The Glenn Beck Program - 11⧸5⧸18 - Best of Program - Guest, Dan Crenshaw

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand.

00:00:08.300 Well, it's Monday, and a great podcast.

00:00:11.440 We just came off of a fun, fun tour, and we had about three hours sleep before the podcast,

00:00:17.960 so it promises to be a little dicey, but a lot of fun.

00:00:23.520 We start really with the election and the things that are happening now.

00:00:28.820 The New York Times says it's the most important election of our lifetime.

00:00:33.580 It always is.

00:00:36.000 But what are we doing to make sure that people are actually going out to vote?

00:00:41.220 Because the Democrats are.

00:00:43.260 And we spent a decent amount of time just boiling down where we are,

00:00:46.740 like what to look for, what's the state of the race, what to watch on election night,

00:00:52.540 what are the factors that are kind of forcing this race either to the Democrats or the Republicans' hands.

00:00:57.380 It's a lot of interesting stuff.

00:00:58.620 We're right here for the election, so we wouldn't do that deeply.

00:01:00.520 Right, and Stu gives us three points on a blue wave and why a blue wave is not going to happen.

00:01:07.240 Well, I don't.

00:01:08.640 Well, this is a summary that I'm not comfortable with, but I think there's arguments against it.

00:01:13.120 Right, and pretty good arguments.

00:01:15.060 Yeah.

00:01:15.180 Also, Dan Crenshaw is joining us.

00:01:18.640 Now, Dan is the guy who's running for Ted Post seat here in Texas.

00:01:22.520 He's the guy with the eye patch that Saturday Night Live made fun of this weekend.

00:01:27.360 And I love the fact that this guy refuses to be a victim as they make fun of his disability by saying things like,

00:01:36.280 oh, yeah, I don't know, he lost his eye in the war or whatever.

00:01:39.980 He refuses to be a victim.

00:01:41.560 And he's like, that's not cool, but you know what?

00:01:44.860 That's you.

00:01:45.560 That's not me.

00:01:46.540 And I just loved his attitude.

00:01:49.260 We talked to him about his attitude of Saturday Night Live, how he found out about it, and how he responded,

00:01:55.920 plus a little bit about his campaign.

00:01:58.220 Yep, and we talked about the tour as well.

00:02:00.200 Talked to a bunch of people who actually went to it.

00:02:02.200 It was a lot of fun.

00:02:03.120 Yeah.

00:02:03.380 It was a lot of fun.

00:02:03.920 And tomorrow will be a lot of fun.

00:02:05.980 If you're at home and you're wanting to watch election coverage, don't forget our coverage starts on theblaze.com slash TV at 6 p.m.

00:02:15.920 That's Eastern time, right?

00:02:17.460 6 p.m. Eastern.

00:02:18.500 We have a lot of special guests, a lot of fun.

00:02:21.180 Let's just also put it this way.

00:02:22.800 I'm the designated driver, if that tells you a little bit about our election coverage.

00:02:28.220 And it could get worse and worse as the night goes on.

00:02:31.560 But our election coverage, if you're not a subscriber, please subscribe to theblaze.com slash TV and catch our election coverage tomorrow night.

00:02:41.400 Here's the podcast for the day.

00:02:50.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:56.420 It's Monday, November 5th.

00:02:59.080 Let's talk about home title lock, though.

00:03:00.180 Yeah, let me talk about home title lock.

00:03:02.740 I had a retired FBI agent in here a few months ago, and they demonstrated exactly how easy it is to steal your home.

00:03:12.920 And I mean steal your home in a way that is phenomenal.

00:03:17.200 All somebody has to do is get the right information, which is easy to do, fill out the right form, fake your signature, get a notary to authorize it,

00:03:26.400 and your home is gone, and people can take out loans against it.

00:03:31.740 I mean, this has ended up with homeowners being taken out with a SWAT team in Oregon.

00:03:37.000 It's crazy.

00:03:37.720 And only one company actually will protect you and can protect you.

00:03:42.380 Get your $100 free title scan.

00:03:44.380 That's free right now if you sign up at home title lock.com.

00:03:47.440 Do it.

00:03:47.540 Home title lock.com.

00:03:49.080 Knock this off your list.

00:03:49.940 It's a big problem.

00:03:50.920 Big problem.

00:03:51.320 Don't get caught in it, believe me.

00:03:52.440 Home title lock.com.

00:03:53.580 Over the weekend, the Washington Post editorial board continued warning that the stakes in Tuesday's election are much higher than usual,

00:04:05.380 calling it a once-in-a-generation event.

00:04:09.760 Well, I don't think so.

00:04:13.660 I don't think so.

00:04:14.440 I mean, the hyperbole that is being fueled right now, the panic that is just pouring into the engine and igniting over President Trump is out.

00:04:26.260 It's just off the charts.

00:04:28.400 The left sees tomorrow's election as a lifeline.

00:04:32.500 And so they have gone on and on and on how this is the most important election in the history of elections.

00:04:36.400 And let me say this, it is, it is, but not because of President Trump, not because of anything other than we are in such a precarious position that we have to decide,

00:04:53.100 are we going to be Democratic socialists or are we going to be a constitutional Republican that's a republic that still believes in capitalism?

00:05:03.320 That really is what it's about.

00:05:05.180 Let's stop making it about personalities.

00:05:08.160 Now, the Post says this election is about something more elemental.

00:05:12.020 What kind of country do we see?

00:05:14.580 What kind of country do we see today?

00:05:16.860 And what kind of country do we see for the future?

00:05:19.620 That makes these midterms unlike anything in recent past.

00:05:23.900 On that, they're correct.

00:05:27.080 But it has nothing to do with hatred and xenophobia, etc., etc.

00:05:32.760 Because a lot of that is either spun or an out-and-out lie.

00:05:38.440 What happened in Pittsburgh had nothing to do with President Trump.

00:05:43.800 Nothing to do with President Trump.

00:05:45.780 What's happening on the border really has nothing to do with President Trump.

00:05:50.420 It all has to do with what kind of country we're going to be, a constitutional republic or democratic socialist.

00:05:59.480 The election is important, but every election is important.

00:06:07.480 People have written to me, and I'm going to get into some of the letters.

00:06:10.580 Glenn, when are we going to stand up and fight?

00:06:12.940 You know when?

00:06:14.020 Right now.

00:06:15.500 Right now.

00:06:16.940 You're not going to stand up and fight.

00:06:19.100 You're going to go into the polls.

00:06:20.960 And if every conservative, within the sound of my voice, if we all go and vote, we will win.

00:06:31.600 If you don't, the left is motivated.

00:06:37.500 Are you?

00:06:38.460 The Post claims that it is so alarmed that our nation's values are at stake.

00:06:45.020 Our nation's values aren't even understood anymore.

00:06:49.340 What are our nation's values, Washington Post?

00:06:52.720 What are they?

00:06:53.560 Because I think they're life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:06:56.960 Among those values, those principles, those things that we used to find self-evident.

00:07:05.240 I'm not sure if we find them self-evident anymore.

00:07:08.460 Why?

