The Glenn Beck Program - 'Equally Destroying Equal Justice'? - 7/13/18

Episode Date: July 13, 2018

Hour 1 The lost book of 'Merit'?...George Washington and the history of the 'Purple Heart'? ...Peter Strzok gets taken to the woodshed...Gowdy growls...Gohmert rages? ...Steven Crowder joins to discuss how he confronted a hostile transgender who threatened to slash his tires during a recent trip to Austin...spreading public awareness of 'the left's' hatred for the good of all mankind...LouderWithCrowder.com   Hour 2  Open conversations with 'Democratic Socialist'?... Bill O'Reilly Friday...Peter 'The Weasel' Strzok?...The American people are tuning out the 'deceitful media' like 'Racial' Maddow?...Trump Bashing 24/7...President Trump's 'Presidential moment' in Germany?...Upcoming Trump vs. Putin meeting?   Hour 3 President Trump is 'perfectly' playing to his base?  ...Amazon shipping shake up has UPS an Fed Ex in a panic?...Amazon Pharmacy? ...One store away from extinction? ...Who's really destroying equal justice?...the media's 'Control, Power and Money' rules the day?...stop fighting and start listening? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Glenn Beck. All right, the Purple Heart was originally the badge of merit. That is the origins of the Purple Heart. It came from George Washington. It was the first time that anybody who was an enlisted man, not an officer, could get some sort of a medal or award.

And it lasted during George Washington's period. he would write your book in his book of merit. And the book of merit has been lost. There are three badges that we know of that remain. We didn't even know any of this in history until, I think, about the 1920s. But the badge of merit or the Purple Heart was originally for doing something that God would see and say, good job. because we knew we would never win a war against the biggest army and navy in the world unless, you know, we had some sort of divine providence and protection.

So he wanted his men to be men of merit. If you were seen doing something of merit, you would get a badge and you would sew it on to your uniform. Now, it was, it was prostitial. a little bit by FDR, who saw that tradition, and instead decided to give it as a medal for getting wounded, which is something that you should get a medal for. However, it isn't the original Purple Heart, if you will. Well, I think we've finally destroyed the Purple Heart in all of its meaning. It is reserved for those wounded or killed during battle awarded by the President, You know, men and women who have faced death and still persevered have they Purple Heart.

Soldiers who fought in battle and it cost them their limbs, you know, real heroes. You know, John F. Kennedy earned a Purple Heart for his heroism as a gunboat pilot in 1944. A riveting story. John McCain received one for his horrific story. Colin Powell, roughly one million Purple Heart medals have been awarded to veterans, all of whom were determined to have fought valiantly with courage and heart. So it was a bit of a head scratcher to hear comments from Democratic Representative Steve Cohen from Tennessee and self-appointed leader in the effort to hashtag impeach Trump. During the House Oversight Committee, hearing the questioning of Peter Struck yesterday,

Cohen said that he believes that Strzac deserves a purple heart. You know, because he's injured. I don't know where to start. If I could give you a purple heart, I would. You deserve one. This has been an attack on you in a way to attack Mr. Mueller and the investigation that is to get at Russia collusion involved in our election, which is what this committee should be looking at,

a direct strike at democracy and what this country is about and free and fair elections, keeping us independent of who is our foe, not our competitor, our foe. I just returned from the OSCE in Berlin. And there is little question among our allies and people and diplomats throughout Europe that Russia is an antagonistic country that is trying to wreak havoc in the Baltics, in the Balkans as well. They tried to use assassination, to try to influence the elections in Montenegro, what they've done in Ukraine, with Crimea and the Donbos, what they've done at Georgia, what they've done in Moldova. They are the bad guy.

Okay, I can't take it. Does anybody remember when Mitt Romney said the number one geopolitical enemy was Russia, and they said the 80s called to get their foreign policy back? Does anybody remember that? These people haven't cared about Russia. We have been ringing the bell about Russia, and neither the Republicans nor the Democrats give a flying crap. But that's not what this is supposed to be about. Now, I don't really even know what this is supposed to be about at this point,

because is he going to jail? Is anything going to happen? Or is this just yet another story? circus. Now, besides Cohen's fanboy praise, Strzck hasn't gotten off easily, thankfully. The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General wrote, he did not have confidence, I'm quoting, that Strzok's decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the mid-year related investigative lead discovered on Anthony Wiener's laptop was free from bias. Oh, you think? lack of confidence?

I believe that's one of the criteria for a different medal. Not a purple heart though. Sorry, Strzok. You're going to have to get your trophy elsewhere. It's Friday, July 13th. This is the Glenback program.

I don't even know where to begin with the hearing yesterday because it's it was an embarrassment for all of us. an embarrassment. The Republicans and the Democrats, they fought like they were four years old. The press is so in the bag for anyone who will say anything against Donald Trump. They're so in the bag that they can't even, they can't even see straight. I just want to go over one part.

And Pat, I don't know if you have the audio of the part where Tray Gowdy is talking to him and saying, wait a minute, you're saying these things while you're investigating. Have you even talked to anyone? Have you even investigated anybody yet and interviewed anyone yet? Just so the record's clear because it's been a little while. I didn't ask you the content of those interviews. I didn't ask you the names of who you interviewed. I asked you whether or not you interviewed anyone from July the 31st until August the 8th and I find it interesting that the FBI will tell us no interviews were conducted before July 31st. That apparently doesn't impact an ongoing probe, but between July 31st and August 8th,

it does. Here's the good news. I already know the answer to it. I went and looked at the file. The first interview that I can find is on August the 11th of 2016, which is 11 days after it began, which makes me wonder on August the 6th. So you hadn't interviewed anyone. You're investigating this alleged Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. You're the lead investigator. You originated the investigation.

You're the point of contact. You drafted the document. And here you are before you've interviewed a single solitary witness saying F. Trump. Then that same day, your colleague, Lisa Page wrote. maybe you're meant to protect the country from that menace. And you responded, I can protect the country at many levels.

We're not even a week into an investigation that you originated, approved, were the contact for. You hadn't interviewed a single solitary soul until August the 11th. And you're already promising to protect the country from that menace Donald Trump. And then on August the 8th, you still hadn't interviewed anyone. you're eight days into your Russian collusion with the Trump campaign investigation, and you got another text from your colleague, Lisa Page. Trump's not ever going to become president, right? Right? And you replied, no, no, he's not. We'll stop it. By the time you promised to stop him for becoming president on August 8th, how many interviews had you conducted? Mr. Gowdy, so two answers to that.

One, with regard to how many interviews had or had not been conducted, I've been directed by counsel for the FBI not to answer that question. Second, sir, I think it's important to take those texts in the context of how they were written and what they meant. And someone may ask you that question, Agent Strunk, but I didn't. I ask you how many people you interviewed before you wrote it. If you want to get into context, let one of my other colleagues do that with you. So here's why this is interesting. What he's saying is, I wrote F Trump, I wrote, don't worry, we'll stop him.

He was heading the investigation. Now, let me just ask any liberal in America, an honest question. Now, honest questions are questions that are asked from an honest place asking someone else to have an honest answer and really let everything go and just answer honestly. Honest question. When it comes to Martin Luther King, do you trust liberals, do you trust that the FBI was fair in their investigation of Martin Luther King? Do you believe that Hoover, who said from the outset, he's a bad guy, he's a philanderer, he's a communist,

do you think that the FBI was conducting themselves professionally and fairly? Do you believe that when Martin Luther King went to his county sheriff and said, I need a pistol. I need a concealed carry permit. And his sheriff said, you know what? I'll tell you what, Mr. King. You know, we just fear for your safety. And I think it'd be much better served if you didn't have a gun. If we, you know, that's what we're here for. So son, why don't you go home and we'll watch over you? Do you think that the same people who were saying, well, they didn't have text messages, so I can only imagine what they might have been saying, those Southern police officers who during the day were hosing down marchers with Martin Luther King or releasing their dogs, I can't even imagine that one of them might have text messaged F. King. Don't worry. He's an up-of-a-negro, and no way he's going to get.

