The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Shelley Luther | 4/30/20

Episode Date: April 30, 2020

Tara Reade’s claims that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her are even causing some Democrats like actress Rose McGowan to grow tired of the #MeToo hypocrisy. Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther joins before heading to court and possibly jail for continuing to keep her shop open. And NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has angered the Jewish community again after calling them out for holding a large, but city-sanctioned, funeral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And you can subscribe to the audio podcast here. Now, the show. The best of the Glenn Beck. This is the Glenn Beck program. Glad you here. Pat's just joined us from Pat Gray Unleashed. Everybody. Good morning.

Good morning. Pat, how are you this morning, this afternoon? Beautiful day. Traffic is good great. It sure is. Traffic and weather together, by the way, every nine minutes on the sevens. All day long we'll get you there on time. Every nine minutes on the sevens.

Because we want to beat the other guys to the punch. So you think it's on the seven, but the next time it'll be on the six, then it'll be on the five. But we'll always be ahead on traffic. That's right. All right. Always on the seven. Welcome, Pat. I just wanted to go over to this and see if any of this makes sense to you.

Okay? The New York Times runs an editorial anger building on the left over Biden's refusal to confront Tara Reid accusation. Now, the New York Times, I would say, is probably the best out of the mainstream media. They did, what, one story on it where they came out neutral. And then they changed their tweet to make it even, to make it less neutral and lean towards Biden. But now they're saying, you know, a lot of people in the left are very upset. And we're with them.

Boy, that Biden, he's really got a step to the plate. Nobody's asking him. No. Why should he come out and say something when your own reporters aren't asking? Then you also have the Washington Post. And I want to ask you this. Let's start here. If you're a reader of the Washington Post and you have not heard any of the charges,

you know, they're not covering it. Nobody's been talking about it in the mainstream media. And you read an editorial. The Washington Post editorial board called on Vice President Joe Biden to directly address Tara Reid's accusation of sexual assault. The editorial board called Biden out for his failure to address the accusation. Tara Reid deserves to be heard, and the voters deserve to hear her, said the editorial board. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.

Mr. Biden has had little to say besides what his campaign has already said. That he didn't do it, that this is not something you'd ever do. Yet the way to signal, yet the way to signal, he takes Ms. Reed's case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to go before the media and the public ready to listen and reply. Wait, but you have to ask him. Reply is usually something replying to a, help me out, Pat, eh? Question, maybe? Question. Yes. Thank you.

I can't take the, and this shows the power of the people. They do not want to cover it. They haven't covered it. And yet it's out there. Yeah. And that's why Google is now trying to silence non-authoritative voices. Would you agree? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Did you see the fact that, as of Monday at least, CNN, who did 700 stories on the Brett Kavanaugh allegations. 700 stories had by Monday done a little less than that, zero stories on Tara Reid's accusations.

Unbelievable. I mean, that's just unbelievable. Both are less than a thousand stories, though. Well, that is true. So they're the same category. They're 400 or less. So, so do you guys know who Katie Halper is? from the Katie Halper show.

Oh, she's going to broke this. Isn't she? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She wanted to do the initial interview with Tara Reid. Yeah. And so she's a, um, she's a deep progressive. She's a Bernie Sanders thing. And she said, I didn't want to be the one of broke it because I'm a Bernie Sanders fan. But she's a progressive Democrat, uh, diametrically opposed. I'm quoting her diametrically opposed to Trump's policies.

Um, uh, uh, the huge irony. is the New York Times and Washington Post, I'm quoting, allegedly objective outlets have been the ones stealth editing their stories, openly taking editorial feedback from the Biden campaign as New York Times executive editor Dean Bacquo admitted to you, Ben, talking to Ben, what's his name? Shoot. Jim, let me see if I can find it here. Smith, no, Ben Smith, New York Times media columnist. as you had an excellent Q&A with him. It's obvious that the editors are regurgitating Biden's talking points. The only surprising thing is they don't have the awareness not to announce it publicly.

So she goes on. Then you have, then you also have, gosh, there's one more here that was amazing. Oh, Rose McGowan. Now Rose McGowan is crazy. let's admit it she's crazy but even the crazy are waking up listen to what she

said I used to be a proud Democrat I used to be a proud American I thought democracy meant I had a right to choose somebody who lined up with my value systems but what if there's no one she went on to say she was raised on the idea the Democratic

party were the good guys she said I feel quite a sense of loss now I know too much. She said, this is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump and Kavanaugh saying believe victims, but you are a lie. You have always been a lie.

