The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Dr. Benjamin Merkle | 7/15/20

Episode Date: July 15, 2020

From the "1619 Project" to renaming businesses, our history is changing rapidly. When is the average American going to have a “second tower” moment and realize we’re under attack from the radical Left? In today’s news that only makes sense when you’re drunk, Chicago’s mayor calls on her own version of Batman to fix the city’s Census problem. New Saint Andrews College President Dr. Benjamin Merkle joins to discuss how college campuses have become the “ultimate deep state” and what we must start teaching again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Just for high, Clay. By the way, glad to see you're rocking the ask out again today. It's comforting. It's somehow comforting. It's a mask. Yeah, we'll say in the COVID era now, it's pretty common. Is that what you use it for? A little bandana situation.

We were wondering. We were thinking, okay, it's an ask guide, but is it also a mask? And I guess the answer is yes. No. No, it's a bandana, actually. I know you have a hard time with those, but go ahead. I do. I have an even harder time with this.

Plymouth Plantation changed their name. Not that they're changing their name. It's already been changed. The Plymouth Plantation Living Museum 400 years old. Change to be more inclusive and respectful. And it is now Plymouth Patuxet to include the Native Americans that live in that region or lived in that region at the time of this. Okay. So wait a minute.

Hang on just a second. Wait a minute. The pilgrims, they happen to fly. find the land, and if you find this coincidental, they happened to find the land that was abandoned by the Native Americans because the Native Americans felt that that land was cursed because a tribe had been wiped out with some disease years before. And so it was completely abandoned. So how does that what, how we're

changing it to an Indian name? Yeah. What are you talking about? And by the way, the Patuxet people have been extinct since 1622. So they're not even around to realize this honor that they're being given. This was that right. I mean, this is

nuts. This is absolutely nuts. And they are changing everything. Next hour, we're going to show you there's an effort now to get rid of the the national anthem as well it's a big effort too and it's got some momentum huge yeah yeah it does and you know 16 uh the 1619 project do you know that Oprah winfrey is now uh producing a movie that's going to come out based on the 1619 project which is a lie wow it's a verifiable lie and she's she's pushing that i mean second tower gang when are you going to have your second tower moment we are under attack and it is

happening rapidly so fast so fast i mean things that you couldn't have imagined six months ago are already done now they not only not only are they not opposed it's already been done and you don't even know that it's happened you know the star spangled banner the statues that are being removed or being discussed to be removed the founders that are disparaged now and You can't even say anything good about the founders. All of, you know, how many times do you have to play the Michelle Obama thing? They've changed what they set out to do. Hang on, Michelle, what did, hang on, what was it that Barack knows?

And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices. We're going to have to change our conversation. We're going to have to change our traditions, our history. We're going to have to move into a different place. We are 10 years past the fundamental. Transformation of America. This is what, in all of the warnings that we gave you, when we were at Fox, I mean, Pat, you were part of that research team, Stu, you were as well.

All of that. Can you name anything that we said was coming that isn't now here? No, and I think in then some, there were things that I don't think we could have imagined back then that have already transpired. And we put a very little fight on any of it. It's, it's, it's, well, there's, there's some, there's some good, there's some good news. Um, first of all, uh, voters, and according to a new poll, uh, majorities of almost all demographic groups, uh, measured to see cancel culture.

They see it as bad. Just under half of the voters, under 45 hold that view. Among the voters, 46% see cancel culture. cancer, cancel culture. I don't know why I am, because it is a cancer. See, it is bad. 26% say it's a good thing. Now, that is astonishing to think that 26% of Americans think this McCarthy era that we're living in is a good thing.

But if you look back in the 1950s, this is what we went through with communism. It was just the opposite. You'd lose your job. You were convicted, if accused, used, you know, it was a witch hunt then, and it's a witch hunt now. Only 17% of voters see canceled culture as a good thing. The problem is, is the very liberal voters, those who say that they're very liberal. 31% see it as good,

37% see it as bad, 32% aren't sure. You know, if you're not sure, you should probably do something to get sure, one way or another. There's no place for you. I just, I don't know,

rounding people up and just making them disappear. Good, bad. I'm not sure. It's so hard to decide on matters like that. And what do you guys think? Do you figure that stuff out before or after you vote? Is there a specific order you need to do these things in? Like, do you learn and then vote or do you vote and then learn?