00:07:09.360 Because we're talking about, quite honestly, Donald Trump's dump tweets when he's sitting

00:07:17.140 in the john at 3 o'clock in the morning going, yeah, this is going to drive them crazy.

00:07:22.600 We shouldn't be talking about those.

00:07:24.400 We should be talking about our values and not the twisted values that Barack Obama has

00:07:29.680 been out talking about because now he is saying that our values are at stake because this

00:07:35.860 president broke families up and put them behind bars, well, excuse me, President Obama, and

00:07:44.040 excuse me, press.

00:07:47.440 And no one would pay attention when this was started under Barack Obama.

00:08:03.900 So now he's trying to say, oh, see, our values have been destroyed by Donald Trump.

00:08:09.460 No, they were destroyed long before Donald Trump.

00:08:14.420 The values crisis.

00:08:16.280 It's much deeper than the values crisis.

00:08:21.840 Saturday, there were two examples of this.

00:08:24.960 One, on one hand, actor Pete Davidson made fun of Republican U.S. House candidate Dan Crenshaw

00:08:32.880 of Texas.

00:08:33.680 Now, this is during a live sketch from Saturday Night Live.

00:08:38.580 Davidson mocked Crenshaw's eye patch.

00:08:42.560 He lost his right eye.

00:08:44.800 And so he made fun of the lost eye in the eye patch.

00:08:49.600 And I get it.

00:08:50.980 He threw a bone to, out of the six people he made fun of, he said, just to show you that

00:08:57.800 I'm fair, I'll do one on the other side in a race that was guaranteed to go the governor's

00:09:05.520 way.

00:09:07.520 He made fun of a guy with an eye patch because he lost his eye.

00:09:12.160 I know, I know.

00:09:12.940 He lost his eye in the war or something.

00:09:15.660 Yeah, it was a bomb blast during his deployment in Afghanistan.

00:09:20.600 Meanwhile, also on Saturday, 39-year-old Brent Taylor was killed in Afghanistan when a member

00:09:26.280 of an Afghani security force opened fire at a U.S. base in Kabul.

00:09:32.300 Taylor was serving there on his fourth deployment in the National Guard.

00:09:38.060 He was the former mayor of North Ogden in Utah.

00:09:42.340 He leaves behind a wife and seven children.

00:09:45.880 Taylor said his life was oriented towards three loyalties, God, his family, and his country.

00:09:52.560 In his last Facebook post just last week, Taylor wrote, quote, as the U.S.A. gets ready for

00:10:02.420 another election, I hope we all vote.

00:10:05.920 I hope everybody back home exercises their precious right to vote and that whether Republicans

00:10:12.620 or Democrats, no matter who wins, that we all remember that we have it far better as Americans

00:10:22.500 than anybody else.

00:10:24.160 And we have more as Americans that unite us than divides us.

00:10:29.600 Because united we stand, divided we fall.

00:10:33.020 God bless America, end quote.

00:10:35.120 Now, how can we possibly disagree with that?

00:10:40.980 We're all talking about the things that divide us.

00:10:44.140 And the only things that matter that divide us are our values and our principles.

00:10:50.660 And it's time to look at the big ones, the ones we used to find self-evident.

00:10:56.200 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their

00:11:04.880 creator with certain inalienable, unchangeable rights.

00:11:09.540 And among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:11:14.580 And then the amendments to the Constitution.

00:11:17.940 You have a right to speak out.

00:11:20.360 You have a right to assemble with people that you want to assemble with.

00:11:25.060 You have a right to ask your government tough questions.

00:11:30.420 Because you have freedom of speech, you have a right to ask questions.

00:11:36.180 I'm not sure that America even agrees with this anymore.

00:11:42.020 So much of our life is about choices and perspective.

00:11:47.200 America finishes making its choice tomorrow.

00:11:52.400 We would be well served.

00:11:55.060 By a lot less hyperbole.

00:11:57.880 We would be well served.

00:11:59.380 By a lot less pointing of the fingers and freaking out over personalities.

00:12:09.140 And a lot more perspective and decency and actual getting up off of the couch and voting.

00:12:18.500 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:29.780 Hello, Mark.

00:12:30.780 Welcome to the program.

00:12:32.580 Hi, Glenn.

00:12:33.440 Hey.

00:12:34.060 First of all, I want to real thanks, Sue, for leaving a mark on the Hershey stage.

00:12:39.760 And Glenn, I want to know, was that a two-pound Hershey bar and did it make it through the weekend?

00:12:45.620 That was a five-pound Hershey bar.

00:12:48.420 Holy mackerel.

00:12:49.220 Five pounds.

00:12:50.260 And it almost made it through the weekend.

00:12:53.380 I mean, it was a fight.

00:12:54.900 It was a fight.

00:12:55.600 But it almost made it through the weekend.

00:12:57.140 Hey, I invited my son when I got the tickets.

00:13:01.000 And he was like, really?

00:13:02.340 I said, hey, wait a minute.

00:13:03.200 You're the one who always says you have an open mind.

00:13:05.400 So at dinner that night, when his mom asked him, why are you going?

00:13:08.280 He said, well, my dad used my words against me.

00:13:12.000 That's great.

00:13:13.080 So, yeah, he really enjoyed it.

00:13:16.120 I don't know if you converted him, but he really enjoyed it.

00:13:18.200 But he had two questions at the end there.

00:13:20.620 Yeah.

00:13:21.260 One, you didn't mention where you got the actual number of $142 trillion.

00:13:27.300 We missed who the really said that.

00:13:28.800 Do you know where that was?

00:13:29.780 We should have put a footnote on it, but we didn't.

00:13:31.620 Yeah, I don't have it in front of me, but we can.

00:13:33.220 Yeah, we'll look it up for you.

00:13:34.380 We'll look it up for you.

00:13:35.180 It's in the book.

00:13:35.780 I can tell you that for sure.

00:13:37.320 Okay.

00:13:37.720 Well, then I haven't read them.

00:13:38.860 I've only gotten through the first chapter, so I've got to read through that.

00:13:40.760 It'll be in the book.

00:13:41.480 All those stats are in the book.

00:13:43.480 Okay, great.

00:13:44.360 And then the other thing, he was like, okay, you talk about how capitalism got us to where we are.

00:13:51.500 But when it comes to the AI stuff, you're kind of complaining about capitalism.

00:13:55.400 I said, well, but we're talking about a way of life here.

00:13:58.120 Yeah, no, I'm not complaining about capitalism.

00:14:00.380 Do not fear tech.

00:14:01.640 No, no, no, you weren't.

00:14:02.500 No, no.

00:14:03.020 He was about how you're scared of AI and how this is going to, how Silicon Valley wants us to have 100% unemployment.

00:14:10.300 Right.

00:14:10.800 And I think that's actually a great goal, but we're not preparing for it.

00:14:15.000 We're thinking in two different directions.

00:14:17.280 You know, we're thinking, hey, I'm going to bring the jobs back while somebody in Silicon Valley, in fact, their whole goal is 100% unemployment.

00:14:25.900 We just have to decide if that's a good thing or not a good thing.

00:14:29.020 Capitalism is, again, the invisible hand of the market, and that invisible hand will give you exactly what you want.

