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Episode Date: October 26, 2020Glenn and the guys talk the latest election polls and whether Texas will actually turn blue. Each side says the other will steal the election. Justin Haskins, co-author of Glenn’s upcoming book on t...he Great Reset, joins to discuss how Time magazine’s newest edition proves the Left’s excitement for ending capitalism. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy addresses how reliable the Hunter Biden emails are as even Joe Biden now claims they’re Russian disinformation. Is the media living in a one-party system? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey, Steele, we're eight days away.
From what?
Either a celebration or suicide.
I'm not sure.
A gloat fest or pity party?
Yeah, it really is.
It really is.
We're eight days away from the election.
We want to go over some of the polls today.
See what's happening.
They seem to be tightening a bit.
Yeah, there's some evidence that.
I kind of expect that to happen, but we'll see how it goes.
It's too close to call in most states.
Yeah, amazing. It's an amazing thing to watch. I'm ready for it to be over, though.
Including Texas. We'll get into all of that here in just a second. Also, the Great Reset and what it means if Joe Biden is elected next week, what will America go through?
We're doing a special on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern time about what does the first 100 days of Joe Biden,
look like if he would win. It's more terrifying because we're using their own words and their
plans. It's more terrifying than even what we lay out today. And what we lay out on today's
podcast is pretty bad. That and also the Hunter Biden scandal. What's new is the press
still not saying anything about it? And what is the cure for the Facebook, Twitter, banishing
of the First Amendment? All that and more on today.
podcast.
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Matt Gray joins us
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Welcome.
Thank you.
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You can hear him on Blaze Radio.
He records it every morning
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A lot of hardware stores carry the podcast.
the podcast. Welcome to, welcome to the program, Pat. Thank you. We're just talking about the polls and
and and if they're if they're accurate or not. And you know, I hope that everybody is a little freaked
out. I hope that Trump supporters are freaked out because you should be. You know, the Biden people,
the polls are showing, the polls are showing Biden, you know, ahead by 47 points. And Biden people are
freaking out. Now, part of that is
PSD from last time.
Yes, I think that's a big part of it. Right.
But they are, but they are freaking out,
which means they're really motivated to go to the polls.
I think Trump supporters
are very motivated, but
we are also a little
I think, I think Texas could
be very surprised.
I just saw Paul where he's down by three
in Texas, which I don't believe.
But I also
saw where, okay, 60 million people have voted
already. They keep saying,
60 million people have already voted.
And they claim that it's a 5126 Democrat to Republican split on that.
5126 was 60 million people?
But that's what they've been telling people to do.
What?
Go out and vote early.
Everybody else has been like, I'm not voting early.
I don't think my vote's going to count.
But I think I would not be stunned that after this election,
we realized that was the single,
biggest
life.
Strategic mistake
of the
Trump campaign.
Yeah, I kind of feel that way.
They encourage people
to say,
no, like,
the mail voting thing is a fraud.
Don't do that.
Go on election day.
And they did it for weeks and
weeks and weeks and weeks.
And, you know,
look,
Democrats are always a little bit
more likely to do early voting,
but not like this.
People are like,
okay, I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to go to the polls.
And you should.
Go to the polls today.
If you have early
early vote.
I'm going today.
We're saying go vote
early, just vote
with the regular way.
Don't do a paper ballot.
That's what the message has been.
But go vote early.
Go vote early.
As you point out, Pat, I'm going to go today,
hopefully. Me too. As we point out, Pat,
there is this, if you have 60 million
votes, and it's basically two to one,
you're talking about. So right now,
banked votes, and we don't know exactly
because we're only talking about party
registration. But at this point,
it's basically a, that would give you a
20 million vote lead for Joe Biden going in if you kind of summarize this, right?
Now, look, I don't know for sure if that's real.
But the point is, you expect the Election Day vote to go heavily in favor of Trump.
The bigger this gets, though.
Yeah, the worst.
The worst it is.
And God forbid, there's a terrible snowstorm on, you know, on election day.
Which could happen.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Or a hurricane.