Yeah, I would say figure it out now. You know who's figuring it out? Are the Christians in California? I just said yesterday, churches, you better wake up and you better stand up. I believe I condemned people to hell yesterday. I think you did. Which, well, I didn't actually. I didn't condemn them.

I just know that they're going to hell. But you're not their judge. I mean, all you're saying is they're going to burn to the fires of hell. That's all. I mean, that's... Yeah. Everlasting and eternal fire. Yeah.

That lake of ever burning fire. Yeah, they're there. But I'm not their judge. Anyway, yesterday I was talking about churches waking up. And it looks like in California, it is starting to happen. Some of the church leaders, are saying they are not going to shut down again. San Francisco and the American Russian Orthodox Archbishop wrote a open letter to Governor Newsom said that his ban on singing is open discrimination reminiscent of the era of the godless persecutions in the USSR.

are. It's about time somebody starts using this language. We now observe the contradiction that in mass protests that are taking place, which absolutely all precautions are violated with impunity, adding the church into saying that you have to close down, they said they will defend their rights of the members to continue to worship. And there are lots of churches that are starting to rise up. And that's in California, and they need to. You can't lose the right of your religion and your faith and to worship. That is a protected right. And I love the fact that all the politicians are saying, you know what, protest, that's the First Amendment right. So is my house of worship. And you need to stand together as Christians, as Jews, whoever. We need to need to. We need to

to stand together because, you know, we can argue about theology for a long time and we'll all be destroyed doing that. What do you say? We stand together now and stand up for the things that we all believe in. And then we can argue about the other stuff later. I'm just saying. And they're so blatant about it. We had this speech from de Blasio, was it last week or the week before, where he was asked, well, hey, how can you, how can you say, because there was a BLM protest coming up and he was perfectly fine with that. But he didn't want people going back to church. And so they asked him about that disparity.

And he said, well, you can't compare the two. Those are apples and oranges because the BLM people are doing something really important. Wait, what? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. So they've just. Oh, my gosh. They don't care anymore.

It's like you said, the mask is off. Obviously, figuratively speaking. It's on literally speaking. But they've taken off the mask about how they really feel. feel about religion, about capitalism, about this country, and everything it stands for. Our founders, it's just all out there in the open. And if this doesn't alarm us to the point of taking a stand, nothing will. Nothing will.

Nothing will. I read an op-ed pace yesterday about the two-tower kind of philosophy, that have you had your second tower experience? and I was really just struck by that is so right on the money. But when are people, when is the average American, or have they, and they're just being quiet? I don't know. When is the average American going to have their second tower kind of moment? You know, my second tower kind of moment was when I realized that when wearing a face mask, I cannot unlock my iPhone with a stupid face thing.

It is a travesty, a sham and a mockery. It's a travis sham mockery and it must end. Stupid Apple, get a program that reads through my face mask and will recognize me so I don't have to type in my freaking code, which takes seconds. Oh, they will. Be careful what you asked for. Can I tell you something? It's probably already in the making. I lost my glasses someplace here. My wife was like, where did you put them?

I'm like, I don't know. I lost them outside. So someplace where the cattle and the antelope roam. So I put my old glasses on, and I tried to open up my computer. It didn't recognize my face. And I'm like, maybe Clark Kent was, I mean, maybe that was true. Apple can't recognize my face with a pair of glasses. Oh, that's not bad.

Holy cow. The worst one is when you realize you've gotten so far. fat it no longer thinks you're the same person that is a bad realization legitimately happened to me before and it's like oh no who the hell are you what fat version of that old maybe that's what it is

hey that's what it is man I went in I went in I you know I spent like 12 hours in the hospital this last weekend because I had kidney stones oh my gosh Pat you know what that's like and we can only hope that Stu joins us on this very soon soon yes

very soon very soon but that was that was incredible but they pumped me full of so much water that I got out they put I think I said gallon and a half I can't remember how much water they pumped into me but they pumped in so much fluid I got out and I looked like I looked like I had gained 30 pounds and they're like you got to keep drinking water and I'm like not of it makes me look like this. Dude. Oh, wait a minute.