The corrupt DNC is in on a major smear job of Tara Reid. So are you. Shame on you. Yeah, that was directed. I mean, that was directed to Alyssa Milano, who has, who was came out in support of Biden and who just a few years ago was. all about being a believer of everybody's accusations. So was Biden, by the way. Biden also said women deserve to be believed.

Well, okay. I believe Tara Reid. Yeah, it's tough when they get caught in their own ridiculous statements, right? I mean, like, I think that it's not a sane position to believe all women. That's an insane position. You should listen to them. Yeah, you should every one of them when they make an accusation should be taken seriously. Yeah. And it should also, by the way, we should have a level of skepticism. And that's based on this of this idea of innocent until proven guilty. So if someone needs to be proven guilty, you need to go at the accusation and not just instantly believe it because it's impossible to prove yourself guilty if everyone believes your accuser.

Or prove yourself not guilty. Excuse me. Yeah. So here's the, here's the problem. Now listen, they're starting to make some sense, but it's in. inconsistent. This is Tarana Burke. Now, she's the woman who is celebrated as the brave, brave woman who empowered women in the in the entertainment industry to finally address widespread sexual harassment and violence. And if she did that, that's great. I don't, I don't know her story. That's fine. There's been some good things that have come out of the Me Too movement. And then there's been some bad things because it's, it's been used as a political weapon. She says, she's quoting, I'm quoting her now on the Joe Biden thing. My stance has never wavered. Survivors have the right to. to speak their truth and be given the space to heal. But the inconvenient truth is that this story is impacting us differently because it hits at the heart of one of the most important elections of our lifetime. And I hate to disappoint you, but I don't really have any easy answers. There are no perfect survivors, and no one, especially a presidential candidate, is beyond reproach.

So where does that leave us? Well, on the one hand, Tara Reid has been afforded the opportunity to speak her truth through mainstream media reporting on her claims and ongoing investigative journalism. She's been able to come forward in a process where she was treated fairly

in a trusted system. Instead, like other public survivors before, she had to rely on journalists in order to be heard, precisely because the systems for survivors are not in place. But on the other hand, the defense of Joe Biden shouldn't rest on whether or not he's a good guy

or only hope. Instead, he could demonstrate what it looks like to be both accountable and electable. Accountable for what? If he didn't do it, then he could be, he should be someone you can consider supporting as a Democrat. If he did it, how are you supporting this person? You're saying you're voting for a rapist? No, no, no, no, no, no. She explains.

Oh. How to be both accountable and eligible. in the Me Too era, meaning, quoting, at a minimum, at a minimum, acknowledging that his demonstrated learning curve around boundaries with women at the very least left him open to the plausibility of these claims. No matter what you believe, we are allowed to expect more from the person running for U.S. president. Oh, my gosh.

I love that. That's going to, that's being held accountable. That's holding your. self-accountable. You know, my learning curve, you know, it's curved and, you know, that made, that made people say things about me that, you know, maybe some people believe that aren't true because of my learning curve. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's, it's amazing how it gets handled, too, by the media where Kavanaugh was like, here is a situation where Republicans want someone on the Supreme Court who looks like he was most certainly a rapist, right? Like,

That was basically the way the media handled that story. Oh, yeah. Listen to the framing of the Biden story, though. They're finally covering it now. Listen to the framing of it. This is from the Associated Press. A sexual assault allegation is raising Joe Biden's first big challenge as the Democrats' presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and leaving many in his own party in an uncomfortable bind.

So it's not about how horrible of a guy this is or this terrible experience that he apparently put this woman through. Instead, it's a challenge. He's, he's now, we're now in horse race mode, right? He's got, he's got a little thing. He's got to fight off as a candidate. And it's bad because Republicans are able to attack him over it. And his own party has to give awkward answers to questions. We're talking about a sexual assault allegation here. We're not talking about something that's a little inconvenient for a candidate. Either you believe these things all the time, as you said you did, or you don't. And clearly what they're doing here is trying to push this off into some sort of element in our little political soap opera that's unfolding.

