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00:00:08.020 You know, it's been such a fun week.

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00:00:43.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:48.140 It's Pat and Stu and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:53.000 Glenn is, can we say where he is?

00:00:55.180 Maybe not, huh?

00:00:56.560 Yeah.

00:00:57.160 He's doing something with Operation Underground Rescue today,

00:01:02.420 so he'll be back on Monday.

00:01:04.720 But another terrible terror strike yesterday,

00:01:10.040 this one in Barcelona, Spain.

00:01:12.080 The same kind of thing.

00:01:13.500 Vehicles used as weapons killed 14 people.

00:01:17.620 Just another mass carnage, bodies strewn all over the place.

00:01:26.380 And, you know, it's just so senseless and so bizarre.

00:01:31.760 And this seems to be their new thing, even over explosions.

00:01:37.460 Yeah, we're starting to probably hit that point in which the vehicle barriers at street festivals

00:01:46.480 need to seriously be increased.

00:01:49.300 I mean, because I think people, whether, obviously there's a low risk of something like this

00:01:52.980 happening at any particular festival you're at, but when they block these streets off,

00:01:57.020 these are the targets a lot of times.

00:01:59.540 You know, in a bizarre way.

00:02:01.640 It's in a way kind of like the gun-free zone with the mass shootings.

00:02:04.280 It's like you take out an area where, you know, there's any chance of traffic

00:02:09.540 and people just sort of, you know, they're all gathered in one place

00:02:13.420 where they all think they're safe.

00:02:14.620 And when they all think they're safe, that's when people come that are bad actors.

00:02:19.140 That's obviously not an argument against street festivals,

00:02:22.020 but it is an argument for security at them, I think.

00:02:25.060 Definitely.

00:02:25.720 I just heard this morning that they're going to really ramp up security

00:02:29.360 with vehicles in mind at the Texas State Fair next month.

00:02:33.060 So they're already starting to do that.

00:02:35.480 They're already taking that seriously.

00:02:36.980 And people won't show up if these things keep happening.

00:02:39.540 You know, people are going to stop risking it.

00:02:41.020 And that's the whole point, right, of this kind of attack.

00:02:43.640 You just want people to change their lifestyle.

00:02:46.260 You want them to live in fear.

00:02:48.080 You want to create terror.

00:02:49.920 And they're doing a pretty good job of that.

00:02:53.900 So it would be, they interviewed quite a few people who were just on vacation.

00:02:59.440 Yeah, this wasn't necessarily even just a street festival.

00:03:02.660 I mean, this was just the market, right?

00:03:04.540 Where everybody gathers.

00:03:06.440 A lot of tourists.

00:03:07.700 Yeah.

00:03:08.160 Yeah.

00:03:08.540 And so can you imagine?

00:03:10.740 You're just going to Barcelona, Spain for a vacation.

00:03:14.400 Right.

00:03:15.360 You're having a holiday there.

00:03:17.320 And then this kind of thing happens.

00:03:20.020 It's just, I mean, certainly it's no worse than the locals being killed

00:03:24.600 because they're both bad, but it just, it's so senseless.

00:03:28.400 And you just don't expect that.

00:03:29.720 You know, that's the point I thought I just took from your comment.

00:03:31.740 That you thought it was worse than the locals being killed.

00:03:34.960 Foreigners with Americans were there on vacation.

00:03:36.780 It is funny how we treat these things.

00:03:38.140 And the media, like I was watching Fox News when this was going on

00:03:41.420 and they went to a report, they're like,

00:03:43.180 we have new information in that four NCAA basketball teams

00:03:47.880 were playing in Spain at the time.

00:03:50.400 All teams are okay.

00:03:52.240 Okay, I don't know why that is relevant to the story.

00:03:56.680 The fact that that's the American angle, right?

00:03:58.960 It is, I guess.

00:03:59.740 And I'm not blaming Fox for that.

00:04:01.400 I mean, I guess it is sort of interesting,

00:04:03.080 particularly if you are a fan of one of the teams

00:04:05.140 that is playing in that general vicinity.

00:04:07.600 But the idea that you're like three of the four teams

00:04:10.380 have made a statement and all three teams have said the same thing

00:04:13.420 that nothing happened.

00:04:15.440 Okay.

00:04:16.220 I mean, it's probably, there's probably something else in this story

00:04:20.340 that you could cover at this particular moment.

00:04:23.040 I'm just saying that it's possible that the basketball team,

00:04:27.300 you know, being unharmed is not necessarily a story.

00:04:33.100 Most people in the, you know, in the world were unharmed at that moment.

00:04:36.640 This does tend, because my wife and I have been considering,

00:04:39.820 I mean, we've wanted to go to Europe our whole lives.

00:04:41.820 And I, you know, I want to go to London.

00:04:44.700 I'd love to go to Barcelona.

00:04:45.900 I'd love to go to Rome.

00:04:47.680 Love to go to France.

00:04:49.960 Even though the problem with France is the French. 0.99

00:04:56.580 But I'd love to see it.

00:04:58.280 I'd love to be there.

00:04:59.320 I'd love to experience that.

00:05:00.680 And now with all this stuff happening all the time,

00:05:03.040 it does, it cause you to kind of wonder

00:05:06.960 if you really want to do that.

00:05:08.900 Doesn't it?

00:05:09.480 I mean, this is going to hurt tourism.

00:05:11.880 It is.

00:05:12.800 And, you know, we're talking about, you know,

00:05:14.160 a lot of people dead, a lot of people injured.

00:05:16.520 I mean, the footage that you described earlier,

00:05:19.100 did you notice a line that was different from other attacks

00:05:21.740 in which they really showed a lot of just dead bodies on the street?

00:05:25.840 And they kept showing it over and over and over again.

00:05:28.020 These were not people that were hurt.

00:05:29.460 They were, I mean, motionless.

00:05:31.400 No one's even tending to them.

00:05:33.320 You know, it's not like when you have someone who's hurt

00:05:35.060 and struggling, people rush over and try to help

00:05:37.000 after one of these things.

00:05:37.980 People were just walking by.

00:05:38.900 I'm like, this is over.

00:05:39.640 I mean, you know, a lot of people dead, a lot of gore.

00:05:44.660 And they showed it for whatever reason, seemingly without hesitance

00:05:49.840 in this particular case.

00:05:50.920 A lot of times they will, you know, if you think of the clip in Charlottesville,

00:05:55.300 right, where one person died, they went to somewhat great lengths

00:05:59.600 to not show you the actual person who died,

00:06:03.160 the actual real carnage of that.

00:06:05.420 They showed it from a distance.

00:06:07.060 They showed parts of it.

00:06:08.820 But this was, like, I mean, really intense.

00:06:10.840 Maybe we do need to see it.

00:06:11.660 You were up close and personal with all the carnage.

00:06:13.540 Maybe we do need to see it.

00:06:15.640 There's an argument there, and I think a strong one.

00:06:17.960 I mean, I don't know what you do here, right?

00:06:21.520 Like, they were talking about this.

00:06:22.780 There was this terrorism expert on that I was watching,

00:06:24.860 and they were like, well, there's nothing you can do to stop these incidents.

00:06:27.420 There's really no way to stop them.

00:06:29.040 And that's true about really everything, right?

00:06:31.700 Like, there's nothing to stop someone walking up behind you

00:06:35.480 with a water balloon full of red Kool-Aid

00:06:38.120 and slapping it on the back of your head 0.93

00:06:40.380 every time you walk down the street.

00:06:42.180 The only reason it doesn't happen is because no one's interested in doing it, right?

00:06:46.120 Anyone can do it to you at any time.

00:06:48.000 And that's the only way that this is going to eventually stop, hopefully,

00:06:52.400 that eventually we get to a point

00:06:54.300 in which people are not motivated by this thing.

00:06:57.320 White supremacy, we've gone a long way in essentially eliminating.

00:07:00.920 And it's a weird thing to say after Charlottesville.

00:07:02.880 But, you know, it's pretty freaking notable

00:07:05.040 when there's a Ku Klux Klan rally these days

00:07:07.920 just because, generally speaking,

00:07:11.480 people in the United States aren't interested in it.

00:07:14.240 There's not a lot of people who want to be involved in that nonsense,

00:07:16.860 so they're not, thankfully.

00:07:18.800 Right now, Islamic extremism is not, that's not the case.

00:07:21.960 You know, there's a lot of people around the world

00:07:24.160 who are really interested in it.

00:07:25.740 And until that ideology is defeated,

00:07:29.200 until that, you know, that strain of extremism is gone

00:07:34.780 and people just don't want to do it.

00:07:37.320 Look, Nazism is like that. 0.93

00:07:38.900 I mean, at one point, Nazism was, you know, 0.59

00:07:41.200 the dominant viewpoint of a country,

00:07:44.280 of multiple countries when you throw fascism in there.

00:07:47.380 And now, you know, there's a lot less interest in it,

00:07:50.420 thankfully, around the globe,

00:07:51.420 and we have a lot less Nazism.

00:07:52.840 That's the only way you do this, right?

00:07:56.180 I mean, and I don't know how you do it with a group like Islamic extremism 0.99

00:07:59.820 because it's so large.

00:08:01.400 There's so many people that even if there's just an infinitesimal percentage

00:08:05.220 of Islam that goes down this road,

00:08:08.060 it's still almost impossible to stop.

00:08:10.820 Either stop it that way or by killing every single terrorist on the planet,

00:08:15.420 which is difficult.

00:08:16.700 Really difficult.

00:08:17.620 Very difficult.

00:08:18.100 I mean, look, that's how we approach Nazis, right? 0.82

00:08:19.560 It wasn't like we were like, oh, you know what, actually, we don't agree with your universal health care plans,

00:08:25.020 and that's why they disputed Nazism.

00:08:26.960 He did it with a bunch of bombs,

00:08:28.800 which is, you know, look, that is certainly part of it,

00:08:32.000 you know, but it's a lot harder here.

00:08:35.540 When you talk about killing every terrorist,

00:08:37.200 it's a lot difficult to figure out who those people are and how to do it.

00:08:39.640 And, you know, we've seen, you know, attempts at that, certainly in certain countries.

00:08:45.880 And so far, I mean, it's, there have been parts of it that have worked and parts of it that haven't.

00:08:50.700 So, I mean, right now ISIS is being pushed back,

00:08:53.320 and we may wind up seeing ISIS go away, that part of it.

00:08:56.880 But we also, you know, you could argue that parts of Al-Qaeda have gone away

00:09:00.120 and were replaced by ISIS, right?

00:09:02.420 So, I mean, you know, it's such a difficult task to do this in any efficient way,

00:09:08.180 especially without, you know, without the support and really unified action of the world.

00:09:13.680 With the Nazis, it had a lot of that. 0.84

00:09:15.620 And Islamic State has taken credit for this. 0.79

00:09:17.900 The perpetrators of the Barcelona attack are soldiers of the Islamic State

00:09:21.260 and carried out the operation in response to calls for targeting coalition states.

00:09:26.240 I mean, is Spain really even heavily involved in the war on terror?

00:09:29.820 No, but with the open border campaigns in Europe, I mean, Spain, France, all of it,

00:09:37.780 they're all, I mean, that immigration process for the extremists. 0.76

00:09:44.160 You know, you said you don't know who they are.

00:09:46.860 Nobody knows who they are.

00:09:48.200 So they're just there in those countries.

00:09:50.000 But they don't seem to be targeting the Sunni militant groups in Syria, certainly.

00:09:57.220 They're not in Iraq.

00:09:58.040 They're not in Afghanistan.

00:09:58.860 Why Spain?

00:10:00.600 Why are they targeting Spain?

00:10:02.800 Well, Spain hasn't had a big attack in a while.

00:10:04.480 2004, they had a big attack.

00:10:06.700 But it's been a while.

00:10:08.660 This is the worst one since the 2004 attack.

00:10:12.260 You know, I think...

00:10:12.960 That one killed 191 people.

00:10:14.800 Yeah.

00:10:15.760 191.

00:10:16.300 Yeah.

00:10:16.720 Wounded 1,800.

00:10:18.640 Jeez.

00:10:19.340 It was a huge attack.

00:10:20.360 Huge.

00:10:20.620 You know, and just Europe in and of itself is just very vulnerable to these things.

00:10:28.000 They have...

00:10:28.460 A lot of them have very lenient, to say the least, immigration policies.

00:10:34.480 No guns.

00:10:35.240 There's very little to push back.

00:10:37.940 There's also very free immigration, relatively speaking, between the countries.

00:10:42.320 Yeah.

00:10:42.480 So even if you have a more restrictive policy on your border, when it comes to, you know, immigrants from the Middle East or whatever, they could come into a neighboring country and then come across that border.

00:10:53.800 So it becomes very difficult.

00:10:57.240 It would be like trying to figure out immigration among the 50 states.

00:11:03.240 If we were constantly on the border trying to stop certain people going from, you know, Texas into Oklahoma, it would be really hard.

00:11:10.780 And, you know, it's a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's that type of arrangement.

00:11:15.260 And, you know, it's difficult.

00:11:17.400 It also looks like police have caught everybody but the driver, right?

00:11:21.360 And that's the last I heard was that the driver fled on foot and he's still...

00:11:26.700 The actual driver of the van has gotten away.

00:11:29.780 And it seems like...

00:11:30.820 Until this point.

00:11:31.360 It was a bigger plot or, you know, there's an explosion they think was tied to this.

00:11:35.720 There was another attack they think was tied to this through family members.

00:11:38.840 Yeah, apparently they thwarted another attack.

00:11:40.680 And they thwarted another one overnight, right?

00:11:42.500 With five people trying to attempt an attack and they shot all five of them.

00:11:46.900 Yeah, in Cambrils.

00:11:50.400 Cambrils, Spain.

00:11:50.980 And they, again, you talked about showing the footage.

00:11:53.660 That footage immediately was all of them dead on the sidewalk.

00:11:57.080 Showing where police had shot them.

00:11:58.780 Oh, wow.

00:11:59.820 Last night after they got them.

00:12:01.940 They were...

00:12:02.640 The suspects are dead.

00:12:03.880 Police have shot them.

00:12:05.200 And there they are.

00:12:06.540 Wow.

00:12:07.180 It was amazing.

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00:15:15.960 Donald Trump's tweet last night about pig's blood apparently turns out to be not exactly accurate.

00:15:23.660 That's the way to...

00:15:25.080 I'm not precise.

00:15:26.700 No.

00:15:27.060 In its language.

00:15:28.220 It's interesting.

00:15:28.880 Which is surprising with the president.

00:15:30.260 Yeah.

00:15:30.500 It's interesting to see the media, the way the media is handling it in that, like, you

00:15:34.260 know, he got hammered for not tweeting fast enough and calling it terrorism essentially

00:15:38.840 in Charlottesville, which, by the way, again, I heard somebody on CNN this morning, someone

00:15:42.620 running for, I think, Senate in Virginia, who said it was not terrorism or would not admit

00:15:49.140 it was terrorism until about halfway through the interview, which he eventually came around

00:15:52.140 to say, yeah, okay, it was terrorism.

00:15:54.260 But he's the only person I've ever heard say that the Charlottesville attack was not terrorism.

00:15:58.020 Who's denying this?

00:16:01.760 This is like a typical left-wing complaint.

00:16:04.040 Like, oh, well, if it was a Muslim, you would have called it terrorism. 1.00

00:16:06.520 We're calling it terrorism anyway.

00:16:08.280 We have no problem calling it terrorism. 0.96

00:16:09.980 No, of course it was terrorism.

00:16:11.280 We didn't from the first moment we heard about it.

