The Glenn Beck Program - March 16, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ 3⧸16⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

40 minutes

Words per Minute

174.13635

Word Count

7,131

Sentence Count

704

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It is Pat and Stu in for Glenn today, who is continuing with his back ailment.
00:00:05.180 We do hope he'll be back tomorrow.
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00:00:33.080 Today, we do go into some wokeness. There's definitely some wokeness going on.
00:00:36.940 We get into some of the crazy stuff going on in our society.
00:00:39.840 They're banning episodes of TV now because there's too many things that are offensive, including, by the way, they've banned an episode of the Golden Girls.
00:00:49.680 And you're not going to believe the situation around that.
00:00:53.500 Also, the Washington Post has issued a correction of a major news story from late in the election cycle that may have affected the election.
00:01:02.200 They are saying, oh, yeah, by the way, we didn't have the audio and we totally misquoted the president.
00:01:06.800 We'll get into that as well today.
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00:01:55.100 Here's the podcast.
00:02:01.860 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:06.200 Pretty amazing admission by the Washington Post.
00:02:14.140 And they're kind of getting hammered for even bringing it up.
00:02:18.260 But they everybody misquoted President Trump.
00:02:23.700 Yeah.
00:02:24.700 So in kind of a big moment to have a big moment.
00:02:27.720 Yeah.
00:02:28.260 So if you forget this sort of storyline here,
00:02:31.260 the the president called down to Georgia and said,
00:02:37.040 hey, guys, can you look into this election thing?
00:02:39.020 I'm very upset with what happened with the election.
00:02:41.360 And he went through a lengthy call and we heard actual clips from this call.
00:02:45.760 However, most of the media went further than what we heard.
00:02:49.580 Now, we heard the audio and they had things in quotes.
00:02:53.880 So it's natural to assume, right, that they quoted him accurately, right?
00:02:58.800 They had recordings of the call.
00:03:01.000 Well, apparently what they're telling us now is they just had partial recordings of the call
00:03:04.800 and apparently ran these stories without hearing any of these quotes.
00:03:09.840 So they ran a correction yesterday.
00:03:12.520 Just a little correction.
00:03:13.880 If you happen to be checking back on that story from a couple of months ago,
00:03:16.960 you would have seen it at the bottom.
00:03:17.980 I mean, what's the big deal?
00:03:18.780 That's plenty.
00:03:19.260 There's plenty of attention.
00:03:20.280 A lot of people go back and say, I wonder if they've updated that story from two months ago.
00:03:24.520 We should check on that.
00:03:25.340 Well, somebody apparently did.
00:03:27.860 And this correction ran.
00:03:29.160 Correction, two months after publication of the story.
00:03:31.840 What an unbelievable first.
00:03:34.060 Yeah.
00:03:34.740 The Georgia Secretary of State released an audio recording of President Donald Trump's
00:03:38.760 December phone call with the state's top election investigator.
00:03:42.240 The recording revealed that the post misquoted Trump's comments on the call
00:03:45.740 based on information provided by a source.
00:03:48.940 Hmm.
00:03:49.660 Trump did not tell the investigator to, quote, find the fraud.
00:03:53.140 And, quote, that's there.
00:03:55.520 Like, that's pretty important.
00:03:57.260 Pretty important.
00:03:58.360 Because find the fraud sounds like he's actually asking them to do something nefarious.
00:04:03.040 Yeah.
00:04:03.600 He's asking them to do something wrong.
00:04:05.700 You could take it a couple of different ways, but you could definitely take it that way.
00:04:08.580 And when you're getting a call from the president of the United States in this moment,
00:04:12.120 you probably would take it in the most, you know, I don't know, threatening way possible.
00:04:17.420 Mm hmm.
00:04:17.740 Now, remember the state of events here.
00:04:21.120 Trump has already the election has been certified and he's calling up to ask for him to go further
00:04:29.380 into that down that rabbit hole.
00:04:31.840 The bigger deal, though, of course, is that the two Georgia election Senate seats are not
00:04:35.880 decided.
00:04:36.520 So it's before that election.
00:04:38.500 Remember, these elections come they come out and it's very close.
00:04:42.520 Both Senate seats are very close.
00:04:44.840 Could this have been the determinative factor in control of the Senate?
00:04:48.920 Mm hmm.
00:04:49.340 This misreporting.
00:04:50.780 Trump did not tell investigators to find the fraud or say she would be, quote, a national
00:04:55.660 hero if she did so.
00:04:57.700 Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, asserting she
00:05:02.720 would find dishonesty there.
00:05:04.420 He told her that he had, quote, the most important.
00:05:07.100 She had, quote, the most important job in the country right now.
00:05:09.580 End quote.
00:05:09.860 The story about the recording can be found here.
00:05:11.880 The headline and text of the story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to
00:05:16.000 Trump.
00:05:16.660 Now, this is not some local, you know, random paper.
00:05:20.820 This is the Washington Post giving the definitive story about this particular phone call.
00:05:26.740 And worse than misquoting him is actually writing the story without hearing the audio.
00:05:33.740 You know, you know, it's like you have to you have to just it's impossible to for me to
00:05:41.600 understand anything other than they just were hoping they'd get away with this and that Trump
00:05:47.880 would would cost this.
00:05:50.760 So this whole Trump story would cost the Republicans the Senate, which it wound up doing, arguably.
00:05:56.420 I mean, they were close elections.
00:05:57.480 And now here we are with 50 seats and one point nine trillion dollars already spent with more
00:06:01.400 to come.
00:06:03.820 Fascinating.
00:06:04.260 It's impossible to understand that something like this could happen by mistake in 2021.
00:06:14.060 Yeah.
00:06:14.860 Yeah.
00:06:16.180 I and how does it happen?
00:06:18.820 It happens only because these reporters hate Donald Trump and they just assume certain things
00:06:25.880 about him and they assume and assert, insert certain things about him to fit their narrative.
00:06:32.560 And that's what they continue to do.
00:06:34.740 And it doesn't matter how much he protests or says.
