The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: John Jackson | 10/16/20

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

President Trump and Joe Biden’s dueling town halls couldn’t have been more different. NBC’s moderator Savannah Guthrie practically debated Trump, while ABC’s George Stephanopoulos was calm with Biden. Trump denounced white supremacy for the umpteenth time and was also asked about Q-Anon. Glenn proves just how left-leaning the executives at Facebook and Twitter are. Heroes American Café owner John Jackson joins after his diner was shot at, allegedly for being pro-police. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, man, it's Friday, and we have quite a show for you coming up. Tomorrow we release to the general public at 3 p.m. Our podcast with Bill O'Reilly. If you've missed our conversations, you're going to get a great one. Tomorrow on the podcast, if you're already a blaze subscriber, you get it, well, you got it last night. Make sure you check that out. Today's podcast, we went through the debate. We talked to you and others and watched the debate.

we we just weep over how good Savannah Guthrie was and again when you say debate you mean between Savannah Guthrie and Donald Trump Absolutely it was not It was crazy

It was absolutely crazy We have that coming up Also My Twitter storm That happened You don't want to miss I talk about the accomplishments of Donald Trump

And Stu talks about the accomplishments of the number of dead caused by Governor Cuomo, all on today's podcast. By the way, I think it's the last day you can take advantage of the code, Save Our Election to save 20 bucks off your Blaze TV subscription. I will say that we are at a time where we've seen unprecedented tech censorship, you know, without the subscriptions and your subscriptions, we are basically dependent on all these big tech companies to exist.

So... We are counting on you. We are counting on you. Save our election, 20 bucks off your subscription at blazedtv.com slash glen. Here's the podcast. You're listening to you. I want to talk to you a little bit about the debate. We talked about it all last hour.

We played some clips from it. But why is it that it seems like the Democrats always get an easier path? And then when you listen to the news, it's like they weren't even watching it. Last night, Donald Trump did very, very well. He stayed calm. They talked about how it was. chaos. It was only chaos because Savannah Guthrie kept interrupting

the president. And if you watch Joe Biden, oh, well, it was a very different debate. It was Donald Trump's was hostile. And Joe Biden's was not. It was a very different feel. Well, yeah, who made it hostile? It wasn't Donald Trump.

Donald Trump was being corrected and attacked and cut off constantly. And he pushed back, which he should do. But there was no reason for, Joe Biden to push back because he was being questioned by a friendly. Yes. So how friendly are they? Well, let me just give you, let me just give you in social media.

Now, remember, we trust the social media world to be able to, to share stories. Well, we learned this week, you can't share stories. The Blaze, the Blaze was flagged for advertising a show about election fraud. we were throttled and flagged for an ad for a tweeting out a message that said you have to watch tonight's show it's on election fraud wait what we were flagged because headlines can be misreed um headlines can be deceiving uh you need more context here. Yes, and we have it at 9 p.m. Eastern. I mean, excuse me? So why is this happening? Well, let's just go through some of the people that work at these places. Jack Dorsey, he's the CEO of Twitter. He's an active Democratic donor. Omid Kortostani, director and executive chairman,

he matched $530,000 with Jack Dorsey's donation to the ACLU. then he donated thousands over the years to candidates and the DNC. Net Segal is their CFO. He has a history of donating to Democratic candidates. Evan Williams, former Twitter CEO, current board member. He donated $800,000 in 2016, $229,000 in 2018, $465 in 2020. He's apologized for Twitter's role. in electing Donald Trump.

Bridget Coney, public policy director. She's in charge of government election partnerships with leading global governments and political publishers, including content strategy for Twitter. She interned and was press secretary for multiple Democratic politicians,

plus worked on the Rachel Maddow show. Nicholas Bicillo, senior communications manager and former communications manager for Kamala Harris. He was the press secretary for Kamala Harris. Carlos Mahoney, former director of public policy, he left to join Joe Biden's transition team, worked at the White House under the Obama administration, worked under Hillary Clinton, Brandon Borman, VP of Global Communications. He donated thousands recently to Joe Biden was the media spokesman for the decision to fact-check Trump's tweets.

