Glenn Beck joins Jemele to discuss the latest in the Supreme Court confirmation process and the latest on Brett and Christine Blasey Ford's case against Brett Kavanagh. Comedian Norm Macdonald announces he will not be returning to the Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon after his controversial appearance on the show.
00:03:47.000And, of course, we're going to be talking about Kavanaugh, everything that you need to know about Kavanaugh.
00:03:52.000The timeline's been going back and forth.
00:03:53.000I feel like a lot of people have been They're getting lost in the shuffle, so we're going to try and clarify that for you.
00:03:58.000First, though, the question of the day.
00:03:59.000The left, you know, they say right now to believe all women because it's basically a blatant virtue signal being sent out to mothers and daughters.
00:04:06.000But what about the message it sends to fathers and sons when the left declares them guilty until proven innocent?
00:04:11.000Genuinely, I wonder what ramifications do you see there?
00:04:18.000I think it's a great statement to say believe all women.
00:04:22.000It's just making that leap to then convict all men.
00:04:24.000It's that idea of, we certainly want these accusers to feel heard, but then it's this due process idea of, again, okay, we will hear you, we will believe that this is a credible thing, but it needs to be investigated before we draw any conclusions, before we end a career.
00:05:54.000You know this, Bruce Wayne could be a Jewish family, any other wealthy, but I just thought, I thought, what is this idea of taking these characters who were so distinctly a part of childhood and trying to make this adult black label series like, well, we're going to make this so dark that we're going to put a penis in it.
00:06:13.000And we're going to give him an origin story where his name was Bruce Nevewitz.
00:06:17.000Also in the news, by the way, an Arizona man faked Down syndrome just to hire caregivers.
00:07:02.000It's like, I don't know, and they're really happy.
00:07:04.000Well, look, I don't approve of this, but if you're gonna go this far to get bathed, okay, I can see something at the end of the rainbow there for you, but being somebody who sits around in a diaper that's dirty all day, He was angrily pooping.
00:07:20.000That's the most disturbing part of this entire thing for me.
00:07:22.000You wanted to sit around in your own crap until somebody changed you.
00:07:25.000This was also a movie with Johnny Knoxville.
00:07:27.000Remember that where he was the ringer?
00:07:28.000Where he wanted to win the Special Olympics and ended up falling in love?
00:07:31.000That was also not a good film and this is not a good story.
00:07:34.000So let's move on to the international front.
00:11:41.000This is freedom of speech, but no, you...
00:11:44.000What amazes me though is you're looking at these platforms like Twitter and how they talk about the censorship that goes on in China and yet clearly while it's not being censored people are being prosecuted for it and you would think that these platforms ostensibly these last bastions of speech would be against this, would be opposed to this idea that people posting simple ideas that would be demonstrably acceptable most anywhere.
00:12:12.000And what's crazy to me, too, is we protect speech that's liable.
00:12:16.000We protect speech that's defamation now from the left, as long as it's a target that they don't like.
00:12:21.000But then actual speech, actual expression, whether it's comedy, to the written word, to even, honestly, in the case of Kavanaugh, which is a good example, we'll move on to that here, The defamation is what they protect.
00:12:32.000She doesn't need to protect her innocence.
00:12:33.000That actually brings us to the meat segment for today.
00:12:36.000For those of you who haven't kept it straight, let's go on to this.
00:12:39.000Everything you needed to know about Kavanaugh but were afraid to ask.
00:13:17.000Alright, listen, by the way, hit the notification bell, join Muggle if you haven't already, you get this show every single day, $99 annually, 69 for students, veterans, active military, or there will be no more crowd or confronts or change my mind.
00:17:01.000The attorney's story contradicts Ford's.
00:17:03.000An attorney that originally said Ford would testify is now, I think, saying that she's not going to testify, was put in retainer on August, at which point she took a lie detector test for an accusation she claims She was never going to make publicly at all.
00:17:13.000Should be noted investigators are saying that there is still the noted possibility of Ford being a dirty lying whore.
00:17:34.000So here's what I will, I will add something here because I want to keep my job and I can't tell you how Here's what's really hard, and again, it feels awful having to issue these caveats.
00:17:46.000Look, again, I'm a white man, I'm a bigger guy.
00:17:48.000This is something I probably haven't experienced.
00:17:51.000Bigger guy in the sense of, you know, again, I probably haven't been put in a situation where you're pressured My point being, I never want to diminish this, and I think the Me Too movement has brought down a lot of people who deserve to be brought down.
00:18:09.000Here's the part that I thought would have been where I could see this having some merit.
