up, put him under his arm, and walked down the hall with the general under his arm, got back in the boat, rode across the harbor, and they had the prisoner exchange. We got our second command back. It was a black patriot, Jack Sisson, who essentially is the first SEAL team member. You would say that is, and I know SEAL team members like that. I mean, I've got a guy who works on my staff, Craig, who was a Royal Marine, who would be just like that. But you'd hear the that story and you'd say that's just a fake that's you know oh and you know uh what was his name uh big john

henry yeah you know oh yeah and he was a big man and he you know pounded his way through a mountain but this is true this is true this is all documented uh this is documented uh this is documented in a number of early books and it's it's just so much fun as a matter fact if you go to the first of the american revolution john adams said it began at the boston massacre the first man shot in the boston massacre christmas addicts a black man you go to the last battle the american American Revolution, the battle of Yorktown, George Washington and Lafayette, Marquita Lafayette, the two white guys say the reason we won that battle was a black man, James Armistead. The American Revolution starts at the black man and ends with the black man.

You don't get that in history today, but the Founding Fathers who were there pointed those black people as being the reason that we started, the reason we ended all the way through, and their stories like Jack Siss and this is this book from William Nell 1851 called colored patriots of the American Revolution. It's not a skinny book, and it's nothing but the black heroes in the American Revolution we no longer study today. Burgess, you brought up the stockbroker on Wall Street from 1821 dies in the 1880s, a multi, multi, multi-millionaire. And I know you've tweeted out somebody that, you know, I didn't know, I don't know if most people knew at the time, Madam C.J. Walker.

Oh, gosh, yes. Why is it that it seems that every single, I mean, you ask the average American, who's the first really successful black woman? And I bet you, most will say, outside of music, Oprah. It couldn't be further from the truth. Go ahead. I'm sorry. And that's actually, when you steal people's history, they steal the pride in their, and their, their past and who they are. And I think that's so unfortunate. We can go through a litany of success,

but let me just kind of summarize it in this one way. It is something that we understand how bad things were in terms of our country. We're not assimilating. Segregation was going strong, but yet in the 40s, because of this one thing that we all, as black Americans agreed in, we loved our country, God, family, respective women and authority. Bottom line, and we had a dad in home that made sure you understood what that meant. What does that come down to? Well, in the 40s, 50s, the 60s, because black Americans coming back, particularly from the war, understood that they can achieve anything in their segregated community. So what did that look like in terms of competing with the rest of our nation? We led the country to the growth in the middle class.

We led the country men matriculated from college because college was our doorway. I have a grandfather had 12 kids, every single one that graduated from college. He was a farmer. We led the country in terms of men matricling from college, men committed to marriage over 70 percent. and percentage of entrepreneurs. 40% of entrepreneurs across country equated to 50% to 6% of black Americans living the American dream.

In 1960, I had an uncle who had a business, he was an entrepreneur, but he also loved flying, so he bought a plane so he could take mail from one base in Texas to Chicago, his part-time job. He flew to Tallahassee at age of 10 years old, had a chance to experience my first flight.

Now, we were not rich, we were middle class, but the bottom line is we believed that anything was possible, because it saw around us. That's what we have to keep in mind. And today particularly, we have to understand what's going on. Just think about this, Glenn. I'm a black American, a third black to go to the University of Miami.

I graduated in biology because I had a dad who taught education, a mom and dad who taught education, was a supero champion. The most important chapter of my life was failing after that. So for a few months of a chimney sweep and a security guard, because we were taught to a man up if you have to do whatever you had to do, to do it honestly for your family. And out of that, I had to achieve my dreams. And we talked about this for years when I started a foundation for second chance of youth.

But here's where we are today. Today, I'm a ranking member as a freshman for a subcommittee in the education labor. Where else can that happen in America? By the way, that's not going to happen in Democratic Party. They will not allow a man like me, a person like me, to take the ranking member as a freshman because they're all about seniority. They're all about making sure that the right people keep in order. And then those who want to rise, they have to total line. They can turn against their race.

They can put me leaders. They can do anything. They can vote against choice in school. They can vote for abortion for our babies. They can vote for anything that hurts our country in our race. As long as they know they're going for power and they have these white leaders that they're going to make sure they keep charge. So we have the American dream all across our country. Ben Carson, Condi Rice, Justice Thompson, all came from that same generation of Americans who love God, country, family, respect for women.

and authority. And we have to get back to that. And that's what the left does not want us to happen. They don't not want us to talk about our past. So our kids grow up. Say, you know what? If he can do that, I can do it. What do I need to do? How about this? Love your God, country, family, respectful women and authority. Bottom line, you do that, this country will reward you in a big, big way. I don't care what color you are. David, we're going to run out of time. And I know you're sitting here with tons of stories. Maybe we'll do something next week. If we can have you back, we'll do a podcast with you guys. But I wanted to bring this to the 1619 project because that is a lie.

It is a literal reimagining, keyword imagining, a reimagining of American history. They, they themselves have had to admit at the New York Times. It's not based on fact. It's a dreamt up idea for us to think about what. the world would be like if that were the way America was founded. But it is it is being taught in schools. It's there's one school district or state that I saw yesterday said no to the 1619 project, but it's sweeping. We have an opportunity and we took it based on based on faith and maybe a little bit of insanity.

we took an opportunity to buy the largest collection of Pilgrim and Pre-700 American History in the world. That's right. It is a gigantic collection. It is. Tell me what's in it and why it's important. Let me tell you what's important first, because when you look at American history, the 1619 project is one stream of American history. slavery did enter into the south it did enter through jamestown it did enter through virginia and this this collection has it has that it has documents from 1619 from james town it's got all of that except it shows

that slavery came into america prior to 1619 came in with the spanish so it blows the 1619 project up by the way 1619 is not even when slavery got started in virginia it was 1651 when a black man sued to own another black man and the courts in virginia said yep you can do that so anthony Anthony Johnson, a black man, becomes the first slave owner in Virginia, and that's 1651. So 1619 is not even right on their narrative. Well, they would say their narrative is 1619 because it was a black indentured student. So a black indentured family that had a child. There were about 20 that came.

Indentured servants were not always black. Well, most of those who came to Virginia early on were indentured. They were just whites. It just means they took out alone and they became collateral for that. all of those 20 blacks that came as slaves off a slave ship where the British took them off of a slave ship, they all became landowners in Virginia. They all became free and became landowners. They did not remain slaves.

I didn't know that. Yeah. That indenture was over after seven years, after which time the state gave them land. They became landowners and they had their own property. Until 1651. Until 1651. Okay. So why is this so important that this remains?

because I know the guy who was selling it, who's collected a very, very well-established, credible historian, and he is selling it. He was selling it's getting old. He wants it to go. He wants it to go to us and not be broken up. Why did he give us such an amazing deal on this? Because he likes the view that we have, which is historical view, that while there was a Jamestown, there was also a Plymouth.

And Plymouth is the second colony in America. and in Plymouth they outlawed slavery from the start. The slavery was illegal. They called it man stealing, quoted the Bible, capital offense. The first slave ship that came to Plymouth, they freed all the slaves, imprisoned all the slave owners. There was not a time in Massachusetts history when you could not vote as a black person. So all this stuff is a different story.

If you want to focus on 1619, that's part of America. That's not accurate, but this is part of America. We focus on the other side because the Pilgrim side is really what America became. And what we strive to be. That's right. That's what we should be. We can dwell on, you know, this guy or that guy, but that which you gaze upon, you become. Why aren't we gazing upon a higher standard?

Yeah. And that's what this collection is. It is the greatest collection of authentic documents of that strain of America that nobody's talking about, or at least the left is not talking about today. And it documents authoritatively without any question with the original documents, what happened in America and the side of the story the 1619 project is trying to erase. And by the way, this may be to me the most, I don't know the adjective described, but part of the 1619 project is currently being used in all 50 states, even if a state legislature bans it

will be used because it's a voluntary curriculum without charge. Teachers take it and use it. Part of that they have what's called an erasure point where they give you actual authentic American documents. They redact the documents to leave six or eight words in them. They say, we want you to erase history and rewrite it the way you think it should have been. And that is a classroom exercise to take authentic documents, trash them out, redact the content, leave you six or eight words and just rewrite it the way you think it should be. That is dangerous for America's future. Holy cow. If you would like to help us preserve history, especially this, we need a team of people that are going to pony up and we can do it $5 at a time.

And I know a lot of people that want to do that. But we also are looking for some people with some real wealth that will also step with us and secure this for future generations. You can make a donation now at mercury one.org. That's mercury one. Thank you, David. Thank you, Burgess. We'll talk to you again. God bless.

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