00:14:37.500 So you have to be careful on what you want, what you're asking for.

00:14:41.840 It could, you know, it can smother you or choke you to death, or it could lift people up.

00:14:47.280 It just depends on what the society is.

00:14:51.060 So that's why I was saying that we have to be a better society.

00:14:53.880 We have to be a more informed society, and we have to be a part of all of these decisions that are going on.

00:15:01.040 Well, at the end there, you did make us both, quote, unquote, think.

00:15:05.560 That is, you know, that's great.

00:15:06.940 Did he walk out still hating me as much as he did when he walked in?

00:15:10.980 No, he did not.

00:15:12.100 Oh, that's good.

00:15:12.820 That's good.

00:15:13.100 I think he, you know, like I said, you know, I've told him, you know, if you listen to Glenn in bits and pieces, you might not get it.

00:15:19.780 You have to listen to him for a few days in a row or so, like I did.

00:15:23.300 I didn't get you, how many years ago you've been on the radio?

00:15:25.760 Oh, a long time, yeah, long time.

00:15:27.340 Yeah, well, after like the first three days, I could never turn my radio off again.

00:15:31.280 Thank you very much.

00:15:31.620 I'm on the road a lot, so I get to hear you a lot.

00:15:33.380 Thank you.

00:15:33.740 I appreciate it.

00:15:34.600 You bet, Mark.

00:15:35.160 Thank you.

00:15:35.760 You know, we used to say, give us 30 days, because people, it's a cycle with this show.

00:15:40.580 If you're a new listener, give us 30 days.

00:15:43.100 Because everybody hates me at the beginning.

00:15:45.860 And then after 30 days, you know, you, well, it's a white hot hate.

00:15:50.820 And then it's about 20 days, it's a white hot hate.

00:15:53.580 And then 30 days, you just kind of go numb inside and you just have no desire to turn this channel anymore.

00:15:59.040 It's our big plan.

00:15:59.720 It's our big plan. 0.96

00:16:00.660 So give us 30 days and you'll go dead inside.

00:16:03.920 We say welcome to Mr. Pat Gray from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup that you can hear prior to this, prior to this program on the Blaze Radio Network.

00:16:14.640 How many days do we need to go numb on your program, Pat?

00:16:16.740 Do you have any idea?

00:16:17.400 700.

00:16:17.960 700 days.

00:16:18.680 That's not bad.

00:16:19.280 Wow.

00:16:19.640 Okay.

00:16:20.320 You ready for the election tomorrow?

00:16:22.140 Oh, man, am I.

00:16:23.360 It's going to be.

00:16:23.820 I'm ready for the ads to stop.

00:16:26.940 I'm ready for the madness to be over.

00:16:28.860 Do you have the text messages to stop?

00:16:30.120 I will tell you, I have, you know, the one thing about being disconnected from television, I don't see the ads anymore.

00:16:36.720 I don't watch network television.

00:16:38.240 I don't watch cable news.

00:16:39.640 I get everything online. 0.99

00:16:40.860 So I'm disconnected from all of that crap. 0.95

00:16:43.160 And I am so thrilled. 0.99

00:16:45.120 That's because you don't watch sports.

00:16:46.400 The rest of us are too, except for sports.

00:16:48.240 And so it comes up, Beto is everywhere.

00:16:53.260 I mean, everywhere.

00:16:54.840 Every break on Spotify, it's Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:58.420 I mean, pay the extra five bucks a month or whatever it is for the premium subscription.

00:17:04.220 That's what I said to my wife.

00:17:05.340 I'm not paying extra for the ads to die.

00:17:08.340 Please.

00:17:09.180 I don't want to see Beto anymore.

00:17:10.840 I don't want to hear him.

00:17:11.860 If you're not man enough to pull an extra five bucks out of your wife's purse.

00:17:18.240 Can't do it.

00:17:19.600 So it's frustrating.

00:17:22.380 So is there a chance that these poll numbers are true?

00:17:27.140 Now, there's the latest poll, and Stu is our poll expert.

00:17:31.260 So it's kind of a dicey pollster.

00:17:33.800 Is that right?

00:17:34.340 Yeah.

00:17:34.660 I mean, first of all, there's a Democratic poll that has come out.

00:17:38.100 And when you know it's branded that way, typically they're good results because they don't release

00:17:42.600 them if they're not bad.

00:17:43.180 Good results for Democrats.

00:17:43.880 For Democrats, right?

00:17:44.980 So the latest poll that came out there was a Democratic poll that has Beto and Cruz tied

00:17:50.560 at 49.

00:17:51.480 Absolutely not.

00:17:51.600 I don't believe that.

00:17:52.520 I don't believe that for a second.

00:17:53.660 However, a nonpartisan poll came out a few days earlier that had Beto down three, 50 to

00:17:58.820 47.

00:17:59.260 I don't believe that either.

00:18:00.500 I don't believe it.

00:18:01.320 I don't tend to either, but there's been.

00:18:03.040 And then the previous poll before that, which is Quinnipiac, a very well-known, respected

00:18:07.280 pollster, also had it 51-46.

00:18:11.380 Yeah, five.

00:18:11.940 So five-point lead.

00:18:13.480 I would say.

00:18:13.860 I think it's going to be over 10.

00:18:15.320 I think it's good.

00:18:15.920 I do too.

00:18:16.520 I think 10 or more.

00:18:17.240 I think it's going to be over 10.

00:18:18.400 I'd be shocked if it.

00:18:19.920 You know, but they have poured so much money.

00:18:24.380 Well, now he's up to 70 million.

00:18:26.120 And I think he's spending it all.

00:18:28.160 I mean, it is crazy.

00:18:30.280 Yeah.

00:18:30.480 Here in Texas, what people like George Soros. 1.00

00:18:36.140 Oh, you mean the dirty Jew? 1.00

00:18:38.140 No. 1.00

00:18:39.720 No.

00:18:40.980 What I mean is George Soros.

00:18:44.580 But every time you say George Soros, you mean.

00:18:47.620 You know what's amazing?

00:18:48.980 You know what's amazing?

00:18:49.780 I actually heard out in the same sentence.

00:18:53.900 You know, people on the left, on the right, they only hate George Soros because he's Jewish.

00:19:00.180 And he is nothing like the Koch brothers.

00:19:04.780 Wait.

00:19:05.660 Wow.

00:19:06.440 Wait.

00:19:06.760 Hold it.

00:19:07.100 Yeah, you're right.

00:19:08.120 He does a lot more than the Koch brothers.

00:19:10.680 But we can't say we don't like George Soros' spending of money because we disagree with his policies.

00:19:17.380 But the left can come out and make.

00:19:20.780 Demonize the Koch brothers.

00:19:22.060 Demonize the Koch brothers.

00:19:22.700 Every day Harry Reid got up on the floor of the Senate and did just that.

00:19:26.400 And again, like we've talked about this with the caravan.

00:19:29.560 They're saying you're anti-Semite because you're just assuming George Soros is.

00:19:33.340 We never have. 0.99

00:19:34.420 So ridiculous. 0.70

00:19:35.140 But we have evidence and we've talked about it that he was supporting the first caravan. 0.88

00:19:39.840 Yes.

