The Glenn Beck Program - 'Kanye's Right! Be an Individual'? - 8/10/18

Episode Date: August 10, 2018

Hour 1 Security ramps up ahead of the White Nationalist Rally in D.C...National Socialism vs. Internationalism Socialism?...Our Founders were 'classical Liberals', before it was hijacked?...when God was replaced with eugenics?...trying to make America, Europe? ...Kanye West is one of the bravest American's out there...'Why not try loving the President'? ...Caller Dan from Ohio, thinks the country is so divided, that it is time to start thinking about dividing the country up?   Hour 2  No more Pledge of Allegiance?...Atlanta school eliminates it for a 'Wolf Pack Chant'? ...Bill O'Reilly Friday!...'hesitancy', word of the day?...the media 'don't care' about Louis Farrakhan and Linda Sarsour...'government guidelines' and the likes of Alex Jones? ...Chicago Murder Rate vs. The Nazi SS?...Did Bill watch Kenya on Jimmy Kimmel?...Bill's first and only encounter with Kenya, 'nice pants'?   Hour 3  Be Like Maxine? ...The art of being civil with people we disagree with?...'there are no limits on comedy'?...'The Word Police' are the Left?...The Western culture is evaporating right before our eyes ...Arson is suspected in the California wildfires...2 suspects are being held ...Daddy/Daughter date for Glenn? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. Glenn Beck. All right, this is going to be an interesting weekend, especially on television and all the commentators. Violent leftists are set to descend on Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville this weekend. Now, you're not going to hear it reported that way. You're going to hear about the right. But remember, these are violent leftists.

What part of the right includes? socialism. Do you know anyone who is on the right small government constitution that doesn't believe in the Bill of Rights, doesn't believe in the Constitution, and does believe in socialism? I don't know a single soul. But somehow or another, the media has labeled the neo-Nazi movement into the right. They may have voted for. Donald Trump, but they are not conservatives. Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally, and a state of emergency has already been declared to free up additional law enforcement and National Guard.

They say that over 2,000 demonstrators are to show up in Washington, D.C. That is a very, very small number for Washington, D.C. Now, no matter how many, you know, participants are in these organized possible riots, No matter how anybody tries to sell this, the media is going to cover this, uniting the right. It has nothing to do with the true American right. It may have European right, but not the American right, and especially conservatism. It is absolutely crucial for everyone, not only to understand, but also scream it from the mountaintops. We reject their racism. We reject their violence and we reject everything they stand for.

And let me tell you what they stand for. Leftist principles. Instead of calling this rally, unite the right too, they should have called it unite the left. Because the two sides, if they listened to one another, they would really truly struggle to find things that they disagreed on. Let's take immigration for a second. How does the conversation go? We demand a single-payer health care system. How does that conversation go? Oh, yeah, well, so do we.

Yeah, well, we won't rest until we get socialism. Yeah, well, neither will we. Then they both descend into smashing windows and beating people up before realizing, wait a minute, how are we different again? Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. Your racism is directed to another group of people, but our side's racism is stronger. don't let any media outlet or any person try to tell you that what may or may not happen this weekend has anything to do with the right or conservatism.

It does not. This is about two groups of like-minded leftists. The only difference is national socialism over international socialism. International socialism is called communism. National socialism is called Nazism. Fascism. But that's the only difference. One is local.

One is global. These left-minded, these like-minded leftist just can't come to understand which to direction they want to direct their racism and bigotry to. But that is the only difference between the two groups. That's it. Make sure you really truly understand that so you can clear it up peacefully, kindly, soft-spoken this weekend. It's Friday, August 10th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

I'm so glad you're hitting that on the alt-right. And real conservatives can do nothing better than sit here and make the case over and over again, that these people are not conservative, at least not how we've understood it in the past. They are the right of the Europe. If you remember, the train track monologue that I've done a million times, that is the European left. And we have bent down into that European left again and right because of progressivism. But that's not the American system. And one of the points you made on that monologue, which you're...

You're correct. You did do many times. Is that there is no small government option in Europe. It's never been a thing. No. They've always just thought about which way the giant government will pull the people. And you're right. It's this difference between international socialism and national socialism.

But listen to some of this stuff. This is from the leaders of the alt-right movement. I believe in some form of universal basic income. This is Mike Cernovich. I'm pro-single payer health care. Is that right-wing or left-wing anymore? I've got an opinion on that. I do too.

Yeah, I don't think it's right wing. Spencer, trying to build an American right where race and identity are more central and laissez-faire economics are ignored or actively avoided. Citizens of modern states will accept no other kind of health care

but socialized or mostly socialized. This being the case, however regrettably, the most efficient option is to make the socialization as rational as possible. Or this from one of the alt-right journals, one of the leading alt-right journals, this one I find can be completely amazing. Are they pro-life or pro-choice? This quote-unquote right-wing group, are they pro-life or are they pro-choice?

They are pro-choice. You know this, but I don't think the media knows it. Oh, yes, they do. I mean, the media does know. They don't cover it, that's for sure. This is from their own writings. I understand the pro-life temptation. We on the alt-right have an appreciation of tribalism and identity.

We realize that people are not just autonomous individuals. Again, is this a collectivist or an individualist? It's a collectivist. Life gains its meaning through connections to other members of our families, tribes, and nations. Being pro-life flies in the face of both of these principles. A study in Europe found that over 90% of mothers who were told that their babies were going to have Down syndrome did not continue the pregnancy. And he's arguing for that side of the equation.

In 2011, it was estimated there are now 30% fewer people with the disorder in the United States due to prenatal diagnosis. In the future, as such technologies improve what the left calls reproductive freedom will continue to be the justification for private sector eugenics. Again, they're saying this as a positive. The alt-right is saying this as a positive. Eugenics. Is that a right or a left issue?

eugenics. It's central to the progressive movement here in the United States in particular. Yes. The alt-right is skeptical to say the least of concepts like, in quotes, equality and human rights, especially as basis for policy.

The unborn fetus has no connection to anyone else in the community. Community, being the important thing here. If it is not even wanted by its own mother, criminalizing abortion means that the state must step in and say that the individual has rights as an individual, despite its lack of connection to any larger social group. This is no problem to those in the conservative movement who decide right and wrong based on principles like, quote,

the right to life. And this is one of the leading alt-right journals. This is the thing that everyone in the media is going to tell you is a conservative movement. They're even deriding the word conservative. Okay. So go ahead. I got to give you the last few years. The mother-child bond is the strongest among human relationship.

When the parent-child bond does not exist for a pregnant woman, society has no business stepping in. The alt-right for both our own principles and the greater good must oppose the pro-life agenda. Okay. So how did this happen? How did the American right, the classic liberal, okay, because we don't think anymore, let me explain classic liberalism. Classic liberalism is the founding of this country. Our founders were classic liberals. Classical liberals, right? Yes, which classical liberals mean basically libertarians, that they believe in the individual.

They do not believe in the collective. The individual is supreme. He answers to himself. The government answers to the people. It was a completely new idea. Now, this liberalism was hijacked, and it was hijacked intentionally by FDR. What happened before FDR was the idea that man could rule himself was no longer valid around the turn of the century. This came from, remember, in the 1850s, you had Karl Marx in Germany write the Communist Manifesto.

a German writing the communist manifesto. So that's the birth of socialism in Germany. They embrace it. It starts to go through the universities. Our universities start looking to Germans and say, oh, well, they've really, they've got this new scientific method. Now, remember, we are based our whole thing, our whole government, on science and reason.

It's the age of reason. It is the enlightenment. So we were built to look for scientific reasoning, scientific answers. So socialism comes in, eugenics comes in, Darwinism comes in, God is dead. It all starts to churn.

And Nietzsche says, wait a minute, if you kill God, God is dead. This is a warning, not a celebration. and God is dead, you're going to replace him with something. What did the Germans replace him with? For a while, science, eugenics. We can create the master race.