00:18:17.000If she brought this story out, And 100 other women came out and said, you know what?
00:18:22.000All of a sudden there's credibility, smoke, there's fire.
00:18:25.000But when it's just been her, and we haven't seen this outpouring of people saying, Brett Kavanaugh has been this cad, this handsy guy his whole career.
00:18:34.000Then I think it becomes much harder to say, with the absence of any proof, how do you... It is not the job of her to provide any proof!
00:18:41.000She is innocent until proven not with proof!
00:20:09.000When someone comes forward with an accusation, no proof, as a matter of fact, something that could not possibly be proven, and plays a serious victim card, that right away my antenna go up.
00:20:18.000And you want to believe people, but again, we do have to think of the reputations of people whose lives are absolutely destroyed.
00:21:08.000So in the original Ford letter, she says it happened in a suburban Montgomery home, then later says maybe it was also near a country club, but then she's not sure.
00:21:14.000Also, she has no idea how she got home.
00:21:16.000Maybe she was a little drunk, I don't know.
00:21:19.000We usually fact check these claims on the show.
00:21:40.000If the goal is the truth, like we were talking about with Michael Doris, the Catholic Church, if the goal is to actually fix the church, if the goal here is the truth, having hearings aiming for transparency, that would be seeking the truth.
00:21:51.000That's what Ford's lawyers claim is the goal, the truth, not politics.
00:21:57.000I think if we are trying to really engage in an inquiry to get at the truth, a highly politicized environment such as the one we're in is not designed to do that.
00:22:07.000As a matter of fact, they claim that they would do anything possible to make sure that the truth comes to light.
00:22:13.000Would your client be willing to testify under oath in front of the full Senate Judiciary Committee?
00:22:20.000My client will do whatever is necessary to make sure that the Senate Judiciary Committee has the full story and the full set of allegations to allow them to make a fully informed decision.
00:23:24.000I'll go back in time and find out what happened.
00:23:27.000Well, you know, with the investigation, when she says that she wants an investigation with the FBI, one, we already talked about the statute of limitations.
00:23:33.000Two, she hasn't brought forth any proof.
00:24:10.000I think he was a senator, if I'm not mistaken.
00:24:12.000So this is a guy, again, who's a very powerful judge.
00:24:14.000He has to get to the Supreme Court before he's like, I think I might have been raped by that guy!
00:24:18.000Before he pops up on the radar, really?
00:24:20.000I also wonder, though, where it sounds like she reached out to Feinstein, and maybe Ford thought, this is just something I'll tell her, and she will use this, not knowing all of a sudden her name's going to be leaked out there, and she's going to get dragged into it.
00:24:32.000No, but you know that's going to happen, right?
00:24:33.000And if they were really- I mean, if you go to Feinstein, it's kind of like, you know what?
00:27:01.000That's like all the times except for the very small amount of the times.
00:27:06.000Again, and I look at this and you think of the people, you know, you saw Hardwick or Aziz or some of these guys or, you know, Kavanaugh, if this ends his bid and you start to say, you know, be careful where you see, but if this becomes the tactic of just simply an accusation is enough to end a career where there's, again, and I I feel the need to issue the caveat.
00:27:29.000Of course, victims, we want them to be believed.
00:29:13.000I remember back when Mug Crow could upload videos and not be demonetized.
00:29:26.000you But I'll admit, I'm kind of falling to this end.
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00:32:00.000So, okay, this is something I wanted to talk with you about.
00:32:03.000I'm really glad we were able to get you on the show, and I think we'll have Paul Joseph Watson to talk about this, because obviously you guys were fingered, as it were, by Rebecca Lewis, the Data & Society Report.
00:32:13.000The Data and Society Report, this has come out.
00:32:15.000There's a full report published by this lady, Rebecca Lewis.
00:32:18.000We're pretty good, by the way, with research and in finding people.
00:32:20.000This Rebecca Lewis just scrubbed everything off, as far as a lot of her previous content, where she is in social media.
00:32:28.000And it talks basically about alternative influence on YouTube specifically.
00:33:01.000You can plot a course from someone like Candace Owens, through to Dave Rubin, through to some black guy, through to Andy Warski, through to Jared Taylor, through to Richard Spencer.
00:33:10.000So effectively, Candace Owens, by this report, is running the alternative right.
00:33:42.000And they've finally realized that there is actually an alternative, and they call it a legitimate news ecosphere, a fully functional one, in fact, are the words that she uses.
00:33:54.000Well, what I find interesting is she spends just a disproportionate amount of focus on much smaller channels.
