The Glenn Beck Program - The Far Left vs. Israel | Guests: Alan Dershowitz & Stephen Moore | 5/18/21
Episode Date: May 18, 2021Glenn reads an article from attorney Alan Dershowitz explaining why the hard Left glorifies the Palestinians and hates Israel. Why in the world would Biden rescind Trump’s executive order protecting... statues? Pat Gray stops by to discuss legal government theft, even from safe deposit boxes. Economic expert Stephen Moore gives an update on inflation, Biden’s child tax credit, and the universal basic income that’s being set up. Alan Dershowitz joins to discuss his viral article. The Heartland Institute’s Justin Haskins shares an incredible poll that found conservatives are most likely to know the news. Glenn and Stu discuss Andrew Cuomo’s awful book deal and how much money was lost due to its failure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I got to tell you, I am so sick and tired of hearing the bashing of Israel.
If we had somebody lobbying rockets into any of our cities, any of our suburbs, well, I can't
say this anymore.
I would say we would stop it, but maybe we wouldn't.
We probably wouldn't now.
If Antifa were doing that, we'd probably like,
that's a beautiful celebration of their freedom.
And look at their vying rockets with red glare.
It makes me want to sing.
Well, definitely not sing the national anthem because that,
that, of course, is racist.
I don't know what we would do anymore.
But I think people would be outraged
if somebody was lobbing rockets and bombs and killing their children anywhere in America.
We would respond.
But Israel?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They're Jews, you know.
There was a great article written by Alan Dershowitz in the Hill.
Why does the hard laugh glorify the Palestinians?
Why do they hate the Jews so much?
In a world in which massive violations of human rights have tragically become the norm,
why is the hard left focused on one of the least compelling of these causes, namely the Palestinians?
Where is the concern for the Kurds, for the Chechens, for the Uyghurs, for the Tibetans?
There are no campus demonstrations on their behalf, no expression of concern by the squad in Congress,
No United Nations resolutions, no recurring op-eds in the New York Times, no claims that the nations that oppress these groups have no right to exist.
On the merits and demerits of their claims, the Palestinians have the weakest case.
They've been offered statehood and independence on numerous occasions in 1938, in 1948, in 1967, in 2000, 2001, and 2008.
Israel ended its occupation of the Gaza Strip in 2005.
Yet even now, Palestinian leaders refuse to sit down and negotiate a reasonable two-state solution.
As the late Israeli diplomat, Eben once aptly put it,
the Palestinian leadership never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Nor are history and morality on the Palestinian side.
The Palestinian leadership aligned itself with Nazism and Hitler in the 1940s, with Egyptian
tyranny and anti-Semitism in the 1950s, and with international terrorism from the 1960s forward.
In 1947, the United Nations divided the land that the Romans called Palestine, the Jews, called Israel, into two areas.
They divided that through the United Nations,
and provided a sliver a land along the Mediterranean and a non-Arabble desert called a Negev to the Jews,
who were a majority in that area and a much larger area to the Arabs.
The Jews declared statehood on their land.
Instead of declaring statehood on the Palestinian side,
the Palestinians and surrounding Arab nations declared war on the newly United Nations established Israel.
The Arabs lost and the Jews captured more land.
As a result of war, there occurred in exchange of populations.
Hundreds of thousands of Arabs left or were forced out of Israel,
and hundreds of thousands of Jews left or were forced out of Arab countries and Arab Palestine.
Again, in 1967, the surrounding Arab nations threatened to destroy Israel,
which preemptively attacked and occupied the West Bank in Gaza,
which it immediately offered to return,
with some territorial adjustments necessary for security.
In exchange for peace and recognition,
they would return that land.
The UN Secretary-Council issued Resolution 242,
which called for return of captured territories in exchange for peace.
Israel accepted.
The Arab nations and Palestinians, however, issued three infamous noes.
No peace, no recognition, and no negotiation.
Just want to point out here, the Kurds have never been offered independence or statehood,
despite treaties that promised it.
Nor have the Tibetans or the Uyghurs or the Chechens.
But the Palestinians have on multiple occasions since 1938 when their leader told the Peel Commission
that the Palestinians don't want a state.
They just don't want a Jewish state.
state. Palestinian people have suffered more from the ill-advised decisions of their leaders than from the
actions of Israel. Back to the present, Hamas commits a double war crime every time it fires a
lethal rocket at Israeli citizens from a population or an area populated by its civilians,
who they use as human shields. Israel responds proportionately in self-defense, as President Biden
has emphasized. The Israel Defense Forces go to extraordinary links to try to minimize civilian
casualties among the Palestinians, despite Hamas's policies of using civilian buildings,
hospitals, schools, mosques, and high-rise buildings to store, fire, and plan their unlawful
rockets and other devices. Yet the hard left blames Israel alone, and many on the center left
create a moral equivalence between Democratic Israel and terrorist Hamas.
Why? Why does this happen? asked Alan Dershowitz.
The answer is clear and can be summarized in one word.
Jews.
The enemy of the Kurds, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs, and the Chechens are not, unfortunately, for them, the Jews.
Hence, there's little concern for their plight.
If the perceived enemy of the Palestinians were not the Jews, there'd be little concerned for their plight as well.
This was proved by the relative silence that greeted the massacre of Palestinians by Jordan during Black September in 1970,
or the killings of the Palestinian Authority leaders in Gaza during the Hamas takeover in 2007.
There's been relative silence, too, about more than 4,000 Palestinians,
mostly civilians killed by Syria during that country's current civil war.
It's only when the Jews or their nation are perceived to be oppressing Palestinians
that the left seems to care about them.
While the United States provides financial support for Israel, we also provide massive support
for Jordan and Egypt.
Even if the United States were to end support for Israel,
the demonization of Israel by the hard left would not end.
The left singles out Palestinians not because of the merits of their case,
but because of the alleged demerits of Israel and the double standard universally applied to Jews.
That is the reality.
John Brennan, former CIA director, as much admitted this double standard
when he complained in a tweet about alleged lack of empathy by Jews.
I always found it difficult to fathom how a nation of people deeply scarred by a history
replete with prejudice, religious persecution, and unspeakable violence, perpetrated against them,
would not be the empathetic champions of those whose rights and freedoms are still abridged, end quote.
As Seth Franzman, a writer for the Jerusalem Post, aptly put it, quote,
in his telling, he implied the Jews must have special empathy for others,
while non-Jews have no special need to be empathetic.
Brennan has not held other countries to a higher standard based on the ethnic or religious origins of their citizens.
In short, because Jews engendered genocide, they have to live according to a higher standard than those who perpetrated the genocide.
This benevolent double standard may sound kinder than the double standard imposed by the members of the squad and others, but it has the same effect.
It demands that Israel do less to protect its citizens from rockets and terrorism than is demanded from other countries.
The same standard must be demanded of Israel as is demanded of other countries defending their citizens.
In particular, the same standard must be demanded of Palestinians and their leaders as is demanded of other groups seeking the moral support of good people.
I support the legitimate rights of Palestinians to a peaceful state.
Not so much because of their history and actions merit it more than others,
but because it would be good for peace in the region and for Israel.
But I refuse to prioritize it over other more equally or compelling cases
just because Jews are on the other side.
Alan Dershowitz, I think that is
absolutely 100% true. Why do they have such a problem with Israel? Well, we wouldn't have a problem
with Israel if Israel just didn't exist. We wouldn't have a problem with all these Jews if Jews just
there's just so many Jews. You know what I'm saying, Stu? That's the attitude. That's the attitude of the
left. It's something they embrace wholeheartedly and they don't seem to care about the facts on the
ground. I mean, you can go back, and I agree with Dershowitz and his analysis here,
but you can go back and find things that I'm sure, you know, the Palestinians feel slighted.