But to be able to create the master race, you have to have somebody up at top deciding for everybody what's right, what's wrong. Well, here in America, our progressives look without judgment because the mass killing hadn't started yet, they look at communism and say, this is great. This is the new scientific way. And what Russia is doing, read Woodrow Wilson's words,

what Russia is doing is the right thing. Well, everybody starts to think that communism is the right thing. However, one guy, Mussolini, decides, no, communism is wrong. Communism is wrong because he thinks, fought in World War I. And he's like, nobody fought for the workers of the world. I wasn't fighting for the rights of French or German or English or anything.

I was fighting for Italy. He says, I agree with all of the concepts of socialism, but communism is global. We need national socialism. And so fascism starts. Now, that becomes very appealing in the United States. So, everybody, Time Magazine, everybody, everybody. New York Times, FDR, they all look to Mussolini as this new model and say, this is great. And Mussolini and Hitler himself eventually look back across to the United States and say, FDR is one of us.

He's a fascist. This is great. Look at his policies. The new deal is exactly. what we're doing. Hitler's problem with the New Deal. You know what it was? That it would fail.

That it would fail and discredit national socialism. So everybody loved it until the purges began. Until we fought the war and you saw firsthand what fascism did. So they had to get rid of it. But remember, we are talking about progressives that. do not believe in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, at least the early fascists or the early progressives. They're trying to make us more like Europe. Well, Europe only has two choices. The United States of America is the only place on earth that ever believed that the

smallest amount of rule was the best. Let man rule himself. And so if you want to give them the benefit of the doubt back in the 1940s. It wasn't an evil thing to move the fascism to the right because that's where it was in Europe. They thought like Europeans. The

Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were outdated. They weren't fast enough. You couldn't get things done to be able to survive in a world where you had to make decisions quickly. It had to be a strong man and a government that controlled

everything. So if you did go to war, you could just flip the switches and you could, you could produce whatever you needed to produce as a country. That's a discredited system. That system doesn't work. And we're seeing another attempt at it in Venezuela. It doesn't work. Under Woodrow Wilson's care, the classical liberal, the one who is our libertarian today, that seat was taken away from the table. and through propaganda and everything else, discredited as crazy cooks. Well, they weren't crazy cooks. That's the way America became America.

And we have been feasting off of those bones or that gas. And we're at the end of that now. We're now at a decision point. Are we going to accept left and right as the Europeans do and officially declare the American-execlare the American-executive, experiment, which was man can rule himself, are we going to say that is over? It is failed. We've done our homework. That doesn't work. After over 200 years of success, we're going to throw that out and we're going to say Marxism, socialism in one of its forms, which never succeeds. And don't

give me the Netherlands. Look what the Netherlands are doing. now. They're running from it because it's all collapsing around them. Why? Because of immigration. If you don't have a homogenous society where everyone agrees and everybody's pretty much the same and it's small, it doesn't work because it requires everybody to believe the same thing. And that is why they're shouting people down. That is why Kanye Well, is, I believe, one of the bravest people out there. And saying the most American thing, I don't have to believe what you believe.

I'm an individual. I want to play a couple of cuts from his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel yesterday. Kanye West, like him or hate him, agree or disagree. Every American, every American should agree with what he's saying or why he's saying it better yet. You don't have to agree with his conclusion on who to like, who not to like. But if you truly listen to what he was saying, it is the most American message I have heard from anyone in the mainstream.

I can't think of another one. It's been that long. Next. All right. I want to talk to a little bit about a company that we founded called Real Estate agents I trust.com. You gotta go to a website or something? You gotta go to a website to find a real estate agent?

Here's how I do it. I look at benches and what photo looks the best on the bench? Oh, you mean by the bus stop? Yeah. If you could find a bus stop bench with the best looking picture, that's how you know it's the best agent. Or you could actually, you know, go to a place that has vetted all of the agents and look at their track record, look at their history, look how long they've been in business.

Look at the picture on the bus stop? No, we don't look at the picture on the bus stop. I mean, if you're skipping that, how thorough are you? Yeah, we just asked them, so what's your plan on selling houses? How do you do it exactly? How long have you been in the business? How do you know this area? Are you the friend of a friend of a friend's former roommate?

No, we don't ask that question either. Oh, no. If you want to sell your home fast and for the most amount of money, all you have to do is go to real estate agents I trust.com. If you don't want to sell your home fast and you don't want to sell your home for the most money, the friend of a friend's former roommate on a bus stop. Exactly. Otherwise, go to real estate agents. I trust.com now. Real estate agents.

I trust.com. So the Kanye West interview, I thought last night with Jimmy Kimmel, is, I mean, I think we should hold this guy up. You don't have to agree with him on his conclusions, but to listen and watch his actions, remarkable. It's interesting, too. I haven't not seen it yet. And I'm interested to see how Jimmy Kimmel handles it, too, because he has not well. real distaste and it's not even

it's like a contempt for the right yeah there's a theory and I was listening to this the other day that it's not we don't have a hate problem in the United States where sides hate each other it's that we have contempt for each other we don't even see the person we disagree

with as human and you know one of the points about this is that they say that this is how a lot of marriages break up it's not that you're fighting and you have a real passion against each other it's like you get to the point of like you don't even see them as human they're suffering

your spouse is suffering. It's just shut up. Deal with it on your own. Get out of my face. That sort of like contemptuous action. Which lessens the hatred because you just don't think about them. They're not important enough to listen to and to say why. Jimmy is asking those questions.

It was a very honest conversation. I believe on Kanye's side, not. on Kimmel's side. Next. This is the Glenn Beth program. If you have time today, I want you to watch the whole Jimmy Kimmel clip with Kanye West. No matter what side of the aisle you're on, I think there's a lot to learn from it. I'm going to play a couple of the highlights.

Last night, Kanye comes on, and he starts to talk a little bit about love and fear. Listen to this. People got really mad when you were, well, some people were very happy when you said you liked President Trump. Do you like, do you think he is a good president? You're going to ask me, can I answer the first question you're going to ask? Answer whatever you want. Well, you know, it's funny. You know, in this world that we live in, there's two main motivating forces. And I tweet about it all the time. It's love or fear. And you can't explain love. You know, my cousin is locked up for murder. And I love him.

And so he did a bad thing, but I still love him. And just as a musician, African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things, you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me. And then told me every time I said I like Trump that I couldn't say it out loud or my career would be over. I get kicked out to black community because blacks are we're supposed to have a monolithic thought we can only like, we can only be Democrats and all. So even when I said it right before I went to the hospital and I expressed myself.

Listen to this. And when I came out, I had lost my confidence. So I didn't have the confidence to take on the world and the possible backlash. And it took me a year and a half to have the confidence to stand up. and put on the hat, no matter what the consequences were. And what it represented to me is not about policies,

because I'm not a politician like that, but it represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said and saying, you can't bully me. Liberals can't bully me. News can't bully me. The hip-hop community, they can't bully me. Because at that point, if I'm afraid to be me, I'm no longer yay.

That's what makes yay. You hear that? That is the most powerful statement on so many levels. Let me just start here. Here's what the left doesn't understand. They are currently putting people through college and they are indoctrinating. And if you disagree, you're shouted down. The vast majority of people just go along with it.

They don't want to get involved. Just don't get involved. It's not worth it. Okay. They're not necessarily thinking those deeper thoughts. And so what happens is as that gets stronger, you're not even exposed to thoughts. You're not around anybody who says something reasonable, not political, just reasonable. Like, hey, you know what? Should they really? I mean, I think I have the right to choose, right?

I mean, I don't necessarily want to go along with everybody. shouting down, it makes people like Jordan Peterson much stronger. Because I just read this article in Atlantic that we have to talk about. In the Atlantic, this progressive mom with progressive kids in college finds out that her progressive son in his 20s and all of his friends are listening to Jordan Peterson. Why? Because they've never heard this kind of thought before. and they've never heard two people get together and discuss these things without screaming at each other and saying, you're a racist, you're a hater, I got to shut you down, you're the enemy.