We'll stop him. You can't tell me that if text messages existed, we'd have evidence of that today. Now, what is the difference? What is the difference between the FBI back then who had already come to their conclusion? well, we just need some wiretaps because all we have to do is just prove it. That's all we have to do is just stop him. What makes the FBI wrong to you then and right to you in this case? I personally believe that if the, in the meeting at the Trump Tower,

if they would have had something, he would have taken it. They would have taken it and they would have used it. But they didn't have anything. So I do think that while there was no collusion, if they would have had something, they probably would have colluded. And I think the same thing, honestly, of Hillary Clinton. Now, help me out. Do you really think a guy who says F Trump

that we'll stop him, that he's absolutely a danger to America, can and should be the guy who was leading both the Hillary Clinton investigation and strangely stopped it when you remember they lost all of the emails. They just, I mean, she, well, she deleted a lot of them. When they found a hard drive with every single e-mails, email on it. He doesn't look into it.

Before an investigation is, before the first person is even interviewed in Donald Trump, he's already made up his mind. Let me ask every African American in this country. Isn't that what you've always said happens to African Americans? Because I happen to believe in this country. some cases, a lot of cases in the past, and in some cases today, you're judged guilty before you even have a chance to be innocent. Because when they approach your car, they just know who you are. How do you rectify that? That's an honest question. And I would, my phone line is open today.

888-727 B-E-C-K. I'd like to hear it because I'm tired of the purple heart stuff. Here's a guy who is supposed to be our most respected investigator. He's the chief investigator, the guy who is the best at it in the FBI. And he's having these kinds of

conversations. I'm sorry. I don't see the difference between the people that everybody on the left always complains about with people like Martin Luther King. and and I agree with you how how is this not the same case? The only difference here is you don't like Donald Trump.

And so you'll accept it. But by accepting it, it guarantees that somebody else will fall victim to it. And it may not be the Trump. Trump side next time. It might be your side. That is what we must avoid. And that is why we have the Bill of Rights. And that is why we must always stand for the truth. We must always defend the rights of others even when we strongly disagree with them. Because the train always comes back into your station. All right, let me tell you about Simply Safe.

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who have whipped up hatred and bile in our country for decades. Just shut up, shut up. You have no decency, not a single ounce of it in that wretched body of yours. Be quiet. There you go. Well, you made a good point. Yeah, you made a good point, Oliver. He said shut up.

Yeah. So, you know, I, you know, I feel like you've schooled me like, you know, a great fourth grader would. And I appreciate the input. Well, a mediocre fourth grader. Yeah, I appreciate the input and the honest questioning and discussion that we just, we just had there. So, Pat, let me ask you this.

What is because I was disgusted with both sides at this? I was too, actually. Yeah, I thought Tray Gowdy was good. Yeah, he always is at these hearings. But what is the point of this? I honestly don't know. Is there a prosecution at the end of it? I don't think so.

Is there nothing better that Congress could be doing with their time right now than this? Isn't there a baseball steroid investigation they could do? This is better than baseball's and very bonds back. This is better than a baseball steroid thing. It's maybe more intense. Well, it's at least, it's at least in their field. Yeah, that is true. You know, that is true.

I'd rather have them just be. beating each other up than beating up, you know, individuals that have nothing to do with the government. But they're really not threatening with prosecution so much as far as I know. And he's already been removed. And so why are we doing it? Just to stir up more division? I think it's working for that. It's really working for that.

It is. Did I read Oliver Willis's because I don't think that was divisive, do you? No. Not a single ounce. of decency in your wretched body, so be quiet. So, by the way, in my body, we don't do anything by ounces. We do it all by pounds. All of it by pounds.

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There were no cell phones at the time of Martin Luther King. I don't even know what that has to do with anything. To compare Trump to Martin Luther King is so egregious and wrong, one cannot begin to count the ways. I don't think I did. Did I? No.

MLK was a great man and an innocent man who threatened the white male power structure. Listen to this. Trump wants to bring it back and enforce it. Okay. So that has nothing to do. Everything you just responded had nothing to do with what I asked. What I asked was if you don't think somebody who made up their mind about Martin Luther King, Hoover, if you don't think that he could have been

fair with an investigation, why do you think somebody who feels the way he did about Donald Trump could conduct a fair investigation? That's what I'm asking you. That's what I'm asking you. That's what I'm asking you. Let's go to Stephen Crowder, who is joining us now. Hello, Stephen. How are you? Hey, Mr. Becker. I'm doing what? You know, when I first came back from break, and I heard you, heard it like Prince Tuesday from Mr. Rogers. When you're, I'm upset the left. I thought, what show am I doing? Yeah, it's a little finger puppet, not the one who hung around the merry-go-round with kids, which was kind of creepy in its own right, but the little one that was blue with his crown. Okay.

Stephen, you know about upsetting the left quite a bit. You just did a video. We played it yesterday, and I just wanted to see if we can get an update and the story quickly from your mouth to recap. Yeah, well, for context, for people who don't know, so I do this segment called Change My Mind, which is taken off relatively well. I'm really grateful, and the concept behind that was, let's do what a lot of people can't do on cable news. And I've heard you talk about this and complain about how toxic it's gotten. And I agree.

And I always thought, wouldn't it be great if we could just have not conversations with experts or necessarily professors in a time-constrained format, but just have conversations with real people seeing if they can change my mind or I can change their. So it's completely unedited. These things go up there an hour long. So those, we've had about 10 of those, couldn't be more civil. Couldn't be more, okay, let's sit down.

Now, the problem with that is now that we go out and do it in public, and we've had hundreds of thousands of people become pro-life, for example. The left is upset that we sit down and have an open conversation. So the calls to violence have gotten really bad. So there was one where a lady called people to firebomb me in Austin. And then this was a person who plotted to actively slash my tires while I was an eighth and Congress in Austin. Posted our location, said, who will come with me to slash the tires and made plans? Okay.

So, Stephen, I saw this particular episode on Latter with Crowder. And it was really good. You had a somebody who just, you're walking on the street, you set up your table, and somebody's walking on the street, happens to be somebody who's running for city council, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, yes, the transgender male to female, Danielle. I'm sorry, I say it because here's the thing, even if I try to play along with any pronouns,

I'm liable to get it wrong. I know. So, male transgender. I know. There you go. Yeah, okay. Well, you're, you're dead naming here because you're saying. Anyway, so you had a great conversation with them.

And it's at this time that the person is threatening to slash your tires and firebomb. So you go out and you look at this person's social media. And how is he connected in defense? facing statues. Okay, well, just for legal reasons, they have to clarify, it was a different person who threatened to firebombs. Correct. So we have several, all kinds of fun being planned.

You know, I can't reveal, I hate to say, I can't reveal my sources, but I've got eyes and ears everywhere. I mean, we were the people who took down Antifa. They literally handed my producer a shiz that was designated for Ben Shapiro. So how do we know that this person to face the Robert E. Lee statue? because they openly admitted it to someone they didn't know I knew. And we have it in writing. They said, we defaced the Robert A. Lee statue.

Okay. So you go to confront this person, and I have to tell you, Stephen, I'm watching this video. You send it to me, and I'm watching this thing, and I thought, okay, this is not a good idea. Except you go in and you have such restraint, and you're saying to this guy, just apologize, just apologize, and take it down. and say you're not calling for violence. And we'll just, we'll call it even. Just take it down and apologize. Go ahead.

No, that's important. I appreciate you noting that. Listen, a lot of people go, well, I don't think, I don't think this is right, this escalate. Here's the point. When someone is calling to firebom or slash your tires and posting your locations, there's no escalation at that point.

It's not like they slapped and I'm punching. They brought a gun and I brought a nuke. No, no. I go up to these people, it's called Crowder Confront, it's now a branded segment, to unmask these people. And the very first thing I say is, I'm not advocating violence. I don't want anyone to hurt you. Just take down the active plot to hurt me and my wife and my family. Can you do that?