Those are the people at Twitter. Where are all the conservatives? Here's Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg donated some to Republicans, but mainly Democrats, is currently donating all the voting boxes. So you can go to a Facebook box and just stuff your ballot in there. Cheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer, donated primarily to Democrats, openly Democrat, and endorsed Hillary Clinton. Andy Stone, the policy communications director at Facebook. He joined the Democratic House Majority Pack.

He was the press secretary to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the press secretary to Senator Barbara Boxer. Anna McHanjoo, she is the global policy manager. She's in charge of global elections. She worked for Joe Biden, donated to Biden in 2020 and Clinton in 2016. Brian Rice, the director of public policy, was the legislative assistant for John Kerry for three years. Probeermenta is the global public policy person. She was in the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office for the President for seven years when the President was Obama.

You also have Jessica Hertz, former director and associate general counsel. She oversees the ethical issues and on transition team for Joe Biden. She worked on principal deputy counsel in that office under the Vice President Biden from 2012 to 2014. I don't know, Stu, what do you? I mean, is there a, have you noticed a trend with all of the people that are in senior positions at Facebook or Twitter? Almost too far right is what I picked up there. Well, that's one way of looking at it, and I'm sure the press would look at it that way. You think there'd be some, this is something that this is a crazy concept, diversity.

Diversity of thought? Diversity of, no. No. It's just not, it's not necessary. No, well, they actually, I believe, think they are diverse because they might have, you know, some Hillary Clinton supporters in there. You know, so, you know, so you go from Antifa to Hillary Clinton. Wow. Yeah. So they have the whole spectrum there. Yeah.

It's interesting. I was listening to somebody, some podcast, I think, and it was a liberal who was talking about this and kind of complaining about the woke culture in that sort of world. And explain it, I thought, in an interesting way, where liberals and the people on the left inherently understand that if you don't have any black people or Hispanics or women at a workplace, there's a lack of diversity. You're not getting all those different viewpoints. They inherently get that. And if you were to say, I'm just going to hire all white people, they would inherently

say that's a terrible thing, right? However, when it comes to actual differences in thought, not skin color, which is, you know, it doesn't necessarily form your viewpoints. Your actual differences in thought, they can't understand why you'd even include someone who's just moderately left, let alone a conservative. You don't want any of those people around. Everyone has to agree. Everyone has to understand that sexual preference is now an insult.

Like all of these things have to either. There's these hardcore rules. You can't break any of them. Anyone with any different opinion needs to be, you know, expunged, as Keith Oldman would explain. That's not healthy. I like the way you over-pronounced it too. Expunged. There's like an extra G in there?

What happened? But that is, I think that's the way that they think. And, you know, I think you'd think that these social media companies who, again, get half of their money from conservatives, clicking on ads would understand this and want to please that audience. But they don't seem to be doing that right now. Because it's about race. The only thing that is diverse is sexual, dare I say, preference. Oh my gosh.

And race. Yeah, you were about to say it right. Right. Sexual orientation. Yeah. That's the only differences. They don't think that a difference in opinion is important. important. A difference in opinion has to be stopped because they know the truth. And the truth is,

all white people are racist. So I see people by, I mean, they are, they are by definition, racist. Now, not the, you know, clan sort of racist, I don't think. Although when it comes to Jews, many on the left are the Nazi kind of racist. However, they, they are racist. They are racist. They are racist. They are racist. because that's the only filter they see. They disagree with Martin Luther King. And what Martin Luther King said was judge me by who I am, what I do, what my character is. Judge me by my skills and my talent and my character and what I can do. They hate that.

They hate that. Just like they used to love sexual preference and now they hate it. Look at the writings of Ibram Kendi, who outwardly explains this and says, you should, should be discriminating against white people. I think he basically describes it as the people who created the system. But he's implicit and explicit at times saying that that's just white people, right? So the only way to solve those problems that he sees from the past, real and imagined, is to, as he says, discriminate in the future.

Discriminate in the present. Discriminate. He's advocating for discrimination. and his book is on the shelves at every target in America right now. On the, on the end cap, by the way, and most of them. So if you're going by, if you're walking through a target, you're going to see anti-racist baby by Ebram X. Kendi. And these are the things he's advocating and targeting babies with babies.