It's his message of, I just want to be me, is going to connect and is uniquely American. It is what America was founded on. I want to be me, my right to pursue my happiness. The world is moving towards collectivism, and it's a very strong pull. But in America, there is something that we have just, we have, I think it's into our fiber now. I think it's in our DNA. I hope it is. This yearning to breathe free.

not with hate, not with contempt, not to crush somebody else, just to be me. Now, the next thing you have to get out of that clip, this broadcast with him last night started with you make clothing. You're an artist, successful artist. You're, I mean, actual physical art, not musical art. You're a physical artist that is incredible. You are a hip-hop guy. a music producer, incredibly successful. You make your own clothing, incredibly successful. Here's a guy who is at the pinnacle of success, and we've all seen how arrogant he can be.

I mean, he's got reason to believe, I can do anything. It takes him a year and a half to get the courage to say, I want to vote. my own way. This guy, if this guy takes a year and a half to say it, what chance do you have? What chance do your kids have? This guy shouldn't be afraid of anything. And yet, he stood up because everyone said you can't.

They'll destroy you. They'll end your career. You'll have nothing in the end. And the guy had the balls. to do it. This was not something that he just said. Everybody was like, oh, you just say that sell an album. He might have at the time. You listen to him now? No, he wasn't. His album is already out. It's all done. He's making a much deeper point here. And that is, get away from fear. You should not have the fear of McCarthyism. No matter what the ideology is that they're trying to

Michael McCarthyism is bad. Now, cut two, please. We are too protective. We always don't want someone to get hurt. Can you imagine me talking to my publicist before I said I'm going on TV again? One of the things I think it got missed on TMZ is the main thing that I was stressing

is the idea of trying love. You know, we're always, you know, pushing out so much hate and love can cure so much. so much just to think, am I moving in love? It's just out of love, not out of pride. Pride is a word that people often say in a positive connotation, but it's actually one of the seven deadly sins. And it takes too much ownership, but you can replace pride with love.

And when I see people just even, like, go at the president, it's like, why not try love for one person to stand up against all odds? and just hug somebody the way that Alice Johnson hugged her family when she got out of jail that one by one by one we can diffuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we're in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family.

He went on to talk about how we're programmed. We're all programmed from the beginning. Get off the coffee table. Don't jump on the couch. don't he's he said you know a kid he's got a cape tied around his neck and he's standing on the coffee table and uh he's superman he's superman and it's so he said he said get off the copy table he said by the time we're you know in our 20s or 30s we know very clearly that's a couch

don't jump on it that's a coffee table don't stand on it he said but we've forgotten the reason of the superman why we stood on in the first place We were being us. And Kimmel responds, well, that's because we want safety. I mean, we got to keep the kids safe. But the bigger point here was by the time you've, you've, it's my father's point. My father used to say two most powerful words in any language, I am. That kid's saying I am Superman.

Okay. And by the time you keep training these kids, you know, don't do this. don't do this don't do this don't do this and not encourage them to be free thinking you've just molded them into whatever it is they want to be or you want them to be or what society wants them to be not what they want to be if you don't answer the question i am brave i am strong i am capable the entire world is set up to fill in that blank i am what if you don't say it to yourself if you don't know it yourself and you don't strive for that blank I am strong the rest of the world will fill it in for you and tell you you're incomplete

you're not good enough you're stupid you're black and thus you should think this way you're white and thus you should act this way that's his point it was profound last night. Yeah, and he has real evidence to back it up. I mean, he and his wife did this approach with the president, right? They decided to love. To love him instead of just trashing him.

And what happened? The most important thing to them as an issue, which was you know, she had fought pretty hard for Alice Johnson, who he mentioned there, to be let out of prison for an old conviction.

And it actually, happened, right? Like, they got real movement there. And it was because, you know, like, I mean, that was a policy initiative you can agree with or disagree with outside of treating someone nicely, but they actually did that and got movement on it. So what is

the definition of insanity, Stu? The one that always quoted is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The media, I learned, I learned. After Obama, after 12, I learned everything that I did. Everything that I did,

it galvanized half of the country that was likely to galvanize around this message in the first place. But it did not spread beyond that. It didn't spread beyond that. It may have made a difference in children that we are now seeing and yet to see that watched the show. But it didn't galvanize anybody else. It didn't reach beyond itself. In 12, we had the same result we had an 8. Why?

In fact, it was the people were more strident. Why? Well, because our approach did not work. Now, I learned from that. Change your approach, not your viewpoint. Change your approach. He is right. He is right.

What is the press doing? Definition of insanity. They saw a tactic that did not work. done by the right. We were just doing what we had seen done to George Bush under the left. Two can play at that game. Now they're doing the same thing. They don't see it.

And every time, if they would just stop with the Trump thing, if you just stop and treat him, if the Democrats would even embrace him on some things, you would not believe what you could get done. I'm convinced of. it. But because everybody wants to try to have these tribal lines and are frightening everyone else, stay in the tribe, stay in the tribe, stay in the tribe. The results are going to be exactly the same. Don't stay in the tribe. The tribe is going over the cliff. Both sides. Going over the cliff.

Kanye is right. Be an individual. Can't wait to get to Dan in Ohio. Bill O'Reilly is coming up in just a second. All right, hiring is challenging. I mean, you know, before there was ZipRecruiter, you know, I hired and that's how I got Stu. I mean, is that a good idea? I don't like so. Wait, what are you saying?

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I'm good. Hey, Glenn, I'm all fired up, really. After this recent election, we experienced here in Ohio. Yeah. It kind of hit me. That election really typified where we are in this country and how divided we are, because it was about a 50-50. Yeah.

And it got me to think, and I know it sounds a little radical, but I think we're at a point that there's one of three things going to happen. We're going to have a revival. We're going to have a civil war. Yes. Or really what I think we need to start thinking about is dividing us up into two nations. We do not want to go back under the rule of the left. They don't want to come under our rule.

And so we take it to the states. And the states vote, they become a blue or a red state. Won't happen without a civil war. That won't happen without a civil war. That won't happen without a civil war. I mean, your neighbors believe that the state should be, you know, blue. You believe that it should be red. And they believe it just as much.

And that's their home, too. That doesn't happen without a civil war. What has to happen is to come back on principles. And those principles, when you actually talk to people with reason, I'm not talking about the political people. I'm talking about you talk to your neighbors, blue or red, and you just discuss the principles of the Bill of Rights. We agree on those things still. The vast majority does.

The only thing that will bring us back together is a rational, non-political understanding of the Bill of Rights. That's how we got along in the first place. And it's what will bring us back together today. Otherwise, I don't think there are three options, Dan. I think we either come back into our Unum, back into our Bill of Rights, understanding, an agreement and let everything else go, or we have a civil war. And we're already in a cold civil war now.

Please rise. I pledge allegiance to the Wolfpack. This is what a school, an elementary school in Atlanta announced that students and faculty would be doing. They're no longer going to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Instead, they would be reciting something called the Walthyons. wolf pack chant. Now, Laura Zelis-Zelski, she's the principal of the elementary school, said in a news release,

over the past couple of years, it's become increasingly obvious that more and more of our community we're choosing not to stand and or recite the pledge. Okay. There are many emotions around this and we want everyone in the school family to start their day in a positive manner. Well, it doesn't have to be, it doesn't not have to be positive if you don't want to stand. I mean, you don't want to stand, you don't want to say the pledge, you don't have to. I mean, you are receiving federal money.

I don't know. So the real plot twist here is if Colin Kaepernick would take the role as the principal, I think, you know, he's out of a job. Maybe we can get him a job at this school. They're saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and they're saying it now is not causing positive energy. Well, that is a problem. In some ways, the Pledge of Allegiance is a way of acknowledging, I'm really grateful. I understand how lucky I am to have been born at this time in this country that is full of flaws and currently struggling. But we're free to talk about it.