Storm, super storm Sandy.
Right.
I mean like,
Shut up, shut up, shut up.
And this is, the reason why people like the early voting thing when you're a candidate, right?
Is because you get to lock these people in, right?
They've already voted.
And then you not only do you have the vote for sure.
So the person doesn't, can't come up with an excuse on election day.
You know, because what if there's a COVID flare up or so, you know, there's a lot of reasons you can't get to the polls.
The other thing they like about it, though, is they don't, they no longer have to spend resources to make sure that person goes to vote.
So this entire.
time for Republicans, they need to come back and harass these voters over and over again to go to
the polls. Once these people vote on the Democratic side, they're like, okay, zero dollars get to go
towards that person. And I know it's not exactly said like that, but they can take large swaths
of their expected electorate and stop spending resources on them. So it's a money thing too. It's a money.
It's a resource thing. It's why they like the early vote so much, right? And it is, I think,
a legitimate point that Republicans have made during this process.
to say, hey, is it sensible for people to be voting four weeks before a debate?
Like, that's not a good idea.
It's not at all a good idea.
There's too much to learn.
No.
And there's too much that happens between late September and November 3rd when you're
supposed to vote.
Yeah, it's way too long.
I think, you know, if you want to vote early, isn't the two-week time period?
It seems sensible.
It seems sensible.
But look, I mean, even within that two-week time,
time period, look at what we have seen now happen with Joe Biden.
Right.
I mean, look at that information.
Is there anyone that regrets it or will regret it by the time the election comes?
Is there anybody that voted for Joe Biden?
I doubt it.
I don't think they can.
I don't know, man.
This is really bad.
This is really, really bad.
They don't believe it.
They don't believe it.
He's just passing it off as Russian disinformation.
You know, well, then explain why the New York Times in 2018 did a story on the very
very thing that we now have proof of.
The New York Times said
it looks like, and if this
is true, it's really bad.
And now we have the evidence of it.
I mean, it's crazy.
It's just...
I know, but they let him off the hook.
Savannah Guthrie last night on 60 minutes.
Just let him say it without
challenging it at all.
She doesn't say, no, Joe.
The computer's
been verified as his.
and so have the emails.
So don't tell me this came from a Russian.
Here she is. Here she is last time.
Do you believe the recent leak of material allegedly from Hunter's computer is part of a Russian disinformation campaign?
From what I've read and know, the intelligence community warned the president that Giuliani was being fed disinformation from the Russians.
Not necessarily about this.
That Putin is trying very hard to spread disinformation about Joe Biden.
We know that.
And so when you put the combination of Russia, Giuliani, the president together,
sure.
It's just what it is.
It's a smear campaign because he has nothing he wants to talk about.
What is he running on?
What?
It's incredible.
Did you notice the way he put it, though?
It had nothing to do with her question.
Nothing to do with her question.
Yeah, good thing she asked to follow.
Oh, no.
No, she didn't.
Yeah.
But let me ask you this.
the does does it matter that the excitement level is so different the excitement level for
instance on saturday a hundred and thirty cars pulled up to a Biden drive-in rally okay
that wasn't that wasn't as bad as the Barack Obama rally where 400 people total
showed up for Barack Obama for Barack Obama and a savior the same Democrat
there's like there's nobody showing up to these things I was at a I was at a
Trump rally you know the Trump train my wife is like she is the conductor of the
Trump train oh my gosh yeah she is just like she said to me I think Friday night
tomorrow more tomorrow morning we're going to the Trump store and I'm like
Trump store what is the Trump store and she's like there's a Trump store you don't
know there's a Trump store, there's a Trump store and there's blah, blah, blah. And I'm like,
okay, why are we going to the Trump store? Because we're going to the Trump train on Sunday.
We're going, what, when, what are we doing? Sunday afternoon, there's a big Trump rally. We're going
to the rally. And I'm like, oh, okay, dear. I mean, it's, but it was, it was amazing to see
because it was peaceful. It was really upbeat. It was packed. And people said, when I started talking to
people. The one thing I heard that I thought, this is who the Trump people are. They said,
I have no problem. If Trump loses and it's real, I have no problem with that. But I am so terrified.
