The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Gabe Kaminsky & Carol Roth | 2/13/23

Episode Date: February 13, 2023

Investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner Gabe Kaminsky joins to expose a British group that's blacklisting conservative media companies and getting rich by doing it. Glenn reviews a study proving that conservatives prioritize conserving principles over enacting policies. China is oddly reporting its gold reserve increases, and former investment banker Carol Roth joins to ponder what that could mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, it's Monday, and I think this is one of the better podcasts we've ever done, mainly because Stu's not here. And what, you know, that doesn't necessarily make for a better show, although it usually does. It does, it does mean it this time, because Stu is at the Super Bowl, and he wanted his, oh, I want the eagle to win. And he brought his son so they could celebrate together. and he's exceptionally sad today, which makes me exceptionally happy because tomorrow he comes back and I'm not saying that I'm going to rub his nose in it at all,

but I'm not not saying that either. On today's program, we talk about that super, super, grab your crotch and smell your fingers, performance for the halftime. No, it was great. We start with disinformation and who you can trust. Ironically, at the beginning of the show, the New York Times is reporting that these balloons might be aliens from space. By the end of the program, as you will hear, they retract that and said, nobody seriously is saying that.

Well, you were. Maybe that's just me. A ton of great stuff on today's show. We begin in just a minute. First, let me tell you about relief factor. Relief factor is fantastic if you are in pain. If you're in pain, you'll try just about anything. I know I would.

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Thank you for being on the program. Thank you very much, Glenn. I appreciate that. And thank you for having me. You bet. Okay. So explain what you. have uncovered and why it's important?

We essentially unpacked in a multi-part series that we are still working on about how essentially these organizations, particularly we highlighted a group called the Global Disinformation Index, and these organizations are feeding secret blacklists to advertising companies with the intent of shutting down and defunding disfavored speech. In this case, certainly conservative media. And so we actually learn that the Washington Examiner, among other outlets, is on this blacklist and that this process is playing a very major role in how media outlets are gaining access to advertising dollars.

The second part of our series, sort of the most important part of this, I think, is that the United States government has funded the disinformation tracking organization that is, as we said, openly taking steps to defund and be platform disfavored speech, certainly raising First Amendment issues. Okay, well, hang on just a sec. First, global disinformation index sounds very official. Who is this group? Yes. So the Global Disinformation Index is a British organization that is two affiliated American nonprofit organizations that have both been reaping hundreds of thousands of dollars, kind of as this disinformation tracking space accelerates. And so Global Disinformation Index, they compile a secret dynamic exclusion list, essentially a blacklist. and this list compiles groups that they determine to be peddling alleged disinformation.

So this organization has said publicly that the outlets that it deems the riskiest are outlets like the American Spectator, the American Conservative, the Daily Wire, the Blaze, Newsmax, and several other outlets. And so their blacklist separately is something that they provide to advertise. companies like the Microsoft owned Sander in order for those advertising companies to have insight into the outlets that they should allegedly de-platform and defund. And what gives these people the expertise to make that determination? Great question. You know, that's obviously a question. A lot of people's mind, certainly, Glenn. You know, these organizations are heavily staffed with an oversaw.

They're oversawed by people, university professors, writers, and journalists. One individual on the board of the Global Disinformation Index is Ann Applebaum, a left-remed journalist who notably discredited the Hunter-Bited laptop story. Other individuals are involved with groups like the Pew Research Center, the Open Society Foundation and Navidia notably. Yeah. Okay. So they're going around.

And I mean, this is something that Media Matters was doing. And really, despite what it said in the papers, quite unaffectively with me when I was on just radio and Fox, and they would target and target and target. But now you're looking really at Google and Amazon as the big advertisers.

And they're targeting all of these agencies, if you will, that are really media platforms, correct? That's right. A group like this, which obviously has certainly thrown under the radar is, has developed major influence clearly in the advertising space based on the fact that Microsoft we learned was subscribing to this list. Microsoft obviously one of the most, one of the largest corporations throughout the world. I'm just looking at the review of the Huffington Post. The, this is, their risk level is low. So feel free to advertise. The Huffington Post largely features fact-based, unbiased content, free.

of sensational text or visuals. The domain also refrain for perpetuating divisive narratives via the negative targeting of groups or individuals, you know, unless you're conservative or Republican. The outlet scores for the operations pillar indicators are imperfect, but it is better than most. Wow. Wow. So that's good. Yeah, and what I would like to flag, Glenn,

is that the organizations, the news outlets, that the Global Disinformation Index ranks as the 10 least riskiest, they all skewed to the left, notably except the Wall Street Journal, but notably they flagged Huffington Post, now Huff Post, and BuzzFeed News as allegedly the 10 risky outlets.