We're free to debate it. Or are we, teachers? This is a country unlike anything else in the history of all mankind. Or is it teachers? See, I would like the teachers to be teaching that, not just the flaws, but also, you know, we're pretty lucky. The world's never been like this. So the only thing left is what is the wolf pack chant? Students will continue to lead the meeting by asking our community to stand and participate in the wolf pack chant.

together. They'll also be given the opportunity to say the pledge some other point during the school day in their classroom. But the pledge will focus on students' civic responsibility to their student and school family, their community, their country, and to our global society. Well, if you're teaching civics, doesn't that include maybe the pledge of allegiance to your civic responsibility to understand the country that you're in? I mean, I would understand if people were saying, I don't want to pledge to a flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag and the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

Okay, you're not pledging your loyalty to a flag. You're pledging your loyalty to the republic for which that flag stands for. What is the republic? I don't know. we're not teaching it, are we? The Republic is built around the Bill of Rights. Now, here's the amazing thing. There's an update.

This school decided to do this, obviously, on their own, because of the backlash, they have now backed off and said, okay, okay, we're not going to do it. We were just, no, we're not going to do that. We're still going to start with a Pledge of Allegiance. But in the true progressive form, as I did my research on that, I'm looking, where is the Wolfpack Chan? Where's the Wolfpack Chan? Story after story after story. Where's the wolf pack chant?

They're going to replace it with the wolf. Well, what is the wolf pack chant? True progressives. They hadn't written it yet. Destroy what you have. And then we'll think about what we're going to replace it with. It's Friday, August 10th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Holy cow. Welcome to the program. Let's go to Bill O'Reilly. There is a ton to talk to Bill O'Reilly about this week. Hello, Bill. How are you? On the same back, which is tragic for everyone. It really is.

It really is. Sorry to hear that. So let's start with what happened in New Mexico. And I think the clarifying moment here should be for the press. Why so many people think that the press is the enemy of the people. And I don't feel that way. I think they are, they're a helper to ignorance. And they are certainly, they certainly have an agenda.

but you could look at the case in New Mexico and say, hmm, maybe this is why so many people think you're an enemy of the people. Or are your thoughts on how they covered this Islamic extremist camp? Well, you know, we've always known, and this was kind of stunning, that there was a hesitancy on a part of the New York Times. They led this attitude, press attitude, hesitancy to condemn Muslims who were violent.

I think that's about as accurate as I can make it. There's a hesitancy about it because in their mind, Muslims are a minority in America, and you know how the white people treat minorities, and if we start to report accurately on them and their violent tendencies, then Muslims, peaceful Muslims will be attacked. So with all that, you know, it's not like, okay, we have to tell the truth.

If we tell the truth, then this is going to happen because we live in a white supremac society. That's what they always do. So that's the origin of, you know, let's hesitate. And this New Mexico story is part of that. Oh, it's just one place. They're crazy people. We can't make a bigger point on it. So we're going to ignore it.

And that's the story. So, so, but you can see how people who, who understand, we, we are not a nation that is rounding up Muslims. We are, we have been unbelievably tolerant. Yes. Right. Even after 9-11, there wasn't any outbreak of violence against Muslims. But, but if you really want to carry it a step further, can you imagine if this group in New Mexico were white supremacist? Exactly right.

If they were just NRA members. Yeah, or anybody like that would be 85,000 live shots. Spike Lee would be down there filming a movie. Look at these people. So, you know. So everybody knows that this double standard exists. So you saw the coverage of the Bundy Ranch. And you remember, there were helicopters.

It was everywhere. It was huge. However, after the after the police finally stepped in in Portland and sent everybody home we find out that Antifa had

had taken and really kidnapped federal agents they had kept them against their will blocked them in their own building the ICE building and wouldn't release them ICE calls for the police the police say the mayor said we can't help you federal agents had to come in.

Where were the satellite trucks? Where were the helicopters on that, Bill? Well, it's even worse than that. You had individuals, one of whom owned a food truck. Yes. Calling the local Portland police. I worked in Portland. I don't know whether you know that or not.

I anchored the news on KATU. Beautiful town. And when I was there in the 80s, it was liberal, but it wasn't insane liberal. Now it's insane liberal. So there were individuals who felt that they were in danger, American citizens, and they called the police, and the police simply were ordered by the mayor, who's also the police commissioner. How insane is that? Yeah. All right.

They were ordered not to help the individuals calling 911. Non-involved citizens that felt threatened. Right. People who were just around that compound selling hot dogs. So what you have is a violation of the mayor's oath because he's sworn oath to uphold the Constitution, and part of the Constitution is that law enforcement protects people in danger. That's why we have law enforcement. That's why they got those powers.

That's why they carry a gun. That's why they're allowed to arrest you. So you're right. I mean, I didn't see CNN down there. I think they mentioned it, but not merely. No, it wasn't. You see the Bundy Ranch? You see the Bundy Ranch?

But on Bill O'Reilly.com, my solution to the problem, as always, is very clear and very vivid. I said that they should send Paul Manafort to Portland, Oregon. Okay? So Manafort just maybe on a weekend furlough from his solitary confinement could just go to the Rose City that everybody would be there and report on. When it comes to, let me go back to the Taos story. When it comes to this story, you have Linda Sarsour, just at the last ISNA conference, praising as a mentor, as a guy who plays a big role in her life, is calling her and encouraging her and teaching her about Islam.

This guy that she says is that is the father of this guy. who was holding these children and teaching them how to kill. Does this play any role in the media not covering that Linda Sarsour, who was the founder and one of the lead organizers of the women's movement? I don't think so. I don't even think the media is smart enough to put that together. But remember, Linda Sarsour is Louis Farrakhan's big way. I know.

So, Bill, you say they're not smart enough to put that together. I'm a disc jockey. I'm an old disc jockey. Shockey, man. I'm smart enough to put that together. Okay. But in order to put that together, you have to have a frame of reference, all right? Explain that to Stu. You've got to actually know what happened in the past and who the players were. You're telling me, Don Lemon, he's going to put that together, Beck? Is that what you're telling me here? No, I think that Don Lemon and others are not curious, are not intellectually honest or curious.

They don't even know. because who linda sarsore is what her uh connections to farrakhan and this uh crazy muslim guy are they don't know and why don't they know because they don't care they're not seeking the truth we've talked about this before they don't care it's not important to them um and so that's why you don't have any of this coverage um even in new mexico which is a turned very liberal uh the state term very left. The local coverage, because we were looking at some of it to get information, was scant. Okay? They didn't really want to cover the story because it wasn't about oppression of minorities, which is, that's a big theme in New Mexico. It really was. It was,

you know, the oppression of children who were minorities. There were Muslims. I don't know. I mean, they were oppressed by Muslims. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, I do. It was minorities, oppressing other minorities, just like in Chicago. Yes. Why doesn't that cover that story, that unbelievable story, one of the biggest stories in America in the decade, get wall-of-wall coverage because it's black-on-black crime. And, you know, the origin of black-on-black crime is white supremacy. You know that, Beck. And so they're not going to really bring that to the forefront.

And it's such a corrupt system. I'm so glad you're highlighting these stories because if you put it all together and you're a fair-minded person, you just got to go, we don't have a media in America anymore. No, we don't. It does not exist. Yeah, we don't. All right. I want to come back and I want to talk to you about the media in America a little bit more.

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blood-eyed. I don't go into the world of high-tech very often. That surprises me. I have people who do that. Yes, yes. It is frightening to me. All right. Okay. The thing that always stays in my mind is these are private companies. All right.

Now, there's also a complicated thing is that they're allowed to operate on the American grid, which the public really owns. So there's a crossover. into what they do. It's not just a private company like a car company or something like that would be. I don't believe in censorship, but I think there's got to be regulation of defamation and rank attacks that are untrue on people. It's got to be some kind of regulation. A problem is that there's not very many people qualified to do that. I mean, these people run these high-tech companies, they don't know very much about editorial. They don't know what's right and wrong.

