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00:00:46.040 We've got a lot going on on the show today.

00:00:48.020 We're in for Glenn.

00:00:48.760 His daughter is having a surgery today,

00:00:50.600 so he's out.

00:00:51.200 He should be back tomorrow.

00:00:52.540 We talk about how Elizabeth Warren is a terrible person

00:00:54.540 in seemingly every way.

00:00:56.320 And it's not maybe a nice thing to say,

00:00:59.420 but there's some evidence of this.

00:01:01.120 And honestly, it's about Bernie Sanders.

00:01:04.040 We'll get into that today.

00:01:05.080 As well as we go to Vince Vaughn,

00:01:10.540 who apparently had the audacity, Pat,

00:01:12.840 to talk to the president of the United States.

00:01:15.380 I don't know why he did it.

00:01:17.740 I don't know what was going on there.

00:01:20.300 I don't care.

00:01:21.580 It just shouldn't have happened.

00:01:22.880 It shouldn't have happened.

00:01:23.940 You cannot have pleasant conversations with the president.

00:01:26.620 No.

00:01:27.260 No.

00:01:27.580 Only if you're screaming at him

00:01:28.880 is it allowed for you to communicate with him. 0.96

00:01:30.380 And hating his guts 0.97

00:01:31.820 and letting him know how much you hate his guts. 0.97

00:01:33.780 And we also talk about John Kerry

00:01:36.980 during the podcast

00:01:39.220 and get into his fungible contributions to Iran.

00:01:46.100 And some of that money might have gone to nefarious places.

00:01:49.020 We don't know.

00:01:49.800 I'm sure some of it.

00:01:50.660 Some of it.

00:01:51.040 Of course.

00:01:51.360 I mean, you know, whatever.

00:01:53.240 We get into all the ways it did on the podcast.

00:01:55.720 You're listening to

00:02:04.680 the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:11.940 They had the national championship,

00:02:13.420 the college national championship last night,

00:02:15.540 which, as everybody knew, was going to happen.

00:02:17.780 It was won by LSU.

00:02:19.600 It did seem pretty clear,

00:02:20.580 although it was a little bit in doubt in the first half.

00:02:22.640 A little bit.

00:02:23.020 And they got somewhat close in the third quarter, too.

00:02:27.580 But in the end, it was 42-25 LSU over Clemson,

00:02:31.480 which I think is a little bit of a refreshing change.

00:02:34.260 You know, Clemson, Alabama.

00:02:35.680 Alabama, Clemson.

00:02:36.680 Clemson, Alabama.

00:02:38.120 Alabama, Clemson.

00:02:39.100 A little different last night.

00:02:40.240 A little bit different.

00:02:41.080 It still had Clemson,

00:02:42.260 which I'm a little tired of.

00:02:43.740 I'm almost as tired of Clemson as I am Alabama.

00:02:46.660 I'm just about there.

00:02:48.840 I'm not quite there, but, you know, it was.

00:02:50.580 I mean, that LSU team is one of the greatest college teams of all time.

00:02:55.540 I think so.

00:02:55.960 They were really good.

00:02:57.220 Set all sorts of records, undefeated, pretty much blew everybody out.

00:03:01.740 It's a remarkable story.

00:03:03.780 Attending the game last night was Donald J. Trump and his wife, Melania,

00:03:10.460 and sitting next to them.

00:03:12.400 Oh, my gosh.

00:03:13.900 I mean.

00:03:14.380 So disappointing.

00:03:15.180 Right next to them.

00:03:16.400 Talking to them.

00:03:17.360 Talking.

00:03:17.940 The mouth.

00:03:18.500 Actually touched them.

00:03:19.940 Touched them both.

00:03:20.820 Shook hands with each of them.

00:03:21.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:03:23.040 Actor Vince Vaughn.

00:03:24.220 Oh, jeez.

00:03:25.740 What a disappointment. 0.99

00:03:26.760 Oh, what a horrible person. 0.90

00:03:28.380 How could you do that? 0.53

00:03:29.320 How could you talk to the president of the United States?

00:03:31.860 Yeah.

00:03:32.440 This went viral yesterday because someone posted it on Twitter,

00:03:35.340 someone on the left, and said,

00:03:37.340 you know, I'm very sorry to have to share this clip with you.

00:03:41.620 Like, to say, like, now you have to hate Vince Vaughn.

00:03:43.980 And I know you liked him before,

00:03:45.000 but now you have to hate him because, obviously,

00:03:46.240 he's talking to Donald Trump, which makes him a bad person,

00:03:49.120 and now you can't watch his movies anymore.

00:03:50.680 Like, that is legitimately the tone of the way the left handled this. 0.98

00:03:54.120 Yeah, it's so ridiculous. 0.95

00:03:55.020 And I just don't understand that. 0.94

00:03:56.700 I mean, you know,

00:03:58.600 and maybe it's because we've been on the wrong side of this for so long

00:04:02.620 in that almost every single person in Hollywood,

00:04:07.680 in entertainment, is far, far left.

00:04:11.060 And they all go perform for Democratic candidates.

00:04:13.740 They all have their music used by Democratic candidates.

00:04:15.920 They all show up at Barack Obama's White House.

00:04:18.160 They all come out in ads for socialized medicine.

00:04:23.020 And, you know, rich people are evil,

00:04:25.740 despite the fact that they are them.

00:04:27.440 And guns, you shouldn't have them.

00:04:29.360 You're not responsible enough.

00:04:31.100 And you shouldn't drive that SUV. 0.99

00:04:32.960 You're a bad person. 0.81

00:04:33.700 Let me get my motorcade. 1.00

00:04:34.740 Killing babies is not a problem. 0.90

00:04:36.400 In fact, it's desirable. 0.97

00:04:37.460 It's desirable, and if you don't allow people to kill babies, 0.99

00:04:40.060 then you're a terrible person.

00:04:41.800 We're so used to that with every celebrity that, I mean,

00:04:45.520 I don't even price it in.

00:04:46.520 Like, I go to a movie, and at no real point do I factor in

00:04:52.920 whether the person has a left or right-leaning politics.

00:04:55.860 It's just not something I consider,

00:04:58.100 with the possible exception of some people who are so in your face about it

00:05:02.380 that it's hard to separate them from the characters they're playing.

00:05:05.720 Robert De Niro is like that for me.

00:05:07.460 De Niro's getting there.

00:05:08.940 You know, Martin Sheen.

00:05:11.260 Alec Baldwin.

00:05:12.680 You know, Barbara Streisand. 0.62

00:05:14.920 Jim Carrey has gotten to that point for me.

00:05:16.660 Yeah.

00:05:17.360 And there's a certain level of activism that gets so on your face.

00:05:22.540 It's just tiring, and you no longer see the person as the person they're playing.

00:05:26.100 You only see them as some left-wing activist that's in your face

00:05:29.160 trying to give you a message.

00:05:30.320 Right.

00:05:30.520 And that's a different line than the average celebrity who certainly votes.

00:05:34.260 Probably 95% of them vote Democrat.

00:05:37.780 But at least you can kind of brush it off.

00:05:42.180 The left is not used to that arrangement.

00:05:44.980 No.

00:05:45.440 They're not.