Yeah, they have problems with it. Yeah, you're not going to go to the streets and say it was a fake election.
Yeah. And they said if he would just, if it was fair,
and that's what the American people said.
You accept it.
They said, we would accept it.
And they said, and I asked.
So if that happened and you thought it was fair, would you tell Donald Trump to leave if some reason?
And they all laughed and they're like, of course he would leave.
Yeah.
And I said, right.
But if he didn't, if they were right and he didn't, would you be on the, and they said, of course we would.
We want the American system and we want it to be.
fair. But all of them thought that there's no way it was going to be fair. And that's, and that
if I get up this morning, I'm listening, I don't know, NPR or something. And there, there are these
people on who are, you know, working to secure the ballots and we're fighting in court to make sure
that we can count them nine days later. And they said, you know, the problem is, is that Donald
Trump is going to steal this election. So both sides are thinking that it's going to be a stolen election.
So dangerous. So dangerous. Because that's the one thing.
that would cause us to be at each other's throats.
Did you see Biden bragging about the largest fraudulent voter organization he's ever put together?
Yes, it is.
No, it's not. Play it.
It's not.
Yes, it is.
And you guys did it for our administration, the president of Obama's administration before this.
We have put together, I think the most extensive and inclusive
voter fraud
organization
in the history of
American politics.
That's his own words.
It's his own words.
To be clear,
he looked like he looked down and read that.
So he met him.
He meant?
Yeah, that was...
Yeah, he's put together
largest voter fraud organization
in American history.
There's so many people.
Right.
There's so many people
that are retweeting this with that point of view
and they're like, look, he's admit it.
No, that's not what he would.
That's not what he's saying, but it'd be fun.
He also this weekend thought he was running against George W. Bush, so you can't really trust that he is, he knows what he's talking about.
I'm just saying.
The best of the Glenn Beck program.
Justin Haskins, he's the editorial director for the Heartland Institute.
He's also the co-author of a of a new book we're working on right now called The Great Reset.
He's editor-in-chief of stopping socialism.com.
I've been a fan of the program for a long time, and I've been a fan of his for a long time.
It's funny because, Justin, you called me, what was it, two months ago, and said,
we've got to do a book on The Great Reset.
And then I was just about to call you and say, we've got to do a book on the Great Reset.
Because it is terrifying.
It's out in the open, shockingly going to be the full issue of Time Magazine.
they don't seem to be afraid of it and it is barreling towards us.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And just think about how astounding it is that Time Magazine,
just less than two weeks before the election,
would devote an entire issue to this one topic.
That shows you just how important it is to people on the left
and just how powerful this movement is going to be if Joe Biden win.
Okay, so here's the thing I want you to know.
If you go to the blaze.com or you go,
go to glenbeck.com we have an article on it right now that you can spread with your friends
so remember listen to the next few minutes and when you want to share with your friends what's
going on uh make sure you grab the article at glenbeck.com or the blaze dot com on the great reset
so where do we begin i mean i feel like we should start with this is not a conspiracy theory
this is the world leaders are all involved in this
Yes, that's right. I mean, the Great Reset is an extremely well-documented idea. The Great Reset isn't something that
you or I came up with. This is the language that they've used. They've branded it as part of a
marketing campaign calling the Great Reset. And the whole concept of the Great Reset is they're going
to push the reset button on the global economy. That's what they want to do. And so I don't think,
I think it is important for people to understand that this isn't some right-wing conspiracy. This
is what they want. The head of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, the biggest advocate of the
Great Reset, I know, in the world, says that every country from the United States to China must
participate in this great reset, and every industry from oil and gas to tech must be transformed.
In short, we need a great reset of capitalism. And he talks about revamping all aspects of our
societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working.
conditions. This is coming straight from his mouth. This is an incredibly radical and dangerous idea.