They don't have a staff that checks anything. It's all about political correctness to them. I mean, Laura Ingraham got attacked this week for making a demographic comment that she put into some kind of context. You may disagree with it, but all of a sudden she's a white supremacist, and they're just ripping her up. You know, that kind of stuff is really dangerous. But, you know, I think the government has got to basically

have some kind of regulatory capacity about what is legal and illegal, not what's right and wrong, but if there's an illegality involved in, like, let me give an example, inciting violence, so that if you have a commentator that says you kill all Irish people. Irish people are evil.

Well, let's use a real example. Lewis Farrakhan. Right. He's a hater. But, you know, Farrakhan is interesting because when he writes his speech, He doesn't come right out and say he talks generally. You mean about violence? Yes.

About hurting other people, white devils. Correct. Jewish Satan's. That kind of thing. So, I mean, I would err on the side of you've got to have the expression out there, as you said, even if it's hateful. But the government should put some kind of guidelines in place, not law specifically, but guidelines.

I think we already have that. We've all done that. Here's the thing. Private companies can make their own private decision. However, it amazes me that's the, I'm consistent on that. When it comes to the 14th Amendment, you can't discriminate against blacks. Okay, we all know that. And I wouldn't want to.

But if there is a, you know, the coffee cup cafe all spelled with K's instead, of C's, you know, they have a right to exist. I don't want them in my community. I'll never go there, but they have a right to exist, and I have a right to say they're despicable and not go there. What you're saying, but I know you don't like the government intrusion, and either do I. But because these companies access technology that's partially paid for by the... I'll give you an easier one.

They do, they engage in interstate commerce. That's how FDR changed America, interstate commerce. But they also are on the dole. I mean, if you can imagine this, Facebook and all these companies that amass billions of dollars. And the dole is paid for by the taxpayers. I don't know who I trust less, the government or Silicon Valley. I really don't, and that's up for debate, I guess. We go to Bill O'Reilly back with more of the recap of the week.

Next. The release of my new book, Addicted to Outrage, is September 18th. We invite you to go get it now on Amazon.com. And also I'm going on tour and I'll be announcing the cities that I'm going on tour, I believe, on Monday. But it will definitely be early next week. I remember there was a conversation about you going to Long Island in Bill O'Reilly's neighborhood. Yeah, I can't do, Bill O'Reilly's neighborhood. I mean, maybe that's something that Bill would come out and he could support.

Maybe he could talk about his book a little bit. I mean, it seems, I mean, Bill, do you leave the house these days? Or what's the... Once in a while. You know, mostly I'm a shut-in. But Beck is welcome to come to Long Island. But I don't know if he's going to be able to get the accents down, you know? I can't.

I don't understand the Long Islanders, I guess. Yeah, it's like, hey, is that Beck? Does that one back? Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. All right.

So, Bill, let me go over something that you just posted on bill o'Reilly.com. Having spent a good part of the last year writing my upcoming book, Killing the SS, the hunt for the worst war criminals on Earth, which, by the way, is fantastic, finished it. Thank you. I've turned, I'm tuned into violent behavior more than ever before. Many of the German killers who slaughtered children, women, and defenseless men were ordinary people before Hitler started World War II.

They held jobs as merchants, farmers, and local. politicians. They had families. They believed in God. Yet they murdered millions of citizens on orders from deranged Nazi leaders. They volunteered to serve in deathhead units. They relished working in concentration camps where they could brutalize at will because it kept them off the front lines. Those Germans, who were not part of the SS, certainly knew about the brutality against the Jews and other civilians. Incredibly, most of them accepted it. Human beings have a tendency to rationalize their bad behavior and to look away from evil, even if they think about it, no, if even think about it in the first place.

Certainly, we have seen that throughout history, but now we're experiencing open evil here in America. Bill, are you talking about the Nazi rally in Washington this weekend that the press is anticipating? No, that's not the focal point of the column. The focal point of the column is the murder in Chicago. But there was only, there's only been, I think, 78 wounded and 18 killed since last Friday. What violence in Chicago? Between 7 and 10,000 shot in the last two and a half years on the nation's third largest city. So when you say, okay, so what's the difference between an SS concentration camp guard who guns down people

and the gang members in Chicago who pull up at a party, and there are hundreds of people milling around, and they start shooting into the crowd. What's the difference? Is there a difference? No, I was going to say ideology, but no, I don't know if there is. It's evil. They don't both groups couldn't care less about human life,

and both groups were basically allowed, to do what they do by the power structure. Look, are you telling me that in certain selected neighborhoods in Chicago that the federal, state, and local authorities cannot control these people walking out of their house with guns and shooting down people in the street? You telling me that? Because that's not true.

That's a lie. You'd have to put the National Guard in the neighborhoods. You would have to do that. But why wouldn't you do it? Why didn't you do it five years ago? This has been going on for almost 10 years. You know, when there's a civil disturbance, the governor of any state or the president of the United States has the authority to put the National Guard in to quell the civil disturbance. Is this not a civil disturbance?

So why don't they do it, Bill? Because they're afraid of being called whatever fascists or anti-black, because a lot of the activists, don't want it. They don't want to occupy black neighborhoods, that kind of thing. If you actually care about the people, I don't care what color they are. If you have, if my community was under siege

and we knew who the bad guys were, we knew they were these gangs and the police would not come in. Just, again, like Portland, I'm just an average citizen. I'm not involved in this. I just, I want to, this is my home.

It's different than Portland because the police in Chicago will come in, but they are not allowed to stop and frisk. So if they know there's a gang member and they know who the gang members are, and he's walking down the street, an officer cannot come over to him and pat him down to find the gun. Because Rahm Emanuel and the city council, Uber leftists have banned that. So that's number one. They can't do that. number two, if they do stop someone, and that someone turns around as,

what are you stopping before and do anything, they can get sued. The individual police officers lose their whole career because there's no backing by the Uber Left Chicago politicians. No backing for the police. They're not backed. So the police officers say, you know what? I'm not going to do much because if I do anything, it's going to be my career. It's going to be over.

And it's happened time and time and time again. So now the federal authorities, just like they did in Mississippi, just like they did in New Orleans when they took over the federal authorities, took over the New Orleans Police Department, have to go into Chicago and stop the carnage, unless you want another 10,000 people to be shot the next two years. And, you know, you look at these press conferences where I'm a manual, this is Barack Obama's big guy. And where's Barack Obama on this? He used to work in these neighborhoods as a community organizer. Why isn't he there screaming like I'm screaming? Where's LeBron James and Michael Jordan and all the social justice warriors in the athletic community? Why aren't they in Chicago?

You know why Sharpton and Jackson aren't there because they don't make money by going down there and pointing out that it's black-on-black crime and the social problems come from a total collapse of the family in those areas. That's why this is happening. These gang members are, some of them are as young as nine, and they're giving guns because they don't have any supervision at their home. That's all true, but you'll never hear it reported.

And his excuse after excuse, and the governor of Illinois is a Republican. Rainer. I mean, he sits there in Springfield, and he does nothing. While tens of thousands of people are shot, more people are shot in Chicago than in Afghanistan where there's a war.

And I'm saying myself, I wrote this killing the SS. I tell you about the evil that was perpetuated and that Germans looked away. German Americans are the largest ethnic group in America. There's no difference between Americans and Germans ethnic-wise,

and the whole population of Germany's, oh, yeah, well, you know, it's not me, I'm not killing them. Well, you know, Doc Cal is right out of Munich. You saw the barbed wire there. You know people disappear from your neighborhoods, and yet you do nothing from 1933 to 1938, five years, you do nothing, and the same things happen in Chicago.

You let these people run out on the street and sell narcotics at will and they're armed to the teeth, and they go and kill anybody they want to kill, including children and elderly people walking to the grocery store, and you don't do anything about it. And I'm including President Trump, and this is well. On a campaign trail, he, because of my reporting, said, you know, I'm going to clean this up.

Well, clean it up then. Put the guard in there. You put the guard at the border, and it worked, by the way, at the border. Can you imagine Donald Trump putting the National Guard Oh, he'd be a racist. He would be... Oh, yeah, no, no, no, absolutely.