00:05:45.820 They come out, and you publicly are – and there's no indication, by the way,

00:05:49.160 that Vince Vaughn was supporting Donald Trump.

00:05:52.540 He was just speaking to the man.

00:05:53.920 Right.

00:05:54.260 Just speaking to the man in a friendly fashion.

00:05:56.420 Now, he probably does support Donald Trump, as we know.

00:05:59.440 But I don't know that a lot of people put him in that category.

00:06:03.700 Yeah.

00:06:03.940 I mean –

00:06:04.580 That he might lean Republican or Libertarian.

00:06:06.440 It was surprising.

00:06:07.480 I remember when I heard it, it was surprising.

00:06:09.800 But Vince Vaughn is really more of a Ron Paul, Rand Paul type of guy

00:06:13.960 than a Donald Trump guy.

00:06:15.260 Now, I don't know.

00:06:15.860 Maybe – I haven't heard much about his politics recently.

00:06:18.140 But if it came to Trump or Hillary or Trump or Biden, I think he's going Trump.

00:06:22.320 Given the choice, he's going to lean Republican.

00:06:24.140 Yeah.

00:06:24.460 Though he's not exactly the same brand of Republican that you'd necessarily associate

00:06:28.440 with Donald Trump.

00:06:29.200 I mean, he is much more of a Libertarian-leaning guy.

00:06:33.360 Though, again, he has not made politics so in your face as a part of his day-to-day life.

00:06:43.180 He's an actual person, an individual, that supports politicians just like everybody does.

00:06:48.580 However, he doesn't make it his business to put it in your face all the time.

00:06:54.140 The fact that he can't have a polite conversation with not even just some random

00:06:58.840 candidate, the president of the United States.

00:07:02.020 I mean, it used to be that that was sort of expected.

00:07:06.340 You'd at least have positive interactions with a president, even if you didn't like them.

00:07:11.560 And now we're at that point where it's trendy to just not show up to the Oval Office.

00:07:15.500 And you see that occasionally from time to time over the years.

00:07:18.420 I remember there was a guy on the Boston Bruins who was a Republican and did not go to see

00:07:22.920 Barack Obama when they won.

00:07:23.900 Right, but those were few and far between.

00:07:25.020 Very few and far between.

00:07:25.840 Now it's like the entire team won't go.

00:07:28.380 Yeah.

00:07:28.600 And the Golden State Warriors famously would not go see Trump.

00:07:32.180 You know, I can understand.

00:07:33.520 You don't have to go.

00:07:34.160 You don't have to make it a big deal.

00:07:36.640 However, the idea that you can interact with people across party lines in normal conversation,

00:07:44.280 like that's not, it has nothing to do with politics.

00:07:46.280 That's just a normal human way of dealing with life.

00:07:51.380 Yeah.

00:07:51.960 That's not supposed to be controversial.

00:07:54.120 You do realize that when you walk into Starbucks and you buy a cup of coffee or you go to McDonald's,

00:07:59.580 there's a 50-50 shot.

00:08:01.200 You're dealing with someone who doesn't agree with you politically, and I, you know,

00:08:04.600 I don't need every interaction I have in my life to be with someone I agree with on every topic.

00:08:10.360 I don't need that in my life, nor do I want it, to be honest.

00:08:13.380 And I don't, honestly, more than that, I don't want to even know.

00:08:16.220 I don't want to know.

00:08:17.500 I don't care what you believe.

00:08:20.000 I, you know, I'm going to obviously fight for what I believe is right, but this idea that you,

00:08:25.700 like, you know, Ellen dealt with this a few weeks ago where Ellen was sitting with George W. Bush. 0.54

00:08:30.360 And they're friends.

00:08:31.680 And they're friends.

00:08:32.420 You know, and I, you know, are they friendly?

00:08:33.840 Like, they're friendly, right?

00:08:35.660 I mean, I'm sure they're not hanging out every day, but they can't even interact in a positive way.

00:08:41.300 I mean—

00:08:41.680 It's crazy. 0.73

00:08:42.220 Ellen does more for the Democratic position when she does something like that than any crazy activist does. 1.00

00:08:50.860 Yeah.

00:08:51.000 Because she shows she's a normal person.

00:08:53.340 She shows that she is willing to talk to someone she disagrees with.

00:08:57.880 And that makes Republicans, conservatives, like her more.

00:09:01.420 Yeah.

00:09:01.880 You know?

00:09:02.260 Absolutely.

00:09:02.840 Maybe they're going to be more interested in one of—when she does make a point about liberal politics on her show, 1.00

00:09:08.520 maybe more conservatives might listen to it and consider it.

00:09:11.280 They might not like it.

00:09:12.180 They might not agree.

00:09:13.120 But at least it'll be part of the conversation.

00:09:15.100 And with Vince Vaughn last night, it's not like he was at a fundraiser with Trump or for Trump or for the Republican Party.

00:09:22.020 He's at the national championship football game.

00:09:24.480 Yeah.

00:09:25.120 And Trump happens to be sitting next to him.

00:09:27.940 I mean, it's not like he went there specifically to see Donald Trump or support Donald Trump.

00:09:34.380 And the fact that, you know, he was pictured talking with him, and you're not—I guess you're not supposed to even acknowledge he's alive.

00:09:42.720 Yeah. 0.88

00:09:42.880 It's just—it's gotten so ridiculous in this country. 0.79

00:09:47.040 Where does that end? 0.81

00:09:48.080 It can't end in a good place.

00:09:50.340 If we keep this up, if we keep insisting that you can't even talk to Donald Trump or people who support him or you're a racist,

00:09:59.320 you can't even be near them, you can't touch them, you can't talk about them in a decent way,

00:10:03.840 I mean, I don't know where that ends up, but it can't be in a good place.

00:10:08.560 It doesn't seem like it would be.

00:10:09.880 But it goes back to, I think, what we discussed last hour, which is the design of this approach

00:10:17.320 is not necessarily different than when we talk about how, you know, the left can get away with a blackface scandal like Trudeau or Northam. 0.71

00:10:32.520 But someone on the right who would do it would obviously be thrown out of society immediately.

00:10:36.200 And it's not about whether you wear blackface or not or whether you are Republican or conservative per se.

00:10:43.840 It's about ostracizing anyone who would even be mildly friendly to one of these people.

00:10:50.340 So what do you do if you're in Hollywood?

00:10:51.480 Now, Vince Vaughn is Vince freaking Vaughn.

00:10:53.520 Vince freaking Vaughn can do whatever he wants, right?

00:10:55.800 Like, he is a huge star.

00:10:58.200 I mean, he's been making critically acclaimed movies over the past few years,

00:11:03.000 Dragged Across Concrete being one of them, that have been really well received and have done really well with critics.

00:11:12.020 He hasn't been making as many of sort of the old school Vince Vaughn comedies lately,

00:11:15.140 but the guy still has a really good career and honestly can kind of do what he wants.

00:11:19.820 He's able to survive these things.

00:11:21.560 But if you're a young actor and you're coming up and you want to be the next Vince Vaughn,

00:11:26.380 you want to be the next Chris Pratt, you want to be the next big star,

00:11:29.180 you know, you're not going to talk about these things publicly.

00:11:32.300 You're not going to go say hello to Donald Trump at the football game and shake his hand and be respectful

00:11:36.780 because you know it might destroy your career.