00:19:40.020 Also, George Soros, on record, in his own writing, in 2016, said he was planning to spend

00:19:47.040 $500 million to help refugees and migrants, particularly migrants.

00:19:56.600 So you just have his words.

00:19:57.840 I mean, again, like that doesn't mean that some of the $500 million specifically went

00:20:02.780 to this caravan, but he wrote an op-ed saying he was going to spend half a billion dollars

00:20:08.860 to support migrants.

00:20:10.380 Well, it's not incredibly crazy to assume that the biggest migrant issue in America might

00:20:16.620 just be supported by George Soros.

00:20:18.760 Then we have the project.

00:20:20.120 Wait, wait, wait.

00:20:20.640 I cannot let that pass without pointing out the anti-Semitism that is coming from Stu.

00:20:29.660 I apologize, America.

00:20:31.080 Is he even a practicing Jew?

00:20:32.980 I don't think he is.

00:20:33.560 No, he's an atheist.

00:20:34.920 He's an atheist.

00:20:35.820 So I don't know what.

00:20:36.640 Oh my gosh.

00:20:37.140 Now you're going to dogpile on this helpless old man?

00:20:40.160 He's spending $500 million on the exact issue we're talking about.

00:20:45.960 And show me the proof.

00:20:47.300 He wrote an op-ed about it.

00:20:48.880 Show me more proof.

00:20:50.640 Do you guys see the Project Veritas thing on Beto, on the Beto campaign?

00:20:54.180 Yeah, I saw a little bit.

00:20:55.200 Yeah.

00:20:55.400 It was pretty compelling, I thought.

00:20:58.720 You know, a lot of his stuff, and I think we've talked about this in the past.

00:21:01.540 We're not gigantic fans.

00:21:03.460 Some of the things he's done have been really good.

00:21:05.360 And then sometimes he gets into creative editing.

00:21:08.020 Yeah.

00:21:08.120 And he also, I mean, it's just.

00:21:09.900 But this looked pretty legit.

00:21:11.320 I mean, you've got campaign field managers who are talking about the fact that they have

00:21:15.420 donated money to this caravan.

00:21:17.400 Okay.

00:21:17.740 Now the argument is, on the other side, that this is, again, creative editing.

00:21:21.880 But I will tell you this.

00:21:23.780 There is no way to creative edit something where they are saying, yeah, he is only saying these things because he's trying to get the conservatives.

00:21:35.880 So he's only doing these things and keeping quiet on this because of X, Y, Z.

00:21:41.820 Unless, unless the sentence before is, what you're saying and accusing us of is completely dishonest.

00:21:53.260 It would be like us coming out and saying.

00:21:55.300 All right.

00:21:56.020 Then the phrase.

00:21:57.060 And that's just not the case.

00:21:58.160 That's not what's happening here.

00:21:59.340 It's not the case.

00:21:59.620 And yet they wrote this article in Mediaite talking about how Cruz is bringing this up, that they might be funding in part the caravan.

00:22:09.380 And the spin on the story is O'Rourke has not publicly commented on Cruz's accusation, which he made without evidence.

00:22:17.960 Well, no, he didn't.

00:22:18.780 He's got the Project Veritas video as evidence.

00:22:22.560 It's just.

00:22:23.100 And they're not.

00:22:23.620 Nobody's paying any attention to it.

00:22:25.140 Yeah.

00:22:25.260 I mean, their defense largely is not even to deny that they did this.

00:22:28.160 Their defense is to say, well, we gave some money to charity.

00:22:30.860 Yeah.

00:22:31.160 And, but of course you can't just take campaign dollars.

00:22:35.160 You can't.

00:22:35.320 You can't.

00:22:35.540 It has to be above board.

00:22:37.220 There's a lot of process.

00:22:38.340 Again, you know, I don't necessarily agree with these campaign finance laws, but they do exist.

00:22:41.560 You have them again on tape saying that they're doing it.

00:22:45.660 Multiple people in different situations saying that they're doing it.

00:22:50.200 Then saying, we talked to the lead campaign manager.

00:22:55.020 They were fine with it.

00:22:56.960 We just don't want the wrong people to find out.

00:22:59.540 And how can you creatively edit that with several people to make that not what they mean?

00:23:06.940 She also said she's got the texts to prove it, that she notified them and that it was okay.

00:23:12.500 So it seems like you haven't done the rights if they're telling the truth.

00:23:16.800 On a fun note, you guys probably being out as you were this weekend, probably didn't see the Queen movie.

00:23:22.900 Oh, no.

00:23:23.440 Oh, no.

00:23:23.880 It's really good.

00:23:24.760 Really?

00:23:25.260 Really, really good.

00:23:25.620 I have heard that the reviews or some reviews are coming back and saying this is horrible.

00:23:30.060 And everyone I know who have seen it.

00:23:32.840 Yeah.

00:23:33.120 Everyone I know who have seen it said this is fantastic.

00:23:35.920 Jackie and I loved it.

00:23:36.900 I loved it.

00:23:37.680 The guy who plays him, he was in...

00:23:41.020 Unbelievable.

00:23:42.360 He was in...

00:23:43.180 What's that TV show?

00:23:45.000 It was so good.

00:23:46.260 Mr. Robot.

00:23:47.460 That's the kid from Mr. Robot.

00:23:49.020 Oh, that's who that is.

00:23:50.780 Yeah.

00:23:51.000 That's the kid from Mr. Robot.

00:23:52.280 They give him prosthetic teeth and it makes him look just like Freddie Mercury.

00:23:55.540 I hear he sounds and looks just like him.

00:23:58.140 Well, he does sound like him because a lot of it is Freddie.

00:24:00.660 Oh, okay.

00:24:01.200 Yeah, they had to amalgamate the voice.

00:24:03.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:24:03.260 Nobody could approximate Freddie Mercury's voice.

00:24:05.320 No, no.

00:24:05.520 The only problem I had was with, you know, there were some timeline issues where like,

00:24:10.120 you know how when time passes, they'll put up on the screen, 1980.

00:24:14.480 Yeah.

00:24:14.860 Well, in 1980, they have Brian May writing, We Will Rock You, which happened in 1977.

00:24:22.140 And so, you know...

00:24:23.000 Why would they...

00:24:23.620 I don't know why they did that.

00:24:24.820 I think they said they did it for time.

00:24:26.820 And then the other thing, which is kind of big because it's, you know, the crescendo.

00:24:31.060 So, he didn't know he had AIDS yet in 1985.

00:24:35.280 And that's when the big...

00:24:36.940 Spoiler alert, he had AIDS?

00:24:38.800 Yeah.

00:24:39.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:40.340 Sorry.

00:24:40.960 Please.

00:24:41.160 How's he doing?

00:24:42.020 Is he recovering?

00:24:42.900 I mean, how's the treatment?

00:24:43.960 He doesn't feel very good.

00:24:44.940 Oh, no.

00:24:45.340 Okay.

00:24:46.020 He died.

00:24:46.580 Oh, no.

00:24:47.220 Oh, thank you for breaking it softly like that.

00:24:49.700 You're welcome.

00:24:50.220 Okay.

