The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Dr. Voddie Baucham & Mayor Richard Newton | 6/29/20

Episode Date: June 29, 2020

Colleyville, Texas, Mayor Richard Newton joins to clear up the misinformation after he announced he won’t force residents to wear masks. Dr. Voddie Baucham weighs in on calls to remove "white Jesus" depictions and what "anti-racism" actually means to the Marxists. Another George Soros-funded organization with connections to BLM, Democracy Alliance, has given a lot of money to Democrats. Glenn breaks down where that money could be coming from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the podcast. Today we look at some big cities and how terrible things are going there. So many of them once again have shown to be left-leaning Democrats who have decided to apply these fantasy policies to their cities and things aren't going well. And then we look at a different type of city, a smaller town run by a conservative. And what he's doing as far as the masks are going on in his particular community, he's being. called radical, listen to him. Tell me if you think he is. Also, we have a guest from Zambia, who is going to tell us a little bit about what it's like for African Americans, or I guess he would be upset at that term, but African Americans around the globe, which doesn't make too much sense. But you find out that maybe it's not so bad for black people here in America when you

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And, of course, by subscribing to blaisTV.com slash Glenn. If you use the code, Fight the Mob right now, they're running a special. 20 bucks off your annual subscription. Here's the podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. So Richard Newton, Dr. Mayor Richard Newton, Mayor of Collieville, Texas. He is not going to police the mask mandate among the COVID-19 panic. And the governor has said everybody needs to wear masks.

He's closing down the bars. Things are getting heating up with the youth. in Texas and he says he's not going to do it. That's not making him popular with some people and other people love it. Richard Newton. Welcome to the program. Thank you, Glenn. I really appreciate you having me on this morning.

Sure. Now, there's people, I mean, because I know I talk to people in New York City and Los Angeles and they're like, you people are crazy. You just want everybody to die. And it's different in some of the cities than it is around most of America. But Texas is starting to see some real numbers climb. Why have you decided not to wear masks or enforce masks? Yeah, so if you allow me, let me first tell your audience of what it is I'm not doing

because there's many misconceptions out there. One, I am not anti-mask. On the contrary, I in Collieville have encouraged individuals to take all precautions they can to protect themselves and their families. The individual decision is very important. I wear masks. My wife has made 40 masks for our families. These are personal individual decisions. Number two, I have not countermanded the Tarrant County order.

The Tarrant order is actually for businesses to establish a policy to wear a mask and their customers. That's the issue. and I'm not aware of any business in Colleyville that hasn't put the policy in place. And three, if I get a chance before or through, there have been no death in Colleyville. That's very important, and I would like to explain to you why if I get to that point. Well, go ahead, explain that. Oh, go ahead and explain that. Okay, I learned there's been no deaths in Collegville.

I've been consistently been very low, but I learned yesterday there's a fake profile, Facebook profile, by the name of Sherry Michaels. and is posed as a very conservative, religious individual and wrote this very long, gut-wrenching post about her eight-year-old child dying in Collieville. Yesterday afternoon, for whatever reason, I guess, or pressure brought on her, but she has recanted and said that's all fake, it's not true. So my message to people is, please be very careful in what you read in the social media and react to you because there's much in it this disflat wrong and purposely erroneous.

So that was my mind. Why did she do that? Is she a very religious, conservative person with a kid, or is she none of those things? No. In fact, I don't even know if it's a woman who ever created this fake profile, but in the recant, the recant was actually more vicious than the story, and the true colors came out. called me and all my elected officials and Collierville fascist and all the, all the terrible things that they could dream up.

So it was clearly a political stunt, but that's going on. People just need to know that that really is happening. And it affects hundreds of thousands of comments and stuff. It's really a shame, very devious and vicious. Okay, so Richard, you would probably be the most disappointed. pointing fascist to fascists, seeing that you are not willing to say you must do these things. And I want to make it clear again, but you wear a mask yourself and you think it's a good idea to wear masks. You're only doing this as a personal liberty thing.