00:16:13.900 Yeah.

00:16:14.180 As was, by the way, the Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer who went and tried to shoot everybody

00:16:18.740 in the GOP at their baseball practice.

00:16:20.840 Right.

00:16:21.000 Also terrorism.

00:16:21.780 And then, Bernie Sanders, after that, had the unmitigated gall to blame the attack on

00:16:28.680 Trump when one of his own supporters actually tried to murder one-tenth of the GOP delegation.

00:16:36.700 I mean, Sanders has balls.

00:16:39.600 Wow.

00:16:40.220 That is some giblets.

00:16:41.360 Wow.

00:16:41.920 There's some giblets there.

00:16:43.080 But, I mean, they're criticizing Trump over this.

00:16:45.700 And I think part of it is...

00:16:46.780 He did the General Pershing tweet, right?

00:16:48.400 Right.

00:16:48.560 So, the first one was...

00:16:49.400 The first one, he was condemning the terror attack.

00:16:51.280 And the first one was totally fine.

00:16:52.340 Yeah.

00:16:52.760 United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is

00:16:57.920 necessary.

00:16:58.940 Be tough and strong.

00:16:59.880 We love you.

00:17:00.400 Yeah.

00:17:00.720 Great.

00:17:01.220 And he did it right away.

00:17:02.160 And, again, the media is like, well, why did he react so fast to this one and not the

00:17:04.980 last one?

00:17:05.680 Well, I mean, if you wanted him to react fast, then he did react fast.

00:17:10.280 It's harder to criticize him for previously not reacting fast.

00:17:14.280 He reacted fast, said the right thing.

00:17:16.860 Totally fine.

00:17:17.460 Fine.

00:17:17.880 Unfortunately, he followed it up.

00:17:19.180 Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught.

00:17:22.660 There was no more radical Islamic terror for 35 years.

00:17:25.600 Right.

00:17:26.140 Stu.

00:17:26.980 Now...

00:17:27.740 And that was supposedly...

00:17:29.340 The legend is that General Pershing buried them in pig's blood?

00:17:34.240 No, he dipped the bullets in blood.

00:17:36.960 That's what it was.

00:17:37.760 Then he shot...

00:17:38.600 I think it was 50 of them.

00:17:40.260 He shot 49 of them and let the last one go to tell everyone.

00:17:43.220 And then there was no Islamic terror for 25 years, is what he said in the campaign.

00:17:46.360 Now it's advanced now to 35 years of no Islamic terrorism.

00:17:49.720 Let's tweet it'll be 135 years.

00:17:52.040 It may go that direction.

00:17:53.880 So the story...

00:17:55.040 I mean, a lot of people in the media are saying, like, oh, this is absolutely a lie.

00:17:59.240 And, you know, it did not happen.

00:18:01.040 There's no evidence of it happening.

00:18:03.400 It's not a true story.

00:18:04.900 As you point out, it's a legend.

00:18:06.100 It's kind of...

00:18:06.700 Maybe you should study it, Stu.

00:18:08.440 I know.

00:18:08.820 Like the president said.

00:18:10.420 And I don't want to, again, quibble with Twitter and the wording of it.

00:18:13.400 But if you're going to tell people to study something, you should probably know whether

00:18:16.200 it's accurate.

00:18:17.200 You should probably have studied it yourself.

00:18:20.700 Yes.

00:18:21.100 In fact...

00:18:21.540 Would be helpful.

00:18:22.180 That would probably be helpful.

00:18:23.100 That would be helpful.

00:18:23.380 Corey Lewandowski, who was, of course, his campaign manager, Trump's campaign manager,

00:18:27.000 said his team knew at the time the story was a myth when Trump told it in 2016 but decided

00:18:32.880 to say it at rallies anyway.

00:18:34.040 It's not about that, he told the Washington Post.

00:18:36.500 Look, it's an analogy.

00:18:37.940 Which is...

00:18:38.380 Okay.

00:18:39.000 Like, I guess you could take that as an analogy of we should be tough on Islamic terrorism 1.00

00:18:42.420 and we should maybe think the way they do and use that in a way to deter it.

00:18:49.380 General Pershing's memoirs, and this, I think, is the genesis of this sort of legend

00:18:56.340 that has been passed around over the years, talks about fighting Islamic extremists, and

00:19:03.660 there's a related story in the memoir.

00:19:06.220 It talks about how attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice the army had

00:19:12.060 already adopted, one that Mohammedans held in abhorrence.

00:19:16.420 The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave.

00:19:19.040 It's weird what we used to call Muslims.

00:19:20.500 Yeah, Mohammedans. 0.99

00:19:21.300 Yeah.

00:19:22.860 Muslimites, or Mohammedites, and Mohammedans, and all kinds of different things.

00:19:29.620 Right.

00:19:30.320 And so that's what Pershing used.

00:19:32.200 He said,

00:19:32.900 The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig.

00:19:36.840 It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell

00:19:41.700 instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.

00:19:45.340 So it certainly never, it did not wipe it out for 35 years, they did not dip them in

00:19:50.880 blood.

00:19:52.060 There was, his report was, and it doesn't even say he did it, he said the army was doing

00:19:56.320 it generally, where they would occasionally, sometimes publicly, bury a dead Islamic extremist

00:20:04.340 with a pig, and it would sometimes deter some assassins. 0.92

00:20:08.560 So there is some germ of truth to the story.

00:20:11.620 Yeah.

00:20:11.640 So it's not nothing.

00:20:13.140 That's a pretty big germ, though.

00:20:14.240 I think so, too.

00:20:15.140 I mean,

00:20:15.340 That's almost like a full-fledged virus.

00:20:18.100 Maybe.

00:20:19.960 What?

00:20:20.480 I don't know.

00:20:20.920 I think it's pretty easily cured.

00:20:22.500 Wow.

00:20:23.380 It's not the story that Trump told.

00:20:25.440 No.

00:20:25.600 And maybe,

00:20:26.280 I mean,

00:20:27.020 that they did anything of the sort.

00:20:28.760 Of the sort is interesting.

00:20:30.340 Yes, it is.

00:20:30.520 Because they did actually use it.

00:20:31.600 Yes, it is.

00:20:32.280 There's no,

00:20:33.020 there's no,

00:20:33.620 there's no indication that it did work as well as we'd all like to believe.

00:20:38.440 Because the bottom line is,

00:20:39.780 if we could kill terrorists with pig blood-dipped bullets, 0.74

00:20:44.620 and they would stop all attacks,

00:20:46.400 we would be doing it.

00:20:47.620 Right?

00:20:47.920 It's just,

00:20:48.700 it didn't seem.

00:20:49.260 I don't know.

00:20:49.600 Would we?

00:20:50.540 I think so.

00:20:51.340 That's an interesting question to ponder.

00:20:53.680 Would we?

00:20:53.980 Yes, it is.

00:20:54.700 I don't know.

00:20:55.340 That's pretty politically incorrect.

00:20:57.240 It is politically incorrect.

00:20:58.600 But, I mean,

00:20:58.880 if it stopped,

00:20:59.580 you know,

00:21:00.140 thousands and thousands of people dead.

00:21:01.080 I'm not sure that makes a difference.

00:21:02.560 Yeah.

00:21:02.840 Well,

00:21:03.160 there's certainly a lot of people who would argue the other side of it.

00:21:05.500 Yep.

00:21:05.780 Yep.

00:21:05.820 Yep.

00:21:05.840 Yep.

00:21:08.440 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:19.500 Mercury.

00:21:23.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:25.640 Pat and Stu.

00:21:26.860 And Jeffy,

00:21:27.700 888-727-BECK.

00:21:29.080 Glenn is back on Monday.

00:21:30.840 He's out in Central America,

00:21:32.880 as he tweeted this morning.

00:21:34.400 Somewhere in Central America,

00:21:35.560 with Operation Underground Rescue.

00:21:37.760 So,

00:21:38.560 doing some really important things today.

00:21:41.540 But he'll be back on Monday.

00:21:43.900 And in the meantime,

00:21:46.040 this Confederate monument thing continues to really boil.

00:21:52.720 I mean,

00:21:52.980 it's boiling right now.

00:21:54.520 And I don't know if it simmers down.

00:21:56.540 I don't know if this tapers off.

00:21:59.040 Because we've got a lot of fired up people about it.

00:22:03.560 And the president,

00:22:05.100 was his speech,

00:22:06.360 his second,

00:22:07.600 third,

00:22:08.100 I guess it was the third speech on this.

00:22:10.260 Was that Monday or Tuesday?

00:22:13.040 You're saying the press conference?

00:22:14.360 Yeah.

00:22:14.620 The press conference.

00:22:15.520 I think it was,

00:22:16.440 I can't remember.

00:22:17.760 It was one of the two.

00:22:18.420 Anyway,

00:22:19.160 he said this.

00:22:20.400 Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

00:22:25.760 So,

00:22:26.460 this week it's Robert E. Lee.

00:22:28.520 I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down.

00:22:31.280 I wonder,

00:22:31.880 is it George Washington next week?

00:22:33.700 And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?

00:22:35.720 Okay,

00:22:36.460 that was probably,

00:22:38.040 that was one of the things that got him the most criticism.

00:22:41.040 Because,

00:22:41.720 what a buffoon.

00:22:42.960 He doesn't understand history at all.

00:22:45.560 You can't conflate those Confederate generals with Washington and Jefferson.

00:22:51.580 It wasn't their position in the military or who they were fighting against that was the question.

00:22:59.160 The question was,

00:23:00.940 will you now want Washington's statue removed because he also owns slaves?

00:23:07.180 And Jefferson owns slaves?

00:23:09.100 And so you're going to be coming after them as well?

00:23:11.200 And they thought that was the most ridiculous thing of all time.

00:23:14.140 And then it happened the next day.

00:23:16.320 And Washington Park is named after our first president.

00:23:20.060 And a statue of him on a horse stands prominently here at this park for all to see.

00:23:25.880 But one pastor, as you mentioned, said it is offensive because Washington owned slaves.

00:23:31.500 Duke says they should not be held to such esteem and considered heroes when they participated in the slave trade.

00:23:37.940 He says the changes could be as simple as naming the parks after African-American heroes

00:23:42.900 like Harold Washington, Jesse Jackson, and Michael Jackson.

00:23:48.900 Wait, Michael Jackson?

00:23:50.620 I mean, the last part just makes it silly.

00:23:53.340 Michael Jackson.

00:23:56.640 Michael Jackson.

00:23:58.080 The guy was potentially a pedophile.

00:24:00.460 Yes.

00:24:00.860 By all indications.

00:24:02.200 Yes.

00:24:02.780 Yes, Jeffy.

00:24:03.920 By all indications, he's at least a highly suspect individual when it comes to criminal activities.

00:24:09.840 He loved a 12-year-old boy's children.

00:24:11.760 We know that.

00:24:13.240 So it was the next day.

00:24:17.140 Yeah.

00:24:17.460 This pastor is calling for, in Chicago,

00:24:19.780 he's calling for the removal of the George Washington statue that was in the park

00:24:25.260 and changing the name from Washington Park to, you know, Michael Jackson Park or whatever.

00:24:30.200 So that was the next day.

00:24:31.580 And then yesterday we had this CNN commentator, Angela Rye.

00:24:38.080 I think that we have to get to the heart of the problem here.

00:24:41.080 And the heart of the problem is the way in which many of us were taught American history.

00:24:45.220 American history is not all glorious.

00:24:47.960 And even though I love John to death, I couldn't disagree more about George Washington.

00:24:52.640 George Washington was a slave owner.

00:24:54.540 And we need to call slave owners out for what they are. 0.96

00:24:56.700 Whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not, he wasn't protecting my freedom.

00:25:01.320 I wasn't someone who my ancestors weren't deemed human beings to him.

00:25:04.720 And so to me, I don't care if it's a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue

00:25:09.300 or a Robert E. Lee statue.

00:25:10.880 They all need to come down.

00:25:12.000 There is a way that we can recognize and appreciate.

00:25:14.720 Angela, you've got a problem here.

00:25:15.180 I'm not finished, John.

00:25:16.840 You're feeding into Steve Banning and Trump's talking points.

00:25:19.640 No, no, no, but I'm not.

00:25:20.440 I think he knew you were finished.

00:25:21.300 But I'm not, John.

00:25:22.100 I'm going to finish my point.

00:25:24.060 I'm going to finish my point.

00:25:25.120 I'm not feeding into white supremacy.

00:25:27.040 I'm calling out white supremacy for what it is.

00:25:29.220 And sometimes what it is, John, are blind spots.

00:25:32.440 Sometimes what it is is not acknowledging that this country was built upon a very violent past

00:25:37.380 that resulted in death and the raping and the killing of my ancestors.

00:25:41.220 So I'm not going to allow us to say that it's OK for a Robert E. Lee but not a George Washington.

00:25:47.860 We need to call it what it is.

00:25:49.680 And I'm not saying that they don't deserve to be taught about.

00:25:52.440 We definitely need to learn about it so that we don't repeat it because we're very close

00:25:55.820 to repeating it right now.

00:25:57.100 But I'm not giving any difference to George Washington or to Robert E. Lee.

00:26:00.740 Well, let me jump in.

00:26:02.040 I mean, Trump couldn't have been any more right.

00:26:05.060 I mean, he was totally right on that point.

00:26:05.960 He couldn't have been any more right than he is.

00:26:08.040 It's already begun.

00:26:09.240 It's already well underway.

00:26:10.900 It was one of those things that had begun long before this incident.

00:26:13.480 This is not a new opinion she just came up with.

00:26:16.180 These are things that the left has been saying for a very long time, and we've covered them

00:26:20.140 for years.

00:26:21.520 I mean, and that's the thing here.

00:26:24.220 First of all, one part of when you're in the middle of an argument like this, when you

00:26:27.760 hear your opponent go down the we need to tear the George Washington statues down, just

00:26:32.660 back off and let them do it because let them continue to run their mouth. 1.00

00:26:38.260 Let them dig their own. 0.91

00:26:39.460 Exactly.

00:26:39.980 You don't need to cut somebody off when they're in the middle of that one.

00:26:43.040 Let them go.

00:26:43.840 But it's this issue of whether Trump should have done that or not.

00:26:51.520 And I think the issue here is leave that stuff to the talk show hosts.

00:26:54.540 Leave that stuff to the analysts on CNN and the people who go on TV.

00:26:59.080 Trump doesn't need to win those arguments like that.

00:27:02.180 Those arguments have been going on for a long time, and Trump feels the need to jump into it.

00:27:05.940 He can't help himself with that, so he's going to do that.

00:27:08.120 If I was going to give advice to the president, which he does not care about at all, he doesn't

00:27:13.200 need to win those arguments.

00:27:15.200 He doesn't need to fight every single point like that.

00:27:19.400 And he is absolutely right.

00:27:21.120 And there is a moment, I think, for Trump to come in maybe a couple weeks later when

00:27:24.300 they're talking about this and say, look, we need to be sure, though, that we're not

00:27:27.260 destroying our history.

00:27:28.060 We have to be sure.

00:27:28.800 There is that point.

00:27:29.580 But to be yelling at reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower a couple days after the incident,

00:27:34.960 backing off the previous statement you just made was not a great way to handle this, I

00:27:41.980 think.

00:27:42.340 And we'll see if it hurts him or not.

00:27:44.360 I mean, I don't know how much it's going to affect him in the polls or whether that

00:27:48.700 even matters.

