10⧸29⧸18 - Best of the Program - Guest, Pat Gray
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Summary
On this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn and Stu talk about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the media's reaction to it, and the latest polls on the election as we get closer and closer to Election Day.
Transcript
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It is Monday, and we're getting ready to go on tour.
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Stu and I are actually working late tonight, which is, well, I mean, it's 1.15 this afternoon.
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Okay, well, that's when we were supposed to start.
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Something really special happening in Pittsburgh.
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I'm going to donate all of the night's earnings to the Jewish community that has been so hard hit.
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And then on Sunday, we're going to Cleveland, Ohio.
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So it's the week before the election, and actually the election is still going on right now.
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But we have a lot to say and a lot of fun and some things that I think you're going to be able to take away for your kids.
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Today's podcast, by the way, get your tickets at glenbeck.com slash tour.
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What has been the, what are the right things to think about in a moment like this?
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Because it's not, it's certainly not what we're doing.
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We also hit this that, you know, America's ready for a third party, which I'm not sure I believe.
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Uh, and that we don't agree on values, but all the things listed were not values.
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So we wanted to say, all right, how do we look at these things?
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How do we look at the, the issues of the day and American values?
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Uh, and, uh, we also go into some of the election stuff that's coming up, uh, the latest polls.
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What are they showing us as we get closer, uh, to the actual election day?
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And it looks like it's starting to shift back again towards the Democrats just a little bit.
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I want to start with a story of a guy named Gregory.
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He always considered himself a musician first, a soldier second.
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He was always the brunt of the jokes in his combat unit.
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Gregory's unit was in the Soviet Red Army and he had done the unthinkable while at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Battle of Stalingrad was one of the worst battles of all time, but they had survived.
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Now, that was really not only his story, but the eternal and tragic story of his entire people.
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Gregory was a Jew and survival was his birthright.
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This war, some were calling it the second great war to end all wars, was no different.
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It was just one more calamity that he and his people would have to survive.
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They were now on the heartland of the Third Reich.
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The sea of German tanks were all scattered before them.
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Gregory dove into a ditch at the last second while a barrage of tank and mortar fire came screaming through the air.
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Although terrifying as the sound of the incoming artillery fire was, it also resembled something extraordinary to him.
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Gregory shifted his thinking from soldier to musician, and the incoming rounds were transformed within his mind to notes and stanzas on a sheet of carefully conducted music.
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It had order, it had purpose, and more importantly, it became predictable for him.
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It was his musical mind that allowed both he and his unit to tell where the German rounds were going to strike.
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He participated in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
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The people behind the barbed wire were just like him.
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While they would survive, their persecution was still not over.
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The Jews caught behind the Iron Curtain now lived in a state of fear and denial under Stalin.
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And Stalin required all Jews to register as a Jew on their state papers.
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So every time Gregory now applied for a job or looked for a place to live,
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an employer or a housing official would take one look at his papers and turn him down
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because of the three letters on his papers, J-E-W.
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In fact, Hitler, after the Night of Broken Glass or Kristallnacht, as it's become known as,
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he said that all male Jews needed to now use the first name Israel
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and all women needed to use the first name Rachel.
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Now, Gregory, after liberating Jews from that nightmare,
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found himself in another nightmare in the Soviet Union.
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For them, this is the story of the Jewish people.