And here's the crazy thing, but it's bad to try to bomb your van. I'm a liberal, but they shouldn't flash your tires. That's what's so crazy. That's what's so disconcerning. I'm not even asking for an apology, really. What did the police say? Well, we're still waiting. We have a case angle, and they're saying it's going through processing.

And we did put under that case number, the Robert E. Lee and Sue, as well as the fire bomb lady. So the thing with this is, too, it's a two-pronged approach. And just like with YouTube and Google censorship, we've never been one to just go out, me and my team to just complain about something. And you also don't want to be the person who just sues people. Public is aware of what's going on. And then you follow the proper legal avenues. That's always what I tell people out there, say, well, what do I do?

You need to do both. So, yes, we filed police reports. And yes, we'll do change my mind. My first choice is always that people on our show with whom we disagree. But I tell you what, remember that Reverend in the Patriot who was really anti-war? And then eventually you see him with his musket. And he said that a shepherd must protect his flock. No, this is not a call to violence or to get a musket.

But what I am saying is when people say, walk away, just ignore it. Well, look, I can't walk away. to my man because that location is posted. I've had police, you know this, run on a clock at my old house because that location was posted. My defa has openly put out calls to find as one of it as possible, but to keep yourself safe. And the boldness is now, and I think a big part of it is the anonymity.

That's a hard word to say. It's always difficult to say. I'm not that smart, but it's a hard word. You can have problems with work. But I try to be very open with my audience. I go, listen, I wanted to change my mind if I didn't expose the violent plots from the left. And I try to do so without advocating violence against these people, but there needs to be a confrontation at some point.

They need to be confronted on their immorality. And I think a lot of people, Glenn, aren't just how violent they are because they don't have the eyes and ears that I have. And when I say this, Glenn, I'm talking about years and years of planting roots. Just out there right now can know what we know about them. Let me know what happens in Austin, will you? When you get a callback from the Austin Police Department, let me know what is, if they're pursuing it or not,

because I find it, you know, if that person happened to be a conservative at Juseland, it would have gone the exact opposite way. I was amazed at how they rallied around this guy who was clearly in the wrong. I mean, it was just, it was, it was remarkable. Well, you know what's crazy to me? I think what sounds, I want to say, the Austin PD who showed up were very, very helpful. They seemed great. And even one of them was nodding his head when I said, listen, man, if it were you, if we're your family, he was like, yeah, yeah.

He's like, man, I know. And one of them actually kind of agreed, but I didn't want to include it because they're not supposed to have opinion on the job. But I could see he was touched by it. But the one thing, if you're to crystallize this entire video, which people can go to Laterofetter.com and see, or just the YouTube channel, let's search it, whatever you'll see it. transgender at Jusland who slashes tires. Take that in. There aren't a lot of Google searches.

And what I find so perfect is there's a moment where I say, listen, listen, just take it down. Take it down. As you're talking about, the person says, no, no, I'm not going to take it. I'm not going to take it down. I said, no, so you admit that this is your post. He goes, yeah, yeah, my name is. Because remember at first, this transgender denied, denied, denied. And I said, listen, you want to play the part.

Part of being a man is owning your actions, and this is wrong. And at that exact moment, this transgender's manager walks up, puts her hand on the person's shoulder, the tire slasher, and says, I know you're being abused right now. Be strong. But here's the deal. If you're strong, I'm a big guy, Glenn, relatively speaking. If you're wealthy, you're the bad guy. It doesn't matter if you're the wealthy guy who goes out when gives all your money to charity. It doesn't matter if you're the big strong guy.

If you're Superman, protecting the little guy, they see success automatically bad. They hate America and Israel. That's why they look at a guy like me with a transgender person threatening and plotting to slash my tires. They go, oh, a 6-220 relative athlete and a poor little transgender person. Of course they have the right to be violent. That is the dogma of the left, and it is perfectly encapsulated there. I wish we didn't have to do this. I'll let you know what happens, too, with the Austin police.

That's what thing, Glenn, too. You know what happens with police. And some people have been very, other police have completely ignored, depending on whether it occurs in Michigan or Utah. And I understand how sometimes there are travesties in the dust system. I'm not condemning the police at all, but I am saying it is remarkably inconsistent. And it's a tough pill to swallow sometimes. So you've got to keep everyone's got to keep your head up on a swivel.

That's the first step at least. Stephen Crowder from Latterwith Crowder.com, and you can follow him on Twitter at S. Crowder. Stephen, thanks so much. Keep up the good word. Thank you very much. You bet. Appreciate it.

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Don't miss it. Beck Cryptosho.com Glenn Beck Jerry in Michigan I hate to cut as short but we only have about 90 seconds and I have to go into Bill O'Reilly next

but I want to get you in real quick Jerry go ahead Yeah I you know I'm not like the other guy that talk But you know it just amazes me How everybody drops Martin Luther King's names If this was some sort of equivalent Martin Luther King

Jay Edgar Huger had carte blanche to do whatever the hell he wanted to do. This guy did have bosses. I think the guy's a scumbag. But please, that Martin Luther King analogy stuff, got to go out of the window because, number one, most white folks agreed with Jay Edgar Huger. No, no, hang on just a second. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I am not saying, I am not comparing Martin Luther King to Trump or this situation. I am. Hang on. I am saying, if you thought that it was out of control with Hoover, but a guy who thought, he's already made up his mind on who this is, and he shouldn't be able to conduct an investigation,

how could you possibly think that this guy, who has already made up his mind and says, I'm going to stop him and everything else, how is that not comparable? This guy had somebody to report to. Jay Edgar Hoover was his own boss. Nobody had to agree with anything he said. Nobody had to sign off on anything he did.

He was his own boss. Okay, so it's okay. So then it's okay. Hang on just a second. No, it's not okay. So then I, because I also said, not only Hoover, I also said, how about the local sheriff that was hosing people down in the daytime, saying, oh, I'm going to protect you in the nighttime.

there's no difference and that guy had a local boss. Glenn. Back. Mercury. Glenn. If all you knew about politics came from the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post or MSNBC, you'd think that a blue wave is about to swamp the country with hip-malidic millennial geniuses. Alexandria Casio-Cortez is surfing the crest of that wave. I think you would think that Casios-Cortez is the greatest hope for America since Barack Obama. But America is a very large country, and reality is usually a little more complex than the media lets on.

But since the media already has their narrative and their superstar, Akazio-Cortez, set for this November, there's no room for another young minority female child of immigrants, political outsider from the ultimate blue wave state of California, her name is Elizabeth Hange. Well, there probably would be room for a story like that, except she's a conservative. She's 32 years old. Her name is Elizabeth Hange. She's running for Congress against Democrat Jim Costa in California's 16th district.

It has been 40 years since a Republican won in that district. In the early 1980s, Hange's parents fled from the violence in Cambodia and immigrated to the U.S. In 2008, after graduating from Stanford, where she was student body president, hang open several cell phone stores with her brothers in the central San Joaquin Valley. Running her own business and managing 75 employees, she opened her eyes, or her eyes were open for her, to a not-so-dirty secret about capitalism trying to survive the virus of progressivism. She says, quote, I saw firsthand how government regulations impacted businesses negatively. I constantly felt that from Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, they were saying that I was everything wrong with our country when all I was doing was trying to create jobs.

That's when she decided to venture to Washington, D.C., where she worked for six years, learning the ins and outs of legislation and campaigning. She's ended up working as a director for President Trump's inauguration ceremony, a job she managed while she also was finishing her MBA at Yale. One of the biggest lesson she learned working in Washington became the platform that she's now running for office on. Fiscal responsibility. She says in a family or a business, we don't suddenly act surprise when the budget comes up for the year. We get it done.