Here's what's crazy, Bill. Remember when the police officer was shot here in Dallas during that Black Lives Matter, you know, protest? Yes. So I had people who were actually in that march come into the studio, and I sat with them and I talked to them, and we had a fascinating conversation. Many of them, none of them,

None of them had actually read the manifesto of Black Lives Matter. They were only marching because they felt like no one was listening to their pleas. And I had mothers and grandmothers who said, we're afraid of our own grandchildren because this evil has come into our community and no one will listen. So we are deemed racist if we do focus on it. and we are racist if we don't focus on it. But there's a big, everyone knows if these gang members were in Beverly Hills, this would have stopped the first week. So if it's not going to happen in a white community,

and there isn't one white community in a country where it does happen, not one, then why are you allowing it to happen, Rahm Emanuel, in a black neighborhood? Can you explain that to me? No. There's silence because poor black people in America are not deemed important enough to take action to protect them. That's racism. Bill O'Reilly, did you, I'm going to take you way out of your comfort zone. Did you watch Jimmy Kimmel and Kanye West last night?

No, I did not. Are you kidding me? No, honestly, no, no, no. Why would I watch Jimmy Kimmel and Kanye West? Listen to me. You should watch this. You should watch this. I know what happened.

I get reports, but I can't get reports. And actually put my eyes on them. You should. Kanye West is one of the bravest people in America today. He talked, here's this guy who has wild success and said it took me a year and a half to work up the courage. to say what I said about Donald Trump, a year and a half. He said because everyone said they would destroy my career. They would destroy everything I have.

And I'd be wiped out if I took a stand. But I felt I had to because I'm not going to just go along with the crowd. That's amazing. Let me ask you two questions since you saw it and I did not. Yes. Did Kimmel give him a hard time? Oh, yes. Of course he did.

But they're friends. And so it was friend bar. It was a friend bar. So it was friendly jabs. Yes. Did West explain why he supports Donald Trump? Uh, kind of. Yeah, he didn't get into real policies.

Uh, he kind of did. Yeah. Was there an overarching you can tell me? Why does Kanye West like Donald Trump? Uh, no, he didn't, he didn't, he focused more on the fact that society cannot tell people what to think. Okay, and I got that. I'm just curious if I, and I told you the story about me and Kanye West in the elevator.

No, I don't remember that. One time I was in Madison Square Garden, and I'm leaving the game, and I had the elevator door opens, and there's Kanye West and short pants, and with two guys who are seven foot eight. Yeah. And it was very- About 800 pounds each, I'm guessing. Right. It's very tough to get in the elevator, because I had my two guys who were seven-foot-eight. Yeah.

And so we're all jammed in. and he knew who I was, but he wasn't going to give me the courtesy of a hello or anything like that. And I said to him, I like your pants, Kanye. See, that's that. So he wasn't nice to you after that result. No, no, no, no. Very few people are nice to me. Like you and too are nice things.

That's it pretty much across the board. All right, Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. Do you have a date on your book yet, Bill? October 12th, I believe. We're going to move it back. And let's talk about that next week because Woodward's book is coming out. I know. I know. And we will be an interesting discussion. Yes, it will. Thank you very much. Bill O'Reilly.

All right, guys. Have a good weekend. You back. Bye-bye. You know, it wasn't worrisome to go against Bill O'Reilly. Woodward will, I mean, that Woodward book will come out and it's going to receive, I mean, it already is. press attention like crazy, crazy, won't allow anybody else to have any point of view. The media is just going to be focused on that point of view. Get Donald Trump.

Oh, yeah. And it's their only focus every day. Yeah. It's all they talk about. Amazing. God, it's a cess with this person. All right. Middle of the night, you're tossing and turning.

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Most people, I guess, do not. because they haven't really watched her very much. And when you see her at first, you're like, what the? You don't even know if it's real or not. You're like, I don't get it. She's really, she's very selfish and, and, and, and, and, and it's a character. It's a character. It's a character.

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I got so big it got picked up by Netflix. Yeah. But I think I'm going to be in a sea of screaming girls. You know, but this is so happy. My daughter said, my wife said, I'll take you to Miranda Sings. And she said, no, mom, this is a dad and daughter thing. That's really sweet. Hey, friends.

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It's Friday, August 10th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. I want to talk to Ezra Klein. In fact, I want to talk to you a bit. I want to start to try to have civil conversations with people I disagree with. And not, I don't want to win. I'm not looking to win. I'm looking to understand.

So what happened last night? And I don't think, you know, I don't know if Jimmy Kimmel has the place to do this. That's not what his show is about. but trying to really understand Kanye yesterday was profound. If you really listened to what he said, I can't believe I'm saying this about Kanye West. It is really one of the most wild transitions I've ever seen. I mean, he seemed, and look, people go through life changes, right?

They do. He seemed completely crazy, not even just because he was liberal, right? He was, you know, he's just crazy. George Bush doesn't care about black people. Seemed completely crazy as of, you know, two years ago. And he still probably, I'm sure he has lots of things that he says that are crazy to me or somebody else. However, his point last night was we shouldn't all try to be the same. We can't force people into little boxes.

And he said it took him a year and a half to develop the courage to come out and support Donald Trump. A year and a half. A guy with that much power in clout. And that much confidence. And that much confidence a year and a half because he was afraid. And he said, I'm done with fear. I'm just done with fear. So I wanted, one of the people I'd like to have on is Ezra Klein.

Now, Ezra Klein is a lefty. He runs Vox now. And Vox is at least something that occasionally surprises me. Occasionally, like they did a story on the, numbers behind socialism and everything that these Democratic socialists are doing. They took the actual numbers from the socialists. From left-wing think tanks, from even the government sources to predict how much it was going to cost for all these socialist programs.

And this, in this article is basically saying, look at the cost. $218 trillion. There's no way this is affordable. No way this is affordable. So at least they're trying to look at actual facts. Well, I want to read this because I'd love to talk to him about this because there doesn't seem to be a two-way street. So this is his response about the problem with Twitter with Sarah Zhang. Now, if you remember Sarah Zhang, she did really some really nasty, nasty statements online.

One of them was kill all men. and, you know, what was it, erase white people or, I mean, just some really nasty stuff. So, Klein said, a few years ago, it became popular on feminist Twitter

to tweet about the awful effects of patriarchal cultural, a culture, and attach the line, hashtag kill all men. This became popular enough that a bunch of people I know and hang out with, even love began, and I love even began using it in casual conversation, kill all men.

And you know what? I didn't like it. It made me feel defensive. It still makes me feel defensive. I'm a man and I recoil hearing people I care about say all men should be killed. Hey, is that reasonable? That's totally reasonable, right? It seems reasonable.

It seems reasonable. But I also knew that wasn't what they were saying. They didn't want me put to death. They didn't want any men put to death. They didn't hate me and they didn't hate men. Hashtag kill all men was another way of saying it would be nice if the world sucked less for women. It was an expression of frustration with pervasive sexism. I didn't enjoy the way they said it, but that didn't mean I had to pretend I couldn't figure out what they meant.

and if I had any questions, I could, you know, ask and actually listen to the answer. This is a fascinating. It really is fascinating. Fascinating column. Let's just make sure. Explain what I just heard because I want to make sure I'm understanding this right. He's saying that sometimes when someone says something, you try to, instead of just mocking it or bashing it or do, you know, taking it completely literally to benefit. your own side.

You instead ask questions about it, understand that maybe it's not exactly what they mean and try to, you know, they're making a point out of frustration maybe. Sure. Huh. Here's the other thing. He continues.

All that was happening inside of my community, which both incline me towards generosity and gave me more context for what was going on. So in other words, because it was his friends, he could give them the benefit of the doubt. If I had been on the outside, perhaps my ultimate reaction would have been different. Perhaps I would have let my initial offense drive my interpretation.