00:06:38.920 And I don't even know that he said anything about it.
00:06:42.500 Did he even?
00:06:43.400 That's one thing that was interesting.
00:06:44.760 I don't know if he said much about maybe their misquotes.
00:06:47.600 Yeah.
00:06:47.880 I mean, I don't know that anyone would have listened to him anyway.
00:06:50.340 They wouldn't have.
00:06:50.900 They would not have.
00:06:51.880 But still, you usually would hear from him.
00:06:53.880 Now, of course, this is one of the things that is part of the after effects of not having
00:06:58.420 a Twitter account.
00:06:59.460 I mean, he really wasn't speaking out to anybody at this point.
00:07:01.960 That's true.
00:07:02.540 If I have the timeline right.
00:07:04.200 But he he didn't really have a way to kind of reach out and say, I never said those things
00:07:09.000 because that you were you're right.
00:07:11.880 You kind of expect to hear that from Trump in this moment.
00:07:14.500 But obviously, there's a lot of big things going on at that time.
00:07:17.340 So maybe maybe this just wasn't his focus.
00:07:19.720 But either way, it's impossible to understand how this can happen.
00:07:23.160 And it's not something you can just throw in a correction months later.
00:07:25.660 It should be a major story for The Washington Post on the front page that says, we really
00:07:31.940 screwed this up.
00:07:32.680 Here's how it happened.
00:07:33.920 That's the only way it's acceptable to do something like this.
00:07:36.220 You can't just throw it in a correction.
00:07:39.020 And even then, it's it's it's journalism just turned upside down.
00:07:46.500 It's malpractice to a degree that you can't imagine in an incredibly important moment for
00:07:53.220 the country.
00:07:54.280 Yeah.
00:07:54.880 See if this makes any difference.
00:07:56.680 So he didn't tell the investigator to, quote, find the fraud, unquote, or and he didn't say
00:08:03.260 that she would be, quote, a national hero, unquote, if if she did so.
00:08:08.400 So instead, he urged the investigator to scrutinize ballot ballots in Fulton County.
00:08:13.640 That's completely appropriate.
00:08:14.860 Scrutinize them, asserting she would find dishonesty there.
00:08:18.920 He also told her that she had the most important job in the country.
00:08:21.920 I think you mentioned that.
00:08:22.660 And so then they include some of the some of the recordings and and the whole story is
00:08:32.180 just a non story to people like CNN and MSNBC.
00:08:36.080 And nobody seems to care.
00:08:37.880 Very, very few outlets even care about this.
00:08:40.680 They that's incredible.
00:08:41.560 It's the president of the United States that you grossly misquoted and you don't care about
00:08:46.680 that.
00:08:49.540 Pretty unbelievable.
00:08:50.620 It is.
00:08:52.100 And so expected at this point, you know, we, I think, do a fair job, at least attempt to
00:08:57.740 do a fair job in occasionally giving mainstream media credit when they do good things.
00:09:02.720 You know, I'm not the type of person who's going to throw out every single story from
00:09:06.160 the mainstream media and just say, oh, they're always lying.
00:09:08.220 Like, for example, The New York Times has done really good reporting on Andrew Cuomo over
00:09:12.980 the past couple of months, which, again, they waited a long time.
00:09:18.160 But I'm glad they're on board and they have been able to to find multiple accusers.
00:09:25.320 They've been able to dig up lots of information that, you know, only maybe The New York Times
00:09:30.440 can.
00:09:30.820 I mean, The New York Times has so many resources to go after these things.
00:09:33.840 And when they actually put their mind to it, they can do some good reporting.
00:09:38.460 The Washington Post is the same way.
00:09:40.000 I mean, they have done some valuable reporting over the years, but things like this are just
00:09:44.360 inexcusable.
00:09:45.160 And it becomes the easiest thing in the world, Pat, to have at your at your beck and call
00:09:51.980 when everything you see always reinforces your previous beliefs.
00:09:57.580 If you believe Donald Trump is a bad guy, that he's erratic, that he's going to do all
00:10:01.580 these terrible things, then every story you cover, you just insert that in there and assume
00:10:07.900 it's OK.
00:10:08.740 So when you have a source telling you he said X, Y and Z and you have no evidence of that,
00:10:13.500 well, your evidence is he's a bad guy.
00:10:15.200 And I know he's a bad guy.
00:10:16.100 So I can just put it in there.
00:10:17.680 Right.
00:10:17.860 Like if you're if you're priors going into the story are this man is a terrible person,
00:10:22.940 then any person, anybody who tells you that they have information that proves Donald Trump
00:10:29.460 is a terrible person, you just kind of go ahead and assume that's true.
00:10:33.160 And that's not a good place to go.
00:10:34.820 It's you know, it's like a weekly world news who is as it has invested heavily in the idea
00:10:39.480 that that bat bat child, the bat child is around and available for comment at any time
00:10:44.480 on any given news event.
00:10:45.400 Well, if someone comes and says, hey, by the way, the bat child just said X, Y and Z,
00:10:49.420 you're going to believe it because your priors are you believe the bat child exists against
00:10:54.500 all evidence.
00:10:55.400 Sure.
00:10:55.840 And of course, obviously, he's a very nice guy.
00:10:57.240 We've met him.
00:10:57.840 Uh huh.
00:10:58.280 Very nice guy.
00:10:59.400 A point is you can't apply that highly respected sources.
00:11:03.280 Yeah, I think so.
00:11:04.320 I think so.
00:11:05.300 Yeah.
00:11:05.500 But you can't apply your whole the whole point of journalism is not to apply your priors.
00:11:11.500 You can't do that.
00:11:12.460 If you do that, you will go down roads in which you're issuing multi paragraph corrections
00:11:17.980 about massive news stories that you blew.
00:11:20.520 It's interesting, too, because both the New York Times and the Washington Post have always
00:11:26.460 leaned left, but they just leaned left before.
00:11:30.640 In previous decades, you could just count on them for a little spin.
00:11:35.960 Yes.