00:11:40.800 And that's the message that is being sent here.

00:11:43.060 The message being sent is you are not acceptable in society

00:11:46.820 if you interact with the president of the United States in a normal human way.

00:11:53.820 Not out there raising $50 million for the guy,

00:11:57.220 but shaking his hand and being polite to his wife.

00:12:00.760 That is now off limits.

00:12:02.860 And that message is being sent.

00:12:05.080 It was sent as well as we saw, we did a few stories about this last year

00:12:09.180 with the book about Oculus Rift, the guy who, you know, guy in a trailer,

00:12:17.180 creates this amazing virtual reality technology,

00:12:19.960 gets to the point where Facebook buys it for multiple billions of dollars.

00:12:22.900 He is spotted at one Trump fundraiser and they destroy him.

00:12:29.520 They fire him.

00:12:30.760 He gets thrown out of the, he has to release a statement lying about the candidate he voted for.

00:12:36.560 I mean, all of these crazy things happen.

00:12:38.900 It was in Blake Harris's book.

00:12:40.860 It's worth going back and reading.

00:12:42.680 A fascinating thing.

00:12:43.860 And it's tossing people out of society despite their accomplishments

00:12:48.420 because they have moderately pleasant interactions with a person.

00:12:53.340 Like that's what we used to freaking cheer on.

00:12:56.020 There was a time where you say, okay, look, I know you disagree with that guy,

00:12:59.120 but that's great that you guys are still friends

00:13:00.760 and you still talk to them about these things.

00:13:03.880 Now that is like something that gets you thrown out of polite society.

00:13:07.500 And it's something where if you are coming up in technology or entertainment

00:13:13.460 or one of these big fields, you're going to hesitate being honest about who you are,

00:13:18.800 which is the exact opposite of what Hollywood says they want.

00:13:21.780 They kept saying, oh, they're going to keep everybody in the closet

00:13:23.700 and they want to put, you know, scared communists, the red scare and all these things.

00:13:29.680 Well, what is it now?

00:13:31.000 You have organizations that are basically like AA for conservatives in Los Angeles

00:13:36.200 so they can talk to someone openly.

00:13:39.060 This is not a healthy environment.

00:13:42.020 How often did Chris Matthews talk about Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill?

00:13:46.400 Over and over and over.

00:13:47.820 They disagreed politically, but then they'd have the dinner and drinks together.

00:13:51.740 I mean, we heard that a billion times.

00:13:53.400 You can't do that now.

00:13:55.180 I mean, now that's not acceptable, I guess.

00:13:57.640 It's only good when the conservative, when this is utilized for a conservative

00:14:01.180 to abandon their principles and support some liberal policy.

00:14:03.840 Exactly.

00:14:04.200 Then it's great.

00:14:04.940 Yeah.

00:14:05.120 You know, oh, wow, like this senator has decided to vote for socialized medicine

00:14:09.320 after he went out to, you know, this happened with Orrin Hatch a lot

00:14:12.120 back when he was senator.

00:14:13.700 This was like, this is, this is, this is Kennedy.

00:14:15.320 This is actually copywritten as, as you have to write to see after it.

00:14:20.020 It's the Orrin Hatch.

00:14:21.400 And Hatch would go out with Kennedy and they'd come up with some, you know,

00:14:24.060 left, you know, left wing philosophy on education

00:14:27.520 that Hatch would be the main quote unquote conservative voice to stand up for.

00:14:32.920 And everyone on MSNBC would say, this is bipartisan.

00:14:36.000 They went out to dinner.

00:14:37.120 I assume with Hatch, not drinks, but then I went out to dinner and said, hey, well,

00:14:41.640 we're going to, you know what?

00:14:42.580 The thing I've been supposedly standing for and everybody in Utah voted for me.

00:14:46.960 I'm not for that anymore.

00:14:48.440 I'm not for that.

00:14:48.720 I believe the opposite.

00:14:49.560 I believe what Ted Kennedy said because those ribs were tasty.

00:14:53.640 That is not a good way to run a country.

00:14:55.780 However, being friendly with someone is fine.

00:14:58.260 You can be friendly with them.

00:14:59.200 You just don't abandon your principles just because you're friendly with them.

00:15:02.480 That's a trick that many in Washington can't seem to, uh, to master.

00:15:05.900 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:16.960 Big debate tonight, uh, featuring the six candidates who qualified, uh, for the debate tonight.

00:15:25.500 Uh, not all six have really equal shot at, uh, at winning this nomination.

00:15:30.980 Um, some, in fact, and I might as well just get out of it now and stop wasting money.

00:15:36.160 I mean, there's Amy Klobuchar.

00:15:38.660 I'm a little surprised.

00:15:39.660 She's still in this thing.

00:15:41.260 Although was she at 15% in Iowa?

00:15:44.900 No, I see her eight and 10% here and there. 0.99

00:15:48.280 Uh, Tom Steyer got 15% in, uh, South Carolina, which is, was odd.

00:15:53.200 And I believe hit 12 in Nevada.

00:15:56.040 Um, and, and, you know, I was in Nevada over a Christmas break and.

00:16:01.100 Everywhere.

00:16:01.900 I mean, Tom Steyer's face is everywhere.

00:16:06.060 He's, he's buying every billboard. 0.98

00:16:07.800 It's like, it's either, it's either massage parlor, naked ladies, Tom Steyer. 0.87

00:16:12.680 And I associate the two because of the sexiness of Tom Steyer. 0.86

00:16:15.460 Oh yeah.

00:16:15.800 It's just hard to.

00:16:17.020 Super sexy.

00:16:17.680 Just the overflowing sexiness, the utter sexuality of a Tom Steyer.

00:16:23.560 It's almost difficult to ignore.

00:16:25.760 Yeah.

00:16:25.980 Uh, but he's everywhere there.

00:16:27.560 And it's funny to see this because Steyer is trying something really that's never quite

00:16:31.740 been done, which is dump money as a billionaire into early States and take yourself from no

00:16:38.960 one knows who you are to absolute every, you know, just you blanket a state and then try

00:16:46.300 to build yourself into a personality that people will vote for.

00:16:50.180 And he started this and he got down this road and he spent $70 million.

00:16:54.240 And then Michael Bloomberg was like, well, I'm a much better billionaire than you.

00:16:57.820 Why don't I just do this better?

00:16:58.740 So now Bloomberg has spent, it looks like he, by the time Super Tuesday rolls around, Michael

00:17:04.580 Bloomberg will have spent a quarter of a billion dollars of his own money on ads.

00:17:09.240 Wow.

00:17:09.400 You saw them in the national championship game probably last night.

00:17:12.020 Several.

00:17:12.500 Yeah.

00:17:13.580 It could be more than this.

00:17:15.120 It could be almost a half a billion dollars and all on Super Tuesday States, which is really

00:17:19.580 fascinating because he is running in States essentially unopposed.

00:17:25.100 These Super Tuesday States, none of the candidates are, they're all focusing on the early States.

00:17:30.460 So he's just like, ah, let's wait.

00:17:31.900 So he's blanketing and he's, he is rising in the polls and he's doing, um, you know, he's

00:17:35.820 been hitting 8%, 10% in some of these early polls in these States and he's up to five or

00:17:40.320 6% nationally.