00:34:02.000I mean, I'm glad, don't get me wrong, they list all of these different channels, like white nationalists, and with me they're just like, Steven Crowder, conservative Christian entertainer, And kind of a dick!
00:34:11.000Like, they don't really say much, even though we're by far the biggest channel, which to me is interesting because they're focusing on so many small channels and drawing 50 connections, usually the smaller channel they're focusing on would be one that might be more radical, it seems.
00:34:25.000Yeah, well, I mean, what they're focusing on is connectivity.
00:34:31.000Rebecca Lewis, she has obviously not watched all of these channels.
00:34:35.000I mean, she makes many factual errors in this report.
00:34:38.000And that's the main problem with the report, because you know This report is going to be uncritically used as a reference by various far-left outlets as they're putting political pressure on YouTube, as the Wall Street Journal did with PewDiePie, and as they have done with various other content creators, and over and over, and it gets, it goes, you know, right to the top.
00:34:56.000I mean, YouTube, Google, they've been called in front of the European Parliament, they've been called in front of your Senate, you know, your Senate hearings.
00:35:50.000But when this was reported by Mother Jones, the way they reported it is if me and Richard Spencer went off arm-in-arm as buddies after it, nothing could have been further from the truth.
00:36:00.000I mean, that debate's got like half a million views.
00:36:03.000We're obviously at each other's throats, you know.
00:36:06.000Like you two were at an old western table playing cards, you were in cahoots, and one was the fall, like, OH WAIT, HE'S GOT AN ACE UP HIS SLEEVE, I'M TERRIBLE, LET ME LEAVE MY FRIEND CARL, SEE?
00:36:16.000And I'm not kidding, Mother Jones literally said that we both agreed that the white race was superior, and I'm just like, that was, I mean, it wasn't even about racial superiority of the debate, the debate was about the politics of effectively liberalism versus collectivism.
00:36:29.000And so the idea that she thinks, I mean, none of this is correct.
00:36:34.000So I can only assume this is being done as an ideological propaganda piece.
00:36:37.000And we know that that's been going on for a long time.
00:36:40.000How do you think this is any different from, for example, using the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of their fact-checkers?
00:36:47.000Do you think this will lead to any more severe ramifications?
00:36:49.000Again, this is a really, really lengthy report.
00:36:52.000People can go check it out at datasociety.net.
00:36:55.000I recommend you download the report and know what they're saying.
00:36:57.000But do you think that this is something that's more important or could be more impactful than some of the crappy decisions Yeah, and absolutely could be, because this is coming with what they perceive to be legitimate academic backing.
00:37:11.000I mean, anyone who's even glanced at it will understand that the data used is just nonsensical.
00:38:01.000But yeah, it's going to be used deliberately to put pressure on YouTube, and it's going to be uncritically examined by the far left people who will be reading it, because Silicon Valley, where YouTube and Google and all the other tech giants are, it's incredibly far left.
00:38:23.000My concern here is, okay, is there going to be some form of escalation?
00:38:26.000Because once you have, you know, you have Snopes, and you have PolitiFact, and you have Southern Poverty Law Center... All of them will use this, and they will use this as if this is all factually correct.
00:38:38.000And the main problem, I mean, she even addresses this in the report.
00:38:42.000She says, well, you know, they, they, the, what I'm going to tell just the right wing
00:39:12.000Well, not only that, but it's like, oh, they claim themselves as the underdog, as I write this report with no real academic substantiation.
00:41:16.000I will say, if you say people of a specific political worldview or point of view that you just mentioned, it's not even that, because you know what?
00:41:24.000Your political worldview matches up very little with mine.
00:41:27.000The only thing on which we match up, really, is that there are people Like this Rebecca Smith looking to silence us.
00:41:35.000You want to find the one thread connecting the dots that you could say is legitimate, is people saying, ah, people like Rebecca Lewis and Susan Wojcicki, whatever you pronounce, they want to silence us.
00:42:46.000This is a program where you've had Naomi Wolf all the way to Glenn Beck to Sargon of Akkad to Alex Jones to Ben Shapiro, take your pick.
00:42:54.000We will have anyone on who is willing to have an actual discussion that is somewhat, it just doesn't even have to be that productive, at least somewhat productive.
00:44:01.000Not only do you get Louder With Crowder, you can get great shows like Mark Levin and you can get Gavin McGingus, as Michael Malitz likes to call him.
00:46:36.000I thought you were going to say, you know, you could just say, what you did to a kindergartner, because you could throw that out right now, and I'd just say, hey, no, I didn't.
00:46:42.000You'd be like, it's not my job to say that you didn't do something with a kindergartner, you disgusting, horrible human being.