What a concept. Still, fiscal responsibility isn't quite as sexy sounding as free college for everyone. So don't expect Elizabeth Hange to replace Akazio-Cortez as the media darling anytime soon. It's Friday, July 13th. This is the Glenn Beck program. By the way, I'm trying to get both of them on this broadcast. I'm guessing that Hang will be a little easier to book than Cortez,

but I would love to have Cortez on and just have an open conversation with her about Democratic socialism. What is it? And how do you pay for it? in a in a non-hostile conversation. But we have reached out and have not heard yet. We do have Bill O'Reilly on, however. Bill O'Reilly, whose new book called Killing the SS comes out.

Oh, it does not come out on September 18th. Does it come out on September 18th? Of course it does. What's the matter with you? Because my book comes out on September. It says it on the jacket. My book comes out September 18th. So then people have to buy them both.

And they'll be happy to do it. So how you doing, Bill? I'm all right. I'm all right, Beck. You know, I'm hanging in and watching all the chaos develop around the political hatred. Well, let's start. I have some very, very astute observations. So have Stu get his paper out. Stu's not here, but Pat is.

So, Pat. And I got... Hat is here today. Actually, is that a paper ready? By the way over, Stu. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like a limp leg that has been gang green for a long time. Anyway, Bill, let me start with Peter Strach and the hearing yesterday. Two questions. A, I don't even understand what the point of this is. It seems a little embarrassing on both sides.

However, the second thing I would like you to comment on is I don't know how anyone thinks that somebody who wrote the things that he wrote while he was heading up an investigation should be a part of any investigation at any time when it's revolving around the things that he's texting about well look you're a little Americans you know about press missed both of them okay as they always do The first thing is this is a criminal investigation back. All right.

The special prosecutor is looking into a violation of federal law. By struck. Just overall. Okay. Okay. The Russian collusion story is a criminal investigation, which is why you have the FBI in it. Correct. Yes.

Okay. So that's number one. Number two, in order to secure a conviction in any criminal investigation, there has to be evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. The fact that the lead investigator was obviously a hater toward Donald Trump wipes out anything the Mueller people may hope to achieve, because there'll always be reasonable doubt that the investigation was fair. Bill, if this went to trial and it was you or it was me, and we found out the lead investigator who called for the investigation. They throw it out.

They throw that case out in a heartbeat. Okay. So that's number one headline that this weasel, and he is a weasel. You know, the first thing I told my audience on Bill O'Reilly.com yesterday was you look at the guy standing there or sitting there, okay? You look at his body language, his facial expressions. You try to get a summation. on television because television doesn't lie. Camera doesn't lie.

I mean, zeroes in on you. I saw this guy as a smug, arrogant, sneering. Why do you dare ask me these questions when I'm protecting the country? It was almost like Jack Nicholson and a few good men. It really was. It was exactly the same impression I came away with. He is so arrogant. Unbelievably arrogant.

And you have dared. question me. So the first headline is, beyond a reasonable doubt, is not going to happen with Robert Mueller. And that's huge. That is huge. The second, very important story for the American people is that the Democrats

on the House Oversight Committee could not care less about what happened. About the facts, about possible corruption at the FBI, about anything. They hate Trump so much.

much, it doesn't matter what happened to them. They're not truth seekers. So, Bill, help me out on this, because boy, the, the left is very upset with me today, because I said about an hour ago that I don't understand the difference. If you, if, if you, if you know that the, you know, the local sheriff that Martin Luther King went to and asked, I need a concealed carry permit. And he said, well, now, son, I don't think you need one of them. That's what we're here for.

I think we know that Martin Luther King couldn't have trusted the people who by day were taking fire hoses and dogs to people that were marching with him. If there were texts at the time, you know that the texts would have been from some of these guys, you know, don't worry. he's not going to get all that. We're going to take care of it. You know that was happening behind the scenes. So why is it that we can look at this and Hoover, a guy who made up his mind about Martin Luther King, said he was conspiring with the communist and the Soviets

and did all kinds of things. And the left says, this is racism. This is horrible. You cannot have that happen and receive any justice. what is different in this particular case? Well, why would anybody be mad at you for that analysis? Because I'm a racist.

Because I've just mentioned Martin Luther King. And to compare Trump to Martin Luther King is racist, I didn't compare it. I'm asking about the system. Okay, so look, the American people have come to a point. believe, all right, because I'm always ahead of the news cycle, as you know back, which is why you have me on here every week. Right. I believe that the American people have come to a point where they have tuned out

most of the news analysis and editorial coverage of the president and of Russian collusion and all that. They're gone. Yes. And I wrote a message of the day on bill o'Reilly.com that cited this week's ratings on cable television. They're down, if you can imagine, with all of these huge stories. They're down? And for CNN and for MSNBC, it's a catastrophe. How much audience they're losing. What do they have now as an audience? What's her prime time? Well, let me give you an example. Chris Cuomo, the Great Hope at CNN, gets a nine o'clock program, right?

Yeah. Okay. So he goes on in the first week he averages about a million three, a million two, five. viewers, which for CNN is very good and is the number one show. He's down at 8.50. Holy cow. At 5 o'clock, if I would have had 850, I would have been fired. Right. Well, it's a different time than when you and I were reigning supreme on cable news. But he's lost almost 40% of his audience in three weeks in a up news cycle. Wow. Lots of stuff happening. It's not the doldrums of summer. Okay. So, Rachel Maddow is the number one show on MSNBC. Okay.

Did you just call her, did you just call her Rachel, Rachel, Maddow? Oh, Rachel. Okay. R-A-C-H-U. All right. No. Rachel. All right.

Lost about 40% of her audience. Okay. Now why. You can tune in every night and see Ms. Maddow, hate Trump. That's what she does. He hates him. From the time she comes on, the time she comes off, she hates Trump.

And then once in a while is a pillow commercial that somebody can go out and take a breath of fresh air. Okay, but then we're right back to hating Trump. Nothing else. You know, it's just this. And so people have had it.

Even the people who do hate Trump, they've had it, you know? Enough. It's just seeped into the soul of the American public that they're being con. Not to say that Trump's the greatest thing. I mean, you can like them

and not like them based upon facts, but just they hate them and hate them and hate them. And on the other side, Fox News is losing audience too, but not as quickly as the other two because they support Trump. I did a show yesterday, just all call-ins and just took thoughts from the audience. And I was shocked. There was, I think, two people that got through who said that they were former Democrats. They started listening a couple of years ago and that they were listening because I was the only one that was willing to have a reasonable conversation and look at both sides and they've changed their point of view because of that. I think that the idea of having civil conversations

and civil dialogue is refreshing to most people on the left and the right. They just, they want the truth. Just they're only getting a choice of, the spin of this side or the spin of that side? Yeah, because it's not instructive or it's not positive to anyone's life. Yes. And this is true. To live in a world of deceit and delusion. You know, I'm waiting for the ferocious backlash against the media.

I don't know whether it will happen. Trump today in a press conference just excoriated NBC and CNN. Right there. All right, just basically excoriate him. That's nothing new. But I'm waiting for the people to say, you know what, I'm just going to walk away from it entirely, and I'll pick my people, Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck, or whoever it may be,

and I'll check in with them and try to find out what's happening in the world. But I'm not wasting my time anymore. I think that is already happening, but I want to go back to Donald Trump. He's had a really interesting week, some really good things, and some, you know, some questionable or bad things as well. But I want to, when we're going to, we'll take a break. And when we come back, I want to ask you and start right at that press conference and get your view on why you think that that might have been a good thing to excoriate CNN and NBC over in Great Britain with a joint press conference with Teresa May.