I was just going to say, did you do it again this morning? Because shut up. Sure. 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.

And in other news, today that makes an awful lot of sense. the city of Chicago has been under a shadow that is it was casted by the corona, the flu pandemic and a surge in violence. Well, we still don't know what caused the violence, probably, probably white people. but Mayor Lori Lightfoot is calling in the hero to tackle a different problem in Chicago the low response rates

for the U.S. Census. Apparently, her goal was to have at least 70% of the people fill out the census. It's now being filled out by only about 40%. of the people of Chicago.

So yesterday in a press conference, which I think was very, very brave of her, she said, when I was a kid, I loved the Batman TV show. And when the city of Gotham had real difficult challenge, one of the things that the mayor did was he called out and sent out a distress signal

to the Batman. I'm not sure if the mayor Whitefoot knows that Batman isn't real. But she went on to say, so I'm doing something

similar for the census. I'm happy to report. I'm calling out this the census cowboy. I mean, who in the inner cities of Chicago don't love cowboys? I mean, first of all, cowboys were killing Indians.

Cowboys are part of the problem with America, right? So if the census, she said, if the census cowboy comes into your neighborhood, that's not a good thing. Of course not. Cowboys are bad. She said that means you've got to step up and do your part and fill out the senses. And that's all the news that makes sense if you're completely hammered out of your mind. It is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

So last week we played a video that went viral online. I want to play it again and I want you to listen to this. Hey, wokey McWoke face. Quick question. This black life mattered. But doesn't this one? We know this black life matters. A unborn baby.

But why doesn't this one? George Floyd. We believe that all these black lives mattered. And tens of millions of others too. Murdered in the most dangerous place in this country for any black life. A wound. Murdered and dissected and sold. We believe that each and every human life matters because every human life, regardless of culture or color,

is crafted in the sacred image of Almighty God, which is the only possible reason why any life could matter at all. We believe that secular progressive white supremacists have been running a vile and genocidal population control campaign against blacks in America that has straddled centuries, trying to keep them from life, from adulthood, from power, from stable families and communities. And that matters. We believe that the organization Black Lives Matter,

registered trademark, is a Marxist front that doesn't care about Black Lives even half as much as an average white pro-life flyover Trump voting evangelical. Every single Black Life matters, from conception to the grave, and beyond into eternity. That is God's truth.

And it's a hell of a lot more than BLM can say. This shouldn't be hard, but clear thinking is rare these days, especially on college campuses. All lives matter. All black lives matter. All behind a badge. On the street, in the womb. Philosophy matters. Theology matters. History matters. Thinking matters. learn to think in unthinking times. New St. Andrews College. Clear thinking, clear teaching, in person this fall. Jeez.

Dr. Ben Merkel is with us. He's the president of New St. Andrews College. Ben, how are you, sir? I am well. Thanks so much for having me on. So how much heat did you get for that? You know, it's gotten, considerable. We had our mayor pretty upset at us and say something in a local paper. And we've had,

but to be honest, actually, I have to say the positive response has been outweighed by about 95% to 5 because I think a lot of people are so sick of being told that they're racist because they don't support BLM. And I think that we were able to say, what a lot of people sort of intuitively felt, but weren't hearing anybody articulate it clearly. And who came up with this idea? Whose brain child was this? Our marketing team here, we've got some friends that we hired to put this together, but they're all graduates from our college.

So I've never heard of New St. Andrews College. You're in, of all places, Moscow, Idaho, right? That's right. Yeah, we're the other Moscow. Yeah, we're a very small private Christian college in North Idaho. So a very small little school. So it's understandable a lot of people don't know about our existence. And how long have you been around?

We started in 1994. We grew out of the classical Christian education movement. It started in 1980, and then we're a college that tends to pull from kids who have done classical Christian education. So, Ben, you know, we're looking at our colleges now, and none of them seem to have a spine. I mean, I just told the audience about Penn State, where they took conservative off of the, you're welcome here because of backlash from their students and faculty. What's really happening to our university system?