As your listeners may remember, these are two media outlets that heavily peddled the Steele dossier that attended to link Donald Trump to Russia. They also peddled the false notion that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. These are two very problematic, legitimate disinformation campaigns that seeped into the American consciousness. Well, and I don't think people understand. The Wall Street Journal is actually used to

be. I don't know if it is anymore. It used to be more liberal in its news pages than the New York Times. But because of the editorial section being so conservative, it just kind of got this rap that it wasn't, but it, it, it's a very liberal newspaper when it comes to the news. Yeah, I mean, I, you know, what we tried to highlight again is the fact that, uh, the 10, the 10 allegedly least risky outlets, uh, that, that certainly is problematic given the stories that they've promoted in the past. Whereas when you look at the outlets labeled the riskiest outlets, outlets essentially like the Washington Examiner or the Blaze, these are outlets that actually were right on this material first.

You know, the Washington Examiner verified the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop. And so did several other outlets long before Legacy Media actually took an honest attempt to take a look at that information. You know, it's funny because I don't see any on the riskiest domains or apps. I don't see a single liberal on here, and I see almost every single conservative. It's quite a list. Can we go back to now where the government is funding? Because even our State Department is funding this.

That's right. The State Department has granted $330,000 to the Global Disinformation Index through two specific entities. is one, the Global Engagement Center, which is essentially a grant making arm through the State Department, that actually came under fire in Twitter files reported by journalist Matt Taibi, because that same organization was contacting Twitter and asking them to engage in content moderation related to the coronavirus and vaccines in particular in 2020. So that's one entity that has funded the Global Disinformation Index. The other State Department entity is the National Endowment for Democracy, which is a nonprofit group that was authorized through Congress,

that is funded almost entirely through congressional appropriations. And I would really flag that the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy has oversight over who receives grants. And their congresswoman, Elise Stefani, a Republican, a staunch Trump advocate, in the line of former president, Donald Trump, she sits on the board of that organization. It's quite a mess. How is this going to be cleaned up? So we've received word from a few members of Congress who have said, you know,

this raises major issues, and they would hope to investigate this. One is Representative Michael McCall, who is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which oversees grants to the State Department. another is Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, who has been a staunch advocate for the Amendment and anti-censorship operations. But certainly, you know, certainly, you know, a lot of Americans are hoping that members of Congress can take adequate steps to investigate this situation in particular because this really feeds into a lot that was revealed with the Twitter files between public and

private partnerships. And I think that does raise a lot of concerns. with American voters. Gabe, I thank you for exposing this and all the work you guys do at the examiner. You're a really reputable site and you do a lot of great work. So thank you. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. You bet.

Bye-bye. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Now, I, I, look, I love grinding. and the football field full of humping as much as the next person, sure. But I was maybe just a little off put, just a little off put by the Beyonce. I don't know were they umpalumpas. I walk in and I thought, oh my gosh, there's been some.

sort of hazardous chemical spill in the stadium. And then I realized, no, because they wouldn't be showing their chest and their bellies. And I thought that was tasteful, hot, sure. When Beyonce grabbed her junk and then smelled her hand and then put her hand in the mouth, I thought, she is classy. or yeah, Rihanna, sorry, Beyonce, Rihanna, whatever, whatever. She's that super huge star that does that, oh, her super, super, super classics that she was doing last night. And I think, you know, I saw the picture of her, you know, and I thought, you know, that's, she should have combed her hair before, you know, when you get out of bed, your hair standing straight.

up like that and you shouldn't but you know hey to each his own i just thought it was classy and i want to thank no no no i'm gonna i'm gonna tell you the truth my children would like to thank the nfl for them seeing her grab her crotch and smell her fingers and lick it in front of her in front of their mom and dad they enjoyed that as much as we did as much as we did it's a great family event. And so thank you. Thank you so much for that. Now, let me go back to a couple of studies that I find very interesting. You know, I just gave you the two studies from the Washington Post that shows that liberals are more interested in the ends and they don't really care about the means where conservatives actually do care about freedom of speech and, you know, the