00:17:41.140 So he's kind of doing the Rudy Giuliani trick, uh, whenever that was, was it 2012 or 2008?

00:17:47.540 Eight, I believe.

00:17:48.600 Yes.

00:17:48.880 Where he waited till Florida, but he didn't spend all the money that, uh, Bloomberg is spending

00:17:53.940 right now.

00:17:54.460 No, I mean, that was his big mistake.

00:17:56.980 By the time it got to Florida and he was waiting for everybody, it was over.

00:17:59.980 He was done.

00:18:00.540 Yeah.

00:18:00.820 Nobody cared about him.

00:18:01.820 And because of that, he has such a unique path.

00:18:04.260 Right.

00:18:04.580 I mean, when you're right with Giuliani, it was, you know, Oh, look, all these New Yorkers

00:18:08.400 moved down to Florida.

00:18:09.280 They love Rudy.

00:18:10.060 He'll be able to win.

00:18:10.960 Did not work.

00:18:12.240 Now Bloomberg is, is facing something and his path is different where he's rooting for

00:18:17.460 there not to be, um, a, the worst thing that can happen for Bloomberg is Biden wins the

00:18:26.580 first four States because if Biden is there and he's the obvious front runner, Bloomberg's

00:18:32.120 toast.

00:18:32.520 However, if one of the two other things happen, he's got, uh, he's got an argument.

00:18:38.040 One being there's a big, big split.

00:18:40.300 Buttigieg wins.

00:18:41.620 Um, uh, let's say Buttigieg wins, Iowa, uh, um, Sanders wins, New Hampshire, uh, Warren

00:18:50.220 wins, Nevada, and Biden wins South Carolina.

00:18:53.000 All four of those are very possible.

00:18:55.160 Very possible.

00:18:56.060 Now the dynamics change.

00:18:58.000 If Buttigieg wins Iowa, does he win also New Hampshire?

00:19:01.460 I mean, there's a good argument to be made that that momentum will help him, but if those

00:19:05.280 four split up, then Bloomberg comes in essentially as the guy to say, look, this is a mess.

00:19:10.160 I'm going to win these other States and, and, and insert myself into this conversation.

00:19:14.300 The other one is a dominant performance by one of the liberals.

00:19:17.580 So let's say Sanders wins Iowa.

00:19:20.160 Then Sanders goes back to back and wins New Hampshire, which if he wins Iowa, he's got a really

00:19:24.600 good chance of winning New Hampshire.

00:19:25.480 That's possible too.

00:19:26.900 Yeah.

00:19:27.080 He wins those two, which by the way, he's leading in many polls in both of those States.

00:19:30.900 If he wins those two in a row, very good chance.

00:19:33.400 He wins Nevada as well.

00:19:35.000 So he goes three for three.

00:19:36.920 No candidate has ever won the first three States and then lost.

00:19:41.240 Uh, uh, the last one who did this was, um, Al Gore, Al Gore in 2001, the first three States.

00:19:47.220 And when he won the first three States as a non-incumbent, um, he went on to win every primary.

00:19:51.540 Now, obviously someone like Barack Obama, who was already president, it's a different story.

00:19:54.860 But when you have a non-incumbent, it's not as easy to do this.

00:19:57.280 So if Sanders won the first three States, good chance.

00:20:00.160 He, he also wins South Carolina, you know, who knows?

00:20:02.860 Biden could be destroyed by that point.

00:20:05.060 Then you have, you have to ask the democratic party.

00:20:08.440 Do you want, do you really want Bernie freaking Sanders to be your nominee?

00:20:13.740 Cause if you want an avowed socialist as your nominee, you can have him.

00:20:17.440 He's way ahead, but you know, who else is there?

00:20:20.760 Michael Bloomberg with his billion dollars and he can, he, you're not gonna have to worry

00:20:24.360 about fundraising.

00:20:25.220 You're not gonna have to worry about any of that stuff.

00:20:27.020 He's going to, he's going to pay for all of it himself.

00:20:29.780 And you know, you're, you might not like Bloomberg, but you know what?

00:20:32.600 He's super liberal on guns.

00:20:34.180 He's super liberal on climate change.

00:20:36.400 He's super liberal on almost everything with the exception of some business issues.

00:20:40.580 Can you deal with that?

00:20:41.760 So you don't get Bernie Sanders, but he's, is he universal healthcare as well?

00:20:45.420 I don't know if I've heard his healthcare plan.

00:20:47.700 You know, that's a good, I, I, I, I think he is.

00:20:50.880 I don't think he's Medicare for all though.

00:20:52.700 He's not like a full fledged Medicare for all.

00:20:54.660 He's more, a more Buddha judge approach, Medicare for those who want it, as they say.

00:20:59.000 In other words, the public option.

00:21:00.640 So you could still keep supposedly like they lied to us before.

00:21:03.740 If you like your healthcare, you can keep your healthcare.

00:21:05.740 Until we take it away.

00:21:06.840 Yeah.

00:21:07.120 That's the full, the full sentence that got muddled a little bit behind the applause.

00:21:12.380 It was always behind the scenes.

00:21:13.920 Yeah.

00:21:14.080 I think, I believe that's where he is.

00:21:15.400 We can, we can confirm that a hundred percent to make sure, but he's not.

00:21:18.280 Look, Bloomberg is running overtly as a supposed moderate, which is hilarious when you see him.

00:21:24.180 He is not moderate.

00:21:25.080 He is as extreme as anybody.

00:21:27.120 Probably in all honesty, probably more extreme than Bernie Sanders on guns.

00:21:31.580 That is, that is.

00:21:32.660 Oh, no, probably about it.

00:21:34.100 Bernie actually supported the second amendment.

00:21:35.880 He had his time.

00:21:36.660 I mean, he's from Vermont and he had his time where he was like, yeah, maybe people in rural

00:21:39.940 communities.

00:21:40.440 Now he denies a lot of that now.

00:21:42.080 And he's, he's distance himself.

00:21:43.820 Although he was just asked about confiscation.

00:21:46.160 He said, absolutely not.

00:21:47.020 Yeah.

00:21:47.160 He's not there.

00:21:47.560 He's constitutional.

00:21:48.440 That's crazy.

00:21:49.120 Cause that, I mean, Bloomberg is there.

00:21:50.600 Yes.

00:21:50.980 Bloomberg, with the exception of his security personnel, does not want anyone to have a gun.

00:21:54.660 Right.

00:21:55.480 Now his security personnel, totally different story.

00:21:57.900 And he'll certainly use guns to come in to make sure that your SUV is not operating on gasoline.

00:22:03.340 That's coming in a, in a future Bloomberg administration for sure.

00:22:06.240 Uh, but, uh, yeah, I mean, I think that there is an argument there for Bloomberg.

00:22:10.900 Steyer is a tougher case.

00:22:11.960 I mean, Steyer would have to somehow win a couple of these early states and then become

00:22:17.700 the only liberal standing.

00:22:20.240 So if you look at this as a situation where let's say Biden, um, is doing very well, there's

00:22:26.620 no liberals left.

00:22:27.780 Biden is, is cruising and, and Steyer can win a couple of states.

00:22:31.160 Maybe Steyer can make the argument, look, I've got a lot of money.

00:22:33.240 Well, I can fund this thing myself, you know, stick with me.

00:22:37.280 I don't think there's a real Steyer argument though.

00:22:39.300 I mean, the Steyer thing, he's so bad as a candidate.

00:22:42.520 He's so boring.

00:22:44.240 It's just hard to imagine him catching fire.

00:22:46.660 Well, Bloomberg is at least a character. 1.00

00:22:48.560 I mean, I think he's a jerk in every way known. 1.00

00:22:51.440 He wants to take away my freaking soda and my straws. 1.00

00:22:54.160 And I cannot think of anything more offensive to my soul than going after my soda. 0.97

00:22:59.500 He, he even tried to take away your salt in New York.

00:23:03.360 Yep.

00:23:04.240 And he did take away our walking spaces.

00:23:06.220 I know that.

00:23:06.860 He closed off all kinds of streets where you can't drive anymore and actually made them 0.51

00:23:11.940 walking spaces, made them plazas.

00:23:13.900 Yeah.

00:23:14.220 I mean, it just made things tougher to get around and navigate.

00:23:17.300 One of the big things he tried to do in New York too, was to, to have this big commuter

00:23:20.380 tax where you'd pay huge amounts of money to drive into the city.

00:23:23.620 As you remember, Pat, of course you were driving in the city every day.

00:23:26.140 It was already really freaking expensive to park your car and paying tolls.

00:23:30.580 He wanted to, you know, to make that much, much higher.

00:23:33.180 Think of what he would do to the national capital.

00:23:35.880 I mean, as a president, I mean, think of the things he would push through there.

00:23:40.020 That would be, I mean, DC would be even more of a mess than it is.

00:23:43.940 He's totally fine with controlling your life, with, with telling you what you can and can't

00:23:49.240 do, what you can and can't eat, what you can and can't have, because he knows better

00:23:53.500 than you.

00:23:53.940 Yep.

00:23:54.100 He honestly believes he knows better than you, that, that there are people and he's

00:23:59.360 one of them who are just way smarter than you are and they know how you should live

00:24:03.500 your lives.

00:24:04.140 Yeah.

00:24:04.460 And that's how, that's what he believes.

00:24:06.020 Yeah.

00:24:06.160 It's interesting, especially if you've been listening to this show for a long time and

00:24:08.600 listening to Glenn talk about early 20th century progressivism and Woodrow Wilson and how that

00:24:13.880 all developed.

00:24:15.000 And if you listen to this show for more than five minutes, how could you have missed it?

00:24:17.980 I mean, is there a bit of five minute period on this program where Glenn has not mentioned

00:24:22.380 Woodrow Wilson?

00:24:23.320 Uh, I mean, five consecutive minutes without Woodrow Wilson.

00:24:26.860 No, there has not.

00:24:27.520 Has not been in the history of the show.

00:24:29.180 Right.

00:24:29.340 Uh, but if you know that there's two candidates, I think I like personify that Woodrow Wilson

00:24:35.380 philosophy better than anyone else.

00:24:37.380 Elizabeth Warren is one of them and Michael Bloomberg is the other people who are, who

00:24:41.840 absolutely believe they know better than you how to live your life.

00:24:45.940 Now, of course there's elements in every single one of these candidates of, of this philosophy,

00:24:51.300 but even Bloomberg is maybe the most pure example because he, I mean, all the way down

00:24:55.780 to running massive campaigns to take away larger soda cups so he can manipulate the amount

00:25:00.840 of calories that you're eating, you know, getting rid of straws, getting rid of, as you

00:25:04.600 point out, he wanted to get rid of table salt.

00:25:07.000 I mean, think of this.

00:25:08.760 He wanted to ban salt from your restaurant experience.

00:25:12.020 There was another thing he was talking about recently where, um, he wanted, he wanted the

00:25:17.800 poor to stay poor or pay higher taxes so that, so that they didn't have enough money to hurt

00:25:24.900 themselves with.

00:25:25.700 Right.

00:25:26.000 They would buy it because if they have too much money, they'll go out to eat.

00:25:28.100 They're going to go buy bad things and put into their body.

00:25:31.040 Yep.

00:25:31.480 So then they can't buy drugs.

00:25:32.780 I mean, that's incredible.

00:25:34.240 Oh, and that is progressivism in a nutshell right there.

00:25:37.500 It's the other side of the coin from a Warren who wouldn't say something like that, but still

00:25:41.180 thinks it.

00:25:41.720 You know, a lot of her policies lead to the same exact things and it's one of the reasons 0.97

00:25:45.620 conveniently Medicare for all will raise taxes on the poor and the middle class.

00:25:51.040 Uh, I mean, Bernie admits it.

00:25:52.960 Warren doesn't quite admit it, but it's obviously true.

00:25:55.520 And she even gets beat up by the left on, on her denial of these claims.

00:25:59.720 Uh, but it's going to be interesting.

00:26:01.180 Uh, 538.com released their model of, of the, uh, entire primary.

00:26:07.620 Uh, to, again, like people like to beat up on polls, but you look at the accuracy.

00:26:11.720 Of, of the poll.

00:26:12.520 I mean, you know, the national election, they project, they projected it almost exactly as

00:26:16.680 far as the popular vote was, which is what they were projecting.

00:26:19.360 Some of the states they missed on.

00:26:21.080 Um, and a lot of these forecasters did miss on that.

00:26:23.420 Um, but the idea that, uh, that polls are worthless is largely a myth.

00:26:28.580 I mean, you know, the polls got about 45, 46 states, right?

00:26:33.840 Um, the, the popular vote, they got it right.

00:26:36.080 You know, Donald Trump's surprised in certain areas in, uh, you know, to, to a point of

00:26:41.320 all reporting shows that even their internal, uh, polling, uh, showed that they were not

00:26:45.740 going to win some of those races and they did.

00:26:47.380 So it's not always perfect, but it does give you a good idea.

00:26:50.520 This is really imperfect though, because the polling in primaries and caucuses is much

00:26:57.080 less reliable than general election polling.

00:26:59.660 Uh, it's harder to do, especially a caucus.

00:27:02.180 I mean, what goes on in Iowa where everyone's in a room trying to convince each other is such

00:27:06.040 a different process.

00:27:07.060 It's really hard to do that.

00:27:08.320 And then everything has an effect on everything that comes after it.

00:27:12.940 So, you know, in Iowa, you might say, okay, Joe Biden's got a 30% chance to win Iowa.

00:27:18.380 Well, if he wins, uh, Iowa, his chances might go from 20% in New Hampshire to 40% in New

00:27:24.960 Hampshire, everything, whatever happens in Iowa is going to affect all these other races.

00:27:28.960 So to try to project all of these things in a row is basically an impossible task.

00:27:34.640 And you should know going in that these things can't be perfect, but it is an interesting

00:27:39.340 effort.

00:27:39.960 They say Joe Biden has a 38% chance right now to win the majority of delegates for the

00:27:46.740 Democrats and 38% chance of winning is obviously he's the favorite by a pretty wide margin.

00:27:52.680 On the other hand, there's a 62% chance he doesn't win.

00:27:57.800 So there's a, there's a much better chance that he does not win the majority of delegates

00:28:02.980 than, than he does, which is a, is a way that you have to kind of think about this.

00:28:07.000 This is a race that's really up in the air.

00:28:09.520 Uh, Sanders, 23%, Warren, 13% chance of winning the majority of delegates, Budajeg, 10%, all

00:28:16.440 others, um, with the exception of, uh, all others is, you know, about 1% chance of people

00:28:20.680 like Bloomberg and down the, you know, Klobuchar.

00:28:22.780 Uh, the one that's really interesting though, is they say there's a 15% chance.

00:28:26.380 No one wins the majority of delegates, which means you're probably going to have a contested,

00:28:31.980 a contested convention, a 15% chance they project right now, which is significant.

00:28:37.000 Yeah.

00:28:41.500 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:54.440 There's a graph I saw the other day of all the social networks and how they've risen and

00:28:59.580 then, and then fallen.

00:29:00.860 And the MySpace one is just sad.

00:29:02.640 I mean, it peaks at destroying all of them and then just goes away within like two or

00:29:06.900 three years.

00:29:07.880 And the only thing it's around now for is occasional scandals of photos that were posted on MySpace

00:29:15.300 in the past.

00:29:16.080 Like, for example, there was a guy who it was a judge on some tattoo related reality show.

00:29:24.700 I don't, I know there's a bunch of those.

00:29:26.600 I don't, I don't know which one this was exactly, but he'd been a judge on the show for 13 years.

00:29:31.180 Okay.

00:29:31.540 So he's again, it's amazing.

00:29:34.340 The television age that we live in and that shows that can be popular enough to be on the

00:29:38.880 air for 13 years.

00:29:40.240 We've absolutely no knowledge that they exist, but apparently this is a pretty big show.

00:29:43.880 And he, um, someone digs up his old MySpace page and finds pictures of him in blackface.

00:29:53.760 Big scandal.

00:29:55.160 He, he's, he has to resign or gets fired.

00:29:58.620 Fascinating though, to watch that go down because here is a guy who, um, there's no evidence that

00:30:05.660 he was a, you know, some, it wasn't like posts where he was praising Nazi ideology or was like,

00:30:11.240 he was at 14 KKK meetings.

00:30:14.680 He, he has two pictures of himself on Halloween where he's dressed up as an African American

00:30:21.560 person.

00:30:22.340 The same way Joy Behar did the exact same thing, dressed up as a used blackface. 1.00

00:30:28.360 Uh, and she's fine and on the view and there's no problems with it because she's substantially

00:30:33.600 liberal enough.

00:30:34.260 If you're progressive enough, if you like taxes to be high enough, if you want abortion 0.99

00:30:39.260 to be easy enough to get, if you want babies to make sure that they don't really have a 1.00

00:30:43.700 great chance of survival, that makes it okay to wear blackface. 0.99

00:30:47.700 Yes.

00:30:48.280 That's okay.

00:30:48.960 Yes, it does.

00:30:49.520 So this guy, Pat, is dressed up in blackface. 0.89

00:30:53.320 Again, not something, uh, just safety tip.

00:30:56.840 Kids at home.

00:30:57.860 Not a good idea.

00:30:58.740 In basically any circumstance.

00:31:01.220 Okay.

00:31:01.900 Um, however, he did this and he was dressed up as, uh, someone from the Los Angeles Lakers.

00:31:09.400 Interesting because it, it harkens back to mind specifically one Jimmy Kimmel who dressed

00:31:15.620 up as Carl Malone in blackface on national television.

00:31:19.460 Right.

00:31:20.140 And received no repercussions whatsoever and continues to be a, uh, a liberal mega star. 0.97

00:31:26.600 But he's, so he's, he's great with babies being killed in the womb. 0.75

00:31:29.880 He's fine with that. 0.95

00:31:31.020 So that makes the blackface thing, like you said, just perfectly fine. 1.00

00:31:34.000 He wants taxes to be sufficiently high enough.

00:31:36.520 Yep.

00:31:36.760 He wants healthcare to be given to you by the government.

00:31:39.240 So therefore blackface, a okay. 1.00

00:31:41.820 It's amazing.

00:31:42.340 That is the policy.

00:31:43.340 And it's funny because one of the comments, you know, and it was one of these stories and

00:31:46.920 this drives me crazy, but it's like, here's, here's one, the first paragraph are like

00:31:52.740 the very basic details of the story and then it's this Twitter user said, and then there's

00:31:58.060 just like 25 comments from random people on Twitter that I guess the person writing the

00:32:01.980 story found interesting instead of writing comments themselves.

00:32:04.740 They're like, let's just sign on a copy and paste this on there.

00:32:07.320 But the first comment that they thought was so brilliant was, well, I'm glad this guy's

00:32:12.020 learning the lesson of Justin Trudeau.

00:32:14.020 You don't use blackface.

00:32:15.260 How the hell did he learn?

00:32:17.600 But he's the premier of Canada.

00:32:19.260 Yeah.

00:32:19.480 I was like, he's a prime minister.

00:32:21.520 Yeah.

00:32:21.660 If you use blackface, you can run countries. 1.00

00:32:24.040 Is that the lesson he was supposed to learn?

00:32:25.660 Or is it that he's supposed to learn?

00:32:27.340 You can run states like in Virginia.

00:32:30.380 Yeah.

00:32:30.520 Which one is it?

00:32:31.600 What lesson are you supposed to learn?

00:32:33.220 And of course, what is fundamentally built into this?

00:32:36.720 And of course the larger perspective is you should be progressive.

00:32:41.360 You should be liberal because you know what happens when you are, you get excused for all

00:32:45.980 the mistakes you've made in your life.

00:32:46.960 It's a wonderful get out of jail free card.

00:32:50.200 You'll never have to pay a price for the things you shouldn't have done because if you are

00:32:54.580 sufficiently in favor of government healthcare, we'll exonerate you.

00:32:59.460 And that is an incredible free pass to life if you happen to be someone on the left.

00:33:04.980 What a wonderful thing.

00:33:07.160 What a great way to live, man.

00:33:09.140 You never have to deal with the arguments of the other side.

00:33:11.660 You just dismiss them as racist.

00:33:12.920 And if you screwed up, if you happen to have a little Me Too violation here, or you had

00:33:18.800 a little bit of a blackface incident there, we won't even talk about it.

00:33:22.920 Don't even worry about it.

00:33:24.020 So I don't know what this guy's politics are, but he's ejected from society now.

00:33:28.140 And people like Jimmy Kimmel will remain on television.

00:33:31.680 You know, people like Governor Northam, people like Justin Trudeau, they maintain everything.

00:33:37.780 The liberal left-wing country of Canada goes and supports this guy and re-elects him after

00:33:45.100 the scandal.

00:33:46.000 Yeah.

00:33:46.460 Do you think Donald Trump survives a blackface scandal in 2020?

00:33:50.120 No.

00:33:50.520 I'm going to go with no.

00:33:51.440 No, he does not.

00:33:52.260 I'm going to go with no.

00:33:53.220 That's for sure.

00:33:54.060 And you know, you'd think in today's day and age, because, you know, like, for example,

00:33:59.760 Sarah Silverman, who is pretty left and has had minor repercussions from her own blackface 0.99

00:34:05.280 scandal, she did blackface on television, why, to parody and mock and demean racists. 1.00

00:34:14.780 That shouldn't be looked at as the same thing as Justin Trudeau, who just thinks it's A-OK

00:34:20.880 and funny to go out and dress up as someone just for the laughs.