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Bill, your thoughts on this? I wouldn't have done it that way, but I wouldn't, you know, I've always have said a million times that you can get your point across without throwing hand grenades because that basically reflects back on you. But CNN is in business, and people should understand this. It's not that they are meeting every morning saying, we want to be Venezuela, we want to be socialist,

because they don't. These are people, but big houses in the Hamptons, who spend more money in a month than most people earn in a year. They hate him personally, the president of the United States. States. And so they say, you know, we can make money and hate them at the same time because our audience will hate them. And that's who we want to watch us anyway. So that's what we're going to do. That's how I would do it. Rather than just say fake news, fake news, fake news, I would say, look, I'm not going to take your question CNN because you don't report the news

fairly. And I can just run down the roster of people you have on your air. Every one of them hates me. Every single one of them hates me. all right and you're trying to make money off that hatred and i'm not going to play into that wouldn't that be a lot more effective back than just saying fake news CNN yes so okay let me that's my point there let me i think it was i think it's just as wrong to blanket statement fake news on either side because that's what the left was doing when they when they used to call us fox news faux news uh that was everywhere under obama um well and it's a different different it's different than obama because and and that's an interesting point

you bring up president obama was criticized on fox news and in other places primarily based on policy okay that there was a strain of he was born in kenya wasn't born in hawaii but i'd i destroyed that in the first week so did we by coming up with the two newspapers that printed his birth announcement and it would have been virtually impossible for uh... anybody to uh... and how why would you do that to barry obama a little uh... boy who has no money and no influence who went to my ridiculous right so i blew it out the first week and that was that

and anybody who blew picked up on it you put them in the irrational category and don't trouble in that category by the way and i scolded him for that on the air uh... anyway so that obama was policy driven and and you and you and

me and others who had some difficulties with his policies, zeroed in on those difficulties, not hating the man every two minutes and trying to destroy him and anybody around him that you feel is benefiting the president. So look at Bill Shire and our former boss at Fox News. His wife is now being crucified by the far left. Now, it hasn't really gotten hold because it's so hateful and so out of bounds. You don't attack families, all right? But they're doing it on the left. They're doing it. And CNN driving that story. All right. Back in just a second. More with Bill O'Reilly. Bill, let me play hit or miss with you here because I think that Donald Trump has had a few hits this week and struck the right tone a couple of times. And then he's had a couple of blunders.

would you consider his interview about Theresa May and the things that he said about Boris Johnson in the lead up to his meeting as a hit or a miss? It's hard to say because that's a tabloid newspaper that doesn't really print the truth. The reason he did that interview was because of Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch owns that paper and then owns the Fox News Channel. so that's why that was even done. But if Donald Trump did disparage Ms. May, and it didn't look like she perturbed by that or believed it or whatever,

I mean, they had a fairly relaxed body language situation in their pressur this morning. But, yeah, you don't want to say bad things about a leader of any country when you're showing up to the country. I mean, that's not really a good strategy. Yeah, I can't imagine. I mean, you know, I've always appreciated the way, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders around the world come here and they say, look, those are your internal politics and we're not involved in that.

Yeah, you don't want a poison a war. Netanyahu despised Barack Obama. It was obvious he did, but he never overtly said that or did anything to indicate it. Correct. How about his comments to NATO? How did you perceive the comments where he sat down at the breast? table and said, you know, you guys got a, you know, what are we doing with Germany, taking all of the natural gas from Russia while we're trying to protect them from Russia? And you guys

need to sit up and pay more. Well, this is Trump with righteous indignation at his best. Now, you've got to understand something about Donald Trump, whereas most people, they don't care real personally about stuff like the Russian pipeline into Germany bringing natural gas. Trump is offended by that. He gets offended by certain things. So he was indignant that he had to go over there at Brussels, a place where he doesn't have any interest in being. And because these people won't pay their fair share of defense costs for NATO, which is

outrageous and insulting to Americans, and everybody knows that. And now Putin, you know, has got the pipeline in, bringing natural gas, and he can shut it off at any time, which gives Putin a hundred times more power than he had before that. So both of those points are legitimate. Now, would I have done it at breakfast? No, I don't think so. I would have probably done it in a more formal place, but at least he didn't throw a bread roll at anybody. I thought he was going to, or oatmeal didn't fly. I thought he was actually, I thought he's had a couple of moments that were the first real presidential moments I have seen from him, that where he was off the cuff and genuinely presidential.

I found that moment strangely satisfying and maybe on the edge of, I don't know if you should do that, that way or at that setting. but he backed it up. He was solid. He wasn't his typical insulting self. And I thought he was presidential this week. Yeah, I don't think the breakfast was presidential. But he did it to intimidate them. Yes. The leaders of the countries of NATO, 29 countries. He did it to intimidate them. And he did.

He intimidated them. So, yes, he did. And that is part of politics. He walks in, and he's six foot two, and he's 245 pounds. and his thighs down on his knee, and he goes, hey, I don't want to grapefruit. You guys are pinheads. And here's why. And they're all like their heads are snapping back because nobody does this. I know. All right. Let me, so was that a hit or a miss? I think it was a hit in policy and a miss in style. Okay. Let me go to another moment that I thought was presidential. And I'm long on the

record that Putin is an enemy to not only the United States, but he is an enemy to all mankind. He is a stone cold killer. However, the president, I prefer that we don't call somebody our enemy, you know, if there's a chance to not be an enemy. We'll treat you on the facts. Especially when he's got a conference coming up with this guy. Yes. So he's asked, is he an enemy?

the left goes crazy. The same left that mocked Mitt Romney when he said that was the biggest foe, geopolitical foe. They went crazy when he said, which I thought was very presidential. No, he's a competitor. He represents Russia. I represent America. If we are friends at the end, great. If not, no big deal.

I hope we don't become enemies. We're competitors. Well, you also have to point out that when Barack Obama was caught on the open mic saying, hey, you know, once I'm reelected, I'll have more latitude to deal with you guys and give you what you want. Right. They didn't say a peep. Yeah, they are. Look at this.

He's dealing with Putin behind the seeds. You never heard it. No. Okay. So Trump and Putin. Here's the thinking, and this is his thinking across the board. All right. Putin's not any different.

Trump doesn't care about Crimea. There's no potential golf course there. It doesn't matter. Crimea could be Saturn. Okay? Doesn't care. Couldn't care less. The only thing he ever says about Crimea is Barack Obama let it happen.

All right. So that's number one. That's not going to be a topic of discussion. Trump doesn't care about it. He doesn't care that Putin's a psychopath. He doesn't care that Putin is topless, most of the time, and the artist is a little strange. Is he, should he care about those things?

No, all right, because what Trump wants is a deal. This is what he always wants, always with everyone. He wants a deal. And a deal is two-pronged. He wants a nuke deal, all right, to de-intensify nuclear weapons, which is symbolic. It doesn't really mean anything. And then he wants Putin to stop misbehaving in serious. and Iran and other places that's costing us money.

All right. He wants him to stop. Now, will he get the deal? Maybe because Putin is in trouble economically. And the only reason that Putin has got control over his country is because he runs a secret police that poisons people who speak out against him. And, you know, there's absolutely, it's just like the old Soviet Union, there's no difference. So, so.

It's just a one, one communist government was replaced by a mafia government. Right. That's all. That's the only difference. So, Trump wants two deals. That's what he wants. Help me out on this. Do we, I mean, I don't know if we have any left anymore, but do we lose any moral authority by saying, I don't care about these things? I only want a deal that's, you know, because it's costing us time and money. Trump will never say that. I'm saying it. Right, I know, but it goes back to my question, should he care about Crimea?

I think we should care about it. You know, you've got to do greater good. You know, Putin's not giving Crimea back, no matter what you do, all right? So it's over. It's not coming back. So the greater good is, let's get something out of them that's going to prevent bloodshed and, you know, economic disaster for the world. Let's get something out of them and, you know, work only.

along those lines of the future. So it's greater good. They all do that. Bill, there was a story this week that only my show in the Blaze and Wired magazine covered. It is Cody Wilson. He's a guy who made the first 3D printed gun. He sued the federal government because they put him into a class of an arms dealer. And he actually won.

He can distribute the... the CAD drawings or the blueprints for guns, and you can 3D print guns now. It's very controversial, but it was a huge win for the Second Amendment, and in the settlement the government admitted that the AR-15 is not a weapon of war. It is a modern-day sporting rifle, as long as it's not fully automatic.