Well, white babies. Yeah, because, you know, white babies, that's true. I guess babies of color do not need this information. Right, right. But white babies do. can't be racist, but white babies are racist from birth, so you have to start teaching them that. These are unhealthy practices, Glenn, for society. They really are.

They really are. It is everything. If you were looking to destroy a society, which they are, it's everything that you would say you wanted to do. I mean, I saw the Communist Party USA from the 1920s their list of things they felt they had to do to destroy America. it's everything that's happening right now. Everything that's happening right now. Oh, that's a conspiracy theory. Really?

Because there were like 15 things on the list and every one of them have been done. What are the odds that that just mysteriously happened that way? Nothing was done to stop the destruction of America by its foes internally. But all of the foes list, that was done? Wow. What a coincidence. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. It was quite the rodeo last night. That's why we wanted to bring Mr. Pat Gray in from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup,

along with his cowboy orchestra. Hello, Pat. Yeah, that's not the name of the show, nor do I have an orchestra. You do have cowboys, though. You have a band, though. No. No. No.

Well, I saw a big fat tuba sitting in there the other day. No, no tubas. Was that Jeffy? That was Jeff. Okay. All right. All right. So, anyway, I, I, I, when you watch what happened and then you listen to the report the next day, I swear to you, they were watching something else.

Oh, absolutely. I mean, yeah. And isn't it interesting that they just replaced the Trump Biden debate with Trump Guthrie? Oh, yeah. That's just amazing. She's debating the president. The first 20 minutes. This is supposed to be a town hall.

Yeah. And you notice that they asked Joe Biden all of these questions about Donald Trump. Not a single question about the news that broke this week on Hunter Biden. Nope. Not a single question about all the documents that have come out. Unconscionable. All the documents that have come out in the last four weeks. Not a single question.

Are you guys with me on this? I actually don't have a problem with Savannah Guthrie going after the president like that. if Biden also gets that treatment. I agree. I don't mind. I don't necessarily mind tough questions and them going back and even correcting it in time. Tim Russert was the best. You thought he hated that guy. And then he turned to the other guy.

And you were like, I think he hates him too. It was balanced. Yeah. It was balanced. The tough questions on each side. And Trump handled her, I thought, very easily when she was coming after me. No. No, he didn't.

No. He didn't? No. really didn't no i listen to npr and the new york times today oh no it showed his ugly side he showed his ugly side again oh yeah she didn't show any ugliness at all no she according to cnns brian stelter it's the work of her career yeah it's believable there is there's this is lack of effort at this point to even attempt for journalists to stay to remain fair any sort of objectivity.

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Oh, no. There's two weeks left. They just got to get this job done. Once they get him out of office, they can try to fake that they're journalists again. And you know what? Even if somebody thought I should be fair, I should ask him questions about Joe Biden's son. Okay?

Because that's a big news. Even if they thought they should be fair, they never would. Because they know they'd return to the newsroom and they would be an outcast. Yeah. And they look at themselves. from 2016, and I've heard so many of them admit this, and podcasts and articles and everything else, they think they spent too much time on Hillary Clinton's emails,

and that's the reason why Hillary Clinton lost. So we can't do that again, and they've just given up on trying to show both sides. Like, I think in 2016, their mindset was Hillary's going to win. So let's throw some articles out there about some, you know, little scandal, and we'll throw that out there so we can say we, we criticize both sides. sides or we covered both sides.

And now they're like, well, last time we did that, it didn't work. So now we just have to go all out. Like we cannot even. We can't even ask a question about Hunter Biden. It's not, what's so scary is, it's not just the press who feels that way. We know Google, Facebook, Twitter, they all felt the same way. They said it right after. We can't allow this to happen again.

So everyone is pulling out every stop and they don't. care because they think Donald Trump is so bad that the ends justify the means. It doesn't matter what principle they violate. They will violate it. It's pathetic. And again, for the millionth time, Savannah Guthrie acting as if the president has never denounced white supremacy. And again, for the millionth time. We just played a thing this week. and maybe you guys did too. The 17 times it's been documented where he's denounced. Sarah, go ahead and pull that up if you have it.

Let me know. I mean, over and over and over and over, he's denounced white supremacy, the KKK, David Duke. I mean, he literally got out of a party in the year 2000 because David Duke got into it and took it over. And that's what he left. I forget what it. Reform party.

