The Glenn Beck Program - 9⧸27⧸17 - Christians Beware (David Fench, Dr. Bassem Youssef & Kyle Olson join Glenn)

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00:00:15.220 We are witnessing the birth of a new country, but nobody is looking.

00:00:20.520 In an act that has been a century in the making,

00:00:24.360 the Kurds in northern Iraq voted yesterday to separate and gain their independence.

00:00:30.960 This is going to be huge.

00:00:33.880 The fallout from the post-World War I Sykes-Picot Agreement continues.

00:00:38.500 If you don't know what that is, go to glennbeck.com and we will help explain it to you.

00:00:43.780 It's why ISIS exists.

00:00:46.200 It's why a lot of these troubles exist.

00:00:48.680 It is because of what the West did and England did in World War I.

00:00:55.280 Stage one was ISIS declaring their caliphate and dissolved the Syria-Iraq border.

00:01:02.260 Stage two begins right now, and it is rare that you witness a true pivot point in history.

00:01:08.720 But that is what is happening right now in the Middle East.

00:01:12.360 And after the dust settles, the entire map of the Middle East will look different.

00:01:18.060 But freedom is never free.

00:01:21.740 The Prime Minister of Iraq is furious.

00:01:24.980 He's given the Kurds until Friday to turn over all of their airports, 1.00

00:01:28.420 all of their oil assets, the border crossings.

00:01:31.540 And if the Kurds refuse, Iraq has promised to begin a travel and goods embargo.

00:01:37.720 The United States is going to abandon the Kurds yet again.

00:01:44.700 Iraqi troops and Iranian-trained Shia militias are moving to the Kurdistan-Iraqi border.

00:01:51.320 Turkey is also moving tanks and troops to their border with the Kurds and threatening their own embargo.

00:01:57.120 Iran has shut down all air travel.

00:01:59.380 The entire area is set to ignite.

00:02:04.580 Something else that hasn't been reported

00:02:06.920 is the small religious minority currently caught in between the Iranian and the Iraqi forces moving north

00:02:15.420 and their Kurds holding their ground.

00:02:18.860 The region of Nineveh will be one of the biggest battlegrounds.

00:02:25.000 This is important.

00:02:26.260 A lot of the work that Mercury One has done

00:02:29.280 freeing Christians, saving Christians 0.98

00:02:33.080 is in one of the oldest Christian lands in the world.

00:02:36.900 And once again, the Christians living there are facing annihilation.

00:02:41.200 They just came back home.

00:02:44.220 We are witnessing the birth of a new country and change on a massive scale.

00:02:50.620 But change of this magnitude comes at a price.

00:02:54.920 And as usual in this area,

00:02:57.360 I fear the Christians may end up paying the highest price. 1.00

00:03:02.200 It's Wednesday, September 27th.

00:03:18.760 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:20.600 Wow, we have a fantastic program lined up for you today,

00:03:24.300 but we can't start until we deal with Stu's white privilege.

00:03:28.820 We did find a San Diego State University professor, sociology professor,

00:03:32.940 who had a white privilege checklist.

00:03:35.040 Is that what I'm dealing with?

00:03:35.840 Yes.

00:03:35.980 Here we have the ways where you can have white privilege, Stu, 0.96

00:03:45.700 because you are white. 0.91

00:03:49.920 Yes.

00:03:50.440 Okay.

00:03:50.680 So I need you to check the places here or just say yes

00:03:55.320 to the places where that privilege applies to you

00:03:58.160 or where you have encountered this kind of white privilege.

00:04:02.180 Okay?

00:04:02.800 Okay.

00:04:03.500 And at the end, I'm going to ask you to try to list

00:04:07.100 at least two more ways that you have privilege based on your race.

00:04:13.420 So you're saying that I'm going to say yes to a lot of these

00:04:16.580 because you're already indicating there are two more ways.

00:04:18.360 There's 20 of them.

00:04:19.200 They're all yeses.

00:04:20.360 Oh, this is a really bad quiz, but okay.

00:04:23.320 Okay.

00:04:23.780 All right.

00:04:24.020 You ready?

00:04:24.680 I can arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

00:04:28.900 Yes or no?

00:04:29.660 Answer.

00:04:30.320 Answer.

00:04:30.760 Well, I would say yes,

00:04:32.100 but that's also applicable to anyone who's in a community

00:04:34.760 that happens to have people around.

00:04:36.800 For example, if you were to live in Little Havana,

00:04:40.220 you could probably find a lot of Cubans.

00:04:42.440 If you happen to be in Little Italy,

00:04:43.880 probably find a lot of Italians.

00:04:45.600 If you happen to be in, let's say, Philadelphia,

00:04:49.240 where the percentage of African-Americans is high,

00:04:51.400 you could probably answer yes to that as well.

00:04:53.880 I don't think that makes you privileged.

00:04:55.400 So I'm going to mark this as a yes, but.

00:04:59.620 Well, I just want to make sure I understand

00:05:03.960 because I'm told that diversity is a positive.

00:05:06.680 So why would it be a privilege to be surrounded only by your own race?

00:05:11.200 Because you don't have to put up with the impression of being different.

00:05:15.660 That's why, Stu.

00:05:16.420 I look at being with different groups of people as a positive.

00:05:20.840 Being around someone who's like me,

00:05:23.380 it really doesn't matter because you're basing them on,

00:05:27.460 I don't know, maybe the content of their character maybe

00:05:30.240 instead of the color of their skin.

00:05:31.860 I'm just coming up with that one off the fly,

00:05:33.540 so I don't know if it makes sense in a wider perspective.

00:05:36.740 I'll just leave it at yes, but.

00:05:38.220 Stu, there's 20 of these.

00:05:39.460 Okay.

00:05:40.320 I can't take many more of your excuses.

00:05:42.840 I can go shopping alone most of the time,

00:05:45.160 pretty well assured that I'm not going to be followed or harassed.

00:05:47.960 Answer the question, Stu.

00:05:49.260 I can do that, yes, proudly.

00:05:52.020 I also believe most other people can, regardless of their race.

00:05:56.580 In fact, I've been around many people.

00:05:59.060 This is going to surprise a lot of people.

00:06:00.540 I've been around African-Americans while they're shopping.

00:06:03.540 A lot of times it seems to be fine.

00:06:05.980 I guess I'm missing out on the evil eye in the sky.

00:06:08.740 I will tell you that I do talk to African-Americans, you know,

00:06:13.440 and I visit jails or things like that.

00:06:16.800 This is how you're supposed to believe as a conservative.

00:06:18.260 Right, as a conservative, that's how you're supposed to.

00:06:20.480 I visit them when they're in jail.

00:06:22.420 Right, okay.

00:06:23.580 But I mean, I have African-American friends who say

00:06:26.080 that they actually are followed in stores,

00:06:28.180 that they are, depending on the store, they are followed.

00:06:32.080 But I will tell you this, depending on the store, I'm followed.

00:06:36.020 Well, you're followed for other reasons.

00:06:37.460 Yeah.

00:06:38.340 Like, I can't wait until he gets outside

00:06:40.040 and I can run him over with the car type of reasons.

00:06:42.740 I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper

00:06:45.740 and see people of my race widely represented.

00:06:48.280 I mean, we're in a country that's 72% white, 74% white.

00:06:53.660 Privileged.

00:06:54.660 Privileged.

00:06:55.100 That's not privilege.

00:06:55.660 I don't feel good about that.

00:06:57.000 It is privileged.

00:06:58.560 Because I can understand.

00:06:59.840 You could say.

00:07:00.100 You don't ever have to feel like an outcast.

00:07:02.060 You feel.

00:07:02.920 Like, you're saying, I can understand.

00:07:04.340 You say, you walk into a room and everyone is.

00:07:06.620 This is not a safe zone for me right now.

00:07:07.660 I just want everybody to know.

00:07:08.760 I feel very unsafe.

00:07:10.960 Being around this bigotry, I feel very, very unsafe.

00:07:14.500 I do.

00:07:15.300 I feel unsafe.

00:07:16.060 I am bringing that to the table.

00:07:17.800 But if you walk into a room and everyone else. 1.00

00:07:20.780 I could be raped right now. 0.99

00:07:21.460 No, you're not. 1.00

00:07:21.800 I feel like I'm being raped right now by him. 1.00

00:07:24.260 Icky. 0.99

00:07:25.340 So, if you walk into a room and everyone else is the opposite race, 0.82

00:07:30.660 you could say, in theory, right, that you may feel judged, right?

00:07:36.880 You may feel like you're alone, okay?

00:07:39.620 I don't know why.

00:07:40.640 Because if you see people as people, you wouldn't feel that way.

00:07:43.260 But let's say you feel that way.

00:07:44.460 I can kind of get my arms around that one.

00:07:46.680 I can totally get my arms.

00:07:47.580 I can sincerely get my arms around that.

00:07:50.080 If you've never walked into a room, because I have.

00:07:52.920 I have.

00:07:53.560 And I'm not talking about race.

00:07:55.120 I've walked into a room full.

00:07:56.480 I just did it last weekend.

00:07:58.200 A room full of liberals.

00:08:00.060 Yeah.

00:08:00.540 And I felt very uncomfortable.

00:08:03.500 Yeah, but you're being singled out because of who you are as an individual.

00:08:08.400 And I think here, they're talking about who you are as a group.

00:08:11.880 Like, I don't walk into places and say, oh, my God, I'm the only white person here and feel weird about that.

00:08:18.620 I mean, you might notice it because it's a cultural difference, but I don't feel bad about it.

00:08:22.620 And I would hope that's the same case with African-Americans. 0.99

00:08:26.300 In fact, it's much more common with African-Americans because they live in a country, if they live in America, where it's 76% white.

00:08:32.920 So statistically, this would happen much more often.

00:08:35.720 There's a yes, but.

00:08:37.080 No, no.

00:08:37.360 Wait, hold on.

00:08:37.700 Wait, there's more to that one.

00:08:38.600 What was the question again?

00:08:39.340 I can turn on the television and the front page of the paper and see the people of my white race widely represented.

00:08:45.260 And that's what I was getting to is that, like, you go into a room, at least you could theoretically feel oppression.

00:08:49.140 How are you being oppressed by the front page of a newspaper?

00:08:51.980 Who cares? 0.84

00:08:52.920 The people are being arrested on the front page and they're white. 0.57

00:08:56.820 I mean, why would that make you?

00:08:59.440 Wow.

00:09:00.680 Do you see it?

00:09:01.820 Do you see what's happening in America?

00:09:02.960 This is how this is going to go, huh?

00:09:04.180 I want to make sure I understand.

00:09:05.280 I'm seeing it.

00:09:06.000 I'm hearing it.

00:09:06.820 It's disturbing.

00:09:09.340 I'm told about our national heritage or about civilization, but I'm shown people of my color that I'm shown the people of my color made it what it is.

00:09:19.360 Well, I happen to listen to the Glenn Beck program where they teach me about the black founders quite often.

00:09:24.800 So I have to tell you that one, I can't even see that one because I'm not I've not been told that it's just a group of white people that have made it.

00:09:34.300 I mean, I hate to be old fashioned, but I see people as people.

00:09:38.140 I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race, testify to the existence of their I mean, that's I can be sure that my children will be given curricular, curricular, I can't even say it, the materials that testify to the existence of their race.

00:10:00.840 So is there a is there a is there a African-American denialist society that is like the flat earthers?

00:10:09.140 I've never met the people who deny that others exist except white people.

00:10:13.720 Yeah, that's a weird one.

00:10:14.900 And what is it?

00:10:15.200 I mean, even the worst racists. 0.98

00:10:17.240 The reason why they're racist is because they're trying to kill everybody. 0.99

00:10:19.820 Right. 0.99

00:10:20.020 At least they are acknowledging.

00:10:21.100 They're acknowledging that there are other races.

00:10:23.420 And what is that in a test or what was I don't even know curricular, curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race?

00:10:31.620 Interesting.

00:10:31.900 When when I took the SATs back in high school, I took I didn't do much studying, but I did do a hey, here's how you take the SAT test reading period, which I read a couple books on it.

00:10:45.420 And one of the things I remember from it was there was a controversy about how these test materials did not properly address the African-American communities.

00:10:56.380 And so this is before I took the test.

00:10:58.520 So in response to that controversy, they added questions about African-Americans to the SAT, which is, of course, a kind of a silly response.

00:11:08.080 Right. 0.60

00:11:08.340 Like, but OK, it sounds like a racist response.

00:11:10.360 It kind of does.

00:11:11.100 Like, hey, I'm going to change the test for a race. 0.93

00:11:14.000 Question one, question two, question black three. 0.91

00:11:16.640 Like, it's crazy.

00:11:17.780 Right.

00:11:18.160 So but I have a remind me, I have a dream today, but I'll get to that later.

00:11:23.100 It's something else.

00:11:23.780 It's about getting test questions for African-Americans.

00:11:26.160 I think that's what it was.

00:11:27.140 It's racist to believe that one one race of people are not people.

00:11:32.500 They don't have bad people and good people.

00:11:35.280 They're people.

00:11:36.320 And it's racist to to to to think that African-Americans can't handle bad people of their own race.

00:11:45.760 Yeah.

00:11:48.180 I can go to a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented.

00:11:52.800 What year is this?

00:11:53.940 Who goes to music shops anymore?