And corporations from all over the world, the international monetary fund, the United Nations,
Prince Charles, all sorts of Americans are all lining up behind it. And this is, this is not, again,
this is straight from their mouths. This is what they want. They want to blow up the world economy
and start all over again. And that's what the Great Reset's all about. The crazy thing is, is that we have
blown up the economy. And, you know, I'm not saying that, I'm saying that Corona was a very
useful emergency. But it is why everything is being shut down. It is why everyone keep saying,
keep the economy closed. We can't go to school. They need the economy of the West to collapse
to be able to do this. It will only be in a collapse that a full,
collapse that they will be able to convince the American people to go along with this.
And it's a new sort of capitalism.
And you'll read about this in Time magazine.
A new sort of capitalism that is, wow, strangely sounds like Chinese communism.
It is a capitalism where, sure, you're allowed to own your own business, but you have to
change the way you look at things.
The government, you'll be partners with the government.
and the government will tell you what is really needed,
and they'll tell you exactly how to run everything,
and you're going to pay a lot more in taxes,
but that's because we're more community-minded.
It's terrifying.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
It's the state managing private property ownership,
but really, is it private property ownership
if the state is the one forcing you to behave in certain ways,
telling you who you have to have on your board of directors,
heavily incentivizing people with gigantic infusions of government printed cash or in punishing people with taxes,
businesses that they don't like. I mean, it's the state managing the economy under the guise of private property ownership and, you know,
let's just do what's in the best interest of the collective. And they call it stakeholder capitalism.
Stakeholders is just another way of saying the collective. It's collectivist capitalism, essentially,
which I think is an oxymoron.
It is.
And really, it's not capitalism at all.
What it is is it's a form of socialism or some kind of fascism or we've seen this.
Well, look, let's call it what it is.
Wait, wait, wait.
Let's call it what it is.
It has been practiced before.
It is currently being practiced in China.
And it was practiced the last time in Nazi Germany.
You were allowed to own your own properties.
But the state told you exactly what you.
you had to do with it, and they would, they had the power to take away or to punish anyone
who didn't fall in line with what the state said was best for the collective. Period. That's what
it is. It is communism in China today, where they call it this quasi-capitalism, or it's the
fascism of the Nazis. That's what it is, period. Yep, that's right. And just going back to what I
said before when I was quoting Klaus Schwab, but he says every country must participate.
must participate and every industry must be transformed.
I mean, it doesn't get any clearer than that.
What they're after is putting the elites in, not just in America, but all over the world,
completely transforming society so that elites are controlling the entire economy because, you know,
we're a bunch of stupid sheep and they're much smarter than we are.
That's how they look at the world.
And now they're seeing COVID-19 as a convenient, justifications.
for starting this process, and they use climate change as the long-term justification for keeping
it going when the pandemic eventually ends. And again, this is enough theory. This is them talking about
these things. They're the ones calling this a justification. Prince Charles called COVID-19 a golden
opportunity to enact this great reset. So to all of the people involved. Listen to this quote. This is
from Time magazine. In September, my belief was a more version of,
capitalist system is possible and it was reaffirmed by an initiative of the forum's
international business council led by Brian Monaghan of the Bank of America.
They release the stakeholder capitalism metrics.
So the metrics are what is the gender pay gap in company X?
How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted?
What progress has the company made towards reducing its greenhouse gas emissions?
How much should the company pay in taxes globally?
jurisdiction. And what did the company do to hire and train new employees? They will have a federal
office, I'm sorry, a global office if they get their way, that will go and look at all of these
metrics for every single business in the world. I don't know about you, but it doesn't sound fun.
No, that's exactly right. And a lot of this stuff was spelled out, the principles were spelled out,
in Agenda 21, the United Nations Agenda 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals and all of these things.
What this is is it's an attempt to take those sustainable development goals that came from Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 and impose those on corporations and businesses and how they behave so that it's not just what government is doing in government programs.
It's how government can force businesses and corporations to do those same things, to enact those sustainable development goals.