Reform party, yeah. And so, again. And last night, he clearly and definitively denounced it all. And she acted like, why have you waited so long? It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. He did it that in the interview that they said he never, he said just good people on both sides. Yeah, he said it then.

He said the sentence before. Look. And I'm not talking about the white supremacists. Right. They should be condemned. I'm not talking about white supremacists and Nazis and people. like that. They should be condemned. What I'm saying, quiet, I was there. I saw the same things you saw. There were good people on both sides that were there. Right. Hey. Right. How is that different than

Antifa when they're saying, no, there, there were good people there. That was a protest. You know how it's different? They won't say that I'm not talking about the rioters and those throwing mulling of cocktails and crying for the shooting of cops. I'm not talking about those. Those people should be condemned. I'm talking about the good people that were there to march for black lives. They don't say that. They don't have to say it.

They don't have to. Everyone implies. Everyone understands. Of course, they don't think anything bad. And we keep forgetting that even during the debate, the first thing he said when the question was asked about whether or not he denounces white supremacy was sure. Sure. and he said it then two more times

later on. He said it three times. He denounced it when they say he didn't. And again we're rehashing that I guess this stuff again. It's like the wording used in the question during the debate was will you ask them to stand down? And he said stand back and stand by

which seems like he basically butchered. He was trying to just quote the same language. No, no, Donald Trump ever butchers things like that. He always does. No, no, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He is a perfect He is. He's a perfect orator. When he crafts his words, he thinks, he pauses. Yes. He's deliberate. Look, we all know this. Yesterday they asked him, they're like, you know, they asked him a health care question. And he said, the problem with Obamacare is that it's very bad. And the problem with Obamacare in the same answer about 30 seconds later. And the problem with Obamacare is it's not good. It's not great. Well, those are, I agree with both of those things. It's not quite that detailed. But again, this is who, you know, we all understand that about Donald Trump.

And I think the press tries to use that against him, the fact that he doesn't word things in precise ways. Like, stand back and standby makes no sense to turn it into some sort of called arms. Stand by, if anything, that means don't do anything, right? It doesn't make, like, and he's quoting, they just used stand down. It was using the language that was used in the question. Right. And beyond this, he's done it, as we just talked about, a hundred times. already. Like if he didn't want to denounce white supremacy, he wouldn't do it over and over and over

again. And if he secretly did like white supremacy, he wouldn't just admit it during the debate for the first time. None of this makes any sense. I have to tell you, too. I don't know why nobody asked Joe Biden to denounce Antifa, which is currently burning cities down and making threats online that they are going to be even worse after the election. He's not asked a single question, but QAnon, I don't even know what Q&OND really is. I know. I don't know the whole thing. Neither does anybody else.

Nobody knows. Nobody knows this. And so when he's asked about it, will you condemn them? I don't know anything really about them. I know they're against pedophilia and pedophiles. Right. Yeah. That's about all I know.

And they also think that there's a deep state. well that one's right but I don't know if they're right about it yeah exactly yeah I have no idea well this and he actually made this point to Savannah Guthrie which was you know just because you say it doesn't mean it's fact when he was talking I think it was about QAnon when he was saying it and it's like well if I just accept your analysis of this group I don't know anything about then I am denouncing a group and I might find out later that you're lying to me about it yeah well that's why the press wouldn't lie he did that with proud boys Rob was right. He doesn't know anything about.

They're not racist. Their leader is black. Yeah. Their leader is black. How does that work out? There were plenty of black leaders of the KKK, Glenn. No, there weren't. No, they weren't. Those were the ones. Well, they had a stake in it. Yes, they were tied to the steak and burnt.

I mean, cheese. Again, do I think he knows a little bit more about Q? He probably does. He knows it's built out of his supporters. and he doesn't want to come out and bash them. There's probably some element to that. But again, like, no one knows or cares about this topic. This is not an important topic. There was some poll I saw today that it's something like 25% of Americans have ever even heard of it.