Yes, and the reason I'm doing this, this is the most interesting part of all of this. the DA's office had a conference call with all the police departments, including us, and indicated that they have no way to prosecute this. This is unenforceable. And so I cannot be dishonest to my citizens. I need to tell them the truth. I don't not believe any city and Tarrant County can enforce this. And that's why we're not doing it.

It would put our police in a very awkward situation, a very embarrassing situation. And it could lead to such a thing such as the Dallas Salon debacle, where they were in this enforcement paradox, and it was embarrassing to everybody. So it just doesn't make sense for the government to try to tell a business to enforce something that even the government cannot enforce itself. That's unfair to the business and the citizens, actually. But I would encourage everybody to do it. So why are people so upset then, Mayor? I mean, because you have been called everything under the sun and, you know, you don't care about people and you're an embarrassment to the city. I mean, that's what people are saying.

I love this. I have friends in Plano and Friscoe and Dallas, and they all think we're nuts. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed to live in Colleyville right now. And the people I've talked to a young mother yesterday at some length, and I just ask them questions. and asking questions uh you know they they think that i have and they've been told and in social media our detractors say that we're not we don't want we're we're making people not wear masks well that's completely untrue so they don't have their correct information they don't they

don't understand that this is not enforceable this is not a mask issue this is an enforcement issue it's a and then they they i don't know why that's happening i i can't tell you why that's happening, but that's what is happening. So I always simply calmly ask people why they're, why they think they're, why they met at Colliveville and want to tell me things that are wrong, I correct them on what's right. And typically, once I, they, they, I understand, but may not agree, but they understand it. Uh, in the governor, how's your relationship with the governor, Greg Abbott? That's very good. I think Governor Abbott has done a fantastic job. I mean, I know some people disagree, but I think he's very considered.

He considered all factors. I think this Terrant County order was put together very quickly without a lot of thought with no discussion with the cities on how to enforce it. And that came about after the fact, after he put the order in. But Governor Abbott, it's not enforceable because Governor Abbott himself has edicted that there is no local governmental agency that has the right to mandate that individual wear masks. And he's done that because it's a constitutional issue. He's not going to violate that. So that's the reason that's unenforceable. How do you feel about all the governors

and the mayors around the country that are just grabbing all this power? Well, I think it's unfortunate that they're using this to, for exactly what you said, to grab power and to, I think it's unfortunate when government entities do things such as this is unenforceable, but they know it's what people want to hear. And so they do it, but it's kind of a hollow thing to do to me. I think it's important to be straight up with people. The reason I have had citizens ask me, he said, well, if you aren't going to enforce it, why you just say anything?

Don't say anything, which, by the way, is what all the other cities are doing. They're just not saying anything, but they're in the same situation we're in. And I say that for three reasons. One, just my personal principles. When I'm in office, I think I owe it to our citizens to be straight up and honest with them. That's just a personal principle. In Collierville, we have four key principal values. Two of them are communication and transparency.

So we're going to communicate and we're going to be completely transparent. So that's why I needed to tell people up front our position. Number three, if we just said nothing, I can guarantee you what would happen and probably will happen somewhere. If somebody walks into a business and sees somebody without a mask, they get very upset, they want to call the police to get it corrected and to enforce the policy. They call the police, the police comes over and the police said, I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do about it. And then the police department gets blamed for not doing their job. their job. I think that's a terrible position for politicians to put their police force and their city staff in. And I won't do it. I simply don't think it's right. Richard, I think there's

probably a lot of people out in the listening audience now all over America. There's like, I wish that guy was our mayor. Thank you for explaining this. It is a very different story than we're getting in the media. Even the, you know, local Dallas media has got this wrong. Thank you so much. appreciate it well thank you for having me own and given me the opportunity to explain that i really do appreciate it you bet you bet thank you so much mayor or dr mayor mayor i don't remember which comes first richard newton the mayor of uh collieville you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program there's a guy who um i think was making videos on time uh unfortunately the the american people didn't feel that way. Now

his videos online on YouTube are burning everything up. His name is Dr. Vody Botcham. He is the Dean of Theology at the African Christian University. He is an American that now lives abroad in Zambia, where he is

actually taking care of black lives. And he joins us now over the phone. Vody, how are you, sir? I am fine, Glenn. Thank you for having me back. You bet.