00:27:50.060 But separate from that, the idea that what he said, generally speaking, talking about

00:27:56.780 history, that part of it, and talking about what the left will try to do with these incidents,

00:28:02.400 both of those were true in that instance.

00:28:06.220 Completely accurate.

00:28:07.220 As we pointed out, he wasn't right about the Pershing thing.

00:28:09.500 And he certainly wasn't right about saying there were a lot of fine people in that particular

00:28:15.020 march.

00:28:15.600 There weren't.

00:28:16.140 There are a lot of fine people, by the way, who are opposed to taking the statues down.

00:28:22.500 That is absolutely true.

00:28:23.620 Let me give you an example as to how true that is.

00:28:26.220 And it's true to the people who are complaining about it today, because a lot of people on the

00:28:30.060 left are saying, well, there's no good people who could possibly be on that side of the

00:28:33.020 argument.

00:28:33.660 Well, I mean, listen to this.

00:28:35.560 Listen to this poll.

00:28:36.540 This is from NPR.

00:28:39.240 Do you think statues honoring the leaders of the Confederacy should be should remain as

00:28:44.400 a historical symbol or be removed because they're offensive to some people?

00:28:48.380 Now, you'd see, of course, Republicans are going to be on the side of keeping them up.

00:28:51.760 You'd expect that.

00:28:53.060 Eighty six to six.

00:28:54.440 They want to keep them keep them up.

00:28:56.720 Now, independence should be in the middle of this.

00:28:59.140 Right.

00:28:59.280 Independence are the ones that you're not going to get the party stuff here.

00:29:02.900 Independence support keeping the statues up.

00:29:07.080 Sixty one to twenty seven.

00:29:09.900 Wow.

00:29:10.460 It's not a close call.

00:29:12.120 This is a blowout.

00:29:13.760 Keep the statues up.

00:29:15.460 And you might think, OK, well, Democrats, though, are really going to oppose it.

00:29:19.300 No.

00:29:20.780 They are split on the issue.

00:29:23.280 Forty four percent say keep the statues up.

00:29:26.200 Forty seven percent say take them down because they're offensive.

00:29:29.280 So the Democrats aren't.

00:29:31.580 I mean, they're saying that people who are opposed to removing these statues are bad people.

00:29:38.440 Well, let's be honest.

00:29:39.280 You have half a Democrats who say keep them up.

00:29:42.900 You've got two thirds of independence and almost every Republican.

00:29:46.740 OK, so the issue here is not whether you're a racist if you if you think statues should remain up because across the board, there's a lot of people that the overall sixty two percent of people overall say keep the statues up.

00:30:00.660 And so this is not a particularly close argument.

00:30:03.960 Most people say, look, we understand that there were bad things in our history.

00:30:08.460 We it's important to keep this up so we remember it.

00:30:11.760 And as Jeffy said earlier in the break, if you walk by one of these statues and it's offensive to you, tell your kid why it's offensive.

00:30:18.720 What a great teaching tool.

00:30:20.400 And tell them, hey, this is offensive because this person did this, this and this.

00:30:23.560 And you should know about it.

00:30:24.720 That's a really good way of handling it.

00:30:26.620 And I can't believe I just complimented Jeffy's parenting style.

00:30:29.440 That that is.

00:30:29.980 Wow.

00:30:30.160 I should say I was going to do that.

00:30:32.020 OK, good.

00:30:32.720 Just like you should.

00:30:34.140 OK, this we're on such a dangerous path here to to tearing down everything that is offensive to people, to silencing people, to saying that you can't that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.

00:30:54.280 I mean, we're on a really dangerous path right now toward losing our freedom.

00:31:00.440 If we don't stop this madness, this snowball that's rolling down the hill, we're going to be sorry.

00:31:07.240 And there's not going to be a constitution that stands there setting fire to it right now.

00:31:13.960 But we're going to have to decide what to do with these Confederate monuments, because there is more.

00:31:18.620 There's still more than 700 of them throughout the United States.

00:31:22.100 Yeah, 700, including one in my hometown on the mean streets of Helena, Montana.

00:31:28.500 Now, what it's doing in Helena, Montana, I don't know.

00:31:34.080 Commemorating the Confederacy. 0.54

00:31:36.040 Yes, it is.

00:31:37.260 But A, Montana wasn't a state at the time.

00:31:41.500 B, it doesn't get any more north in the 48 contiguous states than Montana.

00:31:48.780 That's a very.

00:31:50.180 That's a northern state.

00:31:52.060 Is it possible it was just a shipping error?

00:31:53.940 Like, they gave it to FedEx and they just made mistakes.

00:31:57.840 We meant this for Alabama.

00:31:59.480 I don't know how.

00:31:59.840 They dropped it off and Bill said, you know what, just put it over there.

00:32:02.720 Yeah, it's too heavy to ship it again.

00:32:05.200 I don't want to box it up.

00:32:06.180 Leave it over there. 0.61

00:32:07.200 I mean, how does that happen?

00:32:08.620 I don't know.

00:32:09.720 This is your hometown.

00:32:10.740 Do you remember seeing it?

00:32:11.840 I don't.

00:32:13.020 Because that is a very.

00:32:13.960 The map is odd.

00:32:15.140 And of course, obviously, you know, 98% of, I mean, there's one in Iowa is the next furthest north.

00:32:26.520 I mean, it's, there's not a lot or maybe there's two in Iowa.

00:32:29.920 And then below, outside of that, there's like one in Pennsylvania.

00:32:33.900 But overall, they're all, you know, south where people generally expect them to be.

00:32:39.520 Where you expect them to be.

00:32:40.620 And then there's just one up there in Helena.

00:32:43.040 It's like, you know what, right here.

00:32:44.820 It's so weird.

00:32:45.500 And apparently, Helena's mayor was originally like, no, we're not going to remove that.

00:32:50.420 But after Charlottesville, he's now saying, yeah, maybe it's time.

00:32:54.680 So.

00:32:55.100 That's weird.

00:32:55.540 And we didn't, I don't think we mentioned this.

00:32:58.120 Baltimore, just in the middle of the night, which is what they do in Baltimore.

00:33:02.520 They remove NFL teams in the middle of the night and statues.

00:33:05.080 Exactly right.

00:33:05.480 Went out, just removed all the statues.

00:33:06.760 Like, yeah, we don't want them.

00:33:07.740 And really, no debate.

00:33:09.180 They didn't have any rallies and they didn't have any protests, which I'm sure is what they were trying to avoid.

00:33:13.180 But that's an interesting way of doing business.

00:33:15.720 Yeah.

00:33:15.960 No, they're gone.

00:33:17.140 The thing that you saw yesterday, not there now.

00:33:18.920 Not there.

00:33:19.580 Yeah.

00:33:19.780 There you go.

00:33:20.240 Bye bye.

00:33:21.320 And there's there's quite a few places around the country where it's being considered that they're going to remove them.

00:33:27.080 And then, but there's hundreds and hundreds of them where they still exist and nobody's saying they shouldn't.

00:33:33.420 But it will happen.

00:33:34.780 We've got a rally going on here in Dallas on Saturday, right?

00:33:37.480 A big rally for the in downtown Dallas this weekend.

00:33:41.120 Are they rallying for it to keep it up or rallying against it?

00:33:43.860 I thought the rally is both.

00:33:45.380 Yes.

00:33:45.780 But the main focus of the rally, I believe, is to make it go away.

00:33:50.260 And, you know, it's not it's not it's not uncommon in these moments.

00:33:59.240 Like, it's an interesting thing.

00:34:00.400 It seems to be new.

00:34:01.560 Like, I would have told you 10 years ago, there's no way places like, you know, South Carolina are going to take the Confederate flag off.

00:34:09.200 Right.

00:34:09.460 Remember, that was like it was something was so untouchable.

00:34:11.400 In fact, it was if I remember correctly, and this has been, what, a year or two since this happened, it was ingrained in their constitution that basically you couldn't do it.

00:34:18.640 You know, I can't remember what the actual law was that you couldn't do it.

00:34:22.800 And they just wound up doing it anyway because of the shooting, which was a terrible, terrible incident.

00:34:28.120 But it was mainly based on the fact that there was one photo with the shooter with the flag.

00:34:32.900 Like, it wasn't like even that he came in there with the flag and said, I'm doing this for the flag or anything like that.

00:34:37.580 There was one picture of him on Facebook with the flag.

00:34:40.300 And because of that, they took the flag out of where it was.

00:34:44.460 That's where we are now.

00:34:45.460 Yeah.

00:34:45.920 And then they changed the law.

00:34:48.020 Oh, you know what?

00:34:48.560 We need to change the law again.

00:34:49.580 Yeah.

00:34:49.860 And it worked.

00:34:50.920 I mean, you know, and it's amazing.

00:34:53.220 You know, this goes back to every piece of, you know, progressive ideology as to how to move things around.

00:35:01.380 And I'm not saying, like, I have no reverence for the Confederate flag myself.

00:35:05.360 But the way you move these things is you don't let crises go to waste.

00:35:08.660 There's a crisis.

00:35:09.200 You have an advantage.

00:35:11.300 You have an emotional moment where you can take a couple steps in the direction you want to go.

00:35:15.040 You take it at that time.

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00:35:36.480 With all the anger going on in the Confederate statues, it's amazing to see the New York Times and how they treated so much differently the Vladimir Lenin statue that was in New York City.

00:35:48.640 Now, this is, by the way, from this is from late last year.

00:35:50.980 A statue of Vladimir Lenin on the roof of a building.

00:35:55.040 Over time, it became one of the more familiar pieces of art in the neighborhood, seen by some as a bit of kitsch and by others as a contextual nod to the days when communist meeting halls dotted the nearby blocks and mayday marches drew tens of thousands.

00:36:08.520 Yeah.

00:36:08.820 Were they saying that?

00:36:09.540 Would they say that about a Confederate statue?

00:36:12.060 I doubt it.

00:36:12.680 No.

00:36:13.060 It's not a contextual nod, is it?

00:36:15.220 Now, remember, this is a guy who's...

00:36:16.680 A bit of kitsch.

00:36:17.240 Yeah, right.

00:36:18.060 This is a guy whose policies led to the deaths of 20 million people in his own country.

00:36:23.900 It was...

00:36:24.580 This is not a positive moment in history.

00:36:26.380 And again, our enemy throughout, you know, a large portion of our history.

00:36:31.400 Michael Rosen, the developer and one of the owners of the building, called Red Square...

00:36:36.380 It's the name of the building, said last week that he learned that it could be sold to someone who might not want to keep the likeness of Lenin.

00:36:43.060 So they were going to take it down.

00:36:45.260 Goes on to say that it appeared to have more fans than detractors.

00:36:53.400 And among them was Joe Sims, a member of the Communist Party USA's national board, who said...

00:36:58.760 Yeah, what a surprise.

00:36:59.340 At certain points in our history, communists were demonized.

00:37:02.360 A lot of that is gone now.

00:37:03.500 Oh, what a good development for our country.

00:37:06.920 That's good to see.

00:37:07.900 Unbelievable.

00:37:09.380 I mean, that's seriously unbelievable.

00:37:13.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:17.100 Mercury.

00:37:17.780 All right, we've got...

00:37:32.720 We still have some interesting chants that we have to get to, because...

00:37:36.180 I want to see some of these turned into popular songs.

00:37:40.220 Some of them are so good, they should be set to music.

00:37:43.140 And we should hear them on the radio every day.

00:37:45.300 Like five times a day.

00:37:46.680 Also, the terrorist attack in Barcelona yesterday, and a new one to tell you about in Finland.

00:37:56.380 We'll start there, right now.

00:37:57.780 I will make a stand.

00:38:01.380 I will raise my voice.

00:38:03.580 I will hold your hand.

00:38:05.980 Because we are one.

00:38:07.820 I will be my drum.

00:38:10.020 I have made my choice.

00:38:12.040 If we will overcome.

00:38:14.500 Because we are one.

00:38:16.300 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:38:20.460 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:24.020 Pat Stewart, Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:29.160 He'll be back on Monday.

00:38:31.460 Still some sketchy information on this.

00:38:33.800 Several people have been stabbed in the city of Turku, Finland.

00:38:39.820 Went on a stabbing spree and police shot him.

00:38:43.800 They're not exactly saying that this is terrorism yet.

00:38:47.060 But it has all the earmarks of another terrorist attack.

00:38:54.580 But a gun was used to stop this guy.

00:38:58.120 So guns kill is what you're saying?

00:38:59.300 Guns kill. 0.99

00:38:59.780 You're saying guns kill.

00:39:00.940 Guns kill. 0.99

00:39:01.360 Oh my gosh.

00:39:01.780 They're created for one purpose, too.

00:39:03.320 And that's to kill.

00:39:05.700 That is probably...

00:39:07.620 Because you do think we're going to go down the road of cars being banned.

00:39:11.960 If this keeps happening with the attack in Barcelona...

00:39:15.040 Doesn't there at least have to be a three-day waiting period?

00:39:18.520 You'd think maybe the answer to that is yes.

00:39:20.440 Yes.

00:39:20.900 Especially for rentals.

00:39:22.820 I mean, because these vans a lot of times are rented.

00:39:25.220 And they're going to go down that road.

00:39:26.120 And it's funny because it, of course, works with the idea.

00:39:28.060 You know, this goes back to Al Gore's book in the 90s, right?

00:39:30.240 They've been wanting to get rid of cars for a long time.

00:39:33.340 Or at least make massive changes into it.

00:39:36.160 This might be another step on that road.

00:39:38.640 Because, I mean, it is the same logic, right?

00:39:42.280 Yes.

00:39:42.780 It really is.

00:39:43.900 I mean, if you were going...

00:39:45.600 Certainly, of course, we all know that cars kill way more people than guns anyway.

00:39:50.400 Regardless of terrorist attacks.

00:39:52.320 But then, in addition to that, they're being utilized in that way.

00:39:55.380 Anyone can get them.

00:39:56.480 They can mow down a lot of people at once.

00:39:59.360 They will probably start making these arguments.

00:40:02.260 You know, Trump...

00:40:03.140 We just covered this last hour, if you missed it.

00:40:04.840 But Trump made the point in his press conference the other day that they're going to start coming after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues.

00:40:12.760 It's already begun.

00:40:13.460 We have already two commentators, right, on TV saying, yes, we should go after them.

00:40:20.800 And not to mention the woman in the Vice special that we played the other day. 0.52

00:40:24.220 Right.

00:40:24.660 Who said, you know, they're always looking down on us.

00:40:26.360 It's the master of Monticello looking down on us.

00:40:28.840 Right.

00:40:29.020 And we've seen this already multiple times since he made the statement.

00:40:32.200 Jeez.

00:40:33.100 And, of course, it had been going on long before that.

00:40:35.860 Look at what was going on with David Barton over the years, where he's been attacked for saying things positive about the actual founding fathers of the United States.

00:40:44.880 That guy bugs me when he does that.

00:40:46.140 Yeah, you don't like that.

00:40:47.040 Well, you don't like it because he's wearing the flag shirt at the same time.

00:40:49.600 And that's...

00:40:50.440 It doesn't seem like we have any truth out there anymore.

00:40:54.100 It's so hard to find it.

00:40:55.360 It sure is.

00:40:55.740 Because you know what else is coming, too?

00:40:57.120 I was thinking about this, what they're going to...

00:40:58.960 A good way for them to go to the cashless society, just as an aside, the slave owner racist on the money. 0.97

00:41:08.240 Oh.

00:41:08.840 Take the money away.

00:41:10.460 Wait for that to come.

00:41:11.820 They've been trying to do that for a long time, too.

00:41:13.220 Yes, they have.

