8⧸18⧸17 - NY Times Anti-Confederate but Pro-Communist?
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Glenn and Stu discuss the latest terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and the impact it had on the city and the rest of the country. They also discuss the impact on the NCAA basketball teams playing in Spain at the time of the attack.
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I don't know about you guys, but let's get started right there, right now.
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It's Pat and Stu and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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He's doing something with Operation Underground Rescue today,
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Just another mass carnage, bodies strewn all over the place.
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And, you know, it's just so senseless and so bizarre.
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And this seems to be their new thing, even over explosions.
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Yeah, we're starting to probably hit that point in which the vehicle barriers at street festivals
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I mean, because I think people, whether, obviously there's a low risk of something like this
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happening at any particular festival you're at, but when they block these streets off,
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It's in a way kind of like the gun-free zone with the mass shootings.
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It's like you take out an area where, you know, there's any chance of traffic
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and people just sort of, you know, they're all gathered in one place
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And when they all think they're safe, that's when people come that are bad actors.
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That's obviously not an argument against street festivals,
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but it is an argument for security at them, I think.
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I just heard this morning that they're going to really ramp up security
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with vehicles in mind at the Texas State Fair next month.
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And people won't show up if these things keep happening.
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And that's the whole point, right, of this kind of attack.
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You just want people to change their lifestyle.
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So it would be, they interviewed quite a few people who were just on vacation.
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Yeah, this wasn't necessarily even just a street festival.
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You're just going to Barcelona, Spain for a vacation.
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It's just, I mean, certainly it's no worse than the locals being killed
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because they're both bad, but it just, it's so senseless.
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You know, that's the point I thought I just took from your comment.
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That you thought it was worse than the locals being killed.
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Foreigners with Americans were there on vacation.
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And the media, like I was watching Fox News when this was going on
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we have new information in that four NCAA basketball teams
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Okay, I don't know why that is relevant to the story.
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The fact that that's the American angle, right?
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particularly if you are a fan of one of the teams
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But the idea that you're like three of the four teams
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have made a statement and all three teams have said the same thing
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I mean, it's probably, there's probably something else in this story
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that you could cover at this particular moment.
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I'm just saying that it's possible that the basketball team,
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you know, being unharmed is not necessarily a story.
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Most people in the, you know, in the world were unharmed at that moment.
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This does tend, because my wife and I have been considering,
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I mean, we've wanted to go to Europe our whole lives.
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Even though the problem with France is the French.
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And now with all this stuff happening all the time,
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I mean, the footage that you described earlier,
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did you notice a line that was different from other attacks
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in which they really showed a lot of just dead bodies on the street?
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And they kept showing it over and over and over again.
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You know, it's not like when you have someone who's hurt
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and struggling, people rush over and try to help
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I mean, you know, a lot of people dead, a lot of gore.
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And they showed it for whatever reason, seemingly without hesitance
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A lot of times they will, you know, if you think of the clip in Charlottesville,
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right, where one person died, they went to somewhat great lengths
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You were up close and personal with all the carnage.
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There's an argument there, and I think a strong one.
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There was this terrorism expert on that I was watching,
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and they were like, well, there's nothing you can do to stop these incidents.
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And that's true about really everything, right?
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Like, there's nothing to stop someone walking up behind you
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The only reason it doesn't happen is because no one's interested in doing it, right?
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And that's the only way that this is going to eventually stop, hopefully,
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in which people are not motivated by this thing.
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White supremacy, we've gone a long way in essentially eliminating.
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And it's a weird thing to say after Charlottesville.
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people in the United States aren't interested in it.
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There's not a lot of people who want to be involved in that nonsense,
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Right now, Islamic extremism is not, that's not the case.
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You know, there's a lot of people around the world
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until that, you know, that strain of extremism is gone
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of multiple countries when you throw fascism in there.
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And now, you know, there's a lot less interest in it,
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I mean, and I don't know how you do it with a group like Islamic extremism
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There's so many people that even if there's just an infinitesimal percentage
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Either stop it that way or by killing every single terrorist on the planet,
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I mean, look, that's how we approach Nazis, right?
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It wasn't like we were like, oh, you know what, actually, we don't agree with your universal health care plans,
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which is, you know, look, that is certainly part of it,
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it's a lot difficult to figure out who those people are and how to do it.
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And, you know, we've seen, you know, attempts at that, certainly in certain countries.
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And so far, I mean, it's, there have been parts of it that have worked and parts of it that haven't.
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So, I mean, right now ISIS is being pushed back,
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and we may wind up seeing ISIS go away, that part of it.
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But we also, you know, you could argue that parts of Al-Qaeda have gone away
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So, I mean, you know, it's such a difficult task to do this in any efficient way,
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especially without, you know, without the support and really unified action of the world.
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The perpetrators of the Barcelona attack are soldiers of the Islamic State
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and carried out the operation in response to calls for targeting coalition states.
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I mean, is Spain really even heavily involved in the war on terror?
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No, but with the open border campaigns in Europe, I mean, Spain, France, all of it,
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they're all, I mean, that immigration process for the extremists.
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You know, you said you don't know who they are.
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But they don't seem to be targeting the Sunni militant groups in Syria, certainly.
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Well, Spain hasn't had a big attack in a while.
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You know, and just Europe in and of itself is just very vulnerable to these things.