00:24:50.700 Yeah.

00:24:51.500 That's a real spoiler alert.

00:24:53.100 I mean, we make fun of Glenn, but I mean, he gave away the whole story.

00:24:55.800 He gave the whole story away.

00:24:57.160 Sorry about that.

00:24:58.360 They make those weird choices, though.

00:25:00.220 Yeah, they do.

00:25:00.780 To try to add.

00:25:01.800 It's like, when you're watching a true story, you just want it to be the true story.

00:25:04.780 Even if it sucks a couple percent of the drama out, just tell it the way it happened.

00:25:08.860 So, Pat, did they cover his...

00:25:11.400 I mean, did they cover his death?

00:25:14.020 No.

00:25:14.500 They didn't?

00:25:14.920 No.

00:25:15.200 Was his girlfriend with him at the end?

00:25:17.020 Yes.

00:25:17.420 She was with him his whole life.

00:25:18.500 Okay.

00:25:18.840 Okay.

00:25:19.240 All right.

00:25:19.560 Good.

00:25:20.100 Wow.

00:25:20.620 Wow.

00:25:20.980 Look at that.

00:25:21.380 He's not spoiling anything.

00:25:22.900 That is really good.

00:25:24.060 I guess I shouldn't have said that.

00:25:26.800 You're in for a big story.

00:25:28.360 Surprise.

00:25:33.000 You're listening to the best of The Glenn Beck Program.

00:25:40.180 Like listening to this podcast?

00:25:42.120 If you're not a subscriber, become one now on iTunes.

00:25:45.220 And while you're there, do us a favor and rate the show.

00:25:48.920 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:25:51.700 Election by numbers.

00:25:53.560 Seven in ten voters say their vote is meant to send a message to Donald Trump.

00:26:00.960 Why are people so obsessed with this guy?

00:26:03.100 I don't know, man.

00:26:04.200 I get that he's president of the United States, but this is America.

00:26:06.760 We're not supposed to be obsessed with the president 24 hours a day.

00:26:09.460 The reason why the left is so obsessed with him is because he is destroying the fear that the left has spent decades trying to perfect.

00:26:22.460 They want you to be afraid of them, afraid of saying the wrong things, afraid of having a different opinion, and he doesn't care.

00:26:33.560 And that's what's driving them nuts.

00:26:36.520 He doesn't care, and they can't destroy him.

00:26:40.100 And on the outside, it looks like he's the easiest guy to destroy.

00:26:46.540 But here they have all this fear, and it's worked for so long.

00:26:50.280 If he teaches people not to care, they're in real trouble.

00:26:55.540 The obsession part of this, I think, is odd, just that it overwhelms other individuals, right?

00:26:59.780 Like, you know, if you really dislike Donald Trump, but you're in Arizona, and you're, let's say, in the middle, you can't possibly think that Sinema is a good candidate to be your senator.

00:27:11.620 She is a freaking Code Pink-level activist. 1.00

00:27:15.520 She's a person who said that Arizona is the meth lab of democracy. 0.99

00:27:19.920 She's a person who's called people in Arizona dumb over and over and over again. 0.96

00:27:25.540 But wait, isn't that the same thing that people like me were saying to evangelicals? 0.96

00:27:31.660 How can you possibly vote for this person when he said he's never asked for forgiveness?

00:27:38.880 All of those things.

00:27:39.640 Right.

00:27:40.220 This is the point that was accepted by the right.

00:27:44.980 This is just now being accepted by the left, but they are on policy.

00:27:52.180 This was about him personally.

00:27:53.940 And so people were like, I'm not electing a priest.

00:27:56.840 I'm electing a president.

00:27:59.520 They didn't disagree with him on policy.

00:28:02.140 What they disagreed with him on, what you disagree with them on in Arizona is policy.

00:28:09.600 Democrats should wake up and go, okay, I'm blind from my hatred of Donald Trump.

00:28:16.080 And I think that the evangelicals sold their soul to the devil. 0.80

00:28:19.980 Well, they didn't disagree on policy.

00:28:24.080 You, hopefully, disagree on massive policy and don't even really like her.

00:28:31.040 You're just voting to stop him.

00:28:33.820 And that's my point.

00:28:34.540 I mean, this is not a—people are going to try to make this into a Donald Trump election, and it does seem like.

00:28:39.820 I mean, you said 70% of people are saying that that's a big factor in their vote.

00:28:43.560 But it's—you know, look at the individual race.

00:28:46.620 There's two people in front of you.

00:28:47.900 Who do you think is going to be the better representative of your state?

00:28:50.340 I can't imagine Arizona actually believes Sinema is going to be better than McSally in that state.

00:28:54.520 But it may happen.

00:28:55.300 It's a very, very close race.

00:28:56.480 Can you imagine, Stu, how big the wave would have been in 2010 had the media had this kind of support for the Tea Party?

00:29:08.180 Oh, my gosh.

00:29:09.020 I mean, think of this.

00:29:10.080 Imagine puff pieces like Beto is getting for Tea Party candidates.

00:29:13.480 Imagine last night, ABC running a puff piece on Planned Parenthood.

00:29:17.920 I mean, it's crazy what's going on and their puff pieces.

00:29:22.460 Imagine if they would have—if the Tea Party would have had this kind of positive coverage.

00:29:28.220 And what—they didn't.

00:29:30.520 And look at the giant wave.

00:29:33.320 Now they do.

00:29:35.680 And look at the not-giant wave.

00:29:39.140 This is close.

00:29:40.380 It is very close.

00:29:41.360 And this is—the reason why you see all these pollsters are saying they think the Republicans are going to hold the Senate.

00:29:47.080 Most of them think it's 80, 85 percent chance they will hold the Senate.

00:29:50.780 Really, only a quote-unquote blue wave type of election actually gets the Democrats to control.

00:29:55.880 And the reason is there's massive structural advantages for Republicans in the Senate election.

00:30:01.760 If—without anyone being elected here, these are absolute locks.

00:30:05.620 42 Republicans, 23 Democrats.

00:30:07.860 So we go into this election with Republicans having a 19-seat advantage in the Senate.

00:30:14.480 It's just a matter of fleshing out the rest.

00:30:16.640 Problem is a lot of these races are going to go to the Democrats that are undecided.

00:30:20.420 So if you go at just things that look like pretty sure things, likely, you know, safe seats and likely seats, you get to about 46 Republicans and about 41 Democrats.

00:30:36.440 So they're going to—you know, it's states like, you know, New York are going to go, and Utah is going to go to Republicans.

00:30:41.200 And we're assuming all of these things.

00:30:42.900 So it's 46-41, and then you get to the closer races.

00:30:46.240 In the middle there, you have a couple that look like they're leaning towards Democrats, a couple like they're leaning towards Republicans, and then a bunch in the middle.

00:30:53.660 So to get to 50, however, for Democrats, they not only have to win all of their safe races and all of their likely wins, they have to win their leaner races as well.

00:31:04.220 That gets them to 43.

00:31:08.960 So they would have to win seven of the nine toss-up races.

00:31:12.900 Now, one of them is listed—you know, the New York Times lists Menendez as a toss-up race.

