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00:00:08.340 All right, welcome to the podcast.

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00:00:59.940 Okay, let's go right to the show today.

00:01:04.220 On the podcast, we have a couple of things that I think you're really going to enjoy.

00:01:08.440 We've got Brad Meltzer, who actually knew Stan Lee.

00:01:13.140 He passed away yesterday, so kind of a nice little tribute on Stan Lee.

00:01:17.400 We also look at Israel and what is happening over there and the United Kingdom and what is happening over there.

00:01:26.480 Also, a really interesting thing, a quiz about the words that you say and how it identifies where you're from.

00:01:31.740 They're now able to think about this as far as we didn't get into this during the actual podcast.

00:01:36.360 But think about this when it comes to data, right?

00:01:39.040 All the data we give away.

00:01:40.440 Oh, yeah.

00:01:40.860 I mean, just by answering a few questions, they can pretty much specifically target where you're from, where you grew up, just by the words that you use for common phrases.

00:01:48.760 They targeted Stu, but they missed me.

00:01:51.380 But it's interesting what they did say.

00:01:53.160 Also, Monica Lewinsky is talking about the blue spinach dress.

00:01:58.300 All this.

00:02:00.560 Why would you say that?

00:02:01.660 That's what she said.

00:02:02.800 That's what she said when the podcast begins.

00:02:07.180 Here we go.

00:02:14.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:20.080 It's Tuesday, November 13th.

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00:03:40.560 Glenn Beck.

00:03:42.660 Brenda Snipes.

00:03:44.540 Don't you just love Broward County?

00:03:47.220 Oh, Broward County.

00:03:48.400 You've got the best in sheriffs.

00:03:50.300 You have the best in election supervisors.

00:03:54.160 You have the best in school boards.

00:03:56.920 Boy, Broward County, you ought to be mighty proud.

00:04:00.000 She is, uh, she might want to remove the, uh, the, you know, Broward County election supervisor 0.98

00:04:07.360 from her LinkedIn profile, uh, pretty soon.

00:04:09.860 In fact, she might want to just delete her profile altogether while she's at it. 0.53

00:04:14.540 Maybe a name change because things aren't really going well for Brenda Snipes. 1.00

00:04:19.780 All signs are now pointing towards Snipes getting removed from office by Governor Rick Scott or

00:04:25.280 his likely successor, Ron DeSantis.

00:04:28.320 That is, if Florida ever finishes counting votes or, or, you know, or, or, or counting hands.

00:04:36.860 I don't know if they're doing a show of hands now.

00:04:39.140 However, Florida does its elections now.

00:04:42.360 It, you know, every day it seems to be more and more like a Dave Barry novel, uh, down in Florida.

00:04:47.980 So I, I, I'm not really sure how they do it, but they should finish pretty soon.

00:04:51.660 Florida is in the middle of three statewide recounts for the U S Senate and governor's

00:04:57.240 races, plus the one that really has the nation on the edge of its seat, the state agriculture

00:05:02.820 commissioner.

00:05:03.880 How is that one going to land?

00:05:06.360 You know, it's bad when Democrats start losing support from fellow Democrats as Snipes has one

00:05:15.160 state Senate Democrat who declined to be named told Politico.

00:05:18.260 He hopes Snipes, Snipes quicks, he hopes Snipes will quit soon.

00:05:25.440 Quote, otherwise she's a goner end quote. 0.99

00:05:29.600 Now she is accused of a laundry list of no-nos, including a 2016, uh, mailing that went out to

00:05:38.100 an unknown member of absentee ballots that left off the proposed state constitutional amendment.

00:05:43.680 Oops, I forgot to include that constitutional amendment thingy.

00:05:47.740 Sorry about that.

00:05:48.780 Also in 2016, uh, she posted early voting numbers online half an hour before the polls closed.

00:05:57.480 Half an hour before the polls closed.

00:05:59.660 When did that happen before in Florida?

00:06:03.540 And it caused some problems.

00:06:05.560 I remember the 2000 election.

00:06:07.820 Well, why learn from that?

00:06:09.980 Uh, she also was opening ballots in private.

00:06:14.140 What could happen?

00:06:15.660 After last week's election in the middle of the night, her office suddenly uploaded tens

00:06:20.400 of thousands of new ballots that caused Governor Scott's margin to fall below half a percent

00:06:27.100 lead in his Senate race against Bill Nelson.

00:06:30.320 That triggered a manual recount.

00:06:32.860 But who doesn't upload thousands of new voters, you know, after the election?

00:06:40.360 There's a lot more problems with the Broward County Elections Office, but, uh, you know,

00:06:45.620 we only have three hours.

00:06:47.620 If nothing else, it is clear that Snipes is guilty of extreme incompetence with the missed deadlines,

00:06:55.420 discovering ballots in the couch cushions.

00:06:57.880 As county election supervisor, you know, you really only have to prepare one big event,

00:07:07.560 you know, every two years.