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A lot of them have very lenient, to say the least, immigration policies.
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There's also very free immigration, relatively speaking, between the countries.
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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.
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It would be like trying to figure out immigration among the 50 states.
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If we were constantly on the border trying to stop certain people going from, you know, Texas into Oklahoma, it would be really hard.
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And, you know, it's a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's that type of arrangement.
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It also looks like police have caught everybody but the driver, right?
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And that's the last I heard was that the driver fled on foot and he's still...
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It was a bigger plot or, you know, there's an explosion they think was tied to this.
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There was another attack they think was tied to this through family members.
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And they thwarted another one overnight, right?
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With five people trying to attempt an attack and they shot all five of them.
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And they, again, you talked about showing the footage.
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That footage immediately was all of them dead on the sidewalk.
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Donald Trump's tweet last night about pig's blood apparently turns out to be not exactly accurate.
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It's interesting to see the media, the way the media is handling it in that, like, you
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know, he got hammered for not tweeting fast enough and calling it terrorism essentially
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in Charlottesville, which, by the way, again, I heard somebody on CNN this morning, someone
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running for, I think, Senate in Virginia, who said it was not terrorism or would not admit
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it was terrorism until about halfway through the interview, which he eventually came around
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But he's the only person I've ever heard say that the Charlottesville attack was not terrorism.
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Like, oh, well, if it was a Muslim, you would have called it terrorism.
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We didn't from the first moment we heard about it.
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As was, by the way, the Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer who went and tried to shoot everybody
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And then, Bernie Sanders, after that, had the unmitigated gall to blame the attack on
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Trump when one of his own supporters actually tried to murder one-tenth of the GOP delegation.
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But, I mean, they're criticizing Trump over this.
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The first one, he was condemning the terror attack.
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United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is
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And, again, the media is like, well, why did he react so fast to this one and not the
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Well, I mean, if you wanted him to react fast, then he did react fast.
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It's harder to criticize him for previously not reacting fast.
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Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught.
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There was no more radical Islamic terror for 35 years.
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The legend is that General Pershing buried them in pig's blood?
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He shot 49 of them and let the last one go to tell everyone.
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And then there was no Islamic terror for 25 years, is what he said in the campaign.
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Now it's advanced now to 35 years of no Islamic terrorism.
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I mean, a lot of people in the media are saying, like, oh, this is absolutely a lie.
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And I don't want to, again, quibble with Twitter and the wording of it.
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But if you're going to tell people to study something, you should probably know whether
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Corey Lewandowski, who was, of course, his campaign manager, Trump's campaign manager,
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said his team knew at the time the story was a myth when Trump told it in 2016 but decided
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It's not about that, he told the Washington Post.
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Like, I guess you could take that as an analogy of we should be tough on Islamic terrorism
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and we should maybe think the way they do and use that in a way to deter it.
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General Pershing's memoirs, and this, I think, is the genesis of this sort of legend
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that has been passed around over the years, talks about fighting Islamic extremists, and
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It talks about how attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice the army had
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already adopted, one that Mohammedans held in abhorrence.
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The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave.
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Muslimites, or Mohammedites, and Mohammedans, and all kinds of different things.
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The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig.
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It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell
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instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.
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So it certainly never, it did not wipe it out for 35 years, they did not dip them in
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There was, his report was, and it doesn't even say he did it, he said the army was doing
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it generally, where they would occasionally, sometimes publicly, bury a dead Islamic extremist
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with a pig, and it would sometimes deter some assassins.
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there's no indication that it did work as well as we'd all like to believe.
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if we could kill terrorists with pig blood-dipped bullets,
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there's certainly a lot of people who would argue the other side of it.
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this Confederate monument thing continues to really boil.
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Because we've got a lot of fired up people about it.
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Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
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I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down.
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that was one of the things that got him the most criticism.
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You can't conflate those Confederate generals with Washington and Jefferson.
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It wasn't their position in the military or who they were fighting against that was the question.
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will you now want Washington's statue removed because he also owns slaves?
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And so you're going to be coming after them as well?
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And they thought that was the most ridiculous thing of all time.
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And Washington Park is named after our first president.
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And a statue of him on a horse stands prominently here at this park for all to see.
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But one pastor, as you mentioned, said it is offensive because Washington owned slaves.
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Duke says they should not be held to such esteem and considered heroes when they participated in the slave trade.
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He says the changes could be as simple as naming the parks after African-American heroes
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like Harold Washington, Jesse Jackson, and Michael Jackson.
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By all indications, he's at least a highly suspect individual when it comes to criminal activities.
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he's calling for the removal of the George Washington statue that was in the park
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and changing the name from Washington Park to, you know, Michael Jackson Park or whatever.
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And then yesterday we had this CNN commentator, Angela Rye.
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I think that we have to get to the heart of the problem here.
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And the heart of the problem is the way in which many of us were taught American history.
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And even though I love John to death, I couldn't disagree more about George Washington.
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And we need to call slave owners out for what they are.
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Whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not, he wasn't protecting my freedom.
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I wasn't someone who my ancestors weren't deemed human beings to him.
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And so to me, I don't care if it's a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue
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There is a way that we can recognize and appreciate.
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You're feeding into Steve Banning and Trump's talking points.
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I'm calling out white supremacy for what it is.
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And sometimes what it is, John, are blind spots.
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Sometimes what it is is not acknowledging that this country was built upon a very violent past
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that resulted in death and the raping and the killing of my ancestors.
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So I'm not going to allow us to say that it's OK for a Robert E. Lee but not a George Washington.
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And I'm not saying that they don't deserve to be taught about.
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We definitely need to learn about it so that we don't repeat it because we're very close
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But I'm not giving any difference to George Washington or to Robert E. Lee.
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I mean, Trump couldn't have been any more right.
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He couldn't have been any more right than he is.
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It was one of those things that had begun long before this incident.
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This is not a new opinion she just came up with.
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These are things that the left has been saying for a very long time, and we've covered them
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First of all, one part of when you're in the middle of an argument like this, when you
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hear your opponent go down the we need to tear the George Washington statues down, just
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back off and let them do it because let them continue to run their mouth.
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You don't need to cut somebody off when they're in the middle of that one.
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But it's this issue of whether Trump should have done that or not.
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And I think the issue here is leave that stuff to the talk show hosts.
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Leave that stuff to the analysts on CNN and the people who go on TV.
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Trump doesn't need to win those arguments like that.
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Those arguments have been going on for a long time, and Trump feels the need to jump into it.
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He can't help himself with that, so he's going to do that.
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If I was going to give advice to the president, which he does not care about at all, he doesn't
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He doesn't need to fight every single point like that.
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And there is a moment, I think, for Trump to come in maybe a couple weeks later when
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they're talking about this and say, look, we need to be sure, though, that we're not
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But to be yelling at reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower a couple days after the incident,
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backing off the previous statement you just made was not a great way to handle this, I
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I mean, I don't know how much it's going to affect him in the polls or whether that
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But separate from that, the idea that what he said, generally speaking, talking about
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history, that part of it, and talking about what the left will try to do with these incidents,
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As we pointed out, he wasn't right about the Pershing thing.
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And he certainly wasn't right about saying there were a lot of fine people in that particular
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There are a lot of fine people, by the way, who are opposed to taking the statues down.
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Let me give you an example as to how true that is.
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And it's true to the people who are complaining about it today, because a lot of people on the
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left are saying, well, there's no good people who could possibly be on that side of the
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Do you think statues honoring the leaders of the Confederacy should be should remain as
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a historical symbol or be removed because they're offensive to some people?
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Now, you'd see, of course, Republicans are going to be on the side of keeping them up.
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Now, independence should be in the middle of this.
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Independence are the ones that you're not going to get the party stuff here.
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And you might think, OK, well, Democrats, though, are really going to oppose it.
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Forty seven percent say take them down because they're offensive.
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I mean, they're saying that people who are opposed to removing these statues are bad people.
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You have half a Democrats who say keep them up.
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You've got two thirds of independence and almost every Republican.
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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.
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And so this is not a particularly close argument.
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Most people say, look, we understand that there were bad things in our history.
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We it's important to keep this up so we remember it.
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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.
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And tell them, hey, this is offensive because this person did this, this and this.
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And I can't believe I just complimented Jeffy's parenting style.
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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.
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I mean, we're on a really dangerous path right now toward losing our freedom.
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If we don't stop this madness, this snowball that's rolling down the hill, we're going to be sorry.
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And there's not going to be a constitution that stands there setting fire to it right now.
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But we're going to have to decide what to do with these Confederate monuments, because there is more.
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There's still more than 700 of them throughout the United States.
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Yeah, 700, including one in my hometown on the mean streets of Helena, Montana.
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Now, what it's doing in Helena, Montana, I don't know.
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B, it doesn't get any more north in the 48 contiguous states than Montana.
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Like, they gave it to FedEx and they just made mistakes.
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They dropped it off and Bill said, you know what, just put it over there.
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And of course, obviously, you know, 98% of, I mean, there's one in Iowa is the next furthest north.
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I mean, it's, there's not a lot or maybe there's two in Iowa.
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And then below, outside of that, there's like one in Pennsylvania.
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But overall, they're all, you know, south where people generally expect them to be.
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And apparently, Helena's mayor was originally like, no, we're not going to remove that.
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But after Charlottesville, he's now saying, yeah, maybe it's time.
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And we didn't, I don't think we mentioned this.
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Baltimore, just in the middle of the night, which is what they do in Baltimore.
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They remove NFL teams in the middle of the night and statues.
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They didn't have any rallies and they didn't have any protests, which I'm sure is what they were trying to avoid.
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But that's an interesting way of doing business.
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The thing that you saw yesterday, not there now.
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And there's there's quite a few places around the country where it's being considered that they're going to remove them.
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And then, but there's hundreds and hundreds of them where they still exist and nobody's saying they shouldn't.
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We've got a rally going on here in Dallas on Saturday, right?
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A big rally for the in downtown Dallas this weekend.
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Are they rallying for it to keep it up or rallying against it?
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But the main focus of the rally, I believe, is to make it go away.
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And, you know, it's not it's not it's not uncommon in these moments.
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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.
00:34:09.460
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.
00:34:53.220
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.
00:35:11.300
You have an emotional moment where you can take a couple steps in the direction you want to go.
00:35:18.540
More of the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Stu coming up.
00:35:33.600
Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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.
00:36:09.540
Would they say that about a Confederate statue?
00:36:18.060
This is a guy whose policies led to the deaths of 20 million people in his own country.
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.
00:36:45.260
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...
00:36:59.340
At certain points in our history, communists were demonized.
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.
00:37:46.680
Also, the terrorist attack in Barcelona yesterday, and a new one to tell you about in Finland.
00:38:24.020
Pat Stewart, Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:38:33.800
Several people have been stabbed in the city of Turku, Finland.
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.
00:39:07.620
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?
00:39:22.820
I mean, because these vans a lot of times are rented.
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.
00:39:45.600
Certainly, of course, we all know that cars kill way more people than guns anyway.
00:39:52.320
But then, in addition to that, they're being utilized in that way.
00:39:59.360
They will probably start making these arguments.
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.
00:40:13.460
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.
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.
00:40:29.020
And we've seen this already multiple times since he made the statement.
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.
00:40:47.040
Well, you don't like it because he's wearing the flag shirt at the same time.
00:40:50.440
It doesn't seem like we have any truth out there anymore.
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.
00:41:11.820
They've been trying to do that for a long time, too.
00:41:13.780
If you take down statues of George Washington, you have to take his likeness off of the bill, right?
00:41:21.420
So, listen, if people want to get rid of their racist bills, I mean, they can send them to me.
00:41:33.420
And you'll be happy to donate them to underprivileged strippers all around America.
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.
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.
00:42:08.920
I will say I was surprised by two things with that Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
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
00:42:36.400
I mean, we had that one guy who was trying to make it okay that the girl got run over
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.
00:43:11.040
And it's funny because that is the reason why the racist accusation is effective and
00:43:22.960
We, people on the right get accused of racism all the time.
00:43:29.620
There are people who are racist and when they are, they will be more than happy to tell
00:43:40.740
I'm here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along
00:43:47.600
Somebody like Donald Trump who does not give his daughter to a Jew.
00:43:56.340
I don't think that you could feel about race the way I do and watch that Kushner bastard
00:44:03.560
Is that, I mean, it just, it doesn't even, I can't get my head around that at all.
00:44:10.220
And by the way, comments like that is what got him kicked off of OKCupid.
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
00:44:47.740
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.
00:45:09.880
This guy is an amazing documentary waiting to happen.
00:45:15.760
Any person in this audience listens to that guy talk and feels absolutely no connection
00:45:22.920
And the reason why these attacks, when people just throw racism around, are effective is
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
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.
00:46:13.120
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
00:46:35.000
It's their fault for not getting out of the way.
00:46:41.820
I can't believe the amount of restraint that our people showed out there, I think was astounding.
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.
00:47:00.760
One of the Kushner bastard or that beautiful girl is a Jew.
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
00:47:26.780
I mean, you know, the part about we need to bring down the master of Monticello is in
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
00:47:39.980
But that the way she handled that question, he says, well, you've seen the video.
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.
00:47:57.540
By the way, she's sitting in a hotel room with this nutcase and about 20 guns as well
00:48:07.700
She doesn't necessarily try to push back and make every point she could make.
00:48:14.780
And that is that is what that's a really good way of handling it.
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.
00:48:30.420
We've got a lot of problems right now, but one of the problems is that the right is
00:48:37.860
And we'll get into that coming up in just a second.
00:48:40.620
Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
00:48:51.800
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That means the IRS wins 92 percent of tax avoider cases they prosecute.
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00:49:55.460
Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:50:01.600
Some interesting considerations as we eliminate anything that offends anybody from our society.
00:50:12.680
There was an actual person, the Duke of York, that that was named after.
00:50:18.700
Daily Color has a story about how James Stewart, then Duke of York, is the person that New York
00:50:24.760
And he was a horrific slave trader transported between 90,000 and 100,000 African slaves to
00:50:43.760
I don't know what we should name New York, but it certainly shouldn't be named that.
00:50:54.240
It is kind of in an armpit position there on the coast.
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
00:51:23.200
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.
00:51:56.380
The Founding Fathers took a world that was filled with slavery and racism.
00:52:05.980
But gave built-in structures that would eventually lead to its end.
00:52:28.880
And he brought back the KKK out of the doldrums.
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.
00:52:41.080
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.
00:52:55.700
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.
00:53:06.160
It took him thousands of days to respond to Nazis.
00:53:13.420
It's pretty well known that he took a really long time to respond to Nazis.
00:53:31.900
And FDR is consistently named number one, number two, number three.
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.
00:53:59.820
And we get to this point where we just fall into these arguments that feel good at the moment.
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.
00:54:25.120
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.
00:54:40.360
meaning making the states' rights argument ridiculous.
00:54:46.240
and I think the words in perpetuity are in the Constitution,
00:54:53.980
Had it been up to the South, to the Confederacy,
00:55:00.000
And, you know, this is not an argument to say the Confederacy was good or right
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.
00:55:39.400
I think you have a legitimate point with that being started by the KKK
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.
00:56:13.940
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.
00:56:23.860
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,
00:56:37.340
the profound feeling he felt going there and learning about that
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
00:57:10.240
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.
00:57:24.420
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.
00:57:46.320
White trash, first class, you probably don't recycle.
00:57:53.580
White trash, first class, you probably don't recycle.
00:57:59.620
A little chant to get you, get the blood flowing this morning.
00:58:05.140
White trash, first class, you probably don't recycle.
00:58:11.620
A movement's going to begin on the back of that catchphrase.
00:58:17.340
Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:58:20.400
Yeah, and we were talking about slavery last break and how people are trying to remove these
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.
00:58:39.440
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.
00:59:50.480
We talked about this earlier of how the media does this all the time.
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.
01:00:17.140
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.
01:00:41.180
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.
01:00:57.500
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.
01:01:26.960
Yeah, and I think it's more appropriate to call out groups like Antifa, right, specifically.
01:01:31.640
The alt-left is like, it's just a, you know, it's a, I'm 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.
01:02:03.800
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.
01:02:18.600
To which I responded, Richard Spencer is pro-choice.
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.
01:02:42.280
But people don't know this about Richard Spencer because people summarize the alt-right by the second word there.
01:02:53.240
They just think, and everybody in the media will call them a right-wing group.
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.
01:03:35.720
He was the guy who, after Trump was elected, got into trouble because he was making Nazi salutes at a get-together.
01:03:44.280
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.
01:03:54.980
So he's going back to the old-school Margaret Sanger view.
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.
01:04:42.340
The Pro-Life Temptation from an alt-right website.
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.
01:05:09.280
Life gains its meaning through connections to other members of our families, tribes, and nations.
01:05:20.700
They're specifically getting rid of the individualist argument.
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.
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.
01:06:13.640
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.
01:07:11.560
The alt-right for both our own principles and the greater good must oppose the pro-life agenda.
01:07:26.560
It is not like a different strain of conservatism.
01:07:39.780
It is an attack on everything that conservatives have fought for.
01:07:46.160
And I don't know if that's still interesting to people on the conservative side of the argument.
01:07:54.720
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.
01:08:45.460
And, you know, other than Jeffy being aborted in his 644th trimester.
01:08:53.800
We just got done saying that abortion is wrong.
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Patton Stuhl for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Still dealing with the fallout from the Charlottesville rallies and the tragedy that happened there.
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And, you know, we're still working on getting rid of the 700 remaining Confederate statues and monuments.
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We're still firing people who may have been there or heard about it or seen it or...
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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.
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And I would not want to work with one if I knew I worked with one.
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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.
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One instance was a guy in Berkeley, California, who worked at a hot dog place.
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And he has now, I think, technically he resigned from the job, but he was forced out at the hot dog place.
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And, like, look, if I was owning a business, I would not want a white supremacist working for me.
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So I'm comfortable with that decision as you make as a business owner.
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And it's your right as a business owner to make that decision.
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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?
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They're going to be on welfare if we don't let them work anywhere.
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And, again, if you have a public-facing job, I get it.
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But, I mean, if you're making hot dogs behind, like, was he not making hot dogs as well for black people?
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Is there an association to his job performance that is related here?
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I feel weird about it because I know I would want to fire the guy immediately if I owned the business.
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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?
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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.
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They're saying that they don't want to be associated with it.
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And a lot of them have been going there for years and have decided to pull out.
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They were fine with associating with Donald Trump's property before this.
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In fact, one of them was there since at least 2009.
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The American Cancer Society, a big charity, did a gala there.
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So their thing is that he didn't speak out against the racism quickly enough?
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I think he basically blew over that second-day statement.
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But again, let's say he's even worse than this.
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The standard is you will go to a hotel owned by a person who has views that you find distasteful
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Like, I remember this happening with Don Inus back in the day when he had his issue with MSNBC.
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And they fired him before his annual telethon, like the day before, his annual telethon to
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raise money for SIDS charities to try to cure babies from dying out of unexplained circumstances.
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After the guy had apologized profusely, said he was wrong, admitted he was wrong, went overboard,
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We're going to raise money for the ranch and bring people in.
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And Kinky Friedman's going to be there, along with Bo Dietl.
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And I am I was in the morning, four minutes before the top of the hour.
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They didn't even let him do that on the air, to raise money.
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You're going to stop raising money for charity at a building because you don't like them.
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That's Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Programmer.
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We're still cleaning up the madness from this whole week.
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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.
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I mean, don't you feel like the media is contributing to all this?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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That was, I mean, great and very common from our police.
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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.
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But, in general, white Americans and black Americans get along just fine in this country.
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Their neighbors, their friends, their co-workers, their bosses interacting with employees.
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In many cases, their husband and wife, along with their children and a loving family.
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Blacks and whites do, in fact, mingle in our society.
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And, just lately, it seems like that's not the case.
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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.
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To us, the vast majority of us, they're all just Americans, right?
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They're fellow human beings and children of God.
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On 9-11, no one, no one said, hey, how many of those 3,000 people who died were black?
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In Iraq and Afghanistan, no one ever questioned the casualty count.
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Well, yeah, but how many of those troops were black?
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But racism, in and of itself, is inherently a collectivist argument.
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I mean, you heard that from the stuff we did on the alt-right last hour.
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You have to see people as groups and not individuals to embrace racism.
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And far too many people in the media have an agenda.
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And it's an agenda that tears the fabric of our nation apart.
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It's been, I was just thinking about this the other day.
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Heard this on the radio since Don Henley's scathing review of the news media, Dirty Laundry, when that came out.
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And it's old, but somehow the lyrics seem more relevant maybe than they even were then.
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Although today, if Don Henley were honest and conservative, which he's not,
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But they kick them when they're up, kick them when they're down.
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How about we just don't let them affect us anymore?
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The other day, the Washington Post ran a story about just your friendly neighborhood violent anarchists.
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The article let you know that, hey, these are just young people, you know, who have regular jobs by day.
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And then, yeah, they go out and break things, set stuff on fire, and crack a few capitalist skulls by night.
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But, hey, they're just trying to make a difference.
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You know, they're trying to make a difference for the little people, because they really care.
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I mean, that sort of free speech, the violence perpetrated by leftists and anarchists,
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that gets no condemnation from the liberal propaganda tool that is the Washington Post.
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In a separate story, we were informed that neo-Nazis should not be allowed to publicly even voice their opinions
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because hate speech is not covered by free speech.
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And nothing could be further from the truth, right?
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The speech that makes us uncomfortable, or the vast majority of us, vehemently disagree with and despise,
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that's the only kind of speech that needs protecting.
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And obviously you can't threaten people with impunity.
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But even there, there's kind of a fine line to walk.
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But you absolutely can show your incredible ignorance.
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Because I'm glad, I want to know who the lunatics are, and that way we can avoid them.
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Just like we're doing with the alt-right right now.
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Meanwhile, though, there's a news person in a newsroom somewhere asking,
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You know the boys in the newsroom, got a running bet.
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I think they're really enjoying showing America tearing itself apart.
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It does seem to be a spectator sport at this point.
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And I think the application that the media makes to try to broaden these activities to the entire right,
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Because when you paint a picture of a country of people that don't want to go outside,
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I mean, why would you want to go outside in this environment?
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When in reality, we all do it every day, and everything's fine.
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But you're creating this, you're increasing the tension.
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You're giving so much focus to these people, and it's not helpful.
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I should probably add one addendum to that rant,
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and that is that Don Henley invited a lot of that media attention.
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He was obviously railing against the news media.
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and there's a naked 16-year-old girl unconscious in your bed.
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Well, I mean, it's a minor point that you could bring up at this time.
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It's not a terrible time for the point to be brought up.
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So, in just full disclosure here, Don Henley did have some issues with the media.
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But now, in the media, we're seeing that social justice warriors are going after Elvis Presley.
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They are pissed off because Elvis has a reputation of king of rock and roll,
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but it's been tarnished because he appropriated black music
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stood on the backs of black musicians and broke them with his heft.
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I mean, they've been making fun of him and other singers.
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And I know that they've, you know, they made complaints about him making...
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Who was it that used to give them a hard time about singing songs in the movies
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I mean, they've been after him for years on that.
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But also, a lot of black performers were wildly popular.
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And even though the nation was clearly not where it is now
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as far as race relations, of course, we're going back there.
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But they liked the black musicians too, and they did fine.
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I mean, there was a lot of great black musicians
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that were really successful in the late 50s and early 60s.
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But yesterday, I saw a breakdown of Elvis Presley doing Heartbreak Hotel.
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Well, they were peeling that apart because it sounded too black,
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and it didn't sound anything like Hound Dog that he had done before.
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And clearly, he had stolen and appropriated the black music for his career.
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The correct instinct of not wanting people to be racist and do these sorts of things
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It's like to say, hey, I don't like the fact that people are racist against black people.
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Taking it to the idea that no white person can ever be good at music.
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I mean, a lot of rappers, African-American rappers, some of the best in the world,
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really think Eminem is incredibly talented and think he's one of the best of the era.
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That doesn't mean, did Eminem, you know, steal from, he was inspired by, I'm sure, a lot of black musicians.
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It's people working together and respecting other people's art and caring.
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That's what we're, again, racism is a collectivist argument.
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Well, you can't, I mean, black people had this and now you're taking it to white people.
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No, individuals exist and they do what they do.
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And people are actual individual humans that get to do what they want to do.
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That's what we're supposed to have in this society.
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And nobody has ever said that by getting into country music, Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish is appropriating white culture.
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If you owe back taxes to the IRS, you're not going to like hearing about their 92% conviction rate.
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That means the IRS wins 92% of tax avoider cases they prosecute.
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Maybe you skated by this long, but they are coming.
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You have to get out in front of your IRS problems before they show up at your home and your work.
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Before they take your paycheck and bank accounts and before they add you to their 92% conviction rate.
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They step between you and the IRS and start resolving the problems that keep you up at night.
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Ask how they've resolved over a half billion dollars of tax debt for their clients.
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Ask about their A-plus rating with the Better Business Bureau.
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And ask about the Fresh Start Program with a chance to settle your back taxes for pennies on the dollar.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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You mentioned during your last rant about the media.
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And they have been horrible in many, many ways.
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I think it's also important to point out when they get things right.
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One guy we've talked about for a long time, going back to the Obama administration, is Jake Tapper.
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Tapper was the one guy asking tough questions of Barack Obama and various Jay Carney-esque individuals.
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And really pushed back as a mainstream media voice there.
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And seemingly everyone on the right has forgotten about that.
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Let me give you a couple examples from just this week.
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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.
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The Obama administration saw him as a nuisance.
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And a grandstander, to use a common term these days.
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A guy who was in their face and was a pain in their butt.
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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.
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Yes, the people, the white supremacists were terrible.
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But what's frustrating to people on the right is not that the violence was equivalent with Antifa in the Charlottesville case.
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However, there was violence there from that side.
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There was some, you know, there was some weaponry on their side as well.
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There's a big story in the New York Times today talking about how this group is there for violence.
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In their words, they are there to stop the hate with violence.
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That is what they are identifying, Antifa is saying.
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So again, the New York Times deserves credit for bringing that out.
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But Jake Tapper is another voice who has called attention to what happened in Charlottesville from Antifa.
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This is his tweet storm from, I think it was yesterday.
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At least two journalists in Charlottesville were assaulted by people protesting the Klan-Nazi alt-right rally.
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The alleged assailant of the journalist was charged.
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A photojournalist with the Richmond CBS station also was assaulted by filming a counter-protest.
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He needed medical attention and he posted the picture of the gash in this guy's head from being assaulted.
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I saw the gash, but I think he was hit over the...
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A source at the station said he's been out for three days with a concussion.
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Antifa posted this on Facebook about the assault, which is a source at the station is full of out-and-out lies.
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These are unprovoked assaults on journalists doing their jobs by those marching against, highlighted, against the hateful racists.
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That's not him saying it's kind of okay because fascists are bad.
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He is calling it disgusting and he deserves credit.
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And there are a few people around in the media that are actually doing that.
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And, you know, you talk about the Antifa approach to stop racism.
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It puts people back in their camps even further.
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He's done a lot over the last several decades on this exact issue.
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Davis documented his story in a book and documentary as well.
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It started when he was a black member of a country music band that began playing mostly white venues.
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Davis began having conversations with some of the white patrons.
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One of the first men he spoke with told him he'd never had a drink with a black man before.
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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.
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You might have just put a crimp in your friendship.
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You can justifiably use four-letter words and out him and get him fired from his hot dog job or wherever he was working.
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Davis said he had spent time with legends like Chuck Berry, Dolly Parton, Joe Frazier, and more.
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But it's his time with KKK members that has made the most impact on his world.
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He even has a photo of himself with a hooded Klansman on his wall right next to those music legends.
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After the first encounter with a Klan member, Davis began having regular conversations with them.
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He took a curious approach, asking a lot of questions, but they never asked for his opinion back on anything.
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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.
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After spending some time with him, things began to change.
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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.
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Over the years, Davis' friendships has convinced 25 men to leave the KKK.
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Many of them gave him their robes and hoods when they left.
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He keeps them as souvenirs, wreckers of the battles he won.
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Though his intentions was never to convert them in the first place, it was just a human connection that showed them the light.
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You can get it, I'll post it on Facebook and get it at faithwire.com as well.
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And I mean, look, it's hard, much harder to do that.
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It's easy to throw bottles at people on both sides.
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But doing something like that is the way you actually win.
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Pat and Stu and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Today, I can't tell you how happy I am that football season is here.
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It's a balming salve on all of my wounds right now.
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And every, you know what, every freaking year these days, I feel the same way.
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It's not just I love sports or I love football or I want to see football.
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That's one of the reasons I'm always a fan of balmy salve.
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I don't appreciate you looking at me when you said that like I didn't know it.
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I just thought they were just getting together.
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And then the following week, of course, it really begins for real with LSU.
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I mean, I was actually thinking more of, you know, the National Football League, which is
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Yes, but it's only preseason and, you know, but did the Eagles played last night, right?
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There was a moment, though, that was pretty interesting.
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Because, you know, football games now, they have so many other things going on.
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Like, you're in the middle of trying to tell a sponsor while football is going on.
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Or you bring on a guest and they're telling a long story and there's action going on.
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There was a moment last night where they were trying to have this moment of somber reflection
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But in the middle of the story about the person passing away, an exciting play happened.
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An interception that was returned about 50 yards.
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So listen to the announcer try to tell you this tragic story.
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And you can hear exactly when something exciting happens in the middle of it.
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Putting his place in the exclusive club in 1995.
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We are all deeply saddened by his recent passing.
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And he said, oh, fuck some prayers to his family.
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Putting his place in the exclusive club in 1995.
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We are all deeply saddened by his recent passing.
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And extend our thoughts and prayers to his family.
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Because not only, right when he says passing, the entire crowd goes nuts.
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Like, we're all saddened by the soul-crushing death from a combination of syphilis and rapid
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And then 26 people fell off a roller coaster and then were eaten by crocodiles.
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And that's when his mother walked into a propeller of a Cessna.
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And that's when the pieces were consumed by passing Vigrants.
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Uh, maybe not the best time to tell the heartbreaking story, you know?
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Well, I know, but you, I don't know, during a commercial break or when you've just come
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back and they're not on the field yet, they haven't, you know, there's a time to do that.
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And the family is currently surviving all the series of amputations.
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The Eagles have an interesting storyline this year.
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And I know no one cares about the Eagles outside of me.
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But they do care about the Colin Kaepernick situation.
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And so Kaepernick, it's such a fascinating thing.
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I can't take the commentators on ESPN lamenting the Colin Kaepernick thing as if there is no
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doubt he would be playing if he weren't black and had an afro.
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They always talk about his tattoos as if there's some controversial thing.
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Almost every NFL player in the league is tattooed now.
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So Kaepernick, who's just, look, objectively bad at his job.
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He did that before he started with any of his controversies as far as the national anthem
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Did he have very early in his career on a very good defensive team with a very strong
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He was an adequate quarterback that got them into the playoffs.
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Was not a great quarterback, but had a good defense and a good running game.
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So, but people look back at Kaepernick and say, oh, well, he should definitely be on
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If he was released by the Eagles tomorrow, every team in the league would try to pick
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He has spent the last two years, like Kaepernick, not honoring the national anthem.
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He's been putting his fist up in the air in a, I would say, arguably more offensive way
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Now, Malcolm Jenkins is a much better player than Kaepernick.
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And everybody would pick him up if he was released, and he's honored by the Eagles.
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But another layer of this is, Jenkins said, well, the problem with the Kaepernick is a
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lot of these teams around the league are just, they're just, they're cowards.
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Well, let's look at your team for a second, Malcolm.
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Your team, the Philadelphia Eagles, obviously aren't cowards because they keep you on the
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They want you on the team, and you're doing the thing with the national anthem, the same
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Now, the Philadelphia Eagles started this season in need of a backup quarterback.
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They got rid of Chase Daniel, and they needed someone.
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Nick Foles, a guy who has lost his job twice in the past three years as starting quarterback,
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He had, same, just like Kaepernick, one really good year, and then outside of that has been
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a disappointment, as he'd probably even tell you.
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Not nearly as good as Foles, but had a good year, year and a half.
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The Eagles, who have shown they have a liberal owner, and have shown they will sign someone
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and cherish them, even when they don't stand up for the national anthem.
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I mean, could there be an element, in addition to sucking, that they don't want the baggage
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The divisiveness that he's going to bring into the locker room?
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For example, Chris Long, one of the Eagles players, who said he would never sit for the
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national anthem, kind of put his arm around Malcolm Jenkins yesterday during the national
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anthem, kind of show like, hey, I don't agree with you, but I support you, right?
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I think there's an element of, same thing with Tim Tebow, by the way, an element of you
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don't want your third string quarterback being the story.
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You don't want them to be, not divisiveness, distraction.
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You don't want to have to answer questions about the last guy on your roster
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And so between the two things, it's mostly weighted on the side of being bad.
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I mean, clearly the NFL, I mean, they want, if you can play the sport, play the game, and
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play it well, the NFL puts up with an awful lot.
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I mean, if you accidentally pick up a girl's blouse, they let you go for six games.
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I mean, look, the consistency element isn't necessarily strong.
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Probably the pictures of the bruising was a little bit more of that.
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But still, that's questionable as well, I grant you.
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The guy who's complaining about the NFL owners being cowards is the perfect example as to
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He's a good player, and he can't shake his job by standing up with a fist salute to the
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He's not good at the job he's chosen, which is why he won't be in the league at least 90%
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And because every ESPN commentator thought he would be picked up by some team, and he hasn't
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Even the teams that have other players who are doing the same thing.
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Because, you know, what is it, 80% black in the NFL?
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I don't think you could even make that case that they're racist.
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And I think the case you could make more than anything else with Colin Kaepernick is because,
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you know, could you add Colin Kaepernick to a roster as a third-string quarterback and
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He's had at least some modicum of success in the league.
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But this is a guy who continually tells you over and over and over again, you know what?
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Let me tweet about everything else in my life going on and not focus on this.
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It shows that it's not the point of dedication.
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Thousands of guys who want that job, it is the number one thing in their life.
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And his job is to go out there and perform, not teach us about what bad people we are.
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The media is going to tell us that every single day.
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You don't need to come and tell us how awful of a society we are as your number one priority.
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You want to do that, become an activist, start an organization, and stop throwing interceptions
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More of the Glenn Beck Program with Pat Stu and Jeffy.
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Pat Stu and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Just to finish off the week on a couple of fun notes.
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The other thing that we've had in the show prep all week long and haven't really talked
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about is this Netflix situation where they're poaching some of the big talent from the networks
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because, I mean, they are serious about original programming.
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And then they poached Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal from ABC, to create...
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It's becoming a big fight between Amazon and Netflix as far as creating new content.
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And they're taking whoever is good and throwing money at them.
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And Netflix now, worldwide, has more than 100 million subscribers.
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This is actually the biggest story of the week.
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Number one story, to me, of course, is actually the idea that Coke Zero is going off the market
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And are we certain that Coke Zero goes away to make room for this new thing?
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Which is weird because Zero implies there was zero sugar before, which it had no sugar before.
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And according to reports, they're already putting it on the shelf in the same place where Coke Zero was.
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It takes something that nobody buys off the market.
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You, I think, are a secret woman, just like Glenn Beck is.
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Maybe sometimes when I'm drinking, I identify a different way.
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But the second biggest story of the week, past the Coke Zero thing, is this MoviePass situation?
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Started a company called MoviePass, apparently a few years ago.
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How I didn't know about this until now, I don't know.
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But it was a membership where for 50 bucks a month, you could go see as many movies as
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Now, I can understand some people cannot get to movies enough to justify $50 a month.
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So what they do is you get a card, which works as a prepaid debit card.
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And you have to sign on to the thing, it credits your account, and then you go and play for
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The only restrictions are you only see one movie a day, and you can't see the same movie
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So you can't keep going back to see the same movie over and over again.
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When I hit that $510 million dollar auto this weekend, I'll buy you a pass.
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Will we ever see you again if you won the lottery?