So it's forcing businesses to become lessest institutions, engage in social justice causes, and you're going to use the power of the government through regulations, through taxes, through incentives, and all these other things to force these companies to engage in this behavior.
That's the plan, and it's incredibly well documented.
And it is being sold now by Time Magazine, the entire edition of Time Magazine.
Is it this week or next week?
It already came out.
It already came out.
So it is out now.
And I suggest that you get it and read it.
It is the Great Reset calls for the introduction of far left progressive and socialist policies such as government-run health care.
Imagine that.
basic income and the Green New Deal.
If adopted, the Great Reset won't be subtle.
A radical and dramatic departure from the existing capitalist system
and one that would demand changes to America and the world's social contract.
In an article published on the World Economic Forum's website, Schwab said,
quote,
The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our
societies and economies from education to social contract to working conditions every country
from the United States to China must participate and every industry from oil and gas to tech
must be transformed in short we need a great reset of capitalism end quote
this is something you must understand before election
Day. If the Democrats get in, the Great Reset will be part of the American society. It will become what we are.
A stakeholder capitalist society, that's how they're selling either fascism, just exactly the way the
Nazis at it or Chinese communism.
If you believe that that is the way America should go, then you should vote for the Democrats.
If you believe it shouldn't, you might understand why they're fighting so hard to make sure
that Donald Trump is destroyed.
This is something that you must understand and the article is available now at glenbeck.com,
also the blaze.com. Don't miss it. It is. It's the full edition of this week's Time magazine.
This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
It's a contributing editor at the National Review, senior fellow at the National Review Institute,
and former Chief Assistant U.S. attorney. He has written an article that I think is worth your time,
how to put a stop to Twitter's game playing on censorship with the Hunter Biden emails.
Welcome to the program, Andy.
Glenn, great to be with you.
So it is really hard to keep all of these leaks straight.
I mean, they seem to be coming from everywhere, the laptop, the emails from Swizer,
the Bevan Cooney emails, and now text messages from Tony Babelinski.
Any reason to believe that these things are illegitimate?
I don't think so, Glenn.
I thought that even before we got the later two strands of information,
so when the story was just the post story before we got the latest stuff from Schweitzer
and the Bob Bolinsky stuff, I thought if you looked at the computer,
the evidence, and the first thing a prosecutor or any investigator looks at
when they're trying to decide an authenticity question,
is the stuff itself, because if it looks fraudulent or if it doesn't look like it is what
it's represented to be, then you don't have to go to all the other questions about its
providence. And contextually, the emails fit with a lot of stuff that Peter Schweitzer had already
done a lot of investigative scut work on. So contextually it fit, and there's thousands of these
photographs. So the idea of the photographs and videos, the idea of the photographs and videos, the idea,
that they had been phonyed up seemed highly unlikely. And of course, the most important thing was
they wouldn't come out and say it was fake. Payne had, when they were asked about whether
Vice President Biden had met with this Burisma official, was to check the official calendar.
You know, if they thought the stuff was fraudulent, you would figure their first impulse would be,
why should we check the calendar? It's all fake, phony. I thought that was pretty strong. And now
we have these two other entirely separate streams of the same information, which are both
corroborative and very informative in their own right.
So the notion that this is not authentic to me is just, it's frivolous at this point.
Okay, so I just want to ask you as a, you know, U.S. attorney, you were a U.S. attorney
at the Southern District of New York as a prosecutor.
Some of the messages revealed by the Daily Caller have been criticized because
they came apparently from a phone that appeared to be connected to a Russian cell service.
A, what do you make about that?
I haven't seen anybody say that they were falsified.
Is it fair?
I mean, I feel uncomfortable with things coming from Russia.
Should these outlets be more clear where they came from?
And just because it's connected to a Russian cell phone, does that make a difference to you as a prosecutor?
It would put my antenna up, but at the same time, you know, I think you have to bear a few things
in mind since we've become so irrational about Russia in the last four years.
One of them is that the fact that something comes from Russia doesn't mean it's false.
You know, a lot of times the Russians dump information on us that is embarrassing and difficult
to deal with because it's true.