00:41:13.780 If you take down statues of George Washington, you have to take his likeness off of the bill, right?

00:41:19.440 You sure do.

00:41:20.320 You'd have to.

00:41:21.420 So, listen, if people want to get rid of their racist bills, I mean, they can send them to me.

00:41:25.740 I'll dispose of them properly.

00:41:28.120 I'm happy to do that.

00:41:29.620 Oh, wow.

00:41:29.960 That was quite an offer.

00:41:31.460 Look, I...

00:41:32.200 Jeff, that was really...

00:41:33.160 I know.

00:41:33.420 And you'll be happy to donate them to underprivileged strippers all around America.

00:41:37.020 I'll dispose of them properly.

00:41:38.140 Yeah.

00:41:40.840 It's a scary time because, you know, there's a lot...

00:41:45.140 The fact that we're having Nazi rallies in this country is amazing that that still exists. 0.95

00:41:50.800 I mean, I think in a country of 320 million people, it's going to be really freaking hard

00:41:56.480 to eliminate every group of morons that wants to gather with tiki torches.

00:42:02.360 It's going to be very difficult to do that.

00:42:03.840 And these rallies have been going on forever.

00:42:05.840 And they probably will never completely stop.

00:42:08.920 I will say I was surprised by two things with that Nazi rally in Charlottesville.

00:42:14.000 One was the sheer number of them.

00:42:17.860 Yes.

00:42:18.320 The size was large.

00:42:20.400 Way more than I thought would gather and march with Nazis.

00:42:24.840 And the other thing was just how vitriolic and unashamed about their vitriol and their

00:42:30.900 hatred they are.

00:42:32.420 These guys, they will just say it.

00:42:36.400 I mean, we had that one guy who was trying to make it okay that the girl got run over

00:42:42.200 and killed.

00:42:42.620 That was in the Vice report, right?

00:42:45.280 Yes.

00:42:45.760 Yeah.

00:42:46.260 Yes, it was.

00:42:46.980 Yeah.

00:42:47.600 And it's interesting because there are racists who will come to you and look at you right

00:42:53.420 in the camera and tell you how racist they are.

00:42:55.620 They'll tell you, I mean, Richard Spencer, all the way to the guy who we saw in the Vice

00:43:00.900 video who was saying all sorts of crazy things like Jared Kushner should not be able to be

00:43:05.280 married to Ivanka Trump because he's one of those Jews. 0.90

00:43:07.960 Okay?

00:43:08.360 Right.

00:43:08.880 I mean, they will go that far.

00:43:11.040 And it's funny because that is the reason why the racist accusation is effective and

00:43:19.960 why so many people fight it off.

00:43:22.960 We, people on the right get accused of racism all the time.

00:43:26.540 If we were racists, why wouldn't we oppose it?

00:43:29.620 There are people who are racist and when they are, they will be more than happy to tell

00:43:36.880 you about it.

00:43:38.360 Well, like, listen to some of these guys.

00:43:39.700 Yeah, sure.

00:43:40.160 Listen to this.

00:43:40.740 I'm here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along

00:43:47.160 and do that.

00:43:47.600 Somebody like Donald Trump who does not give his daughter to a Jew. 0.94

00:43:51.620 Wow.

00:43:51.960 So Donald Trump, but like more racist.

00:43:54.640 And a lot more racist than Donald Trump.

00:43:56.340 I don't think that you could feel about race the way I do and watch that Kushner bastard 1.00

00:44:01.160 walk around with that beautiful girl.

00:44:02.800 Okay?

00:44:03.560 Is that, I mean, it just, it doesn't even, I can't get my head around that at all.

00:44:08.440 Incredible.

00:44:08.980 I don't understand it.

00:44:10.220 And by the way, comments like that is what got him kicked off of OKCupid.

00:44:14.000 He had an account.

00:44:14.980 Is that the same guy?

00:44:15.760 Yeah, that guy.

00:44:16.940 That guy had an OKCupid account.

00:44:20.500 Trying to get some dates.

00:44:21.800 I didn't know it was the same guy.

00:44:22.880 White supremacists need love to, apparently. 1.00

00:44:25.840 And OKCupid was like.

00:44:28.440 What a catch he clearly is.

00:44:29.800 Well, he's kind of famous.

00:44:31.060 Well, he's on the market, girls.

00:44:32.460 You know?

00:44:33.260 You know?

00:44:33.680 He's on the market.

00:44:34.460 He's actually been kind of a media guy for a while.

00:44:36.300 He was in an old Colbert Report episode where he was fighting the local government in

00:44:44.760 Keene, New Hampshire, about parking tickets.

00:44:47.740 And at the time, he was yelling at meter maids as they'd go around because he thought it

00:44:53.040 was wrong for the government to take people's money for parking in the wrong spots.

00:44:57.380 So he was harassing them and got, like, some of them to quit.

00:45:00.380 And he was, you know, saying that he was all about freedom.

00:45:04.080 I mean, it's a weird story.

00:45:05.540 This guy's got to.

00:45:06.080 Then he gets kicked off OKCupid.

00:45:08.040 This is.

00:45:08.580 Yes.

00:45:09.220 Turns ugly.

00:45:09.880 This guy is an amazing documentary waiting to happen.

00:45:13.040 And but but again, like we listen to this.

00:45:15.760 Any person in this audience listens to that guy talk and feels absolutely no connection

00:45:20.740 to him.

00:45:21.280 You feel whatsoever.

00:45:22.340 Revulsion.

00:45:22.920 And the reason why these attacks, when people just throw racism around, are effective is

00:45:28.400 because no one actually wants to be racist.

00:45:31.620 It's it's even the people you think are racist.

00:45:35.040 If you're on the left, you think, oh, well, that person doesn't support affirmative action

00:45:38.700 in college where African-American students should get an advantage over over a white student 0.98

00:45:42.700 with the same grades.

00:45:44.540 Well, that's that's wrong.

00:45:46.120 They're racist.

00:45:47.120 They want lower taxes for the rich.

00:45:49.200 That's racist.

00:45:50.320 No, it's not.

00:45:51.140 It's got no connection to racism.

00:45:52.700 That's racism.

00:45:53.380 That's anti-Semitism right there.

00:45:54.560 What you just heard.

00:45:55.300 Yeah, there's a lot of it.

00:45:56.300 And the guy who tried to justify the killer running over people.

00:46:00.560 But the car that struck a protester, that's unprovoked.

00:46:06.360 That's not true.

00:46:07.420 And you know that it's not true.

00:46:08.420 You've seen the video.

00:46:09.480 So I've seen a video.

00:46:10.500 I don't know much about it.

00:46:12.040 Oh, I understand.

00:46:13.120 Can you describe what the video appears to show?

00:46:15.260 OK, so the video appears to show someone striking that vehicle when these animals attacked

00:46:20.780 him again and he saw no way to get away from them except to hit the gas.

00:46:26.340 And sadly, because our rivals are a bunch of stupid animals who don't pay attention, they

00:46:33.160 couldn't just get out of the way of this car.

00:46:35.000 It's their fault for not getting out of the way.

00:46:36.540 And some people got hurt.

00:46:37.600 And that's unfortunate.

00:46:38.900 So you think it was justified?

00:46:40.060 I think it was more than justified.

00:46:41.820 I can't believe the amount of restraint that our people showed out there, I think was astounding.

00:46:48.460 What?

00:46:50.640 Again, you know, not everybody ran people over.

00:46:53.540 But still, I mean, it's hard to make that argument at that point.

00:46:56.720 I think it's astounding.

00:46:58.340 Yeah, I like his voice, too.

00:47:00.360 Astounding.

00:47:00.760 One of the Kushner bastard or that beautiful girl is a Jew. 1.00

00:47:05.840 Really, really strange.

00:47:07.080 Very strange.

00:47:08.200 I will say this, too.

00:47:09.760 That is a hell of a piece of journalism right there.

00:47:12.360 You know, advice that if you have not seen that special job in that it's it's absolutely

00:47:17.180 one of the most amazing pieces of news programming I've ever seen.

00:47:20.500 And it has parts, by the way, that that are critical of the kind of consensus left wing

00:47:25.460 media viewpoint right now.

00:47:26.780 I mean, you know, the part about we need to bring down the master of Monticello is in

00:47:31.460 that as well.

00:47:32.040 And there's other there's other there's parts in there about I mean, this guy obviously

00:47:35.120 does not think Trump is racist enough, which is not what the media wants you to believe

00:47:38.920 either.

00:47:39.980 But that the way she handled that question, he says, well, you've seen the video.

00:47:44.040 Obviously, you know that it was justified.

00:47:47.240 And she lets him continue to hang himself by asking him to describe.

00:47:50.480 She doesn't say that's not what the video shows.

00:47:52.140 She says, I didn't really see the video.

00:47:53.780 I don't know what it shows.

00:47:54.380 What do you think it showed?

00:47:55.460 It's really good.

00:47:55.980 That is a in that moment.

00:47:57.280 Good.

00:47:57.540 By the way, she's sitting in a hotel room with this nutcase and about 20 guns as well 1.00

00:48:03.160 that are laying out on the bed.

00:48:05.200 And and she doesn't she doesn't antagonize.

00:48:07.700 She doesn't necessarily try to push back and make every point she could make.

00:48:11.180 She just lets him hang himself verbally.

00:48:14.780 And that is that is what that's a really good way of handling it.

00:48:17.680 I mean, I can't say enough about that thing.

00:48:19.080 Some of the stuff Vice does.

00:48:20.100 I don't particularly like I don't like every piece that they do.

00:48:22.960 But man, that is a I mean, that is absolute award winning stuff that that clip.

00:48:26.840 Yeah, but the problem is now and one of the problems.

00:48:29.520 I mean, there's a lot.

00:48:30.420 We've got a lot of problems right now, but one of the problems is that the right is

00:48:35.160 being equated with this alt right thing.

00:48:37.700 Yeah.

00:48:37.860 And we'll get into that coming up in just a second.

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00:50:01.600 Some interesting considerations as we eliminate anything that offends anybody from our society.

00:50:09.740 The name New York.

00:50:11.500 Yeah.

00:50:12.000 York.

00:50:12.680 There was an actual person, the Duke of York, that that was named after.

00:50:18.000 Yeah.

00:50:18.700 Daily Color has a story about how James Stewart, then Duke of York, is the person that New York

00:50:23.940 is named after.

00:50:24.760 And he was a horrific slave trader transported between 90,000 and 100,000 African slaves to

00:50:31.800 the American colonies in the 1600s.

00:50:35.080 Now that's...

00:50:35.940 The name can't stand.

00:50:36.880 So what should we rename?

00:50:38.460 Like New Fancy Town?

00:50:40.900 Happy Land?

00:50:41.360 New Happyville?

00:50:42.140 New Happy Land.

00:50:42.640 Might be a way to go.

00:50:43.760 I don't know what we should name New York, but it certainly shouldn't be named that.

00:50:49.080 The Pit of Despair?

00:50:50.520 You could call it that.

00:50:52.220 Pretty accurately.

00:50:54.240 It is kind of in an armpit position there on the coast.

00:50:57.840 Sort of.

00:50:58.560 You could kind of go with that.

00:51:00.580 You can go down this...

00:51:01.760 And this is the point I think the president was trying to make.

00:51:04.080 As we mentioned earlier, it's an accurate point.

00:51:08.320 The slippery slope thing is real in circumstances like this.

00:51:11.400 Because you can go back to history and find even the abolitionists of the 1700s were white

00:51:16.840 supremacists by today's view.

00:51:19.440 You know, there's a lot of that that went on.

00:51:22.360 There was never a...

00:51:23.200 Even a lot of them who were fighting for the abolition of slavery also were making arguments.

00:51:27.540 Now, obviously, they're not equal, but they should have some freedoms.

00:51:30.820 Like, that was kind of like the moment of the day.

00:51:32.760 I mean, you got to judge these things in historical context.

00:51:36.440 But that was kind of what they were saying back then.

00:51:39.400 Yeah, some people were.

00:51:41.320 A lot of people who didn't know them.

00:51:43.500 You know?

00:51:43.780 Yeah.

00:51:44.180 They had limited involvement with them.

00:51:46.420 They didn't understand.

00:51:48.240 The slaves certainly weren't being educated.

00:51:50.800 So, they didn't know a lot about them.

00:51:53.060 And again, look at this in context.

00:51:56.380 The Founding Fathers took a world that was filled with slavery and racism.

00:52:01.780 And continued it, some of them, for some time.

00:52:05.980 But gave built-in structures that would eventually lead to its end.

00:52:10.520 And there were great abolitionists.

00:52:12.040 Ben Franklin is one of my favorites.

00:52:14.280 Who fought against it viscerally.

00:52:16.740 Against the entire grain of society.

00:52:19.800 Woodrow Wilson did the exact opposite.

00:52:22.660 We were going the correct direction.

00:52:24.680 In making people more equal.

00:52:28.880 And he brought back the KKK out of the doldrums. 0.88

00:52:33.440 And brought them back to prominence in his presidency.

00:52:35.900 For that, he is awarded a top ten president of all time.

00:52:39.200 By the left in academia.

00:52:41.080 And he has his name on every kid's school in the country.

00:52:45.160 It seems like Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is as popular or more popular.

00:52:49.180 than some of the greatest presidents of all time.

00:52:52.880 And he is awarded and admired.

00:52:55.700 You know, some idiot leftist tweeted the other day.

00:52:59.100 Oh, well, it didn't take FDR three days to respond to Nazis. 0.82

00:53:04.460 That's because he was a real president.

00:53:06.160 It took him thousands of days to respond to Nazis.

00:53:09.880 Yes, it did.

00:53:10.640 He didn't respond fast to Nazis at all.

00:53:13.420 It's pretty well known that he took a really long time to respond to Nazis.

00:53:19.340 Who tweeted that?

00:53:20.440 Oh, some moron.

00:53:21.600 I mean, that is unbelievable.

00:53:23.220 Yeah, I don't remember who it was.

00:53:25.100 It was some leftist.

00:53:26.380 Unbelievable.

00:53:27.220 But I mean, what a horrible point.

00:53:30.520 And they look at FDR.

00:53:31.900 And FDR is consistently named number one, number two, number three.

00:53:36.040 Greatest presidents of all time.

00:53:37.420 His response to the Nazis and that war of that time was to imprison, essentially,

00:53:43.920 and put in camps German-Americans and Asian-Americans.

00:53:49.620 Not even just Japanese-Americans, Asian-Americans generally.

00:53:53.400 This was, and this is a praised activity.

00:53:57.140 So none of this makes sense.

00:53:59.820 And we get to this point where we just fall into these arguments that feel good at the moment.

00:54:06.620 You know what?

00:54:07.060 I have no love for the Confederacy.

00:54:09.420 They were the enemies of this country.

00:54:11.220 They were, if you want to find a very strict definition of traitors,

00:54:16.760 they left the country and got into a war with it.

00:54:19.900 It was not about states' rights.

00:54:22.400 It was about slavery, largely.

00:54:25.120 They implemented it into the Confederate Constitution,

00:54:28.720 and they required everyone in the Confederacy and anyone who would ever come into the Confederacy

00:54:34.460 to make sure that slavery was institutionalized.

00:54:37.940 There was no option for a state to say no,

00:54:40.360 meaning making the states' rights argument ridiculous.

00:54:42.600 In fact, I read this a couple of days ago,

00:54:46.240 and I think the words in perpetuity are in the Constitution,

00:54:49.980 and as it applies to slavery.

00:54:51.600 They wanted it to continue forever.