And that's not what this is. Yeah. So, Pat, I do have a correction on CNN for you. Okay. CNN has covered it in their editor-at-large piece. They wrote something yesterday. Okay. That was after Monday, though.

Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know. On Tuesday, CNN's Don Lemon asked former Georgia state lawmaker, Stacey Abrams, about the allegations. So, okay, so they covered it on Tuesday night, but they covered it with bat crap crazy Abrams. Okay. But then, then she responded that the New York Times, you know, said that they hadn't done anything. Well, CNN has corrected this. That's not accurate. And they go on to say that the New York Times said they didn't know who was telling

the truth. So they're on it. It's CNN now. And besides, whose truth is it that we're looking for? Are we looking for her truth or his truth? Because apparently there's all kinds of different sorts of truth. I hate that line. We should listen to her truth. There is no her truth or his truth. There's only truth. It's either it either happened or didn't. It can't be the perspective of Biden or her perspective. Either he stuck his hand up or dress or he didn't. Right. Which did he do? And we keep talking about this. like, as a society, we have to take these accusations seriously. But if you're Joe Biden, you don't.

If you know you didn't do it, you should be out there vociferously saying, screw off. I didn't do any of this stuff. Get out of my face. She's lying. Let me just, let me just quote, let me just quote the FBI agent because I think this could be asked of the press today. What is our goal here?

Truth, admission, or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him. or get him fired. This is the same kind of thing. What are you trying to do? Were you looking for the truth with Kavanaugh or did you just want him fired? Right. Are we looking for the truth? The answer is no.

When it comes to the press, they are not looking for the truth. By the way, you can listen to Pat Gray. Pat Gray Unleashed, the great podcast that you can hear wherever you get your podcast. Or you can grab it. Right before this on Blaze Radio Network, right before this amazing, amazing show. 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. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Welcome to it. Shelly Luther is joining us again. You may not know who Shelley is. She's a owner of a hair salon here in Dallas. Now you're asking, why would you have a hair salon owner on? Well, because she is facing arrest this morning for staying open despite, you know, salons being deemed non-essential.

And it's happening in Texas. She's on her way to court now. We wanted to get her before she went to jail possibly. Hello, Shelly. How are you? Good morning, Glenn. I'm great. How are you?

Well, I'm better than you. I'm not going to court today. So what has happened since... My attorney. My attorneys did my court case, and we tried to do an injunction for the temporary restraining order against me in my salon, and they did not grant that. So now I'm just kind of waiting to see what my quote-unquote punishment is going to be for defying the ordinance. So you've had to close. They just came in and they closed you down.

No, I'm not closing. They just served me. You're still not closing. No, I'm not closing. Good for you. Thank you. Okay. All right.

So you're going to take the punishment. The hearing, has it happened yet? Yes. They did not grant the injunction. So basically, I'm guilty of defying a temporary restraining order. And so when do they decide your punishment? I'm sure they are right now. I'm sure they're getting.

ready to do whatever they're going to do. It's my attorney just guessing yesterday thought it could be $1,000 a day fine and or jail time along with maybe having city officials stand outside and not allow patrons to come into the salon. That is unbelievable. It's ridiculous. They're opening Texas up today. What did you say?

The dog groomer next door has been essential the entire time. So I can go and get my dog groomed, but can't get a haircut. Correct. And tomorrow in Texas, you can also get Botox and fillers, but you cannot get your haircut. Okay. Have you had any support from any elected official in Texas? Yes. From Chip.

He's a... Chip Roy. Yes, he contacted me yesterday, full support, making public on his social media, how much he supports me. And there's also a couple of, I think, state representatives that have sent messages to Governor Abbott saying salons need to be included in what's happening tomorrow. no no they just free Texas i can't believe i'm saying this free texas we all should be able to make the decisions ourselves we're all smart enough since when did texas not touch not trust texans i mean we moved here for a reason because we didn't want to live in california we didn't want to live in new York, and we thought that the state respected us enough to be intelligent and make our own decisions.

It's why our House and Senate doesn't even open up every year. They don't even go to work every year. They don't have laws to pass because they trust Texans. Oh, this is crazy. Well, the problem is we have people moving in here from California and the other places. Oh, I know. changing our state up a little. Okay.