00:11:36.260 A slant, a certain way.
00:11:38.580 Well, now they're just propaganda arms for the Democrat Party.
00:11:42.420 That's they they've just wholeheartedly bought in to left wing propaganda.
00:11:48.620 And so now they're just left wing propaganda.
00:11:50.720 And so I think that colors everything that they do, including when the Washington Post misquotes
00:12:00.060 the president, then the other outlets just pick it up and run with it.
00:12:04.700 CNN is guilty of that as well.
00:12:07.140 They just picked it up and repeated the same lie.
00:12:09.360 And so then you have everybody spewing this lie.
00:12:14.340 Yeah.
00:12:14.600 And so the American public believes it.
00:12:16.460 Well, I mean, the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN are all saying it can't be a lie.
00:12:23.180 Well, it it was and it is.
00:12:25.980 And I think this happens a lot more than we even know.
00:12:28.800 That's terrifying because I feel like in this era, we do catch it more often, you know,
00:12:34.780 with people always looking at everything and social media and you can find these things
00:12:39.480 and check them out.
00:12:40.280 And we do, I think, catch more of them these days.
00:12:42.680 But there's more of them happening, too.
00:12:44.540 You know, we talked about this with with the Chris Cuomo situation, I think, a little
00:12:48.140 bit yesterday and that I think there really was a time in which CNN would come out and
00:12:55.180 say, OK, we blew this one.
00:12:57.500 You know, like we shouldn't have had the brother of the governor doing a slapstick comedy in
00:13:03.180 the middle of the pandemic.
00:13:04.120 Like, OK, that's our bad.
00:13:05.740 Yes.
00:13:06.040 OK, we're going to try to correct that.
00:13:07.800 Now, would they correct it?
00:13:08.640 Probably not.
00:13:09.260 But at least they would admit they would feel at least the tug of of having some sort of
00:13:14.580 integrity.
00:13:15.420 You know what I mean?
00:13:16.080 They wouldn't necessarily follow through with it, but they would feel weird about it.
00:13:20.900 You know, there's a certain brand of person.
00:13:22.960 Andrew Cuomo is is down this line, you know, where you don't have that natural human tug
00:13:29.700 of integrity when you say something false.
00:13:32.660 Everybody says things that are false in their lives.
00:13:35.020 Right.
00:13:35.880 Hopefully you're the type of person who when you say something and, you know, it's not
00:13:39.340 kind of true, you kind of feel that internal sort of struggle a little bit.
00:13:43.420 Your stomach feels a little weird.
00:13:44.840 You're like, this isn't exactly the way I should say this, but I feel like I have to at
00:13:49.580 this point.
00:13:50.240 No, honey, you don't look fat in that.
00:13:51.880 You know what I mean?
00:13:52.180 There's something that at least tugs at your integrity.
00:13:55.600 You know, Andrew Cuomo has, you know, no connection to integrity in any way.
00:14:01.880 Everything he says, he says without that feeling.
00:14:06.820 It's not in him.
00:14:08.620 So when he says things that are complete lies that cost the lives of thousands of people,
00:14:13.780 there's nothing in him that says, gee, I shouldn't say this.
00:14:17.720 Gee, this is a weird moment.
00:14:18.920 Maybe you shouldn't be lying about a thousand grandparents being dead.
00:14:24.000 He doesn't care.
00:14:24.860 He just goes along through it because to Andrew Cuomo, the most important thing, of course,
00:14:28.800 is Andrew Cuomo.
00:14:30.320 And I think we have too many people in the media now who have that same thing.
00:14:34.880 I think CNN, this Cuomo thing seems to have passed that line where they no longer feel
00:14:41.840 the need to step up and say, look, OK.
00:14:44.660 We think we did a lot of great coverage about the COVID-19, but this was we shouldn't have
00:14:51.380 been doing that.
00:14:52.080 We had the ban in place.
00:14:53.420 We should have kept the ban in place.
00:14:54.540 Everything would have been fine.
00:14:55.860 And I think the same thing is happening with some of these media sources now.
00:14:58.740 They never felt the need to have that internal debate about Donald Trump because they just
00:15:07.700 all assumed he was Satan times Hitler multiplied by Idi Amin.
00:15:13.000 And they were just like, OK, that's the guy.
00:15:14.960 So we can say whatever thing.
00:15:16.200 And no one's going to say, hey, you know, you misquoted Hitler.
00:15:19.040 He actually didn't say that.
00:15:20.480 No one's going to fight you.
00:15:23.160 Everyone's going to be like, yeah, well, he was a really bad guy.
00:15:25.020 Did a lot of terrible things.
00:15:26.040 Right.
00:15:26.700 If you assume he's Hitler before you write this story, you have a lot of freedom to kind
00:15:30.920 of say whatever you want.
00:15:32.300 And they did.
00:15:33.660 And they did.
00:15:38.420 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:40.960 So the White House is expected to propose a suite of tax increases, like when you have
00:15:57.820 a master bedroom suite, just a whole bunch of real wonderful tax increases all rolled
00:16:06.900 into one giant package.
00:16:08.460 The tax hikes will include, they'll be included in a broader infrastructure and jobs package.
00:16:19.760 Because when are we going to, when will we finally allot some money for infrastructure?
00:16:27.120 When will that finally happen?
00:16:29.180 We need a national conversation on infrastructure, Pat.
00:16:32.020 When will we talk about it?
00:16:33.060 We won't.
00:16:33.840 I don't know what the problem is.
00:16:35.400 People just don't want to constantly talk about infrastructure all the time.
00:16:40.580 That's all we've done is infrastructure bills.
00:16:43.400 The stimulus was filled with infrastructure.
00:16:45.900 We're going to fix our broken roads and bridges.
00:16:49.940 It's always the roads and bridges.
00:16:51.480 They're crumbling and we need to fix them.
00:16:54.260 Well, OK, where did that 787 billion go?
00:16:57.840 Because that was supposed to fix the infrastructure.
00:17:00.280 It's not even real money anymore if it doesn't start with a T.