00:54:53.980 Had it been up to the South, to the Confederacy,

00:54:56.280 it would have continued forever.

00:55:00.000 And, you know, this is not an argument to say the Confederacy was good or right

00:55:04.460 or something that we want to lionize.

00:55:08.100 But not every statue is about lionizing.

00:55:10.680 You know, maybe at the time it was,

00:55:12.200 but, you know, it's important, I think, that we look at this as history,

00:55:15.120 and when we start just removing things from history with today's lens,

00:55:19.240 just if you even go back to the wording of what people used,

00:55:23.000 the words today are different than what they used in history.

00:55:27.120 And you can find people saying all sorts of terrible things

00:55:30.180 with words that we're not comfortable using today,

00:55:34.000 and you're going to wind up throwing out every historical figure.

00:55:37.980 You know, the Stone Mountain thing,

00:55:39.400 I think you have a legitimate point with that being started by the KKK 0.78

00:55:46.040 to carve those figures into that mountain of Lee and Stonewall Jackson

00:55:52.700 and I forget the other person who's carved into the mountain,

00:55:57.700 but Jefferson Davis, right, the president of the Confederacy.

00:56:01.220 So, started by the KKK, I mean, that one's tough to get around.

00:56:07.440 I mean, guys, they left Auschwitz up.

00:56:11.100 I mean, we go, and what do we do with it?

00:56:13.940 We go there and we have the most profound moments

00:56:17.200 potentially in our entire lives learning about the horrors of that place.

00:56:21.600 And that stands, and it stands for a reason.

00:56:23.860 If these things are wrong, you know, that is a great teaching tool.

00:56:27.840 Did you see the column by Ray, I think it was Ray Allen,

00:56:31.200 former Celtics, Bucks shooting guard,

00:56:34.480 who went to Auschwitz and talked about it,

00:56:37.340 the profound feeling he felt going there and learning about that

00:56:41.560 and being in those moments.

00:56:43.600 You've heard Glenn talk about it on this show.

00:56:46.060 That was basically, I would say, life-changing for Glenn, that trip.

00:56:50.600 And, you know, that is arguably the worst place on Earth.

00:56:58.600 I mean, really, it's hard to think of what could be a worse place than that.

00:57:03.000 I mean, it is the most horrific things humans have ever done to other humans

00:57:07.900 happened in that place.

00:57:09.360 And what is it today?

00:57:10.240 It's a great lesson to remember not to do it again.

00:57:12.700 And, you know, a lot of these things should be kept up

00:57:17.500 as the most profound and vivid way to teach these lessons of history.

00:57:23.380 You're right.

00:57:24.420 You don't have to consider them glorifying these characters.

00:57:28.300 It's a reminder that we never want to go down that path again.

00:57:32.100 That's two for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:57:46.320 White trash, first class, you probably don't recycle.

00:57:50.620 Right.

00:57:50.880 You probably don't recycle.

00:57:52.720 Probably don't.

00:57:53.580 White trash, first class, you probably don't recycle.

00:57:57.820 You probably don't recycle.

00:57:59.440 Wow.

00:57:59.620 A little chant to get you, get the blood flowing this morning.

00:58:03.180 Due to the weekend.

00:58:04.080 So, white trash. 1.00

00:58:05.140 White trash, first class, you probably don't recycle.

00:58:09.460 You can't argue with that.

00:58:10.940 You can't argue with that.

00:58:11.620 A movement's going to begin on the back of that catchphrase.

00:58:14.180 Oh, it's already begun, my friend.

00:58:15.200 Oh, really?

00:58:15.640 It's already begun.

00:58:17.340 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:18.980 He'll be back on Monday.

00:58:20.400 Yeah, and we were talking about slavery last break and how people are trying to remove these

00:58:24.900 Confederate icons and statues.

00:58:27.080 And we're trying to, you know, for, I think, some motivations that are actually good and that, obviously, these things are terrible.

00:58:35.980 Nazis and slavery was terrible.

00:58:38.700 We all know that.

00:58:39.440 It's interesting, though, the amount of freaking energy put towards taking down flags and taking down statues when, on this day, as we discussed this topic, Glenn Beck is currently in Central America working with an organization actually doing something about today's slavery problem.

00:59:02.300 Not 200 years ago, but today's slavery problem.

00:59:06.840 And we sit here and we obsess as a nation about whether we should keep statues in parks when real people are currently dying and being raped and abused all over the world.

00:59:22.480 The stat is incredible, and I didn't believe it when I first heard it.

00:59:26.000 There are more slaves today than there were back in the day.

00:59:30.540 I'll bet, I mean, Glenn probably doesn't recycle, though.

00:59:33.980 Well, he's white. 0.53

00:59:34.540 We know he's white trash. 1.00

00:59:35.620 He's first class.

00:59:37.100 And he's first class.

00:59:37.780 And he probably doesn't recycle.

00:59:38.720 And he probably doesn't recycle.

00:59:40.640 So that does hurt his top.

00:59:41.860 I mean, that taints him a lot.

00:59:43.980 It really does.

00:59:45.000 I wish he didn't.

00:59:46.160 But it does.

00:59:48.960 It's so sad.

00:59:50.080 It's so sad.

00:59:50.480 We talked about this earlier of how the media does this all the time.

00:59:55.040 They try to taint these groups.

00:59:56.200 And I think this is a real problem with the alt-right stuff that they're doing now in that applying racism to all Republicans makes, A, a lot of Republicans feel defensive, rightfully so, because they're not racists.

01:00:09.360 And, B, it takes away from actual racists.

01:00:13.580 There are people out there who are racist.

01:00:17.140 And just calling everybody who thinks taxes should be at 35% instead of 39% a bunch of racists puts them, it just mocks the entire issue.

01:00:27.680 So one of the things they're doing now is they're calling, you know, groups like we're in Charlottesville, the alt-right, and calling them the right.

01:00:38.140 Now, of course, the alt-right is a real thing.

01:00:41.180 Unlike, really, to be frank, the alt-left, which is not actually a thing.

01:00:44.660 The alt-right, and there's a main distinction here, the alt-right was named by the guy who is the intellectual leader of the movement.

01:00:52.680 He called himself the alt-right.

01:00:55.060 It's his term.

01:00:55.660 It's Richard Spencer's term.

01:00:57.500 The alt-left is a term that people came up with when they didn't like being called alt-right, and left is the opposite of right.

01:01:04.500 Like, there's a lot less to that one, to be honest.

01:01:07.660 Well, and there's no alt-left because the left has just embraced and incorporated socialism.

01:01:15.500 I think the alt-left could have been the socialist movement within the Democratic Party at one point.

01:01:21.640 But now they've just embraced it, and now it's just part of them.

01:01:24.420 And so there's no alternative there.

01:01:25.840 It's just the left.

01:01:26.960 Yeah, and I think it's more appropriate to call out groups like Antifa, right, specifically.

01:01:31.220 Don't call it.

01:01:31.640 The alt-left is like, it's just a, you know, it's a, I'm fat.

01:01:36.420 You're fat.

01:01:37.100 Oh, yeah?

01:01:37.580 Well, you're fat.

01:01:38.520 It's like it's just a dumb response to, the alt-right is an actual term.

01:01:42.480 It's a term started by the intellectual leader of the movement, Richard Spencer, who was identified as the intellectual leader of the movement by Breitbart, who wrote a story about how you should understand these people, that organization at that time, run by the chief strategist to the President of the United States.

01:01:58.480 And if I may, the guy's not conservative.

01:02:00.580 No, yes, thank you.

01:02:01.740 He's not a conservative.

01:02:03.800 And conservatives are being lumped in with this alt-right thing, and it's driving me out of my mind.

01:02:07.960 For example, NARAL yesterday tweeted this, anti-choice groups and white supremacists have something important in common.

01:02:15.560 They both want to control women's bodies. 0.94

01:02:18.180 Yeah, except no.

01:02:18.600 To which I responded, Richard Spencer is pro-choice.

01:02:22.980 Okay?

01:02:24.480 And people retweeted that frequently to annoy NARAL, a group that's like, can barely see Planned Parenthood from where they are because they're so far to the left.

01:02:34.200 They're like, they actually want, I think they want abortions to happen, you know, at like 26 years old.

01:02:38.880 Like, they're still pro-choice at that point.

01:02:42.280 But people don't know this about Richard Spencer because people summarize the alt-right by the second word there.

01:02:52.480 Right.

01:02:53.240 They just think, and everybody in the media will call them a right-wing group.

01:02:57.320 They'll say they're far-right.

01:02:59.800 They are not far-right.

01:03:01.860 Right. Nazis were national socialists.

01:03:05.580 Richard Spencer, again, the intellectual leader of this movement, has talked about the positives of socialism, if done right, over and over again.

01:03:16.580 This is a story that just came out in The Atlantic, which is a great story if you want to read it.

01:03:20.340 It's about a guy who went to high school with Richard Spencer, who is now a journalist, and went back and talked to him again about where he is now.

01:03:29.400 Richard Spencer is, if you don't know him, he's the intellectual leader of the alt-right.

01:03:34.420 He's at that rally.

01:03:35.720 He was the guy who, after Trump was elected, got into trouble because he was making Nazi salutes at a get-together.

01:03:42.860 This is what the article says.

01:03:44.280 The concerns of conservative Christians don't interest him.

01:03:48.240 He doesn't mind gay marriage, and he favors legal access to abortion, partly to reduce the number of blacks and Hispanics. 0.94

01:03:54.980 So he's going back to the old-school Margaret Sanger view.

01:03:57.800 Yeah, that was her thing, too.

01:03:59.100 The founder of Planned Parenthood.

01:04:00.960 Right.

01:04:01.560 He's more of an originalist.

01:04:02.860 Right on par with Richard Spencer.

01:04:04.360 Yeah, he's like an originalist of abortion.

01:04:08.500 He says, quote,

01:04:09.220 That is not a right-wing viewpoint at all.

01:04:27.860 We went a little deeper on this and looked at the writings on various alt-right websites.

01:04:34.820 This is a story from last year called The Pro-Life Temptation.

01:04:41.680 Okay?

01:04:42.340 The Pro-Life Temptation from an alt-right website.

01:04:44.900 I understand the pro-life temptation.

01:04:47.940 However, we on the alt-right have an appreciation of tribalism and identity.

01:04:52.560 We realize that people are not just autonomous individuals.

01:04:55.320 Life gains its meaning through connections to other members of our families, tribes, and nations.

01:05:01.800 Being pro-life flies in the face of both of those principles.

01:05:05.680 Think of what that statement is.

01:05:07.280 Besides the abortion point,

01:05:09.280 Life gains its meaning through connections to other members of our families, tribes, and nations.

01:05:15.980 That is a collectivist argument.

01:05:18.840 That is not an individual argument.

01:05:20.700 They're specifically getting rid of the individualist argument.

01:05:23.980 You think that's right-wing?

01:05:26.780 That is a collectivist argument.

01:05:28.940 It goes on and it gets a lot worse.

01:05:30.820 A study in Europe found that over 90% of mothers who were told that their babies were going to have Down syndrome did not continue the pregnancy.

01:05:36.820 We know this story because CBS recently praised it.

01:05:40.980 They said, wow, they're about to eliminate Down syndrome through abortion. 0.68

01:05:44.640 And painted it with a positive stroke.

01:05:48.560 So does the alt-right.

01:05:51.200 They say, in 2011, it was estimated that there are now 30% fewer people with the disorder in the United States due to prenatal diagnosis.

01:05:58.360 In the future, as such technologies improve, again I'm quoting,

01:06:02.520 what the left calls reproductive freedom will continue to be the justification for private sector eugenics.

01:06:09.120 This is the alt-right in their own words.

01:06:13.640 As they go, the alt-right is skeptical, to say the least, of concepts like equality and human rights, especially as basis for policy.

01:06:22.660 The unborn fetus has no connection to anyone else in the community.

01:06:26.760 If it is not wanted by its own mother, criminalizing abortion means that the state must step in and say the individual has rights as an individual,

01:06:35.520 despite its lack of connection to any larger social group.

01:06:39.440 This is no problem to those in the conservative movement who decide right and wrong based on principles like the right to life.

01:06:47.520 Again, they're mocking the most closely held viewpoints of the right.

01:06:52.980 The mother-child bond, going on, and I'm quoting again from the alt-right website, Raddick's Journal.

01:06:58.680 The mother-child bond is the strongest of human relationships.

01:07:02.560 When the parent-child bond does not exist for a pregnant woman, society has no business stepping in. 1.00

01:07:11.560 The alt-right for both our own principles and the greater good must oppose the pro-life agenda.

01:07:19.200 Is that a right-wing movement?

01:07:22.180 No. No, it is not.

01:07:23.740 It is not an alternative right movement.

01:07:26.560 It is not like a different strain of conservatism.

01:07:29.860 It is the exact opposite.

01:07:31.720 It is collectivism.

01:07:33.540 It is an attack on the right to life.

01:07:37.120 It is an attack on individualism.

01:07:39.780 It is an attack on everything that conservatives have fought for.

01:07:44.100 For how many years?

01:07:46.160 And I don't know if that's still interesting to people on the conservative side of the argument.

01:07:50.480 I venture to say this audience, it sure is.

01:07:53.080 I would think so, yeah.

01:07:54.340 Oh, yeah.

01:07:54.720 I, you know, the whole abortion argument is, it's a difficult one because, you know, for so many years we just decided it can't be won.

01:08:07.580 You know, so we got out of that fight and it was such a huge mistake that we allowed that to happen, that we just ceded that to the other side.

01:08:20.900 And so you've grown that pro-abortion stance in so many different aspects of society now.

01:08:29.040 And it's really only the conservative Christian right that is pro-life now.

01:08:35.800 I mean, we're the only ones.

01:08:38.560 It's kind of lonely out there.

01:08:40.520 And it's a tough fight.

01:08:42.420 And fortunately, we're back in it, though.

01:08:45.460 And, you know, other than Jeffy being aborted in his 644th trimester.

01:08:51.500 Which we're fine with.

01:08:52.340 That we do support.

01:08:53.240 We do support.

01:08:53.800 We just got done saying that abortion is wrong.

01:08:55.780 It's wrong in most circumstances.

01:08:57.660 In fact, all except for one.

01:08:58.840 Every case except for that one example.

01:09:01.420 Yeah.

01:09:01.800 In your 644th trimester.

01:09:03.680 We agree with it there.

01:09:04.980 In fact, we think it should be implemented immediately.

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01:09:36.320 Still dealing with the fallout from the Charlottesville rallies and the tragedy that happened there.

01:09:44.420 And, you know, we're still working on getting rid of the 700 remaining Confederate statues and monuments.

01:09:53.740 We're still firing people who may have been there or heard about it or seen it or...

01:09:59.700 We're still outing them, right?

01:10:01.000 We're still outing them.

01:10:01.920 Still outing them.

01:10:02.560 And still firing them.

01:10:03.940 Amazing.

01:10:04.740 I mean, we're in kind of a weird place here.

01:10:06.940 Yeah, I don't know what to do with this stuff because, you know, like, I don't like people who are white supremacists at all.

01:10:12.600 And I would not want to work with one if I knew I worked with one.

01:10:14.940 Should they never work again?

01:10:16.080 Right.

01:10:16.920 Maybe.

01:10:17.520 I don't know.

01:10:17.900 I don't know.

01:10:18.480 I don't know.

01:10:19.000 A lot of these websites are outing people they see in the rallies and then trying to find out where they work and get them fired.

01:10:23.960 One instance was a guy in Berkeley, California, who worked at a hot dog place.