00:11:55.760 The music shop is iTunes and there's plenty of people represented.

00:11:58.980 There's lots of music shops.

00:12:00.380 There's lots of music shops.

00:12:01.920 You just don't want to admit to them because of your white privilege.

00:12:06.220 There's tons of music shops.

00:12:08.380 I was going to say.

00:12:08.920 You look it up.

00:12:09.660 Google music.

00:12:11.880 Music shop.

00:12:12.680 I bet I could.

00:12:13.540 OK.

00:12:13.940 You Google your town and music shop and you are going to find a ton of them if you live

00:12:20.660 in a white area. 0.96

00:12:22.180 I will say, too, black people have a lot of legitimate things to complain about. 1.00

00:12:26.160 The music is not one.

00:12:27.220 Right.

00:12:27.560 They're very well represented.

00:12:29.080 Let's see.

00:12:29.600 I can go to the supermarket and find the food I grew up with.

00:12:34.840 Well, yeah, I mean, yes, I mean, if you're there's a lot of weird stuff like avocado and

00:12:38.940 mangoes that I didn't know existed back in the day.

00:12:40.840 I didn't grow up with a lot of that stuff.

00:12:42.940 I mean, it's like seed.

00:12:43.840 I don't remember.

00:12:44.520 Yeah, it's like chia seed.

00:12:45.720 If it's like, you know, pig's feet, there's a lot of, you know, Southerners that are eating 1.00

00:12:51.020 pig's feet and weird stuff that know you don't necessarily have that in Wisconsin.

00:12:57.120 Right. 0.70

00:12:57.540 There's regional things that happen.

00:12:59.500 But I mean, the same thing you could say again, you go to Chinatown in New York City, you're

00:13:04.520 seeing all sorts of weird things you didn't know you could eat.

00:13:06.540 Can you get a deep dish pizza in in Seattle like you can in Chicago?

00:13:12.920 No, you're going to have to search for it.

00:13:14.560 Yeah, it's not the authentic, right?

00:13:16.100 I mean, that's I mean, that's that's normal.

00:13:18.480 That's regional stuff.

00:13:20.140 That's regional stuff.

00:13:21.480 And it's white privilege stuff, as we're learning.

00:13:22.960 Well, of course, I can go into a hairdresser's shop and somebody who can deal with my hair.

00:13:26.540 Oh, I wish.

00:13:28.420 Oh, I wish I could walk into any shop, even a music shop and have somebody say, I can deal

00:13:35.200 with that hair.

00:13:35.960 Nobody can deal.

00:13:36.680 No, whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work 0.98

00:13:42.220 against the appearance of financial responsibility.

00:13:45.260 I think that one I think that was of financial responsibility.

00:13:48.720 I think there is something to be said for that.

00:13:50.600 I think that there probably are people that look at black people or, you know, Hispanic

00:13:55.920 or non-whites.

00:13:57.020 But I think there are the same, the same that will look at some white guy who's coming in

00:14:03.380 with jeans and a Confederate flag T-shirt and, you know, you know, a girlfriend that, you

00:14:11.320 know, is is is really classy and have the same thing.

00:14:15.560 I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing or body odor will be taken as a reflection

00:14:21.820 on my race.

00:14:22.740 It's racist to smell body odor now.

00:14:25.200 Really?

00:14:26.220 Do races smell differently?

00:14:27.920 I've never noticed that.

00:14:29.560 I am not either.

00:14:30.560 Some of the food smells differently.

00:14:32.840 There's a large Indian population who lives here locally in my one of my relatives lives

00:14:38.220 in an apartment building and every Saturday or Sunday they they make curry from scratch.

00:14:46.120 And it is a situation in which they they notice that in their apartment, which just happens

00:14:50.400 to be near the curry apartment.

00:14:51.920 There are things, things about different cultures that can I will say, body odor will be taken

00:14:58.780 as a reflection on my race.

00:15:00.320 No, I would identify you as my 13 year old son.

00:15:04.000 No, no, I don't think that's no, I don't think that's helpful saying his life.

00:15:13.240 143 Americans.

00:15:14.260 That is the number that could be affected by the Equifax breach.

00:15:18.300 So it wasn't that bad at all.

00:15:19.440 No, only about half of us.

00:15:22.020 Well, I think you said 143.

00:15:24.120 So I think what you meant may have been 143 million.

00:15:27.040 Right.

00:15:27.760 Thank you.

00:15:28.460 143 would not be a new story.

00:15:30.180 White privilege. 0.81

00:15:30.900 Look at him just just muscling his way in with his white privilege. 0.93

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00:16:34.760 Glenn Beck.

00:16:39.900 Glenn Beck.

00:16:41.300 I'm actually really excited about the guest we have in hour number two.

00:16:46.120 He is the John Stewart of Egypt. 0.93

00:16:51.220 He was a heart surgeon and decided to, he went and he was working in Tahrir Square, just bandaging people up.

00:17:00.360 And he realized, I've got to say something.

00:17:03.340 Started a little show on YouTube.

00:17:05.480 They expected maybe 3,000 to 5,000 views in the first week.

00:17:09.700 It ended up getting, in the first day, I think 50,000 views.

00:17:14.900 And it was in the millions by the end of the month.

00:17:18.320 And so he started doing a, he started doing a TV show online.

00:17:23.260 Now he is the biggest deal in Egypt.

00:17:26.520 But he has been arrested, tried by three different presidents now over in Egypt.

00:17:35.140 This guy is, is different than John Stewart.

00:17:38.920 He's not popular with any side.

00:17:40.700 Now you haven't been liked by three straight presidents either.

00:17:44.060 I know.

00:17:44.440 Congratulations.

00:17:44.760 I've been hated by three presidents too.

00:17:46.280 So we have something in common.

00:17:47.900 You're actually more like five in a row.

00:17:49.360 Yeah.

00:17:49.620 But he, thank you.

00:17:50.760 We don't need to rub it in.

00:17:51.600 But, but it's, it's fascinating to hear him.

00:17:57.460 There's a new documentary out about him that you should see.

00:18:00.020 And it's going to be, this guy is, this guy is one of the bravest people in the world.

00:18:04.960 And you want to talk about doing something that has no manual.

00:18:08.520 It's what he's doing.

00:18:10.320 Real courage out of Egypt. 0.97

00:18:11.980 And we're going to talk to him coming up in a few minutes.

00:18:14.140 Also, David French is going to be joining us.

00:18:16.800 And we have to spend some time on what is happening with the Kurds.

00:18:21.640 If you have been helping with the Nazarene Fund, this is really important.

00:18:26.140 And we were going to announce something, what I think it was last week.

00:18:30.620 And we said we needed to wait for the Kurdish referendum to see how that was going to shake out.

00:18:39.180 I'm not going to get into the full announcement and what we were planning on doing and what we are still planning on doing.

00:18:45.960 But we, we, our sources told us we had about an 18 month window starting around Christmas time.

00:18:52.720 To be able to save slaves and what is happening with ISIS in the Middle East before the Middle East is completely, Iraq in particular, is just in complete chaos, a failed state.

00:19:06.820 So we were working on some pretty aggressive things for an 18 month time period.

00:19:12.700 And the way this is shaking out with the Kurds, the window may be closed. 1.00

00:19:18.180 And that's why we've delayed announcing anything, because we may have to change everything we were thinking about doing.

00:19:27.140 The windows may be closing and the Christians are going to be caught right in the middle. 1.00

00:19:31.800 And the Kurds are going to have the Iranians and the ISIS, Turkey, the communists over in the Kurds, the Syrian Kurds, you name it.

00:19:45.700 The Kurds are going to come under attack.

00:19:47.600 And these are really good people.

00:19:49.340 And we have to discuss that today.

00:19:52.360 But I would ask for your prayers for the Nazarene Fund.

00:19:55.060 I would ask for your prayers for those Christians and those Kurds and those innocent Iraqis that are caught in the middle of this.

00:20:02.740 The Middle East is about to dramatically change.

00:20:07.440 This is as big as the Arab Spring. 0.77

00:20:12.200 I could be wrong, but I think this is going to be as big as the Arab Spring and not necessarily in a good way.

00:20:18.200 David French coming up next.

00:20:21.480 Glenn Beck.

00:20:26.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:29.160 So David French wrote an article.

00:20:31.500 He's a senior writer at the National Review.

00:20:33.980 And when I saw the headline, I had to find out how he got there.

00:20:38.280 The headline was, I understand why they knelt.

00:20:41.780 It was it's an amazing read.

00:20:45.260 And he joins us to talk to joins us now to talk about that and also Judge Moore's win last night.

00:20:52.540 So, David, welcome to the program.

00:20:54.540 Let's let's start first with Judge Moore.

00:20:56.640 If you if you if you have any thoughts on that at all.

00:20:59.500 What does that tell you?

00:21:01.020 What happened last night?

00:21:02.360 You know, it tells me that the populist wave that swept Trump in and a populist wave that really is dominant in the South is still dominant.

00:21:11.600 I mean, we a lot of people forget that that Trump really catapulted in it really began to lock down the nomination and Super Tuesday, which was a southern dominated primary primary.

00:21:23.700 And if there's one thing, if you follow the politics of the South, if you studied the politics of the South, populism has sold here for generations.

00:21:32.520 So it doesn't surprise me at all.

00:21:35.160 I mean, it is populism in the South.

00:21:37.020 Boy, this is so controversial.

00:21:38.440 And please, if you're listening in the South, instead of getting mad, let's have a discussion and talk about actual history.

00:21:46.680 But populism in the South really with reconstruction and even the Civil War, populists created this illusion that the Civil War was not about slavery.

00:21:59.620 It was about states' rights, which is so clearly debunked if you just read the Confederate Constitution.

00:22:07.300 I mean, it's you don't have to have any conversation on it at all.

00:22:10.020 But populism has has swept the South up into this glory days of this was about something different than slavery.

00:22:20.020 And it is it continues through today.

00:22:24.020 So I'm reading a few people, David, that say that Judge Moore is actually a great constitutionalist and a great conservative.

00:22:33.700 He's not a great constitutionalist.

00:22:36.220 I mean, this is a guy who had, you know, he's a populist folk hero is what he is because of his stance that he took regarding the Ten Commandments.

00:22:44.660 And he's a person who will catapult to defame by defying federal court orders that were lawful court orders that he disagreed with.

00:22:53.800 And so he decided to defy them.

00:22:56.320 Now, you know, look, that's all well and good when you love when you when you love his cause and you hate the order that he's defined.

00:23:03.160 You know, I'm somebody who's been arguing on behalf of the constitutional rights of students and faculty members in college campuses.

00:23:10.940 And we can pretty much bank on colleges not defying those court orders.

00:23:15.900 I mean, if we have a world where you just defy the court orders you don't like, it's a lawless world.

00:23:20.520 But it made him a folk hero for a lot of folks, especially for, you know, the folks who dominate a primary electorate in the in the state of Alabama.

00:23:29.380 And so it's nothing about this is surprising.

00:23:31.820 This is exactly what you would expect.

00:23:34.360 And I think the populist sort of wave has not abated at all down here.

00:23:40.200 And I live in Tennessee.

00:23:41.460 I just live about 40 miles north of Alabama.

00:23:44.560 And you can feel it.

00:23:46.780 The populist wave has not abated at all.

00:23:49.160 They still support Donald Trump.

00:23:50.460 But to the extent that they're disappointed with Donald Trump, it's mainly when he departs from the populism of the campaign.

00:23:56.360 Why is this dangerous to the average person, David?

00:24:00.320 They don't understand why the wrapping yourself in the flag and populism is a bad thing.

00:24:08.520 Well, you know, often it's not based so much on ideas as it's based on an attitude.

00:24:15.140 It's based on an anger and it's based on a rage and it's based on a, frankly, a misunderstanding that this is the only way to win.

00:24:24.900 This is the only way to defeat the left.

00:24:27.300 And so what you have are politicians who are capitalizing on emotion, they're capitalizing on feeling, and they're not advocating particular ideas.

00:24:37.700 And what begins to happen when that happens is you start to define yourself by your opposition to the other side as opposed to what you're for.

00:24:45.540 I mean, and you see this all the time.

00:24:47.140 You see people who define whether or not something is good by the number, you know, the gallons of liberal tears being shed.

00:24:53.440 And it becomes inherently divisive.

00:24:56.900 It becomes devoid of ideas.

00:24:59.800 And the odd thing is, as populism increases, you'll actually have greater rage even with less ideological separation.

00:25:08.840 I mean, think of the 2016 election.

00:25:10.720 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were two of the least ideological candidates in modern times.

00:25:15.500 Hillary had been on every side of every issue except abortion. 1.00

00:25:18.500 Trump had been on every side of every issue, including abortion.

00:25:20.820 And yet it was the most vicious race of our adult lifetimes. 0.99

00:25:23.660 That's what happened.

00:25:25.600 So I was talking to Brad Meltzer, who's a great historian and writer, and we had a conversation yesterday.

00:25:33.120 And I said, we have abandoned the Judeo-Christian heroes. 1.00

00:25:38.380 We have abandoned Moses, who was not a warrior.

00:25:43.180 And we've abandoned Jesus, who was not a warrior.

00:25:46.980 And what I can't say that this is true for the entire West, because, you know, Europe still has enough of the fascist communist love in them that they like a strong man.

00:25:58.680 But it's not the same as it is in the Middle East.

00:26:01.260 And then when you went to Europe, it lessened.

00:26:04.500 And we had Jesus and Moses.

00:26:06.820 And when he came over here to America, we really believed for a long time.

00:26:11.480 Blessed is the peacemaker.

00:26:12.880 Look for the humble person.

00:26:15.040 Look for the quiet person.

00:26:17.220 And, you know, walk softly.

00:26:21.060 We've abandoned all of that now.

00:26:23.220 Haven't we lost the essence of who we are if we can't get back to a point to say, you know, the reasonable person, the quiet person, the peacemaker is the hero, not the one that punches people in the face?

00:26:42.280 Well, I mean, I think we're really on the knife's edge here in the sense that if we don't turn back from this notion that character no longer matters in a president, for example, or turn back from the notion that the ends justify the means or to use a popular phrase from the left by any means necessary.

00:27:02.700 You know, the polarization that we experience now is is only the beginning.

00:27:07.180 You know, and one of the more discouraging things that I've seen, again, you know, I live in rural Tennessee here in the South.

00:27:12.680 It's a very evangelical area.

00:27:14.500 And the number of my fellow evangelicals who who profess to believe that character matters in politicians has plummeted, plummeted.

00:27:23.500 They don't even seek it anymore.

00:27:25.180 They don't seek character.

00:27:27.160 And and character is destiny in so many ways, as my colleague Jonah Goldberg is fond of saying it.

00:27:32.060 And and when you have low character, you're going to the results that are achieved, the long term cultural damage, all of those things are going it's going to come back to bite you, the extent to which you wrap your arms around people of low character.

00:27:49.580 And that that is a problem that we're confronting in this country.

00:27:52.740 And look, it's on both sides.

00:27:54.500 I mean, as the 2016 election demonstrates.

00:27:57.960 So, you know, I think I think you're right.

00:28:00.540 I mean, we need to embrace people of high character.

00:28:03.400 So you wrote an article for National Review.

00:28:05.920 I understand why they knelt.

00:28:07.400 And I can't believe your day was pleasant after posting this.

00:28:12.560 But you you you brought out something really, really good.

00:28:15.680 You said, look, you know, everybody on the NFL that is cheering for free speech.

00:28:21.060 They're all too happy to sick the government on a tiny few bakers or florists who don't want to use their artistic talents to celebrate events they find offensive.

00:28:28.820 How many progressives who celebrated First Amendment on Sunday sympathize with the college students who chance speech is violence and try to seek to block conservatives from college campuses?

00:28:39.380 But then you went on to say, but as a conservative, I see many conservatives decry Google's termination of a young dissenting software engineer working overtime yesterday to argue that Trump is somehow in the right.

00:28:52.340 Yet Google is a private corporation and Trump is the most powerful government official in the land.

00:28:58.600 The First Amendment applies to Trump.

00:29:00.880 The First Amendment applies to Trump, not Google.

00:29:05.180 And his demands for reprisals are ultimately far more ominous.

00:29:10.880 Would you care to explain yourself, Mr. French?

00:29:13.100 Well, you know, let's back up a minute.

00:29:16.780 I mean, what we're talking about is a protest that was petering out.

00:29:20.320 I mean, Colin Kaepernick was out of the league.

00:29:22.200 There are a few people here and there who are kneeling.

00:29:25.120 And then Donald Trump went and he he didn't say, I did just I disagree with him.

00:29:30.120 He said they should be fired.

00:29:32.580 He called them names.

00:29:33.860 He said they should be fired.

00:29:35.280 Then in tweets, he didn't just go after, for example, these football players.

00:29:39.600 He went after Steph Curry because of Steph Curry's reluctance to go to the White House.

00:29:43.520 And then he then he even said, if people don't do what I say, which is stand, there should be economic boycotts and reprisals against the NFL.

00:29:52.860 Now, this is the most powerful man in the world.

00:29:54.660 And I want you to put on your thinking cap for the audience and say, what happened if Barack Obama said,

00:30:00.860 if Tim Tebow injects religion into the football field anymore and he kneels after a touchdown anymore, he should be fired that expletive.

00:30:11.660 He should be fired.

00:30:12.980 And then if he's not fired, we should boycott the NFL.

00:30:16.360 You can't tell me that the entire conservative world wouldn't absolutely melt down at that.

00:30:22.120 And so what happened was you had the most powerful person in the world trying to dictate to these individuals how they should express themselves.

00:30:31.380 And look, what happened last Sunday wasn't them.

00:30:35.080 It wasn't the Colin Kaepernick Black Lives Matter protest.

00:30:38.220 That wasn't what happened on Saturday.

00:30:40.120 What happened on Saturday was people saying to the president, you don't dictate how we speak.

00:30:45.140 So I absolutely understand that impulse, just as I would understand it if a whole bunch of players knelt with Tim Tebow to protest if Barack Obama did something like this.

00:30:56.060 And it's always very helpful to put on our thinking caps and say, what if the other side had done something similar towards somebody we perhaps liked?

00:31:04.740 Then it begins to clarify these issues.

00:31:07.180 My position, though, is we need to stop being so outraged about speech we disagree with.

00:31:14.440 Our position should be to rebut bad speech with better speech.

00:31:17.720 I didn't like Colin Kaepernick's protests, and I wrote that, and I tried to persuade people that his protest was not right.

00:31:25.680 They will say, though, that you can't persuade these people, and somebody's got to strike back.

00:31:29.620 That's what I hear all the time.

00:31:31.240 Well, I know.

00:31:32.780 I hear that all the time, too, Glenn.

00:31:34.280 This fight fire with fire, got to punch him back. 1.00

00:31:36.900 Now, let's see how well that works, okay?

00:31:39.420 So we had, what, 10, 12 NFL players the Sunday before kneeling.

00:31:45.540 So he punched back really hard, and what did we have?

00:31:48.380 200-plus kneeling.

00:31:50.260 You know, this fight fire with fire, often what it ends up doing is it makes you feel good because you're really, really mad,

00:31:57.460 but it doesn't accomplish what you want.

00:31:59.540 What it actually accomplishes is more division.

00:32:03.140 What it actually accomplishes is more rage, and what he actually accomplished was mainstreaming, kneeling for the national anthem and for the flag.

00:32:13.220 That's what he actually accomplished, and I'm saying let's turn down the temperature, and let's respect free speech,

00:32:19.000 and let's not freak out when somebody disagrees with us.

00:32:22.520 Let's have a consistent view that says the United States of America is a place where people have the right to be wrong,

00:32:27.400 and I'm going to try to persuade them when they're wrong, but even if they stay wrong, I'm going to tolerate that,

00:32:33.480 and I'm going to be okay with the fact that there are going to be people who are wrong in this society.

00:32:37.740 We'll never create a utopia, so we've got to learn how to live together when we don't agree with each other,

00:32:43.300 and it's not by saying I want to fire people who disagree with me and I want to fire people who offend me.

00:32:48.420 That's the wrong way to do it.

00:32:49.760 David, thank you for making members of the audience uncomfortable today with your speech.

00:32:55.500 Thank you very much.

00:32:56.320 It's one of the things I really like about David French and his writing is there are times I'll go into an article,

00:33:04.180 not know what to expect, and it'll challenge what I'm thinking, and I don't know.

00:33:07.840 I like that.

00:33:08.560 I think that's what we're supposed to do.

00:33:10.240 It's really healthy.

00:33:11.340 He's the senior writer at the National Review.

00:33:14.020 He wrote the book Rise of ISIS, A Threat We Can't Ignore.

00:33:16.300 He's an Iraq veteran, and the article is I Understand Why They Nelt.

00:33:19.720 We'll tweet it from at Glenn Beck and at World of Stew.

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00:35:10.800 Glenn Beck.

00:35:15.120 Glenn Beck.

00:35:18.720 So glad that you're here and joining us today.

00:35:21.080 Thank you so much.

00:35:22.100 Let me go to Brett in Alabama.

00:35:25.620 Hello, Brett.

00:35:26.480 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:28.620 Hey, Glenn.

00:35:29.400 How are you?

00:35:29.840 It's a pleasure to speak with you.

00:35:31.000 Thank you very much.

00:35:31.660 What happened yesterday in Alabama from your point on the ground?

00:35:36.480 Well, from my point of view, Luther Strange, he didn't lose.

00:35:43.160 It had nothing to do with Donald Trump.

00:35:45.440 He lost because of the sleazy way he got into office in the first place.

00:35:49.080 He was, at the time, investigating what we refer to as our love gov, Governor Bentley.

00:35:56.620 And all of a sudden, the investigation dropped for a short time, just long enough for Luther

00:36:01.080 Strange to be appointed to the Senate seat.

00:36:04.000 And that just did not sit right with me and doesn't sit right with a whole lot of people

00:36:09.760 I know.

00:36:10.160 So I have to tell you, my personal opinion, I think that's why I will tell you that all

00:36:15.860 politics are local.

00:36:17.260 And this is the kind of stuff that I think the national media always misses.

00:36:21.300 And especially when they have an agenda, when you want to be for or against Trump, you miss

00:36:25.640 things like that.

00:36:26.480 And if that indeed, I don't know because I don't live there, but if that indeed was what

00:36:32.920 was going on and the way people felt, that just puts him into the category of a Hillary

00:36:39.640 Clinton in a way.

00:36:40.640 And people are done with those special favors, backroom deals, that kind of a politician.

00:36:46.920 It's why Hillary Clinton lost. 0.98

00:36:49.120 You believe that it's why Strange lost as well.

00:36:52.060 I do, and I also believe that's one of the reasons our new governor, Kay Ivey, pushed

00:36:57.200 for the special election.

00:36:59.320 You know, the original plan when Governor Bentley was still in was Luther Strange was just going

00:37:03.360 to ride out the remainder of the term.

00:37:06.120 But once we got rid of Governor Bentley and the new governor came in, she ordered the special

00:37:12.080 election, and I believe that was the right thing to do.

00:37:14.060 Good.

00:37:14.560 Thank you so much, Brett.

00:37:15.380 I appreciate it.

00:37:16.380 An amazing, amazing hour next.

00:37:19.540 Don't miss it.

00:37:20.100 Glenn Beck.

00:37:37.240 Love.

00:37:39.300 Courage.

00:37:40.660 Truth.

00:37:42.120 Glenn Beck.

00:37:43.160 So what matters most?

00:37:44.220 Well, when you're a dialysis patient and you can't get dialysis or you need oxygen, but

00:37:51.820 your tank is running out, generators without any diesel, no electricity, disabled people 1.00

00:37:58.260 stuck in their home without a way to get any kind of food or supply or even help.

00:38:02.700 That's what matters most.

00:38:04.120 It certainly isn't an NFL football game or what somebody decides to do standing or sitting

00:38:08.480 or kneeling at a football game.

00:38:10.780 The reality of what matters most is happening right now in Puerto Rico.

00:38:15.740 It has been a week since Hurricane Maria devastated the island and killed 10 people.

00:38:21.220 Almost the entire island is still without electricity or cell phone service.

00:38:25.960 Officials say it's going to take months to restore electricity.

00:38:29.600 Assessing the damage is even difficult.

00:38:31.620 Right now, there are a few flights into the island and emergency power efforts are focused on

00:38:36.380 hospitals, and predictably, President Trump is tweeting.

00:38:40.840 He's being criticized by politicians and celebrities now on the left for not focusing enough attention

00:38:46.040 on Puerto Rico with his tweets.

00:38:48.120 They hate when he tweets, but now he's not tweeting enough, apparently.

00:38:52.460 This is a home of 3.4 million American citizens, but it doesn't matter if they're citizens or not.

00:39:00.180 Last week, Trump declared Puerto Rico a disaster zone, making it eligible for federal aid.

00:39:09.340 He sent FEMA, the FEMA head, Brock Long, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert to the island,

00:39:15.580 and 10,000 FEMA workers.

00:39:17.940 10,000.

00:39:19.720 He also said there's some other problems on the island.

00:39:23.200 He said that it is the island's broken infrastructure, ancient electrical grid, and the fact that

00:39:29.940 Puerto Rico is an island that tends to complicate relief efforts just a bit.

00:39:35.500 Now, President Trump has announced that he's going to visit Puerto Rico on October 3rd.

00:39:39.300 Really?

00:39:39.820 Why?

00:39:40.380 They don't really need a state visit, Mr. President.

00:39:42.640 They really don't.

00:39:43.480 That only complicates things.

00:39:46.240 Here's what the people of Puerto Rico do need.

00:39:49.460 Congress needs to lift the Jones Act.

00:39:52.060 Look this up.

00:39:54.560 We'll explain it later.

00:39:56.360 But basically, what that says is all ships, all planes from anywhere in the world have to come to the United States first and then to Puerto Rico.

00:40:06.400 That is ridiculous to have that in place, especially at this point.

00:40:12.580 They need to lift it so boats and planes from all over the world and the United States can assist in the relief effort.

00:40:22.060 And it can come directly to the citizens of Puerto Rico.

00:40:26.940 That's what needs to be done.

00:40:30.180 And we also have to remember that the government should not be the first resort.

00:40:35.160 The government in America is our last resort.

00:40:37.280 If only the NFL player protest had tried to raise awareness for something else.

00:40:43.900 Maybe all of us would get our priorities right.

00:40:46.960 And remember what matters most.

00:40:50.280 It's Wednesday, September 27th.