00:17:02.420 If we can't get it at least into the trillions, then it's not even a bill.
00:17:06.740 Very true.
00:17:07.900 Well, this one will be in the trillions, fortunately.
00:17:10.260 Oh, good.
00:17:10.580 And they're going to raise the corporate tax rate as well from 21 to 28 percent.
00:17:16.220 Oh, good.
00:17:17.100 Because, you know.
00:17:18.140 It's a fantastic idea.
00:17:19.640 That's exciting to corporations who will really want to stay here now.
00:17:23.700 The one thing that's interesting about that is every single study they do about the corporate tax rate is they find that that just gets passed to you.
00:17:31.560 So, corporations raise the rates.
00:17:33.700 That money gets charged to you instead.
00:17:36.140 So, you're paying more tax.
00:17:37.280 What a stunning surprise that is.
00:17:38.660 That they would pass along their expenses to us.
00:17:44.100 Because I always felt like they just, out of the goodness of their heart, just, you know.
00:17:49.360 That's not usually what happens.
00:17:50.800 Or maybe they would just go into loss from profit to loss.
00:17:53.860 That might be another approach.
00:17:55.660 But they don't seem to do that that often.
00:17:56.820 No, they don't seem to want to do that.
00:17:57.820 Yeah.
00:17:58.460 They're going to raise the income tax rate on individuals earning more than $400,000.
00:18:02.200 Good.
00:18:02.800 Those damn rich people.
00:18:04.440 Finally.
00:18:04.740 When will they pay their fair share?
00:18:06.260 They've never paid it before.
00:18:07.800 Those people, Pat, don't pay any taxes.
00:18:10.560 No, zero.
00:18:11.260 They have a zero tax rate.
00:18:12.660 I don't know if you know this, Mitt Romney never paid any taxes.
00:18:15.020 Not a penny.
00:18:15.480 We found that out in 2012.
00:18:16.760 Well, it's out there.
00:18:17.020 He needs to address it now.
00:18:17.920 He needs to address it, which he did do, but we didn't believe him.
00:18:21.500 And then we later admitted that everyone lied about it.
00:18:24.540 But still.
00:18:24.960 Yeah, still.
00:18:25.740 It's important that rich people get punished.
00:18:28.120 Anyone who makes money in this society is evil.
00:18:30.460 Well, that's immoral.
00:18:31.400 It's immoral and evil.
00:18:32.800 You're right.
00:18:33.020 Unless they're on the left.
00:18:34.700 Sure.
00:18:35.300 Because then they're doing good things with it.
00:18:37.000 Right.
00:18:37.260 Then they're doing good things with it.
00:18:37.760 They're funding abortion clinics and things.
00:18:39.480 Right.
00:18:39.700 Building new, fancy, state-of-the-art abortion clinics.
00:18:44.020 Abortion clinics that can churn out an abortion every 11 seconds.
00:18:48.320 Just churning them out.
00:18:50.060 A lot of drive-thrus.
00:18:51.160 Like a lot of drive-thru abortion clinics.
00:18:53.140 A lot of drive-thrus.
00:18:54.280 Yeah.
00:18:54.640 And you got...
00:18:55.260 This is...
00:18:55.960 What year is it?
00:18:56.740 Is it 1914?
00:18:58.840 No.
00:18:59.120 No.
00:18:59.420 It is 2021.
00:19:00.720 Exactly.
00:19:01.240 We're getting the drive-thru COVID vaccines.
00:19:03.180 Yeah.
00:19:03.320 We're getting the drive-thru tests.
00:19:04.740 And the drive-thru abortion clinics.
00:19:06.780 Make it easy.
00:19:07.400 We're going to, finally, they're going to expand the estate taxes reach.
00:19:13.060 Oh, good.
00:19:13.900 Good.
00:19:14.460 Because when you've paid your taxes all your life on everything you've ever made, and then
00:19:22.140 you die, well, then the government has a right to easily 50% of what you have.
00:19:30.160 Absolutely.
00:19:30.920 What you have left.
00:19:31.920 So...
00:19:33.800 Well, let's say...
00:19:34.400 Why would you allow them to give it to their family or whoever they wanted to?
00:19:39.160 You wouldn't.
00:19:39.860 Right.
00:19:40.100 Right?
00:19:40.480 No.
00:19:40.720 That would be bad.
00:19:41.360 You'd insist that the government take their fair share of it.
00:19:43.600 Right.
00:19:43.940 Like, here's the thing.
00:19:44.740 This is the way society should work.
00:19:47.260 Okay?
00:19:47.800 Uh-huh.
00:19:48.120 You make some money, and the government taxes you on that money.
00:19:51.580 But you have some left over.
00:19:52.860 Mm-hmm.
00:19:53.100 And with that left over money, you go purchase something, and then you pay a sales tax when
00:19:58.400 you purchase that, obviously, because that's just fair.
00:20:00.220 Just fair.
00:20:00.700 Just fairness.
00:20:01.160 Yes.
00:20:01.480 Mm-hmm.
00:20:01.700 Okay?
00:20:02.200 Then you take that money, and maybe that thing that you bought grows in value over time.
00:20:07.420 Okay?
00:20:08.000 Well, in that case, just would just tax that growth.
00:20:13.220 That's all.
00:20:14.000 Just tax that growth.
00:20:14.960 And then when you die, they just take half of what's left.
00:20:17.860 Like, that seems completely legitimate and fair and not a scam.
00:20:21.720 That does not seem like a scam, Pat.
00:20:24.740 Especially, what's amazing is even with those rules, they still are in debt.
00:20:28.960 Yeah.
00:20:29.240 Like, you're taking every dime from people.
00:20:33.160 Yep.
00:20:33.460 And they're still somehow unable to run this government at a surplus.
00:20:39.340 Also, they're talking about a higher capital gains tax rate, too, for individuals earning
00:20:43.780 at least a million dollars a year.
00:20:45.080 That's the one that they asked Barack Obama about back in the day.
00:20:48.720 Capital gains.
00:20:49.240 Yeah.