A lot of people feel like they got the raw deal in some of these arrangements going back 30, 40,
50, 50, 100 years. But like, again, I don't agree with that analysis. Okay, all right. But my point is,
like, who, like, that's the past. It's like trying to say, well, you know, Mexico actually owns
California. Okay, well, here we are. In 2021, we were existing in a circumstance where one country
was not firing, one group was not firing at the other group when we're talking about
missiles raining down on their population. Then out of nowhere, Hamas started firing
hundreds and thousands of missiles at their neighbors. So guess what? Like, they have a right
to respond to that, whether you think the Jews got the long end of the stick long ago or not.
We had a situation that was, you know, relatively stable.
And Hamas, for the five millionth time, an international terrorist group started firing missiles at Israel in their population centers at their civilians.
And just because they have good defenses and knock down the majority of them does not mean a thing.
You know, if you go and try to rob a bear.
bank and you pull out a gun and you point it at the teller and it doesn't wind up working out
for you and you go to prison.
They don't say, well, you know, he didn't get away with the money.
So therefore, let's just let him go.
That's not how this works.
I just have to.
I have some umbrage.
I need to take with you.
First of all, yes, yes, Stu.
Not umbrage.
Stu started this little rant with, uh, it would be like if people claim that Mexico
still owns California.
Mexico never owned California.
Spain occupied Mexico, so Spain actually owned California.
But see, the stew lies just continued.
By the way, we have Alan Dershowitz on with us in about an hour from now.
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So, Stu, on Friday, the president, President Biden, repealed the Trump,
executive order to start the Garden of American Heroes.
Now, I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.
The president says we want a Garden of American Heroes and we're going to use all of those
toppled statues and we're going to put them in Washington, D.C.
And if you look at the hero list, it's pretty clear.
clear, it's not, it has nothing to do with whites.
It has nothing to do with left or right.
I mean, it's pretty much everywhere.
Pretty much everybody is in this thing.
If your statue has been torn down, there's a list that you can find.
It's like, let me see, it's 244 different statues.
Now, not only did he tear it down and say,
nope, we're not going to build that.
He also lessened the punishment for tearing down federal statues.
And for the life of me, I can't figure out why.
I can't figure out why he would end the Trump order that was protecting our statues and saying,
look, if you pull a statue down or deface a federal statue, don't worry about it.
Who enacted it?
Donald Trump.
Oh, okay.
Do you really think that it's really just, really?
It's a big part of it, clearly.
I mean, I think anytime, you know, look, they, they, they don't want to admit that their side is the one who is, you know, destroying our cities.
They don't want to act as if that's a real thing.
They constantly say Antifa is like not real and it's just an idea.
and they've done a lot down this road to try to make that into reality when it's not reality.
So I think this is sort of an extension of that idea, which they've been doing,
they've been attempting in the media for a while.
There's no pretending anymore that these guys, and Joe Biden is a massive radical.
Do you hear about Section 230?
Donald Trump, before he left office, another executive.
order needs to be a commission to study the effects of section 230.
So, you know, is there a way to stop these big tech companies from regulating speech?
He just asked for a study on it.
Nope, Joe Biden just canceled that.
Just revoke that order.
You know, again, I don't think there is a way to escape.
the fact that we have the radicals now running our country.
It makes Barack Obama look like a pussycat in comparison.
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geods right now is property and the and the theft by the american government of american
citizens property. The civil asset forfeiture thing is outrageous right now. Did you guys just hear
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to a vault that stores safety deposit boxes and this one woman is trying to get some of her
money back. She had $100,000 in gold and silver coins. A bunch of
family heirlooms, a diamond necklace that she inherited from her late grandmother, and an
engagement ring, she was going to pass down to her daughter. And they just put it in this
safety deposit vault where they heard that they're really good at keeping your valuable safe.
Well, the FBI rated it because they figured that some of it, some of the safety deposit boxes
contained drugs, which they did, but rather than just focusing on those, they took everything
in the vault.
Everybody's was just confiscated.
Just gone.
Yeah, it's just gone now.
Over $100,000 worth of stuff seized by the FBI.
And now it's up to them to try to get their valuables back.
And so far, they've been unsuccessful at doing it.
It's incredible stuff.
I've heard so many of these stories.
stories over the last few years where people are found on the highway.
They happen to have large amounts of cash with them.
And it's just confiscated by the law enforcement agent who pulled them over.
Yeah, we're just going to take this because it's suspicious that you have it.
Well, it is not against the law to carry more than $10,000 on your person.
You can do that.
It's not against the law to be suspicious either.
Right.
There's no law.
being suspicious.
And most of the time in these civil asset forfeiture cases, they're never even charged with
the crime.
So it's not even alleged they've done anything wrong.
It's just, yeah, we took your, we took your stuff.
Because, uh, this has got to stop.
It has to.
It has to.
Wait until, uh, tomorrow we're getting a little into what's going to happen with property
rights.
Once people understand what forbearance means, uh, people are going to be losing their,
their houses, they're going to be losing their right to live in the apartment that they haven't
paid rent on, and they're going to lose their credit, and they still owe, you know, what could be
for a house, what? How much do you pay for your house every single month? If you haven't been
paying for the last year, year and a half, you have to make all of that money back before you can
even sell your home, and you still end up with really bad credit. What happens when the government
government just starts taking houses.
Yeah, just confiscating things.
Yep.
Wait a minute.
That's, it's, it's so unconstitutional.
It's silly to even mention it because, I mean, it's clear, right?
It's so obvious.
I have, I've talked about this for a long time that after 2008, they changed all the banking rules.
and one of the rules that was changed was the safety deposit boxes.
If you go in and open a safety deposit box,
whenever the bank or the government decide,
a federal agent, FBI,
or a Department of Homeland Security officer,
has to be there with you while you open the box.
And if they deem anything suspicious,
they can just take it.
that's now that's now part of your ask your bank hey does the Department of Homeland Security
have the right to come in and witness me opening my safety deposit box if they want yes yes they do
that's incredible what's the way to ask them ask them for the paperwork on it on the
rules ask them because they'll probably say no it is law now how am I supposed to protect my
collection of rare jewels.
Like, how do you do that?
In all seriousness, like, you know, that is, seriously, that is the question that
everybody has been asking.
Where do I put my rare jewels?
But I mean, really, like, what do people do if, you know, not being in this position,
I wouldn't know, but have things that other people want?
Like, what is the, if you have that, like, it used to be the safe thing to do was stick them
in a safety deposit box.
Right.
It's not now.
What do you do?
Can't.
I would.
suggest that there are privately held safety deposit box places. I know of a couple that they're run by private industry. They are not banks. They're just safety deposit boxes. And they are in like, you know, a fortress and monitored all of the time. And you can guarantee that nobody's going into.
there at least without a warrant.
There's no laws that talk about being able to go into there.
This is the thing that we got when the government bailed banks out.
They said that you are the lender of last resort.
So if you have money and a bank collapses, if you have money in there, the bank is going to
take all of your money and use it to pay off its loans or it's, you know,
margin bets or whatever.
That money does not belong to you anymore and they're counting on FDIC to make everybody whole.
So your tax dollars will go to replace your money.
And this is what happens when the government starts to get in bed and starts to give banks money to bail them out.
There comes with consequences.
Unfortunately, the consequences are for us, not the bank.
Right.
Right.
Somewhat of a related story.
There was some good news from the Supreme Court yesterday on their new ruling.
The community caretaking thing, the responsibility that police have, like searching an abandoned vehicle for dangerous weapons.
That doesn't apply to a home.
And that was a nine nothing ruling.
So even Brian.
Breyer and Sotomayor and all the liberal judges were on board with this.
But this involved a guy in Rhode Island who was really depressed and he and his wife were, I don't know, fighting at the dinner table.
And he went and got a gun and put it on the table and said, shoot me.
And instead of doing that, she left the house and went to a hotel and then called police.
And she and police came back to the house.
and kind of talked him down.
He was out on the porch when they arrived,
and they convinced him to go to a mental health hospital,
which he did.
He said,
I will only do that, though,
if you'll leave my guns alone.
And they agreed.
So he left.
And as soon as he left,
police went into his house,
searched it and confiscated all of his guns.