And, you know, for example, the Democratic, the DNC emails in 2016, the reason the hacking and the publication of them was an embarrassment for Democrats was because they were authentic.
So, you know, the fact that Russia rears its head in something is a red flag for an investigator, meaning you always have to be on guard that you're getting something that could be misinformation or could be phoned up.
but it's at least equally likely that there's true information that is embarrassing and difficult
for us to deal with.
So you do what you would do in any instance.
I mean, I learned when I was a prosecutor that, you know, we took information from terrorists,
we took information from hitmen, we took information from the most awful people on the planet.
You do your homework.
You know, they give it to you and you take it because they may be the only sources of that
kind of information that you get.
You know, we don't get upstanding members of the community to give us information about criminal activity.
But then you do your homework on it and try to corroborate it.
So the laptop itself was given to the FBI, I believe last December,
Rudy Giuliani didn't get a copy of it until a week ago.
I think it was a week ago last weekend.
And he then pushed it out.
Why wouldn't the FBI release this information?
Why is it taken so long?
Some of it may have been that they were slow to act on it.
I understand that the first FBI office that got offered the information didn't accept it.
Why?
And we still haven't got, I don't know the answer to that.
We haven't gotten good answers from the FBI about the way this has been handled.
And that's the kind of thing Congress really has to bring Ray in and ask them some,
questions about what they did here. But to give them the benefit and the doubt, I think it looks
like there is a serious ongoing investigation about this that is centered in the Baltimore
field office. I think, Glenn, the story I heard was that the fellow who had the computer
first tried to give it to the FBI in Albuquerque, and then ultimately it was taken
by the FBI in Baltimore by virtue of a subpoena, a grand jury subpoena that was issued by the U.S.
attorney in Delaware.
And there's no reason to think that they're not doing a serious investigation on it.
But, you know, if you're investigating, evidently they're looking at money laundering.
That's according to the coding that we have from some reporting about how they open the investigation.
and, you know, we know from the Manafort investigation that Mueller did,
when you're dealing with funding streams from outside the country or a lot of the information,
a lot of the records, a lot of the witnesses are outside the country.
That stuff is not easy to run down.
With the questioning by the Senate of Tony Bobolinsky,
do you think we'll see any criminal charges for Biden without direct evidence that he was,
personally receiving some of the money.
I mean, is it enough to go on the email that says,
hey, 10 needs to be held for my dad,
or I'm sorry, for the big guy,
when you have Bobbolinsky saying, you know,
he was the big guy.
That's Joe Biden.
To me, that's not enough evidence to bring a charge,
but it's enough evidence to build a case on.
And I think what you would want is to see,
is this a one-off,
might make it very tough to prosecute, or is it a pattern of behavior that you can prove?
And the other thing to bear in mind about this is that the Supreme Court has made these corruption
cases very difficult to prosecute since the McDonald decision about three or four years back
involving the governor of Virginia.
You almost have to have strong bribery type evidence of a clear quid pro quo,
And part of the reason this is all going to be difficult is for a lot of the stuff, I think that that sort of smoking gun text message or email that we're talking about.
My recollection is that Biden wasn't in office at the time. I think that was, I think that was 2017.
Obviously, it stinks to high heaven. And it's obvious corruption in a common sense kind of way.
but in terms of, is this a crime that you could prove in court where you can prove a quid pro quo
beyond a reasonable doubt under circumstances where you're dealing with all these different
entities and people will come in and say, well, you know, Hunter Biden was a really bright guy.
That was why we wanted him on our board.
You have to make sure you have evidence to overcome all that.
I wanted to get you on to talk to you about the whole smell of the,
this Hunter Biden thing.
And there's another stench that is coming up, and that is the fact that this is really
kind of becoming dangerous to talk about.
Twitter and Facebook shut down the New York Post, social media, making it hard for anyone
else.
And not only on this story, but anything they deem damaging to their chosen candidate,
what are your thoughts on this?
Well, I'm as astonished as you are, Glenn, by how blatant it is.