00:20:49.520 And they said, every single time that this has been lowered, we've received more revenue
00:20:56.900 to the government because it increases activity.
00:21:00.620 And Barack Obama didn't really have a good answer to that.
00:21:03.120 No, his response was, if I'm not mistaken, that in the interest of fairness, he still
00:21:11.060 believed in a higher capital gains tax.
00:21:14.040 In other words, punish the rich people, even if it doesn't help society.
00:21:16.840 I don't care if it helps.
00:21:18.040 We don't want them to be happy.
00:21:19.380 Yeah.
00:21:19.760 I think was the...
00:21:20.760 It doesn't matter whether it's good for the country.
00:21:23.900 Yeah.
00:21:23.920 It doesn't matter if it helps.
00:21:24.600 It's bad for them.
00:21:25.380 Yeah.
00:21:25.520 And that's fair.
00:21:26.620 If bad for them is good for me.
00:21:28.820 It's crazy.
00:21:30.700 It's absolutely insane.
00:21:33.940 So, White House economist Heather Boushey underlined that Biden doesn't intend to boost
00:21:40.620 taxes on people.
00:21:41.680 He doesn't what?
00:21:42.500 Intend.
00:21:43.060 He doesn't intend on boosting taxes.
00:21:45.180 They're not saying he's not going to.
00:21:47.200 Right.
00:21:47.440 He just doesn't intend.
00:21:48.140 He just doesn't intend to, right now, to boost taxes on people earning less than $400,000.
00:21:53.340 But you know he will.
00:21:54.520 Look, intent is, you know, most of the law.
00:22:00.140 You know, usually if you intend...
00:22:02.520 At least nine-tenths of the law.
00:22:03.560 Nine-tenths of the law.
00:22:04.660 That's what I've...
00:22:05.420 So, if you intend, if you say like, hey, I'm not gonna...
00:22:08.860 I don't intend on raising taxes on people who are middle class making $50,000 a year,
00:22:13.580 but then you do it, you're still nine-tenths okay.
00:22:17.280 Yes.
00:22:17.800 That's how I look at it.
00:22:18.800 Me too.
00:22:19.240 It's totally fine.
00:22:20.720 As long as you don't...
00:22:21.840 I didn't mean to raise taxes on everyone.
00:22:24.400 Right.
00:22:24.660 It just happened.
00:22:26.260 You know, but for folks at the top who've been able to benefit from this economy and
00:22:32.040 haven't been this hard hit, there's a lot of room to think about what kinds of revenue
00:22:38.060 we can raise.
00:22:39.480 Those bastards.
00:22:40.480 You know, I don't even care if it's revenue.
00:22:41.840 Even if it brings in less revenue, let's just punish those people who wear suits and
00:22:47.240 ties.
00:22:47.680 And seriously, that's what Barack Obama was saying.
00:22:50.220 Because if it doesn't benefit the country, why do it then?
00:22:53.560 Because at least there's an...
00:22:54.400 You could argue, okay, well, yes, you're stealing people's money, but hey, at least it helps the
00:22:59.440 collective.
00:22:59.780 That's supposed to be the liberal conservative divide, right?
00:23:03.040 Yes.
00:23:03.420 Conservatives are focused on individuals being able to hold what they earn and be responsible
00:23:09.720 for their own lives and actions.
00:23:14.100 And the left is supposed to say, well, no, we're going to take their money and we're going
00:23:16.820 to redistribute it more efficiently.
00:23:18.640 Barack Obama was saying, no, actually, I don't care if it's being distributed more efficiently.
00:23:23.820 I just want it to hurt those guys.
00:23:25.600 Yeah.
00:23:26.460 Because it makes it more fair for people who are making less than they are.
00:23:29.320 They don't have to be quite as jealous, I guess.
00:23:31.300 I don't know.
00:23:32.120 It doesn't make any sense.
00:23:33.180 It honestly doesn't make any sense.
00:23:35.800 So this will turn out to be...
00:23:38.060 The Tax Policy Center estimated this will raise $2.1 trillion over a decade, though the
00:23:44.800 administration's plan is likely to be smaller.
00:23:48.220 The overall program, though, has yet to be unveiled.
00:23:51.220 But analysts are saying somewhere between $2 and $4 trillion.
00:23:58.360 Oh.
00:23:58.920 $2 to $4 trillion.
00:24:00.020 Just the $2 to $4 trillion?
00:24:01.180 Yeah.
00:24:01.580 Tax increase.
00:24:01.940 Well, that's not $10 trillion.
00:24:03.120 It's not $100 trillion.
00:24:04.700 It's not $1 quadrillion.
00:24:06.000 When you think it could be a quadrillion, this is a really conservative plan.
00:24:10.840 Right.
00:24:11.340 I mean, this is basically a tax cut from the $1 quadrillion plan.
00:24:14.500 Right.
00:24:14.980 What if it was $1,000 quadrillion?
00:24:17.600 What if it was...
00:24:17.980 One quintillion?
00:24:18.600 A quintillion dollars.
00:24:21.980 Right.
00:24:22.200 A quadrillion dollar bill would be, I mean, conservative in that world.
00:24:27.220 So let's just think that they offered a $1 quintillion dollar bill and we got it down
00:24:31.560 to $2 to $4 trillion.
00:24:32.580 Yeah.
00:24:32.820 We'd be thrilled with that outcome.
00:24:34.140 It's like when somebody was complaining to Barack Obama that the unemployment rate was
00:24:40.960 getting really close to 10%.
00:24:43.140 And he said, well, at least it's not 13 or 14 or 15%.
00:24:46.920 That's true.
00:24:48.660 It's true.
00:24:49.720 He does make a point there.
00:24:51.200 So it seems when it could be 15%, 10% seems pretty good.
00:24:54.340 I mean, here's the thing.
00:24:54.940 Could it be 100%?
00:24:56.100 Yes, it could.
00:24:56.580 The unemployment rate could be 100%.
00:24:58.280 There could be every person in America without a job.
00:25:02.000 What if it was 500%?