You bet. I want to talk to you a little bit about a few things. First of all, can I get your comments and your thoughts about white Jesus? Because now there's a movement in a new poll out that says 31% of blacks want the white Jesus destroyed and replaced with black Jesus. That's interesting on a number of levels, not least of which, you know, a lot of black people had the same experience. If you grew up, you know, in a black household, especially if you grew up, you know, in the South. But I grew up in Los Angeles and it was still true there. When you went into a home of a black person, an older black person, there were generally three pictures on the wall.

There was a picture of Martin Luther King. There was a picture of John F. Kennedy. And there was a picture of Jesus. And it was the white Jesus. And nobody ever complained about the ethnicity. of Jesus on the wall. And it really became an issue more with the black power movement, and especially with organizations like the nation of Islam and others.

So that's one thing that I find interesting about this. A second thing that I find interesting about this is I'm a Reform Baptist, right? And so for me, I don't want any images of Jesus. I think it's a violation of the Second Commandment. But if I were to advocate for taking down all images of Jesus because of the second of the Ten Commandments from God Almighty, I would be dismissed out of hand as a religious zealot. But now in the age of anti-racism, somebody wants white Jesus taken down and there is absolutely no objection. And so for me, what's interesting about this is that it points to what I see as a new religion. This is a religious fervor that we see.

There are new commandments. There is a new canon of scripture. There is a new definition of sin, a new definition of salvation. And unfortunately, for white people, there is no salvation because you are a racist and a white supremacist. There's nothing you can do about it. And ultimately, you can never be cured. word, which means you can never be forgiven. Well, that sucks to be us, doesn't it?

Well, not you, but me. So, so. So, so. So. Be me, man, I can be worshipped. I'm going to have people bow down on their knees before me and, and, and, and, and, and shine my shoes. And if I'm not happy with them shining my shoes, I can ask them for a stock in their

company. Um, I can just tell people to shut up and listen to me. I, you know, it's crazy. It's great. It's great. Yeah. It's, and what I'm, it's, it's, it's. It's the backlash.

People are not going to continue to do this forever. And there's real racism out there. There are real racist out there. There's real hatred out there. It's being driven underground. And what I'm worried about is the backlash and the response. How do you mean? What do you fear?

Well, what I fear is people coming to a place where they say, listen, this is crazy. It's stupid. it's a bridge too far. I don't want to talk about these issues anymore. I reject this. I reject you. And all of a sudden, any type of real conversation about real problems goes out the window because of the unreasonable nature of the way these things are being forced right now.

So how do we avoid that? Because, I mean, when you get down to take the statues and all the stangling, window of Jesus and his white friends. Look, Jesus, I don't think Jesus was white. I think he looked like a Jew from the Middle East. I think that's what he probably looked like. But I don't care. That's not essential to my salvation.

I don't care what he looked like. I really don't. But when you get down to this where you are, you are now taking things that are deeply, deeply personal, how do you stop it? Yeah, that's what I'm referring to when I talk about the backlash. These things are unsustainable. People are only going to bow the knee for so long.

People are only going to bow down in obviessence before the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For so long, before people finally say, listen, that's enough and that's too far. And Glenn, here's why that's an issue. Because with this movement, with this radical Marxist movement, this Black Lives Matter movement, a 99 is an F. And we need to be clear about that. A 99 is an F. You can do everything that they demand of you. But the minute you decide that's a bridge too far, the response is you failed.

I knew you were a white supremacist. I knew you were a racist, and you're completely repudiated. And any kind of absolution that you had is immediately taken back. So was Mike Pence right in refusing to say Black Lives Matter? Yes, I think he was. And what worries me is that there are so many Christians who are not taking that stand. Because, again, we have to separate. that we have to separate this movement from issues.