00:07:09.540 It's, it's kind of like Santa Claus screwing up Christmas and he takes every other Christmas

00:07:16.380 off.

00:07:19.380 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:07:27.880 Yesterday, some news broke that, uh, actually kind of made me, uh, sad and surprisingly because

00:07:33.560 I didn't grow up with comic books.

00:07:35.880 I just, I didn't.

00:07:37.660 Uh, and I, I never really understood them until I, until I, uh, had a son and I wanted him

00:07:45.760 to read.

00:07:46.460 And the only thing I could get him to read early on were comic books.

00:07:50.080 And so we went out and we started reading Spider-Man and, uh, you know, um, I'm trying

00:07:58.620 to think of what else we read, but, uh, mainly Spider-Man is what we, where we started.

00:08:03.460 And then the movie started coming out and we really started to get into it.

00:08:07.320 And then we started kind of collecting some, uh, uh, some comic books and it's been fun

00:08:14.260 with my son.

00:08:15.400 And I, I have become such a big fan of Stan Lee because I really truly believe he is probably

00:08:26.260 the closest thing in our generation, uh, to Walt Disney.

00:08:30.500 Walt Disney was a storyteller period.

00:08:33.120 And his stories were so impactful for so long that they actually helped shape America and

00:08:40.180 now the world and imagine a world without Walt Disney, no Mickey Mouse, no Disneyland,

00:08:47.300 no Disney world, um, none of the Disney movies.

00:08:50.320 Imagine our childhood without Mary Poppins and without all of these things that we all grew

00:08:56.080 up on as staples.

00:08:57.920 I think Stan Lee is that guy for this generation and his characters were endless and so well

00:09:08.940 written and so well thought out.

00:09:11.200 He created his own universe and it's remarkable what he did.

00:09:17.420 Yesterday was kind of a sad day, but in a, in a good way, when Walt Disney died, nobody understood

00:09:24.080 his plans, nobody, uh, nobody understood his vision of where he was going next.

00:09:29.520 Luckily, um, people do understand, uh, and they respect his vision and, uh, the Marvel universe

00:09:37.140 will continue to expand long before, long after his, uh, death.

00:09:41.240 Brad Meltzer, who is, um, the author of, uh, many children's books and, and really great novels

00:09:46.520 as well, uh, is with us.

00:09:48.380 His new book out, uh, I am Neil Armstrong.

00:09:50.360 I thought of you, Brad, when I saw this yesterday, because I know at least you're a big DC comic

00:09:55.720 fan.

00:09:56.160 I assume that you're also, um, a Stan Lee fan.

00:10:00.480 Oh, go ahead.

00:10:01.220 Listen, I knew Stan.

00:10:02.400 Um, when I started researching my book about the creation of Superman, I did a book called

00:10:08.540 the book of lies many years ago.

00:10:10.180 Everyone said, you got to talk to Stan Lee.

00:10:11.800 And I was like, what are you talking about?

00:10:12.840 He's Marvel and this is DC, but he knew Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, uh, who created Superman.

00:10:19.240 They were all kids at the same time.

00:10:21.680 They were young, 17 year old kids gave us Superman, teenagers from Cleveland, Ohio.

00:10:27.420 And Stan Lee was this Jewish kid from, you know, from New York who was Stan Lieber was

00:10:33.440 his name.

00:10:34.520 And what they were telling, as you said, so eloquently is the same story that Walt Disney

00:10:40.360 gave us.

00:10:40.880 It wasn't just the story of a mouse or the story of Spider-Man.

00:10:44.120 Um, it was the story of us.

00:10:45.760 It was the American dream that he was giving us.

00:10:49.040 Um, and, and Walt Disney's era, he gave us innocence at a time when we needed it and

00:10:53.800 wanted it so desperately.

00:10:55.480 And Stan Lee certainly gave, you know, co-created Spider-Man and the X-Men and Hulk and Iron Man

00:11:02.140 and all these characters we know and love.

00:11:03.800 But what he gave me personally was, uh, uh, a creed to live by principles to honor, um,

00:11:12.680 and the way to behave toward other people that you should be good as opposed to being

00:11:17.240 bad.

00:11:18.040 And I think that that to me is his greatest legacy is that we could, you know, the reason

00:11:21.960 those lessons are so powerful is because we can use his lessons to this very day.

00:11:26.320 Um, you know, no corporation or advertising or politician stands for good for good sake.

00:11:34.500 Um, Stan Lee, yes, he made money years later, but not the start.

00:11:37.920 I mean, he, he wrote those heroes that were just doing good because you had to do good.

00:11:41.600 That was better than anything else.

00:11:43.500 And man, we need that today.

00:11:45.460 Look where the country is today.

00:11:46.700 We need that again.

00:11:48.300 Uh, and, and I, uh, if, you know, we're great at fighting, we learned how to fight, but

00:11:53.760 when you're fighting for yourself and you're fighting for power, you're fighting for money,

00:11:57.600 you've already lost.

