The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Dennis Prager | 6/30/20

Episode Date: June 30, 2020

Cops are still facing harassment after the media tries to spin a new video of a car driving through protesters. A black pastor in Houston has a very non-woke message for his congregation. Acclaimed environmentalist Michael Shellenberger warns against “climate scare” tactics used by those like AOC and Greta Thunberg. PragerU founder Dennis Prager joins to talk about the future of faith in America, as the Left has abandoned God and others fear the Left more than God. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the podcast. Today we talk about Woodrow Wilson. Glenn hates that guy. He is going to have his name taken off of the building in Princeton. And it's hard not to just cheer. We get into that a little bit. As well as we talked to Dennis Prager. Dennis Prager is, of course, founder of Prager University and so many other great things. Radio host talks about the future of not only the country, but also faith in this country. A federal judge is going to have to leave their job because of a terrible, terrible slur they used against a person of color. You'll want to know about that story. And Glenn sings Patsy Kline.

That's on the show, too. Welcome to the podcast, and we hope you enjoy it with the exception of the Patsy Kline part. Make sure you subscribe to blazedtob.com slash Glenn and use the promo code Fight with the Mob for 20 bucks off. Also subscribe, rate and review to this podcast, as well. as Stu does America tonight is Stu does the climate apocalypse where we'll talk I'll talk a little bit about this on the podcast as well an environmentalist long-term activist

who's come out to say hey this whole alarmism thing is is not right we'll get into that as well today on the podcast you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program you know I'm going to need to get an amen because you know I've been I've been saying now for the last couple of weeks I've had a distinct feeling that it is going to be the African-American community that is actually going to heal this country.

Can't be healed by the evil white man? Can I get an amen? Amen. It's going to be healed by the African-Americans that stand up and say, we're not with you. We are on God's side, and we know what's going on, and you've lost your minds. and you're starting to see that happen a lot of places, but none better than the gospel church in Houston, where the pastor stood up and just said this. And then there's the problem of death.

If we're going to argue logically, the argument got to hold up on both sides. All the killing in our community ain't coming. from white people come on say amen if you can are killing one another people are scared to get out at night in their own community they're not scared of white people they're scared of young black boys on the street amen oh no no no all the killing that's going on ain't going on in river oaks it's going on in south union in third war on cullen and martin luther king Every street that's named after Martin Luther King across America is riddled with crime and death.

In the name of a man who stood for non-violent, the church has got to accept some responsibility. Because we in here singing and shouting on Sunday morning, let's get out here and go tell that young black boy and that young black girl, we're going to teach you how to love yourself more than somebody taught you how to hate yourself. Pull your pants up. Take your nasty pajamas off when you get up in the morning to go outside. Black you've got good sense. Talk like somebody's raising you. A whole lot of our problems are self-inflicted.

Right people ain't breaking in my house. I wish I had a witness. Holy cow. Now let's see what that man is. has to do and let's see what that man does in his own community and whether he lasts in his own community it sounded like the church was with him but it is going to be the bible-believing people that save this this nation it is a covenant nation and we're going to ask you to be a part of that and take the covenant as a personal challenge to you and to all that you

know a personal challenge to restore the covenant in your life and then we'll show you how to take action and that will be on on Thursday night July 2nd the day they actually signed the declaration of independence that will have in July 2nd and 8 p.m. only on Blaze TV. Pat Gray joins us now. Hello Pat. Hello Glenn. I first heard that I just heard that guy on your show this morning and that's amazing. Fantastic. I mean that's that's where it has to come from, right? Because it doesn't mean anything coming from us. They don't listen to us.

We're racist if we say it. If we say that to black people, pull your pants up. Oh, you probably lose your job. But he can say it and did. And thank you for saying it, for saying all of that. Because it has to be said. Well, I have said it to my daughter. I have said it to my daughter.

Not pull your pants up, but put your nasty pajamas in the hamper and put some pants on before you go outside. So I have said, I have said that. It's, it's really great. It's really great. There's some really hopeful signs. There are, and we need them. We need them because things are really weird right now. It's, it's like if you are a person driving around town in your car and you pull up to a stoplight and your car and your car gets surrounded by a mob and they start beating on your car and breaking your windows, you're in the wrong if you want to get out of there.