00:46:46.000And I'd be like, oh, crap, we're playing by those rules now.
00:48:05.000Because people have gone after you for your ideas, or they've gone after you for the way you presented your ideas, but you really haven't had the same kind of personal attacks on your character as far as the sexual stuff.
00:49:17.000You know, when you're under attack for political purposes, and you've had people investigate you, and you know, even if you're an employer, do like a hatchet job looking, going through your garbage, you know, you start to take precautions that anybody can claim anything, and so we just, I've always just taken the precaution of I'm not gonna be alone with anyone, because then it's my word against their word, and then it comes down to which one's more popular with the media, and I know it's not me, Well, that's certainly not me either, especially with the new data analytics report we were just talking about.
00:49:49.000But your book, Addicted to Outrage, let me get into this.
00:50:47.000So we don't really actually, we're not talking to each other and it's just hardening our positions and we have to.
00:50:53.000And I think the good news is that there is probably, I think there's 60 maybe 70 percent of the country that doesn't want to play this game anymore.
00:51:16.000We can go academia, entertainment, media.
00:51:17.000You know, there are a lot of sort of different ways to divide it.
00:51:21.000I think it's academia because it started really in academia.
00:51:24.000You know, I focus in the book on the postmodernists.
00:51:28.000And you know, if you know anything about the postmodernists, it's been around for a while, but it really became weaponized in the early 1970s, late 1960s in Paris.
00:51:36.000When they came over and started introducing it into American academia, I mean, they're on the tarmac and they're talking about, you realize we're about to unleash a plague on this society.
00:53:59.000And of course this happens day in and day out on campuses across the country with these sort of campus tribunals.
00:54:04.000Let me ask you this, because we talk about the outrage culture, right?
00:54:07.000A good example, the outrage at Kavanaugh.
00:54:09.000But what they are doing right here, that is outrageous.
00:54:12.000So what is obviously a measured response, obviously presenting facts and information, but when you have people who are willing to slander or commit libel, what do you do?
00:54:21.000I mean, I'm of the belief that you don't find middle ground with evil.
00:54:24.000There are people with whom you can find middle ground, but you have to recognize those who you can't.
00:54:32.000You know, you can't This book is not aimed towards Washington.
00:54:36.000It's not aimed to the, you know, people who are playing politics, and it's not aimed to those people who are just diehard, never gonna, they will never say a bad word about the president, be it Trump or be it Obama.
00:54:50.000Doesn't matter, cut from the same cloth, they hung the moon and the stars, and I will never say a bad word my way on the highway.
00:54:59.000But I think there are a lot of people that don't want to engage in this.
00:55:05.000Have you read either The Coddling of the American Mind or The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt?
00:55:12.000I've read portions of The Righteous Mind, not The Coddling of the American Mind.
00:55:15.000Alright, so The Righteous Mind is great, and if you see that, his point is Sometimes, not with the extremes, but we're saying the same things, we're just approaching it in a different way, and by demonizing each other, and by fighting back, you're not going to be able to make an impact.
00:55:35.000They're not going to come your way if you're always screaming at them that they're stupid.
00:55:46.000But just recently we did a Crowder Confronts.
00:55:48.000It's another segment where this professor at UT Arlington said I threatened to kill his children, posted false memes of me saying, you know, gas all the derogatory terms for Jews, which is actually, these were memes spread about me, it turns out, by a neo-Nazi website who didn't like me for supporting Israel.
00:57:08.000There are these Democrats, Democrats locally, your neighbors, not talking about the people in Washington or, you know, going to Louis Farrakhan conferences.
00:57:21.000Those people are starting to be uncomfortable with the people that their party is hanging out with and abiding by.
00:57:29.000Those are the people that we have to talk to.
01:00:51.000We're going to play a little game here and this is honestly to just thank the people here at the show and specifically one unsung hero who I don't talk about enough.
01:00:58.000This, I don't know, how do I unload this?
01:01:04.000This is, for people This is, when we talk about why we've missed shows or something before Crowder confronts or changes my mind, people are like, whoa, what are you doing?
01:01:14.000Listen, we're not at home reading the member DC comics, okay?
01:01:19.000This is one year's worth of Lydor with Crowder writing.
01:01:23.000Just the last, and it doesn't include research, so all the sources you just saw, it doesn't include any of that.
01:01:27.000And so, nothing up my sleeves, and what I'm gonna do here is, Matt, I'm just gonna run my finger through, and then you just tell me when to stop.
01:05:34.000But all of it, all of it pales in comparison to finding a good loving wife or husband to the women who are clearly not in the comments section.