Why the hell is this in a presidential debate? I mean, if anything, you're just drawing people to go look at what the hell this is. And some percentage of them are going to find it and think it's true and get involved in it. And how many white people? premises are there. It's like they're everywhere if you're to listen to the mainstream media and I never see them. Excuse me. I never see them. Oh, wow. Did you see that video in Charlottesville? He's saying that there's good people on both sides with torches. Both of you. I mean, you haven't recognized the racism that is in you. You're both white. So you're both racist. So you're, I know, who's a white supremacist? I don't know. Look in the mirror, whitey. And meanwhile, over on ABC,

George Stephanopoulos, now think, do you think Bill O'Reilly would ever be allowed to host a debate? Now, he's just a guy from Fox. But when he was in Fox, Bill O'Reilly used to piss me off. I mean, he would say things and he would support things and he was so up with, you know, with Barack Obama there during the Obama administration, not seeing any of these connections.

He's a guy who actually, I think, has given people a fair shake when they're on. Are you kidding me? They would never let him hold a debate or host a debate. They would never accept it. George Stephanopoulos, the guy who was the spin master in the Hillary Clinton campaign and has been their spin master forever. He's asking the questions? It's amazing.

I mean, he brought up Russell, who was also a Democrat. Yeah, but he never came from that perspective. And, you know, maybe you could make that transition, but has Stephanopoulos successfully done that? No. I mean, the last guy they were going to have, you know, do a debate, he got suspended because he was lying about being hacked on Twitter while he was trying to communicate with Scaramucci.

Yeah, he's trying to, he's trying to get dirt on Donald Trump. He was supposed to be the moderator. He's from C-SPAN. And he's trying to get dirt on Donald Trump so he can add that dirt from Scaramucci, right? Wow. Then he says, that's not true. Someone stole my, and I, the FBI is on it, and they're hoping to find out who hacked into my computer. Well, the FBI did get on it.

Uh-oh. And it shows now that he was lying about it. So yesterday, he had to admit. that he lied about his computer. Otherwise, I think he was going to jail. He still should go to jail for lying to the FBI. He was supposed to moderate a presidential debate last night. Yeah.

This man has now been suspended because he was lying and trying to get up dirt on the president. This is how bad this is. This is not a made-up problem. It is a legitimate problem. Watch those two debates to town halls last night. Donald Trump was constantly being attacked. by Savannah Guthrie and interrupted constantly. And I'm not necessarily opposed to that.

But I am opposed to when the opposite on the other channel, Joe Biden is basically being hugged. It was like a night. It was a warm gathering. He had plenty of time to explain himself. No one called out anything that he said as wrong. Nobody came out with tough questions about the main news stories that were out there critical of the campaign. His China policy, nothing. They actually came out.

And then I got to take a break. They actually came out this morning. and said what Joe Biden is saying about the Supreme Court, he said he'll have to wait and see what happens. What he's saying is the system is so broken that if he's going to fix it, yes, he may pack the court, but he'll take the hits for it and he'll be a four-year president and everybody can hate him,

but that's what you have to do to fix America. That was their analysis on the New York, Times Daily today. I mean, it's incredible. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. John Jackson, he is the owner of the Heroes American Cafe. This is in Portland, Oregon, and he has this cafe that supports heroes. I mean, he's a former Marine. He's a black guy, so you know, and he supports the police and any of the first responders, et cetera. etc. Well, Antifa doesn't like that too much. So Antifa last week began compiling a list of all of the, let me see, non-friendly businesses in Portland,

aka any company, I'm quoting them, any company that's hanging Blue Lives Garbage in their store or anything else that's anti the BLM movement. Well, somebody said, Heroes American Cafe on South Park blocks gives profits to their heroes, cops. Well, somebody called him and then violence began and we we talked to him now. Welcome to the

program, John. Thank you, Glenn. I appreciate you having me on. You bet. So tell me the phone call came in a few days before you were shot at. Tell me about it. Yeah, we got a phone call and we kind of just thought it was a kind of a random kind of crank call. So we were just dismissed it. We really didn't think we gave it no validity whatsoever until after the event. Then we kind of looked back and say, wow, maybe we should have thought about it a little more. What would you have done? I mean, you can't call police there.