00:11:58.980 And I would much rather honor Stan Lee's stories where the characters fight because it's just

00:12:03.540 the right thing to do.

00:12:05.180 So Brad, I, I've, I've really been taken by the fact that Spider-Man and, and all of these,

00:12:12.920 you know, Captain America, all these heroes came at a time when people felt powerless.

00:12:20.500 Um, you know, World War II and then the Cold War.

00:12:23.360 Those were frightening times for people because they didn't feel they had control over the,

00:12:29.700 over their, you know, their life, really.

00:12:32.420 Um, it could be taken by a foreign power and a menace that was so far beyond evil with the

00:12:38.520 Nazis that they couldn't get their arms around it.

00:12:41.160 Uh, and then with the Cold War, the same thing, devices that they just, you're defenseless against

00:12:47.240 a nuclear missile.

00:12:48.100 And they were at their peak at that point.

00:12:52.020 And then they kind of fell, you know, to a normal, uh, level.

00:12:56.400 And then when we need these heroes again, and when heroes are gone and we feel like we don't have

00:13:03.920 any power over our life, we go back to Stan Lee's stories.

00:13:08.480 And we're looking for those, those heroes, superheroes.

00:13:13.340 But as you said, also heroes, just because they stand to do the right thing.

00:13:19.460 And that's exactly, I mean, that is the history of the superhero.

00:13:23.200 Um, and, and, and any popular culture entertainment movement, uh, we've talked about it before.

00:13:28.720 If you look at the great depression, the characters that America favored were Tarzan and Flash

00:13:34.520 Gordon.

00:13:35.240 They were characters designed to transport you elsewhere.

00:13:37.460 The depression was depressing.

00:13:38.940 So they want you, you wanted to go to the 25th century in the jungles of Tarzan.

00:13:42.280 And as, as you said, when World War II came, we're scared as a country.

00:13:46.620 Um, we're terrified.

00:13:47.840 World War II is encroaching on our shores.

00:13:49.440 And here comes a character named Superman to save us.

00:13:52.400 Sells a million copies.

00:13:53.340 No one understands why.

00:13:54.400 I know why.

00:13:55.460 Because we needed someone at that moment.

00:13:57.300 You, you know, you show me a great need at any moment in history.

00:13:59.940 And that's when you don't get the hero you want, you get the hero you need.

00:14:03.380 And if you look after 9-11, when everyone said, we'll never laugh again, we'll never

00:14:08.300 joke again.

00:14:09.300 The first big movie that broke through the public consciousness was Spider-Man.

00:14:13.340 And why?

00:14:14.200 Because we were a country, we weren't a country of Superman anymore.

00:14:17.120 We weren't invincible and thought we could beat everyone.

00:14:18.920 We were a country of Spider-Man.

00:14:20.380 We felt like we were vulnerable, but we still wanted to give it everything we had to fight

00:14:24.660 back.

00:14:25.340 Everything we had to do right.

00:14:26.740 And it's why 16 years after 9-11, we still are here today with the superhero movie boom,

00:14:34.220 where even the terrible ones are making over $100 million.

00:14:37.180 Why?

00:14:37.540 Because we're still a country starving for heroes and looking for good ones.

00:14:42.020 And, you know, again, that's not just because we like people punching Dr. Octopus in the face.

00:14:48.700 It's because we need it.

00:14:50.380 We need it so badly.

00:14:51.680 You would think that Hollywood would get that and it would translate into other hero stories,

00:15:00.420 but they don't seem to get it.

00:15:02.600 I mean, if you look at what the big movies are, it's always a superhero.

00:15:07.360 Also, these really spectacular stories about real life heroes in war.

00:15:14.340 They got that in the Depression and in the Second World War.

00:15:20.860 They just don't seem to connect with that now.

00:15:23.480 Let me ask you about superheroes.

00:15:27.260 Stan Lee's superheroes generally have issues.

00:15:33.080 All of them have weaknesses, and it's not just kryptonite.

00:15:36.980 It's that they are real people.

00:15:39.400 You know, Thor is not.

00:15:40.720 But, you know, you even look at Iron Man.

00:15:42.960 No, but even Thor had Donald Blake, who was this crippled alter ego. 0.98

00:15:47.260 But you hit it right.

00:15:47.920 That's the right answer.

00:15:49.120 You know, DC gave us what they used to call the lowercase g gods.

00:15:53.860 You know, they were invulnerable.

00:15:55.400 They were American icons.

00:15:57.140 They weren't human.

00:15:58.300 They were superhuman.

00:15:59.080 And then Stan Lee and Jack Kirby came along in the Marvel Universe and said,

00:16:04.240 let's make them like us.

00:16:05.620 And Spider-Man, you know, it was his fault that his uncle got killed.

00:16:11.420 It was literally the blame was on him.

00:16:13.100 The guilt was his own.

00:16:14.520 And Iron Man was, you know, someone who was a drunk and could care less about the world

00:16:19.120 and thought he was rich and everything was solved.