So here's what the Marxists do. Here's what the Marxists have always done. You use words and phrases, and you pour into those words and phrases your own meaning. And oftentimes you create kind of this Kafka trap, you know, where if somebody does not use the phrase, that you want them to use, it proves that they are what you say they are, right?

So prove you're not a racist by using that phrase. You refuse to use that phrase, then you're a racist. Let me push back on you, and you tell me how to handle it. So then Vody, Black Lives don't matter to you. Yes, see, I'm not playing your game. Why do I need to play that game? First of all

Well, because it's a very easy It's a very easy thing to say Black Lives Matter Don't they? Why would you refuse to say it? I know that that is a phrase That is part of an organization It is a trademarked phrase

And it's a phrase designed to use Black people That phrase dehumanizes Black people because it makes them pawns In a game that has nothing whatsoever To do with Black people and their dignity and has everything to do with a divisive agenda that is bigger than black people. That's why I'm not going to use that phrase, because I love black people, I love being black.

I love black people because I are one, right? That's number one. Number two, I don't have to prove anything to you. That's number two. this is about me being right with God. And number three, this movement is dangerous. This movement is vicious. And this movement uses black people.

And so if I'm really concerned about issues in the black community, and I am, then I have to refuse and I have to repudiate that organization because they stand against that for which. I am advocating. Tell me why it's not good enough to be a non-racist, to not be racist. You have to be anti-racist. That seems like a pretty good goal. Yeah, until you recognize what that means, right? Being anti-racist means that you advocate against racism. And that sounds good too, right?

But then we have to define racism. and we define racism according to critical theory. Critical theory, which comes from the Marxist idea that you know you reduce everything to oppressed and oppressors, this sort of Hegelian view of history, right? So you keep backing these things up. And what these guys have done is they've created an entire glossary of terms, right? and if you agree, you're sort of backed into another corner and then backed into another corner. And eventually, this is my problem.

And a lot of people ask, well, why are you going to Blimbeck's program? Number one. Already? Oh, yeah. I'm sure people ask you, you know, why you have me on your program. No, I've got nothing but good letters on you. Well, just hang in there. They're coming, brother.

Hang in there. All right. Okay. But here's the thing, because what is happening in our country and what is happening in the media is that we're removing God from the equation. And I'm on here because this is one of the only places that I can be free to address that. And to me, that's what's really dangerous and egregious about this. This is a new religion moving toward a U.S. utopianism that finds salvation outside of God, that finds hope and salvation outside of Christ.

That is completely unacceptable. And it's also idolatry. We are literally bowing before men. We're bowing before statues of men. That's idolatry, Glenn. And we're trying to find hope in places where there is no hope. It's an over-realized eschatology. We believe that the government is going to save us.

here's what I find interesting, right? So we end slavery in so 1865 and then, you know, we get the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, all right. Excellent. The government did something about, you know, racism and white supremacy. Ah, not so fast because then we have, you know, segregation, Jim Crow, the KKK, and all this sort of stuff. Okay, fine. The government's got to come back 100 years later, 1864, 1865. We have the Civil Rights Act, and then we have the voting rights.

Act, finally, the government has responded. Ah, not so fast. Now here we are a generation later when the government has not been able to eradicate racism, right? So what's our answer? Advocate for the government that has proven incompetent in these areas to do it for us, but for real this time. It's the wrong answer. Now, let me hurry to say, I want good laws. I absolutely want good laws.

I'm not one of these individuals who says, you know, ah, politics, why should we have anything to do with politics? Ironically, people have considered me too politically active for a lot of ministry, right? And so I'm not saying that we shouldn't advocate for that. What I'm saying is right now what I'm seeing is that people are pressing this like this time. we're finally able to get the ball over the goalposts. And I'm saying, absolutely not. Christ is our only hope. He is our only answer to these issues.