00:31:16.700 I don't believe that.

00:31:17.460 That is a Democrat race.

00:31:18.600 You know, I think it's a leaner.

00:31:20.000 It's not impossible if the Republican could win there, but how many times do we have to be fooled by freaking races in New Jersey as Republicans?

00:31:25.860 It looks like Menendez is probably going to pull that off.

00:31:28.380 There's some polling that shows it close.

00:31:30.140 The other one in there in that group is Cruz.

00:31:32.880 Now, Cruz has had some polling that has showed him recently up only by three or four points,

00:31:38.760 but he is still the favorite in this race in Texas over Beto despite the $9 trillion that Democrats are spending on it.

00:31:46.600 So if the Democrats can't get the Cruz seat, they would have to sweep all of the other toss-up races, all of them.

00:31:55.080 And that's not likely.

00:31:57.500 I mean, you really look at some of these races.

00:31:59.520 Some of them are, I think, Republican favorites.

00:32:03.140 You know, races—I think McCaskill's in serious trouble in Missouri.

00:32:07.900 I think in—you know, there's a good poll in Florida, although most of the polling has showed the Democrats slightly ahead.

00:32:14.180 Scott actually was ahead in one poll in Florida today.

00:32:17.420 The Indiana race is a complete toss-up.

00:32:20.680 Nevada is a toss-up.

00:32:22.600 Tennessee is probably leaning towards Republicans.

00:32:25.400 If they can just win Cruz and Tennessee, they're going to hold the Senate.

00:32:28.700 That's likely how this goes.

00:32:32.000 And they could—after that, everything's gravy, right?

00:32:34.380 You're going into—they could easily win five, six of these toss-up races.

00:32:38.900 And in that case, they're going to have a nice, hefty advantage to get things passed.

00:32:43.360 Of course, it doesn't mean that much unless you also hold the House.

00:32:47.100 It's going to be hard to get things through.

00:32:48.820 So the House has passed so many things that the Senate has just not acted on.

00:32:54.240 If the House is lost to the Democrats, we need to be on the phone with the Senate on Wednesday saying,

00:33:05.440 pass those bills.

00:33:07.480 Pass the bills that we've been waiting and passed by the House.

00:33:13.220 Because you're not going to get any legislation through with the Democrats in control of the House.

00:33:19.560 And God forbid the Democrats in control of Congress, which I mean in control of the Senate as well.

00:33:25.680 I just don't think that's going to happen.

00:33:27.420 That stuff should be in session on Christmas morning.

00:33:29.420 Yeah.

00:33:29.620 They should be still voting on stuff Christmas morning.

00:33:31.940 They shouldn't take one day off until that new Congress arrives.

00:33:35.960 That's absolutely true.

00:33:36.900 And I will tell you this.

00:33:38.560 I—they are so desperate.

00:33:41.500 The press is so desperate for this to be true and a blue wave.

00:33:46.760 Just know this, no matter what happens—I mean, unless no Republicans show up, this is not a blue wave.

00:33:54.760 And no matter what happens, unless, again, the Republicans lose everything they're expected to win,

00:34:02.980 this is—this is nothing like what it usually is.

00:34:08.900 I'm not even talking about 2000 and—what was it, 2010, that wave with the Tea Party.

00:34:17.500 That's—I'm talking about what it usually is.

00:34:20.700 When a president, who is very active, usually they lose the House and maybe the House and the Senate when you get to midterms.

00:34:31.440 Because Americans just like to have the balance of power and the checks of balances. 0.60

00:34:36.320 If this is close, that says a ton, not about Donald Trump, but about how ineffective and how out of touch with the American people,

00:34:48.760 their own voters, how out of touch the Democrats really are.

00:34:53.000 But all of this, all of this is just gobbledygook.

00:34:58.780 Look, if you're not out voting tomorrow, you have to go out and vote.

00:35:04.380 I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.

00:35:06.960 You have to go out and vote.

00:35:09.080 I care.

00:35:09.520 You shouldn't go out and vote if you're voting for Democrats.

00:35:11.440 I say that because that's the American thing.

00:35:15.640 We have to support everybody.

00:35:17.300 But I also will say the Democrats are going out and they're bussing every old person in a coma. 0.99

00:35:22.660 It is our responsibility.

00:35:27.040 Look for those people in your office that vote like you do, think like you do, but are like,

00:35:32.500 I don't know if I get them in the car with you tomorrow to vote.

00:35:37.900 Call Grandma.

00:35:39.260 Is she going there?

00:35:41.020 You know what, Grandma?

00:35:41.840 Let me pick you up and take you.

00:35:44.120 Make sure everybody on your contact list that can vote is voting.

00:35:50.120 And if you have a single doubt, tomorrow might be a good day to have a sick day and play taxi or Uber for everybody you know.

00:35:59.760 Election by numbers on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:36:03.600 All right.

00:36:03.800 Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour.

00:36:05.940 Then we'll come back with more of our election coverage.

00:36:08.000 And don't forget, don't forget that tomorrow we have election coverage on the Blaze TV starting at 6 p.m.

00:36:18.100 I have not heard, Marissa, do you have a list of all the people that are going to be on with us tomorrow?

00:36:23.740 Still working on it?

00:36:24.380 We have a huge list of people that are not just with the Blaze.

00:36:27.920 All across the conservative spectrum from wild, you know, almost anarchist capitalists to, well, I think we have one Democrat on.

00:36:45.200 But he's Democrat in name only.

00:36:47.660 And we're going to be covering the people who think like you and the people that you know and trust on tomorrow.

00:36:56.800 And it's going to be a lot of fun.

00:36:58.120 That's midterm coverage begins at 6 p.m. tomorrow.

00:37:01.160 Only on the Blaze TV.

00:37:03.340 I am the designated driver.

00:37:06.080 Read into that what you will.

00:37:08.340 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:37:26.440 So we talk about comedy a lot here on the program because comedy is really, really important.

00:37:31.480 Laughter is important.

00:37:32.520 We have to be able to make fun of each other and fun of ourselves.

00:37:35.580 And, honestly, if you can't make fun of yourself, you should not be making fun of other people.

00:37:41.440 It is a great coping mechanism and one of the things we need.

00:37:46.140 And it's, quite honestly, why people like Jim Gaffigan are doing so well right now.

00:37:51.380 Because he's not using comedy as a weapon.

00:37:54.660 He is allowing it to be a release.

00:37:57.920 All too often, it is now turned into a weapon.

00:38:01.000 And all too often, it is aimed at conservatives.

00:38:03.300 Saturday Night Live is a great case in point.

00:38:06.940 Last Saturday, but really it's the last decade or so, the problem with SNL's so-called comedy is that it's not funny.

00:38:15.520 It's always not been funny.

00:38:18.040 They've never known how to end comedy bits.

00:38:21.540 That is traditional.

00:38:23.280 And only once in a while, some seasons, have they been funny.

00:38:27.200 But that was before the invention of what I like to call claptor.

00:38:33.200 It's not laughter.

00:38:34.920 It's, oh my gosh, that is a great point that makes me feel like I'm so very smart.

00:38:42.760 Many left-leaning people talk about SNL skits.