Constitution and Bill of Rights and stuff, which is weird. And it explains why liberals always say, they don't really care. No, we actually do. We actually do. We care about the process a great deal, even if it goes against us. We believe that's the American way. But very few liberals believe in that. And that's the difference.

those are the people you're seeing peel away now. You're seeing people peel away from the left that are actual classical liberals. They are people that believe in the Bill of Rights and believe in America. And the process matters. Those are the people who are coming over and they're not becoming conservatives. They're just recognizing, wow, I'm not progressive like that. I actually love my country and would like to have it get better in the way to get, you know, to be better is to, I don't know, live by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. All right.

So that was the first one. Now I've got another shocking, shocking report. Apparently, a new study from the Survey Center on American Life found that Republican men and women are significant. happier in their marriage than their Democratic counterparts. According to the survey, Republican men report being most satisfied in their relationships. And men, can I just say, of course, because we got the little woman in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. Am I right? No, actually not so much. Democratic women, you know, the ones that Democrats empower and are always trying to say, oh, you are the best. And I'm not going to call you a sweetheart.

You are the best. You go out there and you get a job. You go and do all that you can do, babe, because that's who you are. You're just like me. You want to have a thing in your pants. That's great with me too. There's no difference between the two of us. And that might explain the man you found in my bed last night. But I thought it was. you sweetheart. I did. So 48% of those surveyed Republican men, 48% stated they were completely satisfied in their marriage. 42% of Republican married women say they're completely satisfied. But see, these bless their heart. They're so cute. These are just those people that have been hypnotized by religion and politics that are just being abused. These women are in abusive relationships.

trust me, you ask any professor at any college. You ask anybody who studies women in women's studies, and they'll tell you that's the truth right there. Now, only 36% of Democrat married men, and 29% of Democrat married women say they're satisfied with their marriage. Huh. Republicans, and this is going to come as a shock to you, Republicans and Democrats view gender roles dramatically,

differently. Well, of course we do, because we understand there are only two genders. So it doesn't get all murky, you know. Once you start adding the magic fire-breathing unicorn, she people, and it just gets complex. Republicans tend to embrace traditional gender roles while Democrats tend to question them. Modern liberal Democrats, attribute gender roles to establish social norms, they deem to be oppressive. Right? Am I right? Like moms and dads should take care of their kids. You know, the government shouldn't be the ones making all the decisions. You know, each person has a responsibility. For instance, one brings the eggs, one brings the, and you put those two together and it's like you got chocolate and my peanut butter and it turns into a baby isn't that weird

anyway uh they said uh this leaks into the relationships for the democrats often causing uh some to purportedly flip traditional gender roles on their heads on tic talk videos titled life as a stay at home husband or life of a trophy husband are an entire genre now Wouldn't you love to be called a trophy husband or a trophy wife? I think, now, I hate to be consistent, you know, consistent. I hate to say something that could hurt my own side, but I think trophy wives are just as bad as trophy husbands. Um, masculinity in Democratic homes is more likely to be toxic and stay at home mom is code for slave.

I'm glad we know that now. I'm glad we know the dog whistles. That way we can point it out when a liberal says, stay at home mothers. We know now that they're really meaning slaves. Unfortunately for progressives, men and women's different. yet complementary skills and talents are not a construct but rooted in human biology. What? Human nature and biology?

Next thing you're going to tell me you know what a woman is. What? Yes, they say that's not a social construct but rooted in human biology and fighting human nature will never make one happen. Okay, so this is the problem with all the ideas that are coming from the left right now, based in Marxism. What does Marxism do? It fights nature. That's why they have to enforce it. That's why you have to, it only happens at the barrel of a gun. and when it's not a barrel of the gun, like it happened here in Texas in 1840, I think, 1850,

there was a big, here in Dallas, there was a big commune of people that came over, of course, from France, and they were like, we're going to try this Marxism thing. And they moved out in the middle of nowhere, and they started a socialist and honest to God socialist community. That's what the big ball, what is the thing? called the big ball here and yeah, reunion tower.

That tower reunion is named after the town that was built right underneath that tower. It was a huge socialist experiment. And it didn't work to say the least. Well, I mean, it did until they, instead of killing the old people and the sick people, they just expelled them because society couldn't pay for it. And then when people wouldn't work to pull their fair share, which was a lot, they expelled them too. That's what happens when it's a volunteer society.