But when critical theory comes in, and now everything becomes systemic, and we move outside of the individual, all of a sudden, our hope does become a systemic hope, a governmental hope. And so what I don't want to see you talking about that backlash again, you know, is people saying, number one, we don't need to deal with the hearts of men anymore because we absolutely do. Racism is real. Prejudice is real. Or saying that we only need to deal with the hearts of some men because now we say racism is something that only white people, you know, can experience. Glenn, I know some black racists. I'm related to some.

okay and they need their hearts changed right and so i'm worried about that and and so much of this just moves us away from the truth and it moves us away from legitimate discussions about real things that actually do need to change and be addressed so what how do you address people who say look i'm yeah yeah yeah yeah they're marxist but i'm i'm not a Marxist and and most of the people that are marching are not Marxist and so you know we're just trying to get some change here on some on some real issues I mean because that's really what people are saying I think they they just don't believe the Marxist side of it I don't know how and you have a lot of churches now going in and going all

full black lives matter yeah you you absolutely do and some people because they don't know what the organization is about and others in spite of the fact that they do know what the organization is about. And listen, I am not saying that we don't advocate for change. That's, I mean, that's the nature of the American experiment, right? That's the nature of our history as a country. every every couple of years we're advocating for change. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. I want to talk to you a little bit more about Black Lives Matter.

And some of the things that we talked about last Wednesday on the television show, because we went through the funding of Black Lives Matter. And it is truly remarkable. what, you know, what, what, what we know about Black Lives Matter and how they, how they get all of their, all of their funding. I want to talk a little bit about one of the things that we, we showed last Wednesday is the, the group that I don't think you might have heard of, but I don't think you really understand what it is. democracy alliance. Have you ever heard of that, Sto? Democracy Alliance? Yes, I've heard of it only from you, though, I think. I mean, they're not a well-known thing to the average person. Do you know what it is?

I don't want to say the word laundering, but, you know, that's my impression. Well, okay, all right. Well, I didn't say that. It's a dark money organization. And it was founded by, guess, George Soros, but also has very influential members, like Tom Steyer. Hmm.

Tom Steyer, why do I know that name? Now, since 2005, this one organization, Democracy Alliance, has directed $600 million to progressive candidates and policies. Six,

That's over half a billion dollars from this one organization. Now, Soros and Rob Stein created this money-making juggernaut, if you will. And they knew, after the election of President Bush in 2004, they knew that the progressive party was in trouble. And so they got together and they did something. And I, boy, I wish I was telling you a story about reporters. Republicans doing things like this or or constitutionalist or libertarians doing something like this but nope, nope,

we don't. So what they did is they get together with 70 of their billionaire friends and millionaires and they got together with them in 2005 with a long-term goal of the progressives taking power. Soros donated $18 million of his own mind. Now, here's how they operate. Secrecy apparently is paramount. Democracy Alliance, the members, meet twice every year, but their agendas and who attends highly guarded secrets.

We had a document that was smuggled out of one of the meetings. And it is, it's pretty shocking. It shows media matters for America as one of their main allies. And they outlined a whole way that media matters can operate, but they, gosh, they need more funding. And when you look at the progressive groups that they are funding, it is astonishing. America votes, American Constitution, Black Civic Engagement Fund, Brennan Center, Center for American Progress, Center for Community Change, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the Common Purpose Project, Fund for the Republic.

Oh, that sounds nice. The Latino Engagement Fund, Media Matters for America, new media ventures, new organization institute, organizing for action, progressive majority, progress now, state voices, women's equality center, youth engagement fund. I mean, this goes on and on. I'm really just not even out of the A's. Democracy Alliance maintains its privacy of its members and the dark money. And what they are acting as is this combination of the World Bank and a social network for progressive billionaires.

And here's what you have to do if you want to be a member. You have to pay a $25,000 initiation fee. Oh, do they spank my bottom? $30,000 a year in dues and an additional $200,000 a year to groups that Democracy Alliance supports. But the vast majority of funds come from solicited donations from outside of the billionaires, of which Democracy Alliance serves as a pass-through to their favored organizations. So it's a pass-through, or what did you so inaccurately, describe this as stew?