That to me was one of the biggest stories that was not reported or underreported. What do you think the best? biggest story of the week was that we may not have talked about already? Growing disenchantment on the part of the American people toward Washington is a very underreported story. We talked about the media, but that's reported. Everybody knows that's in play. But people are really starting, when you look at that hearing yesterday with their

yelling at each other and that point of order and parliamentary this and it takes ten hours to do what you could have done. You and I could have done that interview with Strzok in an hour and a half and then had a nice dinner. Took them 10 hours. All right. The fix was in on the Democratic side. They didn't want to know anything. They didn't care what Strick did. Strzok could have gone out and hit President Trump with a hammer and that would have been fine with them.

And then some of the guys on a Republican side are purposely embarrassing, Strzok, with questions about his own. wife, which were way out of line. So the Americans are saying, you know what, these are clowns. These are clowns. This whole system is built on nothing. We're not getting representation on both sides. We're not getting quality people. We're not getting

smart people. We're not getting honest people. And I think this is really seeping now in to what the hell? Who's running this country? Who's running it? We've got a bunch of dishonest people in the Democratic Party couldn't care less about what happened. Couldn't care less about what Peter struck,

the lead FBI investigator did? That's frightening. That's frightening. And people are starting to get it now because you see it right in front of your eyes. Maxine Waters? Sheila Jackson Lee? You see these people.

You hear them. Yeah, go out and follow Trump supporters around and give them a hard time. And, hey, if somebody hits them or somebody shoots them, that's too bad. I mean, this is our leadership in Washington. So people, by osmosis, little by little, this whole structure that we have is starting to collapse. And the Democrats, you're going to see it worse when, what's his name, Brett Kavanaugh goes up for his hearings.

What do you see that? It's a decent man. You may not agree with him or his rulings. They're going to try to tear him apart, personally. And it's- And Americans are going to watch that. And they're going to go, this is our system.

And it's really crazy because he's not a guy that the, that the right, or at least people like me are cheering about. I'm okay with him, but he's, he's not an ideal. An establishment player. Right.

Right. That's who he is. So you, but even so, he's led his life in a way that has been constructive. And, you know, when he gave his daughter the middle five over there, you know,

and the little thing in the White House, I mean, that was a really nice moment. And they're still trying to tear his throat out. And people are just watching this. You expect it from Planned Parenthood. That makes money off abortions. You expect that. You don't expect it from elected officials.

And that's what you're going to get. It's going to be revolting back. those hearings are going to be revolting. Well, I can't wait for them to start and to hear your analysis of them. Bill, thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right, you have a nice. I'm going to be in Ireland next week.

Are you really? Yeah. So you're not going to be on the show next week? No, I can't talk to you next week, but I want you to read Killing the SS. I am reading it. I am reading it. Okay. I haven't said.

I'm not very far, but I am reading it. I started it a couple of days ago. And the reason you should read it is because this is, a topic that you're interested in, evil. Yes. This is about evil. And that's what the book is about. The SS part or you know what evil is.

Okay. Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much. All right, guys. Bill's book comes out on September 18th, and so does mine. And is he off now? Yes. Yeah, he's off. He cannot.

He cannot win. No, he can't. hear the end of it. Oh my gosh. Love of Pete. Oh my gosh. Oh, I'll never hear the end of it. Even if he beat you by one book.

Oh, my God. It just, it can't happen. But here is the good thing. Go out and buy his and by mine at the same time. And here's the good thing. We'll just be fighting over who's number two and who's number three. Because the New York Times, they'll jump off the top of the roof before they'll give it to. I mean, if that's not Sophie's choice.

Oh, man. Who do we give the number one slot to? There's just no winning that week for the New York Times. It's September 18th. You can order online now. It is addicted to outrage and killing the SS by me and Bill O'Reilly. All right. I want to talk to you a little bit about Casper Mattress.

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We have more on Struck, some more audio on that, on the president's visit with Theresa May, some kind of some uncomfortable moments there. We also have a story that I really, I mean, don't tell me you can't do things. I'm going to introduce you to a guy with no arms that's. stabbed somebody that was coming after him. That's a true can-do attitude right there. When you hear the story, it is getting it done. And if this is where we have to get our inspiration, you know, in America, so be it.

So be it. So we have that coming up. Also, Starbucks solution to replace plastic straws is backfiring. Oh, no. No. I feel bad. Don't say that. Yeah, well.

Don't say that. No, I've got to say it. I've got to say it. No. So that and so much more. Coming up next hour, stand by. Glenn. Well, before the president left for Europe this week,

he issued a pardon to 76-year-old Dwight Hammond, Hammond's 49-year-old son, Stephen. Now, if those are names that you remember, but you don't remember where, you might remember them as the Oregon cattle ranchers who were sentenced to five years in prison for setting fire that spread into a portion of federal land in Oregon.

In 2012, the jury acquitted the Hammons on some, but not all of the charges against them, and they went to prison. Now, after serving a short term, the Hammonds were released only to be sent back to prison in 2015 when the Obama administration filed an appeal, and the federal court ruled that the Hammons had been improperly sentenced. But it was the Hammons being sent back to prison that sparked an even more famous standoff in Oregon. The perceived injustice to the Hammons inspired the Bundy brothers, Ryan and Amman, to storm onto the wildlife refuge in Oregon with other ranchers and militiamen. They were engaged in a 41-day armed standoff with federal agents. Now, Clive and Bundy and Amin Bundy and the Bundy ranchers don't confuse them with the Hammonds.

That's not the same. And the president didn't say anything about the Bundys, as I think he's actually right to go into the Hammond case, but not the Bundys. The presidential pardon will take some time off of Handman's five-year sentence, though Stephen has already served four years. His father has served three. White House statement about the pardons called their imprisonment unjust

and the result of overzealous effort by the Obama administration to prosecute them. This pardon is the second major move the president has made since taking office to signal greater support of residents in Western states who desire to see more local control of federal lands. Last December, Trump signed the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history when he significantly reduced the size of the bare ears and grand staircase Escalante National Monuments in Utah. If you remember, when the president was running, he said he wouldn't do those things. He said those lands were best in the hands of the federal government. It's one reason why I had a problem with his policies out in the West. However, he is not executing his policies the way he campaigned. Critics say the president's actions are only going to encourage other fringe militia groups in the West

to try more armed standoffs with the government. But is any of these critics actually considered that the president's actions might actually have the opposite effect, making citizens in the West feel like someone in the government is actually listening to their grievances? I know it drives the left totally insane. But if you're being honest about things, you have to see some of the things Donald Trump is doing

is good. Also, no one can say the president doesn't know how to play to his base. It's Friday, July 13th. This is the Glennback program. Pat, have you watched the video American standoff? No.

Is that the, I think I heard you playing it, though, the other day. Was that the one about the Bundys? Yeah, about the Bundys and the Hammonds. Yeah. And it shows that the Hamans. that the Hammons, you know, they got a call from the Bundys and the Bundy said, we're going to come up. And they were completely different approaches. The Hammons were advised by the Bundys.

Don't surrender. Don't give yourself up. And they're like, no, we're law-abiding citizens. If we go to jail, then we're just going to have to pray that the president will see the error of his ways and he'll pardon us. And the Bundy's said, no, we've got to have an arm standoff. and they changed the deal. At the end, the Hammonds weren't really involved in that, that 41-day standoff. It was just the Bundys and others that they had convinced.

Really? And if you watch American standoff, you just Google it, American standoff, it is really worth watching because you'll see some really good ranchers go down and make the wrong decisions. but then you'll also see some ranchers that you're like okay you know I think he has a point you'll see the sheriff who is made out to be a bad guy

who turns out looks like a pretty good guy to me and then you're going to see a family that is just this family of you know a singing family and they were supposed to go up and sing to you know a bunch of people at the standoff or someplace and they were going to go meet the sheriff.

And they travel up and they're in Oregon and they're stopped by a cop. And the guy who's driving, not a family member, guy who's driving, he says, look, you can't stop us. We have a right and we have an appointment with the sheriff. We're going to go see the sheriff. You're going to have to shoot us, you know, to stop us. And it's a standoff very tense. and it's all from their video phone. They're from video from their phones.