00:38:47.660 And they don't laugh.

00:38:49.380 It's not enjoyable in that way.

00:38:51.700 It's claptor.

00:38:53.380 I'm superior.

00:38:54.460 Oh, yes, that's what everybody thinks.

00:38:57.520 Well, this weekend offered the perfect example with Pete Davidson's clunky segment during Weekend Update.

00:39:03.820 He gave impressions of some of the candidates.

00:39:08.540 And, you know, look, if you can make fun of yourself, you can make fun of others.

00:39:11.860 But is there a line?

00:39:13.100 I say as long as everybody is in on the joke, you can make jokes.

00:39:19.260 But the left would tell you never, ever about somebody who has any kind of condition or handicapped or difference.

00:39:29.380 How dare you make fun of that?

00:39:31.140 Well, Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw, who is a Navy SEAL, did five tours of duty.

00:39:39.000 He wears an eye patch now because he lost his right eye when he was hit by an IED blast in 2012.

00:39:45.760 He was medically retired.

00:39:47.240 He has two bronze stars, the Purple Heart and the Navy Accommodation Medal with valor.

00:39:54.500 So after they make fun of him for wearing an eye patch, no class.

00:40:01.980 Let me play for you how Mr. Crenshaw showed all class in his response.

00:40:09.300 I want us to get away from this culture where we demand apologies every time someone misspeaks.

00:40:13.620 I think that would be very healthy for our nation to go in that direction.

00:40:18.080 You know, we don't need to be we don't need to be outwardly outraged.

00:40:21.460 I don't need to demand apologies from them.

00:40:23.720 They can do whatever they want.

00:40:25.380 You know, it's they're feeling the heat from around the country right now.

00:40:29.900 And that's that's fine.

00:40:31.140 But I would like him and Saturday Night Live to recognize something, which is that veterans across the country probably don't feel as though their wounds they received in battle.

00:40:42.580 should be the subject of a bad punchline for a bad joke.

00:40:46.240 And here's the real atrocity of all this.

00:40:48.700 It wasn't even funny.

00:40:50.680 No, but it did get clapped or Mr. Crenshaw joins us now.

00:40:55.300 Hello, Dan.

00:40:55.820 How are you, sir?

00:40:57.300 I'm doing well.

00:40:58.160 Thanks for having me, Glenn.

00:40:59.540 First of all, thank you for your service and your your sacrifice.

00:41:02.700 Um, uh, but let me talk a little bit about, um, were you watching Saturday Night Live when it happened?

00:41:10.780 Well, I don't make a habit of watching Saturday Night Live, so I did not see it, but I did get a lot of text about it in the morning.

00:41:18.940 Right.

00:41:19.180 So every single one of my Navy SEAL friends wrote to me and said, you have to take this on.

00:41:25.060 And I went and I watched it and it, it, you know, it just wasn't funny to make fun of somebody who lost and to take it so flippantly say, I don't know, he lost his eye in a war or whatever.

00:41:36.100 Um, I just don't think it's, it's funny to, to do that, um, on either side.

00:41:42.500 Um, however, what I was really impressed with is the way you responded.

00:41:48.500 How, how come you responded this way when you had every reason to have righteous indignation and use this for your political gain?

00:41:58.600 Well, you know, I, I, I, I simply responded the way I actually felt, which was a little exasperated by the whole thing.

00:42:09.840 Um, a little annoyed because I have been, I have been watching these shows like, uh, Saturday Night Live and a lot of the late shows really deteriorate into, into simply political platforms as opposed to good comedy.

00:42:22.940 And, uh, it's funny, you mentioned your seal friends, you know, uh, seals have pretty thick skin, right?

00:42:29.840 And we like to make fun of each other.

00:42:31.380 And, um, but, but there's always been sort of a lot of the conversation I always had with my friends.

00:42:35.720 I'm like, Hey, you know what?

00:42:37.340 It's fair game, but it has to actually be funny and it has to actually be original and witty.

00:42:42.800 And, and this just went far beyond that.

00:42:44.780 I mean, the first part of, of, of what he said was just kind of strange, frankly, didn't make sense.

00:42:50.400 Um, but it was the last part where, you know, lost it in war or whatever that's, listen, I don't have to be offended by that.

00:42:58.220 I don't, I don't have to be outraged by that.

00:43:00.400 That doesn't mean what he said isn't offensive, right?

00:43:02.800 Because it's not just me.

00:43:03.940 I have to think about, I do have to think about all the veterans who are disfigured from war and now feel like they're fair game for just, you know, warring laughter from the crowd.

00:43:15.060 I thought that was, I thought that was a little strange.

00:43:17.580 And I think a lot of us veterans are just looking at that and thinking, well, why is that funny?

00:43:22.740 You know, we, we, we, we, we truly, we just don't, don't see the joke, you know, just, just be funny, be funny, do your job and be funny.

00:43:29.500 Like put some work into it.

00:43:30.820 It's supposed to be an art, you know, but, but they're not.

00:43:34.040 And that's, that's the real tragedy here.

00:43:35.580 I will tell you that I have, um, a lot of veteran friends who to make others feel comfortable, make fun of their lost limb or whatever, and they go out of their way.

00:43:47.420 And it's usually very funny when they're making fun of it.

00:43:51.340 Uh, and so it's not a lack of a sense of humor on it.

00:43:54.640 It's just an appropriate sense of humor on it.

00:43:58.460 And, you know, for instance, we always say in our family, we, you know, we wreck each other hard and it's a sign of love in our family, but we don't wreck people that we don't know.

00:44:09.740 It's not like you're coming into our house and we just start wrecking you.

00:44:13.080 You have to be kind of part of the family and, and, uh, be loved if we're going to wreck you in that sort of a way.

00:44:20.680 Cause we know you'd wreck us just as hard for whatever it is we've got going on in our life.

00:44:26.460 Well, I think there's a basic social etiquette that kind of keeps our country together.

00:44:30.960 And, you know, we're, we're, we're seeing that fraying quite a bit, that, that social fabric and, and, and, and basic manners and basic etiquette.

00:44:39.020 And this is, this is just an example of that.

00:44:41.660 Um, can I, can I play, can I play devil's advocate on that?

00:44:45.160 What would you say to the, the people at CNN, that, uh, at CNN or SNL that might respond and say, oh, really it's etiquette?

00:44:53.900 Well, what about Donald Trump?

00:44:55.820 Oh, I was actually, that was actually where I was going with this point.

00:44:58.980 Um, and that, that, that is the counter argument constantly.

00:45:02.520 Um, and I'm seeing it all over Twitter.

00:45:04.680 Uh, I, I, I'm, I'm seeing that coming from the left.

00:45:07.360 They say, oh, well, Trump in my response to that is what on earth does Trump have to do with a conversation between Saturday night live and myself?

00:45:18.300 You know, I mean, it's just, it's wholly inappropriate.

00:45:21.440 Two things can be true at once here.

00:45:23.440 All right.

00:45:23.900 Some things the president said might've been inappropriate.

00:45:27.560 Also, this is inappropriate.

00:45:29.660 Two things can be true at once.