00:16:21.840 He was self-centered.

00:16:22.920 And Thor was banished from Asgard.

00:16:26.080 The original origin is because he became so full of himself, Odin said, I'm going to

00:16:30.040 make you a human being.

00:16:31.280 And suddenly the Marvel Universe came and gave everyone the best story of all, our own story.

00:16:37.900 There's nothing better.

00:16:39.340 The greatest stories, whether it's biblical or Superman or Spider-Man, but the greatest

00:16:44.520 stories in the whole universe are not the stories about other people.

00:16:48.040 They're the stories that tell us something about ourselves.

00:16:50.460 That's why the Bible is written in story.

00:16:52.520 It's not written with just, you know, here's the Ten Commandments and then here's all the

00:16:56.280 list of things to do.

00:16:57.140 They're certainly embedded in there, but they're all told in story because there's nothing more

00:17:01.600 powerful than an idea.

00:17:03.040 And all the story is, is all those ideas knitted together like a raft.

00:17:06.740 I'm trying to, I'm trying to remember the, the guy who studied, uh, heroes wrote, what

00:17:14.540 is it, a hero of a thousand faces or, but he's the guy who helped George Lucas, uh, put

00:17:20.600 together star Wars.

00:17:22.560 Uh, and he, he talks about all of the heroes of the Bible in this and, and all of the legends

00:17:28.760 around the world.

00:17:29.680 And they all just do kind of boil down to the best ones are the ones that, uh, are the

00:17:35.640 hero's journey.

00:17:36.760 And they have different art.

00:17:38.080 Each one is a different archetype.

00:17:39.340 And Stan Lee was, you know, he was the man, you know, Stan Lee was a great storyteller.

00:17:43.680 He was also a master salesman.

00:17:45.140 That's what he and Walt Disney had in common.

00:17:46.680 Great storyteller, also a master salesman.

00:17:48.540 Um, but the reason they were so powerful is they embedded those heroes with the side,

00:17:55.720 with that sprinkling of us.

00:17:56.840 And, and, you know, I think I actually brought, this was, uh, one of Stan Lee's soapboxes.

00:18:01.640 He used to write them in the back of his, of his comic books.

00:18:05.160 And everyone always says, you know, why they take heroes today and make them all about,

00:18:08.660 you know, issues.

00:18:09.260 And they were always about issues.

00:18:10.680 They were always about what the world was dealing with.

00:18:12.720 And Stan Lee, these are his words.

00:18:14.980 It's okay to read it.

00:18:16.000 Um, and he, he says, let's lay it right on the line.

00:18:19.640 Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.

00:18:23.460 And he's like, but unlike a team of costume supervillains, they can't be halted with a 0.60

00:18:26.880 punch in the, in the face.

00:18:28.640 And he says, and this is the most important part. 1.00

00:18:31.820 The only way to destroy them, those racists out there is to expose them, to reveal them

00:18:36.900 for the insidious evils. 0.99

00:18:37.980 They really are the bigot is an unreasoning hater.

00:18:41.380 One who hates blindly fanatically indiscriminately. 1.00

00:18:44.240 If his hangup is black men, he hates all black men. 1.00

00:18:47.220 If he hates, if a redhead offended him, he hates all redheads. 1.00

00:18:50.160 If some foreign beast, uh, beat him at a, to a job, he's down on all foreigners. 0.99

00:18:56.080 He hates people. 0.96

00:18:56.960 He's never seen people.

00:18:58.100 He's never known with equal intensity, with equal venom.

00:19:01.560 And he says that, you know, only if, if man is ever to be worth his destiny, we must fill

00:19:07.400 our hearts with tolerance for then.

00:19:09.480 And only then will we be truly worthy of the concept that man was created in the image

00:19:14.760 of God, a God who calls all his children.

00:19:18.320 That wasn't a comic book back in the sixties.

00:19:20.400 That's Stan Lee writing.

00:19:22.520 And that's where the black Panther came from. 0.81

00:19:24.260 And that's where the X-Men came from is, you know, all these people out there that he

00:19:28.240 spoke for and that said, yeah, I need help.

00:19:30.160 It was a civil rights movement.

00:19:31.420 It was, you know, the X-Men was, it was always an allegory for African-Americans who were different

00:19:36.320 and hated for being different.

00:19:38.280 Um, and I love that he took all those issues on full force.

00:19:41.720 Yeah.

00:19:41.780 Brad, you posted a bunch of these yesterday, uh, on Twitter, uh, and it was amazing to read

00:19:45.940 that because I'm not a big comic book fan, uh, per se, but why read it?

00:19:50.240 Looking at that and comparing it to the sort of entertainment that is now pushed to young

00:19:55.660 people.

00:19:56.140 It's like these, Stan Lee's messages were all thing.

00:19:59.200 He was fighting against things that were overtly bad and fighting for things that were overtly

00:20:03.360 good.

00:20:03.860 And now we have a situation where, you know, things like, you know, promiscuity and, and

00:20:07.960 anti, anti-God messages and anti-American messages are, are, are so prevalent in so much

00:20:14.960 of the entertainment today.

00:20:16.080 I really found that to be a stark contrast.

00:20:18.580 No, listen, not just entertainment.

00:20:21.280 Look at our politics.

00:20:22.380 It's our entire world.

00:20:24.200 Um, you know, we, I see, I feel like in a strange, odd way.

00:20:27.400 Um, and I appreciate you reading those.

00:20:28.860 They were so vital to understand is we've just become a culture that fights well, but

00:20:34.680 we don't, uh, we are not a culture that speaks well to each other, that tolerates each other,

00:20:39.340 that looks at differences and sees something that, you know, we, we all have the same things

00:20:44.320 in common.

00:20:44.760 We all want to be safe.

00:20:46.400 We want a loving family.

00:20:48.080 We want to love and be loved.

00:20:49.940 All of us.

00:20:50.740 I don't care who you are.

00:20:51.540 Everyone out there that is your opposite political view is, has hopes and dreams and they have

00:20:58.000 the same ones you do.

00:20:58.860 And I love that Stanley could use his soapbox to put those messages out there.

00:21:04.140 And he just did it.

00:21:04.900 He just, he just, you know, put them all into costumes and the message got to us and it gets

00:21:11.160 to us today.

00:21:11.980 Brad Meltzer, you know, there's, uh, I've been following Stanley's life here in the last couple

00:21:16.900 of, uh, months and it didn't seem like he was having a good go of it.

00:21:21.140 He had problems with his daughter.

00:21:22.640 He had problems with the two business partners.

00:21:24.500 He had sued for a billion dollars.

00:21:26.020 His wife had just passed away 69 years of marriage.

00:21:30.280 Was he, was he happy in the end?

00:21:33.000 Do you think?

00:21:34.060 You know, um, the last I heard from him, he was actually very kind to me when the last

00:21:38.680 thriller came out and promoted it.

00:21:40.260 And, you know, he always had a smile on his face.

00:21:42.580 I obviously heard the same story as you did.

00:21:44.020 I spoke to his office yesterday.

00:21:45.840 I have a dear friend who works with him, um, and said, how are y'all doing?

00:21:50.720 Um, I think some of the things we heard were true and some weren't.

00:21:53.420 And I think, um, the biggest devastation was the loss of his wife.

00:21:57.280 You know what?

00:21:58.080 To make it 69 years and go out at 95, I feel like we should all have such problems.

00:22:03.760 That's a life to emulate.

00:22:05.280 So I'm taking the, I'm choosing the Stanley route and choosing to see the better side of

00:22:09.000 it rather than focus on what clearly were a rough six months.

00:22:12.200 Thank you very much, Brad.

00:22:13.280 I really, really appreciate it.

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00:23:33.680 There are some important things going on in the world, but we don't seem to care about

00:23:36.700 those, uh, anymore.

00:23:37.720 But there is one thing that I think you're going to start hearing in the media and it

00:23:42.120 is possible to, you know, uh, spiral out of control into something much, much bigger

00:23:47.780 and broader.

00:23:48.320 You're going to hear from probably all the media and multiple world leaders, and maybe

00:23:53.740 even the glorified UN.

00:23:56.580 They're going to say this.

00:23:58.840 Israel attacks Gaza.

00:24:01.020 The IDF has launched multiple airstrikes aimed at the poor Palestinians.

00:24:06.260 And now is Israel planning on invading? 0.94

00:24:09.160 It's the same old song and dance, and people actually have the balls to call me an anti-Semite 0.96

00:24:15.760 for criticizing George Soros. 0.94

00:24:17.880 These are the same media outlets, world leaders, that will actually call Donald Trump an inciter

00:24:24.160 of anti-Semitism.

00:24:26.040 Forget the fact that he moved the U.S. Embassy into Jerusalem.

00:24:31.240 As you know, it's crazy, but that's the capital of Israel.

00:24:34.940 And he also scuttled the Iran deal.

00:24:37.840 They love him in Israel.

00:24:40.480 They'll prop up people like President Obama for giving real anti-Semites, uh, people like

00:24:45.160 the Ayatollah Khomeini.

00:24:46.960 Um, they gave him billions of dollars that literally had no other purpose, uh, for that 0.99

00:24:52.860 money other than to go and kill Jews. 0.99

00:24:54.880 That's how that money was used. 1.00

00:24:57.220 The world has gone completely and absolutely insane.

00:25:02.720 Now, here's what's really going on in Israel.

00:25:08.520 It's kind of long, but let me quote this from the Hamas charter because it says everything.

00:25:14.220 I want to point out that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

00:25:19.280 And anyone who says you can have peace with Hamas doesn't know who Hamas is and who Hamas 0.74

00:25:25.140 says they are.

00:25:27.500 The, this is their, this is their charter.

00:25:29.360 The Islamic resistance movement believes that the land Israel, Palestine is an Islamic land

00:25:37.140 consecrated for future Muslim generations until judgment day. 1.00

00:25:42.560 It or any part of it shall not be squandered.

00:25:46.220 It nor any part of it should be given up.

00:25:49.560 Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither, uh, any king or president

00:25:55.800 nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization, nor all of them, be they Palestine

00:26:02.960 or, uh, or Arab possess the right to give this land away. 0.94

00:26:08.360 So anybody who says, well, you know, the Jews, they just using the Bible. 0.98

00:26:12.540 They're just saying it's some Bible.

00:26:14.880 It's a religious thing.

00:26:16.440 What do you think this means?

00:26:21.000 Palestine is Islamic land consecrated for Muslim generations until judgment day. 1.00

00:26:28.800 Initiatives and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction

00:26:34.600 to the principles of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas.

00:26:39.460 Hmm, gee, I wonder how good of a partner they're going to be at the negotiating table.

00:26:47.960 There is no peace.

00:26:50.900 Forget about justice.

00:26:52.280 There is no peace.

00:26:54.740 Justice for them is the destruction of Israel. 0.99

00:26:58.940 And they will pursue that regardless of whether the international community tries to broker

00:27:04.840 a peace deal or not.

00:27:06.260 It will never stop.

00:27:08.220 Hamas wants Israel destroyed simply for existing. 0.99

00:27:12.720 They want Jews dead simply for being alive. 0.99

00:27:16.560 That is the plain truth. 0.99

00:27:19.500 Read their charter.

00:27:21.660 Now, here's what's happening.

00:27:23.240 Over the last 72 hours, over 400 rockets have been fired by Hamas into Israel.

00:27:29.440 Rockets fired directly at Jewish civilians.

00:27:32.480 Now, this is the largest escalation of rocket fire Hamas has ever done.

00:27:37.460 They shoot at Israeli civilians, and then they hide behind Palestinian civilians.

00:27:43.000 So how do you get a terror organization?

00:27:46.640 You know, how are they getting a pass with a global community?

00:27:52.100 Well, who but an actual anti-Semite would justify the killings of Jews by terrorists?

00:27:58.120 This is hurtling towards a much larger conflict.

00:28:03.720 Remember, this involves Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran.

00:28:10.660 The IDF is moving additional troops and armor to the border now.

00:28:17.520 A limited ground invasion is possible.

00:28:20.460 Will Hezbollah join in the fight from Lebanon?

00:28:23.420 It is possible.

00:28:24.780 Will the Iranian troops that have been setting up shop in Syria join in as well?

00:28:29.100 Well, it is all possible.

00:28:37.280 I had somebody in my office yesterday.

00:28:41.560 He was a Jewish businessman.

00:28:45.360 He said, I was in Israel a few years ago, and he said, I saw people wearing these T-shirts everywhere, said Glenn Beck, and restoring courage.

00:29:03.120 He said, what was that all about?

00:29:04.620 I said, I have this gift and this burden sometimes that I can see the direction that the world is going.

00:29:28.260 I'm bad at timing, but I see the direction.

00:29:31.640 And I wanted my children and I wanted my audience to make a decision of who they would be as the world hurdles again towards nightmares.

00:29:47.140 Because anti-Semitism, when Marxism is on the rise, anti-Semitism is always on the rise.

00:29:53.060 When banks go down, anti-Semitism is always on the rise.

00:29:57.780 I've said this to you recently, but I want you to hear it again.

00:30:04.040 The things that I have talked about, the things that I have said you have to prepare for,

00:30:11.860 and they're going to be tough times, but we're going to make it because we're going to make it together.

00:30:16.820 And you have to be prepared to know who you are.

00:30:20.040 Those times are now here.

00:30:24.120 They're upon us.

00:30:25.940 And if you haven't started preparing mentally and spiritually and physically, you need to.

00:30:34.040 You need to.

00:30:35.640 Because we're not going to find leaders at the UN.

00:30:38.980 We're not going to find leaders in Washington.

00:30:40.900 And you know what?

00:30:44.160 Those leaders are not going to be the ones that people turn to anyway.

00:30:48.720 We're going to be turning to each other.

00:30:51.000 And that's really our choice.

00:30:53.160 Are we going to turn on each other?

00:30:55.720 Or will we turn to each other?

00:31:00.800 Prayers for Israel. 0.89

00:31:02.760 And prayers for the Palestinian people who are being used by, I think, evil forces. 1.00

00:31:08.560 But prayers for all of them.

00:31:13.080 Prayers for peace.

00:31:19.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:38.560 Christian mother, Asia Bibi, continues to remain in Pakistan despite open threats against her life from Islamic radicals who are desperate to, quote, finish the job and execute the harmless mother of two.

00:31:55.640 Despite the fact that she was acquitted by the Supreme Court on bogus charges of blasphemy.

00:32:01.740 This is the opening paragraph from Will Maul.

00:32:05.880 Asia Bibi's life still in grave danger as she desperately seeks asylum in the West.

00:32:11.340 From faithwire.com.

00:32:12.900 Will, welcome to the program.

00:32:16.480 Are you there, Will?

00:32:17.960 I'm here, yeah.

00:32:18.840 Yes.

00:32:20.060 I'm gravely concerned about this and what it says about the United Kingdom.

00:32:25.460 And I wanted to get your perspective.

00:32:26.980 But first, fill the audience in just a little bit on who she is.

00:32:32.040 Yeah.

00:32:32.620 So Asia Bibi, she's a 53-year-old Pakistani Christian woman who, about 10 years ago, actually in 2009, was convicted on charges of blasphemy.

00:32:44.920 And that was basically as a result of her getting into an argument with a group of women while she was working on her farm.

00:32:51.480 The women accused her of drinking from the same tap as them and said, because you're a Christian, you know, we think you're unclean and actually this is offensive. 0.97

00:33:00.200 And she then allegedly responded, well, Jesus Christ died for my sins.

00:33:05.180 And what did the prophet Muhammad do for you?

00:33:07.920 That has since now been proved to actually be wrong.

00:33:10.540 She didn't say that at all.

00:33:11.500 But at the time, that was what they claimed.

00:33:14.000 And a big, you know, she got mobbed at her house, arrested, and was tried and then convicted in 2010 of blasphemy.

00:33:21.360 Can I tell you, let me just make a comment here.

00:33:25.060 If your God can't handle some earthling saying, well, Jesus Christ died for my sins, what has your God done for you?

00:33:33.120 If he can't handle that, your God ain't powerful enough. 0.94

00:33:36.100 If he needs you to kill others for saying things like that, it's just outrageous that in this time, when we are rehashing the past, that we have an actual, hey, whites only, Muslims only water fountain dispute and blasphemy. 0.84

00:33:56.160 And nobody on the left seems to even care. 0.90

00:33:59.780 Yeah, right.

00:34:01.160 Right.

00:34:01.600 And then, of course, 10 years later, she's in prison.

00:34:04.160 And 10 years later, this case finally goes to the Supreme Court in Pakistan.

00:34:08.320 And everyone's going to hold in their breath because we think there's just no way they're going to rule in her favor.

00:34:12.940 And then they made this landmark ruling just last month on the 31st saying that, you know, the two, the sisters who are accused, I had no regard for truth.

00:34:22.540 And that they basically, they threw it out completely and declared her innocent.

00:34:25.880 And they said, actually, it was crazy.

00:34:28.440 They said something, they said it was not, it was nothing short of concoction incarnate.

00:34:32.500 It was all completely made up and they were going to free her.

00:34:37.280 And, of course, then that sparked huge, massive uproar in Pakistan amongst the radicals who are now still campaigning for her to be executed.

00:34:47.460 And it's not a small group of radicals.

00:34:50.020 This is a major, at least the videos seem to be major movements in the streets.

00:34:54.560 Yeah, huge, huge crowds.

00:34:57.580 A couple of weeks ago, towards the end of the week, it was getting ridiculous.

00:35:02.220 I mean, three or four thousand strong crowds in the streets demanding her death or at least demanding an appeal against the ruling.

00:35:10.280 And initially, the prime minister, Imran Khan, he seemed like he was going to stay strong.

00:35:15.220 He made a public address to the country where he basically said, we won't be, you know, we won't be cowed by these clerics.

00:35:22.600 And actually, we're going to uphold the rule of law here.

00:35:25.660 And this is the final ruling.

00:35:26.780 And then, of course, a few days later, entered into talks with a lot of the clerics and the political parties and agreed some things which were pretty disturbing.

00:35:35.580 So now she wants to come to the United Kingdom.

00:35:39.600 And over the weekend, the United Kingdom, in the biggest act of cowardice I have ever seen from Great Britain.

00:35:48.760 And something that is gravely disturbing, in a nutshell, tell me if I, you know, I don't speak the Queen's English, but I do. 0.97

00:36:00.720 I'm an alcoholic, so I do speak bullcrap.

00:36:03.560 And if I may, if I may translate the Queen's English out of bullcrap into regular people speak, what they said was, we're afraid of our of our Islamicist communities. 0.87

00:36:18.840 We're afraid they're going to rise up and we don't feel comfortable taking you in.

00:36:24.640 So go find some other place to ask for help.

00:36:27.640 Yeah, yeah, there was the head of the British Pakistani Christian Association.

00:36:34.860 That was exactly what he and he's he's been campaigning for about, you know, 10 to the entire time that she's been in prison.

00:36:41.260 He's been campaigning for a release.

00:36:42.580 And that was his understanding through getting in touch with MPs and actually putting the case to them and saying, why are we not immediately offering asylum?

00:36:50.780 Was that the government is just worried about what they call security concerns.

00:36:55.060 No one really knows quite what that means.