I had, you know, I was honestly a little distracted. I was thinking about I have some dirty clothes at home and I need to put them in the laundry machine and clean them and cleanse them so that people wouldn't necessarily know that they were dirty before. But now they'll say, wow, those are clean clothes. And the whole time you'll be thinking, yeah, they've actually been really dirty in the past and you don't know about it. So that's, I was thinking about a home, a home issue with my clothing. and I think I got it. I think I got it. We also talked about how people are influencing what's happening on our streets. Project Veritas had a video that we showed you last week where there are national organizers

with a group called Refuse Fascism. And it's an organization that works in tandem with Antifa. and now is plotting the destruction of capitalism, you know, from swanky, you know, upscale restaurants where they talk about, hey, we've got, and we have the video of it, you know, George Soros and Tom Steyer. I mean, we've been talking to them. Now, they don't want to be named, but they're going to come out and they've got some really big things that they are going to do. And there's going to be, oh, we have the video. go ahead play it listen to this we're trying to we did apply for a grant from sorrows

at we've reached a lot of time ago we actually did get a a grant from them there is going to be and need for thousands of people and then millions to come into the streets we're trying to make him

we've been talking to his assistant meeting with his main his main advisor of my future I think he has political ambitions that he may actually one not be directly connected. Okay, so they're talking about how they did get money from Soros and how they're meeting with Tom Steyer,

and they don't want to be directly connected. But what their goal is is to put thousands of people on the streets and then millions of people on the streets this summer. Now, this came out before there were thousands on the streets and millions on the streets, and they are talking about protests and riots and anarchy. This is very, very well-crafted. This is exactly what is behind the people of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter is not a charitable organization. That's why they're not raising money themselves.

They'll say give to Black Lives Matter, but when you go there, you're actually giving to Act Blue, which is a 501C4, Stu, do you know? And so you can get a charitable contribution for your taxes, but that's because it's going to Act Blue. And when you see how they're spending their money at Black Lives Matter, very little of it actually goes to Black Lives Matter in the first place. act blue is another hey let me just pardon me for just just saying Stu don't forget to do your laundry yeah okay

to make sure we keep up with that because laundering is your your clothing is very important your clothing is very very important so anyway so you're looking now at a group that is funding of course

Black Lives Matter and giving them the money that you donate, not all of the money. We don't think, not all of the money. We think a portion of the money. And out of that portion, about 80% of it goes to the global operations, which means consulting fees.

Hmm, who are they consulting with? the salaries and the air travel for a global organization. Only 6% of it goes actually to the inner city. Only 6% of it goes to the local chapters. God only knows what they're doing with it. But this is a giant fundraising scheme, and it's all going into the same pot that are doing a lot of advertisements

and a lot of other things for the Democrats so they can win in this next election. We're all being played here, and Mike Pence was right for not saying Black Lives Matter. We all know that they do in reality, but we, those of us who are paying attention, also know exactly who these people are and how they are using black people, how they are using the plight, and how they are souping things up with all cops are bad to get their way in November. But they're not only just, those power players are not only using the black strife, they are using Black Lives Matter. They're using these Marxists to be able to forward it.

And there's one thing that George Soros is not. He's not a Marxist. So why would someone be giving money to a bunch of Marxists? Because they're useful idiots. They're the ones that will in the end be scooped up. They're the ones in the end that the bottom up, top down, inside out, really is effective. Right now, you don't really want the top to come down with Donald Trump. because Donald Trump is not going to be the effective one.

The effective one is possibly the next president who won't even know when he's in the Oval Office or when he's taking nappy naps and drooling on his pillow. When Joe Biden gets in, if he, God forbid, gets in, when that happens and the streets rise up, he'll then be authorized to go in and quash those few Black Lives Matter Marxists. And the top will come down.

And unfortunately, it will come down on them and on us. And that's the revolution without a shot fired. That's exactly how it's happened with Marxists and communists over and over and over again in country after country in the 20th century. Na-na-na-na-a-na.