00:41:08.400 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:10.900 There is a guy.

00:41:11.980 There's very few people that have come on this program that have that I've put into the category of a real hero, a global hero.

00:41:24.520 Somebody who is actually facing down giants and not popular with anyone except the people and has stared down true dictators and rewriting history and the book of how things are done.

00:41:44.800 Living in Egypt, there are there are no satire.

00:41:48.940 They don't have the daily show.

00:41:51.060 They don't have they don't have shows where you take on the president.

00:41:54.060 You find yourself in a prison.

00:41:57.380 The world is radically different in the Middle East.

00:42:01.000 There's a guy who was a doctor and during the Arab Spring, he went out to Tahrir Square and he just started aiding people, helping people.

00:42:11.660 And what he saw was different than what he was seeing on television.

00:42:15.160 He decided to do a YouTube television show with a friend and it became an overnight success.

00:42:23.440 Gigantic.

00:42:24.040 Before you know it, he's now doing a television show where he's actually taking on the president of his country and doing things that had never, ever been done before under a dictatorship.

00:42:37.720 He has been hated by Mubarak.

00:42:40.620 He was arrested by Morsi and Al-Sisi doesn't like him all that much either.

00:42:46.060 His name is Dr. Bassam Yosef, and he joins us now.

00:42:50.300 They call him the John Stewart of Egypt.

00:42:52.860 Welcome, Bassam.

00:42:54.260 How are you?

00:42:55.420 Hello, Glenn.

00:42:56.240 How are you?

00:42:56.940 Such a pleasure to to talk to you, man.

00:43:00.480 I mean, I've known you forever.

00:43:04.220 Such a pleasure.

00:43:05.120 How are you?

00:43:05.640 Thank you.

00:43:06.360 I would imagine that you have strong opinions about me and we can get to those if you care to later.

00:43:13.900 But I would rather talk about you.

00:43:16.340 No, no, no, no.

00:43:16.940 I enjoy all your views.

00:43:19.300 And I have to say that, like, I have watched you.

00:43:22.560 I don't know.

00:43:23.500 Like, I find your ways.

00:43:27.100 And I don't know.

00:43:29.000 I respect all kinds of freedom of speech.

00:43:31.600 And I have no strong opinions about you at all, no.

00:43:35.000 Well, that's fine.

00:43:35.960 So, Bassam, you know, the one thing that we should come together on is I was really concerned about the Arab Spring because of the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.97

00:43:46.000 And I really felt that the the, you know, as I said back at the time, Mubarak is a monster.

00:43:53.900 And we've as Americans, we helped create him.

00:43:57.260 I mean, we have no business to to to tell anybody about freedom.

00:44:03.040 We were in bed with Mubarak for a long time. 0.97

00:44:05.520 Horrible person.

00:44:06.620 And here we are with our ghost plane sending people in saying we're not going to torture anybody.

00:44:10.940 We'll just bring you to Mubarak. 0.70

00:44:12.420 And I was concerned because I do know the history of the Middle East, not like you do. 0.95

00:44:19.140 And I do know the I take people who are Islamic extremist at their word. 0.99

00:44:26.300 And I saw the Arab Spring as an opportunity for those who wanted to create caliphates. 0.91

00:44:32.960 As it turns out, you guys dodged a bullet and it was ISIS and, you know, forming the caliphate.

00:44:41.680 And you guys got away from the Muslim Brotherhood in watching your documentary. 0.99

00:44:47.780 I can't imagine living it.

00:44:49.800 Can you can you tell the American people what it is like to go through a revolution?

00:44:56.300 Yeah, it's it's very chaotic.

00:44:58.680 I chose comedy and satire to go through it, which was very difficult because we had to write comedy where things were basically falling apart outside, especially threats.

00:45:09.740 I mean, like there were people I was put under siege in my theater writing my show and I was put under siege by people who are supporters by the military, not the Islamists.

00:45:20.460 So so the thing is, you are completely right about being scared of the Islamists and it's totally justified. 1.00

00:45:27.920 But what people miss is that the Islamism, radical Islamists, has been also a tool by military as much as it was a tool by Islamists.

00:45:37.380 Oh, I agree.

00:45:38.480 Yeah, it was Sadat in 1980, who was actually gave a greater power to Sharia in the Constitution in order to have unlimited times of reelection. 0.65

00:45:48.740 It was the al-Haqq in Pakistan who also pushed into the Sharia laws so he will appease the Islamists. 0.98

00:45:54.620 It was Jafar Numeri in Sudan who changed the country into an Islamic state because military dictatorship was not working. 0.67

00:46:01.080 And even now, right now, the military under Sisi is using all of the conservative values of Islamism.

00:46:08.520 It's kind of like, oh, our Islamism is better than their Islamism. 1.00

00:46:11.880 And everybody, and they has put people in jail because they tried to reform some interpretation of the religion.

00:46:18.300 So the thing is, I don't think that the Muslim Brotherhood were on the way to the caliphate.

00:46:23.220 As a matter of fact, they were in bed with the military.

00:46:25.740 The military actually pushed them to the front because the Muslim Brotherhood would give them guarantees so they will keep their own benefits. 1.00

00:46:36.320 So it is basically a game.

00:46:38.060 You know that the most radical people in Egypt are the Salafis, which is kind of like the right, right, right, right, right, right wing.

00:46:44.720 It's kind of like Muslim Brotherhood on steroids. 1.00

00:46:47.280 They were created by the Mubarak regime.

00:46:49.280 And why?

00:46:50.360 Because these military regimes, they tell the West, hey, we are, quote, unquote, secular.

00:46:56.960 If we go, you will have these people to deal with.

00:47:00.400 So it's kind of like either me or chaos, either me or ISIS.

00:47:04.960 What do you choose?

00:47:05.800 So, of course, all of the Western administration say, all right, all right, you know what?

00:47:10.000 He's a son of SOB, but he's our SOB.

00:47:12.680 And it is in their benefit to keep that duality so they do not support education, they don't support awareness, they don't support openness.

00:47:23.240 It is their own best interest to have people stuck between the duality, the bully with the gun or the bully with the Sharia. 0.99

00:47:31.880 So we see, Bassem, we see people over here.

00:47:35.280 I mean, we're marching in the streets on both sides, marching in the streets now.

00:47:38.800 And they're, you know, I'm so oppressed and blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:47:42.680 And then you see people like you, where people in America don't have any concept of going on television or going online and telling a joke about a president or a leader and then being arrested for that or being disappeared.

00:48:00.320 Yeah, yeah, yes, yes.

00:48:02.020 And this is a blessing.

00:48:03.080 I mean, I know that you guys are always kind of concerned about how, like, the state of democracy.

00:48:10.580 And I think this is a good thing.

00:48:11.920 I mean, you know, when I always get asked, it's like, Bassem, do you think we are like a bunch of kids because we are complaining while you guys, like, went through a lot?

00:48:19.820 I said, no, I think you should be complaining because it's like you guys are like someone who is used to a certain kind of service.

00:48:27.580 He goes into a restaurant.

00:48:29.200 He doesn't like his soup.

00:48:30.740 It's cold.

00:48:31.720 He turns it away.

00:48:32.560 Nobody on the other table is like, oh, you should be grateful because other people in the world don't have food to eat.

00:48:37.780 No, you have actually worked, like, for the past 400 years, civil war, revolution, at the beginning, civil rights, to get this kind of service.

00:48:47.480 So when people think that this is not the kind of service they paid for through their history, they should be upset.

00:48:54.360 And it's fine.

00:48:55.100 So it doesn't have like, you shouldn't be waiting until it actually goes down the drain like the Middle East. 1.00

00:49:00.400 So I agree with you, but here's where, you know, I'm probably a little more like you in some ways.

00:49:09.100 I'm hated by every president of our country.

00:49:11.500 I don't think I've been liked by a president since Ronald Reagan, and I mean that literally.

00:49:15.920 But for you.

00:49:16.720 But the last two presidents have made it personal.

00:49:21.400 The last two presidents have, and it's getting worse, are making this very, very personal.

00:49:30.080 And we're starting to creep to a place to where, you know, the president just this last weekend said, you know, you should be you should be fired from your job.

00:49:39.340 They should, you know, run you out of business, whatever, for freedom of speech.

00:49:44.640 And Americans are losing the understanding on both sides of the aisle that the only speech that needs protecting is the speech that the majority or those in power don't like.

00:50:00.260 And so we have to.

00:50:02.440 How can you teach Americans that you got to tolerate the stuff you really despise?

00:50:10.360 Well, actually, I don't think that you need to teach Americans. 0.94

00:50:13.420 Because you have a president to teach, not the Americans.

00:50:16.820 Because the thing is, as an outsider, as a complete outsider, that is my biggest problem with the current president.

00:50:26.540 It's not because he's biased against people like me, who has a skin like me, has an accent like me, or come from a place like me.

00:50:34.500 Because that's kind of like a genital.

00:50:36.800 My biggest issue with him is that he doesn't understand the concept of becoming a public servant.

00:50:45.200 He is still acting as a celebrity, rich guy who doesn't accept criticism.

00:50:52.000 And you know what really bugged me?

00:50:53.900 Not all, like, there's a lot of stuff that bugged me about me.

00:50:56.760 But, like, this year, when he said, you know what, I'm not going to the correspondent dinner.

00:51:01.060 I'm not going to that tradition where every president in the United States, since, like, the only one who bailed out was Reagan because he was shot.

00:51:10.540 You know?

00:51:10.860 So, he said, like, I'm not going so that you can make fun of me.

00:51:15.200 And this is a tradition that, you know, outside the world, outside America, how the world looked at the correspondent dinner.

00:51:22.480 And it's like, wow, they have a president.

00:51:25.540 He's there.

00:51:26.500 And he's being roasted for a whole night.

00:51:30.260 This is amazing.

00:51:31.320 And he said, no, I'm not going because I'm above this.

00:51:34.280 And this is his problem.

00:51:35.620 He doesn't understand that it is okay because people voted for him.

00:51:39.940 People are paying his salary because of the tax.

00:51:44.180 So, you have, you have, you say this kind of, not about Trump.

00:51:49.500 You say this in your own, in the documentary about your experience.

00:51:54.620 You talk a little bit about how, you know, these guys, we have to be able to make fun of our leader.

00:52:04.000 Absolutely.

00:52:04.480 But that's totally foreign to you.

00:52:07.860 Absolutely.

00:52:08.420 Absolutely.

00:52:09.040 And the thing is, in the Middle East, it's totally different.

00:52:11.500 It's not like a rich guy who doesn't understand the concept of being a public servant.

00:52:15.860 It is people who have been living with, it's like a whole region that has lived for so long into a patriarchal system.

00:52:22.260 It's like, like, he's a father.

00:52:23.920 He's the leader.

00:52:24.760 He's the inspirational guru.

00:52:27.940 It is something that you cannot touch.

00:52:30.120 And it starts from a very young age.

00:52:31.980 You can't talk back against your parents.

00:52:34.040 You can't talk back against your teacher, against your boss, all the way up to the president.

00:52:41.680 And this has been ingrained in us.

00:52:43.440 So, when I went out and I made fun of it, I said, oh, that's not appropriate.

00:52:47.600 It's like, all right.

00:52:48.120 So, that's not appropriate.

00:52:49.100 But, like, torturing people, jailing people is appropriate. 1.00

00:52:52.240 It's really weird what people would consider is appropriate.

00:52:56.280 It's like, I've been, like, hearing you, like, you know, before I went in.

00:53:00.000 And you were saying, like, Puerto Rico is suffering.

00:53:02.420 And people are talking about, like, whether we should kneel or not for the flag.

00:53:05.900 It's crazy.

00:53:07.200 It's crazy.

00:53:08.280 People are offended by, like, kneeling for the flag.

00:53:11.820 But they're not offended by what's happening to fellow Americans on this island.

00:53:14.860 So, Bassem Yosef is joining us.

00:53:17.320 We'll continue our conversation.

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00:54:28.860 We have Dr. Bassem Yosef on, and we're going to run out of time with him, and I could spend

00:54:46.580 two hours with him.

00:54:48.380 But first of all, let me just say this.

00:54:50.360 Bassem, we have a Muslim Egyptian on our own staff who is a huge fan.

00:54:56.600 His family lives in Egypt, and they are huge fans.

00:55:01.580 I'm going to get spanked by everybody in the family if I don't say thank you for them for

00:55:07.440 what you've done in Egypt. 0.62

00:55:09.140 Oh, my God.

00:55:09.600 That's amazing.

00:55:10.600 Thank you so much.

00:55:11.720 So let me ask you two quick questions.

00:55:16.060 We have very little time left.

00:55:17.240 You've seen now this whole revolution.

00:55:21.320 You've watched it.

00:55:22.040 Are you optimistic for Egypt and the Middle East?

00:55:25.980 On the long run, yes.

00:55:27.660 Because it had to be done.

00:55:29.760 It had to be done because, you know, in the age of social media and Snapchat and Instagram

00:55:37.060 and instant likes and shares, I think we got used to things have to happen instantly.

00:55:42.220 So we were fooled by, oh, my God, we had a revolution in 18 days.

00:55:46.140 Yeah, we got Mubarak down.

00:55:47.620 And then, oh, my God, it's going down the drain.

00:55:49.820 But if you look at history, history doesn't work this way.

00:55:53.000 Look at America.

00:55:53.900 A hundred years in, you had a civil war.

00:55:56.440 And even your revolution just didn't snap 1976.

00:55:59.460 And then you had a constitution.

00:56:00.600 You had a Bill of Rights.

00:56:01.720 There was, like, fights and malicious fire wars in the streets.

00:56:04.740 And people, like, and it took them, like, another hundred years for civil rights. 0.95

00:56:08.300 So it doesn't work this way.

00:56:10.520 Look to Europe.

00:56:12.440 It's kind of like, I hate to say this, but, I mean, I think there's a blood tax that humanity

00:56:18.700 has to pay to learn.

00:56:20.520 And we've seen that in Europe, in Latin America.

00:56:23.220 We've seen that in Latin America.

00:56:24.520 I think so, too.

00:56:24.980 And I think we will have to pay it.

00:56:26.860 We have to pay it to learn.

00:56:28.160 We didn't pay our tax yet.

00:56:30.580 And here's the one optimistic thing that's going out of the revolution.

00:56:35.520 Because I know that you're looking in the Middle East now, and it looks terrible.

00:56:39.480 But there has been, if you look closely, questioning was not a popular thing.

00:56:47.260 We have 45 seconds.

00:56:48.880 Yeah.

00:56:49.240 So popular, people are very popular.

00:56:51.780 People now are questioning everything, questioning things about religion, questioning them

00:56:54.860 about military.

00:56:55.800 And this is what came out of the revolution, the questioning.

00:56:59.000 And that's a prequel of a revolution.

00:57:00.280 But, Sam, I'd love to talk to you again.

00:57:04.620 And I wish you all the best of luck.

00:57:07.100 I truly believe you are a, you are one of the bravest people on television anywhere in

00:57:13.280 the world, as you have active, real active threats from the power structure, no matter

00:57:19.740 who's in power.

00:57:21.400 And it's an honor to speak to you.

00:57:23.240 Thank you so much, sir.

00:57:23.820 It's an honor to speak to you, sir.

00:57:24.820 Thank you.

00:57:25.120 You bet.

00:57:26.380 Name of the video that you must see is Tickling Giants.

00:57:31.460 And the book, Revolution for Dummies, laughing through the Arab Spring. 0.65

00:57:36.000 I mean, I...

00:57:37.320 Have you seen the documentary?

00:57:38.640 I've only seen parts of it.

00:57:39.800 It is.

00:57:40.380 This guy, I mean, when he's...

00:57:42.580 When they're writing comedy and he's like, um, so-and-so had their father arrested last

00:57:47.560 night because of this show, are we doing the right thing?

00:57:50.640 It's remarkable.

00:57:52.780 Glenn Beck.

00:58:04.580 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:06.320 You know, there's a ton of things that I am, I, well, I know that, um, the, um, uh, the

00:58:18.120 good doctor from Egypt, uh, and I will disagree on, um, but I really can't urge you enough

00:58:27.260 to, you know, even share this documentary with your older kids.

00:58:31.480 I mean, it has some, uh, dicey language in it as it's a group of comedy writers who have

00:58:37.280 never written comedy before in their life.

00:58:39.680 It's, this is a remarkable story.

00:58:42.020 You don't realize what it's like in the rest of the world.

00:58:49.040 And here's a guy who was a heart surgeon and a good one.

00:58:53.020 And he decides he's in Tahrir Square and he sees that he's, you know, seeing on TV a

00:58:59.780 bunch of lies and it's, it's state run TV.

00:59:01.900 So he goes on the internet and the internet opens up, you know, the people say there's

00:59:08.140 finally somebody, a guy on somebody, a guy on the internet who's saying what the people

00:59:14.100 are saying and been saying without any fear.

00:59:17.800 And it takes off on the internet.

00:59:20.200 He then gets a television show, uh, of his own within, I think a year.

00:59:25.180 Cause he just, he sweeps the nation and Mubarak is swept out and he is excited and he thinks,

00:59:31.900 okay, you know, Morsi is going to be the guy.

00:59:35.620 And then as that goes on, he realizes, oh my gosh, Morsi is not, this is another dictatorship

00:59:41.380 and he's got to go.

00:59:43.920 And he reflects the, the people and Morsi actually come.

00:59:48.220 And it's, it's a, it's an intense scene where they are filming him at his house and he's

00:59:55.740 watching the news where they are saying, we're going to have to arrest him.

01:00:00.260 And Morsi has just issued an arrest.

01:00:03.160 He has blasphemed Islam.

01:00:05.060 Now imagine this here, you're living in Egypt.

01:00:08.860 You have mocked the Egyptian people and government and you've blasphemed Islam. 0.88

01:00:14.420 He's dead. 0.95

01:00:17.320 He sends his family away and says, you got to get away from me.

01:00:23.100 And then he's sitting there in his home by himself and he's just watching the news and

01:00:28.940 he realizes, I've just got to go turn myself in.

01:00:33.200 And he turns himself in with all of the clerics and everything on television, on state run television

01:00:38.840 saying, you know, do you have the right to shoot him?

01:00:41.580 You know, not yet, not yet.

01:00:44.420 And he turns himself in.

01:00:47.240 Luckily for him, the Supreme Court lets him go and he returns.

01:00:53.340 Morsi is then toppled.

01:00:55.940 Al-Sisi comes in and Al-Sisi is, is using the, using his power to also crack down.

01:01:06.200 There's a chilling thing.

01:01:07.840 I happen to like Al-Sisi myself.

01:01:10.180 I've seen what he's been doing in many other areas.

01:01:15.180 This is the first time I've seen what he's been doing with the media, which I, I didn't

01:01:19.540 like.

01:01:19.900 I, you know, he's talking about, Hey, you know, it takes time before I can get control

01:01:23.240 of the media and tell them what to say and what not to say.

01:01:25.780 But that's the culture over there.

01:01:29.540 And, uh, we as Americans need to understand.

01:01:34.040 Yeah, we got some problems.

01:01:35.100 We do have problems, but we're not, we don't have problems like this and we can't silence

01:01:42.380 dissent.

01:01:43.180 But we cannot create this.

01:01:46.000 Yeah.

01:01:46.140 He's being gracious too.

01:01:47.260 When he says, um, and if you haven't seen the, the documentary is called tickling giants,

01:01:51.380 where we just talked to the guy it was about in Egypt, they call him the John Stewart of

01:01:55.900 Egypt.

01:01:56.340 Um, basically meaning he's the, a comedian, uh, in Egypt, but I mean, taking, uh, stands in

01:02:01.440 such a different way.

01:02:02.120 I mean, I was watching this show, um, a clip of it, um, last night that the new show on

01:02:07.080 comedy central and they're launching it.

01:02:09.100 And basically it's the Colbert report.

01:02:11.460 Yes.

01:02:11.720 Um, but they're trying to do like an Alex Jones thing with it.

01:02:15.300 And so I wanted to see like, is this going to be any good?

01:02:17.840 You know, you want to, you know, so I watch a little bit of it and he starts it with this

01:02:22.380 monologue about how, um, he's mocking the right, which he includes Alex Jones and for

01:02:29.060 God only knows what reason.

01:02:30.460 Um, but he, he, he's mocking the right and he's saying things like, Oh, well, you know,

01:02:36.320 one thing we never want to do here is listen to anyone else's viewpoint.

01:02:39.180 We, all we want is our views to be confirmed all the time.

01:02:43.420 That's how you know, something's true.

01:02:44.580 And the crowd's going crazy.

01:02:45.940 Do you not see that you are illustrating your own point with your audience?

01:02:50.500 I mean, what world is this?

01:02:52.700 You're, you're sitting here saying, uh, while your crowd is cheering at their views being

01:02:58.820 confirmed, you're criticizing the other side for wanting their views to be confirmed.

01:03:03.340 And I like, I, you know, and we look at that as this big, this weird, this tough bat battle 1.00

01:03:09.420 right in the media where someone like him, the guy might go to prison for making a freaking 0.89

01:03:15.340 joke. 0.95

01:03:16.080 I mean, he might, he might have one of his writers get shot in the streets if they criticize

01:03:20.580 the wrong person.

01:03:21.500 There's, there's a scene in there where somebody is shot, I think in their stairwell

01:03:25.380 and, uh, and it's just, it's just bloody.

01:03:29.600 And they goes to the comedy writing and they're like, we don't know how to write.

01:03:35.720 We have to write a show.

01:03:37.020 We don't know.

01:03:37.580 People are dying all around us and people are being shot in the streets and we don't know

01:03:42.600 what to do.

01:03:43.200 And he gives this pretty stirring speech to his staff and gets into an argument with his

01:03:48.320 staff at one point.

01:03:50.060 Um, and, and he's like, look, actions, actions.

01:03:55.580 This isn't about words.

01:03:57.120 We have to be about action.

01:03:59.620 We can, this is not going to be solved by another demonstration in the street.

01:04:03.960 It's not going to be solved by another boycott.

01:04:06.300 It's not going to be solved by any of that.

01:04:08.280 It's, we have to have principles and then live those in our actions.

01:04:15.820 That's not heard.

01:04:17.180 It's not heard.

01:04:19.260 I mean, we have to be a place, all of us, we have to be a place to where we can question

01:04:26.700 our own side, question the other side and be comfortable with somebody who is disagreeing

01:04:33.420 with us.

01:04:33.800 As I said yesterday, there is a real problem in our country with safe spaces in Egypt, your 1.00

01:04:43.560 words make you unsafe in Egypt. 0.97

01:04:47.620 By saying something, the government can come arrest you and kill you. 0.98

01:04:54.500 Your words make you unsafe.

01:04:57.740 In America, your words don't make you unsafe.

01:05:03.500 Don't talk to me about a safe zone.

01:05:06.280 You're not unsafe.

01:05:08.040 You're uncomfortable.

01:05:09.680 And there is a very big difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe.

01:05:15.340 Life is not comfortable.

01:05:17.860 Life is not comfortable.

01:05:17.960 It's not.

01:05:19.560 Nothing good has ever come from being comfortable your whole life.

01:05:25.220 Why did Jesus say, well, you know, rich man's never going to be able to make it into heaven.

01:05:29.540 Why?

01:05:29.840 Because he's too comfortable.

01:05:32.700 He's not willing to let go of all of the comforts that he has surrounded himself with.

01:05:40.960 You're supposed to be uncomfortable, especially in college.

01:05:45.100 You're supposed to be uncomfortable.

01:05:47.680 Yeah, Matt Walsh has written about this many times on TheBlaze.com in that religion should 0.73

01:05:53.340 make you uncomfortable.

01:05:54.500 It should make you feel like people are looking at you because you're the one standing out

01:05:59.340 because you're supposed to be standing out.

01:06:01.580 Your actions are supposed to make you feel weird.

01:06:04.060 Yes.

01:06:04.460 And even in church.

01:06:06.300 Church should not be a comfortable place for you.

01:06:09.560 It should not be that audience on Comedy Central confirming your viewpoints, confirming all

01:06:15.020 the choices you've made in your life.

01:06:16.300 You know what it is?

01:06:17.420 You know, too many, I think too many Christians and this happens across the board, but let 1.00

01:06:23.460 me just use Christians.

01:06:25.280 Too many Christians look at our churches as a hospital, which I think it should be. 0.99

01:06:32.740 The church is a hospital.

01:06:33.940 That's what it is.

01:06:34.640 I am, I have been out on the battlefield for the last week, six days.

01:06:41.320 I've been taking shots, spiritual shots, and I am spent.

01:06:45.760 I got nothing left.

01:06:47.320 You go to the spiritual hospital and they bind your wounds.

01:06:50.540 They get you back up.

01:06:51.760 They give you some medicine and say, get back out there.

01:06:54.920 Okay.

01:06:55.280 That's what it is.

01:06:57.020 Unfortunately, too many churches and too many Christians look at that hospital as, well,

01:07:02.340 the Sunday meeting is when all the doctors meet.

01:07:05.600 Man, when we all get together for that hour or so, that's all the doctors coming in and

01:07:10.340 saying, oh, we're going to help everybody else.

01:07:12.760 We're going to cure them.

01:07:14.540 No, I'm sorry.

01:07:16.360 Then if that's the way it is, then I'm in the wrong church.

01:07:20.020 I'm not a doctor.

01:07:21.500 I'm not a doctor.

01:07:22.380 I'm a patient.

01:07:23.880 I'm struggling.

01:07:25.180 I need help.

01:07:26.460 I need healing.

01:07:27.940 I need answers.

01:07:28.940 I need medicine.

01:07:29.880 I need forgiveness, and I need to know how to forgive others, and I need to know how

01:07:35.160 to forgive myself.

01:07:37.340 I'm a patient, not a doctor.

01:07:42.800 We just want to be in our own little group and cheer and point at the other group.

01:07:49.180 It's why I don't do Bill Maher.

01:07:50.820 I have respect for Bill Maher.

01:07:51.920 I've defended Bill Maher for years.

01:07:54.660 I also disagree with him entirely on only about 93.7 percent of the 90, but probably

01:08:01.740 literally 95 percent of the time.

01:08:03.940 I completely disagree with him.

01:08:06.340 However.

01:08:08.160 Sometimes he's right, and I defend his right to be right, and I defend his right to be wrong.

01:08:15.780 He's asked me to come on the show several times.

01:08:17.580 I won't go on his show because he has an audience that is screaming for red meat. 1.00

01:08:21.860 They cheer.

01:08:23.120 We are not in the Roman Colosseum, and it's what we've created with Facebook and Twitter

01:08:30.620 and everything else.

01:08:31.720 We've created a system to where I'm only saying it so I can hear your cheers through likes.

01:08:40.240 Coming up, we want to tell you about the tax plan.

01:08:55.380 The Washington Post has acquired it.

01:08:57.400 It's a nine-page outline on what the tax pitch is going to be.

01:09:02.180 It's not going to go well.

01:09:03.060 Give me the details in a moment.

01:09:04.480 Our world is a place of uncertainty and stress.

01:09:07.760 Stress from the tension and the possible military action in North Korea, what happened with Kurdistan.

01:09:16.720 They took a vote today in Iraq to, the Kurds did, to break away and establish their own state.

01:09:25.240 This is going to put the Middle East in great peril, I think.

01:09:30.880 Turkey is already mobilizing their armies.

01:09:33.260 So is Iran. 0.97

01:09:34.160 So is Iraq. 0.93

01:09:34.860 Then we have everything going on from the hurricanes is still going on in Houston and Florida and what is happening in Puerto Rico.

01:09:43.500 And the impact on all of these things on your money, your family's livelihood, what you have in a 401k, what you have in your pension fund.

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01:11:03.680 Glenn Beck.

01:11:04.840 Glenn Beck.

01:11:14.120 There is something really very, very disturbing that I saw yesterday.

01:11:20.680 In fact, I had a couple of senators write to me and say, Glenn, is this true?

01:11:23.740 And yes, it is.

01:11:25.540 A military guy from West Point tweeted some pictures of him about the communist will win.

01:11:33.800 And he's a, you know, he's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

01:11:39.960 And it's just really, it's frightening.

01:11:42.700 It's really frightening.

01:11:43.880 The military is aware of it.

01:11:45.480 And we'll bring you up to speed.

01:11:48.360 But it's something you should be aware of, unfortunately.

01:11:52.420 Let's talk about the health care bill is now out.

01:11:56.600 As of Friday, it's over.

01:11:59.360 And you are, we're going to be paying a lot higher medical care premiums next week.

01:12:06.840 Judge Moore won in Alabama last night that they are saying that that's another defeat for Donald Trump.

01:12:15.560 Not sure if that's really what that says.

01:12:18.220 But now he's going on to taxes.

01:12:20.920 The Washington Post just got a nine-page outline of what the new tax plan is.

01:12:26.360 And it's going to be a tough one.

01:12:28.180 It's going to be a tough one.

01:12:29.800 Well, there's a lot of good things in here.

01:12:32.800 It is typically going to drop taxes for a lot of people.

01:12:37.120 It would lower the tax rates for the upper range from 39.6, which it currently is, to 35.

01:12:45.100 It's not a big cut, but it is a little bit less.

01:12:47.740 One of the things you're going to see from Democrats is that it actually raises the rate on the lowest tax bracket from 10% to 12%.

01:12:56.260 Why would you do that?

01:12:57.340 Why would you do that?

01:12:58.020 Well, it's not true.

01:12:59.280 I mean, it is, the rate does change.

01:13:01.400 However, the standard deduction gets bigger.

01:13:03.980 So essentially what they're doing is they're expanding a 0% tax bracket to many more people.

01:13:09.500 So you will pay no taxes on your first $24,000 at all if you're married, $12,000 if you're not.

01:13:16.600 But the rate, they will have a talking point to a lot of people that are not paying attention with the rate going higher from 10% to 12%.

01:13:23.920 Now, I will say, all the rates, all the individual brackets are higher than what Trump ran on in the campaign.

01:13:31.480 That is something to know.

01:13:33.320 His rates were lower then.

01:13:34.700 There's some other tax benefits for individuals.

01:13:37.220 The biggest changes really come for corporate rates.

01:13:40.760 They will lower the sole proprietorship and S-corp, those rates.

01:13:46.240 A lot of people file as individuals.

01:13:47.960 If you do that and you have a small business, it's going to go from 39.6% to 25% if they get this through.

01:13:54.440 There's a big drop.

01:13:55.360 Also, a big drop in the corporate rate.

01:13:57.580 Again, not as low as what Trump was talking about.

01:13:59.500 He wanted to get it to 15% or even 10%.

01:14:02.020 They're going to go for 20%.

01:14:03.740 However, that is lower than the average in the industrialized world.

01:14:10.160 It would go from 35% to 12%.

01:14:11.500 Why wouldn't you be dramatic?

01:14:13.220 I don't know.

01:14:13.740 Why wouldn't you just go for something really dramatic and then end here?

01:14:18.240 Why do we, why is the, why do the Republicans start at some place that the Democrats could end at?

01:14:27.820 Yeah.

01:14:28.400 I mean, it's just crazy.

01:14:30.180 I will say that this era, there's a lot of bold talk going on in this era.

01:14:34.100 There's not a lot of bold policy.

01:14:35.500 Yeah.

01:14:35.720 Who was it that said, was it David French who said, ideologically, when it comes down to it,

01:14:42.100 the Democrats and the Republicans are really close.

01:14:45.260 And yet our rhetoric is dividing us like crazy, but we're arguing over what?

01:14:50.900 Oh, I'm going to take, you're going to take the top tax rate from 39 to 35. 0.52

01:14:54.620 Oh, wow.

01:14:56.780 Wow.

01:14:57.360 Okay.

01:14:57.880 Well, let's argue and fight about that.

01:14:59.940 I mean, it's nuts.

01:15:01.540 It's really nuts.

01:15:04.020 Glenn Beck.

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01:16:24.540 Truth.

01:16:25.780 Glenn Beck.

01:16:26.500 Your day of reckoning is coming.

01:16:29.140 That was the warning from Steve Bannon to the Republican establishment.

01:16:34.380 Your day of reckoning is coming.

01:16:37.240 Clearly, he was confident that his candidate for the Alabama special election, Roy Moore,

01:16:42.400 would win.

01:16:43.400 And Jeff Sessions, former Senate seat against Luther Strange, endorsed by Donald Trump, was going to lose.

01:16:52.380 Bannon was right.

01:16:53.580 The day of reckoning is here.

01:16:55.200 Is it, though?

01:16:56.780 Is this something that is going against the president?

01:17:00.940 What was this really all about?

01:17:04.760 Moore's victory is an undeniable upset to the Trump administration and to the Republican establishment.

01:17:10.020 But it seems odd to me that Bannon, Trump's former White House chief strategist, was stumping for more against the president.

01:17:19.780 Now, maybe it's just me.

01:17:23.120 I am old enough to remember when the slightest disagreement against anything that Donald Trump said would have been met with vicious reprisals, mainly from Steve Bannon,

01:17:34.440 who here, how times have changed, not only disagreeing, but campaigning against Donald Trump.

01:17:41.440 In 2017, every principal has an expiration date, and that is the point.

01:17:49.220 Bannon wants everyone to know that his attack on Trump is an attack on the Republican establishment, which I guess it is.

01:17:56.760 After all, who is more establishment than the president of the United States, Steve?

01:18:00.620 This is an eighth-grade romance gone wrong.

01:18:05.500 According to Bannon, draining the swamp is the reason why he did not support Luther Strange.

01:18:10.780 Throwing his support behind Moore was actually meant to help Trump, he says, not hurt him.

01:18:17.220 We did not come here to defy Donald Trump.

01:18:20.460 We came here to praise and honor him.

01:18:22.960 Praise and honor him.

01:18:25.080 Wow.

01:18:25.660 Again, call me old-fashioned, but if somebody would have said that about Barack Obama, my head would have popped.

01:18:35.400 Praise and honor generally is left in my book for God.

01:18:40.520 But these are strange times indeed.

01:18:43.600 Last night, Donald Trump found out that his day of reckoning was indeed here.

01:18:49.540 But he needs to understand it is courtesy of Steve Bannon.

01:18:55.660 It's Wednesday, September 27th.

01:19:22.600 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:19:24.460 You know, four years ago, on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father who had fought on Omaha Beach.

01:19:35.140 Her name was Lisa Zanatta Hinn.

01:19:37.820 And she said, we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.

01:19:45.000 Well, let's help her keep her word. 0.89

01:19:47.460 If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are.

01:19:53.000 I'm warning of an eradication of that, of the American memory that could result ultimately in an erosion of the American spirit.

01:20:01.720 Let's start with some basics.

01:20:04.060 More attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.

01:20:08.840 And let me offer lesson number one about America.

01:20:13.040 All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

01:20:17.080 So tomorrow night in the kitchen, I hope the talking begins.

01:20:21.360 And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American,

01:20:26.520 let them know and nail them on it.

01:20:29.580 That would be a very American thing to do.

01:20:32.060 That was the farewell address of Ronald Reagan.

01:20:36.300 Usually that is the time when a president says, this is what I'm really concerned about in the future.

01:20:42.200 And his concern was a loss of who we are as Americans because no one was teaching the history of America,

01:20:51.440 which we now know is absolutely true.

01:20:53.760 And he also talked about the erosion of civic rituals, which is really the one part of this NFL thing that is bothering me,

01:21:05.100 is it is a civic ritual that we are going to lose.

01:21:10.040 That makes a huge difference in a society.

01:21:14.040 Kyle Olson, he is the founder and CEO of EAG news.org.

01:21:18.720 He follows everything education and is the co-author of the book Control when we took on Common Core.

01:21:29.960 And welcome, Kyle.

01:21:31.700 Good to have you here.

01:21:32.460 Thanks for having me.

01:21:33.340 So you're in town and we wanted you to stop by to talk specifically about what's happening.

01:21:39.540 We're seeing all kinds of we're seeing all kinds of stories come out now that Americans, high school, college and even beyond don't understand the First Amendment.

01:21:52.960 They don't understand any of the Bill of Rights and they don't they don't understand socialism, Marxism, communism, capitalism, none of it.

01:22:03.080 And they don't seem to care.

01:22:04.020 I think a lot of it has to do with the generation has not had to sacrifice.

01:22:10.300 You've had the greatest generation.

01:22:12.200 I mean, you've had teenagers who stormed the beaches of Normandy and you had you had those very same people had to sacrifice during the Great Depression.

01:22:22.200 And here we live in a time where students, they haven't had to sacrifice.

01:22:27.720 There's instant gratification.

01:22:29.400 There's texting with friends.

01:22:31.500 There's all of those sorts of things.

01:22:33.100 And and then at the same time, we have schools that believe in multiculturalism.

01:22:39.420 They believe that American history is evil. 0.99

01:22:42.780 Our founders are evil. 1.00

01:22:44.320 They're racist. 1.00

01:22:45.220 They're slave owners. 1.00

01:22:46.820 They're sexist. 0.98

01:22:48.040 They're all of those things.

01:22:49.260 And so when you put all of that together, that's how you get to where we are today.

01:22:53.800 So how do we wake people up to this?

01:23:03.880 There's a let me show this to you.

01:23:05.920 If if if in the control room, if you just go to the Glenn Beck dot com page, pull up the story about the communist cadet.

01:23:12.600 Have you seen this?

01:23:13.980 No, I haven't.

01:23:15.320 There's something we posted last night.

01:23:18.500 He's a guy who who tweeted his handle is commie bebop.

01:23:23.500 And he has the red rose of, you know, nice Democratic Socialists.

01:23:29.080 And he is a West Point cadet.

01:23:32.260 And here's the picture of him.

01:23:34.220 And you will see two pictures of him.

01:23:36.420 First one is him underneath his cadet uniform.

01:23:39.580 Graduating from West Point is a Che shirt below that. 0.93

01:23:44.360 The other one is him standing here with his with his uniform and his hat.

01:23:48.960 And inside his hat, he wrote communism will win.

01:23:54.160 And what do you think will happen to him?

01:23:56.460 He'll be celebrated, most likely.

01:23:58.800 There's no accountability.

01:24:00.400 And it's and you see what's happening with the NFL.

01:24:03.380 And you think, I mean, where's the respect?

01:24:07.380 Where is our connection to our roots and what people did to sacrifice to get us to where we are today?

01:24:13.800 I wrote something.

01:24:16.140 Let me just let me just highlight a couple of things I wrote about this last night, because I saw this last night and a couple of senators wrote to me and said, is this right?

01:24:24.540 And I said, yeah, unfortunately, it is.

01:24:28.620 And so what I wrote was.

01:24:31.740 A what politicians sign their name for this cadet, because you have to have politicians sign your name.

01:24:36.700 The only thing that killed more people over the last 100 years than communism is disease.

01:24:41.080 There's a hundred million dead and the deadliest government system in all of human history. 1.00

01:24:46.240 This is this ignorant, foolish and reckless boy. 1.00

01:24:51.740 How can Americans be so obscene and so stupid? 1.00

01:24:55.780 What would the press say and the left and the media say if in his hat it said fascism will win and his T-shirt had Hitler? 1.00

01:25:04.000 We would all be outraged.

01:25:06.180 We should be just as outraged on this.

01:25:10.300 But but we are we've raised a generation that doesn't even understand what communism is.

01:25:18.580 That's right.

01:25:19.060 It's a it's a killer.

01:25:20.240 And and we talk a lot about the Holocaust, which is important, and we need to talk about that more.