00:25:03.620 What if people lost five jobs each per day?
00:25:07.240 That'd be a lot.
00:25:07.900 That would be incredibly high.
00:25:09.380 And Barack Obama was able to keep it at only the highest it's been in a really long time.
00:25:15.140 It was only like 9.8% or something, I think, at its peak, which was not bad at all.
00:25:20.280 Not at all.
00:25:21.100 When you consider what it could have been.
00:25:23.080 It could have been.
00:25:23.940 Yeah.
00:25:24.160 I mean, we saw what it could have been.
00:25:25.580 Yeah.
00:25:25.740 Here over the past year.
00:25:27.260 Yes, we did.
00:25:27.660 All you need is a giant global pandemic or Barack Obama's policies.
00:25:32.920 And look, Biden's approval rating right now is 62%, by the way, 62%.
00:25:39.040 You've got to be kidding me.
00:25:40.060 Yeah.
00:25:40.260 No.
00:25:40.680 I have not seen that ball.
00:25:41.800 It's been very steady.
00:25:42.760 Jeez.
00:25:43.120 Right around 60% since he started.
00:25:45.540 How is that possible?
00:25:46.900 In order for it to be 62%, there's got to be quite a few Republicans who are thinking,
00:25:51.380 yeah, he's doing a good job.
00:25:52.660 Yeah.
00:25:53.000 No, it's true.
00:25:53.580 Doing a great job.
00:25:54.460 And like people.
00:25:55.080 What is the matter with you?
00:25:57.120 If you are a Republican and you think he's doing a good job, what is the matter with you?
00:26:04.960 It's shocking.
00:26:06.520 Wow.
00:26:07.000 Shocking.
00:26:07.360 You know, and it's been, he's been in the positive the entire time.
00:26:11.680 And part of that, I think, is that people don't really remember he's president because
00:26:16.460 he never actually goes anywhere.
00:26:18.800 That probably is.
00:26:19.800 Or does anything.
00:26:20.260 That does figure it.
00:26:20.940 Public.
00:26:21.540 You know, I was talking to someone yesterday and they said to me, I mean, is Jen Psaki
00:26:26.420 president?
00:26:27.580 Because we never hear anything from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, for that matter.
00:26:31.960 True.
00:26:32.240 You just hear stuff from Jen Psaki coming out and addressing this.
00:26:36.500 It's an NPR, PBS NewsHour Marist poll finding Joe Biden at 62% approval, 30% disapproval,
00:26:48.000 and then 8% unsure.
00:26:50.860 It is Republicans approve of him.
00:26:53.460 Wow.
00:26:53.560 30% of Republicans, 22% of Trump supporters say they approve of Biden's handling of the
00:26:58.500 pandemic, which is pretty high.
00:27:02.840 Yeah.
00:27:03.460 You know, higher than you'd think in this sort of divisive environment.
00:27:07.380 Is 62% the overall approval rating or is that the pandemic approval?
00:27:12.940 62% is, let's say, 62% is the pandemic.
00:27:18.060 Yes, you're correct.
00:27:19.040 Yeah.
00:27:19.120 62% approval rating for the pandemic.
00:27:20.960 I think his actual approval rating is in the mid-50s when it comes to...
00:27:24.820 That's still too high.
00:27:25.600 It's still high.
00:27:26.720 And again, you know, this is, you can go back and you could take what you want out of polls.
00:27:30.040 I know people don't like polls sometimes.
00:27:31.660 But, you know, Donald Trump was never in the mid-50s in his entire presidency.
00:27:35.960 And, you know, this is very early.
00:27:37.640 He only got to 50, I think, in Rasmussen, didn't he?
00:27:39.840 Yeah.
00:27:40.100 I think Rasmussen, he hit it a couple of times.
00:27:41.680 But he was never...
00:27:43.200 And that's just, you know, he was obviously a divisive figure.
00:27:46.820 Their goal, though, here with Biden is to make him a non-figure.
00:27:51.500 Like, you don't know who the president is because you never see or hear from them.
00:27:55.480 And occasionally he'll come out and he'll give an award to some military guy.
00:27:58.940 And then you won't hear from him for another month.
00:28:01.060 He's done no press conferences.
00:28:02.940 He's basically...
00:28:04.120 They're passing these bills without introducing you to him.
00:28:08.340 Who?
00:28:08.960 Joe Biden?
00:28:09.480 Was he even a factor in the 2020 election?
00:28:12.560 Most people say no.
00:28:14.100 Because it was really just a do you like Trump or do you not like Trump sort of election.
00:28:18.400 So Biden is coming in here and he's getting things done that would be very difficult to do in a different environment.
00:28:23.280 Well, and it's smart.
00:28:24.020 Because when he does come out and speak, he says things like this.
00:28:27.160 The vast majority of economists left, right, and center.
00:28:30.960 From Wall Street to the private economic polling initiatives.
00:28:41.760 Polling initiatives.
00:28:42.480 Oh, my gosh.
00:28:43.320 The private economic polling initiatives.
00:28:48.320 The PEPE.
00:28:49.120 Yes.
00:28:49.640 The PEPE.
00:28:50.800 Or the PAPI.
00:28:52.320 Because it's...
00:28:52.820 No, you're right.
00:28:53.780 PEPE.
00:28:54.020 Economic, right?
00:28:54.560 Economic, yeah.
00:28:55.440 Private economic polling initiatives.
00:28:59.060 That's a huge thing in our society today.
00:29:01.980 How many times, Pat, have we talked about the private economic polling initiatives?
00:29:05.620 I can't even count.
00:29:06.420 I can't even count them.
00:29:07.420 People wouldn't listen to us for a long time.
00:29:10.160 We've tried to tell you.
00:29:10.820 You know what they're going to talk about most in the future are the private economic polling initiatives.
00:29:17.260 And you're going to be sorry you didn't entertain it before then.
00:29:21.740 And here we are.
00:29:22.720 And here we are.
00:29:31.600 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:29:34.460 So, speaking of fabulous television viewing here, Pat, one of the things...
