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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It is Pat and Stu in for Glenn today.

00:00:03.940 We talk today about the increasing amount of craziness on racial lines 1.00

00:00:10.860 where we see a new celebrity with a blackface tape. 0.94

00:00:14.600 We have a confrontation in a park between a black man and a white woman that gets ugly. 0.65

00:00:19.740 And we have the horrible situation in Minnesota with an officer and someone who,

00:00:25.080 or several officers, and someone who is killed.

00:00:28.180 Really a lot of ugliness there, but we try to go through it and wade through what is true and what is not.

00:00:34.660 Also talk about the media. They're a disaster as usual.

00:00:37.640 They are getting frequently caught wearing masks on television

00:00:44.520 and then immediately taking them off as soon as the camera shot is over.

00:00:48.620 There's a great piece from MSNBC where they just get called out by a passerby who just nails them.

00:00:54.540 We not only have their footage from MSNBC, but also the guy with his cell phone recording it.

00:00:59.600 And it's really amazing.

00:01:01.560 And we get into a little bit about Brazil, which is now passing the United States

00:01:07.440 as far as the coronavirus capital of the universe.

00:01:11.360 It's a title I'm actually really happy to give up.

00:01:13.480 So that would be a nice thing.

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00:01:50.520 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:54.360 It is Pat and Stu in for Glenn, who's on vacation this week.

00:02:02.220 Fascinating graphic released by Pew Research, Pat, looking at the COVID deaths in red and blue districts.

00:02:11.560 So for some reason, this is a thing we're doing now where we're just breaking this along political lines to try to prove points, I guess, on politics.

00:02:19.420 I don't even understand what the point of something like this would be.

00:02:21.640 But I guess the idea from their perspective is, look, let's illustrate the fact that there's been a big decrease in Democratic districts, and there hasn't been a big decrease in Republican districts.

00:02:33.580 That's the attempt here.

00:02:35.460 It says, since mid-April, COVID-19 deaths have declined in Democratic districts, but have been relatively stable in Republican districts.

00:02:42.080 And they have a helpful graph to illustrate what has happened.

00:02:46.180 Now, anyone who would think about this for a moment would say, well, the worst stuff happened in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

00:02:54.940 And yes, they've had a big decrease, but from a terrible peak, right?

00:02:58.720 So you would say, okay, a lot of Democratic districts there, it would make sense they were decreasing.

00:03:03.320 Where in a state like Texas, that never had a huge flare-up, it wouldn't make sense for them to decrease.

00:03:09.800 Decrease from what, right?

00:03:10.980 Like they have...

00:03:11.520 It was already low.

00:03:12.160 It was already low.

00:03:13.240 That would be, you're just right off the top of your head impression of someone who said that, right?

00:03:18.680 Yes.

00:03:19.040 Well, shockingly enough, that is exactly what the graph shows.

00:03:23.120 And the graph actually illustrates that the Republican peak in deaths was two per, I believe it's, let's see, yeah, average...

00:03:34.380 Two per 100,000?

00:03:35.140 Yeah, I was trying to think if it's, I think it's two per million or two per 100,000.

00:03:38.940 Two per 100,000, I don't know.

00:03:41.120 The graph is not labeled exactly correctly.

00:03:43.640 But point being, the whatever ratio they're using here, two for the Republicans was the peak.

00:03:49.280 And it is decreased slightly to 1.7, okay?

00:03:53.300 On the Democratic side, it peaked at 7.4.

00:03:57.000 So that is almost four times as many as it ever was in a Republican district.

00:04:02.520 And it has decreased, largely because of that Northeast area, down to 4.1.

00:04:09.220 Still more than twice as high.

00:04:11.180 As the peak, more than twice as high as the peak, which situation would you rather have?

00:04:15.640 Would you rather have the Republican situation where you peak at 2 and fall to 1.7?

00:04:20.180 Or would you rather have the Democratic situation where you peak at 7.4 and decrease to 4.1?

00:04:26.100 Now, that is obviously, it's obvious when you look at the graph.

00:04:28.820 You'd much rather have the Republican situation.

00:04:31.220 The deaths have been much, much lower.

00:04:33.180 How do you title that graph?

00:04:36.180 The summary being that there's been a decrease in Democratic districts, but stable in Republican.

00:04:41.180 Because the impression you're trying to send, what are you trying to send there?

00:04:44.480 What's the impression?

00:04:45.320 Republican governors have opened up the states, and they're paying the price.

00:04:48.820 Right.

00:04:49.440 Which is obviously not the story of that graph.

00:04:52.500 The story of that graph is Democrats handled this poorly at the beginning, waited too long.

00:04:57.060 We had people like Andrew Cuomo, who, I mean, who, I hate to criticize Andrew Cuomo by saying Bill de Blasio was right on something.