00:34:27.080 Those things should be treated differently.

00:34:29.400 We've just treated them the opposite way.

00:34:31.660 The repercussions have gone to the person who is against racism, and Justin Trudeau skates

00:34:36.160 through A-OK.

00:34:37.600 It doesn't, I mean, it is a fascinating world to navigate, Pat, because you can't find the

00:34:43.880 end.

00:34:44.260 There's no way to know who gets cleared, who gets prosecuted, whose life gets ruined, and

00:34:51.600 whose life, you know, gets promoted.

00:34:54.720 And a lot of times it's politics, but not always.

00:34:56.800 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

00:35:12.240 Somebody actually asked John Kerry about the payment that the Obama administration made

00:35:20.460 to Iran, what was it, the $150 billion that was supposedly left on a tarmac that they say

00:35:28.400 wasn't left on a tarmac.

00:35:31.560 But he was asked about that situation, and here's what he had to say.

00:35:36.820 I think that some of it will end up in the hands of the IRGC or of other entities, some

00:35:44.720 of which are labeled terrorists, you know, to some degree, I'm not going to sit here and

00:35:50.300 tell you that every component of that can be prevented.

00:35:54.080 Why, though, did you think that that was a risk worth taking, if you knew the possibility

00:36:01.000 of what would happen with that money?

00:36:03.180 Good question.

00:36:04.300 Well, what I was really saying, I think, first of all, Margaret, you are an expert at this.

00:36:10.940 Since you were there, you know that the president's tweet is a lie.

00:36:16.400 And the president tweeted this morning, because I am coming on the show, and he knew you'd ask

00:36:20.440 me the question, or he'd push you in a place where you did ask the question.

00:36:24.140 You and the media, I think, need to call a lie a lie.

00:36:28.220 Well, what I'm saying, Margaret, is that what I'm saying is I'm trying to avoid the actual

00:36:36.280 direct question that you asked me about why we took the chance that this could end up

00:36:41.220 with the IRGC.

00:36:42.940 And the answer to that is that I'm going to talk around what you've just asked me and

00:36:48.200 really put the blame on you for reading the president's tweet.

00:36:53.280 Love that.

00:36:55.680 Yes, of course, I said this, but the problem here is that you noticed it.

00:36:59.820 That's the real scandal, is that you and the president noticed it, and what does that say

00:37:07.600 about you?

00:37:08.720 That's really kind of what he's trying to do there.

00:37:10.540 Yeah, it is.

00:37:11.080 It's basically saying, like, since the president brought it up, it's not okay to bring up.

00:37:16.060 It is awesome.

00:37:16.960 I mean, it's a very clear delineation of how they actually feel.

00:37:21.960 Margaret, what I'm saying is that you noticed this in a fashion reminiscent of judges con.

00:37:27.560 And there's a chasm between what I'd like you to notice and what you did notice.

00:37:35.040 I love the overall point is so bad.

00:37:37.760 The money is fungible.

00:37:39.520 It's a fungible thing.

00:37:41.360 I love that.

00:37:41.700 You don't know where it's going. 0.91

00:37:42.880 Sure, some of it's going to be used on child porn.

00:37:45.420 Absolutely.

00:37:46.560 There's nothing we can do about that.

00:37:48.120 We expect that to happen.

00:37:50.420 Approximately 30% of all money we spend goes to child porn.

00:37:53.740 And another 20% goes to injecting little cute puppies with heroin and getting them addicted.

00:37:59.960 We know this is going to occur.

00:38:02.320 Is some of that going to happen?

00:38:03.620 Of course it is.

00:38:04.360 Of course.

00:38:05.240 Of course.

00:38:05.940 Is some of this going to fund Harvey Weinstein rape parties?

00:38:08.740 Absolutely it is.

00:38:09.780 Yes, of course it is. 0.96

00:38:10.820 All money goes to Harvey Weinstein rape parties. 0.98

00:38:14.240 Will some of this go to the assassins at the Clintons pay to kill an Epstein type? 0.98

00:38:19.900 Yes. 0.89

00:38:20.260 Of course.

00:38:20.900 Yes, it will.

00:38:21.640 Of course.

00:38:22.160 But we believe up to $8 of this $160 billion will go to help the Iranian people.

00:38:30.240 To feed the Iranian people.

00:38:31.460 And we know that it's worth it.

00:38:32.700 People in need.

00:38:33.960 I mean, if we could just supply one cheesesteak or one hot dog, if we can get one bratwurst

00:38:40.060 to the Iranian people, it's all worth it.

00:38:42.780 That's basically where he is on this one.

00:38:45.520 Yes, it is where he is.

00:38:46.720 I like this idea.

00:38:48.100 I think this is a great...

00:38:49.380 I mean, it's funny because money isn't fungible unless you give it to a terrorist regime to

00:38:58.140 use in this fungible way.

00:38:59.800 One way to present the fungibility of this particular money would be to not give it to Iran and

00:39:06.460 their regime so that they can spend it on terrorism.

00:39:09.400 What a concept.

00:39:10.320 It's an idea.

00:39:11.440 It's an idea.

00:39:11.960 I'll say it's an idea.

00:39:13.100 Yeah.

00:39:13.380 And it's one maybe we should have taken.

00:39:14.940 Well, they were collecting interest on that fungible money, though, and the interest was

00:39:19.520 accruing and we didn't want it to anymore.

00:39:22.200 So we just gave it all to him.

00:39:23.580 Right.

00:39:24.160 It's like, well, wait.

00:39:25.220 Wait.

00:39:25.640 I mean, I'm willing to take any amount of money that is accruing interest and throw it

00:39:29.180 in my account.

00:39:29.800 I'm good at that.

00:39:30.600 That was part of his argument was that it was accruing interest.

00:39:33.900 And so we had to give it to him before it accrued more interest.

00:39:36.800 Yeah.

00:39:36.840 And if I remember right, the money, their argument is it was Iran's money.

00:39:41.240 Yes.

00:39:41.520 To begin with.

00:39:42.540 And when they had the revolution, we just kind of held on to it.

00:39:45.800 We're not going to give it back to them in the middle of this.

00:39:47.540 Right.

00:39:47.740 So we've just been holding on to it accruing interest and then it's fungible.

00:39:51.980 So we just gave it back to them now years later.

00:39:54.200 And again, it's the same borders, but it wasn't the same country.

00:39:57.240 It wasn't the same government.

00:39:58.080 It was one that took over the government by force.

00:40:01.300 This isn't some like wonderful thing that, yeah, OK, look, you know, it was Theresa May

00:40:06.040 and now it's Boris Johnson.

00:40:07.660 That's not what we're talking about here.

00:40:08.840 It's not their money.

00:40:10.020 They shouldn't have ever received it back.

00:40:12.340 Right.

00:40:12.620 And the reason we froze it in the first place was because they attacked us and took our

00:40:17.460 people hostage for four hundred and forty four days.

00:40:20.760 And we didn't appreciate that very much.

00:40:23.540 It's weird.

00:40:24.280 Yeah.

00:40:24.920 Of course, some of this money is going to be used to attack Americans and hold them hostage.