The kids in the car. And, and he's very provocative, but the police are too. The driver was the driver. But the police are too. So he says, look, I'm driving away and I'm going to the sheriff's office. You can't stop us.

I'm going to the sheriff. You can follow me, but I have a right on this road. So he's driving and, uh, They follow him but aren't aggressive. And then there's a roadblock. He goes off to the side of the road.

And they're shooting at him as he's approaching this roadblock because he's not going to stop. They're shooting at him. He gets out of the car. He's unarmed. He has his hands up. And he's still being aggressive or stupid. But he's saying, you're going to have to shoot me because we're going. You're going to have to.

And they shoot him. And you see it. And that's the one that was killed. Yeah. And then you see them shooting at these kids in the car, the FBI agents, shooting at the kids in the car. And it is, it's hard to find a good person in this. It's really hard to find a good person because the guy who's driving the car, nobody with any kind of common sense is doing that with a car load of kids. However, what the hell is the FBI doing? Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's really out of control. really out of control.

And there's been several of those instances that we know about Ruby Ridge, you know, the Waco incident. I mean, did they really need to act as aggressively as they did in any of those? No. No. No. No. It's quite remarkable.

So I'm glad that the Hammonds have been pardoned by the president myself. Yeah. The driver wasn't with the Hammonds, though. No. The guy driving to the sheriff's office. He was not part of that family. No. All right.

What else do we have here? Emmy nominations came out yesterday. Oh, the Emmy nominations? The Emmy nominations. Oh, well, I can't wait for. This is kind of interesting because for the first time in 17 years, HBO didn't get the most nominations. Netflix did. 10012.

Wow. Compared to 108 for HBO. When you think about Netflix and it's humble little beginnings, you know, as as Blockbuster in Hollywood video competition. Where you were sent, you remember you had to send the, you sent the DVD back in the mail. Yeah, without a late fee. Right.

That was their big deal. You don't have to pay a late fee. And what was that? As recently as 07 or 08 maybe? When Netflix, Netflix was just getting into this about two years before we launched the Blaze. That's how, yeah,

that's how recent it was. Recent all of this stuff was. And now, you've got HBO saying, you know what, we might have to, we need to conduct our business a little more like Netflix. They've come a long way in a really short time. And I, you remember when Netflix was dead? When they were, when they were doing the streaming video and they said that they had to made it, I don't even remember what it was, $10 a month. The cost structure was too high for them. Yeah. And so they had to raise the prices and everybody said, Netflix is out of business. It's never going to go

anywhere and look at them now. That just, that's where it kicked in. Yeah. And when they stayed committed to doing original content, I think that just put them into a whole new league. Same with Amazon. Yes. Yes. And now Netflix is spending five to six to seven or eight billion a year in original programming. That's crazy.

It's just mind-boggling. It really is. And so that's where, I mean, the world has changed so much. And you just wonder how much further is it going to? go. Oh my gosh. Because this will be absolutely. Yeah,

you won't. You won't recognize it in 10 years. And the scary thing is, is it. And we talked about this the other day, Pat, last week, and I'm sorry, I'm going to butcher the details on this because it was last week and I just kind of read the story quickly. But Amazon came out and said that they were thinking about going into the prescription drug business, the drugstore business, and also the, the, uh, the, um, the, the, um, the, the overnight delivery service.

Mm-hmm. Walgreens and CVS took a bath the next day. Yeah. And I forget what the percentage loss was, but it was amazing. Huge. Just because of the Amazon announcement. Yes. And then on top of it with the, with UPS, UPS in Federal Express, UPS took a gigantic

bath. I can't remember how many tens of millions of dollars they lost just because Amazon said, we're thinking about it. Maybe we'll do it. Wish they do the same thing with the oil. You're thinking about selling gas. Let's drive those prices down now a little bit. But what happens at what point does Amazon become the threat? At what point does Google? They're so big that they just control everything.

They control absolutely. It's getting pretty close to that right now. It is. It's pretty close. And so do you break them up? That's not the American way. They're not a monopoly. They're just, they're, but yes, they are putting others out of business.

Yeah, they, I mean, you know, I said this to Ray Kurzweil at one point. No, or, no, who is the head of Google? Eric Schmidt. Eric Schmidt. And I said, at what point does Google have the analysis running on me if I'm a competitor of Google. I'm working on something that your algorithms don't snag me and you either gobble me up or you steer me in the wrong direction. Oh, that's not going to happen. We don't do that because Google doesn't do evil. Right. Okay. Thank you. Is that why, I mean, isn't that

why Facebook just bought that one company, I think it's an Israeli company that could go in, I don't remember what it was supposed to do, but one of the things that it did do is it saw which applications and which, uh, yeah, which apps were starting to take off really early. And Facebook came in and they just gobbled that company up because they wanted that. They wanted to see that's, that's exactly what he asked about Google. Right. What's going to stop you from seeing where I'm headed? And of course, nothing. Nothing. Nothing's going to stop.

Right. Except unless the owner of the up and coming company doesn't choose to sell. But can the owner of the up and coming company afford to best Google? Yeah, probably not. Probably not. Probably not. I mean, I just don't. For the first time in my life, I've always mocked the idea of, you know, you see Blade Runner and you're like, and they're like, well,

company won't like this. Oh, stop it. You know what I mean? We've got companies that size, though, now. We do. Yeah, we do. And at what point do the American people say, who's controlling who? Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Is the government really providing oversight? And can the government even tell Google no at this point? I mean, think of the information that Google would have. If just they would choose to use it on anybody in Congress. All they have to do is just tweak the algorithm to see. All they'd have to do is tweak the algorithm to change the news feeds and their searches for the people in Washington. I mean, and it could totally change their outlook on things.

I mean, it's really, it's becoming a very different world. and I don't think people have caught up with that by any stretch. On the other other end of this spectrum, we were talking about Netflix and Blockbusters as competitors, just to give you an idea of who won that war. Blockbuster, right? Yesterday it was announced the last two Blockbusters in Alaska are closing. And that leaves a total of one in the United States of America now.

How is it still in business? I don't know. And what's in the Bend or in Bend Oregon is their last remaining store in the United States. Isn't that something? It's really sad. I feel bad for Bend that they're still going to a video store. Have you heard of the internet? Come on, Ben.

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And this is what I'm talking about. I agree with Bill when he was talking about America being upset with the garbage that's going on in D.C. But there's something else that's making me really angry, and I believe a lot of other Americans are too. And that is we believe in the rule of law. We believe in equal justice under the law. I don't care if you're a president, a cabinet member, a congressman, or a homeless person or a carpenter, that justice is blind. And we're watching what's going on in D.C. And we're saying, where's the justice?

Correct. You know, if I get a speeding ticket or if I'm on the cell phone while driving, I get a ticket. And that's okay. I broke the law. But I just want to apply it equally. And the Americans are too, and that's what we're getting really upset. And that's not the word I really want to use, but we're on radio. So I'll use upset.

It's really, really, really ticked off that the justice isn't apply equally. It's obvious stuff that's going on. It's not like, well, we're not really sure that what they did was illegal. I mean, a sailor gets in trouble for taking pictures in a censor place in a submarine. But then Hillary can have stuff in a server, classified documents, in her home, and that ain't a problem. And it's like, I don't care if a Republican, I don't care who you are. If you're my guy or the other side's guy, I don't care. You break the law, you break the law.

It's really simple. It's not hard to figure out, and I'm really angry about it. I want to see justice. I want to see it applied equally. I don't care who you are. And it's got me really mad, and I know it's got a lot of other Americans mad at too. Starting with the Constitution and all I lost since, if you don't like the law, fix the law. Be illegal immigrant.

Legal immigrant. Not hard to figure out. The server that's not secure with classified documents? Got a problem there. Sailor takes a picture. He's nailed to the wall. You understand what I'm saying? Oh, and I haven't said anything, Ralph, because I agree with you.