01:10:28.500 And he has now, I think, technically he resigned from the job, but he was forced out at the hot dog place.

01:10:34.760 And, like, look, if I was owning a business, I would not want a white supremacist working for me.

01:10:38.460 So I'm comfortable with that decision as you make as a business owner.

01:10:42.680 And it's your right as a business owner to make that decision.

01:10:44.500 But as a society, do we want all, let's say, people who are white supremacists to not work so we can all pay for them on public, you know, funds, with public funds?

01:10:56.520 Yeah, they'll be on welfare, right?

01:10:57.960 They're going to be on welfare if we don't let them work anywhere. 1.00

01:11:00.320 And, again, if you have a public-facing job, I get it.

01:11:04.000 But, I mean, if you're making hot dogs behind, like, was he not making hot dogs as well for black people? 0.63

01:11:09.480 Is there an association to his job performance that is related here?

01:11:13.540 And I don't know.

01:11:14.820 Maybe he wasn't.

01:11:15.580 I don't know.

01:11:16.040 Maybe he wasn't.

01:11:17.060 But it's an odd thing for us to cheer for.

01:11:19.480 I feel weird about it because I know I would want to fire the guy immediately if I owned the business.

01:11:24.020 However, is this, as a society, what we want to have every person like this out of a job so we're all paying for their life instead of them?

01:11:33.000 Same thing goes for this story from The Washington Post where a bunch of charities now are canceling their plans to go to Mar-a-Lago.

01:11:40.500 What?

01:11:41.840 They're saying that they don't want to be associated with it.

01:11:45.280 And a lot of them have been going there for years and have decided to pull out.

01:11:49.520 They were fine with associating with Donald Trump's property before this.

01:11:53.320 Yes.

01:11:54.120 In fact, one of them was there since at least 2009.

01:11:56.820 The American Cancer Society, a big charity, did a gala there.

01:11:58.900 So their thing is that he didn't speak out against the racism quickly enough?

01:12:03.240 Is that what it is?

01:12:03.860 Because he did the next day.

01:12:04.900 But then he did reverse it, essentially.

01:12:07.400 I think he basically blew over that second-day statement.

01:12:10.840 He kind of did.

01:12:11.620 He did.

01:12:12.360 He kind of did.

01:12:13.800 But again, let's say he's even worse than this.

01:12:16.220 Let's say he's worse than Donald Trump.

01:12:17.760 It's bad.

01:12:18.060 The standard is you will go to a hotel owned by a person who has views that you find distasteful

01:12:26.080 to raise money for cancer research?

01:12:29.460 Like, I remember this happening with Don Inus back in the day when he had his issue with MSNBC.

01:12:34.580 And they fired him before his annual telethon, like the day before, his annual telethon to

01:12:40.760 raise money for SIDS charities to try to cure babies from dying out of unexplained circumstances.

01:12:48.040 After the guy had apologized profusely, said he was wrong, admitted he was wrong, went overboard,

01:12:55.280 over and over and over again apologizing.

01:12:58.500 And they still just fired him.

01:13:00.700 We're going to raise money for the ranch and bring people in.

01:13:04.780 And Kinky Friedman's going to be there, along with Bo Dietl.

01:13:07.720 He'll be on the way.

01:13:08.920 And Doris Curtis is always there.

01:13:12.500 And I am I was in the morning, four minutes before the top of the hour.

01:13:17.780 They didn't even let him do that on the air, to raise money.

01:13:20.960 I mean, again, it's a weird standard.

01:13:22.840 You're going to stop raising money for charity at a building because you don't like them.

01:13:26.720 It's a world gone mad.

01:13:27.600 It really has.

01:13:28.820 A lot of tough questions.

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01:13:54.600 We're still cleaning up the madness from this whole week.

01:14:00.700 The Charlottesville thing, the Confederate statues going away, all kinds of words and phrases and people speaking their mind going away and the media contributing to it.

01:14:15.780 We'll start there right now.

01:14:18.340 I will make a stand.

01:14:21.020 I will raise my voice.

01:14:23.360 I will hold your hand.

01:14:25.720 Because we are one.

01:14:27.560 I will beat my drum.

01:14:29.820 I have made my choice.

01:14:32.080 We will overcome.

01:14:34.360 Because we are one.

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01:14:43.880 I mean, don't you feel like the media is contributing to all this?

01:14:49.800 All this hysteria?

01:14:51.460 All the madness?

01:14:52.440 Like, in Charlottesville last weekend, depending on your media source, you may not have even seen one of the greatest photographic representations of who we are as a people that I think I've seen in a long time.

01:15:08.920 During all that violence that was breaking out, and, you know, as the president pulled it out and got bludgeoned for, there was, in fact, violence on both sides breaking out in Charlottesville.

01:15:23.080 But there was a great shot of a black police officer standing in front of, did you guys see this, and protecting the despicable neo-Nazis who were there?

01:15:30.960 Yeah.

01:15:31.420 In the rally?

01:15:32.020 Yes.

01:15:32.260 That was, I mean, great and very common from our police.

01:15:39.340 Yep.

01:15:40.080 I mean, it happens all the time.

01:15:41.300 But it's typical.

01:15:43.020 Most media outlets didn't even show that.

01:15:45.280 But that, again, is who we are.

01:15:48.140 And, as a matter of fact, at every Black Lives Matter protest, there's some white police officers there protecting the BLM members from counter-protesters.

01:15:59.120 Most media outlets have never shown that.

01:16:01.100 But that is also who we are.

01:16:04.280 I mean, there's exceptions to every rule.

01:16:06.400 But, in general, white Americans and black Americans get along just fine in this country.

01:16:12.000 Their neighbors, their friends, their co-workers, their bosses interacting with employees.

01:16:16.720 In many cases, their husband and wife, along with their children and a loving family.

01:16:21.560 Blacks and whites do, in fact, mingle in our society.

01:16:24.920 And, just lately, it seems like that's not the case.

01:16:30.800 But, as a matter of fact, I think mostly Americans don't even make the distinction of whether you're black or a white American.

01:16:39.100 To us, the vast majority of us, they're all just Americans, right?

01:16:43.940 I mean, we certainly feel that way.

01:16:46.240 They're all just human beings.

01:16:47.620 They're fellow human beings and children of God.

01:16:50.320 On 9-11, no one, no one said, hey, how many of those 3,000 people who died were black?

01:16:57.680 Or white.

01:16:59.940 No one said that.

01:17:01.180 No one asked those questions.

01:17:02.320 Because we don't make distinctions like that.

01:17:04.520 In Iraq and Afghanistan, no one ever questioned the casualty count. 1.00

01:17:07.920 Well, yeah, but how many of those troops were black?

01:17:10.840 Or white?

01:17:12.420 No one.

01:17:13.620 We're just, we're Americans.

01:17:15.380 But racism, in and of itself, is inherently a collectivist argument.

01:17:19.740 I mean, you heard that from the stuff we did on the alt-right last hour.

01:17:23.620 You have to see people as groups and not individuals to embrace racism.

01:17:29.340 Exactly.

01:17:29.820 And that is not a conservative value.

01:17:31.360 It's not a constitutional value.

01:17:32.860 And far too many people in the media have an agenda.

01:17:35.520 And it's an agenda that tears the fabric of our nation apart.

01:17:42.140 It's been, I was just thinking about this the other day.

01:17:44.500 It's been 35 years.

01:17:45.860 Heard this on the radio since Don Henley's scathing review of the news media, Dirty Laundry, when that came out.

01:17:51.760 35 years.

01:17:52.880 35 years.

01:17:53.980 You remember that, Jeffy?

01:17:54.980 I remember singing it with my grandpa.

01:17:57.520 And it's old, but somehow the lyrics seem more relevant maybe than they even were then.

01:18:03.160 I make my living off the evening news.

01:18:05.240 Just give me something.

01:18:06.540 Something I can use.

01:18:07.760 People love it when you lose.

01:18:10.100 They love Dirty Laundry. 1.00

01:18:12.380 Although today, if Don Henley were honest and conservative, which he's not,

01:18:16.980 Henley might have written,

01:18:17.940 We'll show you the violent hate groups.

01:18:19.800 They're all pasty white.

01:18:21.260 They don't like it if you're different.

01:18:22.680 They are the racist right.

01:18:24.760 All they like to do is fight.

01:18:26.860 They're the violent Trumpites.

01:18:29.440 That's how it would go now.

01:18:30.500 But they kick them when they're up, kick them when they're down.

01:18:33.860 And that's what the media's been doing lately.

01:18:36.620 So how about we just stop listening to them?

01:18:39.600 How about we stop paying attention to them?

01:18:42.100 How about we just don't let them affect us anymore?

01:18:44.380 The other day, the Washington Post ran a story about just your friendly neighborhood violent anarchists.

01:18:53.380 The article let you know that, hey, these are just young people, you know, who have regular jobs by day.

01:19:02.700 And then, yeah, they go out and break things, set stuff on fire, and crack a few capitalist skulls by night.

01:19:08.940 But, hey, they're just trying to make a difference.

01:19:11.820 You know, they're trying to make a difference for the little people, because they really care.

01:19:17.480 I mean, that sort of free speech, the violence perpetrated by leftists and anarchists,

01:19:22.240 that gets no condemnation from the liberal propaganda tool that is the Washington Post.

01:19:27.500 In a separate story, we were informed that neo-Nazis should not be allowed to publicly even voice their opinions

01:19:35.800 because hate speech is not covered by free speech.

01:19:40.780 Wait.

01:19:41.260 And nothing could be further from the truth, right?

01:19:44.060 The speech that makes us uncomfortable, or the vast majority of us, vehemently disagree with and despise,

01:19:51.620 that's the only kind of speech that needs protecting.

01:19:55.560 That's it.

01:19:57.100 I mean, of course there are limits.

01:19:58.760 You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.

01:20:00.800 That's the cliche example.

01:20:02.440 And obviously you can't threaten people with impunity.

01:20:05.540 But even there, there's kind of a fine line to walk.

01:20:08.880 But you absolutely can show your incredible ignorance.

01:20:14.520 And frankly, you should.

01:20:15.760 Because I'm glad, I want to know who the lunatics are, and that way we can avoid them.

01:20:21.020 That way we can point them out.

01:20:22.640 That way we can say, we're not like that.

01:20:26.300 Just like we're doing with the alt-right right now.

01:20:31.560 Meanwhile, though, there's a news person in a newsroom somewhere asking,

01:20:37.080 can we film the operation?

01:20:40.220 Is the head dead yet?

01:20:41.840 You know the boys in the newsroom, got a running bet.

01:20:44.880 Get the widow on the set. 0.99

01:20:46.940 We like dirty laundry.

01:20:49.080 The media loves the dirty laundry.

01:20:52.940 They love to show.

01:20:53.840 I think they're really enjoying showing America tearing itself apart.

01:20:57.980 It does seem to be a spectator sport at this point.

01:21:02.360 And it's covered that way.

01:21:04.300 And I think the application that the media makes to try to broaden these activities to the entire right,

01:21:13.380 or the entire left, honestly, are not healthy.

01:21:16.980 Not at all.

01:21:17.580 Because when you paint a picture of a country of people that don't want to go outside,

01:21:22.020 I mean, why would you want to go outside in this environment?

01:21:24.060 When in reality, we all do it every day, and everything's fine.

01:21:26.800 But you're creating this, you're increasing the tension.

01:21:30.100 You're giving so much focus to these people, and it's not helpful.

01:21:33.260 Not at all.

01:21:34.100 Not at all.

01:21:34.960 I should probably add one addendum to that rant,

01:21:38.220 and that is that Don Henley invited a lot of that media attention.

01:21:44.560 He was obviously railing against the news media.

01:21:47.140 Yeah, sure.

01:21:48.660 But that happens when you're a huge star,

01:21:51.480 and there's a naked 16-year-old girl unconscious in your bed. 1.00

01:21:55.080 Well, I mean, it's a minor point that you could bring up at this time.

01:21:59.400 It's not a terrible time for the point to be brought up.

01:22:01.420 So, in just full disclosure here, Don Henley did have some issues with the media.

01:22:09.880 That were deserved.

01:22:11.460 Yeah, you probably.

01:22:12.800 That were deserved.

01:22:13.500 Yeah, probably not a good outcome for you.

01:22:15.760 No.

01:22:15.920 But now, in the media, we're seeing that social justice warriors are going after Elvis Presley.

01:22:24.020 His 40-year anniversary of his death was...

01:22:27.180 Yeah, for his...

01:22:27.980 Was that Wednesday?

01:22:28.660 Yes, the 16th.

01:22:30.620 I mourned a little.

01:22:32.240 Yeah, August 16th, 1977, Elvis Presley died.

01:22:36.000 Amazing.

01:22:36.320 And what are they going after it for?

01:22:38.320 You will not believe this.

01:22:40.980 They are pissed off because Elvis has a reputation of king of rock and roll,

01:22:49.280 but it's been tarnished because he appropriated black music

01:22:54.760 and made it digestible for white audiences.

01:22:57.800 And, Stu, like an antebellum plantation owner,

01:23:02.660 stood on the backs of black musicians and broke them with his heft. 0.98

01:23:07.100 Oh, my gosh.

01:23:08.800 They've been after him.

01:23:09.580 I mean, can you believe that?

01:23:10.560 They've been after him for that for a while.

01:23:12.200 I mean, they've been making fun of him and other singers.

01:23:14.580 Old blues singers used to make fun of him.

01:23:17.040 Yeah.

01:23:17.520 And I know that they've, you know, they made complaints about him making...

01:23:22.760 Who was it that used to give them a hard time about singing songs in the movies

01:23:27.160 and making $25,000 and, you know, people...

01:23:30.700 I only made $5,000 for my songs.

01:23:32.820 Stuff like that.

01:23:33.440 I mean, they've been after him for years on that.

01:23:35.300 Maybe it's just because they liked him better.

01:23:37.480 Maybe because he was Elvis Presley.

01:23:39.080 It does happen.

01:23:40.020 You know, he was a pretty talented guy.

01:23:42.140 So that could be a big part of it.

01:23:43.760 But also, a lot of black performers were wildly popular.

01:23:48.100 And even though the nation was clearly not where it is now

01:23:51.320 as far as race relations, of course, we're going back there.

01:23:55.500 But they liked the black musicians too, and they did fine.

01:23:58.960 I mean, there was a lot of great black musicians

01:24:01.020 that were really successful in the late 50s and early 60s.

01:24:04.880 But yesterday, I saw a breakdown of Elvis Presley doing Heartbreak Hotel.

01:24:14.360 Isn't that what it's called?

01:24:16.000 It's been so lonely, baby.

01:24:18.160 It's been so lonely.

01:24:19.240 Is Elvis back?

01:24:20.260 It sounds like it.

01:24:21.920 Don't start bad-mouthing.

01:24:24.220 Don't, don't.

01:24:25.440 Well, they were peeling that apart because it sounded too black, 0.94

01:24:29.380 and he was appropriating the music,

01:24:30.760 and it didn't sound anything like Hound Dog that he had done before.

01:24:34.520 And clearly, he had stolen and appropriated the black music for his career.

01:24:39.720 The correct instinct of not wanting people to be racist and do these sorts of things

01:24:49.360 is turned around when you go to that level.

01:24:52.860 It's like to say, hey, I don't like the fact that people are racist against black people.

01:24:57.920 Good instinct.

01:24:58.780 Taking it to the idea that no white person can ever be good at music.

01:25:01.960 Bad instinct.

01:25:03.300 Right.