00:40:29.280 That's just part of the game.

00:40:31.240 That's what happens when you spend money.

00:40:33.620 Much of it will go to ending the lives of Americans. 0.83

00:40:37.220 And that's just a risk we were worth.

00:40:39.260 We just thought it was worth taking.

00:40:40.900 Will they buy intercontinental ballistic missiles from the Soviets with it? 0.53

00:40:44.340 Yes.

00:40:45.020 Yes, they will.

00:40:45.940 Are they building a Death Star with this money?

00:40:48.560 Of course they are.

00:40:49.840 Of course they are.

00:40:51.640 That's the price you pay when you give money to terrorists, though.

00:40:54.700 Some of it's going to go for terrorism.

00:40:56.840 You act as if you could give money to terrorists and they're not going to spend it on terrorism.

00:41:00.280 That's an absurd point, Katie, or whatever your name is.

00:41:03.920 I believe it was Margaret.

00:41:05.100 Margaret.

00:41:05.720 I believe it was Margaret.

00:41:06.460 Margaret.

00:41:07.080 It's either Margaret or Katie.

00:41:08.920 All Margaret or Katie's host shows on Sunday mornings.

00:41:12.520 And I'll say this about you.

00:41:14.480 Look, we're giving money to serial killers.

00:41:18.360 They're going to spend some of it on serial killing.

00:41:20.780 That's just part of the agreement when you do this. 0.96

00:41:24.620 If you take action A, giving money to a child rapist, some of it's going to go to child raping. 0.95

00:41:30.220 It's just part of the equation. 0.95

00:41:34.340 Can you believe he actually made that argument?

00:41:38.120 And then it's on television defending it all these years later.

00:41:41.360 That's amazing.

00:41:42.500 There's this weird thing that you can't admit when you were blatantly wrong.

00:41:48.780 These parties can't do it.

00:41:50.460 A great example of this is the 2012 debate where Obama says to Mitt Romney the 1980s call and they want their foreign policy back when he said Russia was the greatest geopolitical threat.

00:42:06.200 Well, now their entire party is – and every argument they make is based on the idea that Russia is the largest geopolitical threat.

00:42:13.840 And occasionally they'll come out and say, well, look, I didn't agree with that at the time or that was a little bit of a harsh way of putting it.

00:42:21.200 Rarely will they actually say, look, we were completely wrong.

00:42:24.400 And honestly, looking back at it, probably – we probably should have given the president's seat to Romney.

00:42:28.360 That was such a bad mistake.

00:42:29.480 In retrospect, maybe we give him six months as president now.

00:42:33.420 And anyhow, he acts like a Democrat part of the time anyway.

00:42:36.620 Maybe it's okay.

00:42:37.520 It's hard for these parties to get over that hump and admit these things.

00:42:43.400 But how can you possibly argue?

00:42:45.600 How can you possibly argue that giving all of this money to a terrorist state of Iran who's used it to come after American citizens over and over again, American military over and over again –

00:42:57.240 It's unbelievable.

00:42:57.700 It was a good idea.

00:42:58.500 It's not just – fungible is not an acceptable explanation for that.

00:43:03.560 Well, as you said, when you're giving $150 billion to John Wayne Gacy, some of that money is going to wind up with eating people.

00:43:16.120 That is. 0.61

00:43:16.920 Some of it will be for his clown show show, too, and transportation and expenses to entertaining the children before he murders them.

00:43:24.440 What do you expect a guy not to eat?

00:43:26.220 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:56.220 We're so used to this where our lives are spent justifying things that are completely rational but the left pretends not to understand, right?

00:44:24.600 Like you make a joke and they pretend to think you meant something horrible and serious about it so you have to defend yourself, where they are the exact opposite.

00:44:33.060 They will say something truly despicable and never have a moment to even try to defend it in any serious way because it's –

00:44:40.800 I mean, look, we talked about the Sanders thing earlier where Bernie Sanders is talking about these rape fantasies.

00:44:45.040 Listen to this paragraph.

00:44:46.820 If you didn't listen to last half hour, I'm not going to go through the really hardcore stuff in here.

00:44:53.100 But, I mean, he's talking about basically the worst things you can say about a woman or a man.

00:44:58.820 And what she fantasizes about.

00:44:59.600 And what she fantasizes about.

00:45:01.080 And also that they are subservient.

00:45:03.540 They have a deeply entrenched view of being subservient to men.

00:45:08.620 Bernie Sanders saying this.

00:45:09.820 And is this NPR's explanation of it?

00:45:12.000 That's the title.

00:45:13.140 The Bernie Sanders rape fantasy essay explained because you need an explanation.

00:45:18.200 You can't just take it at its face value.

00:45:20.420 So, you know, after paragraph after paragraph of justification on here, it says,

00:45:25.520 So, what does this say about Sanders' attitude towards women?

00:45:30.380 Good question.

00:45:31.120 It's a great question. 1.00

00:45:32.500 Seems to say that he believes they want to be raped. 1.00

00:45:36.380 Yes. 1.00

00:45:36.640 And that they fantasize about underaged girls being assaulted.

00:45:41.640 Because that's all throughout the essay.

00:45:43.740 But NPR says, you can draw divergent conclusions from the article itself.

00:45:49.560 On the one hand, he's talking about liberating people from harmful gender norms.

00:45:57.060 Now, I didn't get that from the article.

00:45:59.540 I didn't either somehow.

00:46:00.200 I have to say.

00:46:00.660 Anyway, on the other, with his nameless hypothetical man and woman characters, 0.99

00:46:07.600 he also seems to imply that men fantasize about raping women or that women fantasize about being raped. 0.93

00:46:19.340 No, he really doesn't seem to imply. 0.98

00:46:20.760 He doesn't seem to imply anything.

00:46:22.340 He just directly stated it.

00:46:23.800 Yes.

00:46:24.280 He says that's what it is.

00:46:26.020 He doesn't imply it.

00:46:27.120 He doesn't seem to do anything.

00:46:28.760 States it emphatically.

00:46:29.460 He states it emphatically as the central thesis of his argument.

00:46:33.820 An argument that led him to the potential Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

00:46:40.560 It's unbelievable.

00:46:41.540 So there is some evidence to Elizabeth Warren's point of sexism here. 1.00

00:46:45.820 There's a little bit of a backup to that from long ago.

00:46:49.940 But that is a different world.

00:46:51.560 You don't...

00:46:52.640 I mean, if a conservative wrote something like this, there's no NPR article that comes out and says,

00:46:56.200 actually, what they're doing is liberating gender norms. 0.51

00:46:58.200 You're just done in society.

00:46:59.740 If you're a conservative and you write that, you're done.

00:47:01.920 You're done.

00:47:02.240 And it doesn't matter if it came out in 1972.

00:47:04.800 You're still done.

00:47:05.480 No.

00:47:06.260 It legitimately doesn't matter.

00:47:07.920 Even if you could deny it was you and it wouldn't matter.

00:47:10.060 No.

00:47:10.540 That's right.

00:47:10.940 It really...

00:47:11.900 It's just a totally different world and it's got to be a lot of fun, at least for a little

00:47:15.620 while, until you feel like you've let down all of humanity in some dark moment.

00:47:20.260 It's got to be fun.

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