And I think that you're absolutely right that that is the underlying tension that is happening in America, is Americans want to see justice. And some Americans have given up on that. And it goes back to, and I want to take a quick break, but I want to pick this up. This goes back to what I said earlier in the show. If you've missed the show, go to iTunes and download the podcast today and listen to the first hour because I talk about Struck and what was happening yesterday in Washington. We'll pick it up there next. Glenn, back.

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because we don't feel there is such a thing as fair-mindedness and real justice. I'd like to remind you how you felt, if you were white, how you felt the day the O.J. Simpson verdict came out. and what you thought about African Americans and the way they celebrated that, it was the first time that I noticed a real split between us, where I didn't understand the mentality of a group of people living in America. And because I didn't think justice was being served. Well, what happened?

If you look at the numbers now, African Americans now believe that O.J. Simpson killed her. So what's changed? The celebration, the vindication of a black man not being hammered, beating the system. Didn't matter if he murdered because they had felt for so long there was no such thing as justice. They weren't seeing justice. And so even if this guy was guilty, it felt good to see a black man defeat the system

because they didn't feel there was any equal justice. Well, that's what the rest of America is going through, I think, right now. They're going through a place to where we are being unreasonable and we're backing things that, you know, African America. know now they shouldn't have backed O.J. Simpson, but it wasn't about O.J. Simpson at the time. And a lot of the stuff that we're seeing, we're being told by the media, you just hate Hillary Clinton. No, I hate the injustice of all of this. I hate the fact that we all know they're dirty and corrupt. We all know this. And they can get away literally with murder. They could

get away with anything. Now the left is experiencing this with Donald Trump. And they're saying, why doesn't the right stand up? Because Donald Trump is our O.J. Simpson. He is our guy that we say, you know what, I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. There is no such thing as equal justice. You're just going to dole it out any way that you see it. And we've been taking it and taken it and losing while we've been trying to play fair. And now this guy can win. Good for him. I think that's what's happening in America.

And because the media and the politicians are not really listening to America, they don't really, they don't really care to understand what's happening. They just keep dogpiling. And it gets worse and worse and worse. when both sides in America, now I am not talking about the extremes. I'm not talking about the postmodernists that are currently teaching in universities. I'm not talking about Antifa or the Nazis. I'm talking about the average person.

All they want is justice. Did you break the law, then go to jail? I don't care who you are. I don't care if you're rich or if you're poor. You broke the law. We have been, we were designed as a nation of laws. Now, the left is using this now to separate us. Instead of going the way of Martin Luther King,

where Martin Luther King said, America, live up to your founding words. I believe in those words. Just live up to them. Instead, they are driving a wedge between us and those words, and they are saying it's revenge time. It doesn't matter. If I disagree with you, I can shut you down. It's why they now, the ACLU is no longer going after all of the First Dement

freedom of speech rights because wait a minute now we're starting to have the tables turn on us and I guess we have to defend religious people well we're not going to do that that's the point of equal justice that's what our founding documents mean by all men are created equal that we all have the same right quite honestly to say things that are going to piss each other off we all have that right and it must be protected. And so we have to grow a little thicker skin and go, yep, that's another nut job. And we have to stop suing each other, stop trying to shut each other up. And if somebody breaks the law, they go to jail.

That's why I had Stephen Crowder on this morning. Stephen was, Stephen was targeted by a juice barista. in Austin, he was doing a deal out on the street called Change My Mind. It's something that he does on his show. It's actually entertaining and really good. He's not going for outrage. He's saying, here's what I believe. There are two genders, this particular one.

There are two genders. Come change my mind. The one that I saw in Austin was this one. And it was a person that was running for the city council, who is transgendered, sat down, and they had a fascinating conversation for about 40 minutes. Well, this juice barista didn't like that. And so plots to who will go down and slice their tires? Who will slash their tires with me?

And then somebody else volunteered to firebomb. Fire bomb his car. Right. Now, we all know that that's a crime. we all know that that needs to be taken seriously, especially in today's world. Let's move up. How many times did the right, were they called racist, where they called anti-American, where they called dangerous rebels that wanted to start a revolution?

Have you heard the media call that, say those things about Antifa? Never. Never. Never. In fact, when Donald Trump pointed out that they were at that Charlottesville protest, that they are not great people either. The left went crazy over it. They couldn't even conceive of the fact that the Antifa people were who he was talking about.

Right. So that's the, to me, this is the place to where we come together. The place where we come together is on equal justice. The place we come together, honestly, is, and I'm, you know, I don't know how people perceive me anymore. I don't care. I really don't care. But the only way I can live my life is to be able to say Donald Trump is a nightmare. And he's not going to do any of the things he's promising you on this campaign because he has no record of

believing any of that. And then when he gets into office and he starts to do those things to say, holy cow, I was wrong on that. This is good. These things still bother me. These things aren't so great and these things are bad, but these things are good. I can't live my life without being that way. And that's what's missing in our society.

We somehow or another have to adopt absolutely every. everything. Well, when you adopt absolutely everything, that means you're going to excuse your side of something you've accused the other side of doing, which then destroys equal justice. So which do you want America? Do you want equal justice? Do you want fair play? if so, then you have to call them as you see them. If so, you can't have a team jersey. If you want equal justice, you have to have the balls to take it to the face and get punched relentlessly when you say, wait a minute. If you didn't think that it was right for Jay Edgar Hoover or the FBI to be able to do an investigation

that you knew was going to come back one way, one-sided, because the FBI thought they knew who Martin Luther King was, a guy who was conspiring with the Soviets and he was a communist and he had to be stopped. If you didn't think it was right then, this has nothing to do with Martin Luther King or Donald Trump. It has everything to do with the FBI. if you believed that it was wrong because they had already made up their mind that he was a communist that was being used by the Soviets and they were going to get and do anything they could to prove that and stop him, then you have to see the warning signs of what's happening now in our FBI.

that it doesn't matter what he says. It doesn't matter what the president does or says. I'm telling you, he could have said, let's give Elena Kagan an extra vote on the Supreme Court, and they would have found a way to drag him through the mud and say, we've got to stop this. It doesn't matter what he does. What we've missed is this is no longer about the president. It's why we stopped talking about Barack Obama about two years before he left office.

It's not about him. It started to be about us. Who are we? What's happening? What are we doing? What are we doing in our life? What are we accepting in our life? The same thing is happening now.

It's not about Donald Trump. This is about control, power, and money. That's all this is about. The networks are losing money. They're losing power. they're losing control. The parties, both of them, losing power, losing money,

losing control. That's all this is. We're watching a death match of an old antiquated system of media and politics, a two-party system. It's a death match. They think one of them

is going to win in the end. They'd have no idea. The system is from the 1800s. 1850 what 1856 they're like you know what we're going to be Republicans you be Democrats it doesn't work this big bloated government this this came from Carl Marx I mean how is this made to look like this is a new idea it's not a new idea it's one of the oldest ideas around let's put all of our money into a big collective and we'll have one person or a group of people that are really smart oversee how we distribute all the wealth.

That's always ends in corruption. Always. We don't even have that system. And look how corrupt it is. So let's stop fighting about all of that. And let's just start fighting for facts, truth, being open-minded,

listening to each other, trying to figure out what's really going on, what's behind all of this. this anger. And Ralph said it best. One of the things that is really driving the anger right now is the same thing that was driving the anger that I didn't understand in the 1990s with the O.J. Simpson verdict. People don't feel there's such a thing as equal justice. So when somebody beats the system, It doesn't matter if they are guilty or innocent. They beat the system.

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and she's just standing there waiting for him to arrive. And 92 years old. Yeah. I think it's, is it still hot over there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

But what's weird is, if you go back into our day, I mean, the Americans, when we were colonies, we would, the king would make us wait months. And then we would show up

and he'd still make us wait. Yeah, sometimes weeks after you got there. Yeah. It's obviously a very different world. Turned around just a tad. Just a bit. Plus,

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