01:25:27.680 But look at what Russia did to its own people and the tens of millions of people that died under Stalin and all of the others. 0.87

01:25:36.840 Jews, all the I mean, the programs of the Jews. 0.56

01:25:39.240 I mean, he did it, too.

01:25:41.120 And yet it's OK that somehow or another we forget this about Stalin.

01:25:44.520 Yeah. I mean, this is from The New York Times.

01:25:46.440 For all its flaws, the Communist Revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.

01:25:51.360 That's The New York Times.

01:25:53.040 Yeah. Yeah.

01:25:53.580 I mean, it's it's the way it happens.

01:25:55.020 And I think it's such a it's so embedded now.

01:25:59.180 You're working on something to kind of get to this a little bit earlier, try to get kids earlier to so they understand the basics about history.

01:26:07.300 And what are you doing?

01:26:08.920 Right. So so I've been working at EAG for 10 years now.

01:26:12.900 And we have focused a lot.

01:26:15.000 We've been outraged at the problems.

01:26:17.760 And so about two years ago, I started thinking about, well, why don't we be part of the solution?

01:26:22.360 And why don't we provide a different type of current events curriculum that parents and teachers will want to use?

01:26:29.540 So next month, we're launching Lumen Student News, which is going to compete with CNN and Channel One and provide classic American values.

01:26:40.560 We'll provide Judeo-Christian values. 0.96

01:26:42.940 We'll put an emphasis on American history.

01:26:45.900 I'm leaving here and I'm going to Wall Builders where we're filming segments with David.

01:26:50.920 And you're never going to get that into a school there.

01:26:54.660 You there is a huge appetite for really.

01:26:57.980 Yeah.

01:26:58.200 I am so glad to hear that because people embrace America.

01:27:02.700 It's not universal, of course.

01:27:05.080 You know, you're not going to it's not going to be in San Francisco, but it will be in many places that are culturally conservative.

01:27:11.320 I mean, there's there was a story we had yesterday in Alabama.

01:27:16.060 There was a school district that was threatened.

01:27:18.340 They would pray at the football games.

01:27:20.660 And there was an atheist, anti-Christian group that was threatening them with a lawsuit.

01:27:28.120 And so the school district caved and said, OK, we won't say the prayer anymore.

01:27:31.580 And so the parents in the stands started reciting the Lord's Prayer.

01:27:37.140 There is there is an appetite for that sort of material.

01:27:41.720 And so if people go to Lumen News dot com, spell it L-U-M-E-N News dot com, you can sign up.

01:27:50.120 We have a promo code Glenn.

01:27:52.200 You can get 20 percent off and you can sign up and it'll be 10 minutes a day.

01:27:57.740 And we're going to get into all sorts of topics.

01:28:01.740 I mean, for example, it's going to be 10 minutes a day.

01:28:04.340 And in our second week, we're planning to have a special where we are getting into free speech

01:28:09.440 and the roots of free speech, why the First Amendment was created in the first place.

01:28:15.960 I never learned that in high school or middle school.

01:28:19.280 And so it's it's a great service that people that parents can sign up for,

01:28:23.340 schools can sign up for and learn about the real history.

01:28:27.460 We are on the we are on the same exact page.

01:28:30.440 And I need to figure out how I can help, you know, hold your arms up a little bit more. 0.60

01:28:34.420 We would love that.

01:28:34.960 We are on exactly the same page.

01:28:36.860 You know, my I started this week with playing springtime for Hitler in Germany, 0.91

01:28:43.060 you know, from the producers.

01:28:44.980 And I played it on the air today or I mean on Monday because I said I was watching that

01:28:51.740 with my son and 13 years old in my house.

01:28:57.320 And we got to the part where they're singing that song and they're doing, you know,

01:29:01.360 the dance number with that's making the swastika, you know, and and he looks at me

01:29:07.940 and said, when was this made, dad?

01:29:10.400 And I said, I don't know, 2006 or so.

01:29:13.700 He said.

01:29:15.680 And the government allowed it.

01:29:18.320 In my house.

01:29:19.380 I saw he regretted saying it because I stopped the movie and I'm like, what do you mean by that?

01:29:29.500 Even in I mean, this is why, you know, people say we got to reach out and go.

01:29:33.320 No, no, we really don't.

01:29:35.320 We have problems in our own home.

01:29:37.560 The culture is so far the other way that even if you think you are providing a great education

01:29:45.340 and you are really they're not getting it.

01:29:48.160 No, because it's only it's only coming really from you.

01:29:51.160 Right.

01:29:51.700 And I think you are absolutely right when you said it's embedded.

01:29:55.600 I mean, it is embedded in the K-12 system, in the university system.

01:30:01.180 You know, one of the things we're going to be focusing on is one of the segments,

01:30:04.700 weekly segments is going to be called Work Matters.

01:30:07.560 And we're going to focus on careers, trades, skills, skilled trades that don't require.

01:30:15.140 Have you talked to Mike Rowe about that?

01:30:17.260 We're trying to.

01:30:18.100 Okay.

01:30:18.420 I can set you up with that.

01:30:19.300 Okay.

01:30:19.580 That'd be great.

01:30:20.120 Okay.

01:30:20.340 Appreciate that.

01:30:21.340 And so we want kids to think about careers that don't require a four-year degree that

01:30:27.460 puts them in huge debt and a degree that is not applicable.

01:30:32.680 Degrees that, it was amazing.

01:30:34.880 I met with some people from Rwanda and they had come over here for on scholarship to, to

01:30:40.020 be able to put their country back together.

01:30:41.780 And all these women were there and it was, you know, I'm getting my ag degree.

01:30:47.260 I'm getting infrastructure degree.

01:30:49.760 I'm getting a degree in, you know, a business, whatever it is, banking.

01:30:55.500 And one of them said, I'm getting my degree in women's studies and the Holocaust.

01:31:05.680 And I'm thinking to myself, what are you going to do with that?

01:31:09.320 She wasn't going back home.

01:31:11.140 The rest of them were going back home.

01:31:12.780 And it was fascinating to me that each of them were talking about getting a degree that

01:31:18.400 no one in America, I was surprised that Harvard was even offering a, a, you know, an agricultural

01:31:25.720 degree.

01:31:27.300 They just don't, you don't even think about those things, but they went in because they

01:31:32.160 needed the education to do something.

01:31:34.880 Most kids are going to college and they're, they're taking a degree.

01:31:37.900 And I think it's, what is it?

01:31:40.920 Six out of 10, seven out of 10 will never use that degree.

01:31:46.260 They'll never, they have no use for it.

01:31:48.840 And there, and we've gone through a decade where when president Obama was president, I

01:31:53.760 mean, it was just the mantra that you graduate from high school, you go to college, you have

01:31:58.520 to have a four year degree.

01:31:59.680 And there's a, I mean, it's a clear, it's obvious why the education system does that because

01:32:04.720 it perpetuates the whole system.

01:32:06.620 It perpetuates the salaries and the administration and just the whole system, but we've got to

01:32:12.660 break that down.

01:32:13.260 And there's great programs like Praxis, for example, that acts like it's an apprenticeship

01:32:18.700 and, and there's tons of programs that are available to kids and parents now, and they,

01:32:24.040 they just need to connect with them.

01:32:25.860 Quickly.

01:32:26.080 I know you're obviously an expert in this.

01:32:27.780 You've been working in education for a long time.

01:32:29.740 What percentage of a curriculum do you think should be based on Mel Brooks remake starring

01:32:34.900 Matthew Broderick?

01:32:35.600 Is there a, is there a specific?

01:32:37.200 Probably 98%.

01:32:38.580 98%.

01:32:39.080 Thank you.

01:32:39.600 And that's coming from the expert.

01:32:43.240 Kyle Olson, eagnews.org.

01:32:46.340 Also, you may know him as the co-author of a little book called Conform, Exposing the Truth

01:32:51.220 About Common Core in the Public Education.

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01:34:48.240 Glenn Beck.

01:34:49.720 So I got an email in from a Blaze subscriber.

01:34:57.900 It said, Glenn, I'm 30 years old.

01:35:00.200 I'm an avid listener to your radio program, subscriber to the Blaze.

01:35:04.080 Until a couple of years ago, I considered myself an atheist.

01:35:06.900 And after listening to you for just the last two years,

01:35:10.340 not only have I taken off the Republican team jersey and defined what my principles are,

01:35:14.440 but I've also sought after consistency in my personal life, and I'm now a God guy.

01:35:19.900 In February, my wife gave birth to our first child, Emma Margaret.

01:35:24.300 I was blessed and broken enough to actually get baptized with my daughter.

01:35:30.760 How great is this?

01:35:32.420 He said, I want you to know, I tell you this because I know at times you wonder, you know,

01:35:38.660 who's listening?

01:35:39.520 What am I doing?

01:35:40.320 And I want to tell you that in my life, my family, your impact has been tremendous and life-changing.

01:35:46.200 But I have a question for you.

01:35:48.480 At the time, I didn't think much of it as my daughter wasn't yet born, and I wasn't reborn.

01:35:53.740 But the message consistently has been ringing in my head since you've said it.

01:35:58.080 Listening to you discuss the horrors of the educational system at large,

01:36:01.500 my wife and I now believe that when the time comes,

01:36:04.160 I have to send our daughter to a Christ-based classical learning school in Richmond.

01:36:09.400 How do we do it?

01:36:12.620 And he's got several questions.

01:36:14.320 I'm going to try to answer this.

01:36:15.840 We're going to do something on Facebook about 20 minutes after this program.

01:36:20.200 So about 12, 15, 12, 20 Eastern time today.

01:36:23.560 And I'm going to try to answer that question for you.

01:36:27.760 So if you are trying to figure out what to do with school and how to find the right school

01:36:31.960 and how to raise the kids, we'll try to help you with that coming up.

01:36:37.100 Glenn Beck.

01:36:43.380 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:36:46.100 Man, there is so much to address today and so little time.

01:36:50.180 Usually we have so little to say and so much time, but it's the exact opposite this time.

01:36:56.180 And Pat Gray joins us with a little more on how out of hand things are getting still with the NFL. 0.89

01:37:02.400 It's ridiculous. 0.97

01:37:03.140 It's crazy. 0.90

01:37:03.620 Instead of and instead of talking about, you know, things like the GOP tax document,

01:37:07.400 which they've come up with.

01:37:08.380 And if this is the best we can do.

01:37:11.000 Can I ask you something?

01:37:12.360 I said to Stu earlier.

01:37:14.700 Who negotiates starting at a place the Democrats would end at?

01:37:20.660 I don't know.

01:37:21.220 We've got the great negotiator in office.

01:37:23.120 I mean, it's crazy.

01:37:24.260 If they take this as is, it's an OK deal.

01:37:28.960 Barely OK.

01:37:29.740 Right.

01:37:30.120 Barely.

01:37:30.440 Barely OK.

01:37:30.920 And because we have majorities in both houses and the presidency, it's not OK.

01:37:35.000 You start with,

01:37:36.780 I'm going to I'm going to abolish the IRS.

01:37:39.780 Right.

01:37:40.380 That's where you start.

01:37:41.500 Right.

01:37:41.860 And then by the time you get to a OK, it's going to be a flat tax of 20 percent.

01:37:45.780 Everybody's like, OK, all right.

01:37:47.680 That's reasonable.

01:37:49.360 Instead, we're saying we're going to reduce it from 39 to 35.

01:37:53.200 They just can't do it.

01:37:54.380 That's where you that's where you end.

01:37:56.340 Not where you start.

01:37:57.280 Yeah.

01:37:58.060 So instead, we've gotten so carried away with this NFL kneeling thing.

01:38:02.180 The Pocatelo Philharmonic last night knelt before their performance.

01:38:05.980 Did they really?

01:38:06.640 Yes, they did.

01:38:06.980 They took a knee.

01:38:07.740 I didn't know they had a Philharmonic.

01:38:09.660 It was I think they were performing Bach's second overture in C Sharp.

01:38:14.480 And they never got to it because they knelt the whole time.

01:38:17.640 Wow.

01:38:18.200 The tuba player couldn't hold his tuba.

01:38:20.080 Wow.

01:38:20.400 So it's crazy.

01:38:22.200 Amazing.

01:38:22.580 Also, what I love now is the fallout from the Democrats over Trump saying that the NFL players should be forced into standing during the anthem.

01:38:33.540 And then Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that there should be some standing rule in the NFL that requires them to stand.

01:38:40.960 Well, it's a private business.

01:38:42.740 If they want to do that, they could.

01:38:44.360 If Jeff Sessions wants that, then there should be a rule in every bakery that if you are you disagree with gay marriage, you still have to bake the cake.

01:38:56.280 It's a private company and a private individual.

01:39:01.260 If the individual decides that they don't want to stand for it, they don't have to stand.

01:39:07.560 They don't have to.

01:39:07.700 And if the private team owner or the NFL decides, I want to fire that guy.

01:39:13.760 He can.

01:39:14.480 He can.

01:39:15.460 Right.

01:39:15.980 That's how it works.

01:39:17.380 But the Democrats are going crazy over this.

01:39:19.220 And I just the hypocrisy is just they're saying that Trump doesn't respect democracy. 0.96

01:39:24.760 He's becoming a dictator. 0.95

01:39:26.700 Here's tyranny is showing.

01:39:28.440 But they're fine when the government forced all Americans forced all Americans to purchase a product they don't necessarily want.