And told her,
and told her that he had said he wanted his guns taken.
Yeah.
They lied to her.
they like, yeah.
So he took him to court and actually won, which to me in this environment is pretty amazing and pretty good news that the Supreme Court at least had this kind of sense.
What do you think about them taking on this abortion bill?
15 weeks has to be the maximum.
Where is it?
Mississippi.
Mississippi.
Yeah.
And Mississippi says, you know,
after 15 weeks, you can't abort the baby.
Why are they picking this up?
Do you think this is good news or bad news, Pat?
I'm a little nervous about it because I just don't have any confidence in the Supreme Court right now.
They've made too many screwy rulings to really give me any confidence that they're going to rule the right way here.
I feel like how I always feel walking into a new Star Wars movie, like a lot of excitement, but you know it's going to suck at the end.
Right.
Yeah, like that's kind of like that.
It really is.
You've got great hope.
Great hope.
It just never pans out.
It never pans out.
It never works out.
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We've seen so many crazy stories.
I mean, you know, there's a story of guy in Chicago who was, who fixed people's cars and gave
someone, one of his customers, a ride in his car, back to his place of business.
In the process, the person who he was giving a ride had drugs on him.
they took the mechanics car with all of his tools in the back and held it hostage for a giant
fine for months into years and the guy couldn't do his job and there's so many stories like
this under the banner of civil asset forfeiture that some of these states have now I mean
when the American people hear about stuff like this they're like okay this has got to stop
this blatantly when you're not even accused of a crime and you're losing your stuff
this has got to stop.
So some states have actually passed pretty strong laws banning civil asset forfeiture.
Well, the states wanting the revenue, wanting this ability to be able to take people's property,
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And it's this thing called equitable sharing.
What a great term for today's America.
Oh, my gosh.
Equitable share.
So basically what they do is they go through the process completely as they used to.
to and get all the way up to the point where they're going to take the property.
And at the last second, they bring in the feds.
And if they bring in the feds, then it's not a state civil asset forfeiture.
It's a federal civil civil asset forfeiture.
And through the equitable sharing agreement, the states get to keep 80% of the money anyway.
So basically, they've just found a way to completely go around the law to continue to do this.
to people. So the equitable sharing
is not taking
from the rich and giving to the poor
like Robin Hood. It's
taking from anyone and giving to the government
like the true Robin Hood story. Yes.
That's exactly what it is.
And this is just... This is the Sheriff of Nottingham.
This is exactly what the Sheriff of Nottingham
was doing. And they're just
invading the laws that the government has passed
because they want this stuff. They want
the power to do it. They want the result, the money at the end of the, at the end of the day.
And it's, it's shameful. I mean, it was, it's incredible. And I will say, you know, Texas is known to be
one of the worst states for this. It's not just blue states. It's blue states and red states.
They all want their hands in your stuff, especially like we've seen, you know, stories where people will
like be going to the, you know, the bank to deposit, you know, a night's revenue at a restaurant and get
pulled over and they just take it because you shouldn't have this much cash on you.
Well, you know, I run a restaurant.
Yeah, the guy that ran that store in, I think Virginia.
And it was just like a local, you know, like a local market, you know.
And the feds came in, took the cash out of his till and said, we think some of this money is ill-gotten goods.
And he's like, no, I've got receipts for all of it right here.
took it never got it back lost his lost his place and these are people that not only are not convicted
of crimes but not even charged with charged like they're not even saying they did anything wrong
they're just taking it anyway it's a remarkable thing that should not be happening in the united
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America is headed for
transitory hyperinflation.
Now, I ain't a banker, but I am a thinker.
And I've always heard that word hyperinflation was a bad thing.
We have Stephen Moore on to talk about this and so many other things in the economy.
Hello, Stephen.
How are you, sir?
Hey, Glenn, good.
And by the way, you don't have to listen to Bank of America.
I mean, I said on your show a couple months ago, you know, if we kept up this insane spending,
insane borrowing, insane, you know, helicopter money, dumping $100 bills on helicopters,
which is essentially what Biden announced yesterday, that, you know, inflation is very simple,
Glenn.
I mean, this stuff is that complicated.
Inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.
And we've got so much money being printed right now, so much money being spent and borrowed
and made in the trillions of dollars.
How is anybody even surprised that we have inflation?
So tell me, do you believe that this is temporary?
because we just don't have the products on the shelves because people aren't, you know, getting their,
they're taking their job back?
Do you buy into that?
Some of it is temporary, but some of it is long term.
I mean, look, we do have a big, there's so many problems that are compounding each other right now.
You just mentioned one.
I mean, again, my last time you and I talked, I said this was going to happen.
If you're paying people, you've got couples now, including food stamps, unemployment benefits,
free rental assistance, you know, free health care that are getting government benefits of over
$100,000 a year for not working. I mean, that's nuts. You and I believe in a safety net, but come on.
You know, we're paying more people to stay unemployed than to work. It's just craziness.
Just me a question of whether Washington is going to get us back together.
And now as we speak, Biden still proposing $4 trillion more spending. I'm angry. You can tell the
anger, my, because, you know, all we need to just get the government out of the way.
Get out of the way. We've got a better.
We got business is reopened.
Just stopped, but they can't.
So tell me about the monthly child tax credit.
This is a new way to give people money.
Government checks every month, $3,000 per child.
And they are dumping this money beginning in July, July 15th.
What does this mean?
So let's do the math here.
thousand per child.
Let's say you have three kids.
That's $9,000 of free money.
Plus, you've got, if you got a couple both on unemployment insurance,
they're getting somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,500 a month and benefits.
So that right there is, you know, about $60,000 a year.
Then they get $10,000 of food stamps.
Then they get $10,000 of free health care and, and, you know, rental assistance.
You're talking about, people don't believe it.
When I say you can get $100,000 of benefits, but you can't.
Look, I'm for shoulder.
You're for children.
But the best way to help children is to have a mother and a father in the home and have a job.
You know, it's not complicated.
Rebbing, give people money, get people working.
You know, we've had, Glenn, now it's been 14 or 15 months that people haven't been working.
We have 8.1 million job openings today.
There are 750,000 job openings today in manufacturing and construction.
Those are good jobs.
A lot of them are union jobs.
People are not going back to work.
folks, it's very simple because government is not paying them to do it.
And Joe Biden was asked about this question.
He goes, blah, blah, blah.
I mean, he doesn't make any sense because he's never run a business.
And by the way, this is killing our small businesses, Glenn.
Our restaurants, our stores, our construction companies.
I mean, ask somebody runs a construction crew.
Can you get workers?
No, no.
You know, they're not available right now.
And that's why we have these supply shots.
I have had, you know, I'm doing construction on my house.
and almost every day, almost every day, somebody said, I'm sorry, I don't have, you know, the workers here.
I just couldn't get them.
The plumber was saying, I've been wanting to mentor somebody forever.
And he said, I can't get anyone who is willing to do the work.
I mean, that's a good job.
That's a, yeah, plumbers make a good living.
Yeah, I try to get an electrician.
You know, so, I mean, I have the same thing.
We have construction in our house.
There's a little noise in the background.
That's the construction.
And I got to tell you, you know, the people, we've had about seven or eight people
coming in in our house.
They're doing a great job.
I think, you know, seven out of eight of them are immigrants.
They're from Russia or they're from Ukraine or they're from Mexico.
I mean, the immigrants are that.
How would we even keep this economy going without immigrant workers?
So, I don't know.
I'm very frustrated because we should, we should just get back to normal.
I think if we would just stop all the spending.
and borrowing. And I believe we could have an economy that would just be flying high right now,
really high. I mean, with these businesses reopening and the jobs are open, we've got a solid economy,
a solid foundation. Anybody wants the vaccine can have it. And yet we're screwing it up. And by the way,
don't forget what was the first act of Joe Biden when he became president? Do you remember?
The border, I think, wasn't it?
Well, that was the second one. The first was the pipeline.
the Keystone Pipeline. He didn't want to go up the pipeline. Yeah. Now, I mean, how insane is that?