Right.
It's been obvious for a long time.
To conservatives.
Yeah, but I just think that it's a broad shot at conservatives and the sort of camouflage of it is Trump.
So, you know, for a long time they've taken the position that Trump is such an unusual president.
And he was elected under such unusual circumstances, you know, losing the popular vote by as much as he did yet eking out of victory in the
electoral college, that the story is that he's illegitimate. And they have used that as a,
basically a rationale to treat him differently than any president has ever been treated. And now it's
kind of bled over, I think, to treating people in his camp or perceived to be in his camp.
and in particular any stories that might help him get elected are looked at with the same taint of illegitimacy that they have basically tried to bake for four years.
And now that we're down to the short strokes, it's really become embarrassingly blatant that they are politically in the tank for this guy.
This is not like a media thing.
This is an adjunct to a partisan political effort.
It's quite amazing because we fight the censors all the time.
They have suppressed us recently.
I did a story on the ancestors of Hunter Biden.
I'm sorry, of Joe Biden owning slaves.
We had one of the best researchers and researcher firm of genealogy in the country
do the report.
They gave it to us.
And it was all clear, all buttoned up.
But it still took us days and days.
while they were suppressing us.
By the way, we just got a letter last night saying,
oh, Joe, I guess you're right.
But they suppressed us and suppressed that story.
Yeah, I think it's even, it's more insidious than that one.
I've had the experience now three times in the last several days where I sat down and went
through Twitter and tried to retweet a couple of things, something that we had,
an editorial we had put out at National Review about the Hunter Biden stuff,
a report by a terrific reporter named Jerry Dunleithy at the Washington Examiner
on some of the same information.
And one other story, I can't remember what it was off the top of my head.
But as soon as you try to retweet it, they put a little sign up that says,
wouldn't you like to read this first?
Like, you know, I mean, they have no way of knowing whether you have or you haven't,
but I bet you they don't do that for, I know they don't.
do it. Yeah, no. I'm going to guarantee it.
Yeah, so
I just think
it's creepy how
this is
how this has happened.
Not just their tactics, but the fact
that Harris in any way
if I'm on the scale for one partisan
side. So what do you see, Andy, happening
if Joe Biden wins
and the Democrats win? I mean,
you know, I think even the
Republicans have lost
their nerve, some of them, not all of
but some of them lost their nerve going up against these guys.
And they will, you know, only a few Republicans are actually threatening to do something.
The Republicans that did threaten to do something say, we're a subpoena,
we're bringing a subpoena against these guys.
You come to Congress now.
The other Republicans wussed out and said, well, we'll wait until after the election.
Yeah, I'm worried, Glenn, that they will join with, that you'll get elements on the right
an element of the left that'll come together and do something that'll be bad for the country.
I mean, we have a situation here that obviously needs to be addressed, but I think it can be
addressed by amending the provision that controls all this who are supposed to, Section 230, in a way
that takes ambiguity out and makes it clear that if you're going to engage in content editorializing,
you know, any way that you're going to shape content,
if you're going to let stuff go from one side but not the other side,
then you should be treated like a publisher.
And that doesn't mean that you're doing anything that's illegal.
You're allowed to be a left-wing website if that's what you want to be,
but that's what you are.
And if you want to have the status of an internet handed weight
just transmits information so that you can get immunity from by content.
And it seems to me that would be the easiest way to do it.
The best line in one of your write-ups was immunity is a benefit.
Lack of immunity is not a punishment.
Yeah, right.
I think we need to see it that way.
What I'm afraid of is that these guys are going to get together and have a government board oversee how these outfits operate.
And that's a disaster for everyone.
Yeah, that is, well, let me ask you, why is that a disaster?
Well, because we have the, that's exactly what we have a First Amendment.
not to allow, which is the government to shape content and to shape our political discussions
and to decide what is and isn't appropriate political discussion.
It's terrifying what we're facing.
We'll find out which direction the country chooses in eight days from now.
Andy, thank you so much.
We'll check in again with you, my friend.
