8⧸17⧸17 - America at a crossroads (Bill O'Reilly joins Glenn )
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 56 minutes
Words per Minute
140.15688
Summary
We are at a crossroads in America, and we have to decide who we are, what we believe, and what the course of action that we need to take. I will make a stand. I believe that there are millions of Americans who are afraid of their own side right now. They are afraid the people in Berkeley, California, who are trying to silence free speech. They know they have unleashed a monster.
Transcript
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
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Well, it didn't take long, but they're now calling for the removal of George Washington's name on all parks in Chicago
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This is Chicago, so what a surprise that a pastor in the town that gave birth to Jeremiah Wright might feel this way.
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We are at a crossroads in America, and we have to decide who we are, what we believe,
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and what the course of action that we need to take.
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I will make a stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand.
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Because we are one. I will beat my drum. I have made my choice.
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Yesterday I started this program with many of the same words that I'm going to start this one with.
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And it is not a program today for people who are just playing team sports.
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I am an American because I believe in the Constitution of the United States of America.
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And I believe that there are millions of Americans who are afraid of their own side right now.
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They are afraid of the people who are in Berkeley, California,
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who are trying to silence free speech all across the universities.
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And I know this because I have many liberal friends who will tell me silently.
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And those days really have to come to an end soon, guys.
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Who will tell me silently they are, and this is a quote from one of them,
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And right now, the left might be celebrating the taking down of Confederate statues.
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Now, me personally, and I grew up in Seattle, Washington, so I have no heritage from the South.
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In fact, my heritage is from two forefathers that were killed by the South.
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One of them died in a really notorious concentration camp where pretty much they all starved to death,
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So any heritage that I do have is on the North.
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But I also believe that I'm a pretty fair person.
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I look into history, and I don't want to whitewash our history.
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I want to recognize the past, and I want to recognize both the good and the bad.
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You cannot raise your children to believe that America is just this sunshine and lollipops country because it's not.
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With that being said, we also have some really glorious things about this nation.
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But if you don't teach your children the bad things, if they don't hear it from you,
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and then hear, but this is why America is so great anyway,
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name the countries that haven't done this kind of stuff.
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We have to teach history and keep it in context and look for the advancement of man.
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Exactly what's going on in the world has been seen before.
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And what's happening right now was played out in the late 19s and the early 1920s.
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This progressive movement that glorified racism from Woodrow Wilson to Margaret Sanger.
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Because they had a deep hatred for black people.
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because people had a real, true hatred for people of color,