I mean, really, we have the colonial pipeline that's been shut down by cyber, you know, criminals.
And now we've got Island Washington, you see, I can't get a drop of gasoline within 10 miles to where I live.
Stephen, when the government, I think they're headed towards UBI. I mean, they're just making payments now to people.
And people aren't going back to work. And this is what.
you know, Nancy Pelosi said was coming, you know, for poets, poets and dreamers everywhere.
You know, you should be able to make enough money.
The government should be able just to pay you that you could do what you, you know,
follow your dreams.
That's where we're headed, isn't it?
Well, I'm for people following their dreams, but I'm also realistic and people need to be
realistic.
You know, I wanted to be a pro quarterback.
Did you know that, Glenn?
I did not.
Don't think that would happen.
Hey, thanks a lot, but wait, they are currently paying you pay people on a monthly basis,
and you're sending them a check.
That check better not stop because people start to count on that check.
And I mean, you're just training people to get UBI.
Well, what's really bad.
What really worries me is that's why I mentioned 15 months of people getting on employment.
That means that for 15 months, people have not been in the workforce.
That caused an atrophy of your work skills.
It's the worst thing you can do is tell people.
And by the way, there is dignity, there's purpose in your life if you get up and work.
There's no dignity in watching Netflix all day or sitting on the couch.
And the worst thing you can do for people to tell them to sit around and do nothing.
You know, you need purpose in your life.
Everyone does.
And, you know, we all know that.
And the government is now, but a lot of families, and I'm not.
blaming them, I'm blaming the government, or just making a financial decision. Hey, I can make
$48,000 if I go back on the shop, but Uncle Sam's going to give me $55,000 if I don't.
Do you read Shadow Stats by any chance? Are you familiar with it at least? Yeah,
I know of it, but I'm not, what, what are you referring to? I'm referring to the way we
calculate inflation has been changed a couple of times since the 1980s. And if you use the
old standard, we're up to about 11% inflation. With the new standard, we're at 4.2.
Is there a case to be made to at least glance at the old way that we used to be figuring
inflation? Because inflation got to be, what, 14%. My feeling is people, you don't have to tell people
at the inflation rate. They know it. They know it. They go to the grocery store. They go to the gas pump.
I mean, people feel it.
So, you know, these bogus government statistics, you know, give us kind of a direction of things,
but you can't BS people.
They know what's happening.
I mean, my gosh, you know, when Biden, the day Biden was elected, the gas price was $2.10 a gallon.
Today, the gas price is $3.5 a gallon.
You know, by the way, he keeps saying, I'm only going to raise tax on people make over $400,000.
When you've got a 95 cent per gallon increase in the gas price, that's a tax.
that's a tax on people, right?
Yes.
Yes.
What does, how, how bad do you think this gets, Stephen?
And what should people, what should people prepare for?
I think the stock, I'm not a great, you know, financial analyst, but I would say this.
I'd be very careful about the stock market right now, real careful.
I'm not saying pull out, but I wouldn't put a whole lot of money into the market right now.
You know, the first rule of investing is by low.
and sell high.
And I think you've got a very overpriced stock market right now.
And by the way, I'm not saying next week it's going to crash,
but I do think, Glenn, I don't know what you're thinking as.
I think there's going to be a correction.
There just has to be.
And especially pay attention to this massive tax increase bill,
pay attention to the $2.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill.
By the way, I love this.
He wants to spend $2.5 trillion infrastructure.
And the first thing he does when he comes president is kill an infrastructure project,
the Keystone Pipeline.
It costs taxpayers nothing.
Right?
I mean, you've got to watch Washington.
You've got to watch what these people are doing.
If, you know, the senator from West Virginia, it goes, you know, south on us and sides with Pelosi and the rest.
And they continue to spend like this, you know, stock up on food, stock up on gasoline.
I mean, you cannot, a great nation cannot borrow $6.5 trillion in one year.
I mean, it's insane.
Well, you can't, to stop inflation, you would normally.
raise interest rates. There's no way that the Fed can raise the interest rates because the government
couldn't afford to pay the rates themselves. Well, that's the problem, right? We've been borrowing,
we've been living on borrowed time. We've been borrowing at these bargain low interest rates,
and that's been a blushing for the country. But now, if the rates go up, you know, every one percentage
point increase in interest rates cost us all a trillion dollars more in debt. I mean, so we're in a
vicious cycle right now. So maybe the first thing
Washington should do,
you know, I mean, I don't have an 180
IQ, but the first thing government should do is
stop spending money. We don't have.
I mean, how crazy if Biden is
running around the country now is let's spend another two and a half
trillion dollars and borrow it. And by the way, what
happens when China starts to stops buying our
bonds?
Well, I think they effectively have.
The Fed is
the only buyer of
our bonds at this point.
Are you worried?
That is, Glenn.
That's what you just described, where we, you know, the Congress spends the money,
the Treasury issues bonds, and then the money printing agency of the government buys the bonds.
That's what third world countries do.
I know.
I know it is.
I know it is.
That's why you don't have faith, full faith and credit in the U.S. dollar.
When people really catch on to what's going on, it'll be over, I think, fast.
Are you concerned about forbearance and that people don't really know what that meant?
and when it catches up to people and they realize, oh, I've got to pay all of that money back,
and my credit is destroyed, and I may get kicked out of my apartment.
That's going to be a problem, isn't it?
Well, people, we've developed this attitude among Americans because of government policies
of everyone thinking that the government's going to bail them out.
So, you know, if you can't pay your rent, the government's going to pay for it.
If you can't pay for your food, the government's going to pay for it.
You can take on large debts because the government's going to forgive your debts.
You can take out $100,000 in student loans.
The government's going to pay it for you.
I mean, this is just a very insidious dependency culture.
The last line of the piece that I had in the Wall Street Journal three or four weeks ago,
when I talked about we're building a dependency culture, you know,
is that maybe this is the whole design.
Maybe that's what Washington wants.
Oh, I think it is.
I think it is.
And I don't have a, I don't have a hundred and, well, I don't have a IQ of a hundred, I bet.
And I can figure that out.
Yeah, right.
Stephen.
You think it's deliberate.
You think these guys are trying to make.
Oh, absolutely.
Trying to make people.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Yes.
Stephen, thank you very much for your time.
I appreciate it.
And keep up the good work.
Stephen Moore.
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Stu, I think by advertising, the Army advertising for,
woke soldiers, and this move where the U.S. Army is taking on climate change as a serious threat
to national security, I think we are going to be a powerful, powerful army, you know?
We sure are. I mean, it's reminiscent of when we use NASA to encourage Muslims to realize
they're really good at math. That was a really good program we had going on for a while there.
great one.
That was a great one.
I'm glad we're back to those days, you know.
This is obviously worse, by the way, because, you know, if NASA sucks, it's, you know,
we can live with that, honestly.
If our military sucks, that's really, really bad.
Yeah.
I mean, if you're an astronaut, you know, you can't live with NASA sucking.
Well, that's true.
I'm saying as a nation.
Yeah, right, right.
You know, if we don't get any of our space projects to work all that well, it's a hit and it's a negative.
But we have a lot of people, even the private sector now, doing a lot of the work that NASA used to do.
You know, having the military jump into this would not be, would not be positive.
All they are doing.
All they are doing is, quote, addressing climate change threats.
They say that climate change is a serious threat to U.S. national security interests and defend.
objectives. And so what they're doing in the latest report is to prepare for the challenges
ahead, the Army will continue to identify and implement steps to enhance readiness and capability
in the face of climate-related threats and will continue to be a strong steward of the
resources offered in the shared operational environment. The Army has a lot to be proud of,
Yet there's a lot of work to continue to operate efficiently across extreme weather and climate conditions.
Buy some snow tires, Jack.
They intend to conduct an in-depth assessment of likely climate change effects on the Army's worldwide missions.