00:29:51.220 Do you do this where you have an old show that you've watched before, like sort of just
00:29:56.160 brings you back to some sort of comfort level?
00:29:58.740 Yes.
00:29:59.120 And you might just flip it on when you're getting ready for bed or you have a couple
00:30:03.260 minutes open.
00:30:04.400 You're just...
00:30:05.140 Maybe you're, you know, doing...
00:30:07.320 Like when I'm doing bills sometimes, I will just throw on, you know, some TV show that
00:30:11.520 I've watched before.
00:30:12.260 So, I don't really need to pay attention to it.
00:30:14.180 But like I got my computer on my lap.
00:30:15.700 I'm mostly working, but it's kind of in the background.
00:30:17.900 Mm-hmm.
00:30:18.400 So, one of the shows I do that with, and I've been doing for a little while here, is It's
00:30:22.860 Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
00:30:24.180 It's a show.
00:30:24.780 So, it's, you know, sort of an edgy comedy, if you've never seen it before.
00:30:29.940 And they go down a lot of...
00:30:32.020 They push the envelope on certain issues throughout.
00:30:35.540 And it's been interesting to watch it, because I've been watching it from the beginning.
00:30:38.940 You know, one episode of, you know, every day or two.
00:30:42.440 And the change you kind of notice in that the really early seasons, they say all sorts
00:30:48.480 of crap that I cannot believe they get away with.
00:30:51.260 Right?
00:30:51.440 Like, it just, they just go so far in every episode.
00:30:55.740 And you kind of notice the transition a little bit, and it seemed like maybe they were getting
00:31:01.600 a little softer as it went on in the seasons.
00:31:03.860 They wouldn't push the envelope quite as much as it went on, which kind of it would expect.
00:31:08.420 But yesterday, I'm watching, it was season eight, episode one.
00:31:13.700 And it's on Hulu.
00:31:14.680 And at the bottom, when the episode ends, the little box pops up.
00:31:19.280 You know, and it says, next up, season eight, episode two.
00:31:22.960 Right?
00:31:23.300 Mm-hmm.
00:31:23.580 But it doesn't say that this time.
00:31:25.500 It says, next up, season eight, episode three.
00:31:29.000 And I looked at it, and I'm like, aren't I on season, episode one?
00:31:31.880 And yes, I'm on episode one.
00:31:33.540 You see, episode two, Pat, has been deleted from the service.
00:31:37.420 It is no longer available to stream.
00:31:39.580 It is no longer part of the series, apparently.
00:31:43.600 And I thought, wait a minute, this is unbelievable.
00:31:45.960 So I went online, and I started to search to see if I could find anything about this particular
00:31:50.840 episode.
00:31:52.640 And yes, it actually has been removed from the streaming services, but it's not the only
00:31:59.120 episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
00:32:01.320 I was like, I remember this being more offensive.
00:32:04.380 And part of it is because they've removed episodes from previous seasons that I didn't
00:32:08.560 notice as I passed by.
00:32:10.020 Wow.
00:32:10.520 So season eight, episode three, or episode two, is called The Gang Recycles Their Trash.
00:32:17.440 And Dee, who's the female character on the show, is a failing comedian.
00:32:22.180 She tries to do these characters, and she's awful at them, which is really, really funny.
00:32:27.940 And one of the reasons why it's funny is she's a failed comedian.
00:32:31.580 She thinks she's funny, and she's trying to do like this old school racial stereotype humor.
00:32:35.940 And the point of it is to show that she's blatantly a racist and a terrible person.
00:32:42.740 The whole show is about how bad these people are, right?
00:32:46.040 That's the whole point of the show, is to show them doing terrible things, and you laugh
00:32:50.960 at them because they're idiots.
00:32:52.500 You realize that these things are bad.
00:32:55.240 Well, apparently, they count her character, Martina Martinez, as blackface.
00:33:02.600 Because I would say she looks tan in the episode, but I guess they're counting that as blackface.
00:33:09.080 Now, they've now ripped five episodes out of the show off of Hulu, which is...
00:33:15.820 All for blackface?
00:33:16.580 All for blackface.
00:33:17.600 America's Next Top Patty's Billboard Model Contest, which her fake comedian is in, Martina
00:33:24.160 Martinez.
00:33:24.500 Then there's two classic episodes.
00:33:27.980 Like, if you know anyone who's ever watched this show, they remade Lethal...
00:33:31.240 They made a sequel to Lethal Weapon.
00:33:33.860 And, of course, one of the horrible white characters has to be Danny Glover.
00:33:39.560 So, in Lethal Weapon 5 and Lethal Weapon 6, they do use blackface in the art.
00:33:45.720 Now, again, they're...
00:33:46.860 Nope.
00:33:47.140 It's not to...
00:33:48.180 Unlike we talked about yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel, who used blackface just to mock a black
00:33:53.320 person in how they talked, this is like them mocking themselves for being idiots, right?
00:34:00.180 Mm-hmm.
00:34:01.040 That's been pulled off.
00:34:02.960 And...
00:34:03.720 Yeah, the context doesn't matter at all.
00:34:05.480 It doesn't matter.
00:34:06.400 Which is so bizarre and so stupid, because the context should matter.
00:34:14.260 It's all that matters in a situation like this.
00:34:16.160 Yeah.
00:34:16.680 Yeah.
00:34:17.080 Yeah.
00:34:17.700 I mean, it is all that matters.
00:34:20.820 But you're a racist if you think context matters.
00:34:23.320 Because if this happened, then there are, you know, there is no reason for it.
00:34:28.580 There is no excuse for it.
00:34:30.080 You just can't do it under any circumstances.
00:34:32.540 No.
00:34:32.880 And so, you're a racist if you think that context matters now.
00:34:36.380 It's true and insane.
00:34:38.340 You know, Donald McNeil, who was the lead star reporter for The New York Times on COVID-19
00:34:45.580 from the beginning of the pandemic.
00:34:46.880 He's a guy who's, you know, I didn't agree with everything he said, but he was the guy
00:34:51.160 who said it was going to be a big deal in January and February.
00:34:53.680 Like, he was one of these guys who was making a big deal about it.
00:34:56.020 He's been covering infectious diseases across the world for 40 years for The New York Times.
00:35:00.740 I mean, this is like their legendary guy.
00:35:02.740 And he was just fired because he was on a trip with a bunch of students who asked him a question
00:35:11.020 about whether it was okay to use the N-word in a certain circumstance.
00:35:14.180 Oh, yeah.
00:35:14.460 He tried to clarify what the circumstance was.
00:35:17.020 Like, are you talking about, like, someone saying it as a racial slur or someone, like,
00:35:20.800 quoting someone?
00:35:21.800 And at some point in his search for an explanation, he said the word out loud.
00:35:28.040 And that, of course, was enough for him to be fired because of all the woke staff all over the place.
00:35:35.280 Mm-hmm.
00:35:36.400 You know, and it's funny because I'm watching season eight, episode one of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
00:35:42.980 which how this one gets through and how the other episodes around it get banned because of blackface,
00:35:51.800 which are not, there's not a lot of, you know, it's more of them being idiots thinking they could get away with blackface.
00:35:57.720 That's basically the joke.
00:35:58.840 Like, they are so disconnected from the world that they think that this is appropriate, right?
00:36:06.080 These, you know, they obviously have all sorts of issues.
00:36:08.140 I mean, Mac in the show is basically a racist throughout.
00:36:12.240 But the episode before is basically nonstop Nazi jokes.
00:36:17.940 And one of their grandfathers is, was a former Nazi.
00:36:23.780 And they're talking about, they play footage from their old camp back in the day,
00:36:28.300 which they later in life realized was a Nazi camp.
00:36:31.000 And literally, not only are they saying all sorts of really offensive things about Jews,
00:36:36.580 but the actual N-word is in the episode.
00:36:40.420 It's actually said by one of the characters in the episode with no edit.
00:36:45.600 That one's still up there, but the next one is out because they're making fun of like lethal weapon or something.
00:36:51.740 Completely insane.
00:36:52.980 So we found this collection of story.
00:36:56.260 There is one in here, which is absolutely amazing.
00:36:59.180 All the episodes from streaming services that have been pulled off because of blackface.
00:37:02.840 And let me give you the best one first, because I can't resist.
00:37:06.380 Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls.
00:37:14.520 The Golden Girls had a blackface episode?
00:37:16.600 The Golden Girls had a blackface episode, apparently.
00:37:18.360 Now listen to this.
00:37:19.080 First of all, this sounds, I mean, I know you're not supposed to like these things because they're so offensive,
00:37:24.180 but this does sound amazing.
00:37:25.880 Mixed Blessings was the name of it.
00:37:27.240 It's not streaming because there's a scene where Betty White and Rue McClanahan introduce themselves to a black character while wearing a mud mask that is mistaken for blackface.
00:37:39.000 That sounds like an incredible half hour of television.
00:37:42.720 But there again, it's not context.
00:37:46.280 They're not even in blackface.
00:37:47.960 Not even in blackface.
00:37:49.020 Not trying to be in blackface.
00:37:50.880 Because a character mistakes a mud mask for blackface, they removed an episode of The Freaking Golden Girls.
00:37:58.620 Is Betty White the least offensive person in human history?
00:38:04.220 Everyone loves Betty White.
00:38:06.420 They took The Freaking Golden Girls off?
00:38:09.680 Mm-hmm.
00:38:10.860 Mm-hmm.
00:38:11.240 Absolutely incredible.
00:38:14.220 In every way.
00:38:14.760 It's incredible.
00:38:15.480 Another example, there's a show called With Bob and David.
00:38:19.120 Now, if you know back in the day, Mr. Show with Bob and David was on HBO.
00:38:23.060 Very famous sketch comedy show.
00:38:25.100 In my opinion, the best one ever made.
00:38:27.080 And Netflix did one season of sort of a revival, which they called With Bob and David.
00:38:31.660 In 2015, in this episode, David Cross, who is super liberal, like probably the most liberal person in our society,
00:38:40.800 the single most liberal person in our society,
00:38:42.580 he dresses up and at one point, he's doing a thing where he's trying,
00:38:49.560 he's like, you know, these YouTube videos where you're trying, like,
00:38:53.640 I'm going to show you what your rights are as a citizen when you get pulled over on the side of the road.
00:38:59.600 He's filming himself.
00:39:00.480 He's trying to do his own like a little viral video.
00:39:02.140 And he's trying to make the point at one point in the sketch that if he puts on blackface,
00:39:07.180 he will automatically get arrested because he's black.
00:39:10.620 And he does.
00:39:12.320 Like, that's, you know, it's, I mean, it's a funny, it's, you know,
00:39:15.220 I'm summarizing here, obviously, but it's a very funny sketch.
00:39:17.800 But they removed it from the show because he was wearing blackface
00:39:22.280 in an effort to say the liberal point that white cops will just arrest black people for no reason.
00:39:31.360 He's actually making the liberal point and they still pull it off.
00:39:35.360 Sarah Silverman, we talked about Sarah Silverman yesterday.
00:39:38.280 She lost a job because of a sketch she did in blackface.
00:39:43.180 They did move, Scrubs has lost three episodes of their show from the streaming services.
00:39:49.460 The Office has lost an episode, which I don't, I don't remember an Office blackface scene,
00:39:57.720 but there is a lot that is, that is offensive in that show.
00:40:03.780 Community lost an episode.
00:40:07.640 30 Rock, four episodes.
00:40:11.040 You know, for Hollywood lecturing us about racism all the time,
00:40:13.380 they're into a lot of blackface.
00:40:16.260 That's a lot of blackface.
00:40:18.160 Wow.
00:40:18.480 I feel like a tad too much.
00:40:20.760 But some of these examples are completely ridiculous with Golden Girls,
00:40:24.320 I think, has to top the list.
00:40:25.920 Na, na, na, na.
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