What? Well, I know the Dallas, I mean, the Detroit police story that they're trying to make this. And do we have the video and the audio of this? Yeah, you got to see this. This is amazing stuff. Watch this. If you happen to be watching Blaze TV. So here's a police officer surrounding people are surrounding his car.

Big mob. Then they jump on top of it. The back window's been broken out. And he drives forward. And then they scream like three-year-old girls because he actually drove through them. I mean, what do you want to happen there? The guy's just supposed to wait until you break his window, pull him out of the car and beat him to death? No!

Of course you're going to drive forward and try to get the idiots off of your car. And to be clear, he tries, he guns it and stops to try to get the people off multiple times. And he does. To try to not hit them or hurt them. Right. And another idiotic point of that. video is that they continue to run after him. Yeah.

Which means he has to continue to keep going forward. Right. Like, it's just a giant parade of idiots on this particular video. And this has happened in city after city. And I love the article that, uh, where, where the video came from, um, they called a largely peaceful protest. Of course. Against systemic racism.

We had all peaceful protests as the team party. Every single one of. of them was entirely peaceful. And they were still looking for things that we did that would violate, would, did you see the violence that that man did that Glenn Beck? The violence that he, the way he ate that hamburger from McDonald's,

it was violent. And they're not doing this just to police. There was a mother in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which is what, 25,000 people. a terrified mom called 911 about the protesters who were jumping on her car. They surrounded her car. Another mob.

They start jumping on her car and beating on it. So she calls 911. And she's told you can't hit people with your car. Make sure that you don't hit anyone with your car. And she said, they're all on my car right now. What am I supposed to do? We can't do anything, ma'am. The city told us this is a sanctioned event.

Then she starts yelling at them. get off my car. You know, this is dangerous. I've got a kid in here. Her daughter is just crying hysterically in the background. And the dispatcher says, Yes, ma'am, we would suggest you call City Hall and let them know about your frustrations. How is this possible that this is going on?

And then the mayor of Fred, Fredericksburg, apologizes to the protesters because she drove through them and she was having a fit about them. jumping on her car. It's the protesters who are apologized to, not the citizen who is being threatened. This is just so out of control, which is why we need the pastor to be saying these things. Because you're right.

I think that's the only way we get any healing is if black people lead the way here. It's the, it is the only way. But you've got to remember, a lot of these protesters are white. Oh, yeah. A lot of these protesters. And the people who are funding it and running it, I think are almost all white.

I mean, the Black Lives Matter thing is a global corporation. They're selling wines, the wine and teddy bears and everything else online. How are the people that are running Chaz? How are they running a global corporation that has all kinds of teddy bears and wines and. and gifts and t-shirts and I mean Chaz doesn't have a gift shop I don't know if you've noticed that they haven't gotten around to the gift shop part

of Black Lives Matter how is that happening this is all this is all very well orchestrated is this some kind of conspiracy theory against George Soros is this your anti-Semitism coming out again is that what you're saying here is that George Soros is funding these things it's my anti it's my anti it's my anti-progressiveness and the and the hatred that I have for true

American history I blame this on Woodrow Wilson so we got that so um go ahead there's on your Woodrow Wilson thing so I had the same you started the show kind of with this I don't know victory lap on the fact that they're getting rid of who wish I would have had Pat to do the happy days or here again because we made this point years ago that when they started taking down these statues that how do you you not take Woodrow Wilson's statue down. Yeah. But you also have a special this week about how bad it is to be removing statues and history.

Does Woodrow Wilson just rise above this sort of logical consistency? Or is it just that he's so bad that it's different? Or what's the justification? No, it's a personal, deep personal hatred. It blinds me to, uh, stick up for him in one way in any way whatsoever you know it's not my my problem was never that you know there was a statue at princeton of him or anything else it was that it was a statue and a building that was glorifying him yeah you know i don't mind there are there are bad people in

history that have statues and it's great it gives me a chance to figure out who they were what they were good or bad and do my own homework and i don't have to glorify them. But this was the Woodrow Wilson of international relations. Are you kidding me? He's the guy who screwed all of this up. He's the Wilson doctrine, which we are still operating on, less so with Donald Trump. But the Wilson ideas were just go in and tell the rest of the world how to live. That's not us. That's not who we were supposed to be. Now, Are you going to go to Princeton and start ripping the, just ripping down the signs and looking for statues to tear down personally? I do believe that the Black Lives Matter people have, they have a responsibility to send me the letters that were on the side of that building that spelled out with Woodrow Wilson.

You have a responsibility to send those to me. That is the least they could do. The least. It's the least. It's the very least you could possibly do. Can I get an amen? Amen. The best of the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed. It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. So, Stu, you have been the guy who has been watching global warming from the beginning. Yes, we've been going over these issues for, gosh, so long now. And the developments have been really fascinating, and there's a huge one today. So this one today comes from the Time magazine Hero of the Environment, a green book award winner. He is now the author of the book, Apocalypse Never, why environmental alarmism has hurt us all.

he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other publications. His TED talks about global warming have been viewed over five million times. Stu, help me out on this one. Is he going to be writing for all of those people? What you guess? No, we can tell that from today when he posted an op-ed on Forbes and it just disappeared. It was pulled down for some reason. We don't know exactly why yet.

we know that the Daily Wire was smart enough to go pick it up and it is now hosted there. There's nothing controversial in it. There's no attacks in it. It's just here is the, here's what I learned writing, you know, what I look at as, you know, a lifetime defining work, you know, where he's talking about, I mean, this is a guy who's been an environmentalist and it still is, but has been for a very long time, a climate activist for multiple decades. A guy who we first came across, at least my first remembrance of him, was he helped

create a documentary that aired on CNN, which was about the environment and was very took global warming very, very seriously, but indicated that nuclear power might be part of a solution to make, I know, which I guess was so hateful. It wasn't

hateful enough for CNN to take it off the air because his credentials were so good. And they decided to air it and it was very, very good. He is, now this book, though, it takes it to another level. I mean, he is, again,

is still a guy who wants to protect the environment and wants the world to be a cleaner place and all of that. However, he's recognized the alarmism of the media, of the AOCs of the world, of the Greta's of the world does not help actually build that. Let me give you what he wrote that was taken down immediately. Forbes published it and then apparently they got heat from some

place took it down on behalf of the environmentalist everywhere I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years just that is amazing climate change is happening but it's not the end of the world it's not even our most serious environmental problem I may be I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this I've been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30 but as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony and invited by the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the IPCC, to serve as an expert, reviewer of its next assessment report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public. Glenn, if I could. Holy cow.

Just to highlight what you just said. this is not a guy who in 1979 worked on climate issues who was on a previous IPCC report as a he this is a guy who is invited to be a reviewer of the next report that's the high how high in regard

this guy is and the fact that he's coming out in apologizing for the climate scare that as you point out he says we created he's not saying that you know this is this is totally in the in the uh a shocking

development when it comes to this world. It's hard to overstate what a big deal this is. He is a, he would be called a climate denier now at this. Oh, and he will be. I've already seen posts on social media where they've abandoned him and says that he does no longer, you know, speaks for us and all of the typical attacks that you'd expect are already raging online. If his credentials for the IPCC are evoked, you'll know. You'll know. You'll know there. not they're not honest this guy listen i just let me finish this he said some facts that a few that few people know humans are not causing a sixth mass extinction the amazon is not the lungs of the world climate change is not making natural disasters worse fires have declined 25%

around the world since 2003 declined the amount of land that we use for meat, mankind's biggest use of land, has declined by an area of as nearly as large as Alaska. The buildup of wood, fuel, and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more and more dangerous fires in Australia and California. Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations, including Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-70s. Aren't we part of that, too? adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich, not poor.

We produce 25% more food than we need, and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter. Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change. Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels. Preventing future pandemics requires not less industrial agriculture. culture. It requires more, not less. I know that the facts will sound like climate denialism to many people, but that just shows the power of climate alarmism. He says, I'm not some right-wing anti-environmentalist. At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista Socialist Revolution. Holy cow. At 23, I raised money for Guatemalan's women's cooperatives.

In my early 20s, I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26, I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia. I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for the Rainforest Action Network. At 27, I helped save the last unproductive ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s, I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion. into them. Well, that was money well spent. Over the last few years, I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in admissions. Think of that. Until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly, that's because I was

embarrassed. After all, I'm guilty of alarmism as many other environmentalists. For years, I referred to climate change as an existential threat to human civilization, and I called it a crisis. But mostly, I didn't speak out because I was scared. Listen to this. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresented it, I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalist terrified the public.