And is there, do we survive this? I think we could survive it, but it would take a really bold change for us to do it. I mean, I don't think Americans, we complain a lot as conservatives about what we see as the deep state, the sort of unelected mechanism that seems to run our country but can't be held accountable. And I don't think we realize how much education is the ultimate deep state, both K to 12 and also colleges. The faculty and staff of most colleges, including your Christian colleges, are dominated by

progressive left ideology. Every teacher votes Democrat. There is, it's really total how much the left has taken over education. And I think that's why, I mean, I was listening to your show earlier, and you were talking about how swiftly everything seems to have changed. But I think that's because we have slowly had basically an entire generation indoctrinated in a way that we didn't really realize what's happening. And now we're seeing the fruition of it. But it's also, I mean, there are other elements in education.

I think that the way education is funded is a big part of it. The federal money has such big strings that are attached to it and steer you in terms of your ideology. and then the way accreditation and other things like that work, it really cultivates a leadership class that is all about demonstrating compliance. Like you're not going to see college administration make any kind of bold move because they got there by demonstrating compliance over decades and decades of their professional life. So they're allergic to those kinds of decisions. It's also, it's unreasonable to think that,

a school system funded by a federal government is going to teach, don't trust a federal government. Don't trust the government. You know, you have to think independently. You have to think for yourself. There's no way. How we expected that to happen is beyond me. Yeah. But they haven't been teaching that for a long time.

Yeah. Oh, real true government begins with self-government. It has to start there and then, you know, your own self-discipline, your own self-government then makes possible other real government. But, yeah, our institutions really depend on compliance with a larger state. So that's not going to be something that they're going to inculcate than our students. For the person who is thinking, well, I've got to send my kid to college and they're going into college this fall. what do you say to that parent? You know, I think you've got to ask some hard questions.

I think that a lot of parents, they have the impression that, okay, I know that the colleges are generally liberal, but they remember going to the college in the 80s and the 90s, and they remember bumping up against those kinds of things, and they assume that everybody is talking about the same kind of college that they went to, and they don't realize how radically transformed the college campus is. It's nothing like what we went through. and so you need to ask some hard questions. And I think that I'm torn because I go back and forth on the one hand,

people are paying exorbitant amounts of money for an education that gives them no, no real education whatsoever and hardly any actual professional skills. And so in a lot of ways, I see the movement for like, we'll just go to a trade school and learn a trade. That's a much quicker way to give. into a job and to avoid the debt and the indoctrination. But at the same time, the reason why we're at the place that we are right now, it's not because we haven't learned how to employ professional skills.

It's because we haven't learned how to think. Yep. And I think that we need to reprioritize critical thinking at the college level because that's what we have lost. And now we're not, it's not that we can't get a job. It's that we have destroyed our entire economy. Well, you can't learn to think from Wokey McWokeface, as your ad put it. You can't learn critical thinking if you are told there are things that you can't think, can't say, and things are bad.

I mean, I don't understand how academia doesn't realize they have become. the old church in the dark ages where we'll lock you in a tower if you disagree with us. That's what's happening to us now, and they don't seem to see that. Yeah, well, I think a lot of it has to do with just that ultimate rejection, well, the rejection of ultimate truth. So when you reject ultimate truth and what you have, everybody reverts to their own personal truth. And then what happens is that you're dominated by personal emotion.

and so like if you try to interact with somebody at a BLM protest, you're not going to get an actual argument. What you'll get is them sort of vomiting up their emotion because that's how they've been, that's what they've been trained thinking is. But in the traditional West, we understood that there was a transcendent truth that we all answered to. And argument was about understanding these transcendent principles that we then, looked to apply consistently in our lives and in how we treated others. And that's where logic comes from. That's where philosophy comes from. That's where theology comes from.

So you have this larger transcendent truth that you live under, and it provides the kind of cultural success that the West has had for millennia. But they're rejecting all of that, and so all they can do is burn it down. When you were little, you've been brought to the affairs. in the course of recreat, always in trying to negotiate, to change the cards of hockey, the bonhomes,

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