00:36:56.360 But like you said, that there might be attacks on embassies and all sorts of things, very vague.

00:37:01.380 And actually, I mean, I've actually just just heard from a couple of members in parliament on this.

00:37:07.240 And there are guys who are vouching for asylum.

00:37:11.360 I mean, I've just heard from MP Desmond Swain, who's just told me he's just written to the prime minister with his colleagues asking for to be given asylum here.

00:37:20.500 So there are MPs who are doing this.

00:37:22.420 So it's just a case of actually trying to grasp why the UK is holding back.

00:37:27.240 And really, there is in my mind, there's no reason why we should be at all.

00:37:31.540 Except unless you think that the United the United Kingdom, you know, is is is not under the influence now of Islamicists. 1.00

00:37:43.300 I mean, to me, this screams cowardice and it screams we're on our last leg here.

00:37:49.900 If you are afraid of a group of people and what they're going to do to the streets of Great Britain or what might happen to your embassies, you are not a world power.

00:38:02.660 In fact, you're not a power at all.

00:38:06.080 Yeah. And I mean, we're seeing particularly today, we're seeing more and more people come out and actually advocate.

00:38:13.580 I mean, Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary today, said that there's absolutely no reason why we should.

00:38:19.420 You know, we've got we've got a moral responsibility and absolute responsibility that the British government does to to offer asylum.

00:38:26.440 And really, I don't really see why I can't see personally why there's any reason why we shouldn't be the home office doesn't doesn't comment on particular like on individual cases, which is frustrating.

00:38:40.280 And then there's various news outlets in the UK are reporting that the government has said things like we welcome the assurance of the Pakistan government.

00:38:48.620 There's, you know, is keeping us safe and things, because, of course, Asia Bibi is being held in Islamabad under guard in an undisclosed location.

00:38:57.680 So they're sort of saying, well, we we trust the Pakistani authorities to keep us safe until something can be organized.

00:39:03.580 But the problem with that is that at the moment, there's the Pakistani government is saying, well, we won't stop any appeals that are lodged that could that could that could appeal her sentencing and even overturn it.

00:39:15.560 So that was one of the criteria of the deal that they did with the Islamists. 0.94

00:39:19.800 So it's it's difficult. And I think it's there's just nothing really else other than MPs writing to the prime minister, which Desmond Swains just told me he's he's done.

00:39:33.920 And actually, I've just heard from a European member of parliament as well, who has told me that it's immoral that Britain will allow thousands of illegal economic migrants to come into a country pretending to be refugees in need of asylum.

00:39:48.720 And then bar Asia Bibi, a young woman in danger of the most terrible mob death, because she's a believing Christian.

00:39:55.600 If Asia cannot claim asylum in Britain, then Britain must ask itself what sort of country we have become.

00:40:00.780 This is it's it's and you know what? He's absolutely right.

00:40:05.800 And this this will be remembered in history.

00:40:10.140 This is a very big moment for the United Kingdom.

00:40:14.600 And it it signals, I think, to those of us who stand in America that, you know, our ally is weaker than we ever thought.

00:40:26.460 I mean, you know, this is this is this is, you know, pre World War Two kind of stuff that that is happening here.

00:40:34.000 And if you're afraid of your own population, boy, that's that's real trouble.

00:40:39.000 Can you tell me also what's happening with the Scotland Yard just started an investigation in the Labour Party because of anti-Semitism, because it's getting so bad there now as well?

00:40:51.340 Can you tell me anything about the Labour Party and what's happening on that?

00:40:54.060 Yeah, there is. It's a deepening investigation.

00:40:57.840 It was it was, I think, sparked by Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leaders, attendance at a group.

00:41:04.560 And I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but it was a group which is heavily associated with an anti-Semitic message.

00:41:10.520 And he went sort of to go and greet them and spent spent a few hours with them.

00:41:14.580 And so I think from that point forward, then it wasn't it wasn't immediately condemned.

00:41:18.260 And the Labour Party didn't immediately distance itself from well, obviously, they can't really distance themselves from the party leader.

00:41:24.540 But Jeremy Corbyn, in particular, didn't distance himself from the meeting and and condemn it entirely.

00:41:29.900 So I think from that point forward, the Scotland Yard have looked to to widen their investigation into that.

00:41:38.400 But of course, that's still ongoing and they remain quite quiet on what they found thus far.

00:41:44.740 It is amazing to to see what's what's happening there, especially with, you know, the the people who are in Brexit.

00:41:53.860 They're being called all kinds of names and then Labour Party's not for breakfast, Brexit, Brexit, are they?

00:42:01.640 No, no, very much. Very much not.

00:42:04.120 Yeah. And and then you you see this this going on.

00:42:07.740 Yeah. Will, thank you very much.

00:42:10.820 And will you just keep us up to speed and feel free, please, to reach out and and bring us updates on on what's happening.

00:42:17.120 I'm fascinated by this and it's not getting very much coverage here in the United States.

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