I even stood by as people in the White House and many people in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man and friend of mine, Roger, is it, Pelke? Pilki Jr., yeah. Pilki. A lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified. in favor of carbon regulations. Why would they do that?

Because his research proves natural disasters are not getting worse. But then last year, things spiraled out of control. AOC said the world's going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. Britain's most high-profile environmental group claimed climate change kills children. The world's most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the greatest challenge humans have ever faced and would wipe out civilizations. Main Street journalists reported repeatedly that the Amazon was the lungs of the world and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. As a result, half of the people surveyed around the world last year they thought

climate change would make humanity extinct. And in January, one of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change. Wow. Whether or not you have children, you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science, she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus understandably frightened. I thus decided I had to speak out. I knew that writing a few articles would not be enough.

I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence. And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of a book that I just released, called Apocalypse Never. It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of those pages being end notes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables. Some highlights from the book. Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress. The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly

meat, on less land. The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas, finally to uranium. 100% renewables would require increasing the land use for energy from today's 0.5% to 50% to 50%. These are all the things that we have said for years, Stu. For years. We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower power densities. Vegetarianism reduces one's emission by less than 4%. Greenpeace didn't save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did.

Free-range beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more admissions. Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon. The colonialist approach to guerrilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants. So why were we all so misled? In the final three chapters of apocalypse never, I exposed the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests. Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs force the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty sustainable.

And status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism. Once you realize how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it's hard not to feel duped. The ideology behind environmental alarmism, malthusism, has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years, and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe the environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power.

The coronavirus is an actual crisis that puts the climate crisis into perspective. If you think we've overreacted, COVID-19 has killed nearly half a million people in shattered economies all around the globe. Scientific institutions like the WHO and the IPC have undermined their credibility through the repeated polarization of science. Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform, because facts still matter.

He goes on and on. And on. This is absolutely fantastic. Stu has him as a guest on the Stu show tonight. Stu does environmental alarmism? Yes, Stu does the environmental apocalypse based on his book title. It's called Apocalypse Never. And it's one of those books you'll go back to a hundred times.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for listening. I read an article of yours the other day. America's Jews and Christians are. failing the test of their lives. And I didn't, I mean, this is the biggest truth that is unspoken in America every single day. This should be rung like a bell. Explain what you're, what we're failing here.

A smoke, spend the rest of my time with you answering this question. All right. I'll just give you. I'll back away. All right. I'll make a souffle. Go ahead. Yeah, exactly.

Religion is tested. Look, everybody is tested in time of crisis. But if religion, people who have to theoretically, allegedly, presumably, have as their first question, how do I answer to God? But are fearful of man, they fear, as I write in the left, more than they fear God, then religion is worthless. It's worse than worthless because it's a facade. It's a masquerade. And I'll just give a couple of examples. There is any priest, minister, or rabbi who cannot say that it is God's will or the Bible's will

to have us raceblind, colorblind, then the person should retire from the clergy. That's one of the greatest messages. We are all created in God's image. God has no race. Man's race is irrelevant. Hair color is as relevant as skin color. If a rabbi priest of minister cannot say that, cannot say what Martin Luther King is so well known for

that it's the content of the character, not the color of one skin that should matter, then they are useless in their role as clergy. If they cannot get up and say, guess what? The Eighth Commandment says, do not steal. We are watching rampant looting, a.k.a. stealing. This is a violation of the most basic law ever given to human beings. Moses, God, a committee, whatever you believe, it's the basis. Do not steal. I mean, just those two examples, and they can't even say that. So why is, why are they so,

silent. I mean, some of them are adopting all of this social justice stuff. They are, they're in with Black Lives Matter. I mean, is it really just fear, or do they actually believe some of this Marxist nonsense? Well, first of all, you can talk yourself

into believing anything if it's in your self-interest to believe it. It takes no courage whatsoever, none, for anybody to get up and go Black Lives Matter. You might as well say, oxygen is important to black people. Of course, black lives matter.