They're going to lead the way in technology for development for tactical vehicles that balances increased capability with decreased climate impacts.
they're going to be strategizing and planning to mitigate climate threats
with an emphasis placed on soldier resilience, energy reform,
and capability enhancements and procurement.
So a little bit of everything,
but we want to talk to Mother Earth first.
And, you know,
I can't wait until we have the fully electric tank.
I think it's going to be good.
Oh, I think so too.
This is definitely why our military worried about.
is the weather.
Right.
Mainly weather-focused military is the way to go.
Hey, man.
Thank you for saying that, Stu.
I was afraid you were going to fight me on it.
But we have seen the light.
And I say in the backpack of every soldier should be a big extension cord.
In case one of those tanks loses power, we can string them all together and plug it in.
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We're going to have to reschedule Alan Dershowitz.
something has come up.
We want to talk to you about what the world might look like
if we don't do anything about climate change.
Stu, I can't believe this article from CNBC is true.
But they said, by 2050, what the world would look like if we do nothing?
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
I'm sure it's not at all.
scary for no reason. The air is polluted, making you cough. You have to check the air quality
before going and opening even a window. When you go outside your eyes water, you have to wear a
mask. On bad days, a high-tech mask, if you can afford it. Depending on where you live, the
temperature is as hot as 140 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a month every year. And in public
restrooms, you have to pay to use water.
There's a mental toll
living in a world that feels like
a dangerous obstacle course.
People feel bottomless
despair and resent previous
generations for their lack of action.
Worst case scenario
is what life could really
look like if no progress,
no progress is made slowing the greenhouse
gases to mitigate
climate change.
They say air pollution and emissions that
cause climate change go hand in hand, so
unless action is taken on climate change, it'll mean poorer air quality.
Whether it gets as bad as people having to wear masks by 2050 is debatable.
But it could be possible.
People are wearing masks now.
And the same people who won't take off the masks are the same people who are all for global warming.
So they're all set.
They're all set.
Stu, can I ask
Since when did we go from
Point
What is it?
Point one
In climate change
In temperature rise over the next 100 years
How much was it?
They said we could buy
2100
We could be how much?
It's a couple degrees
I can't remember the exact number off the top of my head
But yeah
We've warmed about one degree
In the past century or so
Okay
And they say it could be another degree or two.
Hmm.
So by 2050, it could be one degree if it's on the course of being two.
How does that get the temperature as hot as 140 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a month every year?
I don't.
You're asking questions that are not answerable.
That is, you know, they...
Wait, wait, wait.
I just figured it out.
It says not just the temperature can be as hot as 140 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a month each year.
It says, depending where you live, temperatures can be as hot as 100.
So in other words, if I live in Baghdad, where it is currently 139 for at least a month out of the year, it could be 140.
Yeah, there's a lot of could be, might be possible.
who knows what could happen,
but there's so much of that in there.
And this is all based, of course,
on the worst case scenarios
that are incredibly unlikely to come true.
A lot of it is based on RCP 8.5,
which is the most catastrophic estimate ever produced
and almost every global warming story
you ever read is based on it
because it gives you the craziest numbers possible.
And it is not,
not shown to track to be accurate since it came out, but that doesn't stop people from saying,
well, it could. It could. What could be possible is always a great basis for an article.
But when these things don't happen, you know, no one goes back and says, well, we shouldn't
have tried to scare people like that. This seems to be their only tactic to get people to buy
into it. And you've seen what people will do in a crisis situation over the last year, right?
if they really believe there's a crisis situation going on,
which I would argue COVID was a crisis situation.
Not that people handled it right,
but people will fold a lot of their liberties to,
they'll acquiesce to government requests.
So if you can get global warming going as a nonstop century-long COVID-level crisis
and worse, you can get people to do anything and you can justify anything,
which is why they like it so much.
Okay, I'm going to stop with your.
scaremongering because there is another version of 2050 and that version happens if we see a 50%
reduction in our greenhouse gases by 2030 another 50% by 2040 another 50% by 2050. Well, then the
world will be quite different. City streets will have more trees and fewer cars and Americans
travel via high-speed electric railroads instead of faust...
Come on with this.
No, no, no.
High-speed electric...
High-speed electric railroads.
That's how we're going to get around, Stu.
High-speed electric railroads.
Railroads, look, you might have like trains when you were a kid, and they were fun to
play with.
They're a terrible idea for the future of the country.
Like, why?
Why?
Well, number one, they go to only one designated place and to change.
where they go.
But then you're...
It's a big problem.
So if your population decides to move to a different location,
you have a big problem with it.
We also had these things and they're amazing.
They're like birds.
They fly in the sky and they do the work of a train.
Not in 2050.
No, not in 2050.
Not in 2050.
But I need to cut this short because Alan Dershowitz is back on the phone with us.
So I'm going to take a quick break and then come back with Alan Derswitz.
And we'll pick up our...
electric railroad rant in just a minute.
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Mr. Alan Dershowitz joins us now from the Dersh Show, the podcast that you can listen to daily.
Welcome, Alan.
How are you, sir?
Well, I'm doing great.
Thank you so much.
I'm very upset about what's going on in the Middle East and particularly upset about
how some Democrats, particularly on the hard left, are creating a moral equivalence between Israel,
a democracy that's acting itself defense, and a mass, a terrorist organization that commits
double war crimes by hiding behind civilians and firing rockets at Israeli civilian targets.
It's just shocking that AOC and the squad and some even moderate leftist Democrats
blame everything on
on Israel
and it just shows a form of bigotry.
I will tell you, Ellen,
I had such hope under Donald Trump.
We had the accords coming
and things were really changing in the Middle East.
It's good to see that Saudi Arabia and the others are not participating
and they're remaining fairly silent about this
in a good way, I guess.
But boy, our government has become hostile.
Absolutely hostile.
I wouldn't say the government.
I would say it's a mixed picture.
I would say many legislators and some people in sub-cabinet positions,
but so far, Lincoln and President Biden have said the right things.
That is, Israel is the right of self-defense.
Hamas is a terrorist group.
You saw that some Congress people want to hold off.
giving Israel military aid, including Iron Dome aid, which would be outrageous.
So I keep an open mind on the administration.
I do not keep an open mind on the bigots like AOC and Iman Amir and and Bernie Sanders,
a Jewish self-hating bigot.
You wrote a piece yesterday, why does the hard left glorify the Palestinians?
And I think you nailed it.
You want to explain?
You know, it's not that they glorify the Palestinians.
They don't give a damn about the Palestinians, when 4,000 Palestinians,
including many children and women, have been murdered by Assad and the Syrians,
when tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed during Black September by King Hussein,
you didn't hear a peep from the hard left.
It's not the Palestinians that they're focused on.
It's the Jews that they're focused on.
The Palestinians are so lucky that their alleged oppression is the Jews.
Look at the Kurds. They've been treated much worse than the Palestinians, much worse. Never been offered a state, much worse. But their oppressors aren't the Jews. Their oppressors are the Syrians, the Iranians, the Iraqis. The world doesn't give a damn. The world only cares when, or about the alleged to be the oppression. It's anti-Semitism. It's anti-Semitism when it comes from the hard left who aren't Jewish. And it's anti-Semitism when it comes from Jews on the hard left. You can be a Jew and an anti-Semite if you apply.
a double standard to Israel and for every other country in the Middle East. That is the definition
of anti-Semitism, applying a double standard to the nation state of the Jewish people
that you wouldn't apply to any other country. And so it's not about the Palestinians. They are
lucky. They were offered a state in 1938, 1948, 1967, 2001, 2005, 2008, and now.
And they've never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. So why,
are we shedding crocodile tears. We should be shedding tears over the Palestinian people. They have
been victimized by their leaders, but their leaders never miss an opportunity to miss an
opportunity. They could have had a state. They could have had independence. They turned it down
because they don't want there to be a Jewish state more than they want to have their own state.
Those are the words of their original leader of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
How do you process all of this? I'm having a very difficult time.
because, you know, people on the right are being called Nazis, et cetera, et cetera.
But let me just give you a few tweets.