01:25:04.120 I mean, a lot of rappers, African-American rappers, some of the best in the world,

01:25:08.780 really think Eminem is incredibly talented and think he's one of the best of the era.

01:25:13.740 How could that be, Stu?

01:25:16.060 He's white.

01:25:16.860 Exactly.

01:25:17.220 That doesn't mean, did Eminem, you know, steal from, he was inspired by, I'm sure, a lot of black musicians.

01:25:24.280 That's not bad.

01:25:24.900 That's great.

01:25:25.520 It's people working together and respecting other people's art and caring.

01:25:30.360 That's what we're, again, racism is a collectivist argument.

01:25:33.260 And it's the same thing here.

01:25:35.240 Well, you can't, I mean, black people had this and now you're taking it to white people. 0.99

01:25:38.740 No, individuals exist and they do what they do.

01:25:41.340 And people are actual individual humans that get to do what they want to do.

01:25:46.980 That's what we're supposed to have in this society.

01:25:48.440 And nobody has ever said that by getting into country music, Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish is appropriating white culture.

01:25:59.700 Nor should they, by the way.

01:26:00.940 Nor should they.

01:26:02.440 Can we stop with this madness?

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01:26:07.700 More Pat and Stu coming up in a second.

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01:27:38.700 You mentioned during your last rant about the media.

01:27:43.440 And they have been horrible in many, many ways.

01:27:46.640 I think it's also important to point out when they get things right.

01:27:49.440 Yeah, because it's so rare.

01:27:51.340 We've been saying this.

01:27:52.380 Yeah, it is rare.

01:27:53.260 You can count them on one hand, probably.

01:27:55.840 Usually.

01:27:56.840 One guy we've talked about for a long time, going back to the Obama administration, is Jake Tapper.

01:28:01.080 Tapper was the one guy asking tough questions of Barack Obama and various Jay Carney-esque individuals.

01:28:09.000 Who were representatives of Obama.

01:28:12.280 And Tapper took him to task often.

01:28:14.760 And really pushed back as a mainstream media voice there.

01:28:17.740 And it was at a time that nobody was doing it.

01:28:21.540 Since then, Donald Trump has become president.

01:28:24.780 And seemingly everyone on the right has forgotten about that.

01:28:28.040 They've forgotten that Tapper was like that.

01:28:30.220 And he gets beat up a lot by the right.

01:28:33.620 Let me give you a couple examples from just this week.

01:28:35.320 He did an interview with Rolling Stone.

01:28:36.540 In which he said, you know, a lot of people who like me talking about Trump didn't like when I was talking about Obama.

01:28:41.880 The Obama administration saw him as a nuisance.

01:28:45.860 And a grandstander, to use a common term these days.

01:28:49.500 A guy who was in their face and was a pain in their butt. 1.00

01:28:52.840 And he criticized them and said that Obama got the benefit of the doubt on a lot of things because the media liked him better.

01:29:05.140 They liked Obama.

01:29:06.180 They agreed with Obama.

01:29:07.460 And they gave him an easy road.

01:29:08.780 Jake Tapper saying that.

01:29:09.940 That's exactly right.

01:29:10.820 Here's another example.

01:29:12.240 We have how many times?

01:29:13.320 And you did it there.

01:29:14.320 And we've seen it a million times.

01:29:15.600 We've done it as well.

01:29:16.660 Wait a minute.

01:29:18.060 Yes, the people, the white supremacists were terrible.

01:29:21.460 But what's frustrating to people on the right is not that the violence was equivalent with Antifa in the Charlottesville case.

01:29:27.760 It wasn't.

01:29:28.600 I mean, somebody died on the other side.

01:29:30.540 However, there was violence there from that side.

01:29:33.820 And it should be noted.

01:29:35.060 Even if you say it's...

01:29:36.060 They brought boards, 2x4s.

01:29:38.600 They brought...

01:29:39.200 There was some, you know, there was some weaponry on their side as well.

01:29:42.980 There's a big story in the New York Times today talking about how this group is there for violence.

01:29:48.980 In their words, they are there to stop the hate with violence.

01:29:54.020 That is what they are identifying, Antifa is saying.

01:29:56.880 So again, the New York Times deserves credit for bringing that out.

01:29:59.460 But Jake Tapper is another voice who has called attention to what happened in Charlottesville from Antifa.

01:30:06.980 This is his tweet storm from, I think it was yesterday.

01:30:10.100 At least two journalists in Charlottesville were assaulted by people protesting the Klan-Nazi alt-right rally.

01:30:16.040 The alleged assailant of the journalist was charged.

01:30:18.840 A photojournalist with the Richmond CBS station also was assaulted by filming a counter-protest.

01:30:23.480 He needed medical attention and he posted the picture of the gash in this guy's head from being assaulted.

01:30:30.660 A source at the station...

01:30:31.740 So somebody hit him with something?

01:30:32.800 Yeah, I can't remember.

01:30:35.040 I read the...

01:30:35.440 I saw the gash, but I think he was hit over the...

01:30:38.200 I don't know what it was, though.

01:30:39.840 He was hit with.

01:30:40.400 Yes, he was definitely hit.

01:30:41.940 A source at the station said he's been out for three days with a concussion.

01:30:45.640 Antifa posted this on Facebook about the assault, which is a source at the station is full of out-and-out lies.

01:30:51.500 These are unprovoked assaults on journalists doing their jobs by those marching against, highlighted, against the hateful racists.

01:31:02.100 Disgusting.

01:31:03.080 That's from Jake Tapper.

01:31:04.440 That's not a half measure.

01:31:05.740 That's not him saying it's kind of okay because fascists are bad.

01:31:09.360 He is calling it disgusting and he deserves credit.

01:31:11.860 And there are a few people around in the media that are actually doing that.

01:31:16.420 So it's kind of nice to see.

01:31:18.120 And, you know, you talk about the Antifa approach to stop racism.

01:31:20.540 Is that effective?

01:31:22.220 I mean, I think the answer to that is no.

01:31:24.180 It just creates more anger, more hostility.

01:31:27.580 It inflames it.

01:31:28.640 It puts people back in their camps even further.

01:31:31.220 What about this approach instead?

01:31:33.220 Daryl Davis, he's a musician.

01:31:34.720 This comes from Faithwire.

01:31:36.100 He's done a lot over the last several decades on this exact issue.

01:31:40.400 Davis documented his story in a book and documentary as well.

01:31:43.260 It started when he was a black member of a country music band that began playing mostly white venues.

01:31:47.040 Davis began having conversations with some of the white patrons.

01:31:50.680 One of the first men he spoke with told him he'd never had a drink with a black man before.

01:31:56.460 When Davis inquired why that was, the man admitted he was a member of the KKK, which you're not going to be drinking with black guys that often probably.

01:32:04.280 You might have just put a crimp in your friendship.

01:32:06.960 It's possible.

01:32:08.120 But how can you react to that?

01:32:09.420 You could throw the beer bottle at his head.

01:32:11.340 Yeah.

01:32:11.660 Right?

01:32:12.040 Easily.

01:32:12.660 You can justifiably use four-letter words and out him and get him fired from his hot dog job or wherever he was working.

01:32:20.220 Davis said he had spent time with legends like Chuck Berry, Dolly Parton, Joe Frazier, and more.

01:32:26.780 But it's his time with KKK members that has made the most impact on his world.

01:32:30.340 He even has a photo of himself with a hooded Klansman on his wall right next to those music legends.

01:32:37.320 After the first encounter with a Klan member, Davis began having regular conversations with them.

01:32:41.560 He took a curious approach, asking a lot of questions, but they never asked for his opinion back on anything.

01:32:47.260 But it was his friendly, non-angry approach that gave him an opening to actually befriend the men who appeared at first glance to hate him because of his skin color.

01:32:56.560 After spending some time with him, things began to change.

01:32:59.560 Eventually, the KKK members did start to ask his opinion about things, and that's when the light bulbs began to appear in their minds.

01:33:05.840 Over the years, Davis' friendships has convinced 25 men to leave the KKK.

01:33:12.680 Wow.

01:33:13.180 Many of them gave him their robes and hoods when they left.

01:33:16.360 He keeps them as souvenirs, wreckers of the battles he won.

01:33:21.000 Though his intentions was never to convert them in the first place, it was just a human connection that showed them the light.

01:33:26.020 How great is that story?

01:33:28.200 Tremendous.

01:33:28.840 You can get it, I'll post it on Facebook and get it at faithwire.com as well.

01:33:31.940 I mean, that is an incredible story.

01:33:33.620 Tremendous story.

01:33:34.340 Awesome.

01:33:35.120 And I mean, look, it's hard, much harder to do that.

01:33:38.340 Yeah.

01:33:38.500 It's easy to throw bottles at people on both sides.

01:33:41.580 On both sides.

01:33:42.960 But doing something like that is the way you actually win.

01:33:46.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:33:58.760 Mercury.

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01:34:05.000 Pat and Stu and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:34:08.040 He's back on Monday.

01:34:09.140 Today, I can't tell you how happy I am that football season is here.

01:34:17.780 Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

01:34:19.280 Yes.

01:34:19.680 Yes.

01:34:20.300 It's a balming salve on all of my wounds right now.

01:34:24.680 It's the only thing that's keeping us alive.

01:34:26.900 I feel like this.

01:34:27.520 I truly believe.

01:34:28.160 It's the only thing keeping us alive.

01:34:29.340 Yeah.

01:34:29.800 And every, you know what, every freaking year these days, I feel the same way.

01:34:33.160 It's not just I love sports or I love football or I want to see football.

01:34:36.740 Right.

01:34:36.900 It's like an antidote to some disease I have.

01:34:42.020 That's one of the reasons I'm always a fan of balmy salve.

01:34:45.420 Yeah.

01:34:45.780 Always a fan.

01:34:47.060 Who isn't?

01:34:47.620 It is.

01:34:48.120 Eight days away from the first BYU game.

01:34:51.660 Of course.

01:34:52.340 The thing everyone was counting down to.

01:34:55.300 I don't appreciate you looking at me when you said that like I didn't know it.

01:34:59.080 I didn't mean to talk down to you.

01:35:00.520 Okay.

01:35:01.220 That's a matchup against Portland State.

01:35:03.580 Portland State.

01:35:04.420 I believe.

01:35:04.800 The Vikings.

01:35:05.400 The Vikings come to town.

01:35:06.680 Is this their first year playing football or?

01:35:10.200 No.

01:35:10.800 No, it is not.

01:35:11.360 I just thought they were just getting together.

01:35:11.860 No, it is not.

01:35:12.460 They're actually a pretty good FCS team.

01:35:14.580 And then the following week, of course, it really begins for real with LSU.

01:35:17.220 You keep telling yourself that.

01:35:18.400 LSU.

01:35:18.640 They're actually pretty good.

01:35:20.600 Okay.

01:35:21.360 I mean, I was actually thinking more of, you know, the National Football League, which is

01:35:25.560 preseason is underway.

01:35:26.800 It's underway.

01:35:27.800 Yes, but it's only preseason and, you know, but did the Eagles played last night, right?

01:35:33.620 Yeah, Eagles played last night.

01:35:34.620 They win?

01:35:35.160 They did win.

01:35:35.960 They won.

01:35:36.580 Which means absolutely nothing.

01:35:39.020 Who cares if you win or lose preseason games?

01:35:41.540 There was a moment, though, that was pretty interesting.

01:35:44.060 Because, you know, football games now, they have so many other things going on.

01:35:47.700 Always.

01:35:48.260 You know, your sponsors are a big one.

01:35:50.140 Like, you're in the middle of trying to tell a sponsor while football is going on.

01:35:52.920 Or you bring on a guest and they're telling a long story and there's action going on.

01:35:56.240 It's hard to react.

01:35:56.740 Still got the game going on.

01:35:57.400 Right.

01:35:57.800 There was a moment last night where they were trying to have this moment of somber reflection

01:36:03.860 during the game.

01:36:05.000 Because somebody had died.

01:36:05.800 Somebody had passed away.

01:36:06.760 And I can't remember.

01:36:07.380 I missed who it was.

01:36:08.440 Yeah.

01:36:08.660 But in the middle of the story about the person passing away, an exciting play happened.

01:36:16.180 An interception that was returned about 50 yards.

01:36:19.300 So listen to the announcer try to tell you this tragic story.

01:36:23.780 And you can hear exactly when something exciting happens in the middle of it.

01:36:26.780 Putting his place in the exclusive club in 1995.

01:36:29.560 We are all deeply saddened by his recent passing.

01:36:33.180 And he said, oh, fuck some prayers to his family.

01:36:35.380 We'll miss you, Jimmy Gow.

01:36:36.980 And we're all deeply saddened.

01:36:38.900 By his passing.

01:36:40.040 Oh, touchdown.

01:36:43.900 Touchdown.

01:36:45.800 Listen to that one more time.

01:36:46.940 Can we do it one more time?

01:36:47.680 Yeah.

01:36:48.180 Putting his place in the exclusive club in 1995.

01:36:51.500 We are all deeply saddened by his recent passing.

01:36:54.560 And extend our thoughts and prayers to his family.

01:36:57.000 We'll miss you, Jimmy Gow.

01:36:58.340 I'll miss you, Jimmy Gow.

01:36:59.940 As we come back, flags in the play.

01:37:01.740 And here is Darby, the new addition.

01:37:04.000 That is amazing.

01:37:05.080 It's so great.

01:37:05.880 That's amazing.

01:37:06.200 Because not only, right when he says passing, the entire crowd goes nuts.

01:37:09.800 Like, we're really saddened by his passing.

01:37:12.220 It's unbelievable.

01:37:13.520 Like, we're all saddened by the soul-crushing death from a combination of syphilis and rapid

01:37:19.700 chlamydia.

01:37:20.800 Oh, what a play.

01:37:22.060 And then 26 people fell off a roller coaster and then were eaten by crocodiles.

01:37:29.220 Amazing.

01:37:30.260 What an incredible.

01:37:31.920 Oh, wow.

01:37:32.680 And that's when his mother walked into a propeller of a Cessna.

01:37:36.880 And, oh, oh, look at that.

01:37:38.960 And that's when the pieces were consumed by passing Vigrants. 1.00

01:37:42.080 Amazing.

01:37:42.720 Down to the 17-yard line.

01:37:44.340 Uh, maybe not the best time to tell the heartbreaking story, you know?

01:37:50.060 It's hard.

01:37:50.860 Well, you don't know it's coming, right?

01:37:52.660 Well, I know, but you, I don't know, during a commercial break or when you've just come

01:37:56.420 back and they're not on the field yet, they haven't, you know, there's a time to do that.

01:38:00.240 He's trying his best to rush it in there.

01:38:02.080 You know what I mean?

01:38:03.060 He didn't have no passing.

01:38:04.240 And we're really, really bad for it.

01:38:05.340 That's incredible.

01:38:06.260 We feel bad for the whole family.

01:38:07.560 And they're all suffering really badly.

01:38:09.040 And then back to you.

01:38:10.640 It was tough.

01:38:11.520 And then he got the Black Plague.

01:38:13.420 It was so sad.

01:38:15.260 Look at him go.

01:38:17.060 And the family is currently surviving all the series of amputations.

01:38:21.300 What an amazing play.

01:38:23.100 There's just nothing you can do in the moment.

01:38:25.500 No, you can't.

01:38:26.160 It really is tough.

01:38:28.260 So, yeah, it's interesting.

01:38:30.140 The Eagles have an interesting storyline this year.

01:38:33.380 And I know no one cares about the Eagles outside of me.

01:38:35.720 But they do care about the Colin Kaepernick situation.