So it doesn't tell you anything. But they don't even, but just on that phrase, it's a lie. They don't believe all black lives matter, and I'm not even talking abortion. They don't believe all born live black lives matter because they don't give a hoot about the number of murdered blacks by blacks. Only the number of blacks killed by white policemen. That's what they're talking about. happens to be disproportionately low, according to the Harvard study University of Maryland, Michigan

State. It is widespread read anything Heather McDonald wrote. She cites the data and she got some of it from a Washington Post. We're living a gigantic lie. But why you ask why they go along with it? Because they pay no price. And that is why I say religion has failed. And it is worse than that because Christianity was dealt a bad blow in Europe that's why most one of the reasons

not the only by any means but one reason so many Europeans are secular is that Christianity failed during World War II excuse me where people are simply where clergy Catholic or Protestant in Europe very rarely

spoke up even in in tepid ways against the Nazism. But those people took a risk speaking against Nazism. We're failing speaking against the New York Times. So Dennis, it's interesting

you would say the failure of the churches because they not only didn't speak out. Within a year, by 1934, many of them were actually considering taking the old

Testament out of the church because it was too Jewish. I mean, they, they not only failed, they jumped on the bandwagon, but I think the failure, I'd be interested in hearing because there was another failure in 1914 through 1919. And that was the churches became political, and the churches said, this is God's will that this be fought. And everything's going to be fine. and in Germany, that led to the just decimation of the church's credibility because they were fighting for one side. So which is this failure like saying that we have to fight against the American ideals and principles,

or just going along with it like they did in the 1930s? Well, first of all, the United States is founded. It has three mottos. Liberty, it's on every coin. Liberty, e pluribus unum, in God we trust. In God we trust is chisled right above the speaker's podium in the House of Representatives. In God we trust means that God is central. It doesn't mean in God we trust doesn't mean God will protect me from COVID-19. In God we trust, God we trust doesn't mean God will protect me from COVID-19. God we trust means that God is central to the American experiment. The left has destroyed all three. Do you know that Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist, wrote a column just a few weeks ago, said we should change it from many one to from many we. So it's a perfect acknowledgement. They got rid of God.

They're getting rid of liberty, obviously, and they're getting rid of e pluribus unum. The left is the antithesis of everything America stands for. Not liberals. Liberals are just cowards. But they're not the evil that the left is, which is the antithesis of everything we believe. If a clergyman cannot see that, I don't care if he's a Democrat. Stay a Democrat. I don't give a damn.

But if you can't see the left as a mortal threat to everything you're supposed to hold as a Jew or a Christian, then your seminary education was. a waste. So what comes out of this, Dennis? I have the feeling that it's the black community, the black churches that are going to make the difference here, because some of them are the only places behind a pulpit that you're actually hearing. This is wrong. And I think there's an awakening in the African-American community. What do you think happens? Do our churches wake up? Our synagogues wake up? Does the African-American church wake up? What happens from here, Dennis?

Well, that's why you're having me out on this subject. This is a call to wake up. This is the challenge of their lifetime. If you can't pass this test, then your church or synagogue is worthless. It's worse than worthless. I'll tell you what it is. I wrote, I'm writing a five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible. Two are out. It's called the Rational Bible. I explain, because I know biblical Hebrew well, and I explain virtually every verse.

And it, well, thank you. And in it, I explain in the Ten Commandments, which is both of Exodus and Deuteronomy, the People misunderstand, totally understandably, but they misunderstand and mistranslate the Third Commandments, do not take God's name in vain. So most people think, especially Christians, that if you say, oh, my God, what a hot day, that you have violated the Third Commandment. But God is not an idiot.

It's the only commandment God says he won't forgive. So God will forgive murder, but he won't. forgive you're saying oh my god what a hot day i mean i i my most the blasphemous statement is god has common sense anyway uh it doesn't mean that it means do not lift do not carry god's name in vain the word uh in hebrew tisar for those who might be interested is clearly what it means is do not carry who carries god's name in vain those who speak in god's name and do bad what we're having now is the violation of the Third Commandment, the only one God doesn't forgive, because you make God look ludicrous.

That is what these cowardly or even leftist, priests, rabbis, and ministers are doing to the name of God. That's how serious this moment is. Dennis Brigger is always good to have you on. Thank you for everything you do, Dennis, and thank you for your kindness and your friendship over the years. I'm honored to know you and honored to call you, friend. Thank you so much. Well, thank you for everything you do.