The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 7/5/23

Episode Date: July 5, 2023

Glenn feels many of our problems stem from not understanding our founding documents enough. So, to help us know what rights we have, Glenn goes through the history of the Declaration of Independence, starting with Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," and what was cut from the original draft compared to the final draft, as well as the text's real meaning. Glenn dives farther into the true history of slavery in America, a battle of two Americas, and how the long struggle to abolish slavery was accomplished. Glenn and Stu discuss the bag of cocaine found in the White House and the possible owner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the podcast. Hope you had a great July 4th, Independence Day, of course, is what we're supposed to call that. We actually spend some time going over this because I think if you had a typical backyard barbecue or picnic or whatever you did for July 4th, not a lot of thought about what the holiday is supposed to mean from a lot of people. So today we take July 5th to go through the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, some of our founding documents. What do they actually mean? What are the attacks against it? Are they real? and go through with the real documents. So we don't have to speculate. We know exactly what the founders said.

Unlike someone like Corey Bush, who was tweeting about how we need to think about this day as a day of reparations, we're going to look at the real meaning of the 4th of July. And also, we'll talk about cocaine in the White House, because that's the type of story we're supposed to be talking about in 2023. Who's doing Coke inside the White House? It's all on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Wrapped up yesterday, I think, what, 10 days here in St. George.

It was oversold every single day. It was really an amazing thing. So many people were deeply, deeply moved and broke down at different places all the way through. broke down, some of them broke down with the pilgrims, others with the Declaration of Independence and the first draft, others deeply moved by the black heroes in America for the American Revolution, George Washington, Lincoln, slavery was very powerful section, and of course the Red Pill Room. We had about 13,000 people come through. We stopped yesterday afternoon, I think, at 3 o'clock and then immediately began breaking down.

And we open again, not tomorrow. Is it tomorrow? No. No, I think it is. No, it's Thursday. I'm so screwed up. In case you get lost track of time, it's Wednesday today. So yeah, I guess Thursday we open up.

So we're moving it and the trucks are going to be on the road today. Two massive 18 wheelers. And we're going to be up in Idaho and everything is sold out, but roll the dice. Roll the dice. I mean, I don't know. But anyway, I thought today is a great day to go through some of our documents because people stood at the Declaration of Independence for quite some time and read the whole thing. And we don't do that enough. How many times have you read, come on, be honest, the Constitution?

Yeah, me too. So I think we should go through these because the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, it is the reason we're having all of the problems that we have today. We're not following it. Nobody knows it. And how can you protect your rights if you don't know what they are? So I thought I would start at the beginning. You know, all of these rights that are talked about come from the pulpits. the pulpits in the 1750s, 60s and 70s were on fire. And they were talking about, you know, kings being tyrants and you answer to God and you go directly to him. And so when Thomas Payne wrote common sense, these things were common sense. And I never, you know, I always thought, yeah, freedom is common sense. When I was, you know, younger and a kid, I thought common sense. Yeah, we should all be free. You could go to China and go to the rice paddy and say, shouldn't you be free?

And they would say, of course, it's common sense. No, it wouldn't be. It would not be. You have to noodle it out. You have to be, you have to see that there is opportunity that comes way before the government. All of these rights that you have as an individual. So it was common sense in America because they were preached in all. all of the pulpits, all of these things.

It's where we get a lot of our lines from our Declaration of Independence. And so Thomas Payne pushes us into the revolutionary era. It's his pamphlet or his book called Common Sense that I think about 70% of the country had read and had a copy of, which is, I think it was a third. of the households had a copy of it and 70, 75% read it. Put that into perspective now. Can you think of anything that 75% of this population has read anything? So they read it and they realize, yeah, we should be free.

We should separate from the, from the king. So I want to go through some of this with you, and let me see if I can get it. Here we are. So the summer of 76, there are five guys that are chosen, and there is this vote that goes on.

And John Hancock, the guy with a big signature at the bottom, he said he signed his name that large because he wanted to be able to have King George, read his name without his glasses on, that's a pretty bold statement because it was a death sentence and he knew it. And so before they selected the people to write the declaration, they all had to vote on, are we going to do this? Do we want to break away from England? And everybody voted. And it had to be unanimous. There couldn't be anybody on the fence. You had to be dedicated to it because, as he said, this is a death sentence. We will most likely hang. We will lose our fortunes. We will lose maybe even our family and our family's lives. And we will definitely be dead. This is treason. So everybody raise a hand if you want to commit treason with me. And everybody raised their hand. Then he said, I think every word of this should be voted on. Because,

If there is one colony that is not in step, if we don't all agree on every word, then the king, he's got his people everywhere and spies everywhere. And he will find out where we don't agree. And his people will worm their way in and break us apart. So we have to stay united. So another vote. Do you think it all should be read?

and voted on separately line by line or paragraph by paragraph and be unanimous. Everybody raised their hand. Then they picked five people. John Adams was one. Benjamin Franklin was one. And John Adams was actually selected to write it. And John Adams, he was like, I don't know. Well, I was going to say Jeffie, but no.

He had so much more credibility. never, you know, he had never done anything with drugs or hookers. So he was not like Jeffrey. But, um, he was absolutely unlikable. And, uh, and I think that's like Jeffrey. Don't you think, Stu? Just an unlikable human being. Yeah. I mean that this is what science has said. It's not us. Yeah. Thank you. When you argue with us on that, you are arguing against science. Against the science. So, yes. So, so he said, I can't write this. Nobody will vote for anything that I write because I'm unlikable.

And Benjamin Franklin said, you see that kid over there with the red hair? I hear he's a great writer. Let's ask him. Thomas Jefferson had red hair. He was from Virginia. He wasn't even supposed to be there that day. So they approach him and ask him if he would write the Declaration of Independence. So he did.

We have the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in our museum. It is absolutely amazing, amazing. And it's like a word document. You can see who changed what. There would be a line through a sentence and then something written over that line. And then off into the column, it will say, be Franklin and the date. It's amazing, amazing. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

And we really want to thank you for. listening. So I want to go through some things that you might find on Wikipedia and some things you might not find on Wikipedia. So on Wikipedia, you will find that the United States began slavery, the institution of slavery was established in North America in the 16th century under the Spanish colonization. Now, where? is that? That's Cuba and Florida. And they began in the late 1500s, early 1600s. Then British colonization, where is that? That's not with the pilgrims that is with Jamestown. The French also brought slavery, where? Haiti and New Orleans. And the Dutch colonialization. That is up north in the New York

area. So we see that it's happening all over the world. By the way, the majority of slaves that were imported from Africa went down to South America, mainly Brazil. They took a lot more slaves in. So I am not excusing slavery in America. I am looking at it from a historic perspective. You cannot take something out of the context of the time. So let me just tell you a couple of things. First of all, I won't make an excuse for James Town. James Town became a nightmare. James Town, if you go to our museum, you'll see we have pictures of a skull because it ended in cannibalism and the skull has knife marks on the head from where they were carving the flesh off of the body. It turned into a nightmare. And I think it always does.

when you come to this country or you focus on money and you make god or gold your uh or i mean you make gold your god um when you do that everything goes wrong because you'll do anything because your god is money so how can i make more money well i can certainly do that by enslaving people. So slavery was a part of Jamestown. However, it was not a part of the Plymouth colony. It is really important to understand, and this is something that we went through in the, between 1850 and 1870. We had this same discussion. Are we Jamestown, or are we the, the Mayflower and Plymouth. Which one?

Because one was really super bad and led to slavery and eventually sedition and treason and the civil war. The other led to the Declaration of Independence and a God-minded people who were trying to do decent, honorable, and freeing things for all mankind. nobody was perfect james town was worse now when it comes to slavery with our pilgrims let me give you a couple of facts the pilgrims when they came over they made slavery illegal from i think day one they called it man stealing no man stealing that's what it's called in the bible you can't steal a man from his home and where he is and just enslave him it's why the indians broke the longest running treaty in the United States, the treaty with the pilgrims.

Because war with some tribes, but the tribes that the pilgrims made treaties with, the wars between the tribes was really vicious, just vicious. And the Native Americans, some tribes, would actually torture the people that they would capture the men they would they would fillet them they would peel their skin off of them while they were alive i mean it was nasty and they did this to frighten the other side to make sure that the other side knew do not pick a war with us so they were they were doing that um to frighten the other tribe and the other tribe would do the same they would also take their women and children and they would make them into slaves. When the pilgrims arrived, the Native Americans were curious about the white

man's god and we were eager to share it and made the Bible, and we had a copy of it in the museum, made the Bible, wrote the Bible in the Native American tongue so they could read it. The reason why that treaty was broken, not by us, but by the Native Americans, is too many Christianized Indians were saying, wait, we got to go to war, but we can't torture. We can't enslave people. This was such a big deal, man stealing, that a storm reared its ugly head on the East Coast. And it blew a slave ship into port at the Plymouth Colony. The slave ship comes in and you could smell a slave ship from a mile away.

So they knew exactly what had blown into port. The pilgrims boarded and arrested the captain and the first mate of that ship because man stealing was illegal. Then this is a poor group of people who are giving 50% of everything they own to the king just so they can stay alive. and they take up a collection among themselves to be able to hire another crew, put provisions on that ship, and send it back to Africa to free them. That's quite a different story

that we don't have to reimagine. That's very different than Jamestown. So which country are we? Are we the country that is trying to liberate and free people and see all people the same, or are we Jamestown and in cannibalism? I suggest that we pick the pilgrims, and that's what we did during the Civil War, and in 1870, or I think it was 1870 or 1880, Congress printed a map that shows the tree of sedition coming from Jamestown, or the straight tree that gives.

you all kinds of blessings, the tree of liberty that came from the pilgrims in Massachusetts. So we start to abolish slavery mainly in the north really early. If you would look at New England as a country, it would have abolished slavery like 100 years ahead of everybody else. But they were colonies, so it's not a country. During and after the American Revolution, the abolition of slavery became a big deal, and abolitionists popped up. I just told you in the Declaration of Independence, there was a paragraph written by Thomas Jefferson that only two colonies voted against, and it had to be unanimous. So it's not all 13 colonies. In fact, Virginia voted for the abolition of slavery to be put into the Declaration of Independence.

And that was Thomas Jefferson who wrote it and voted in Virginia. It was South Carolina and Georgia. Those were the two. So we wanted to end it 11 out of the 13 colonies immediately. We couldn't. So when we become a country, George Washington lays out the Northwest Ordinance. That's 1787. We're under the Articles of Confederation where the federal government is very weak. But in the Northwest Ordinance, it's quite an amazing document.

In the Northwest Ordinance, George Washington lays out a couple of things that we have to have the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty in all the territories. that are above, what was it, nor, I mean, Louisiana, I think, or Kentucky. It's basically the Mason-Dixon line somewhat. And so everything new that we're going to bring out in territories up in the north from Iowa all the way to the coast cannot have slavery. And they must have religious freedom. and for the good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians, their lands and their property, shall never be taken from them without their consent. This is Washington. Do we live up to these things? Absolutely not. Did we mean them? George Washington did. and in their property rights and their liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress, but laws founded in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs from being done to them and preserving peace and friendship with the Native Americans. Again, this is the idea that all comes from the pilgrims, not from the people of James Town. that eventually just start taking everything from everyone.

So the articles of Confederation are in play. The Northwest Ordinance is in play. If you don't know what the articles of Confederation are, you should read them sometime. It is crazy. It is the first constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation, is so weak. it's actually in this first constitution it establishes are you ready a league of friendship

that that's how incredibly weak the association was with the states the government was like hey neighbor how are you doing isn't it great to be alive today a league of friendship Obviously that didn't work, but the Northwest Ordinance comes from that. And then what happens? Then where do we go from there? How is slavery changed from there? So we have a lot of things that come about. After the Northwest Ordinance, we have the gradual emancipation in New York, starting in 1799.

we have in the Constitution that we write and is done, I think, in 17, 801, no, 91 is the Bill of Rights and the final Constitution. And that abolishes the slave trade, I believe, in 1807. So we can't stop it entirely. but what we do is we say we're no longer going to import slaves. Now, why would they do this? Well, let me ask you, progressives, why haven't you just taken all the guns from Americans? If you believe you're so right,

why haven't you just gone door to door and taken the guns? Because you're going to be judged, right? That's what you would believe. this is causing the death of all of these children, so you're trying to change it in laws, but then it never seems to happen. It never really is fully implemented. Why don't you just take the guns?

For the same reason, the founders didn't abolish slavery immediately. At first, for the Declaration of Independence, it was two states. but it was allowed to fester and it spread into the southern states because it's evil and pernicious. The government was trying to stop it like progressives try to stop things, one step at a time. Because if you would have just said no more slavery, we would have gone to war. If you would say we're coming to pick up all the guns, America would.

would go to war. Back then and now, we chose no war. Let's just try to keep working on it. So really, we're doing the same thing. And I think we're doing that on abortion, on the right. You're doing that with guns or communism or whatever it is you want on the left. It's progressiveness. Progressivism. It's taking one step at. a time. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So here's something a talk show host doesn't say every day. In fact, here's something a talk show host has never said before. At the White House on Sunday, secret service agents discovered a white powder and evacuated the White House until they found out that white powder was simply cocaine.

It's a okay. So it wasn't there to blow up, but it was blow. And so we got that going for us. Now, I'm not going to tie this to Hunter Biden. I think it is unfair. there are a lot of creeps in the White House that might be doing cocaine. They say that it was most likely dropped, and I think most likely might be a stretch. Let's actually look at all of the facts before we decide on who it was.

Could have been somebody that was visiting. Could have been a family member. Could have been a million things. Could have been the aliens that they have hinted at and told us. us but haven't told us are visiting the White House with cocaine. Don't know. But earlier, they said that Hunter Biden was at the White House until Friday. They found it on Sunday, and they say the White House is thoroughly searched every day.

And so they didn't see the white powder. And they said they think it's most likely that it was dropped by a tourist. and I know in my drug years, I was so sloppy with my really expensive cocaine baggy. What do I? Really? Okay, maybe somebody dropped it. They also said it's a possibility somebody planted it.

Okay. That would be weird. You know, maybe we could dust it for prints. Because maybe. maybe there's fingerprints on it. I don't know. Especially if somebody just dropped it and weren't trying to plant it. Let's see if it had any prints on it. But now three minutes ago, now five minutes ago, I guess, ABC News just said that they cannot

confirm it was in a public place at the White House. They said their investigation is going on. And we can't confirm nor deny that it was in the library with, a candlestick. Well, if you remember, Glenn, when the kids were touring Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, they did go to see fizzy lifting drinks in an area they were not actually allowed inside of. So I think the most likely outcome here is a tourist was on a tour and just went to another part of the White House. They weren't allowed to check out to see if they had fizzy lifting drinks. And this was the fizzy lifting drink they found.

Who can't hear Joe Biden right now saying, and you stole this? busy lifting drinks. You stole so you lose. Yes. I could definitely see that. Who can't hear that? I have many questions here, Glenn. Many, many questions. Now, you had mentioned you thought it might be a family member. And I mean, some... No, no. I said speculation has been, I'm not suggesting that. I don't know. Let's wait for the facts. You kept it, you were very careful there. You were so careful that you eliminated no one because every person is a family member of some family.

So you've eliminated no one there. Did you jump to the Hunter Biden conclusion immediately? Because I sort of did. You know, look, there could. I've watched this White House closely. Lots of people there are definitely on cocaine. But I did think just from the sloppiness of the operation, Hunter had to be involved in some way. This would be the perfect statement for him to make right after getting a deal for all of his crimes.

They are still looking into it and they won't divulge all of the details because of their investigation, which will take probably 12 years. But I wouldn't be surprised if we found out 12 years from now that they knew the cocaine came from somebody because the cocaine was found on the belly of a hooker. in one of the, you know, in the library or kitchen or any other public place. Let's be honest about it. They're going to come up with an excuse immediately. These people lie all the time. If Hunter was doing it off of the counter, they caught him and they kicked him out because they couldn't believe what he was doing.

They would come up with this exact excuse. There's no reason to believe anything this White House says about this topic at all. It very well could have been hunters. They very well already might know it. Also, Glenn, isn't the White House like the most secure environment in America? Yes. We all, there has to be a camera pointed at the place where this cocaine was found. Rewind the footage and look about who, look at who put it there.

No. In public places in the White House, you think they put cameras? Come on, Stu. They're not invading people. privacy by putting a camera in the places of the White House where the tours go through all the time. Why would

you have a camera there? Now, could there be an open laptop of hunters and he happened to be recording at the time? Sure, maybe, maybe. But a camera put in by our government to watch

places where Americans tour? No way. Especially after you've made the last three years about the ongoing insurrection against our public buildings in Washington, D.C. We saw how many cameras they had inside the Capitol building. Pretty much every single inch of that place has cameras. You're telling me that White House doesn't have similar surveillance? Of course they do, especially in the public places.

They may not have it in the upstairs, you know. In the White House. But I bet you they have it in the stairwells. You know, they might even have it in like the living room of. the upstairs of the private residence. You know, just to make sure if the president drops dead, something happens. I don't know. But in the lower

level of the White House, absolutely cameras everywhere. Everywhere. So what of course, I think we're getting from this is it was found in a private area, right? Because the public area, there's no be no excuse.