00:05:07.980 But Cuomo was out there lighting Bill de Blasio up, saying we were never going to close New York, and then four days later closes New York.

00:05:17.740 Right?

00:05:18.520 Right.

00:05:18.720 They blew this from the beginning in the worst possible way.

00:05:23.980 We talked about the nursing home policy.

00:05:25.860 We talked about, it wasn't until mid-May where they were saying, you know what?

00:05:30.440 Big new policy announcement.

00:05:31.900 We're going to clean the subway cars.

00:05:35.220 Wow!

00:05:36.280 What a brilliant idea there, Andy.

00:05:38.940 That's a, wow!

00:05:40.880 That's a, you're right on the cutting edge of fighting this virus.

00:05:44.700 After you already have tens of thousands dead, you think you might clean a subway car.

00:05:48.900 What a good idea.

00:05:50.500 That's a good idea, Andrew.

00:05:53.200 Oh, he is the worst.

00:05:54.620 I'm doing more on the Andrew Cuomo timeline on Stude Does America tonight.

00:05:58.500 Because last time I did it, I think we talked about this on Friday.

00:06:01.800 I started in March, and I was going to do the entire timeline of all of his mistakes.

00:06:04.960 And I could only get through the first two weeks of March.

00:06:07.700 So now I need to do the second two weeks of March, and we'll go from there.

00:06:11.260 This series could end.

00:06:12.500 After the election, I think.

00:06:15.580 This could take 18 months.

00:06:16.600 It could.

00:06:17.300 Is what it could.

00:06:17.920 It could.

00:06:18.920 Listen to this, though.

00:06:19.900 You know, very rarely do we hear a news network come out, make one of these accusations like

00:06:25.880 they made against Georgia and Texas and Florida.

00:06:28.520 And when it doesn't go their way, and their way is a bunch of people dying.

00:06:33.440 So think about what their way is for a second.

00:06:35.960 But when it doesn't go their way, they never revisit it, right?

00:06:38.680 They just move on.

00:06:39.400 Like, they hit Georgia.

00:06:40.520 They said there's going to be a huge outbreak.

00:06:41.840 Didn't happen.

00:06:42.800 Then they said, okay, well, what about Texas?

00:06:44.780 That didn't happen.

00:06:45.560 What about Florida?

00:06:46.160 That hasn't happened.

00:06:46.820 All these things have gone on over and over again because they find the red state governors.

00:06:50.880 Now, Colorado has a Democratic governor who opened the state right around the times of

00:06:55.640 these other states and has had no criticism whatsoever.

00:06:57.780 Minnesota is having a much worse time right now with COVID-19 than any of these southern

00:07:02.860 states.

00:07:03.600 And they don't get any criticism either because that's just the way this works.

00:07:06.720 I will give a little bit of credit to NBC News who actually revisited their Georgia predictions

00:07:13.960 the other night.

00:07:15.400 Did they?

00:07:15.720 Yeah.

00:07:15.960 And their tone was they actually said there was no major spike in cases, which is good.

00:07:20.440 And the fact that they did that is something.

00:07:25.160 We have very low expectations of the media at this point.

00:07:28.620 And the fact that they would even acknowledge that they said these things in retrospect is

00:07:34.180 impressive.

00:07:34.860 However, one of the things, if you remember when they, when Georgia started opening up

00:07:40.300 salons and such, they said a lot of people were critical.

00:07:43.680 If you remember famously, the Atlantic ran a headline that said, Georgia's experiment in

00:07:48.140 human sacrifice.

00:07:49.500 That was their headline.

00:07:51.020 Okay.

00:07:51.260 And that was the tone of the coverage all over the left, including on MSNBC, part of NBC

00:07:56.660 News, who spent day after day after day after day lighting this up, really heavy criticism.

00:08:02.440 And they do acknowledge the criticism.

00:08:06.060 Listen to the end to hear which criticism they highlight.

00:08:10.320 Last month, Georgia was one of the first states to reopen and with the most aggressive

00:08:15.800 approach, allowing barbershops, restaurants, tattoo parlors, and more to welcome customers.

00:08:21.320 The criticism came in droves.

00:08:23.580 I told the governor very simply that I disagree with his decision, but he has to do what he

00:08:28.360 thinks is right.

00:08:29.200 Oh, the one piece of criticism they could find in Georgia was President Trump.

00:08:35.800 Yeah.

00:08:35.940 Because he's been this guy who's been all over anti-opening the economy up.

00:08:41.680 They couldn't find anything from Rachel Maddow on their own network.

00:08:44.620 They couldn't find anything from Chris Hayes on their own network.

00:08:46.840 They couldn't find anything from NBC News.

00:08:48.800 They couldn't find anything.