Hitler did the same, time now, for the world to stand up against Israel's criminal actions.
One of my favorite Hitler quotes of all time is, you know, the one that he supposedly, but never did, say,
I would have killed the Jews, all the Jews in the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them.
another one is, bro, if I could bring somebody back to life, I'd bring Adolf Hitler to finish his unfinished work with you.
And that all stays up on Twitter.
But when President Trump tries to tweet in support of Israel, he gets taken down.
And let me tell you what's so terrible about that.
When you take down President Trump because you say he's not telling the truth,
then you're suggesting that the people whose tweets stay up are telling the truth.
So you're validating the pro-Hitler tweets.
You're validating a tweet that says Israel isn't a real country.
It's just a colonial experiment.
If you keep up certain things and take down others, the things you keep on Twitter, you validate as true.
And that's the biggest lie of all.
The biggest lie of all is the social media validating as true anything they don't take down
because if they thought it wasn't true, they would take it down.
That's the worst part of it.
that's what's happening now in the discussions about the Middle East.
Have you come to any philosophical understanding of why this keeps happening to the Jews over and over and over again?
You know, it's the hardest question in the world. Jews have contributed so much to every country.
They've been part of. Jews have, you know, helped develop vaccines, help develop so much medicine, science, and technology.
why the Jews?
My friend Dennis Frager wrote a book some years ago called Why the Jews?
Why are you picking on us?
It's so hard to understand.
Jews like Bernie Sanders pick on the Jews.
Why Jews, what's happened today on college campuses if you're Jewish and you want to be in,
you have to be an anti-Zionist, then you can pass the test.
Then you can join the Environmental Club.
Then you can join the Feminist Club.
Then you can join the pro-gate club.
Then you can join all the left-wing organizations.
But if you want to be a person who joins those organizations,
intersectionality demands that you renounce Israel and turn anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian.
And nobody asks you to be pro-Kurd.
Nobody asks you to be pro-Cetchen.
Nobody asks you to be pro-Tibetan.
Nobody asks you to be pro-Ughurs who are subject to much, much, much worse human rights violations.
And I have to tell you, as somebody who has worked on human rights for 60 years, I will not be.
cowed into prioritizing the Palestinian claim over the much more legitimate claims of others
who have never been offered statehood and who have not used terrorism and who have not had
complicity with Nazis the way the Palestinians did during the 1940s when the head of the
Palestinians went to Germany and conferred with Hitler about how to kill Jews and his
picked mufti with Hitler was in many Palestinian houses. So don't tell me that the Palestinians
don't bear any responsibility for the Holocaust.
They do.
Not all of them, not most of them, but many of them, and their leadership.
They bear responsibility for the Holocaust.
They bear responsibility for terrorism.
They bear responsibility for the spread of anti-Semitism around Europe.
And when you make a moral equivalence between Israel, a struggling democracy, trying hard to do good,
no country in history in 73 years has done more for humankind.
in Israel in terms of technology, science, literature, how to fight against terrorism, and the world
still condemns. And there's only one reason for that. And it's called anti-Semitism, but we have to
recognize it. Alan Dershowitz, thank you so much. I appreciate it. You can hear him on The Dershow.
You can find that online wherever you get your podcast, The Dershow. Also, the author of the book,
Case Against the New Censorship, Alan Dershow.
Thanks for your time.
Back in just a minute.
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Justin Haskins is a good friend of the program.
He is the editorial director of the Heartland Institute,
editor-in-chief of stoppingsocialism.com,
and co-writer of the next book that is coming out,
The Great Reset.
Justin, how are you, sir?
Oh, I'm doing so well, Glenn.
So well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So this is going to, this is not going to go over well for those who think that everybody who listens to talk radio is a moron.
You just did a poll and wanted to find out, you know, who knows the news?
Who knows the general topics in the news?
Who knows about the police shootings and climate change?
Who knows?
What did you find?
Right.
So what we wanted to do was go beyond just looking at bias in the news media.
We all know that MSNBC and CNN and, you know, ABC, CBS, NBC, we all know that they're left-leaning outlets and that people who watch them probably have left-leaning opinions.
But what we wanted to know was how, what do they understand about the facts, not opinions related to important news stories and just how detached from reality are they?
my suspicion was it's pretty darn detached. And so what we did was we asked them a whole bunch
of questions about media preferences. And then we asked them a bunch of questions, factual questions
about things going on in the news. We asked them about the national debt. We asked them about
police shootings, climate change questions, the proportion of the population that's uninsured
or doesn't have health coverage. And then we were able to compare these two things to see if there's
the difference. It's a very large poll, likely voters. And what we found was overwhelmingly,
in the vast majority of questions that we asked, the people who watch NBC, CBS, and an MSNBC
regularly, who identified it as their favorite network, were far more likely to get these
questions about facts wrong. In some cases, wildly wrong, compared to people who watch conservative
media television and especially people who get most of their news from talk radio. Talk radio was
actually the audience that was most likely to get these questions right above all other kinds of
categories. But generally speaking, all conservative media way outperformed these liberal outlets.
So tell me, were there differences on climate change? Did they know the hot button issues for the left,
Like, you know, who lacks insurance, health and care insurance, who, you know, how warm is the temperature going to be in 2050?
I mean, was there any question where they excelled?
There were two questions where they did better than conservatives on average.
And those questions were, in some ways, I think, kind of a mistake.
One was how many white people are shot, unarmed white people are fatally shot by police.
They were more likely to get that right, but they were much more likely to get the question about
unarmed African-Americans shot by, fatally shot by police wrong.
And so the gap between whites and blacks, they were way, way off to give people an idea of just
what we're talking about here.
81% of MSNBC viewers, 70% of CNN, and more than 70% of the viewers of ABC, CBS, and NBC
said that there are at least 50 fatal police shootings of unarmed African Americans every year.
That's at least double the real number, which is about 18, according to the Washington Post database.
And then a significant proportion dramatically overestimated the number of fatal police shootings of unarmed African Americans.
So one quarter of CNN viewers, for example, said there were at least 500 unarmed African-Americans killed every year by police.
That's 5,000 over the course of a decade compared to less than 200.
Okay. So wouldn't that, doesn't that make sense, though?
I mean, you wouldn't think that this kind of coverage would go to something that affected 18 people.
There are more than 18 people that die in a swimming pool every year.
I mean, it's really quite shocking when you actually know the numbers.
But if you don't know the numbers, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if people would say
1,000 people are killed because it's an epidemic.
It's happening everywhere.
Right.
Wouldn't you think?
No, that's exactly right.
In fact, 10% of CNN's up the end did think that there were a thousand African
Americans who are unarmed killed every year by belief.
10%. Wow.
And so what this shows beyond any doubt is that coverage that these people are getting, because
when we ask conservatives, they were getting these questions right at a much, much higher
rate.
So what it shows is that-
Give me the talk radio listeners.
What did they say?
For which question?
For the number of unarmed blacks killed by police officers.
Okay, sure, just let me look it up real quick.
But yeah, there's no doubt whatsoever that when we asked about any of these questions,
they were far more likely to get around.
Talk radio was 60%.
So 60% of talk radio listeners got the correct answer, which was less than 50.
Compared to CNN, it was 23%.
MSNBC, 19%.
That gives you an illustration of just how,
detached from reality a lot of these people are. And it's not just on on police shootings.
It's on the national debt. It's on every kind of it's on virtually every question that we
asked. When we asked about the national debt, for example, we, 69% of CBS viewers and 65,
this is just an example, 65% of NBC viewers and 69% of CBS viewers said that the national
debt was much lower than it actually was. And about third,
30% CNN and 32% of CBS viewers said the national debt was $5 trillion or less.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
The national debt was $5 trillion was in 1995.
$5 trillion.
How could it be $5 trillion when they're talking about passing another $4 trillion package?
I mean.
Exactly.
Hello.
Exactly.
And so it's on climate change, about half of all MSNBC viewers, ABC, CBS, NBC, about half of them,
in fact, more than half of them, said that they think that humanity will be humanity,
all of humanity will either be extinct 100 years.
So 75, wait, wait, so 75% of MSNBC viewers think that within the next 50 to 100 years will all
dead?
Half of the people who said within a hundred years said within 50 years.
So it's 50, okay, okay.
50% of all the viewers, 25% said less than 50.
Right.
So 50%.
What's the other 50% say?
Most of the other 50% said that it will happen, but it will just take more than 100 years.
Okay.
All right.
So we're dead either way.
We're eventually going to die from climate change.
was the overall.
All right.
But if you believe,
but if you really believe
that we're going to go,
the whole human race
is going to go extinct
within a hundred years,
that means that a majority of people
watching these networks believe
that their grandchildren
will die from climate change.
That's what it means.
I mean,
that is totally insane,
but that's the message
that they're getting from the press.
So this isn't just about
opinions. We all know that
that people who are watching these networks are going to have
liberal opinions, having
opinion when you don't have even
the basic information about these topics
right. And if you're watching those
networks, you are not getting
even the basic facts right
about any of these topics.
We know that to be true.
We absolutely know that to be true.
In our own lives, we've
all met somebody who is
a liberal. And if you
get the opportunity to talk to them,
about the news.
Oh, I, no, I don't know anything about that.
They say that all the time.
I didn't, I didn't say, where'd you get that?
You know, thinking that you're going to get that from.
And usually it's like, uh, the New York Times even printed that.
Uh, they just don't, they don't, they're not impacted because even if their source
does do the story, it does it once.
And they're drilling down on everything else.
Did you ask any political questions about Trump or Biden or anything about socialism?
We did ask about Biden's approval rating.
And it was actually kind of, it was interesting.
As you would expect, the conservative media outlets did not have a particular people who watched those outlets do not have a particularly fond view of Joe Biden, less than 20% approval across the board for those.
Well, usually it was even less than that.
But for CNN, and it was actually much lower than I thought.
And ABC CBS as well, the average CNN viewer, strongly, strong approval for Biden was 57%,
which is not super high.
ABC was 45%.
CBS was 48%.
If you add in somewhat approve, those numbers go up to the 70s or so, depending on the network
that you're looking at.
MSNBC was far and away, Biden.
network, 90% approved, and 70% had strong approval.
But as you would expect, without any doubt at all.
I mean, certainly the average Fox News viewer or the average Blaze viewer or something
would have a much higher opinion of Donald Trump.
If you're looking at similar polls that have been done in the past,
then liberal viewers of these networks have of Joe Biden right now.
So he's not off to a very good start.
your big takeaway from this
I think one of the biggest
takeaways beyond just the fact that people
who are watching these networks are just not getting
the truth and so they shouldn't watch them
is that one of the most stunning things about this whole poll
is that a significant proportion of people
who say that they watch these liberal outlets
don't believe that the liberal
outlets are liberal.
They actually think
that most of the news that they're getting is
either somewhat conservative
or mostly conservative.
That's crazy.
And more than half of CNN viewers,
and more than half of MSNBC
viewers, for example, I fact, more than 60%
said that they think that
most of the news that they get is somewhat
conservative or mostly conservative.
So they have no idea that the news
that they're watching is actually
incredibly liberal news.
They've never met a conservative.
If they think that the, how do they know that conservatives despise CNN and all these other outlets and and think that they are full of nothing but leftist propaganda?
How do they square that circle?
I have absolutely no idea.
It is a bizarre world we're living in.
It really, truly is.
All right, Justin, hang on just a second.
I've got a couple of other questions kind of going on the great reset when we come back in one minute.
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So, Justin, you and I've been working
on a book on the Great Reset and you know I've looked at it recently and they're doing the same thing they did with
what was the what was the school thing that we all fought against recently the common
core yeah common core they're doing the same kind of thing that they did with common core first
they say it's not true then they start to hedge around it
then they'll come out and go, okay, it is true, but we're not going to do it, and then they just change the name.
There's a lot of things going on right now where they are traveling down that road, but they are telling us now that they're going to do it anyway.
For instance, Tennessee, they move to ban critical race theory, but the educators are saying, we're going to break the law.
or we're going to deny that CRT was ever in our schools.
Well, what's happening to us where people are willing to come out and say,
I don't care what the people say.
I'm doing it anyway.
Right.
I think if you're going to sum up sort of the essence of the great reset movement, really,
across the board, whether it's a teacher who supports these kinds of ideas generally
or corporate leaders at the,
big multinational banks and and other things, it's that there's this sense that it really doesn't
matter what people want because they don't know what's good for them. And we, the sort of technocrats
of society, the elites in society, we know what's best. And we will guide these people,
whether they like it or not, whether they want it or not. And we're just going to go through
with it regardless, and in this case, even regardless of what the laws say, and because they know
that frankly the mob is on their side. And because they know that the elite institutions,
not just of America, but of the entire world are on their side. And because they know that the White
House is on their side and therefore all the federal agencies are on their side,
I think they're going to become increasingly more brazen about these kinds of attempts because
I mean, we know what's going on. And you've been talking about this now for almost a year.
We know what's happening.
We turn about it all the time.
So they're not going to be able to hide it.
But what they're going to do is exactly what you just said.
They're going to say, yeah, it's, you know what?
It is happening, but it's for the best.
And we're going to do it anyway because we got to save the planet or we got to fix income
inequality or we got to stop racism or whatever it is.
The ends always justify the means.
And that's what this whole movement.
It's the essence of this whole movement is that these people can control society.
better than you can manage your own life as an individual person.
Which explains another story that is out today about how Apple has been working with the Chinese
government and they are censoring and surveilling Chinese citizens and giving all of that
information over to China. The ends justify the means.
Thanks so much, Justin. I appreciate it. You can, of course, you bet, you can find all of this
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Hey, yo, let me talk about Governor Cuomo for a second.
You know what I'm saying?
So it seems to be a problem.
People are saying, hey, Governor Cuomo, he got paid $5.12 million
for a book that only sold 50,000 copies.
What?
That means that they had to pay
about $100 a copy, something like that.
You know what I'm saying?
So what's the problem there?
$5.1 million.
I asked for $6.9.
They ripped me off.
6.9.
They negotiate down the 5.1.
That's like 4.5.
trillion dollars difference.
So I didn't get anything.
You know what I'm saying?
I was smoked and ripped off.
And by the way, you say,
Simon and Chuster should know better than that.
These are the people that printed the Hillary Clinton book.
Come on.
You know what I'm saying?
There's no way.
There's no way.
$5.1.2 billion.
Oh, sorry, million dollars.
I forget sometimes.
You know, you don't think millions
not that much anymore.
$5.1 million
for his book,
there is no way,
no way, unless it's like
a Michelle Obama book.
There's no way
they're ever going to make that back.
No way. Remember, his last book
sold like legitimately like
4,000 copies.
It was like no one was buying it.
So you
sign Andrew Cuomo and you give him
$5 million for a book that, look, 50,000 copies,
we can all laugh at it, right?
But for Andrew Cuomo, that is a miracle.
A miracle he sold 50,000 copies of a book.
I'm not sure everybody bought that book, though.
I just, you know, I've written a few books, okay?
I've written a few books.
I will tell you that every book agent in the world knows that the days of,
of advances or bonuses being paid.
Big bonuses, those days are long gone.
Because people, you know, it wasn't unheard of to get a $5 million bonus, you know,
for a couple of book deal or something like that when you sign on.
Back in the days where people were selling 5 million books, you can make that money easily
when you're selling one, two, five million books.
The average thriller now, which are the best selling books, they sell.
they sell like 500,000 copies.
You're not making $5 million from 500,000 copies.
You're just not.
Not that you could share with anybody.
I mean, the Simon & Schuster,
they'll take at least half of everything just for production.
What, come on.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, this is the New Republic on this today.
The headline of the story,
why would anyone pay Andrew Cuomo
$4 million for a book?
Now he's actually getting five we think
5.12.
Seven years ago on the eve of being elected
to a second term as governor
Andrew Cuomo completed a rate of passage
familiar to all presidential aspirants.
He published a memoir
All Things Possible.
It is overlong at more than 550 pages.
Good God Almighty.
Cleshy written and hopelessly dull
which is to say standard issue
political tome.
Cuomo was paid more than $700,000 by Harbor Collins, and the book had an initial print of $200,000.
But five months later, after it was published, it had sold just over 3,000 copies in hardcover and 13 audiobooks.
Oh my gosh.
13 total audiobooks in a year.
And they paid them $5 million for his next book.
If that were me, I mean, I think I would have bought an extra 13 audiobooks just so it wouldn't be 13.
Just to say 26 audio books.
Yeah, 26 sounds a lot better than 13.
I mean, you have to assume someone in his family bought one, right?
So let me ask you this, Stu, sincerely, money laundering.
Yeah, like there's this thing that goes on.
I'm sure you're very well aware of all, you know, very nuanced sports stories that are tied to the NCAA.
But there's, you know, you can't pay college athletes, right?
You can't pay them.
You know, they're, they're, they're quote unquote amateurs.
And so, uh, sometimes these just really talented athletes luck in to jobs at like local car washes where they make $175 an hour.
A, that's what we pay all of a, well, we pay him.
Yeah, that's what we, that's the going rate for him.
Right.
What?
He doesn't have to show up.
He's a hardworking kid.
I haven't seen him once at the car wash, but he's due a raise.
I'll tell you that right now.
And just happens to be a very wealthy alumni who owns that car wash.
And it's just a bunch of really crazy.
It's a total coincidence.
What are you talking about?
Right.
I didn't even know.
I didn't even know.
He says, I go to that school.
I say, I used to go to that school.
What are the odds?
Right.
I don't answer that question.
It is tempting to say that it's money laundering because it looks like money laundering.
Now, I don't know exactly how that would work, but I will say this.
It's one thing to say like, okay, Andrew Cuomo released a book and it failed.
We are all very familiar with that storyline.
We're familiar with anything in Cuomo's life that's a failure because that's what he's, you know,
constant failure.
That's his life.
but this is something that could not succeed.
This is not something that just, oh, they took a shot at Cuomo and they were like,
oh, man, we still.
Hillary Clinton's book, right?
We all made fun of it.
Could have succeeded, right?
She's a major public figure.
She may have been elected president, right?
She barely lost a presidential election.
So she maybe it could have made some of its money back.
There's no chance for Cuomo.
Why is it that these deals only happen to liberal politicians?
I mean, think about, think, think about it.
How come it's only liberal politicians that get these deals?
Hmm.
There's no conservative that's getting a deal like that.
They won't even, they won't even give a conservative a book deal.
It's liberal politicians that get these astronomical, gigantic signing books.
in a world where there are no signing bonuses anymore.
And they all have a record of being dismal failures.
And nobody on the board of directors at Simon & Schuster is going,
what's going on here?
That doesn't seem like a good business deal.
And it's not the first time.
It seems to happen every time we sign a liberal politician.
Hmm.
What's happening here?
Nobody's accountable for that money
in the free market.
Nobody's accountable for that money.
I mean, trying to come up with any other reason as to why this happened.
He was very,
he did go through a phase where the media adored him and constantly praised him
and said he was the America's governor for a couple weeks.
He sold 13 audiobooks.
I know.
There's no way to get to.
I mean,
because you'd have to sell what?
I mean, really, to make it even close to worth it,
a million books, you know, and no one sells, I mean, not no one, but barely anyone.
Rarely.
This is not the days of like, you know, the mid-90s where you could rip off multi-million
dollar bestsellers from pretty much anybody who's famous.
Like this is, no one reads books anymore.
Not to mention, Glenn, I will say, this also occurred during a pandemic where none of
the stores were open.
So like any sales you might get of people walking around and walking into a bookstore didn't
even occur.
I mean, it's, it's.
It's at least the single worst business move in American history.
That is the absolute best reading of this.
But I can.
I can name.
Worse than Blockbuster refusing to purchase Netflix is this.
This is, I mean, you want to talk to.
Well beyond New Coke.
We are way down in the daldrums of business history here.
But that's see, but see, that's what's so interesting about this.
Blockbuster went out of business.
So they paid for that.
New Coke paid through the nose for that.
Simon & Schuster just doesn't seem to be bothered by it.
They just keep making these deals, losing millions of dollars, and no one questions it?
Look, I think you could look at the whole book industry and say that things are not going well.
So, I mean, you can argue there's plenty of punishments for some of these bad deals.
But this one's inexplicable.
But, I mean, I can't.
Stu, do you know of a place that, do you think Apple?
Somebody goes, you know what?
I think we need to make Apple eight track tapes.
And he puts $5 million into it and it sells $13.
Do you think that guy is even listened to?
Not even listen to, let alone the next time, give him $10 million.
Right.
I mean, the $700,000.
A $700,000 bonus.
is a terrible move to give to Andrew Cuomo.
And it failed so horribly.
You'd think the next book he'd get a zero dollar bonus, right?
That was the right number.
We'll publish the book and then we'll split the proceeds.
Right.
Absolute best case scenario for Andrew Cuomo.
Even publishing his book, I think, is questionable when you talk about
Oh, I do too.
He only sold 3,500 copies.
But, yeah, okay.
I mean, someone had to read that audiobook.
Was it Cuomo?
Did he actually sit in a studio so he could sell 13 books?
I mean, I don't know.
But it is...
I'll bet you, I'll bet you that the guy halfway through the audiobook,
maybe even halfway through the first chapter, just went,
la la la la la la la.
Nobody's listening.
Chapter 4.
Because they do have professionals who read these books,
professional audio book readers.
But I mean, wouldn't it be just confusing for the person to say
over and over again in the middle of...
Me good leader.
I'm so good.
I just ripped Simon and Schuster off for $5.12 million.
Learn how to do it.
Buy my book.
Yeah.
And we're focusing on the wrong part of the story, by the way.
We should center ourselves.
Simon and Schuster making a dumb business move.
I mean, look, they signed you to a contract.
They're known for that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I sold millions of books.
Your deal looks a hell of a lot better than the Cuomo one.
Right.
Yeah, no, you've sold plenty of books.
But in all seriousness, people asked over and over again, why would Andrew
quote, why?
Not how, but why would he hide these numbers in the nursing homes?
Because he knew eventually they were going to come out.
There was no doubt about that.
It was just a matter of time.
And we said over and over again, this is coming, this is coming, this is coming.
Eventually the numbers came out.
And since then, his career has cratered.
Why did he lie about it?
Why did he have multiple staffers going through scientific reports and deleting numbers?
Why did he do that?
$5.12 million is why he did it.
He literally went through and took people's,
lives, lied about them, lied about their deaths, lied about why they died, lied about why his policies
killed them to maintain $5.12 million. That's what happened. That's why this is a really important
story. And of course, the media is still sitting around waiting for the results of this
sexual harassment report, which is important. But there is way more than enough to say not only
did Simon Schuster sign a bad deal.
This is borderline criminal activity.
I don't know.
I'm not a legal expert in the state of New York,
but if this isn't a crime,
it certainly should be.
It certainly should be.
You're exactly right.
Thank you, Stu.
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And there's also been a lot of talk of UFOs.
Is there a chance that Dr. Fauci is the first in the landing party?
I mean, that's obviously ridiculous.
There's no higher than an 80% chance, that's true.
No higher.
Wouldn't you be relieved, though?
Really?
The world would make sense.
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That would make sense.
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Isn't it weird that these things are just not stories?
I mean, 60 minutes did cover it.
Yeah, 60 minutes covered this and showed multiple videos of UFOs.
And they, the government is basically.
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and I said what do you think is up with the UFO thing and the Pentagon coming out what
what is happening with that he's like UFOs what are you talking about hello for the last
two years the Pentagon's been ringing every bell we're being watched we're being watched
and nobody seems to care it's the in a time of bizarre things it's possibly
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