01:38:38.400 Yes, they do.

01:38:38.860 And so Kaepernick, it's such a fascinating thing.

01:38:40.660 That's driving me out of my mind.

01:38:42.000 Yeah.

01:38:42.180 I can't take the commentators on ESPN lamenting the Colin Kaepernick thing as if there is no

01:38:49.360 doubt he would be playing if he weren't black and had an afro.

01:38:53.320 I mean, come on.

01:38:54.500 It's so ridiculous.

01:38:55.300 Or his tattoos.

01:38:56.580 They always talk about his tattoos as if there's some controversial thing.

01:38:59.040 People just do not.

01:39:00.460 White people do not understand the tattoos. 1.00

01:39:03.640 That's not a unique.

01:39:05.780 Almost every NFL player in the league is tattooed now.

01:39:09.900 It's not the tattoos.

01:39:11.440 So Kaepernick, who's just, look, objectively bad at his job.

01:39:17.200 He's not a good quarterback.

01:39:18.400 Period.

01:39:19.120 Okay?

01:39:19.580 It's true.

01:39:20.020 He lost his job to Blaine Gabbard.

01:39:22.200 Okay?

01:39:22.740 He did that before he started with any of his controversies as far as the national anthem

01:39:28.180 goes.

01:39:28.780 He lost his job to Blaine Gabbard.

01:39:31.640 Okay?

01:39:31.880 Did he have very early in his career on a very good defensive team with a very strong

01:39:38.060 running game?

01:39:39.060 He was an adequate quarterback that got them into the playoffs.

01:39:41.900 However, so was Mark Sanchez.

01:39:44.260 Mark Sanchez was the exact same guy.

01:39:46.140 Got them very deep into the playoffs.

01:39:48.220 Was not a great quarterback, but had a good defense and a good running game.

01:39:51.680 And you can do that.

01:39:52.700 Right?

01:39:52.860 That's something that happens in the NFL.

01:39:54.500 So, but people look back at Kaepernick and say, oh, well, he should definitely be on

01:39:57.760 the field.

01:39:58.880 Look at, here's a specific example.

01:40:01.520 Malcolm Jenkins is the safety for the Eagles.

01:40:03.780 All-star.

01:40:04.740 All-pro.

01:40:05.680 Great player.

01:40:06.380 If he was released by the Eagles tomorrow, every team in the league would try to pick

01:40:11.980 him up.

01:40:13.000 He has spent the last two years, like Kaepernick, not honoring the national anthem.

01:40:19.280 He's been putting his fist up in the air in a, I would say, arguably more offensive way

01:40:25.100 than Kaepernick.

01:40:26.960 Now, Malcolm Jenkins is a much better player than Kaepernick.

01:40:31.980 And everybody would pick him up if he was released, and he's honored by the Eagles.

01:40:36.800 He's on the team.

01:40:38.040 But another layer of this is, Jenkins said, well, the problem with the Kaepernick is a

01:40:43.060 lot of these teams around the league are just, they're just, they're cowards.

01:40:45.980 They're cowards.

01:40:46.880 Well, let's look at your team for a second, Malcolm.

01:40:51.360 Your team, the Philadelphia Eagles, obviously aren't cowards because they keep you on the

01:40:56.560 team.

01:40:57.120 They want you on the team, and you're doing the thing with the national anthem, the same

01:41:00.860 thing Kaepernick had.

01:41:01.980 Now, the Philadelphia Eagles started this season in need of a backup quarterback.

01:41:08.180 They got rid of Chase Daniel, and they needed someone.

01:41:11.340 Who did they sign?

01:41:12.920 Nick Foles.

01:41:14.560 Now, this is a team that...

01:41:15.980 I thought you were going to say Blake Gabbard.

01:41:17.320 No, not Blake Gabbard.

01:41:18.360 That would have been really amazing.

01:41:19.120 Don't use that example.

01:41:19.760 No.

01:41:20.320 Nick Foles, right?

01:41:21.520 Nick Foles, a guy who has lost his job twice in the past three years as starting quarterback,

01:41:27.860 and is a guy who's not a superstar.

01:41:32.020 He had, same, just like Kaepernick, one really good year, and then outside of that has been

01:41:38.620 a disappointment, as he'd probably even tell you.

01:41:41.880 Same thing with Kaepernick.

01:41:43.120 Kaepernick had a good year, year and a half.

01:41:44.880 Not nearly as good as Foles, but had a good year, year and a half.

01:41:49.400 Got them deep into the playoffs.

01:41:51.500 And was available on the market.

01:41:53.700 The Eagles, who have shown they have a liberal owner, and have shown they will sign someone

01:41:58.260 and cherish them, even when they don't stand up for the national anthem.

01:42:02.700 They didn't look at Kaepernick.

01:42:05.020 Why?

01:42:05.780 Because Kaepernick sucks.

01:42:08.460 He's a crap heap of a quarterback.

01:42:10.800 It's got nothing to do with his viewpoint.

01:42:13.340 I mean, could there be an element, in addition to sucking, that they don't want the baggage

01:42:18.800 he brings with him?

01:42:19.980 The divisiveness that he's going to bring into the locker room?

01:42:22.060 Nobody wants that.

01:42:22.560 Nobody wants that.

01:42:24.600 It's not even divisiveness.

01:42:25.700 For example, Chris Long, one of the Eagles players, who said he would never sit for the

01:42:30.980 national anthem, kind of put his arm around Malcolm Jenkins yesterday during the national

01:42:34.880 anthem, kind of show like, hey, I don't agree with you, but I support you, right?

01:42:38.320 So, you know, that is fine.

01:42:41.220 And all of that's good.

01:42:42.460 I think there's an element of, same thing with Tim Tebow, by the way, an element of you

01:42:47.780 don't want your third string quarterback being the story.

01:42:51.120 You don't want them to be, not divisiveness, distraction.

01:42:55.820 You don't want to have to answer questions about the last guy on your roster

01:43:00.580 every time you have a press conference.

01:43:02.680 So I think...

01:43:03.380 And so between the two things, it's mostly weighted on the side of being bad.

01:43:09.480 I mean, clearly the NFL, I mean, they want, if you can play the sport, play the game, and

01:43:14.780 play it well, the NFL puts up with an awful lot.

01:43:17.500 Murder!

01:43:17.940 Exactly.

01:43:18.460 Murder.

01:43:19.060 Yeah.

01:43:19.420 Murder!

01:43:19.780 I mean, if you accidentally pick up a girl's blouse, they let you go for six games. 0.99

01:43:25.820 Yeah, well, that's true.

01:43:26.880 I mean, look, the consistency element isn't necessarily strong.

01:43:29.500 The thing that got Ezekiel Elliott suspended.

01:43:32.880 Probably the pictures of the bruising was a little bit more of that.

01:43:36.260 But still, that's questionable as well, I grant you.

01:43:39.720 But this is the thing.

01:43:41.920 The guy who's complaining about the NFL owners being cowards is the perfect example as to

01:43:46.840 why it's not true.

01:43:47.960 He's a good player, and he can't shake his job by standing up with a fist salute to the

01:43:55.380 sky during the National Anthem.

01:43:57.800 Because he's good.

01:43:59.980 Kaepernick isn't good.

01:44:01.980 He's not good at the job he's chosen, which is why he won't be in the league at least 90%

01:44:09.480 of it.

01:44:09.900 And because every ESPN commentator thought he would be picked up by some team, and he hasn't

01:44:15.940 been yet, because everybody had a chance.

01:44:18.040 The Eagles had a chance.

01:44:19.020 Chicago had a chance.

01:44:19.920 Seattle.

01:44:20.400 Miami, Seattle.

01:44:21.980 And everybody passed on him.

01:44:25.120 Is everybody racist in the NFL?

01:44:27.580 Yeah, everybody.

01:44:28.480 Even the teams that have other players who are doing the same thing.

01:44:31.100 Those teams are racist.

01:44:32.400 And it's so stupid.

01:44:34.100 Because, you know, what is it, 80% black in the NFL?

01:44:37.880 I don't think you could even make that case that they're racist.

01:44:41.340 No, it's absolutely ridiculous.

01:44:44.180 And I think the case you could make more than anything else with Colin Kaepernick is because,

01:44:48.200 you know, could you add Colin Kaepernick to a roster as a third-string quarterback and

01:44:51.720 see if he works out?

01:44:52.620 Sure.

01:44:53.380 Absolutely.

01:44:54.080 Why not take a whirl?

01:44:54.940 He's had at least some modicum of success in the league.

01:44:58.540 Totally understandable.

01:44:59.240 But this is a guy who continually tells you over and over and over again, you know what?

01:45:06.920 NFL?

01:45:07.760 Not my top priority.

01:45:09.300 It's about sixths on my list.

01:45:10.920 Let me tweet about everything else in my life going on and not focus on this.

01:45:15.220 And you know what?

01:45:15.880 That is a huge line.

01:45:17.820 It shows that it's not the point of dedication.

01:45:22.280 Where, you know what?

01:45:23.160 Thousands of guys who want that job, it is the number one thing in their life.

01:45:26.640 Right or wrong, it is.

01:45:27.800 And his job is to go out there and perform, not teach us about what bad people we are.

01:45:33.300 We get that from all over the place.

01:45:35.020 The media is going to tell us that every single day.

01:45:37.220 You don't need to come and tell us how awful of a society we are as your number one priority.

01:45:42.080 You want to do that, become an activist, start an organization, and stop throwing interceptions

01:45:46.480 in our league.

01:45:47.520 You can do that on your own time.

01:45:49.300 What a concept.

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01:46:08.460 All right.

01:46:08.700 Just to finish off the week on a couple of fun notes.

01:46:12.180 The other thing that we've had in the show prep all week long and haven't really talked

01:46:17.760 about is this Netflix situation where they're poaching some of the big talent from the networks

01:46:24.680 because, I mean, they are serious about original programming.

01:46:29.060 Yeah.

01:46:29.200 They spent $5 billion last year, I believe.

01:46:32.100 Just the $5 billion?

01:46:32.900 Just $5 billion on brand new programming.

01:46:35.940 And then they poached Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal from ABC, to create... 1.00

01:46:43.980 Amazon is doing the same thing.

01:46:45.520 Amazon is doing the same thing.

01:46:46.580 It's becoming a big fight between Amazon and Netflix as far as creating new content.

01:46:50.700 And they're taking whoever is good and throwing money at them.

01:46:54.120 Media is changing.

01:46:55.800 And Netflix now, worldwide, has more than 100 million subscribers.

01:47:01.640 That's a good business.

01:47:02.700 100 million subscribers.

01:47:04.740 It's incredible, too.

01:47:05.840 And did you see...

01:47:06.780 This is actually the biggest story of the week.

01:47:08.020 How did we not talk about this?

01:47:09.520 Number one story, to me, of course, is actually the idea that Coke Zero is going off the market

01:47:14.740 and they're replacing it with something.

01:47:16.180 And I'm furious about it.

01:47:17.720 And are we certain that Coke Zero goes away to make room for this new thing?

01:47:21.520 That's what they keep saying.

01:47:22.400 Even Coke Zero's Twitter account is saying it.

01:47:24.520 Oh, you'll love the new Coke Zero sugar.

01:47:27.420 Which is weird because Zero implies there was zero sugar before, which it had no sugar before.

01:47:32.200 And according to reports, they're already putting it on the shelf in the same place where Coke Zero was.

01:47:36.760 So they're not making new space for it.

01:47:38.240 I'm very upset.

01:47:39.720 I mean, I have Diet Coke with Splenda.

01:47:41.400 Nobody buys that.

01:47:42.640 It takes something that nobody buys off the market.

01:47:44.520 People actually drink Coke Zero.

01:47:46.440 I buy Tab.

01:47:47.780 I don't think it's...

01:47:48.460 Tab?

01:47:48.720 Tab still exists.

01:47:50.380 Is that Coca-Cola?

01:47:50.960 I think it's Coca-Cola.

01:47:51.880 Oh, yeah.

01:47:52.220 It's like, you want to get rid of a product.

01:47:53.820 I mean, I like Tab.

01:47:55.920 Fresca?

01:47:56.360 Do you like Fresca, too?

01:47:57.000 I do like Fresca.

01:47:57.680 I think it's delicious.

01:47:58.560 It's quite refreshing.

01:47:59.660 Are you...

01:48:00.200 Are you...

01:48:00.880 You, I think, are a secret woman, just like Glenn Beck is.

01:48:03.820 You know what?

01:48:04.700 You're a secret woman. 1.00

01:48:05.680 You know what?

01:48:06.180 Stop it with your gender normative standards.

01:48:10.180 This is...

01:48:10.740 We could all be...

01:48:11.500 You know what?

01:48:11.840 Maybe sometimes when I'm drinking, I identify a different way.

01:48:14.580 Yes, you do.

01:48:15.060 But the second biggest story of the week, past the Coke Zero thing, is this MoviePass situation?

01:48:20.160 Yes.

01:48:20.280 Have you followed this at all?

01:48:21.140 Yes, I have.

01:48:21.780 So listen, this is...

01:48:22.980 It's one of the co-founders of Netflix.

01:48:24.680 Started a company called MoviePass, apparently a few years ago.

01:48:26.980 How I didn't know about this until now, I don't know.

01:48:29.160 But it was a membership where for 50 bucks a month, you could go see as many movies as

01:48:33.780 you wanted in the theater.

01:48:35.220 Now...

01:48:35.780 What?

01:48:36.200 Yeah, exactly.

01:48:37.120 You're saying that's a good deal, right?

01:48:38.580 Yeah.

01:48:38.900 Because I would go all the time.

01:48:40.460 Now, I can understand some people cannot get to movies enough to justify $50 a month.

01:48:44.960 I get that.

01:48:45.580 Still, though.

01:48:46.340 But still, an interesting offer, right?

01:48:48.320 You'd consider that, because I love movies.

01:48:50.940 They just lowered the price to $10 a month.

01:48:54.380 10 bucks a month.

01:48:55.340 Unlimited movies in any theater.

01:48:58.280 The only two...

01:48:59.420 How can they do that?

01:49:00.100 How did they get...

01:49:00.920 They had every theater chain?

01:49:02.500 Yeah.

01:49:02.940 Yeah, everything.

01:49:03.400 Agreed to this?

01:49:03.800 So what they do is you get a card, which works as a prepaid debit card.

01:49:07.540 And you have to sign on to the thing, it credits your account, and then you go and play for

01:49:11.780 it at the theater.

01:49:13.060 Now, there's some restrictions.

01:49:14.140 The only restrictions are you only see one movie a day, and you can't see the same movie

01:49:17.740 twice at any point.

01:49:19.020 So you can't keep going back to see the same movie over and over again.

01:49:20.820 I'll buy you a pass.

01:49:21.840 When I hit that $510 million dollar auto this weekend, I'll buy you a pass.

01:49:26.800 So are you going to come in next week, Jeff?

01:49:28.400 Jeffy, after you win?

01:49:29.660 After I win?

01:49:30.620 No.

01:49:30.940 Will we ever see you again if you won the lottery?

01:49:33.680 No.

01:49:34.100 Pray that he wins the lottery.

01:49:35.520 Pray.

01:49:36.160 We're hoping.

01:49:36.820 More than even him.

01:49:37.540 Please win the lottery.

01:49:40.280 All right.

01:49:40.660 Glenn's back on Monday.

01:49:42.000 We'll talk to you then.

01:49:44.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:49:49.040 Mercury.

01:49:49.440 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 18, 2017

8⧸18⧸17 - NY Times Anti-Confederate but Pro-Communist？

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