00:08:49.600 They couldn't find that Atlantic headline.

00:08:51.100 They couldn't find the dozens and dozens of headlines saying everyone was going to die

00:08:54.360 in Georgia.

00:08:54.840 The only thing they could muster up for criticism was the one time President Trump said, I think

00:09:01.020 you're opening up tattoo parlors and massage parlors a little early.

00:09:05.440 That's the only thing that when it came to, that was the thrust of all the criticism, if

00:09:11.640 you remember, Pat.

00:09:12.700 And I'm glad they brought that back up.

00:09:15.120 Unbelievable. 0.99

00:09:16.300 It really is pathetic. 1.00

00:09:18.000 Just admit it. 0.99

00:09:19.280 Like you should, shouldn't we all be thrilled you were wrong on that?

00:09:23.560 You know, and it's not to say that they will not have a flare up at some point.

00:09:27.580 They may, but clearly your impression of what reality was, was incorrect here.

00:09:33.220 If you had looked at the mobility data, you would realize that almost every state in the

00:09:38.600 union is coming out of lockdown at the same pace, whether the governor says so or not.

00:09:43.980 And that has to do with people realizing, you know what?

00:09:46.860 We can't sit in here forever.

00:09:48.000 We need to go do these things.

00:09:48.940 Let's just be careful.

00:09:49.820 And that's happening all over the country.

00:09:51.520 And so it wouldn't be surprising to you if you understood the data that it's not one

00:09:57.960 of these things where the governor says, okay, the state's open and everyone rushes to the

00:10:01.800 doors.

00:10:02.220 That's not what happens.

00:10:03.560 People aren't doing that.

00:10:04.940 The same thing was true when we went into lockdown.

00:10:07.900 People went into lockdown before the governors said they had to go into lockdown because they

00:10:12.080 were trying to be careful with their own lives.

00:10:14.160 Same thing here.

00:10:15.080 They're trying to get to be careful with their own economy.

00:10:17.240 They're trying to get out there and be careful and go back to work.

00:10:19.960 And none of this should be surprising to you if you followed this story at any level of

00:10:26.200 depth.

00:10:26.960 You know, if you're just sitting here in this normal back and forth cable news box thing

00:10:30.640 where two boxes are on one side, I think we should open it up.

00:10:32.800 I think we should close it down.

00:10:34.120 If that's your life, well, then you're not going to understand the story at all.

00:10:38.240 When you look at the data, there's no difference between, you know, a state like Georgia as far

00:10:43.840 as coming out and being more mobile and visiting retail stores and all these other things and tons

00:10:49.220 of other states.

00:10:50.080 There's not really a difference.

00:10:51.480 There are certain areas they've opened up that are different than other states.

00:10:54.640 But generally speaking, there's there'd be no reason to believe Georgia would have a big

00:10:58.460 outbreak anyway, as opposed to another state.

00:11:01.040 But they don't care about that.

00:11:02.460 That's not their goal.

00:11:03.260 Their goal is to try to trash the president, trash Republicans, teams, teams, teams, teams, 0.61

00:11:07.880 teams.

00:11:08.120 It's just unending.

00:11:09.100 Yeah.

00:11:10.080 And usually they don't even once they've made their prediction that all hell is going

00:11:15.180 to break loose in Georgia because they're opening up way too soon.

00:11:18.980 And then when that doesn't happen, when all hell doesn't break loose, they usually don't

00:11:22.500 even go back and report on that.

00:11:24.540 So they don't say anything about it.

00:11:26.380 It's it's kind of amazing that anything was said by the media, even though, yeah, you know,

00:11:32.040 they they use Trump as their as their proof.

00:11:34.900 Yeah.

00:11:35.020 People attacking them.

00:11:36.180 I'm beating I'm beating that report up at that part of it.

00:11:38.340 But I do actually legitimately appreciate when they do that.

00:11:42.000 And it does add to their credibility.

00:11:43.860 Yes.

00:11:44.300 You know, it really does.

00:11:46.780 You at least will listen to them.

00:11:48.900 If more of these news networks said, you know what?

00:11:50.880 Gosh, we really thought this was going to happen.

00:11:52.420 And we were totally wrong on it.

00:11:54.060 I'm not sure why we're going to try to figure it out and get it right next time.

00:11:56.960 That goes a long way with people.

00:11:58.340 I think people are fine with that approach.

00:12:00.040 I think so.

00:12:00.660 You know, I mean, that's what we try to do.

00:12:02.660 There's been plenty of times that we've blown stuff and you just go on and you say, look, look,

00:12:05.860 this is why I thought it.

00:12:07.300 You heard my rationale.

00:12:08.800 Right.

00:12:09.100 And, you know, this is what I'll try to do next time to get it to get better.