And the fact that they're leaking out the, I don't know, it may not have been in the public area. After all, we're all as surprised as you. All of this sort of nonsense that they're leaking out, to me, indicates they know it was in the private area. And they know it was something bigger than some tourist dropping it there. They know it was somebody, you know, I mean, like, we've seen problems with the Secret Service recently. Who knows?

And God only knows what this could have been. It could have been theirs. It could have been, it could have been, it could have been Joe himself. Could have been the head of the Secret Service. Maybe this is why Joe occasionally seems focused. You know what I mean? I don't know. Maybe occasionally when Joe does like one out of every 15 speeches, he actually has energy.

Maybe he is the one doing the cocaine in the White House. That might be the answer here. No, I don't think it is. But I mean, I'm not not saying it isn't. You're not willing to rule it out. You know what I mean? Come on. You can't possibly rule it out.

Have you seen how this guy is governed? Have you seen how, you know, Most of the time, he's completely asleep. And then every once in a while, like in a debate or something, he has energy for 20 minutes. Right. Especially at night when he's like, you know, 9 o'clock Eastern giving the state of the union address. Come on. Everybody knows he's asleep by 3.30 in the afternoon. And he's having dinner at noon. He's having breakfast at like 1130 when he rolls out of bed, dinner at noon.

and he's in bed by one. So I think what we're saying here is... Yeah, we can confirm now that Joe Biden is the one who did it. So there you go. Analysis here from the Glenn Beck program. That's the name on the show, the Glenn Beck program. And the views of Stubri-Gear, which may end up in a court of law and him in prison, are not necessarily, and in this case, absolutely not the views of this host.

It's not a joke. It's not a joke. No joke. No joke. You can't, I mean, just think of the, I mean, this is really the difference. And I'm not talking about all conservatives. I'm talking about people who revere our country. And there's a lot of conservatives in Washington who are just, they're all talk and all show.

And they don't feel necessarily any different. than any progressive feels. But I know a ton of people that are regular citizens that would find that so abhorrent that, I mean, you go to the White House and it's the room, it's the building where all of the presidents, except I think since Thomas Jefferson, right, all of them, no.

It was the first one. It wasn't Washington, but it's been from the beginning. And it is some place that is just revered and special and sacred. And there's so many people now that are just, I remember that was my biggest problem with Bill Clinton and his shenanigans that were going on. It's like, dude, really? I mean, find a motel 16. It doesn't have to be a motel 8 or a motel 6.

You can upgrade. Go to a motel 16 and do that. Not in the White House. It's just shameful. Just shameful. We're getting to the point, though, in our country where I would say the motel 6 is definitely of higher quality than our White House. We're there. I hope people recognize that.

Yeah, we are there. One other thing, a lower court, a judge came out. on the Louisiana case where we've had the Louisiana Attorney General on, he's fantastic, he came on and he said, we have done our investigation with Missouri, and we have filed a court case against the White House for what they've done with social media. And they used the White House talking about, I think it was, was it Jen Saki that was originally talking about, yeah, I mean, we talk to social media and tell them, you know, what they can and cannot say with COVID. And the judge excoriated them. Yeah, it just really

ripped them apart. If the allegations made by the plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. In their attempts, I mean, that's quite a statement. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the federal government, and particularly the defendants named here, are alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment's right to speech. The plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing the government has used its power to silence the opposition. Opposition to COVID-19 vaccines. Opposition to COVID-19 masking and lockdowns. Opposition to the lab leak theory of COVID-19. Opposition to the validity of the 2020 election. Opposition to President Biden's policies,

statements that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true and opposition to the policies of the government officials in power. All were suppressed. It's quite telling that each example or category of suppressed speech was conservative in nature. This targeted suppression of conservative ideas is a perfect example, of viewpoint discrimination of political speech. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States government seems to have assumed assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ministry of truth. It goes on and on and on and on. And it talks specifically about people like Corinne Jean-Pierre and other members of the White House. This goes to there's several states, plus people like Jay Batacharya that are involved in this website or this lawsuit.

It is a, I mean, it's a blistering ruling. Blistering. and I feel bad for you know what's her face always in a new dress that's at the White House now I can never remember her name

KJP yeah Karinjy does such a poor job oh gosh she's so bad and I feel bad that she's involved in this because she I could guarantee you only read what was given to her there was no opinion there she's just you might as well that's like involving the teleprompter

and that teleprompter was involved in this. Na, na, na, no.