Ezra, I doubt that is perhaps. Although it seems like he's considering it. And I think I... I give him credit. I really, this is a very honest piece. Yeah. And I just, um, I just,

want to talk to him to see if that goes two ways. Well, and I think he's trying to say, because I think it is at times difficult when you have someone that you believe is coming from a bad place to give them that break of saying, all right, that's not what they meant. I will say this, and I am not, you know, there's very little that I would be outwardly proud of, you know, in my life, period. But in this, in this show is one thing I am very proud. of is from the very beginning of the show,

going back since we started doing it together in 1998. Okay? It's been 20 years this year. We've been doing the show together. Wow. For the entire time, we have always, and I'm not saying we never have fallen down on this. So I remember in 2002, you said this.

But I've always tried. We tried to look at things that, for example, a comedian says, that are come off as hateful. And look at them and say, wait a minute, look at this in perspective, understand what they're saying. The first time we really took heat for that was Bill Maher in 2001. Yeah, I remember that because Bill Maher came out as part of politically incorrect and made a statement about the 9-11 attacks right afterwards. I mean, it was every, I mean, you know, the ground is still smoking at the time he says this. I didn't agree with it. I didn't like it.

But I said, first of all, what part of politically incorrect, don't you understand? and he has a right to say those things. Let's not chase him off of ABC, which is what happened. Right. And this happens all the times in relationships. If you, you know, because I've dated back in the day when I was dating,

you'd have, I had, you know, girlfriends who, we got into a point in our relationship in which we, our intent was to take things in the worst way possible. Right? You, you'd, someone would say something. And instead of saying, okay, well, I know they're a good. person and therefore I'm going to take what they're saying as the most generous way possible. You go the opposite.

When you get to that point where you're getting close to a breakup, everything they say you take in the worst way possible and assume bad intent. That's I think is the biggest key to any relationship. Yep. Do you assume good intent or bad intent? Because if you assume good intent, when you say it, you can always say, all right, I see what they're trying to get at there, even though that kind of is an annoying way of saying. But we don't do that to each other.

We never do that anymore. It seems like that we do to our own side. We do it to our own side all the time. So he continues. The same dynamic seems to be a play in the way white people is used in Zhang's jokes. Jokes. On social justice Twitter, the term means something closer to the dominant power structure and culture than it does to actual white people. To read hashtag cancel white people and think Jean is calling for genocide, as New York

magazine's Andrew Sullivan apparently does, is absurd. and to sit around wondering how the social justice left would respond if you completely change the context, intent, and meaning of the tweets by subbing in the names of different groups. Well, read this article on that. But after reading take after take after take on the latest round of our ongoing Twitter wars, I'm struck by how inexplicable both sides seem to each other. To much of the right, it's obvious that her tweets represented anti-white racism in its purest form. To much of the left, it's obvious that they were jokes that anyone with an iota of self-awareness could parse and the affront taken as a pure bad faith. Zhang's statement seemed to me to offer much more persuasive middle road. These were satirical tweets framed it a way that could reasonably offend people who didn't understand the context for what they were reading.

So the real villain here, as so often is, is Twitter. It's not. Yeah, I don't agree with that conclusion. No, it's not. the real villain here is we will not give each other the benefit of the doubt. And if the left thinks that this doesn't happen to us, I bring you back to, could I strangle Michael Moore with my own hands?

How many times have you been asked about that? Million. Again, a complete joke back in 2004, maybe, 2003, where you were joking about Michael Moore, and someone said... We're joking about people that were driving you crazy. Right. And we were using...

You made the serious point. You made the serious point. I don't want to... There's so much negativity out there. It's not like you want to kill someone. Well, I don't know. It was like that sort of like fake considerations. It was satire framed in a way that could reasonably offend people who didn't understand the context in which they were reading.

Right. Yeah. It's exactly the same thing. And Michael Moore did a Broadway show, I believe, in which he went up on stage. And this is like last year, went up on stage 13 years after you made a joke on a radio show and still is acting as if you want to kill him. Now, he of course knows that you have basically no interest in him at all. But, I mean, of course you don't want to actually commit violence against somebody else. And you couldn't.

I mean, we all know that Sarah Zhang does not want to commit genocide against all white people. It's very clear that either one of those are real. The question is, are either of those appropriate? Okay. Well, in the setting at the time, in a comedic sense, where everyone who's involved in that and understands what's being talked about, it's absolutely appropriate. I don't believe there are limits on comedy myself. I don't believe there's limits on speech. I'm a free speech absolutist.

Same way at James Gunn? Yes. All of that. Yes. So, yes, it is appropriate. But that's not how it's used. So my question here with Ezra Klein is, I believe you can make that jump. And you can say, look, I know these people.

Okay. But the problem is a lot of these people, these social justice warriors, have created this atmosphere. It's not the right that comes out and is the word police. The word police is not from the right. The word police is from the left. The word police are the people who have always said, you can't say that. That's racist. You can't say that.

You can't say that. You're a homophobic. You're a racist. I can even hear the dog whistle. We don't even have to say the words. Right. They'll say, you know, this, I saw an example with this recently. People are now saying that it's Chicago, us talking about the violence in Chicago conservatives, is an example of us. It's our new way of blaming black people for being bad.

Because we say, hey, we really don't, we think there's a real violence problem in Chicago that we need to cure. Is the new conservative dog whistle to say that black people can't be trusted to take care of themselves or something. So, here is, here's the thing. They're throwing out. the Western culture. These people who are postmodernists want to throw out everything. Want to throw out reason, right and wrong, absolute truth, any of it. Throw it out.

But then it leaves you in a state of chaos. And that's what's happening. Because there is no reason, because there are no rules, because we don't give each other the benefit of the doubt. You can't just give one side the benefit of the doubt and condemn. condemn the other. You cannot do that. But because that's what's happening in our society, that's what's causing the tension, the animosity, and the lack of trust. So if, if, if, if, Ezra Klein is serious about this, which I think he is, then let's have that conversation and make sure that that benefit of the doubt goes to both sides. Otherwise, it won't work. It doesn't matter.

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Glenn back. Quickly, why is Donald Trump, President of the United States, the press asks? Well, it's easy. Because once you give people the benefit of the doubt and they never give it to you and they continue to destroy and you are destroyed by it, you finally say two can play at that game. Here's an example today. Yeah, Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat told a group of pastors last month

now caught on hidden audio. Pastors. That he's basically saying like, why do they want Marsha Blackburn to be governor? Well, you know, it's because Trump can come in and tell her to jump off a bridge and she'll jump off a bridge. By the way, I hope he comes in and tells her to jump off a bridge.

And there's like laughing and kind of booing. Bottom line being like he's saying like, I hope she jumps off a bridge. Now, we can get our daily hit from our addiction to outrage. We can easily get it from that. We can all sit here and pretend that Steve Cohen really wants Marshall Blackburn dead. We can all sit there and assume that, assume the absolute worst.

Now, we feel this way. We want to do that because we have heard them say those things about us for so long. You want to righteously stand up and say, really? Really? Now I got you. Now I got you. In your own trap. Right.

It's really hard to beat, but that is driven by anger and outrage and not the solution. Glenn, back. Mercury. So, Sue, can I ask you a couple of questions? Tell me of this. The Cleveland National Forest Twitter account posted about the arrest late Wednesday morning of a man who is connected with the holy fire burning in the Cleveland National Forest in California. the suspect 51 year old Forrest Gordon Clark was booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of two counts of felony arson

one count of felony threat to terrorize and one on misdemeanor resisting arrest Now listen to the other one Because there's been two people arrested 32 year old man from Temecula, California was arrested on suspicion of arson Wednesday night after he was accused of setting multiple fires one which burned thousands of acres in San Bernardino Photos and destroyed homes and forced thousands to flee.