So are you in a position to pay a $1,000 fine every day? I definitely have thousands, if not millions of people backing me right now. I'll just say that. Well, that would be great. That would be great. All right. Well, will you call us the minute you find out, I mean, probably call your husband or whomever and let them know you're going to jail.

Yeah. Yeah. He's going to keep my phone. So if you guys want to call back, he'll answer and he can fill you guys in on what's going on for sure. His name's Tim. Okay. We'll call Tim and get an update before we go off the air today, find out what's happening. All right. I appreciate that.

Best of luck. Thank you so much. I appreciate your support. You bet, Shelley. Bye-bye. What's your guests do? That's interesting. She seemed to have confidence in a funding aspect to pay off these fines and it's taking a stand. And look, this is the type of thing that was praised throughout history in America when people would take a stand like this. We saw that there are all sorts of movements in this country. You know, look, the one thing I think, you know, I really like the fact that she's standing up and doing this. And the way the very local government in Dallas has treated her is completely wrong. You know, the state, you mentioned the state of free Texas, I think they are, I think they are trying to do. I think

Abbott is trying to do that, right? I think he's trying to do it in a careful way so we don't get back in this situation again, which I really do fear if we just go, you know, we just open everything up tomorrow. We're going to be back in it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. How much socialists just love Jews. National socialists, international socialists, they all have that one thing. thing in common. Boy, do they love themselves some Jews. And Bill de Blasio is no different.

You know, it started where he put a series of tweets out. Let me just give you this super classic. My message to the Jewish community and all other communities is this simple. The time for warnings is past. I've instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately

to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives, period. So you damn Jews have just got to stop gathering. Now, he's already had a problem with the Jewish community. If you remember way back, what, two weeks ago, when he said that they were going to lose their synagogues permanently. Hmm, I didn't know a mayor could do that, but he did.

as complaints of hate crimes targeting Jews in New York City under his watch have gone up 52% he now says oops I'm sorry I need to apologize now let me just tell you what was happening he singles out an entire religious group because of a funeral now a rabbi died and they had to have a funeral well you can't gather for a funeral I mean I think this is the same kind of crap that people have been, the Jews have been dealing with for thousands of years. This is nothing new. This is what the national socialist did in Europe, uh, in the 1930s. This is what Stalin did, the international socialist. You imagine the firestorm had Donald Trump said, hey, listen, this message to the Jewish community. Oh, and all others. If he would have said, oh, by the way,

uh, this message to the Chinese community, imagine the firestorm. But somehow or another, in New York city. We're not talking Alaska. In New York City, it's okay. Even Jerry Nadler has responded to this. He said, well, we all have a responsibility to observe social distancing and do our part, as we say, COVID-19 pandemic together. The mayor singling out in stereotyping of a community and threatening response is unacceptable. We have to do better for ourselves in the city. Oh, okay. Well, so what was this whole thing about? What was about a rabbi's funeral? Well, here's the problem. From the New York Police Department news. And you got to love the fact that the police department hate de Blasio as much as De Blasio apparently hates the police and Jews.

Can you imagine being a Jewish policeman under de Blasio? His head would explode. The New York City Police Department tweeted two hours before it started, NYPD brought trucks with barriers, tower lights to close off Bedford Avenue in the surrounding area. It's the New York City mayor's department who originally approved it before deciding to take it back. So the Jewish community had done everything they were supposed to do. And then he's yelling at them for not doing what they're supposed to do. They did it.

The police were there. They were barricading the streets. They did absolutely everything they were supposed to do. Now de Blasio has apologized. Listen to this apology. Do we have the audio of it? I spoke last night out of passion. I could not believe my eyes, Marcia.

It was deeply, deeply distressing. Again, this is a community I love. This is a community I have spent a lot of time working with closely. And if you saw anger and frustration, you're right. I spoke out of real distress that people's lives were in danger before my eyes and I was not going to tolerate it. So I regret if the way I said it in any way gave people a feeling of being treated the wrong way. That was not my intention. It was said with love, but it was tough love. It was tough love. So is that the same kind of tough love that

that people in the Bronx or Brooklyn they were at Prospect Park they were giving him a hassle because he and his wife drove to Brooklyn just to take a stroll

you know and he was out in the park and people in Brooklyn were like you have your own park at the mayor's mansion you've got a park you want to take a stroll take it there what are you doing coming over from Manhattan crossing the river coming into our park.