It doesn't work. So what do you do? Well, you're not going to give up your power and say, oh, well, it didn't work. You're just going to have to liquidate those people. That's why it always goes wrong. Anyway, back to the study. conservatives comparatively greater happiness goes beyond marriage they say in a 22 American family survey they found that 37% of conservative men reported they're

completely satisfied with their life versus 21% of liberal men how can you I'm surprised that 37% only 37% that's the high number is happy with their life I mean, how would you answer that? And what would make you say that you're not happy with your life? Success, money? I mean, what, I mean, if you're happily married, I don't understand. I mean, maybe it's just me. But, you know, the one thing that Tanya and I have learned is, and we've known this for many, many years, the importance of our faith.

but our family has been under attack from, I believe, dark forces, you know, in the last year. And it has been, I mean, we have had everything thrown at us. And Tanya and I have gotten to a place to where, especially with the kids, it's kind of like, oh, well, that's going to leave a mark. But, hey, it's their mark to be left. And, you know, we find ourselves, you know, we find ourselves, you know, know, kind of with the kids in slow motion. And first we're like, don't do that.

Don't, you don't want to do it. Don't stop. Don't. You really don't. And then they just kind of go into slow motion. And then we look at each other and go, wow. Wow, that's going to take a lot of therapy. But the good news is they'll be paying for it.

So we've kind of come to this place to where we're fine. And we know that in the end, the family will be fine. if we all just try to do the right thing. And if they don't do the right thing, well, they're going to learn one way or another. And we can't control everybody. They're adults. You've got to make your own decisions.

And it leads to such happiness. I mean, Tanya and I, in our darkest times, have been able to laugh. I don't think that's ever happened before because we never had times this dark. But she hasn't found me funny since about two weeks after we've got. got married. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Carol Roth is with us, and Carol Roth is, she's my favorite advisor on anything, the economy, because she's a former investment banker, so she understands it at the highest level.

And then she realized, wow, I think all of these people might be in league with Satan. My words, not hers. but she got out of that and now she's trying to help the average person. She wrote the war on small business and she has a new book coming out. We'll talk about it here in a second. All right, Carol, you're back? I am back. I think it was the Chinese spy balloon.

I think it was. It's got my connection. We're talking about China buying gold and they obviously didn't want you to have this information. Well, now we're safe. We're on a landline. So we have some of those old-timey things here. So, Carol, tell me what's happening with China buying up the gold. Yeah, so central banks around the world, record year last year, 2012, 1136 tons of gold.

The interesting data point was China, for the first time since 2019, they announced that they had increased their purchases, their net holdings of gold in November. And now there has been three consecutive months of them buying gold. I really believe that this is meant as a signal that could be one of a couple of signals, but they all boil down to signals that relate to a new financial world order. Would you do me a favor? Yes. I don't mean to put you on a spot, but could you explain how this is so out of your

wheelhouse and it's going to come out of left field? Can you explain how electricity is made? I'm the daughter of an electrician and you're going to put me on the spot in terms of how electricity is made. But obviously we do know that it's powered by all different sorts of, you know, different sorts of fuels, including it particularly in the United States and other places around the world fossil fuels. But what do the fossil, you burn the fossil fuels to move a turbine, right? And the turbine is moving and it's moving, you know, around copper, wires and the copper wires that is actually inside a magnet so without magnets you cannot make electricity right correct all right would you do me a favor yes i believe there's two there's

two um particles or whatever of minerals or whatever that make magnets there's two magnets there's two different materials that make a magnet. I believe that like 100% of one of those comes from Russia and 100% of the other one comes from China. And I have read, but I want you to look into this. I just read this weekend that both of those countries just signed an agreement that they are working together now on the magnets and that this is going to be another source of like gold for them that they will trade based on on those materials as well.

I don't I don't know about magnets as a hard asset yet. No, no, no, I know. But the only reason why I would bring this up is because when you look at what was being done to our electricity all over. And you look how we are just, we're being torched all over the country and all over the world. Things to make electricity are going to become much more valuable. And I don't even care if it's backing up their money.