01:05:43.000Because a man who finds a wife finds that which is good.
01:05:46.000And the same for a woman who finds a husband.
01:06:22.000You know, health problems, growing business, we're trying to keep up with some deeply personal issues that we've been dealing with behind the scenes that kind of honestly just break your heart.
01:06:29.000And to get through it, I'm able to get up at God knows what hour in the day to slog through all of this that you see for you.
01:06:36.000Obviously, the fans matter an incredible deal, but I still wouldn't be able to do it just with you.
01:06:41.000I know you mean a lot, Mug Club members, without the support of my wife.
01:06:44.000It's the one person who I know will always be there.
01:06:48.000And when people ask for advice, this is such a huge component to it.
01:06:52.000Most of us really just aren't complete.
01:06:54.000Most of us are not even in the vicinity of complete.
01:07:13.000Alright, hold on, let me get earnest here because I hope you want the inspiration.
01:07:16.000But this is honestly, this is, it really is an amazing thing.
01:07:19.000And that also means the selection process is one that deserves respect.
01:07:22.000It doesn't matter if you like the same movies, if you both like using old Pentax cameras or whatever the hell else your hipster Christian pastor friends tell you should be on the priority list.
01:07:31.000Picking the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with is not only pivotal, but it also will determine, it's probably the biggest determining factor, biggest single determining factor in your personal happiness.
01:07:43.000That means finding a woman who's, yep, loving, supportive, strong, loyal, most of all has already... So these are things that we'll say gender-neutral, I know we'll say loving, supportive.
01:07:51.000Yeah, I list that first for a woman, not in the same way that I would for a man.
01:08:13.000Look for someone who's already living it before you show up.
01:08:16.000For women, it means finding a husband with a backbone who will provide, protect, of course, but is also gentle, tender with you, willing to listen.
01:09:47.000I completely messed up the interaction, the like small talk, and then after we just kind of talked about it, and she kind of worked me through like, hey, this is like things you can do to improve yourself in interactions with people.
01:10:24.000Not only will it improve society, you've heard Jordan Peterson talk about this, but individually I can tell you it is the single greatest improvement, the single most important decision that I've made in my life.
01:10:33.000But marriage is not about two people who are perfect for each other.
01:11:33.000I don't think I've ever seen anyone in my life as loyal and, you know, there are a lot of other reasons, but as loyal and trustworthy as my wife.
01:11:40.000And in this era of the Me Too movement, and I was thinking about this, the baseless accusations, I have zero concerns.
01:11:59.000If you go in and you're marrying someone who's already lived the values that you want to see, and you are, you can't be asking it from somebody, but you're doing it as well, that changes everything.
01:12:33.000But really, the wives and the husbands who may not be on the payroll, who may not be on the employee list, and we're continually hiring, they really do help make this show happen and a big part of this knowing no matter what
01:12:42.000happens no matter how hard I fail no matter who tries to sell
01:12:45.000Me out to the devil himself And this is what could happen for any of us with this new
01:12:49.000movement of baseless accusations That I'll come home to a loving wife who I can trust love
01:12:53.000and and man we used to turn priceless so often It's meaningless, but that really is something priceless
01:13:02.000And so I know these supposed incels out there and the people who bitch about alimony and men's rights, they're not going to like to hear this.
01:13:09.000But the truth is, if you were to map out your life right now, you want to talk about self-improvement, be the guy who does something, pick a goal, any goal, start moving toward it.
01:13:17.000If you were to map out your life right now, and you were to say, okay, I want to chart a course to a lifetime of happiness, of peace, the one decision you could make is finding the right wife, or husband.
01:13:30.000And that means a serious pruning process for you.
01:13:33.000Because she may see you as a project, but no self-respecting woman, by the way, is going to want to link up with a guy who doesn't have any of his crap together.
01:13:38.000But if you were to make one decision, or a series of decisions, that would lead to a longer, happier, more peaceful, fulfilling life, this is it.
01:13:45.000One of my favorite films of all time is actually Rushmore, a Wes Anderson film, earlier Wes Anderson film.
01:13:50.000When in at Bill Murray, he turns to a character, Max Fisher, he says, what's the secret, Max?
01:13:55.000And Max is beaming from ear to ear with a smile, Jason Schwartzman's character.
01:13:58.000And he responds, he says, I don't know, I guess it's just finding something you love to do and doing it for the rest of your life.
01:14:03.000If you do it right, that's what marriage is.
01:14:05.000There's someone I love, there's someone who loves me, there's someone who's willing to be there for me for the rest of my life.