01:39:37.700 And if you don't, you're not in good standing with the law.

01:39:40.480 That's fine.

01:39:41.320 That unconstitutional move is fine with them.

01:39:43.640 But you can't suggest that the players stand for the national anthem.

01:39:47.440 It's Pat Graham Leashed coming up here on the Blaze Radio Network.

01:39:58.420 I noticed with the bakery thing as well, someone, an actual bakery made cupcakes and they spelled out like hashtag.

01:40:07.360 Take a knee.

01:40:08.220 Yes.

01:40:08.840 And it's like, did you see that?

01:40:10.100 If you went into that bakery and said, you know what?

01:40:12.300 I want them.

01:40:14.000 I want supportive of Donald Trump cupcakes, you know, whatever it was. 1.00

01:40:19.880 Fire those sons of bitches. 1.00

01:40:22.360 There's a lot of cupcakes. 1.00

01:40:23.500 It's more my order.

01:40:24.440 It really is a big order.

01:40:25.580 But also, would they be forced to make it?

01:40:28.060 And I think the answer to that would be absolutely no.

01:40:30.120 No.

01:40:30.300 They would say no and they would do it.

01:40:32.180 Right.

01:40:32.420 No.

01:40:32.560 But I guess this is the world we live in.

01:40:34.460 Speaking of which, did you see the Sheila Jackson Lee take a knee in Congress? 1.00

01:40:38.660 No.

01:40:39.260 She took a knee.

01:40:40.200 Can we?

01:40:40.820 Can we?

01:40:41.780 We do have Sheila Jackson Lee audio.

01:40:43.560 Can we play the Sheila Jackson Lee audio?

01:40:46.100 I've got other things I want to get to.

01:40:47.920 She's so bad.

01:40:48.800 I mean, just hold on to your.

01:40:50.080 I don't believe that these individuals have a right to express themselves, but I do not

01:40:56.640 join with a president that would say, wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners when 0.77

01:41:00.980 somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a B off the field. 0.61

01:41:06.180 Stop. 0.99

01:41:07.020 Stop.

01:41:07.560 Stop for just a second.

01:41:08.560 First of all, do you really think she says son of a B in private life?

01:41:13.120 Do you really think she says son of a B?

01:41:14.880 I don't.

01:41:15.940 I don't think so.

01:41:17.220 Also, was she there talking about the cupcakes and the wedding cakes?

01:41:23.240 Is she there saying that?

01:41:25.200 So she's not consistent.

01:41:26.720 No.

01:41:26.960 And she never says son of a B.

01:41:28.840 But go ahead.

01:41:30.180 Do you know what you're saying?

01:41:32.020 You are talking about African American mothers.

01:41:35.640 You are calling them.

01:41:36.540 Is that a weird point?

01:41:37.300 Son of a B.

01:41:38.120 You're calling those children's mothers.

01:41:40.880 Single mothers sometimes.

01:41:42.600 Mothers who afford to overcome to get their children where they can be. 1.00

01:41:45.940 I mean, while technically you are referring to the mother as a female dog or whatever

01:41:51.220 you want to say now, the insult is actually for the man.

01:41:54.820 It's not directed at their mother. 1.00

01:41:56.460 When you say you are a son of a bitch, I'm talking to you, not your mom. 1.00

01:42:01.840 Not your mom. 1.00

01:42:02.620 It's a way to make it so that it feels like he's saying you're doing something worse.

01:42:07.140 You know what, it is Quintus, everybody on her side, her own family, she should be able

01:42:14.640 to say halfway through, I'm disgusted by me.

01:42:17.520 That was just such a straw man. 0.99

01:42:21.580 Ridiculous. 0.99

01:42:22.300 Just to get you angry. 1.00

01:42:24.420 I'm grabbing at anything I can.

01:42:26.880 I'm disgusted by myself.

01:42:29.480 That's what should have happened in that speech. 0.80

01:42:31.360 That is, it's just, it's sickening.

01:42:34.260 A lot of the players do that too.

01:42:35.580 Like, my mother?

01:42:36.680 My mother was a queen.

01:42:38.460 All right.

01:42:39.680 Was she literally a queen?

01:42:42.780 Which country was she the head of? 0.69

01:42:44.600 I'm curious.

01:42:45.820 What people did she oppress? 1.00

01:42:48.520 She's a queen, huh? 0.99

01:42:49.880 Was she an imperialist? 1.00

01:42:51.820 Like the queen of England?

01:42:54.960 Okay. 1.00

01:42:55.680 So stupid. 0.99

01:42:56.560 One other story, and I want you to go to glennbeck.com, and I want you to see this. 1.00

01:43:00.100 This is truly, in fact, let me just read what I wrote.

01:43:04.900 This is a picture of a cadet at West Point.

01:43:09.320 There's two of them.

01:43:11.640 He tweeted these photos with just the hashtag, veterans for Kaepernick.

01:43:17.200 And he is in his graduating whites, and he, in one picture, he is opening up his jacket,

01:43:25.220 and it shows him with a Che shirt, and the other one giving the Black Power sign, and in his hat,

01:43:33.380 he has taped a sign that says, Communism will win.

01:43:37.860 Now, think of that.

01:43:39.220 Think of that.

01:43:41.640 So, this is what I wrote.

01:43:43.380 What politician signed his name for this cadet?

01:43:46.960 I have to have a politician say you're okay to get in.

01:43:49.640 What politician signed their name for this cadet?

01:43:52.520 The only thing that killed more people over the last 100 years than communism is disease.

01:43:58.660 100 million dead, and the deadliest government system in all of human history. 1.00

01:44:06.060 How can Americans be so obscene and so stupid? 1.00

01:44:09.600 What would be said by the press, and the left, and the media, if he, in his hat, had a sign that said, 1.00

01:44:16.060 Fascism will win, and his t-shirt had Hitler's face on it? 0.69

01:44:21.640 Understandably, they would all be outraged, as would I.

01:44:25.360 Yet there's virtually no difference.

01:44:27.320 Right.

01:44:28.400 There's no difference, and there's no outrage.

01:44:31.320 The New York Times just ran a story that said,

01:44:33.460 For all of its flaws, the Communist Revolution taught Chinese women to dream big. 0.61

01:44:38.020 For all of its flaws, they may have killed 100 million people themselves.

01:44:47.540 That's the Hitler and the Autobahn argument, isn't it? 0.94

01:44:49.840 Yeah.

01:44:50.620 For all of his flaws, he built the Autobahn.

01:44:53.520 That's a nice stretch of road.

01:44:55.240 That V2 rocket was fast.

01:44:57.280 China murdered six times more people than Hitler, and for all of his flaws, yes, he did have the Volkswagen. 0.81

01:45:04.640 Yeah, but these systems were and still are toxic killers. 0.99

01:45:12.560 Che hated blacks, hated homosexuals, hated anyone who was different than him, and didn't agree with him. 1.00

01:45:19.300 He killed them literally for sport. 0.98

01:45:22.480 What bothered me about this last night, and I want you to read this editorial, and I want you to see these pictures at glenbeck.com, and I want you to pass this on to your friends.

01:45:32.340 The time for laughs on this stuff, long gone, long gone.

01:45:40.680 This is like having a picture of Jews going into a gas chamber as a joke. 0.94

01:45:47.560 Che was a butcher. 1.00

01:45:50.360 Communism is a disease. 0.99

01:45:52.220 We have failed our children as adults.

01:45:57.980 They don't know.

01:46:00.540 We, as adults younger in our life, we tolerated the funny Che shirts, and now this generation embraces these killers.

01:46:10.520 Communists, fascists, populists, nationalists, socialists, ANAFA, Nazis, Black Panthers, the leadership of BLM, white and black supremacists, ISIS, Hamas, all of them, and all those who laugh them off, despite the piles of dead bodies left in their wake, will be held accountable in the courts of humankind.

01:46:36.680 I pray for this cadet, but I also pray for the men and women who have to serve by his side.

01:46:50.640 May it never be one of somebody that we love, that when the chips are down, he looks at them and says, I have your back.

01:47:00.800 Because history shows us, communists never have your back.

01:47:13.600 Sometimes they have your back, but they usually have a gun pointed at it.

01:47:17.060 So, we can kind of clarify that.

01:47:19.920 Pat, it starts in just about a few minutes here on the police.

01:47:23.180 I'm tingly, just to think of it.

01:47:24.700 You really are.

01:47:25.240 I can see the tingle.

01:47:26.580 Your goosebumps are, yes.

01:47:28.680 It's like that walk to the Apollo spacecraft when they would walk across that ramp.

01:47:32.700 That's such a good description.

01:47:33.920 Right?

01:47:34.240 What a great analogy.

01:47:34.700 It's just like that.

01:47:35.420 In such a slowdown.

01:47:36.600 Yeah, the smoke is coming up, the steam.

01:47:39.560 We need to build that for you.

01:47:40.740 He's got the right stuff.

01:47:44.200 Or not.

01:47:45.060 He's just sitting there talking.

01:47:47.400 That's coming up in just a little while.

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01:47:56.220 What happens after you pull that trigger?

01:47:58.100 What happens if you pull the trigger too soon?

01:48:02.100 I mean, you're going to have to live with the consequences of this.

01:48:04.980 But beyond that, when the police arrive, what do you say?

01:48:13.420 What state do you live in?

01:48:16.080 That's going to make, what community do you live in?

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01:49:25.560 Glenn Beck.

01:49:30.460 Glenn Beck.

01:49:32.520 There's several things that we want to cover today.

01:49:48.380 We're going to go over to Facebook for about 45 minutes in about half an hour.

01:49:53.960 I'm going to cover some things with education and a few other things that I want to address.

01:50:00.840 Also, I really want to talk to you a little bit more about Puerto Rico.

01:50:08.080 And, in fact, Mary's been holding for a while.

01:50:10.060 Hello, Mary.

01:50:10.560 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:50:13.320 Hi, Mr. Beck.

01:50:14.460 It's a pleasure to hear from you.

01:50:17.040 Thank you.

01:50:17.540 Thanks for calling.

01:50:19.380 No problem.

01:50:20.080 The reason I was calling, and I waited, you know, it doesn't matter at this point.

01:50:26.440 The situation that Puerto Rico is confronting right now, it feels that, to me, that is a bit, a bit underestimated.

01:50:36.240 Situation being is that on the airport right now, San Juan International Airport.

01:50:42.160 There are a lot of American citizens that are stranded there from mainland trying to get home.

01:50:49.420 These people have been there without water, without food, for over four days.

01:50:55.780 There was a call to the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosario, and let him know that there is a very bad situation at the airport.

01:51:04.900 There are people currently dying at the airport because they can't get out and because the situation is that bad.

01:51:12.460 There is no communication on the island.

01:51:15.160 And what you see and what I've been following up on reports and the media on Puerto Rico, all you can see is that the government is overwhelmed with the situation.

01:51:25.840 Mayors of different towns are snapping on national TV because, at this point, they feel that their hands are tied.

01:51:33.480 The situation is as bad as there are courts from cemeteries.

01:51:41.340 They are floating out.

01:51:43.620 So now you have even a graver situation because the ground is saturated.

01:51:49.580 So you have a mixture of courts and diesel and gasoline and sewer water just floating all over the streets.

01:51:58.740 People have lost everything.

01:52:00.600 And even the people that got prepared and they bought the water and they brought the supplies, all the supplies are scattered and spread all over the mountains of Puerto Rico.

01:52:10.560 There are communities in Puerto Rico that they're still waiting seven days in.

01:52:15.420 They're still waiting to be rescued.

01:52:17.600 The dam of Guaxaca River, that dam, it's broken.

01:52:22.940 And they just evacuated 70,000 people out of that dam, trying to get them to safety.

01:52:30.900 Stu, do we have any aircraft carriers off the coast?

01:52:34.700 Why have we not sent aircraft carriers?

01:52:36.660 I know there are some that have been, they're working on sending, there's a particular medical vessel that they're sending there that's gigantic.

01:52:44.380 But I mean, I don't.

01:52:46.220 You need aircraft carrier.

01:52:47.260 You need to be able to take thousands of people off of that island.

01:52:50.680 I know they're using the aircraft carriers apparently as like an airport because the airport is so damaged.

01:52:56.100 They really, they're having trouble landing in a lot of places.

01:52:59.600 So, you know, it's interesting because, you know, it is a real, real disaster there.

01:53:04.920 The media is trying to make it about Donald Trump and his response.

01:53:07.340 It's not.

01:53:07.460 It's about the people there.

01:53:08.280 Yeah, it's about the people.

01:53:09.240 It really is.

01:53:09.900 Mary, thank you very much for your call.

01:53:11.800 I'm going to try to, we'll try to do some more on this tomorrow because people really need to know what's going on.

01:53:17.280 And the one thing that you can do is call the, call your senator, call your representative, call the White House and tell them the Jones Act must be repealed.

01:53:28.900 That is, that stops ships from coming in from all over the world unless they pull into port in America first.

01:53:36.280 It's got to be repealed.

01:53:37.560 Glenn, back.

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01:53:52.940 I love you.

01:53:54.020 Thank you.

01:53:54.580 I love you.

01:53:55.140 You, I love you.

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The Glenn Beck Program - September 27, 2017

9⧸27⧸17 - Christians Beware (David Fench, Dr. Bassem Youssef & Kyle Olson join Glenn)

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