I want to know if it's true that they are the main source for all magnets. And if they just did an agreement between each other, that they're working together on magnets. What I can tell you is that there are a whole flu of commodities, you know, that need to be dug up from the earth, that, you know, these green energy folks are relying on for electricity and, you know, for these other components that they have, that, you know, not only, you know, heavily available in China and Russia,

but also all of the countries where China has been investing through its belt and road initiatives. So it would not be surprising that this would be one of many of them. But do we want to go back to the gold piece? Yes, yes. Sorry, sorry, sorry. No, this is important stuff, and I think that it's all related. Basically, we really have to blame the government and the Federal Reserve.

We have had the privilege of King Dollar being the World Reserve currency, and, you know, not to say that it doesn't have downsides. One of the downsides is that you have to manage the dollar for competing interests, the benefit of the people in the U.S., as well as global stability. Our Fed and government have managed to do neither. We have eroded purchasing power here in the U.S., and we have not had global stability. So looking at China announcing, okay, we're signaling that we are increasing our reserves

could very well be a signal to say we're trying to enhance the death, the natural death of King Dollar that the U.S. is putting forth. And they have been talking to all different kinds of countries about settling in their currency, the yuan, which, given the fact that they're a communist country, people aren't really excited about. But if they can then say, well, we can swap that for gold, we're increasing our gold, that might give more, stability to their currency. On the other hand, it could be a signal saying, we're getting ready

to invade Taiwan, because if you look at what happened with Russia before they invaded Ukraine, they were shedding U.S. Treasury securities, and they were stocking up on gold, which is exactly what China is doing right now. And, you know, so that could be a signal, but that relates back to a new world order as well from a financial standpoint, because we have never had. had a changing of a financial guard without a war preceding it. So, you know, those two things are somewhat interconnected with, you know, the dollar and, you know, kind of the U.S. is global financial standing right in the middle of it. Do you, are you following this balloon nonsense at all?

I mean, I love balloons, so of course I'm following the balloon nonsense. So are you in Chicago now? So I'm actually not. Okay. An undisclosed location where the spy balloon got to get to. Right, I understand that. So they shot one over the Great Lakes. They brought down three of these things. And, you know, the Pentagon is like, well, we're not ruling out that that might be an alien ship from outer space.

And you're like, what? I mean, this is so ridiculous. What? And I'm just trying to think, what would the advantage be? for china if it indeed was a chinese balloon to keep sending these things that wouldn't make sense would it to you i mean i let's that i i'm a financial person i'm not a foreign policy person so you know my my real nation of this may may make no sense but it does seem

you know a test you know how strong is the u.s going to react when we push them when we look at this administration you know how far can we push the envelope without them pushing back. So that is the, that is the, the idea and I, I mean, all of a sudden,

we're tough guys on balloons. I mean, don't blow one up for your kid's birthday party, because it might come under attack. But the, you know, every, and they're made in China,

and so they might not be great. Right. And, you know, everything that is being done now is to fight, uh, a war, at least a financial war.

And I just, uh, I don't see this. going, you know, we had not great relationships with China under Donald Trump, but they were better than this. And this is just not going well. And I'd rather not be on the receiving end of balloons for my party from Russia and China at the same time. Yeah, no, it's not a good scenario and whether that war plays out, you know, purely on a financial basis. where you get these different blocks that decide to do trade in a different way.

You know, Saudi Arabia started signaling that they are open to settling oil in currencies. Other than the dollar, we weaponize the dollar, obviously, against Russia during the Ukraine. So, you know, it could be financial. You know, God forbid, it could end up having some more, you know, physical, actual war components. But all of these things, you know, speak to, the deteriorating strength of the U.S., you know, in general and as a financial powerhouse. And I think that's the concern for your listeners in terms of protecting their assets because, you know, the U.S. dollar is not what it used to be.

Carol Roth, she is the author of a brand new book called You Will Own Nothing. We're showing the cover of it. When does it come out, Carol? Oh, you're really, so this is the first time the cover has ever been seen. So a little sneak peek for the Glenn back folks. It comes out May 9th. If you go to Carol Roth.com slash Glenn, you can leave your email and I'll send you more information as that becomes available.

But we're talking about all these new financial world order things and how you can fight back. That is the crux of the book. That's fantastic. Thank you so much, Carol. Appreciate it. You will owe nothing. Make sure you grab your copy and pre-order now because I have a feeling it's going to be big.

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