Why don't I have the name of the 32-year-old guy, but they're telling me where he's from? When I have the age and the name, but not where the man was from in the first story. I don't know. That's an interesting question. This is, you know, this massive fire in California. By the way, if you want to help, Mercury 1 has people on the ground in California, feeding people relief not only for the citizens, but also for the firefighters. You can go to Mercury 1.org and donate to our disaster relief because we really need your help. this fire is just

devastating, just devastating. But they're now saying that this at least parts of this fire, arson, two guys. Which is pretty incredible. And it's also incredible the way that's being talked about

in the media, these fires. You know, if you you would be excused to think that there's never been a worst case in history of, of, you know, they're getting worse and worse, right? Fires are getting worse and worse. And they're spreading faster and faster. And this is the worst

fire in California's history. One of them. Yeah, this is the worst fire in the history of California. A thousand fire engines. 14,000 firemen online. Firemen from overseas, 22 air tankers, 59 bulldozers, 17 airplanes, 12 helicopters, 11 mobile kitchens. What's interesting, however, is this is happening in a period of not increasing. Global warming because fires are increasing. Right. That's what everyone's saying. Yeah. However, the exact opposite is actually happening. There are actually, there's less area burnt by wildfires than any time in the

past at least 100 years. And by a very wide margin, what's interesting about that, is, is there are a couple factors working against each other. First of all, you have human beings who are getting better and better at fire suppression, right? So that is obviously helping the situation. Then you also have the climate, which, oddly enough, at this time, is actually helping suppress fires because of humidity. So at this point... No, I just read a story, Stu, that because the global warming has happened and they specifically, specifically said, and in this case, it is the combination, while the temperatures haven't risen,

it's the combination of the temperature and the humidity, which has made things hotter. Yeah, no, that's definitely not it. It may have to say is that it may have feel hotter to you as a human being, but that's not real. The drought is something that we'll talk about as well, but there is actually no increase in the amount of land that is under drought. There's no trend in that increase at all over the past, at least 50 years. You're talking globally? Yeah.

However, because there are certain areas that have been hit by drought, but there were other areas hit by drought when those areas weren't in drought. When California wasn't dealing with a drought, there was another area probably on the other side of the world that was. There's always droughts going on. So there have been droughts in the United States. Texas was hit by one at one point fairly recently. But the other part of this, the reason why these fires are getting larger

is because there is more of a fuel load available for them to burn. Well, what does that mean? What that means is because, largely because of fertilization, no, there is more greenery to burn. No, I saw it on television. It is because men are going into the forest and they're building houses that we are just building too many houses. And that's the fuel that's burning. No, that's not. I saw it. I saw it. That's not how that happens. What's amazing is the, the, the media will tell you that the climate, is making these fires worse. Okay.

And if you believe all of their science and you just go with exactly what they're saying, what they say is consensus, there is an argument there that it's true. However, the argument they're making and they will never express this is that CO2 is making plants grow faster. So there's more plants to burn.

There is more greenery to burn. No, wait. It is improving the growth of all of them. The CO2 we have learned is bad. Now, I learned in the old-fashioned days that plants breathe CO2, and it's kind of we give them what they need. They breathe in what we exhale. They exhale what we breathe in.

That is, that is, that is, that is a hundred percent true. In fact, we've, we've shown experiments on the air where they will put two little seedlings in a confined area and pump CO2 into one of them. And you will actually see the plant. grow faster. They'll speed up the time and the plant will grow faster and larger and it will have more density. And that is what's happening right now.

That's why there's more fire. Now, the other part of this, which is really super duper important, is that we have developed technology. Capitalism has developed incredible tools to fight fires more efficiently. So we're actually seeing less

of them overall. But they are getting a slight increase in the fuel load largely because CO2 is helping plants grow faster. That is something the media will not tell you. They'll tell you one little slice of that. But the temperature and moisture is actually decreasing the amount of fires. Overall, the increase, or the decrease has been significant. I can show, if you go to my Facebook page, Stu Berggear is my name, by the way, if you

don't happen to know that. If you go to my Facebook page, you can see the chart and you'll see how dramatic the drop is. and it is incredibly dramatic. And there's links to all of the scientific studies that show this. If you want to get super nerdy with your weekend. Point being, though, they intentionally leave out all of these facts to make you act a certain way and support a certain policy.

And that is the type of news that, you know, I don't know that you want to call it fake news. I think it is. I think it's very misleading at the very least. And intentional. Well, look at the two biggest threats that we're under really right now. California. Are you getting the real news in California?

I don't think you are, as we just discussed. The other one, New Mexico. Are we getting the real story on that? And why should you worry? And why did I ask about the fires? Why did I start with arson? Why did I start with that? Stu, you've been around with me long enough to know.

and let's not go into details. Why? Just one word. Terror. Yes. Right? Okay? We're not going to go into any deeper than that.

Yes. Terror. So, arsonists, wait a minute. Let's know who these people are. That's why I asked, why is the name withheld? Why are the names withheld?

Why don't we know who these people are? Can we find out a little bit more than just their names and their addresses? Who are they? I don't think this is terror related, but we should be at least looking at that. Same with New Mexico. In New Mexico, why isn't the press telling us this?

And why is it important? In about 15 minutes, I'm going to go on my Facebook page, Glenn Beck, and I think also the Blaze Facebook page. And I'm going to tell you a story of exactly, why the media is being irresponsible for not talking about what's really going on in New Mexico, what they were really doing, because it's been done before. And the effects are devastating. It would shut our country down.

I really believe it would be the last draw. It would be the thing that would finally break us. And I'm going to tell you the story of when it happened again. and I'll do that in about 15 minutes on my Facebook page. Also, you know, remember that speech that Barack Obama gave? And we were all agreeing with it. We were like, yes, where is this president? Do you remember that?

Just happened recently. Yeah, it's the one where he did it overseas somewhere. Yeah, so important. So important. Yes, he was doing it overseas. And remember, what was his message? Do you remember? we got to stop with all this division.

We've got to stop, you know, black and white and I hate you and you hate me. And we got to stop with all this. He even said something of the effect of, you know, we can't get to a point where because you're a white person, your opinion doesn't matter or something like that. Right. Yeah. We didn't ask what foreign country was he in? South Africa.

Now, here's our president preaching this in South Africa. because reconciliation is over. The time for talking to white people is over. And they're on the eve of genocide. Yet that's as close as he got to it. He didn't, he did not take on that nation and say, stop it. He gave a message to a group of people who were about to slaughter an entire race. And that message rang true.

to us because that's where we are. Hey guys, we can't get to a place to where you're a different party or a different race and you have no value and I'm not going to even talk to you. Okay. That's where we are. They are at, I'm going to kill the person of the other race because they have no value and they're in my way and they own my stuff. it's interesting to me that the man who many people think started many of these fires, or at least popularized them, brought them into the forefront, is now giving a message in a foreign country,

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And then on Monday, I'm a lifetime dream concert for me. My first album I ever bought was the electric light orchestra out of the blue. And they're coming to Dallas and they're on tour and they are really good on tour. Oh, wow. And get to see them. I'm not going backstage to meet Jeff Lynn, even though I want to, but he's like a huge. I'm really a big fan.

and I've met Elton John. Nope. This was before I was Glenn back. Met Elton John. Woof. That didn't go well. Didn't help. Billy Joel.

Woof. Did not help. Met B.B. King. He hit on my wife. Didn't help. I do not want to be. If he's a jerk, fine. I don't ever want to know it.

Yeah. I don't ever want to know it. I don't like ruining my heroes when I meet them. Usually, they winds up ruining it. Yeah. Coming up in about 10 minutes, I'm going to go on to my Facebook page.

at Glenn Beck. And I'm going to give you a story that we just didn't have time to do today that I think is really important. I need to tell you the story of why New Mexico is so important that we pay attention to it and we look into these things. It's a story of how this has happened before. And when it did happen, it changed everything in our country. If this happens, I believe it will, it could be the last straw for the Republic. I really believe we would react in such a way. It would be the last straw for the Republic.

And our enemies know it. Why is New Mexico important? I'll show you a little bit of history, recent history, that is mind-boggling on my Facebook page at Glenn Beck in about 10 minutes. Glenn back Mercury