Do they take it seriously? I think the police are understaffed, overwhelmed, and somewhat misguided on their focus. So they're falling around Antifa and the rioters and not answering 911 call. So they wouldn't have responded in any case. They didn't respond to shots fired. They never responded to shots fired? They eventually came out about two days later. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, they didn't respond. We called 911 three or four times. We watched them drive around the block just following the protesters, and eventually we flagged a supervisor down. And he jumped out, very friendly cop, three other officers with him. And we showed him. And he was concerned, and he called it in and still no response. What does that tell you?

What's happening there? It tells me that the leadership is misguided. The focus is misguided. I think the tolerance for violence is at an all-time high. I think that shots fired. I've sold a lot of people that they would have threw a rock through my window or, you know, through a chair through it. That's one thing.

But to see bullet holes in your storefront, that takes you back, you know, about 50 years in this country. Yes, it does. So tell me you were sitting right where one of the bullets went through just before the shooting happened, right? You and your son? Yeah, we were, I worked that day with my son, my 11-year-old son, and we were right where the bullet were one in the window panes. The bullet penetrated a couple hours earlier. And this happened on the indigenous people's day of rage, which was Sunday.

Whatever that is. Yeah, that's a whole other story, I guess. So are you, tell me about yourself if you don't mind. Are you a conservative in Portland? I didn't think they had any. Or are you an independent? Tell me about yourself. You know, when it comes to politics, I'm really more of an independent thinker.

I don't carry a card for any party. Good for you. I've voted, and this would be my 10th presidential election, and I'm probably right down the middle on one side or the other. This time, last time, because you're going to ask me, so I'll just get right into it. Last time, I really voted against Hillary more than I voted for Trump, to be quite honest.

Right. This time, it's quite different. I call that the honeymoon period. This time we're married. Mm-hmm. And did this play a role in that? Oh, this actually, I was leaning toward Trump, just looking at the record of Joe Biden,

47 years in politics, and I just couldn't see any landmark. things that he accomplished over those years. And then, you know, I think about Trump and the things that President Trump has done in a very hostile environment. I wouldn't want to be, to be quite honest. And, you know, he's not perfect, just like I'm not perfect and you're not perfect, but he's done a pretty damn good job. So why do you, I mean, have you been for this? movement or just tolerated it or you kind of numb inside with this movement.

I mean, I really, and I think most Americans, don't understand where the people of Portland are who don't believe in, you know, burning the city down to the ground. Well, I, their experience has shown me, because I didn't know the answer to that question until just three, three or four days ago. The people of Portland are the same as, they've always been. The people of Portland really are good people and the people of Oregon are good, solid people. These aren't the people of

Portland. These are all imported people. These are agitators, instigators, and factions that are focused on Portland. The people of Portland have, they've risen to the

occasional heroes. To be honest, I haven't got one hate email from anyone in Portland. We've got in love from Portland. So it really has shown me that the people of Portland are against violence. These aren't the people of Portland. So you have, I mean, we've, at least in the other parts of the country,

think you have a really bad mayor. But you are, I mean, the woman that is now running for mayor is even worse. I mean, she's full-fledged Antifa, full-fledged Marxist. Is she going to? win? I hope not. I don't know how that happens. You know, that's jumping out of the pot into the fire. I would agree Ted Wheeler, he needs to really, really lead better and be more deliberate in what he does and more focused and clean this mess up.

but I've heard exactly what you just refer to as full fledged. That doesn't make any sense. No. Is there something, there's there a line that will be crossed or could be crossed that would say, I'm out. I'm just out. I'm not going to have my family here anymore. For me? Yeah.

I would say that line doesn't exist because we're not made that way. Marines aren't made that way and my family's not made that way. We're not going to be victimized and terrorized to leave. If we leave, it'll be for different reasons. It won't be because of the things that are going on now. As far as the city goes, I think that the people of Portland, they will put a referendum up or they're going to do something. We need to get a strong mayor.

We need to get a mayor that can lead. and we need to turn this back into the beautiful city it once was. Yeah, Portland is beautiful, really, truly beautiful. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your time. I'm glad you're safe, and it's good talking to you, John. Stay safe up there in Portland. Can I say one last thing?

Sure you can. Please, everyone, get out and vote, and once we vote, let's stand behind whoever wins. Let's stop this divisiveness and get some stuff done. Thank you so much. Na-na-na-na-na-na-a