So they're yelling at him and he says, come on guys, give it a break. Oh, give it a break. So he's been chauffered over to Brooklyn so he could take a walk in the park with his wife and then he yells at people who are yelling at him. But Jews who went through the proper channels had his office approve the funeral. the NYPD approve it and then set up barricades. He gets angry. Ah, okay.

Hey, how angry are you, de Blasio, at the Muslim community? Because all over New York, the Muslim community, I mean, where is that, and I know this is out of his purview, but where is the New York mosque

that's been allowed to just, you know, zip tape everything off. So they have, you know, plastic on the floor and, and everything else. Nobody else has been given this special privilege. I know that, you know, prayer calls are going out during Ramadan. I know that you can go to the mosque in many cases in New York City that they haven't had any problems with the mayor at all. Well, well, why is that? Because, I mean, why is that?

all religions. They're all protected. But why is it one religion seems to be always in trouble? And I'm not talking about the Christians. I'm talking about the Jews. I told you this early, early on. You should never be surprised at the depravity of those who preach real socialism. People who know what socialism is.

not the people who are just like, oh, I like this utopia. We should try it. It will work. I mean the people who have been to Venezuela, been to Cuba, been to Russia. They know what it is and they still hold it up. Those people never, never be surprised to the levels of depravity and anti-human activity that they will endorse in the end. He is an elitist. He is a socialist.

He is anti-American. I'm not saying that he is not an American. He just hates America. He hates our system. He always has. He loves the Marxist philosophy. He always has. And for some strange reason, and I could explain it to you biblically and

theologically, but beyond that, I can't. They always, the leadership always seems to embrace this. evil of wiping out the Jews. So when I see a bunch of Jews on the street, yeah, of course I was angry. Now, he didn't say that. But I don't know. His patterns seem to indicate that he doesn't have a good relationship with Jews. And maybe it's just me.

I can't believe you're even going down this road, especially after this incredible innovation. and New York came up with yesterday. You know, like, I have been critical of the way they've handled this, but you can see what they're doing now, and now you see the plan. Beginning, I didn't see the plan. Now I see the plan.

They have one? Yeah. Okay. What is it? Making a big difference. What they decided to do, and I honestly, I just never thought of this before,

but they're deciding now. This is yesterday they came up with this? Yeah, they're going to start, they started it last night. All right. Wow. Okay. What they're going to do is,

clean and sanitize the subway cars every night. And I was like, what? That's a great idea because the virus could be on surfaces and people might touch it. And so it would be a great idea to start cleaning them regularly, rather than having the entire city get inside a giant metal tube and put their hands all over everything after everybody from the day before. This way, Glenn, this will help stop the spread of the virus in the city. that's been most affected in the entire globe.

And this way... Well, the first passengers, the very first passengers will be a little safer. A little safer. The very first, yeah. Now, are they going to ask the rats to get out of the subway while they clean it? Or, I mean, God forbid, they do anything about diseased vermin that run rampant in the subways. Glenn, that's another great idea.

They should think about removing some of the rats, too. These are all great ideas. I don't know why I had, you know, look, that's why I'm not mayor of governor. So we could stop the Jews, if we could stop the Jews from having funerals, okay, and sanitize the subways. And maybe, just as an add-on, do something about the rats in the subway. I think it'd be a socialist utopia. We'll get rid of the police department too. Yeah.

We're almost there. We've got to get rid of the police department. And then, and then we'll just have neighbors. you know, rat on one another. By the way, did you see the, oh, where is it? I've had it for a while. I've got to find it. The, what people are doing in New York with his rat on,

rat on each other hotline. Oh, yeah. Where? Where they are texting? Because it's a text number. You can send text messages to report people in case they happen to be having a party or a gathering or be within 100 yards of each other. Whatever, whatever your line is, you can text them and let them. them know what is going on in your neighborhood.

Millions have sent in warnings. Many of them are just pictures of themselves doing things they shouldn't be doing. And they're like, come pick me up. They are sending pictures of him doing stuff that he's telling everyone not to do. About 60% of everything that is coming in is just mocking him. Now, I'd like to see that number a little higher, but the people of New York are just screw you, screw you.