00:45:30.920 It's okay to say that you don't have to do what about is among this.

00:45:34.540 And, um, they're making themselves look bad by, by trying to claim that somehow this is the president's fault.

00:45:39.000 I mean, what else can we blame the president for? 0.68

00:45:40.560 I mean, it's, it, it really does become a very ridiculous conversation at some point. 1.00

00:45:45.160 So you have been a crazy candidate. 0.89

00:45:47.620 Um, you, from a field of nine candidates, you won, uh, by 155, uh, votes. 0.88

00:45:56.420 Then in the, uh, the runoff, you won with 70% of the votes.

00:46:03.240 You are, you're running for Ted Poe's seat in Congress.

00:46:06.840 He's retiring.

00:46:08.240 Um, you've kind of come out of nowhere here and you're not getting any of the Beto coverage.

00:46:13.940 Um, what is the message that is connecting with people?

00:46:18.480 Well, that's a good question.

00:46:19.740 Yeah, we, we've run, we've been running almost a year now and, uh, you know, we barely made it into the, the runoff.

00:46:26.180 Texas primaries are very early and we, we just came out with what, just 155 point vote margin.

00:46:31.900 Uh, I think what people like is, is the fact that I talk to them like they're people.

00:46:36.440 All right.

00:46:36.900 We, you know, politicians get a little bit too wrapped around political talking points and we forget to explain why we believe what we believe.

00:46:45.520 You know, we, we, we forget to explain a few layers deep, um, maybe because we think we'll get misquoted or maybe because we think voters can't take it.

00:46:53.060 Well, they can't, and they do want to hear it.

00:46:54.500 They do want to hear a little bit more deeper reasoning on, on, on why we believe entitlement reform is important or, or how we're going to fix the flood.

00:47:01.900 issues in Houston, um, or how we're going to keep our nation safe.

00:47:05.740 They appreciate an ability to articulate conservative values in a way that is persuasive and convincing and, and, and we'll, and we'll grow our base as opposed to just talking to ourselves constantly.

00:47:16.060 So I, I think they liked that.

00:47:18.380 And, and the other thing I really like to do is, is go from, um, either play video, either play video games or not answer your phone.

00:47:26.700 I'm not sure what that is, but that's okay.

00:47:31.420 Don't worry about it.

00:47:32.620 Yeah.

00:47:32.860 I like to do retail politics.

00:47:34.080 I like to just go find people where, where, where, you know, where their lives are happening, whether they're having a beer or having dinner.

00:47:40.140 And we just go talk to folks.

00:47:41.640 And, uh, in the end, politics is not all that complicated in the end.

00:47:45.040 You just have to connect with people and, um, know inside yourself why you're running and be able to express that to, to voters.

00:47:53.480 So why is it, why are you running, Dan?

00:47:56.640 What is it, the thing that drives you, uh, what's the, what's the thing that keeps you up at night and says you have to go to Washington to this cesspool because why?

00:48:09.560 Well, so, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll give you two kinds of forms of answers to that.

00:48:13.500 You know, from a, from a policy perspective for, for the Houston area, it's flooding infrastructure, it's border security, it's economic freedom, it's, it's entitlement reform.

00:48:21.920 It's getting control of our debt.

00:48:23.760 Okay.

00:48:24.200 On a, on a more deeper, maybe philosophical reason, I, I, I have, I have the sense and it's, I think it's backed up by reality that the Republican party is losing the next generation.

00:48:35.560 And I don't feel like we're articulating the why about what we believe very well.

00:48:40.780 I don't think that we're, that we're articulating how important foundational principles are.

00:48:44.620 I don't think that we're articulating that our, our approach to government, this idea of limited government and local control and, and, and responsible and sustainable spending, a sustainable role of federal government.

00:48:57.960 You know, those are the ways that we should be explaining, like, this is, this is how, this is the principles behind why this policy makes sense.

00:49:05.220 Don't start with the policy, start with those principles.

00:49:07.580 It helps people understand where we're coming from.

00:49:09.900 It helps the left understand that we're not in fact evil.

00:49:12.880 We do have hearts.

00:49:14.220 All right.

00:49:14.820 But, but what we actually believe in is a sustainable way to govern.

00:49:18.260 And we believe in putting the maximum amount of control at the local level.

00:49:21.680 That's what it means to be a Republican.

00:49:23.640 And we, and we, and we frame all that within a system of virtue, you know, and, and I'll steal Dennis Prager's line on this and know what a conservative stand for.

00:49:32.400 Just look at a coin.

00:49:33.820 De pluribus unum.

00:49:34.720 We don't believe in dividing people up in tribes.

00:49:36.640 Liberty.

00:49:37.380 We will, we always ask the question, is this giving us more liberty or less liberty?

00:49:40.340 And then we, and then we frame that within an, in God we trust because we know we can't have perfect liberty without a moral foundation.

00:49:48.340 That moral foundation is found in God.

00:49:51.780 Dan, I really like you.

00:49:53.640 I really like you.

00:49:56.020 I'm expecting that you are going to win.

00:49:58.060 May I make a recommendation to you?

00:50:01.380 People go to Washington all the time and they lose their soul.

00:50:05.120 And I can tell just talking to you that you, you have a pretty firm grip on that.

00:50:10.340 May I make a recommendation that you make a, a declaration to yourself that maybe only you and your wife see, and you really think it through before you're sworn in.

00:50:21.780 And you check it from time to time because people go to Washington and they start making compromises and excuses.

00:50:29.000 And what you just said about our principles and our founding, uh, uh, foundation, everything that we're built on, the constitution, the declaration, and the bill of rights.

00:50:41.740 We have a lot of people in Washington that don't actually defend those things now.

00:50:48.000 And I don't know if they actually even believe them anymore.

00:50:51.060 Please write down what you really believe and check it from some time and, and write on there too.

00:50:57.980 Don't make excuses for yourself, Dan.

00:51:00.500 So you're scolding your future self in case you start to go awry.

00:51:06.660 I like that approach, Glenn.

00:51:08.200 And I, uh, I respect you a great deal.

00:51:10.400 And I think I'll follow your advice on that.

00:51:11.980 Thank you, Dan.

00:51:12.600 I really appreciate it.

00:51:13.620 I wish you all the luck tomorrow and thanks for being cool about Saturday Night Live.

00:51:17.180 We don't need more victims.

00:51:19.140 No, we don't.

00:51:20.140 That's exactly right.

00:51:21.040 I've never seen myself as a victim.

00:51:22.420 I appreciate you having me on.

00:51:24.060 Thank you, man.

00:51:24.600 I appreciate it.

00:51:25.140 I've never met a SEAL that does see themselves as a victim.

00:51:28.520 That's great.

00:51:29.280 Yeah, I love him.

00:51:29.920 I just love that approach.

00:51:31.200 All right.

00:51:31.460 He's Texas 2nd Congressional District.

00:51:34.300 And he is trying to take over for Ted Poe.

00:51:38.080 The vote is tomorrow.

00:51:40.760 The Blaze Radio Network.

00:51:45.020 On Demand.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 05, 2018

11⧸5⧸18 - Best of Program - Guest, Dan Crenshaw

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript