The Glenn Beck Program - 9⧸25⧸17 - Red Meat Bandwagon (Mary Mazzio & Dave Lopez join Glenn)

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00:00:09.040 Love. Courage. Truth.

00:00:13.600 The president went to war over the weekend, and it wasn't the war we were all expecting, but the missiles have launched.

00:00:20.940 Trump went to war with the National Football League, and it all started on Friday in a rally in Alabama. 0.99

00:00:27.940 Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out. He's fired. He's fired. 0.99

00:00:47.480 That's the president of the United States.

00:00:49.560 The very next day, Trump took to Twitter to explain, and he said, quote,

00:00:53.680 If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect our great American flag or country and should stand for the national anthem.

00:01:04.660 If not, you're fired. Some find something else to do.

00:01:08.480 OK, now let me be fair to Donald Trump.

00:01:11.560 He is he is echoing the sentiments of many Americans, and it is honestly the way I feel.

00:01:17.940 I don't feel I don't feel about the fired part, but it's the way I feel you guys are making millions of dollars here.

00:01:25.320 You're nobody's oppressing you.

00:01:27.400 You've made it.

00:01:28.780 But this is what we've been feeling since the take a knee thing, because Kaepernick is not an honest broker.

00:01:41.260 But with all due respect to the president, private citizens and companies can do whatever they want.

00:01:46.740 It's called the Bill of Rights, and we may not agree with it.

00:01:50.700 In fact, we may hate it, but they have that right to do it.

00:01:54.860 You know, the thing that keeps coming to mind is we're being played.

00:01:58.820 We are absolutely being played.

00:02:01.820 This is what Russia would want. 0.94

00:02:04.860 Did you hear what Facebook announced over the weekend that they didn't catch some of the the Russian money coming in because they were promoting Black Lives Matter?

00:02:14.520 Why would Russia be doing that?

00:02:16.240 Because they know it tears us apart. 1.00

00:02:18.760 This entire thing is stupid and there's no other way to describe it. 1.00

00:02:22.740 The president telling a company and its employees what to do is stupid and not his place. 1.00

00:02:28.660 The NFL players disrespecting the flag and the national anthem is stupid. 1.00

00:02:34.760 If the players want to actually help create change, why wouldn't they use their fame and go to the local level, engage local police departments and build relationships? 0.99

00:02:46.080 That would actually do some good, but they're not doing that.

00:02:49.560 Why?

00:02:52.280 Because this was a way for Colin Kaepernick to become famous and hold on to any ounce of fame he could.

00:03:00.620 The whole thing is a sham.

00:03:03.980 So why is the president not only getting caught into it?

00:03:07.000 Why is he throwing gasoline on the open flame?

00:03:10.280 Can you blame the players?

00:03:17.020 Yeah. 1.00

00:03:17.660 For being stupid? 1.00

00:03:18.900 Yes. 1.00

00:03:21.160 Do you blame the players?

00:03:23.000 I don't blame the players any less than I blame the president.

00:03:28.580 No one has told the players not to do so.

00:03:30.640 And let's be honest, if the NFL wanted to stop this, they could stop it.

00:03:33.920 But they don't.

00:03:34.580 The NFL has been jokingly called the no fun league for a reason.

00:03:40.620 If they wanted to stop the behavior that they felt was unacceptable, like an overzealous touchdown celebration, they shut it down.

00:03:48.740 They could easily stop political demonstrations during their games in the same way they clamped down on everything else.

00:03:55.020 But the NFL is choosing to be political.

00:04:00.300 Is there anywhere we can go to get away from politics?

00:04:07.400 You do have a choice.

00:04:10.860 Do you throw more gasoline on the fire on this topic?

00:04:14.860 Or do you look for anybody who is reasonable on it?

00:04:18.300 And the second thing you have to decide is, do you continue to watch the NFL knowing what choice they have made?

00:04:37.940 It's Monday, September 25th.

00:04:40.820 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:42.460 I learned something about my parenting skills.

00:05:10.320 And I learned something about my son this weekend.

00:05:19.800 For some reason, this movie came up in conversation.

00:05:24.480 And my son, who's 13, said, what's that?

00:05:29.900 And I said, oh, you've got to see the producers.

00:05:33.560 So, Saturday night, we went and we watched the producers.

00:05:41.080 And at one point, he said that, Dad, how was this movie made?

00:05:49.740 And I said, what do you mean?

00:05:53.040 He said, when was it made?

00:05:54.240 I said, I think this one was made in 2006.

00:05:56.440 But the original is like 1968.

00:05:58.080 And at that point, on the screen was the swastika that was, they were dancing in a swastika.

00:06:08.100 And, you know, and the crowd was obviously horrified.

00:06:12.240 And my son looked at me and he said, what did the government say?

00:06:18.080 And I said, what, how did the government allow this to be made?

00:06:30.740 In my house, my son, how did the, I stopped the movie, excuse me?

00:06:38.060 How did the government allow this to be made?

00:06:41.480 Well, yeah, I mean, it's, I mean, it's really offensive.

00:06:44.380 How did they allow this to happen?

00:06:53.980 The government has no place.

00:06:56.680 He regrets talking to me during a movie sometimes.

00:06:59.660 The government has no place in telling us what we can and cannot say or do.

00:07:07.540 No place.

00:07:08.640 The kind of government that tells you, you can't make something, you can't say something,

00:07:17.980 is the kind of government that was run by Adolf Hitler.

00:07:24.020 It's the kind of government that was run by Mao.

00:07:28.080 Kind of government that was run by Pol Pot. 0.92

00:07:32.380 Mussolini.

00:07:34.620 Joseph Stalin.

00:07:35.740 Not the kind of government that was run by Abraham Lincoln.

00:07:46.760 It is, unfortunately, the kind of government that was run by Woodrow Wilson.

00:07:52.900 By FDR.

00:07:55.260 By LBJ.

00:07:57.340 By Barack Obama.

00:07:59.340 By Donald Trump.

00:08:00.780 We are not those people.

00:08:07.920 The government does not tell us what we can and cannot say.

00:08:14.060 Here's where we have a problem.

00:08:16.760 Everybody's talking about a safe zone.

00:08:19.900 I need a safe zone.

00:08:24.520 Does speech make you feel unsafe?

00:08:26.700 If it does, then you have been raised poorly if speech can make you feel unsafe.

00:08:42.340 Speech should make you uncomfortable.

00:08:47.340 There's a difference between being uncomfortable and unsafe.

00:08:51.720 Every place should be a safe zone.

00:08:58.360 But is Berkeley a safe zone?

00:09:00.360 If I walk down the streets of Berkeley, just me.

00:09:04.640 Am I in a safe zone?

00:09:07.540 I don't think I have to even say anything.

00:09:09.860 I'm not sure it would be safe for me.

00:09:12.540 There's a difference.

00:09:13.400 I can't tell you the last time that I've went to a public function and I felt comfortable.

00:09:25.260 There's a huge difference.

00:09:30.340 One of those things you need to get over.

00:09:34.420 The other is an issue.

00:09:36.300 But those who are crying for safe zones are only making things less safe.

00:09:46.060 Because when you can't shut people up, you have to shove them.

00:09:51.400 First, you try to shut them up.

00:09:55.080 You suggest.

00:09:56.540 Then you shove. 0.97

00:09:57.920 Then you shoot.

00:09:58.980 The only country I feel safe in

00:10:08.480 is a country that didn't blink when this was made.

00:10:16.420 Springtime for Hitler and Germany. 0.98

00:10:22.940 Come on Germans, go into your dance. 1.00

00:10:28.980 If a guy wants to go about his normal business

00:10:58.280 and participate in the anthem, he shouldn't be forced to choose sides.

00:11:01.300 If a guy feels the need to do something,

00:11:03.280 he shouldn't be separated from his teammate who chooses not to.

00:11:06.580 So we're not participating today.

00:11:08.380 That's our decision.

00:11:09.880 That is Mike Tomlin.

00:11:11.640 He is the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:11:15.540 Quite the controversy yesterday.

00:11:17.960 Steelers, people were burning their jerseys.

00:11:20.880 You're going to regret this.

00:11:21.960 But they were burning their jerseys.

00:11:25.060 They are very upset because they allowed the media to dictate how they felt.

00:11:32.980 I don't know Mike Tomlin, but I know several people who do know him.

00:11:40.000 And I have been following him as a just as a man for the last few months because I know people who know him and I know how he feels.

00:11:51.100 And I know the journey he's on.

00:11:56.260 And what did he just say there, Stu?

00:11:59.760 Because I know at first, when you first heard the story yesterday, you were upset and then you actually listened to him.

00:12:07.620 Yeah, it's an interesting story because it was being reported as essentially they were taking the Steelers were taking the strongest stand against the anthem.

00:12:14.060 And they weren't even coming out on the field for it, not even bothering to come out and sit down.

00:12:18.380 And it was kind of the way it was presented in the media.

00:12:20.900 When you hear Tomlin talk about it, it seems much more like he wanted to pull the team out of the controversy completely and just not out there.

00:12:29.340 No one has to worry about standing or not standing.

00:12:31.280 We're playing football.

00:12:32.780 And it seemed like that was his intent there.

00:12:35.540 I don't know because of the way the media reported it.

00:12:38.180 I don't know that it actually worked, but I think that was what he was going for.

00:12:41.960 And those comments kind of back it up.

00:12:43.720 So that is exactly what he was going for.

00:12:46.100 Mike Tomlin was supposed to be on with us today.

00:12:48.620 Hopefully he'll be on with us tomorrow.

00:12:50.180 But Goodall called this morning and asked that he would not do any press until they have everybody that he has a chance to talk to all of the coaches in the NFL this afternoon.

00:13:02.060 So I'm hoping that he will be on tomorrow.

00:13:05.040 I do believe I'm going to have a friend of his on today to explain what he, you know, what he was thinking and who this guy is.

00:13:15.940 Do you know anything about him?

00:13:17.960 He's a really good football coach.

00:13:19.780 I can say that.

00:13:20.440 You know, I mean, he's he's an excellent coach and he's, you know, anything about his life.

00:13:27.420 Very little.

00:13:28.360 OK, when you hear his life and I don't want to go into I want him to tell the story when you go into his life and you know his history.

00:13:36.860 And, you know, what he says, you know, for instance, he says he's not a good enough coach to be a coach in the NFL.

00:13:45.540 He said, I don't believe I.

00:13:47.660 That's not that's not accurate.

00:13:49.120 Well, that's what he believes.

00:13:50.220 And he said, I didn't I didn't do this.

00:13:52.960 I know I didn't get here on my own.

00:13:55.060 God placed me here for a reason.

00:13:56.700 And and the country is tearing itself apart.

00:14:02.360 And we're going to play a role in healing.

00:14:07.620 The press took what he did and completely distorted it.

00:14:14.240 What he was this is just as this is a first step for him.

00:14:18.540 And he I know behind the scenes, because, again, I told you that I've been watching him and I know people who know him and and their mutual friends.

00:14:31.020 And they have said, Glenn, you two are cut from the same cloth here on this.

00:14:36.820 He's going to be doing some things.

00:14:39.560 He's not sure exactly what.

00:14:42.100 But he's got to get he wants to get everybody out of this controversy.

00:14:45.640 He wants to go and run a different place right now.

00:14:50.220 Everyone wants you to be on the field at the line of scrimmage.

00:14:55.580 And you are either you are either for Kaepernick or you're for Donald Trump.

00:15:03.180 And those are your only two choices.

00:15:05.060 You can't be any place else.

00:15:07.340 You're not going to win.

00:15:09.600 Both sides are going to destroy themselves.

00:15:12.060 His idea is what we learned from war games. 0.99

00:15:18.740 I don't know how many times I've quoted that stupid ending of that. 0.98

00:15:22.140 You are in a Matthew Broderick phase, apparently producers and it's my son. 0.99

00:15:27.520 Thirteen.

00:15:28.820 But but watching war games, the only way to win is to not play the game.

00:15:36.560 Do you remember that at the end?

00:15:38.400 Shall we play a game?

00:15:45.080 And so that was supposed to be no, right?

00:15:47.100 The answer is no.

00:15:48.180 You don't play the game.

00:15:51.140 And that's what's happening.

00:15:53.040 And Donald Trump knew it.

00:15:56.480 What he did when he went to Alabama was he's just being him.

00:16:01.060 This is him.

00:16:02.040 He's just talking like a like a game show host.

00:16:05.480 He's not talking like the president.

00:16:08.480 He's talking like a game show host.

00:16:10.640 And that's what he did.

00:16:12.000 And that's what everybody elected him for because they like it. 1.00

00:16:14.280 And he was like, you know, wouldn't it wouldn't be nice to say you son of a bitch get off the field. 1.00

00:16:18.540 Well, what he forgets is he's also the president of the United States. 0.99

00:16:23.620 And so when he says something like that, that's going to ratchet up the other side.

00:16:28.620 And they know I can fight him.

00:16:30.980 I'm going to fight him.

00:16:32.520 And they think they're going to win.

00:16:34.600 He thinks he's going to win.

00:16:36.760 And the only one that loses is us.

00:16:41.320 America loses.

00:16:42.300 This story was essentially over in the NFL.

00:16:44.360 I mean, it was dwindling in.

00:16:46.000 They had talked about it a lot at the beginning of the season.

00:16:47.820 You got through a couple of games.

00:16:48.740 And now it's all they talked about all day yesterday.

00:16:51.220 All they talked about.

00:16:51.900 And it's going to go on and on and on.

00:16:53.360 And now you've made Kaepernick into this gigantic.

00:16:58.060 This now is going to be a Martin Luther King moment.

00:17:02.620 Right.

00:17:02.880 Now more people sat for the anthem than ever before this weekend.

00:17:06.540 Because now it's about politics and Donald Trump.

00:17:09.980 It's Donald Trump.

00:17:10.800 Right.

00:17:11.180 It is politics and Donald Trump.

00:17:13.080 Can you leave one thing alone? 1.00

00:17:14.740 Can I not be in every part of my stupid life invaded with politics? 1.00

00:17:19.600 So I saw something this weekend. 1.00

00:17:22.020 I saw the Kingsman.

00:17:24.220 Oh, yeah.

00:17:25.520 Oh, no.

00:17:27.220 The first one was good.

00:17:29.760 Okay.

00:17:30.260 So it was good.

00:17:31.320 I mean, it went over.

00:17:32.300 It crossed a few lines for me across several lines for me.

00:17:35.460 But one is I've never seen the president of the United States ever portrayed this way ever.

00:17:41.300 And I won't give it away.

00:17:42.520 Um, but it was maybe it was because I was sitting in Texas, but I'm watching that and I almost walked out.

00:17:50.680 Okay.

00:17:51.200 They're not even portraying, uh, Trump.

00:17:54.820 It's just a generic.

00:17:56.200 It's just a generic president.

00:17:57.420 But, you know, it came from Donald Trump.

00:18:00.140 And the way they're portraying the American president is so unbelievably offensive to all Americans.

00:18:08.160 It should be to all Americans.

00:18:10.500 Because that's something that is printed for all time.

00:18:12.640 I have never I can't recall a movie where I have seen the president of the United States portrayed this way.

00:18:19.680 It's interesting because the first one, it was about a global warming villain, a guy who was like pro, like pro environment.

00:18:27.420 So pro environment.

00:18:28.220 He wanted to wipe everybody out.

00:18:29.600 Yes.

00:18:29.900 So I wonder if they went pushed back the other side.

00:18:32.180 Maybe they got so much heat for the last time.

00:18:34.320 Maybe.

00:18:34.740 I don't know.

00:18:35.300 But it was it, it, it, it, it portrayed the, the president of the United States as somebody truly, truly, truly despicable in a way that I have, um, in a way that I've never seen before.

00:18:51.820 So the answer to your question, is there someplace safe?

00:18:56.500 No.

00:18:56.980 But to go back to my original, uh, argument, yes, America is safe.

00:19:04.660 As long as we all understand, we're going to be uncomfortable.

00:19:22.700 Back in a minute.

00:19:23.540 There is so much, uh, to go into. 0.99

00:19:39.960 One is another stupid story, uh, about that, that cotton vase from Hobby Lobby. 0.99

00:19:46.860 It was the number one story last week. 0.99

00:19:49.440 And, uh, there's an update on it, but can I just ask you, what matters most?

00:20:00.460 We're being played and we're being torn apart when real issues are happening.

00:20:07.380 When real oppression and struggles are going on.

00:20:13.020 Don't get sucked into the system and go over the cliff with the rest of humanity.

00:20:18.700 More in a minute.

00:20:19.440 Glenn Beck.

00:20:29.360 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:31.340 There's some things that don't matter at all.

00:20:34.580 Some things that matter a lot.

00:20:36.920 But what matters most?

00:20:40.520 We're being sucked into things really that don't matter at all.

00:20:43.800 We're being sucked into arguments about, uh, free speech and safe zones that quite honestly,

00:20:50.860 I'm sorry, if you're on a college campus, get over it. 1.00

00:20:54.080 There's going to be some communists that are talking to you and there's going to be some

00:20:56.740 Nazis that are talking to you and they all have a right to say it. 0.64

00:20:59.620 There's going to be some pro global warming people and some anti global warming people.

00:21:03.460 You're on a college campus.

00:21:04.480 Get over it.

00:21:04.980 That's where you should be challenged on everything that you think.

00:21:09.120 That's why there is tenure.

00:21:11.760 So somebody can ask outrageous questions.

00:21:15.120 We're not a society that was built on timidity.

00:21:20.580 We have to be able to challenge each other.

00:21:23.000 So Hollywood, college campuses, communists, Nazis, the NFL, you have a right to stand.

00:21:33.140 You have a right to take a knee because quite honestly, that's a sideshow.

00:21:39.260 Anybody else feel like you were in the Roman Coliseum this weekend?

00:21:43.300 Real things are happening that actually matter.

00:21:47.280 And we're watching, we're watching lions and Christians. 0.99

00:21:51.100 What are we doing?

00:21:53.000 There is free speech.

00:22:00.560 And there's an argument that it is the argument that has to be made that speech must be protected.

00:22:08.640 And the only kind of speech that has to be protected is the speech that the majority doesn't like.

00:22:15.820 However, there are people that hide behind free speech and they do real damage.

00:22:23.000 Right now in Congress, they are talking about the Communications Act and the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

00:22:32.540 And there is there is there is something that came from the Village Voice.

00:22:38.880 It's called the Backpage.

00:22:39.880 It's called the Backpage.

00:22:41.400 And it is the literal auction platform for slavery today.

00:22:47.380 And people have been trying to shut this down for quite some time and they have some really good attorneys.

00:22:55.520 This needs to be heard by you.

00:23:01.140 There's a movie that is out that just came out.

00:23:03.460 It's on Netflix and iTunes and Vimeo and Google Play, Amazon DVD.

00:23:08.620 It is called I Am Jane Doe.

00:23:11.840 And it's parents, it's parents who sent their kids off to school one day and they didn't come back.

00:23:23.100 Kids that left home and didn't come back until their parents found them being sold on the back page of the Village Voice.

00:23:32.440 It's horrifying.

00:23:33.740 And it's happening and people are making millions of dollars on it.

00:23:40.160 A woman who didn't know anything about human trafficking just a few years ago is the producer and the director of I Am Jane Doe. 0.95

00:23:47.300 And she's with me now, Mary Mazio.

00:23:49.600 Hi, Mary.

00:23:50.200 How are you?

00:23:51.140 Glenn, how are you this morning?

00:23:52.560 Thank you for having me on.

00:23:54.140 You're welcome.

00:23:55.060 So explain to the audience exactly what's happening.

00:23:59.460 So this started, Glenn, when I read an article in the Boston Globe about Jane Doe No. 1, Jane Doe No. 2, and Jane Doe No. 3, age 13, 14, and 15 years old,

00:24:13.480 that sued Backpage.com and the Village Voice Empire for compensation for injuries they sustained by virtue of being bought and sold for commercial sex online.

00:24:26.760 And people call this human trafficking and sex trafficking and sex trafficking of minors.

00:24:32.920 That's kind of a sanitized term, right?

00:24:36.000 What we're talking about is serial child rape, right?

00:24:40.200 These children are carted from motel room to motel room.

00:24:44.400 They are with the advent of technology, right?

00:24:46.460 They're scheduled on the hour by the hour.

00:24:48.880 And I had not a clue that this was happening in numbers that would make your head spin in this country.

00:24:58.320 I think like most Americans, I assume that this was happening in developing countries, right, where children are bought and sold for sex. 0.97

00:25:04.540 And when I read this article, I remember thinking, what the hell?

00:25:09.400 Like, this is 10 minutes from where I live, Jane Doe 1, 2, and 3.

00:25:14.300 And they're represented, by the way, by Ropes & Gray, one of sort of the oldest white shoe law firms in the country.

00:25:21.600 And, oh, by the way, how did Ropes & Gray get the case?

00:25:25.340 Like, how did they lose their motion, right?

00:25:27.580 How did they lose this lawsuit?

00:25:29.180 That made no sense to me.

00:25:32.420 And I'm a recovering lawyer, which is, like, highly irritating to most people, by the way.

00:25:37.220 But I remember thinking at the time, I read the decision, and I remember thinking, how is it legal in this country for websites like Backpage, and there are many others, by the way, to host ads selling children?

00:25:51.360 How is that legal?

00:25:52.780 And yet, it is.

00:25:54.380 Okay, so people understand, this comes from the village voice, and a lot of people on the left were protecting the village voice.

00:26:06.500 And they were like, no, there's no way they understand, there's no way this is happening, because to a lot of people on the left, the village voice is the voice of a generation and a hero outlet to many.

00:26:18.680 Oh, yeah, fighting, you know, fighting truth to power, right?

00:26:22.060 I mean, exposing corruption, exposing wrongdoing, and yet, and listen, I'm a liberal, right?

00:26:29.380 I swing very left, and it pains me, right, that Backpage and the village voice, and we'll talk about Google in a minute, but the dirty little secret to all the alternative weeklies was that their editorial was supported by the sex ads.

00:26:48.000 And listen, back in the 70s, it was free love, free sex, right, whatever goes.

00:26:54.660 And I think the term, the lexicon around human trafficking, nobody really started talking about it until 10 years ago, 12 years ago.

00:27:02.800 What is it?

00:27:04.040 And I think that really exposed what you said before, this is, particularly as it relates to children, modern day slavery.

00:27:11.600 And the numbers are escalating with technology online.

00:27:16.360 And what I mean by that is that the problem is getting worse rather than better.

00:27:23.300 There's an estimate of around 15% of all homeless and runaway children will be victimized.

00:27:30.620 And when you think about the numbers, there's anywhere between 1.6 and 2.5 million children on the street at any one time.

00:27:38.880 15% of those children, oh, my God, we're not talking about a kid here or there that shows up at the Port Authority.

00:27:46.300 We are talking about, conservatively, hundreds of thousands of children.

00:27:50.500 And, by the way, I received this report from the University of Louisville, and they said, Mary, you know, we understand that 15% is sort of the estimate.

00:28:00.380 It's in the shadows.

00:28:01.460 Nobody quite knows.

00:28:02.700 But make no mistake, we did a study of children in Kentucky and Indiana.

00:28:09.380 We have concluded that 40% of homeless and runaway children were victimized by child sex trafficking, 4-0%.

00:28:20.320 So this is a problem that is escalating in size and scale, and it sits alongside the opioid epidemic, and that is something that nobody is talking about because those children are the most vulnerable.

00:28:33.680 Okay, so, Mary, I'm going to run out of time, so I would like to, because I want to get, I want to build this in layers, because there's a lot of information that people need to absorb.

00:28:43.700 First, I want you to watch the video.

00:28:46.520 It's free.

00:28:47.120 It's everywhere.

00:28:47.880 It's I Am Jane Doe.

00:28:49.520 It is a really well-produced documentary, and I warn you, when you start talking about freedom of speech, you will, if you're a libertarian, start to say,

00:29:02.440 well, wait a minute, hang on just a second, do they have a right, do they have a responsibility to know exactly what's happening on the other side if somebody is just putting in a classified ad?

00:29:15.740 But that's not what's happening here.

00:29:18.720 You know, if somebody wants to post something on Facebook, Facebook isn't responsible for what everybody says online.

00:29:24.840 They can't be.

00:29:25.540 It'll put them out of business.

00:29:27.140 Nobody can do that.

00:29:27.960 But that's not what's happening.

00:29:29.420 Can you quickly, Mary, explain what the Backpage is doing?

00:29:34.220 Yeah, and so this is really interesting, because a Senate investigation sprang up, which provided all kinds of evidence that, for example,

00:29:43.560 a pimp or a trafficker might post an ad for a child and use terms that would signal a child.

00:29:49.920 New in town, fresh, off the boat, schoolgirl.

00:29:54.320 These are indicia of a child, right?

00:29:56.380 And Backpage developed filters, according to the congressional report, that would automatically scrub the term Lolita or schoolgirl, right, or Amber Alert.

00:30:08.460 And yet the ad would then be posted.

00:30:11.240 So there was some conscious decision to mask indicia of a child.

00:30:17.660 And I think that is what is so troubling about the Wild West online, is that Backpage and those that have supported Backpage, which, by the way, includes Google and others that are desperate to keep this Wild West culture online, have said,

00:30:36.700 that even if you're a website that encourages illegality, you still bear no responsibility for the harm that happens, including the sale of children.

00:30:46.160 Mary, just to clarify, were you saying that they put the term Amber Alert in the ads?

00:30:51.240 Some traffickers apparently put the term Amber Alert because it was a term that Congress discovered was filtered out automatically by Backpage.

00:31:04.340 Wow, that is absolutely unbelievable.

00:31:05.760 Yeah, I kid you not.

00:31:07.800 I kid you not.

00:31:09.180 The child, there was a child, there's a new mother to the cause, and there's an effort in Congress right now to really close the loophole, right?

00:31:17.640 If you're a bad actor and you're encouraging this kind of activity, you ought to bear some responsibility, right?

00:31:23.700 There should be a financial incentive for you to clean up your act.

00:31:27.020 And one of the mothers, her child, she lost her child at Christmastime to a Backpage buyer.

00:31:32.460 Her daughter was 16 years old.

00:31:34.920 What did the ad say?

00:31:36.780 Fresh, new in town.

00:31:39.680 I learned this from working with Operation Underground Railroad, that there are, you know, low miles.

00:31:45.480 You know, there are terms, there are terms that people who are buying children clearly understand.

00:31:54.000 And for Backpage to be censoring those and then not turning those people into police is really quite reprehensible and frightening.

00:32:05.280 I want you, here's what I want you to do.

00:32:06.560 Mary, would you be willing to come back later this week?

00:32:08.760 Anna, because I want to talk to you about the Google connection, because Mary is, you know, as, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, Mary, but you and I don't agree on much, I would imagine.

00:32:23.280 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:24.320 You could probably count it on one hand.

00:32:25.880 Yes.

00:32:26.380 Okay, so we don't agree on, we don't agree on much.

00:32:29.960 However, we do agree on this, and what she's going through now, what Google appears to be doing to her, they are making her look like me.

00:32:42.460 They're making her, you know, treating her, Mary, I'm so sorry for you. 0.98

00:32:47.100 Yeah, no, they're treating her like they would treat me.

00:32:49.940 So something is really wrong.

00:32:51.640 I get it when they're treating me that way.

00:32:53.320 Well, when they're treating one of their own, there's something really wrong, and I want her to explain that.

00:32:58.080 But the first thing I want you to do is please today watch I Am Jane Doe and bring yourself up to speed on this, because there's something going through Congress that needs to happen.

00:33:11.420 Later this week, I hope to have Mike Lee on to talk.

00:33:14.060 Have you talked to Mike Lee about this at all, Mary?

00:33:16.180 No, I have not.

00:33:17.260 Okay, so I'd like to get Mike involved in this, because I trust Mike as, you know, a real strict constitutionalist, but he's also a deeply moral man.

00:33:26.860 And so we'll, you know, we'll not excuse, we'll not excuse the horrors done to people over, you know, for rights, if you will.

00:33:38.940 Right, exactly.

00:33:39.940 And he's a First Amendment specialist, and I think both he and I fundamentally agree this is about conduct online and has nothing to do with speech.

00:33:50.220 Nothing to do with speech.

00:33:51.080 Okay, Mary, thank you so much.

00:33:52.440 I appreciate it.

00:33:53.020 The name of the movie is I Am Jane Doe.

00:33:55.640 We'll talk again, Mary.

00:33:56.440 Thanks.

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00:37:15.940 More on the NFL when we come back.

00:37:23.520 Glenn Beck.

00:37:44.760 Love.

00:37:47.060 Courage.

00:37:48.640 Truth.

00:37:49.920 Glenn Beck.

00:37:50.620 Why is everybody talking about the NFL today?

00:37:54.480 There's a really simple answer to this.

00:37:57.280 To get you to stop talking about health insurance that will be unaffordable for half of the country next year.

00:38:06.280 This is what's coming your way.

00:38:09.320 The Senate has until the end of the week to stop this from happening.

00:38:14.100 But the Graham-Cassidy-Hail Mary already looks like it's doomed to failure because of John McCain.

00:38:18.960 Ted Cruz has now come out and said he's against it.

00:38:22.920 Donald Trump now is cozying up to Rand Paul.

00:38:27.580 Let's forget about all the political games for a second.

00:38:30.780 If nothing gets done in the next five days, what happens?

00:38:34.480 Premiums have already soared over the past couple of years, but by 2018, those rates are going to become completely unaffordable.

00:38:45.580 If you live in California, Texas, Florida, or Georgia, you will expect to see a 50% increase in your premium for 2018.

00:38:55.800 Can you afford that?

00:38:59.740 God forbid you live in Wyoming.

00:39:01.500 You have it harder.

00:39:02.240 Your premiums are going up over 80%.

00:39:04.860 Your southern neighbors, they have it even harder.

00:39:09.020 Don't complain, Wyoming.

00:39:10.400 At least you're not living in Colorado because their rates are going to hit near 200% higher than last year.

00:39:18.040 It's the same all over the country.

00:39:21.200 In Virginia, it's 180% increase.

00:39:23.840 In Indiana, 117.

00:39:25.960 New Mexico, 84.

00:39:27.280 It's on and on and on.

00:39:28.960 This is what's coming.

00:39:31.260 This is why we said, when Nancy Pelosi said, well, you're going to have to pass it to know what's in it.

00:39:35.540 We said, don't pass it.

00:39:37.500 The Affordable Care Act deems health insurance unaffordable if it costs exceed 8% of your family's income.

00:39:51.060 With these premium increases, over half of the country will be forced to pay for something that, by the government, that they cannot afford.

00:40:03.280 I just want you to keep this into perspective.

00:40:05.580 Two things.

00:40:06.160 One, we were promised this system that is now going to put you into a situation that you cannot afford health insurance.

00:40:17.660 It is this system that came from the Democrats and came from Washington.

00:40:24.700 This is the system that they promised you would save you $2,500 a month and you'd be able to keep your own doctor.

00:40:33.240 Did that work?

00:40:34.680 The answer is no.

00:40:36.940 Clearly, no.

00:40:39.640 Now, they're going to make this all about the Republicans not doing anything.

00:40:44.100 But what do you think the Republicans can do with a government system that's going to make it better?

00:40:49.500 Why would we look to the people who created this problem to fix this problem?

00:40:56.600 Let me ask you this question.

00:40:57.680 Do you think any of us would have flat screen TVs today?

00:41:00.820 If 10 years ago, the government would have come up with an affordable flat screen act?

00:41:06.140 This is political theater, and the games are playing out in Washington, D.C. this week.

00:41:16.120 The second thing I want you to know is this.

00:41:22.080 This is why those on the left and those on the right are stirring up the hatred 1.00

00:41:36.860 and getting us to argue about a stupid football game. 1.00

00:41:42.840 It's Monday, September 25th. 1.00

00:41:56.160 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:57.720 I wish we were arguing about football games.

00:42:01.300 That's the problem is we're not arguing about football games. 0.98

00:42:03.360 This is so ridiculous. 0.97

00:42:04.440 It's all nonsense on the side of it. 0.99

00:42:06.220 Yesterday, I could not help but think we are watching.

00:42:09.980 We're in the Roman Coliseum.

00:42:12.300 We are watching a show.

00:42:14.760 At least that was about sports.

00:42:16.800 I don't know what this is about.

00:42:18.300 I mean, sure, a few people got eaten by lions, but at least it was a sport.

00:42:22.100 I don't know if that's technically a sport.

00:42:24.320 Well, I mean, you're fighting off the lions.

00:42:26.980 I feel like it's kind of sports related.

00:42:28.200 But what was that?

00:42:28.400 That was all to distract the people from what was going on.

00:42:32.480 Give them cakes and circuses.

00:42:34.980 This is what's happening.

00:42:36.520 We are involved in a circus.

00:42:38.260 You're being played, America.

00:42:39.980 You're being played by the left and the right.

00:42:43.000 And how do I know that?

00:42:44.920 Because I want you to hear what Mike Tomlin said from the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:42:53.420 Listen to his actual quote.

00:42:57.740 We're not going to play politics with football players, with football coaches.

00:43:01.800 We're not participating in the anthem today.

00:43:03.880 Not to be disrespectful to the anthem to remove ourselves from this circumstance.

00:43:08.500 People shouldn't have to choose.

00:43:09.980 If a guy wants to go about his normal business and participate in the anthem, he shouldn't be forced to choose sides.

00:43:15.520 If a guy feels a need to do something, he shouldn't be separated from his teammate who chooses not to.

00:43:20.800 So we're not participating today.

00:43:22.600 That's our decision.

00:43:23.800 We're going to be 100%.

00:43:24.920 We came here to play a football game.

00:43:26.980 That's our intention.

00:43:28.080 What did he say?

00:43:29.520 What did he just say, Stu?

00:43:30.540 I mean, he said, essentially outlined the idea that I don't want to make this about some sideshow about the flag when this is a sporting event.

00:43:42.200 We're here to play football.

00:43:44.160 And I don't want people who want to take a stand on either side to feel the need to do something.

00:43:50.160 This should be, you know, this is not what it's about.

00:43:52.140 And I'm not here to disrespect the flag.

00:43:53.820 I'm here to, we're here to play a football game.

00:43:56.480 So how was he portrayed yesterday?

00:43:58.500 He was, I mean, again, like I, all the reporting I heard initially was because there's a lot of teams who had people taking knees.

00:44:07.160 I believe coming into this week before Trump said anything.

00:44:09.580 It was over.

00:44:10.040 It was, it was, yeah, there were seven teams that had someone on the team doing this, but it was a very small percentage.

00:44:17.400 Now they're locked arms.

00:44:18.880 Now everyone, everyone was locked arms or they, you know, or a bunch of them teams were sitting.

00:44:24.260 There were people stretching on the sidelines as the national anthem was, was playing.

00:44:29.280 And a couple of teams decided not even to come out of the locker room.

00:44:32.840 And it was presented as if here is the ultimate stand.

00:44:36.780 They're not even going to show up for the national anthem this time.

00:44:39.320 It's the ultimate stand against the anthem.

00:44:42.060 And reality, when you hear Tomlin's comments, that's not what he was doing.

00:44:45.820 I mean, he was obviously, when you hear his words, you realize he was not saying, taking a huge stand against the anthem at all.

00:44:54.580 He was just wanting to pull that part of the, trying to eliminate his team from the controversy.

00:45:00.740 Now he was unsuccessful in that, unfortunately, because a lot of the media reporting.

00:45:05.160 Exactly right.

00:45:05.780 Because of the media reporting, because the media wanted a side.

00:45:12.860 Because the media, and quite honestly, because people on Facebook and Twitter and everything else, we're all part of the media now, gang.

00:45:21.320 Because we'll see a headline and because it feels good and it gives us dopamine to choose a side.

00:45:31.420 I'm for this or I'm for that.

00:45:34.620 Somebody saying, I'm not playing this game.

00:45:37.740 There is no way to win.

00:45:39.360 Somebody who says that is going to get slaughtered by both sides.

00:45:45.900 So, Mike Tomlin was supposed to be on with us today.

00:46:04.320 Hopefully, he will be on the program tomorrow.

00:46:07.040 The commissioner of the NFL asked him to not say anything until later this afternoon when they all have a chance to meet.

00:46:13.160 Apparently, there's been some progress made behind the scenes.

00:46:16.100 I don't know what it is, but hopefully Mike will be on with us tomorrow.

00:46:19.420 But I wanted to give Dave Lopez a chance.

00:46:22.240 And Dave, you're going to get to, you'll get to know here probably in the next few weeks because there's a really amazing story happening behind the scenes.

00:46:32.720 And it's been going on for quite some time and it is, I have been following this.

00:46:37.980 I've been following, I don't know anything at all about sports, but I've been following Mike Tomlin behind the scenes because I know what he's, who he is as a man and what he's trying to do behind the scenes, what he's been preparing for.

00:46:51.700 And one of his, one of his friends is on the phone with us now who spoke with him a couple of times over the weekend.

00:47:00.020 Dave, how are you?

00:47:01.180 Dave Lopez, welcome to the program.

00:47:03.340 How's it going, Glenn?

00:47:04.400 Thank you for having me.

00:47:05.400 You bet.

00:47:06.200 So, when you, when you spoke to Mike this weekend, did he, did you get the impression that he saw this controversy coming far as him saying, I'm going to, I'm not going to pick a side.

00:47:18.400 And it turning around and getting more ugly on him?

00:47:22.980 I, yeah, that's, that's exactly what I saw.

00:47:26.080 I think a lot of this was a last minute decision that was, you know, we all kind of know by now that what prompted this was really not as much the Black Lives Matter movement, but the, the comments, which is what caused this, this different kind of reaction.

00:47:44.560 And so, this was a split second, really, decision.

00:47:48.320 But I will say that Coach Tomlin has been, has, has, from the beginning, he's, he's, he knows exactly the, the potential for what's going on right now and the ability for things to divide people.

00:48:02.240 And he is very, very aware of that and willing to do anything to preserve.

00:48:07.500 So, this would explain, is, and I wish he were on to speak for himself, and, and I don't want to, I don't want to put words in his mouth, and I don't want you to put words in his mouth.

00:48:19.680 But I, I do want to lay this, some foundation here.

00:48:24.100 Sure.

00:48:24.540 This, this explains what he was trying to do yesterday and why he was upset at the one player that did come out and came out of the tunnel because he was looking for 100% compliance.

00:48:39.960 He's like, we are not going to divide ourselves.

00:48:43.500 We're not going to get involved.

00:48:46.660 That's exactly right.

00:48:47.940 It was meant to be a team statement.

00:48:50.040 And I, and Al, Al, uh, Villanueva is an awesome guy, and, and I think everyone understands why he did what he did, uh, in the end.

00:48:58.240 Right.

00:48:58.800 And Mike, and Mike understands that too, correct?

00:49:01.980 Oh, absolutely.

00:49:02.860 Absolutely.

00:49:03.520 100%.

00:49:04.380 So, um, uh, you, you've gotten to know him and, and I want to tell your story and his, at a later date, I want to talk to him first.

00:49:16.100 But can you, can you give people an insight, uh, at all on Mike not being just some face in the crowd?

00:49:25.840 He has a, a pretty remarkable story, especially when it comes to race.

00:49:31.620 Yeah, he, he has a, he has his own, uh, very, very unique story.

00:49:36.640 And, and, and I kind of have a, a differing, kind of like the polar opposite story, but really the same thing from my perspective.

00:49:43.760 And, um, I really, uh, in a nutshell, you know, he, he understands why, uh, men are growing up with these kind of feelings towards law enforcement.

00:49:53.500 And I think when he gets to tell that story about himself and what he came up through, it'll be very evident as to why he is doing what he's doing.

00:50:03.060 And there's much more to it than what people are reading into it.

00:50:06.900 But I know, I know 100% that's going to be seen in time.

00:50:10.100 Right.

00:50:10.280 And it's not that he has, I mean, he understands both sides because if, for the, for the listening audience, if you remember Ken Hutcherson, um,

00:50:20.500 Hutch was a guy who, before he died of cancer, I thought was the great uniter, uh, that we had been looking for.

00:50:28.180 He had grown up really, really, um, you know, a black supremacist.

00:50:34.180 He liked Malcolm X and he did not like white people, um, because of what he grew up with.

00:50:39.500 Uh, and then he, he found God quite honestly, and completely, he, he flipped entirely.

00:50:46.920 Uh, and so could speak to both sides in a complete and unique way.

00:50:53.800 Is, is this kind of Mike's story?

00:50:57.440 I believe that is exactly the kind of person he is.

00:51:00.660 And I think he's uniquely qualified for it.

00:51:02.820 That's just my assessment of it.

00:51:04.800 I will say I've spent a lot of time with him, especially over the last six months.

00:51:08.860 And I, I've met fewer people, especially in his position, um, that are as committed to using the platform that he has for good.

00:51:20.600 Um, whether it's the organization, uh, man up Pittsburgh, uh, where he's constantly rallying men in the inner cities to stand up and take ownership of their lives and their families.

00:51:31.120 Um, he is constantly working a lot of times behind the scenes, uh, to make these things happen.

00:51:38.180 Um, he's also extremely smart.

00:51:41.740 He knows the way things divide people.

00:51:44.000 And I've, I've heard him, you know, I've heard him say things, even to players like, Hey, he's not the kind of guy that thinks the right response is I'm going to make sure to tell every person what they should or shouldn't do.

00:51:57.180 That isn't at all how he thinks you get success.

00:51:59.820 And I actually agree with him.

00:52:01.700 But he is the kind of person that's going to challenge a man.

00:52:04.880 And if he says, Hey, look, if you're going to take some stand for something, it better not be something you just do in this one time window.

00:52:11.520 It better be something you're really about.

00:52:14.340 You know, you don't try to say like, don't be led by the nose by people.

00:52:18.420 That is his message that he's been saying for, for years now to his players.

00:52:22.820 That's the same exact message from the Eagles owner, Jeffrey Lurie.

00:52:26.900 Um, of course the Eagles obviously yesterday beat the New York Giants on a 61 yard field goal.

00:52:30.540 Plus, I just wanted to point that out to the audience who may not have picked that up.

00:52:33.940 Yeah.

00:52:34.240 Thank you, Stu.

00:52:34.820 I appreciate it, Dave.

00:52:36.560 Um, uh, we will be talking to you again, hopefully in the next few days and, uh, and, uh, hopefully we'll have Mike on tomorrow to give us his, uh, story.

00:52:45.780 But I urge you as Americans to not pick sides.

00:52:52.260 I urge you, especially before you have all of the information.

00:52:57.500 Uh, I don't know if I'd be burning your, uh, your Steelers Jersey. 0.67

00:53:02.000 Uh, there's much more to the story.

00:53:04.600 And when you hear it, I think you will regret setting that up a blaze.

00:53:09.760 And to be clear, you're not saying don't take sides on the flag.

00:53:19.980 You're saying don't take sides on Tomlin, who is a little bit, because I have seen a lot of stories about him, about Villanueva and some other things that seem to be kind of misreported.

00:53:29.060 We should go over some of those if we have time today.

00:53:30.820 Yeah.

00:53:31.000 Uh, but we'll get to the bottom of that this week.

00:53:32.820 Uh, our world is a place of uncertainty and stress from the, the tension of just an NFL game or the possibility of military action in North Korea.

00:53:44.540 The, the hurricanes in Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico.

00:53:50.420 There's more, uh, the, the shooting of the churches, uh, this, this last weekend, the enrollment now, uh, in some colleges,

00:54:00.020 the lowest it has been in over a decade.

00:54:02.860 How about this one?

00:54:03.800 The record breaking $20 trillion.

00:54:07.380 That's our debt.

00:54:08.320 Now 20 trillion.

00:54:09.620 Is anybody even paying attention to that anymore?

00:54:13.400 I don't know what the future brings, but it will bring more instability.

00:54:17.600 Things will become more unstable.

00:54:20.360 So now how do you protect what you do have?

00:54:23.600 Well, you spread out the risk.

00:54:26.060 That's the first thing you do.

00:54:27.540 Don't put everything in one place.

00:54:30.320 Spread the risk out.

00:54:31.960 There is one investment.

00:54:33.440 I mean, stocks can go to zero.

00:54:36.300 You know, you want to put your money in Facebook.

00:54:38.040 Are you convinced that Facebook in 10 years is going to be the thing?

00:54:41.400 I'm not.

00:54:43.480 So where do you put your money?

00:54:45.960 One thing that never goes to zero is gold.

00:54:49.420 And it, when things become more and more unstable, that's usually when gold goes through the roof.

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00:55:50.860 Glenn Beck.

00:55:58.060 Glenn Beck.

00:55:59.380 Phil in Oklahoma.

00:56:02.920 Go ahead.

00:56:03.520 You're on.

00:56:04.080 Yes.

00:56:05.260 Yeah, Glenn, I just wanted you to know, I listen to you.

00:56:07.560 I respect your show.

00:56:08.560 I've listened to it ever since you started.

00:56:10.460 But I'm just real disappointed in the NFL and the stance that Mike Tomlin took on this deal.

00:56:18.400 I feel like that it was political.

00:56:20.780 But I also feel like this whole situation is running sports for everybody.

00:56:25.680 Okay, so hang on.

00:56:26.620 Let's take a couple of things here separately.

00:56:31.000 I agree with you.

00:56:32.020 I think this whole thing is ruining sports.

00:56:34.780 It's we're allowing politics to permeate everything in our life, and it is wrecking everything in our life.

00:56:42.660 I agree 100%.

00:56:44.080 I don't like the stance of the NFL.

00:56:47.620 The NFL, if they wanted, if the NFL wanted to stop something, the NFL stops things.

00:56:51.860 I mean, they stopped people from, you know, doing a little dance in the end zone, didn't they?

00:56:55.720 They came down hard on that.

00:56:58.220 So if they wanted to stop something, they could stop something.

00:57:01.260 They don't want to.

00:57:03.200 Don't agree with the stance.

00:57:04.380 It's three.

00:57:05.840 When it comes to Tomlin, what makes you say, I mean, I have it from the horse's mouth.

00:57:11.080 I wish he was on today, but he couldn't.

00:57:12.640 He'll hopefully be on tomorrow.

00:57:14.080 But I have it from him.

00:57:16.100 It's not political.

00:57:18.140 It's not political with him.

00:57:20.960 So what are you disagreeing with Tomlin on?

00:57:25.480 Well, how could it be not political?

00:57:27.560 Everybody goes out there and they stand for the national anthem.

00:57:30.780 Well, now they don't.

00:57:32.040 Some of them are even stretching.

00:57:33.160 They're not even taking a knee.

00:57:34.540 They're not even taking a knee in protest.

00:57:36.360 They're laying on the field and they're stretching.

00:57:38.580 He says we're not going to take the team out there.

00:57:40.920 We're not going to be a part of this.

00:57:42.480 And I think the argument, though, is if you go out there, they're going to take stands.

00:57:47.080 Some of the players are.

00:57:48.060 And then you are going to be making a political stand.

00:57:50.100 He's trying to remove that from the equation.

00:57:53.560 Glenn Beck.

00:58:00.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:06.860 Can we have an adult conversation here for a second?

00:58:09.380 It requires requires us to actually stop and listen and think and think outside the box.

00:58:15.160 Think in different ways.

00:58:16.860 Think about things that make us uncomfortable and make us squirm a little bit.

00:58:21.000 There is no such thing as a safe zone except for the United States of America.

00:58:25.920 Every place in America should be a safe zone.

00:58:28.960 You should be physically safe to be able to express your opinion.

00:58:33.560 But that does not mean that you're going to be left to be comfortable.

00:58:39.380 The only time I've ever grown is when I'm uncomfortable.

00:58:44.140 You're going to be uncomfortable in life.

00:58:47.920 That you don't have a right to ask for.

00:58:51.180 To be safe in my point of view, to not have somebody kill me for it.

00:58:56.260 Yeah, I'd like that.

00:58:57.040 I think that was the first one.

00:58:58.280 I have a right to life.

00:58:59.460 Yes, that's what it was.

00:59:01.740 So let's look for perspective on the national anthem.

00:59:05.920 I want to make this really super clear.

00:59:13.040 I mean, I don't have a dog in the fight because I can walk away from the NFL and never watch them again because I don't care.

00:59:21.560 I'm not a sports fan, so I don't care.

00:59:23.960 And I think what's happening in the NFL is disgrace.

00:59:27.300 It's just a disgrace.

00:59:28.240 And I think it's a continuation of what is happening with ESPN.

00:59:33.880 They've chosen sides.

00:59:35.820 They don't care.

00:59:37.220 And they're just going to continue to do what they want, thinking that you're trapped watching ESPN or watching football and you're never going to give it up.

00:59:45.860 So they'll just do whatever they want to do because they have a different agenda.

00:59:50.060 That's what I believe.

00:59:53.840 Could be right.

00:59:54.860 Could be wrong.

00:59:55.760 That's my personal opinion.

00:59:59.800 It is easier for me to talk about this because, again, I don't have a dog in the fight.

01:00:05.240 I don't I don't care.

01:00:06.780 I can turn it off and it doesn't impact my life at all.

01:00:10.740 Now, because I don't care and because I'm not sharing this with them with my son, I'm not sitting there watching it and seeing those guys and then having to look at my son and say, OK, this is wrong.

01:00:21.240 And having to explain that when I don't want to have that time taken with my son, I want to share it with just a game.

01:00:29.320 So I understand that.

01:00:32.280 So take everything that I say.

01:00:35.000 With the understanding that I don't share that with you.

01:00:38.400 But I want to give you perspective.

01:00:46.520 I want you to make a list in your own mind right now of what things actually affect you.

01:00:52.860 What actually affects you?

01:00:56.200 The health care debate.

01:00:58.700 I don't know if you missed at the top of the hour.

01:01:00.480 We talked about Colorado is you're going to have a 200 percent increase in your health care costs next year.

01:01:08.400 If Congress doesn't act in the next five days, 200 percent increase.

01:01:14.480 Now, we can argue about whose fault that is.

01:01:16.380 Is that Congress?

01:01:17.160 Is that the Republicans or is that because this is Obamacare?

01:01:20.240 This is what we told you would happen.

01:01:23.020 But doesn't matter.

01:01:24.900 That is going to affect your life.

01:01:28.840 And it's about 100 percent.

01:01:30.240 It's between 60 and I think 250 percent increase is the highest in the country.

01:01:36.040 But you're going to get at least a 60 percent increase in your insurance.

01:01:39.400 Can you afford that?

01:01:40.080 That actually affects your life.

01:01:42.300 How about what's happening in your school right now?

01:01:45.360 That actually affects your life.

01:01:47.340 How about the cost of an education which has gone up 41 percent since Obamacare was put in?

01:01:57.760 Why is education going up 41 percent?

01:02:00.520 Why are we accepting that?

01:02:01.800 Why is no one talking about that? 0.98

01:02:04.580 What's happening on campus where our kids are learning garbage? 0.64

01:02:09.420 That actually affects your life. 0.98

01:02:15.620 Somebody who doesn't stand for the national anthem.

01:02:18.900 Where is that on that ranking?

01:02:21.880 Now, I can make the case that not standing for the national anthem changes our culture and it does impact my life.

01:02:29.820 I can make the case that getting rid of the national anthem at the top is going to affect my life because it changes our culture.

01:02:39.420 But before, because I don't even need to make that case, so I don't even need to say before I make that case.

01:02:45.280 You've already made that case.

01:02:46.420 You know that.

01:02:48.740 Before you go down that road entirely, I want to talk to you a little bit about nationalism.

01:02:55.260 Nationalism is, I would contend, the thing that has gotten us in trouble.

01:03:01.160 It is a progressive idea started around the turn of the century with Teddy Roosevelt.

01:03:06.020 And if I may, just ask you to go here.

01:03:10.100 Divorce yourself from everything and everybody today.

01:03:13.020 Let's just go into the world of thought and academia here for a second.

01:03:17.140 And let's just think things through.

01:03:19.740 What has been the biggest cause of problems in the Middle East in the last 100 years? 0.95

01:03:25.780 I would say there's a few things.

01:03:30.140 Nazism coming in and planting the seeds of anti-Semitism is a big one.

01:03:35.200 The idea of oil being something that the United States would need to buy from the Saudis and from the Middle East instead of getting it ourself because we were trying to stabilize the region.

01:03:50.320 And the third thing is just us trying to stabilize the region.

01:03:57.020 It was, you know, comes from, you know, you can go all the way back into the early teens of last century.

01:04:03.720 And you can look at the packs where the West said, we're going to divide this up and we're going to make these countries and we're just going to draw the borders.

01:04:12.200 Sykes-Picot. 0.98

01:04:12.960 So, so, so if you look at the, if you look at the three, you have Germans planting just a poison in the Islamic world. 0.98

01:04:24.460 And then the other two.

01:04:27.240 Us saying we know better and we're going to get involved.

01:04:31.960 That's a new thing.

01:04:33.140 And that comes from this idea that we're going to move democracy, the world, freedom is on the march.

01:04:40.340 Democracy is on the march and we're going to change the world.

01:04:43.320 That's a whole different idea than we had in the 1800s and 1700s.

01:04:47.140 We were a humble people.

01:04:48.540 It's why we got the Statue of Liberty.

01:04:50.880 France gave that to us, not as a gift.

01:04:52.860 They didn't care about us.

01:04:54.320 They gave that.

01:04:55.800 They built that because they were trying to teach the people in Paris that communism is a bad thing.

01:05:01.480 That people having a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of their own, their own happiness.

01:05:08.700 That's a grand idea.

01:05:12.300 They were trying to convince their own people.

01:05:15.200 That's why they built the Statue of Liberty.

01:05:17.100 The same thing with the, with the George Washington crossing the Delaware.

01:05:21.200 That painting was painted in Germany by a German.

01:05:25.800 Trying to convince the Germans, don't listen to Karl Marx. 0.79

01:05:29.380 He's wrong.

01:05:30.220 He's wrong.

01:05:31.560 Look to America.

01:05:32.560 They have the answer.

01:05:34.040 That's why everybody thinks the original is sitting in Manhattan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

01:05:38.340 It wasn't.

01:05:39.040 It was burned in the, in the allied bombing when we were bombing Germany.

01:05:45.960 That's the original.

01:05:47.260 Nationalism is something that came in from the progressives to raw, raw, we're number one.

01:06:01.520 We didn't have a standardized flag.

01:06:04.300 You know the flag that we can't allow to touch the ground?

01:06:07.220 We have to burn it if it touches the ground?

01:06:13.040 The, the flag wasn't even standardized until Woodrow Wilson, meaning you could arrange the stars any way you want.

01:06:23.460 But Woodrow Wilson knew to really truly control people, you had to force them into a group.

01:06:31.420 And so he standardized the flag.

01:06:33.360 It's progress, you know.

01:06:34.720 So I want to play.

01:06:37.400 Could you please rise for the national anthem?

01:06:41.440 Would you play that?

01:06:42.820 Please rise for our national anthem.

01:06:44.800 Sucks, doesn't it?

01:07:03.560 This, by the way, was the national anthem that my grandparents knew. 0.90

01:07:11.900 What?

01:07:14.800 Hail Columbia was the national anthem, and Woodrow Wilson wanted this changed.

01:07:23.040 So in 1916, he said the military, which he re-segregated, that they're going to recognize the Star-Spangled Banner,

01:07:35.260 but America can do whatever it wants.

01:07:40.500 So this was the national anthem until 1931.

01:07:44.800 How many times did our unpatriotic Congress say no to the Star-Spangled Banner?

01:07:57.720 40. 0.99

01:07:58.360 They held this piece of crap up 40 times. 0.99

01:08:06.600 Okay, stop. 0.99

01:08:07.500 Turn it off.

01:08:07.900 It's giving me a headache.

01:08:09.000 It's awful.

01:08:10.400 It's awful.

01:08:11.960 But that was our Star-Spangled Banner until 1931.

01:08:16.760 Now we treat the Star-Spangled Banner and the flag, which was not standardized until the progressive nationalist movement.

01:08:30.860 The same movement that in the early 1900s were putting Germans and Italians in jail because they would speak German or Italian.

01:08:41.920 Again, look it up.

01:08:45.280 The same national progressive government that in the 1940s locked up the Japanese and put them in internment camps.

01:08:53.600 You see, we were played back then.

01:09:00.140 We were played on our emotions.

01:09:03.140 Our founders, and in the 1800s, we knew a little better.

01:09:09.380 Our founders knew a lot better.

01:09:12.160 Those trappings are meaningless.

01:09:14.620 It's how we act.

01:09:17.320 It's how we treat each other.

01:09:19.300 It's how we live our life.

01:09:21.960 Do we live the principles of America?

01:09:27.200 And here's the saddest thing.

01:09:29.900 What are we doing?

01:09:31.760 We are arguing right now against someone's freedom to protest.

01:09:38.740 It's in the First Amendment.

01:09:41.580 They have a right to protest. 0.99

01:09:48.960 We should be standing up and saying, yep, he's a dummy. 0.97

01:09:52.860 Yep, he doesn't get it, but whatever. 0.95

01:09:55.120 He has a right to do that.

01:09:56.380 That's what we should be teaching our children, that he has a right to do that.

01:10:01.460 At the same time, we're saying that Antifa has taken things too far,

01:10:07.740 and they're ratcheting it up with hatred, and they're burning things down to the ground.

01:10:16.240 We need to be saying, but they have a right to speak.

01:10:20.520 Not to throw Molotov cocktails, but you have a right to speak.

01:10:24.200 You have a right to be heard if somebody wants to listen to you.

01:10:27.540 We have to separate the players' right to do what they want to do and the NFL's right to make money or lose money the way they want to do.

01:10:41.640 They have to be populist.

01:10:43.940 They have to do the popular thing, or they'll go broke.

01:10:46.680 But everybody else has a freedom of conscience.

01:10:52.720 I just, I just, I beg you to take pause.

01:10:59.200 Take the emotion out of it.

01:11:01.120 There is no one that loves this country more than me.

01:11:05.880 There's no one that feels stronger about our troops than me.

01:11:11.380 You and I agree on this.

01:11:17.900 Let's honor our troops.

01:11:20.680 Let's honor the people who fought and died for this country.

01:11:23.800 But here's an idea.

01:11:25.040 Instead of doing it at a football game, let's tell Congress to fix the VA. 1.00

01:11:32.520 Because that is something that actually matters and will actually change our life.

01:11:41.380 It happens every minute of every day.

01:11:51.740 Somebody's home is burgled.

01:11:54.380 The average property loss from one home break-in, just in the middle of the day, you come home, somebody has gone through all of your stuff, and they've taken about $2,300.

01:12:02.600 $2,300, total loss per year in America is in the billions, because this is happening every minute of every day.

01:12:13.760 It goes beyond the money.

01:12:16.160 It goes into a sense of security.

01:12:20.060 Somebody can come in and violate you in your home.

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01:13:10.460 Glenn Beck.

01:13:16.480 Glenn Beck.

01:13:17.380 Kurds are voting whether or not to break off from Iraq. 0.79

01:13:23.400 This is kind of a big deal over in the Middle East.

01:13:26.680 We'll give you more on that coming up in just a second.

01:13:30.280 Also, we're going to do something a little different.

01:13:33.380 We're going to add an extra broadcast to our busy day for a few days this week as we're working on a couple of different things.

01:13:41.620 We're going to do a live broadcast on Facebook Live.

01:13:47.580 Will it be at Glenn Beck's Facebook page or just the Blaze Facebook page?

01:13:51.460 Do you know?

01:13:51.760 Or both?

01:13:52.620 I think it'll be at both.

01:13:53.840 I'll share it to Stu Bergeer's Facebook page.

01:13:56.360 I will share that as well.

01:13:57.000 Wow.

01:13:57.340 It's going to be.

01:13:57.880 It's going to take over.

01:13:58.800 So that'll be in the 12 to 1 o'clock hour Eastern time every day this week.

01:14:09.080 And you can join us only on Facebook Live just this week.

01:14:13.420 We have some stuff, too, about breaking news on the tax rates that are going to be coming out here from the.

01:14:18.580 It's thinking big.

01:14:19.960 It's thinking big.

01:14:21.240 Yeah.

01:14:21.520 It's not quite what it was.

01:14:23.300 Well, I mean, you know, he said, you know, we're going to get the top tax rate down and he's going from 39 and he's hoping we're starting at a decrease to 35 percent for the top 49 to 35 is, I guess, the beginning negotiation point.

01:14:39.500 So if you start there, we could see 39 go all the way to 44 or 45 percent.

01:14:45.460 It probably will happen.

01:14:46.660 It probably will.

01:14:48.680 We'll have more on that and your phone calls coming up.

01:14:53.300 Glenn Beck.

01:15:10.680 Love.

01:15:12.740 Courage.

01:15:14.400 Truth.

01:15:15.580 Glenn Beck.

01:15:16.340 The shooter intended for a high body count.

01:15:19.660 Yesterday morning, man walked into a church outside of Nashville.

01:15:23.300 He shot six people.

01:15:30.100 He killed a woman in the church.

01:15:32.740 He's 25 year old Emanuel Cadaga Samson.

01:15:36.680 He's an immigrant from Sudan who came to the U.S. in 1996.

01:15:40.740 Police say he was a legal resident of the U.S.

01:15:43.120 But Sunday morning, Samson drove into the parking lot of the Burnett Chapel Church of Christ.

01:15:49.680 He left his car running.

01:15:51.580 He got out wearing a ski mask and he was armed with two handguns.

01:15:55.820 He shot and killed 39 year old Melanie Smith in the parking lot.

01:15:59.860 Then he went into the church through the rear door.

01:16:02.460 Inside the church, he opened fire.

01:16:05.320 He didn't say a word.

01:16:06.980 There was a there was an usher there.

01:16:10.220 His name was Robert Engel.

01:16:11.480 He tried to subdue Samson, but Samson took his gun and pistol whipped him.

01:16:16.460 In the struggle, in the struggle, Samson apparently wounded himself with a gunshot to his leg.

01:16:23.960 Engel's father then guarded Samson while Engel ran out to his car to get his gun.

01:16:28.880 He had one, but he wasn't carrying it in church.

01:16:33.300 Engel returned, put his gun on Samson and kept his foot on him until the police arrived.

01:16:38.960 Six wounded churchgoers hospitalized today, stable condition.

01:16:44.660 Engel is also in the hospital being treated for a head wound and a separated shoulder.

01:16:50.920 Samson was treated and released from the hospital, been charged with murder, with additional charges to follow.

01:16:58.100 Church members were surprised because Samson attended the church several times just a few years ago.

01:17:04.760 Police don't have a motive yet, including whether race was a factor.

01:17:11.600 Without all the facts, people are already choosing sides.

01:17:14.560 Definitely terrorism. Definitely. He's from Sudan. 1.00

01:17:17.380 No, he's black, so it's definitely racially motivated. 0.99

01:17:21.520 Children of immigrants hate America, you know. 1.00

01:17:25.320 We don't have any of the facts.

01:17:27.220 We don't know.

01:17:30.340 Here's why I think this needs to be talked about today.

01:17:35.600 We have to stop jumping on red meat bandwagons, immigration, terrorism, racial hatred. 0.98

01:17:40.920 They're all factors, and they may be at play here. 0.92

01:17:43.360 We don't know, but it might be the guy who's just, you know, soup to nuts crazy.

01:17:53.040 We'll find out the truth.

01:17:56.980 Life is actually really simple.

01:17:58.760 It's humans that are complicated.

01:18:02.560 But one thing you need to know is evil is real.

01:18:07.560 But bandwagons don't solve the evil problem.

01:18:11.640 They don't solve the root of the problem of moral decay.

01:18:15.700 They're not going to solve, you know, racial injustice or immigration,

01:18:20.700 or they're certainly not going to comfort this grieving church.

01:18:25.000 What will?

01:18:29.220 All the things people roll their eyes at.

01:18:31.960 The most powerful things known to humankind.

01:18:36.360 It's what makes men men.

01:18:40.700 And yet we dismiss it.

01:18:43.160 Love, empathy, courage, compassion, service, prayer.

01:18:57.420 What we all roll our eyes at.

01:19:00.800 In the end, we'll be the only thing that saves us from ourselves.

01:19:05.680 Do you know why we feel the way we do about the NFL?

01:19:30.940 Do you know why so many people are upset?

01:19:36.140 And I can say this as a guy who's not a fan of the NFL.

01:19:41.740 But I wish I had this.

01:19:45.620 I wish I had this with my dad.

01:19:48.540 And I wish I had this with my son.

01:19:53.440 Something that we rooted for together.

01:19:55.920 What Stu had with his father, he now has with his son.

01:20:05.700 And that is the Eagles.

01:20:07.400 He's only an Eagles fan because his dad was an Eagles fan.

01:20:11.940 No?

01:20:13.760 No.

01:20:14.900 I thought, who was it?

01:20:15.720 He may wake up from the grave to come back to correct you that he was a Giants fan.

01:20:19.360 Giants fans?

01:20:20.320 But I mean, the love of football was that way.

01:20:22.520 The shared community that we have, and I don't understand it with football, but it is one thing that the left doesn't understand about the Second Amendment.

01:20:38.880 They say that the Second Amendment is about guns.

01:20:42.040 Well, no, it's not.

01:20:43.420 The Second Amendment is actually about my right to defend myself.

01:20:47.620 That's what the Second Amendment is about.

01:20:49.300 But the reason why people become so passionate about it is because my growing up on the farm with my grandfather during the summer months ended every night with my grandfather and I walking what he called the back 40.

01:21:11.620 And I would try to keep up with his long legs as he had a shotgun opened up, carrying it, and once in a while, between the rows of raspberries, a pheasant would fly up, and he would shoot it, and I'd carry it home to Grandma.

01:21:38.180 The gun doesn't mean, to me, the gun doesn't mean protection.

01:21:49.160 The gun is a representation of my grandfather.

01:21:51.840 And those simpler times, the gun isn't about safety the way some people look at a gun as safety.

01:22:05.240 It is a warm blanket of comfort, the safety of my traditions and the safety of my grandfather and knowing where I came from.

01:22:17.760 That's probably the closest I can get with the NFL.

01:22:26.940 What we're sensing here is a loss, again, of our culture and a loss of something that has real meaning to some of us.

01:22:43.340 I'm somebody who goes to a sporting event or any event, and they sing the national anthem.

01:22:55.820 And even though, A, I hate the national anthem, I hate this song, it's just a, it's just not, why can't we have, I mean, I know this is just me speaking out loud musically.

01:23:08.320 Have you ever heard the Soviet national anthem?

01:23:10.200 It is stirring.

01:23:11.220 It is really good.

01:23:12.420 It's really good.

01:23:13.320 That Ivan Drago was standing for in Rocky IV, that's how everyone knows that song.

01:23:16.120 It's really good.

01:23:16.900 It's really good.

01:23:17.700 So I'm not a fan of our national anthem.

01:23:20.140 I think there are better songs that we could have chosen as a national anthem, but it's ours, and so I am for it.

01:23:25.500 But you're a fan of the nation.

01:23:26.760 I'm a fan of the nation for which it stands, and I still, even feeling the way I do about the national anthem, just musically and lyrics, it's not my favorite, but I still cry.

01:23:39.820 I still stand in the stand.

01:23:41.760 I have a lump in my throat every time.

01:23:43.380 I feel like a big crybaby because I always get a lump in my throat.

01:23:48.000 Why?

01:23:48.380 Because of what it says we should yearn to be.

01:24:01.360 America is not a place.

01:24:03.840 It's not a time.

01:24:05.700 It's not a people.

01:24:07.740 It's an idea.

01:24:10.340 And the same thing, that's what the national anthem, to me, embodies.

01:24:15.260 Even though none of the words say that, that's what I feel.

01:24:21.000 And if I had gone to sporting events with my father, and I know my father used to stand up and he used to do what I do to my son.

01:24:34.200 Poke him in the back.

01:24:35.140 Stand up. 0.97

01:24:36.360 Put your hand in your heart.

01:24:38.240 What are you doing?

01:24:39.480 Stand up straight.

01:24:40.320 Pay attention.

01:24:40.960 Stop talking.

01:24:42.700 Show some respect.

01:24:43.420 I'm sorry, but that's part of my culture, too.

01:24:50.840 We can make this about the troops, and we can make this about a lot of things.

01:24:55.820 And it is about all of those things, but it is also a sense of a loss of culture.

01:25:05.040 Somebody said yesterday, why don't you just stop singing the national anthem?

01:25:10.400 They're there to play football.

01:25:12.520 Just stop.

01:25:14.960 That's a loss of something significant.

01:25:18.160 That's a loss of the unity of all of us coming together.

01:25:23.480 80,000 of us standing in a place, and none of us agree on everything.

01:25:28.680 In fact, you could find whole sections that want to have a fist fight with another, if you've been to Philadelphia, with another section of the stadium.

01:25:40.300 And yet, for a moment, we all unite.

01:25:47.540 That's the loss that you're sensing.

01:25:53.320 That's why this is so personal.

01:25:55.160 People who want power, people who have an agenda, know that as well.

01:26:15.720 People that want to pull down the country.

01:26:19.960 People that want to see us divided.

01:26:22.160 People that want misdirection.

01:26:28.200 They know that as well.

01:26:30.840 And they're playing you.

01:26:34.500 They're taking something so sacred.

01:26:39.320 Why are you mad at the GOP?

01:26:42.900 I don't know if I can speak for you, but let me speak for me.

01:26:48.320 Because I'm not playing a game.

01:26:52.160 Because I actually believe these things.

01:26:56.080 I believe America has done a lot of really crappy things.

01:26:59.800 But I believe America is still the best in the world.

01:27:03.780 The minute somebody comes up with a better system, I'm there.

01:27:07.380 But this is the best we got.

01:27:10.100 And America did change the world.

01:27:13.160 The idea of America changed everything.

01:27:16.860 And we're about to throw all of that away.

01:27:22.000 And I supported the GOP as much as I ever could.

01:27:26.660 I supported politicians.

01:27:28.840 I spent my time, my energy, my money.

01:27:32.400 I campaigned.

01:27:33.860 I talked to friends.

01:27:35.020 I lost friends.

01:27:36.360 I argued with neighbors and family members.

01:27:39.260 I've been called names.

01:27:42.480 I've been made into something that I'm not because I stood where I stood.

01:27:47.600 You've done the same thing.

01:27:49.420 And I'm guessing that you're mad at the GOP the same reason I am.

01:27:53.020 They didn't mean it.

01:27:55.440 When they said they were against universal health care, it's obvious they weren't.

01:28:00.480 When they say they were for smaller spending and a smaller government, it's clear they weren't.

01:28:07.760 They used us.

01:28:09.940 And they took something that really, truly meant something to us.

01:28:14.160 They took the country itself and wrapped themselves in all of the trappings. 1.00

01:28:21.620 And because those trappings, we have given those images power, it worked on us.

01:28:28.300 Fool me once.

01:28:32.960 Shame on you.

01:28:37.200 But both sides are doing it again.

01:28:41.920 Fool me twice.

01:28:44.820 Shame on us.

01:28:58.300 You mentioned national unity and how it feels when you're at the national anthem and you're watching that.

01:29:04.860 And I think everyone has that moment.

01:29:06.100 It's one of the things you kind of like about sports because you have these two warring factions in the stadium, right, that hate each other probably.

01:29:12.780 The fans for one team or the other.

01:29:15.380 And in that one moment, they kind of come together.

01:29:17.640 We just went through the 9-11 anniversary.

01:29:20.300 And I was looking at some stats from that era.

01:29:24.580 It was this week that George Bush hit his all-time high of an approval rating.

01:29:31.780 84% among Democrats.

01:29:35.340 Oh, my gosh.

01:29:36.040 Can you imagine a country in which the Democrats liked Donald Trump at a clip of 84% or that Republicans liked Barack Obama at a clip of 84% approval?

01:29:45.940 That doesn't even feel like it's even remotely possible.

01:29:51.720 And it's why I think the concept of the 9-12 project was so important and successful.

01:29:56.700 Like, it was something that people really remember that day.

01:29:58.920 They remember those days after 9-11 as feeling like it was a different planet.

01:30:02.800 Well, for as high as we went, there's a pendulum in life.

01:30:06.780 And as high as we went there, we are now, I believe, approaching the zenith or the apex of the opposite.

01:30:16.260 And it will swing back.

01:30:17.620 It will swing back.

01:30:19.140 We should try to do everything we can to stop the swings from being so wide.

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01:30:37.940 And so she contacted the real estate agents.

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01:30:51.800 And I am happy to report that John and Jennifer's townhome sold and closed in less than six weeks.

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01:31:28.140 Glenn Beck.

01:31:29.960 Glenn Beck.

01:31:34.920 We're going to add an extra hour today.

01:31:37.140 Want to take your phone calls, have a lot to talk about that we have not gotten a chance to cover today.

01:31:44.020 We're going to do that on Facebook Live.

01:31:45.760 You can get that at my Facebook page.

01:31:48.220 Also, the Blaze Facebook page.

01:31:50.480 Facebook Live today.

01:31:51.560 It'll probably start about 12, I don't know, 15 or so Eastern time.

01:31:57.360 And we'll run probably an extra 40 minutes or so.

01:32:00.180 Can you get Facebook in prison?

01:32:01.860 Are you allowed to?

01:32:03.040 I'm not sure.

01:32:04.100 I'm not sure.

01:32:04.620 Depending on who you are.

01:32:05.820 Why?

01:32:06.360 Well, I wanted to see if Anthony Weiner might want to watch the Facebook Live broadcast today.

01:32:10.160 Don't think he's going to get access to the internet.

01:32:12.600 No?

01:32:12.820 I have a feeling.

01:32:14.000 That might be a bad thing.

01:32:15.220 That might be a bad thing.

01:32:16.640 Yeah.

01:32:16.820 Maybe even after he gets released from prison, he might not have access to the internet.

01:32:20.360 Anthony Weiner now sentenced to 21 months in prison.

01:32:25.260 Should have gotten more than that.

01:32:26.780 You're probably right on that.

01:32:28.160 He's also paying a $10,000 fine and going through a sex offender treatment program for his sexting with a 15-year-old girl.

01:32:37.380 And that's just obviously one of the shady things he's done over the years.

01:32:39.620 It's not just sexting.

01:32:42.060 What he did with that 15-year-old girl is really despicable.

01:32:45.720 I mean, she said, I'm 15.

01:32:48.120 And he said, oh, the things I would like to do to you when you're 18.

01:32:51.740 And then he said, I want you to do these things to yourself.

01:32:54.300 Really?

01:32:55.160 And I mean, it's a 15-year-old girl.

01:32:57.780 He knew it.

01:32:58.620 Yeah.

01:32:58.880 He knew it.

01:32:59.520 How he only got two years is beyond me.

01:33:01.780 Is beyond me.

01:33:02.280 But what an amazing turn of events for this guy.

01:33:06.000 I mean, if you don't remember, if you haven't been listening to this show for a long time,

01:33:09.220 or your memory is as fuzzy as mine is, Anthony Wiener was leading the charge against this show in 2010,

01:33:18.500 trying to get Glenn thrown in prison because he didn't like one of our sponsors.

01:33:24.260 He said, we should all go to jail.

01:33:26.980 Things have changed.

01:33:28.720 They really have.

01:33:29.700 I mean, and it's, you know, it's weird.

01:33:31.300 Remember, Anthony Wiener was the guy I came to and I said, don't strike back at him.

01:33:36.480 He's not an enemy of ours.

01:33:37.920 He's an enemy of God's.

01:33:39.520 Remember?

01:33:40.260 And we're like, well, I don't know if we're necessarily.

01:33:43.180 And I remember saying, no, I'm not saying that God's going to exact revenge for us.

01:33:48.060 No.

01:33:48.760 But there's something that he's an, he's a bad guy.

01:33:52.760 And let God handle this one.

01:33:55.080 And he has.

01:33:56.120 It was insane watching it because, you know, being on the inside of these things,

01:33:58.900 you get to see it from a different perspective.

01:34:00.320 And we knew the things he was saying were completely untrue.

01:34:03.460 We knew he was lying throughout this process, but, you know, he gets picked up.

01:34:06.560 He gets put on TV.

01:34:08.040 He, you know, he was still tied in even after leaving office, almost won the mayoralship

01:34:13.060 of New York, if not for a scandal, probably would have.

01:34:15.980 Oh, yeah.

01:34:16.280 An additional sex scandal.

01:34:17.980 Then all of these messages he's been trading happen to be on the same computer where messages

01:34:22.840 from Hillary Clinton are stored, which leads to the Comey letter 12 days before the election,

01:34:28.340 which there's a really strong arguments that that may have been the thing that tipped

01:34:31.580 Donald Trump over the top.

01:34:32.560 Yeah, you really want to know why, you want to know why Hillary Clinton didn't win.

01:34:36.660 One of the things that the left will never talk about is him.

01:34:40.200 Yeah.

01:34:40.680 It's Anthony Weiner.

01:34:41.400 When they say the Comey letter, they like to put the blame on Comey.

01:34:43.940 The blame for that goes to Anthony Weiner.

01:34:45.560 If he wasn't sexting a 15-year-old, that never would have come out.

01:34:48.640 It never would have happened.

01:34:50.100 And of course, it wouldn't have been effective if Hillary was also, wasn't also, you know, 0.99

01:34:53.420 incredibly corrupt.

01:34:54.400 If she was clean the whole time and this thing came out, probably not enough to push him

01:34:58.500 over the top, but with the built-in belief that she was already corrupt.

01:35:02.540 And it being on Uma's, you know, hard drive, Anthony's hard drive, those two you knew were

01:35:09.280 corrupt themselves.

01:35:10.380 Oh, yeah.

01:35:10.960 And the whole thing, the whole thing fell apart.

01:35:13.280 It is him.

01:35:14.940 He's lost the presidency for Hillary Clinton and the job for his wife and two years in prison now.

01:35:23.480 Glenn Beck.

01:35:28.500 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:34.960 So, Pat Gray joins us.

01:35:36.580 He does the program Following Mine on the Blaze Radio Network and television.

01:35:40.740 And you should listen and watch.

01:35:43.200 But we're talking here about politics and football.

01:35:48.820 I love it.

01:35:49.600 You know, at first it was kind of cute, wasn't it?

01:35:53.060 Okay, these guys making $12 million a year protesting social injustice.

01:35:58.700 Isn't that precious?

01:36:00.060 It's adorable even.

01:36:02.040 All of these guys are multi, multi-millionaires.

01:36:06.360 What kind of social injustice led you to that job?

01:36:10.140 Aren't they proof positive that if you apply yourself in this country and work really hard,

01:36:14.600 you can make it?

01:36:16.400 You can get out of the slums.

01:36:17.660 You can get out of the ghettos. 0.99

01:36:18.680 And most of these guys have because they don't come from wealth.

01:36:23.200 They created their own.

01:36:24.860 And so, the hypocrisy of this and the inequality of things.

01:36:30.140 Well, if you really cared, if you really, truly cared, I'm sorry, but I'm a fan of Washington.

01:36:35.400 If you cared, deeds, not words.

01:36:37.800 And I'm having a hard time hearing you talk about your struggles over the sound of that V12 Bentley behind you.

01:36:47.000 I'm sorry, but the engine is just a little much to be able to hear.

01:36:52.180 I'm sorry, you were talking about what was this?

01:36:55.420 And we come to sports for a respite.

01:36:57.420 It's like an oasis, isn't it, on the weekend.

01:36:59.500 We have politics all week.

01:37:00.840 We're slapped in the face with it every single day.

01:37:02.680 We don't want this thrown into our face during a football game, too.

01:37:06.120 We've come there, and some of these guys, some of these people have paid $500 a ticket to be in the stands or more.

01:37:12.940 If you get nice seats, if you get luxury boxes, you've paid thousands of dollars to attend this game.

01:37:19.340 And then you get to put up with the social justice protest, too.

01:37:23.240 I just, and let's not forget, Colin Kampernick, who started all of this, and everybody keeps going back to him and his right to protest.

01:37:33.000 He didn't quietly, reverently just take a knee.

01:37:36.260 The guy came to games with socks that had pigs in police hats. 0.75

01:37:42.020 He showed up at a press conference in a Fidel Castro t-shirt.

01:37:45.700 I mean, your zero credibility just went to about negative 1,000 credibility. 1.00

01:37:51.340 Pathetic. 0.99

01:37:51.900 And through it all, the sports writers were casting him as a hero. 1.00

01:37:55.760 Oh, isn't this wonderful?

01:37:57.340 I will tell you.

01:37:58.040 No, it's not.

01:37:59.500 I will tell you that I think Donald Trump has made this worse.

01:38:03.060 I think he has.

01:38:04.580 He has made Colin Kampernick now is going to be a social justice hero.

01:38:10.960 He was about out the door as a laughingstock.

01:38:14.000 And I think Donald Trump's statements over the weekend have reignited this, and he's going to be remembered now as, you know, a Che, a great hero.

01:38:25.220 It's a little silly, too, because he had extended the offer, the invite, to the Warriors to come to the White House because they won the NBA championship.

01:38:33.660 And then Steph Curry decides, yeah, I'm not going to go in protest.

01:38:36.940 And then he's like, well, okay, then you're not invited. 1.00

01:38:38.980 That's like baking somebody a cake, and then they say, I don't want your stupid cake. 1.00

01:38:43.820 Well, I'm going to unbake it then. 1.00

01:38:46.580 Doesn't work that way, Donald.

01:38:47.900 No, no, it doesn't.

01:38:48.420 Sorry.

01:38:48.940 Doesn't work that way.

01:38:50.020 But I loved the Tom Brady statement yesterday because he's supposedly a friend of Trump, and here's his thing.

01:38:58.040 I thought it was just divisive.

01:39:00.320 Like I said, I just want to support my teammates.

01:39:03.000 I believe in bringing people together and respect and love and trust.

01:39:06.680 And, oh, wait, and cheating.

01:39:09.120 I believe in a really good deal of cheating, too.

01:39:12.400 So you're going to have a dash of cheating in every belief system, I think.

01:39:17.280 Okay, so now hang on just a second.

01:39:18.780 Hang on just a sec.

01:39:19.620 So you are in, you're on a football team.

01:39:22.000 Yes.

01:39:22.360 And the deal is we need each other.

01:39:26.180 If we're going to win, we need each other.

01:39:29.660 Right?

01:39:30.100 Yeah.

01:39:30.240 Okay, so if I go in and I say anything divisive, I'm going to make sure that we've just lost.

01:39:38.040 So I know that I can't change some people's minds.

01:39:41.820 They're never going to take a knee, and I can't change some people's minds.

01:39:45.160 They're never going to stand for the team, for what you're all being paid to pay for those cars and those houses and the extravagant lifestyles and the girlfriends that will leave you the minute the money stops rolling in. 0.96

01:40:00.860 So to pay for all of that, you have to make a choice.

01:40:06.740 I can either take a stand that will divide the team, or I could leave the team, or I could just say, you know what?

01:40:16.300 We're here to play football, and I understand their point of view.

01:40:20.500 I understand their point of view.

01:40:21.980 We're here to play football.

01:40:25.060 Isn't that really the right stance?

01:40:27.760 Yes.

01:40:28.700 Yes.

01:40:29.060 It's not the stance he took, but that's the right stance.

01:40:32.000 So why is Mike Tomlin getting so much heat?

01:40:34.560 Because that's what he did.

01:40:36.300 He just kept everybody out of the madness.

01:40:38.280 He said, I can't convince.

01:40:40.440 I need 100%.

01:40:41.660 And this is why he was mad at, what's his guy's name?

01:40:46.080 Villanueva.

01:40:46.660 Villanueva.

01:40:47.160 I can't say that.

01:40:48.300 Alejandro Villanueva.

01:40:49.320 He went out and put his hand over his heart.

01:40:51.260 Right.

01:40:51.540 And he wasn't mad at him.

01:40:53.240 He made one little comment that basically said, he didn't even say his name.

01:40:57.940 He just said, you know, look, we were looking for 100%.

01:41:00.240 And I guess, you know, the story lines it up is that the team took a vote whether they would all just lock arms or they would all stay in the locker room.

01:41:09.160 And the team voted, 100% of us will stay or not come out, stay in the locker room.

01:41:14.260 So Villanueva really didn't come out on the field.

01:41:17.100 He just took a few steps outside of the tunnel with his hand on his heart.

01:41:21.280 And you can see inside the tunnel, a lot of the Steelers players are standing there with their hand on their heart.

01:41:26.000 Yeah.

01:41:26.420 Inside the tunnel.

01:41:27.080 But they had agreed as a team.

01:41:28.640 And so I understand that from both perspectives.

01:41:31.340 First of all, Villanueva is a military hero and he can honestly do whatever the hell he wants.

01:41:36.400 He's got a bronze star.

01:41:37.800 Okay.

01:41:38.000 So hang on just a second.

01:41:39.060 I think that's great.

01:41:40.080 And I 100% approve.

01:41:41.760 And I like him.

01:41:43.140 I mean, I don't know anything about him, but I liked that.

01:41:46.840 But I also like Tomlin's approach, which is everybody stay off the field.

01:41:51.460 We are not going to get dragged in and go over the cliff with everybody else.

01:41:55.380 Stay off the field.

01:41:56.080 That's smart.

01:41:56.480 Let's go play.

01:41:58.280 It didn't work.

01:41:58.900 It didn't work.

01:41:59.460 I don't think really could it after everything that was going on.

01:42:03.340 I mean, I don't know how any of these guys played with the distractions of I mean, how

01:42:07.300 is how is Mike going to be playing? 0.96

01:42:09.480 Did you see that's why the owners are so ridiculous in all of this? 1.00

01:42:12.620 So stupid. 1.00

01:42:13.220 They should be insisting that let's focus on football. 1.00

01:42:15.880 How about when wins?

01:42:17.040 Yeah, I mean, they're even starting to lose me.

01:42:19.400 I didn't watch a single game yesterday.

01:42:21.140 I mean, part of that was I was I was coming back from Houston, but I could have turned it

01:42:25.000 on and I could have taped it and I could have but I'm just not as interested as I was. 0.51

01:42:28.580 I'm just tired of killing themselves.

01:42:30.440 I think so. 1.00

01:42:31.120 They're killing themselves.

01:42:32.220 The ratings have come out overnight. 0.93

01:42:33.740 Not a big change.

01:42:35.220 They're down.

01:42:36.460 One was down 1%.

01:42:38.160 I think I don't think that it's necessarily the ratings.

01:42:41.740 I think it is.

01:42:43.020 You know, they make a lot of money on the T-shirts and the logos and the merchandise.

01:42:50.580 I mean, I mean, after a while, you can only beat a brand so much before it's just like

01:42:57.240 there's nothing left, even the NFL.

01:42:59.440 I mean, it would take a long time, but they've got so many issues right now.

01:43:02.580 They got the CTE thing where they just found out that Aaron Hernandez had it, too.

01:43:08.420 He was in stage three or even maybe four of the CTE brain disease.

01:43:14.820 And so how much of his problems were caused by that?

01:43:17.580 I don't know.

01:43:18.000 But they're being sued by his family and ex and fiance.

01:43:22.060 And then once that happens, aren't the other 111 out of 112 people who've been tested positive

01:43:28.100 after their death for CTE, they're going to come after the NFL, too.

01:43:31.580 Maybe they should focus on something else.

01:43:33.780 Yeah.

01:43:34.360 I mean, maybe they put a stop to this madness and say, look, we've got some other issues

01:43:40.540 here that we need to deal with.

01:43:41.700 So here's the problem, because America does not understand nuance anymore.

01:43:46.600 I mean, nobody wants to talk nuance.

01:43:48.700 Nobody wants to have a conversation. 1.00

01:43:50.380 For instance, I completely support Colin Kaepernick's right to be an idiot. 1.00

01:43:57.460 And I think he is. 1.00

01:43:58.600 I think he's an idiot. 1.00

01:43:59.800 I think he's a dishonest. 1.00

01:44:01.300 No, that's confirmed. 1.00

01:44:02.020 Idiot. 1.00

01:44:02.360 Yeah. 1.00

01:44:02.520 It's worse than an idiot. 1.00

01:44:03.600 But yes, you're right. 1.00

01:44:04.260 I mean, I can't call him a Marxist, but, you know, from what little I've seen with the,

01:44:08.400 you know, he's got all the Castro stuff. 0.70

01:44:10.720 He's got all the you know, he's got all the the outward signs of being somebody who is not

01:44:15.940 a friend to freedom.

01:44:18.660 But I don't know. 1.00

01:44:20.060 I know he is an idiot and he has a right to protest. 1.00

01:44:23.440 He has a right to protest on the side of the field. 1.00

01:44:27.840 And until the owner says or the NFL stop doing that.

01:44:32.600 Right.

01:44:32.740 And they're not saying that.

01:44:33.580 Yeah, because it's a private business and they can tell you what they what you do on their

01:44:36.500 time.

01:44:36.880 Correct.

01:44:37.200 And the minute the owner and the NFL and or the NFL says, stop doing that, he's got to

01:44:43.300 stop doing that or get out of the NFL, which is not really a big step for him.

01:44:48.100 No, it's already there.

01:44:49.400 Yeah.

01:44:49.740 So it's not really a problem.

01:44:51.540 Yeah.

01:44:52.100 But I have to say, on the other side.

01:44:55.980 I agree with the president's right of free speech to say the things that he said this weekend,

01:45:01.620 but he has to remember he is the leader of the free world.

01:45:07.100 He's not a game show host.

01:45:08.660 He's not a talk show host.

01:45:10.140 He's not a that's not who he is anymore.

01:45:12.440 He's the president and the leader of the free world.

01:45:16.380 And to be saying that people should be fired for having a stance is wrong, is just wrong.

01:45:24.100 I liked everything else he said about, you know, the the national anthem isn't about race.

01:45:29.160 It's about respect and love for the country.

01:45:31.400 He's right about that.

01:45:32.600 He is.

01:45:33.220 And you know what?

01:45:34.420 You know what?

01:45:34.780 It would be great if he would have said, look, the national anthem while the NFL is deciding

01:45:41.480 to do whatever they're doing and people decide to disrespect to me, the national anthem is

01:45:47.300 about our is about our veterans and what they fought for.

01:45:51.980 And that's why I urge you to spend your Sundays volunteering at a VA center.

01:45:57.440 That would have been a great state.

01:45:59.840 Imagine that.

01:46:00.700 Yeah.

01:46:01.080 If he's encouraging and he said, in fact, I'll be joining you for the next four Sundays.

01:46:05.260 I don't know.

01:46:05.940 I'm not asking you to boycott.

01:46:07.420 I'm asking you to get busy and to stand up for what you really believe in.

01:46:11.880 And what you really believe in is not the flag or the anthem, the song.

01:46:15.260 What you really believe in is what it stands for.

01:46:17.560 And those people who fought for it need our help.

01:46:21.280 I mean, because that would have been powerful, powerful.

01:46:23.300 And it's a great way to do it.

01:46:24.040 I will say, however, I am on Trump's side, generally speaking, on this issue.

01:46:28.600 Me too.

01:46:28.880 I mean, there are parts of his statements that I didn't like, but obviously I'm on his side.

01:46:32.820 The uninvited thing was just childish.

01:46:34.420 Yeah.

01:46:34.780 But I am up for the standing for the national anthem.

01:46:37.340 I'm there.

01:46:38.220 The issue I have, though, is I just don't want the president involved in it.

01:46:42.160 I don't want any of that there.

01:46:44.280 It's so frustrating.

01:46:45.680 The NFLPA came out with a statement that was like, you should never have to take a job

01:46:48.920 in which you lose your rights.

01:46:53.920 Like, say they can't, they'll lose their First Amendment rights if someone stops them from kneeling.

01:46:57.980 First of all, where is this take when it comes to every bakery that doesn't want to make a cake?

01:47:04.080 On religious grounds.

01:47:05.620 Yes, on religious grounds.

01:47:06.780 They absolutely are fine with it there.

01:47:08.780 Yes.

01:47:08.920 But I just don't want, now this has become an arena of politics.

01:47:13.940 I don't understand it.

01:47:15.320 And I keep coming back to this, which is like this feeling that, yeah, I could bail on the

01:47:19.760 NFL because I don't like what's going on right now.

01:47:21.180 I could see that.

01:47:21.840 And a lot of people are.

01:47:23.240 But it's like, then Colin Kaepernick has done something that has taken something you love

01:47:28.060 away from you.

01:47:28.740 Yeah.

01:47:28.920 Are you going to give Colin Kaepernick or Donald Trump the power to take something that you

01:47:33.920 love away from you?

01:47:35.500 I will not give them that control of my life.

01:47:38.660 What if we replace the opening of the game, we replace the national anthem with, let's

01:47:43.580 get jiggy with it.

01:47:45.960 Would that maybe fix this situation?

01:47:48.180 I was counting on.

01:47:48.860 It's kind of deep, right?

01:47:50.000 I was counting on who let the dogs out.

01:47:52.760 Oh, that would be good.

01:47:54.200 Who, who, who, who.

01:47:55.900 I asked so many times, I never get the answer.

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01:49:33.900 Glenn Beck.

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01:49:44.900 Imagine if the NFL would have taken the time to put together a fund that said, you know,

01:49:55.160 we're going to support the families of fallen cops and we're going to take the same fund

01:50:02.800 and we're going to look for the injustice and, you know, and look for the the corruption

01:50:09.900 in the blue line.

01:50:11.720 And they would have said, we believe that cops want we believe that cops want good cops around

01:50:19.900 them and not bad cops.

01:50:21.080 And they would have done something that would have allowed the players to say, hey, there's a real problem in with some police forces.

01:50:31.540 OK, I'm I'm with you on that.

01:50:34.560 Let's go find the bad cops. 0.98

01:50:35.740 I'm 100% with you on that.

01:50:37.800 So are a lot of police officers.

01:50:39.180 Yes.

01:50:39.880 Most police officers are.

01:50:41.380 And if they would have just said, hey, we support our cops, but we support justice.

01:50:47.940 And we want to make sure that the cops are clean and they would have just, I don't know, come up with some fund or something that would have been able to highlight that or just do PSAs during the NFL that holds up cops and takes down bad cops.

01:51:05.820 And did it in a broad brush instead of what happened in St.

01:51:10.500 Louis this week.

01:51:11.660 No, no, no.

01:51:12.160 Let's let's look at the broad brush so you don't piss anybody off.

01:51:15.760 They could have so easily have done that.

01:51:19.620 And I would support an organization like that if it was committed to also in a controversial case coming out and saying, you know what, the police officer was right in this one.

01:51:28.200 Yes, because you need both sides of that.

01:51:29.820 It can't just be let's go find bad cops.

01:51:32.120 It's got to also be, hey, this is a thing that made a lot of noise.

01:51:35.220 And maybe there are athletes and and celebrities tweeting about it, but they were wrong on this case.

01:51:40.140 If I could get that organization, I'd be really pleased with it.

01:51:42.540 I think, you know, it's certainly what you have to do when we handle it.

01:51:45.120 But you you have the money of the NFL.

01:51:47.080 You could figure that out.

01:51:48.520 And all of this problem would have been solved.

01:51:50.620 And they and the NFL would have looked like they were uniting people instead of dividing people.

01:51:55.520 And they could have played football.

01:51:57.920 And I think, honestly, what they did here is just they just punted on this issue.

01:52:01.080 They just hoped it would go away.

01:52:02.700 And I think it was on that path.

01:52:04.320 It would have.

01:52:04.860 It would have.

01:52:05.420 But now it's a political issue and we'll probably never see the end.

01:52:07.920 Yeah, because now it's really not even about Black Lives Matter or the cops or anything else.

01:52:11.340 Now it's all about Donald Trump.

01:52:12.480 Yeah.

01:52:12.660 Now it's all about do you like Trump or not?

01:52:14.580 That's why you saw about 10 times as many people sitting down this week than before.

01:52:20.320 It wasn't about the Black Lives Matter cause.

01:52:22.360 OK, we're going to continue our conversation about 15 on Facebook Live.

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01:52:29.880 We'll be right now.

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The Glenn Beck Program - September 25, 2017

9⧸25⧸17 - Red Meat Bandwagon (Mary Mazzio & Dave Lopez join Glenn)

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