00:12:12.000 That's all you can do.

00:12:13.060 Yeah.

00:12:13.240 Because when it doesn't fit the agenda, they are so good at just not reporting it, pretending

00:12:22.000 it didn't happen.

00:12:23.600 For instance, what YouTube is doing with hydroxychloroquine, where they just censored the video where medical

00:12:31.700 doctors, these are doctors saying hydroxychloroquine might help treat COVID-19.

00:12:37.020 So they removed that part of the video from the YouTube videos.

00:12:42.260 I mean, wait.

00:12:44.560 Well, it definitely might.

00:12:45.840 We're in the middle of, you know, scientists that are in the middle of dozens of studies

00:12:50.760 on hydroxychloroquine right now, including a statewide study in South Dakota.

00:12:56.120 But I mean, it's not just a statewide study here.

00:12:58.820 I mean, it's all over the world they've been studying this.

00:13:00.440 So this was a Cheryl Atkinson at Full Measure News report, and she was examining the possible

00:13:06.880 benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and the possible financial interest some parties

00:13:12.600 have in downplaying the drug and promoting a separate treatment, the remdesivir.

00:13:18.740 You notice they're not bashing that.

00:13:22.600 Yeah, that's a weird one, too, because remdesivir was mentioned by Trump in the same press conference

00:13:28.040 as hydroxychloroquine.

00:13:29.080 I mean, you know, this idea that Trump is out there promoting hydroxychloroquine because

00:13:33.560 he's trying to be right and show that he, you know, he also called the remdesivir thing,

00:13:37.860 and remdesivir has shown a clinical study that has improved outcomes.

00:13:42.480 Now, there's been some studies of hydroxychloroquine that have showed mixed results, some really

00:13:46.180 good, some not so great.

00:13:47.820 Right.

00:13:48.020 But like I, like Trump, Trump's quote unquote false hope from that press conference was not

00:13:55.440 false.

00:13:55.880 I mean, Fauci came out and said the exact same thing.

00:13:59.080 It had helped some people.

00:14:00.620 It had helped some people.

00:14:01.720 We know there was an ABC News executive who was, who, who claims it cured him.

00:14:07.080 You know, there's a study in France of a very well-respected doctor who's a little bit of

00:14:11.060 a renegade.

00:14:11.820 So there's questions about whether he's right or wrong on this, but he had a study that

00:14:15.640 showed incredible improvement by hydroxychloroquine.

00:14:17.900 And remdesivir, but like, like they were trying to say this thing where Trump gets blamed for

00:14:24.420 hydroxychloroquine if it doesn't work out, but gets no credit for remdesivir, which he

00:14:28.840 also mentioned in the same press conference.

00:14:30.560 If it does work out, which both Fauci and Birx have talked about the benefits of remdesivir

00:14:35.820 already.

00:14:36.220 And by the way, there are some drawbacks to remdesivir as well.

00:14:40.520 And they're not talking about those, but anything about hydroxychloroquine that they can say

00:14:45.460 like people die from it.

00:14:47.100 Well, yeah.

00:14:47.740 If you don't know how to administer it or you administer it wrong and not in conjunction

00:14:52.080 with the right combination of drugs, then yeah, bad things can happen.

00:14:57.080 Certainly generally safe to take.

00:14:58.660 Yes.

00:14:59.040 You know, I mean, it's been taken.

00:15:00.060 People have been taking it for 70 years.

00:15:01.600 Yeah.

00:15:01.840 People with lupus have to take it every day.

00:15:04.060 People with certain types of, all sorts of ailments, you know, take it.

00:15:09.160 It's, you know, malaria is obviously the one it was initially designed for, but it's not

00:15:12.380 just used for that.

00:15:13.820 Look, why wouldn't we try these things?

00:15:16.080 You go back to what Trump has said many, many times, which is let's look into this stuff.

00:15:20.540 I don't know.

00:15:20.980 I mean, doctors don't know.

00:15:22.400 Let's test it.

00:15:23.340 And so they are testing it.

00:15:24.560 And we may find out that it doesn't help anybody, or maybe it only helps a very small

00:15:27.900 subset of people.

00:15:28.900 Whatever it does, let's find out.

00:15:31.280 We're in the middle of a crisis here.

00:15:32.820 Let's, let's find out.

00:15:33.700 Why would we dismiss it? 0.99

00:15:34.740 It's another one of these dumb things that they've just made, like the Democrat team 0.97

00:15:38.820 doesn't like hydroxychloroquine for some reason. 0.98

00:15:41.420 Why?

00:15:42.060 Who cares?

00:15:43.540 Because Trump mentioned it.

00:15:44.780 Because Trump mentioned it.

00:15:45.340 That's it.

00:15:45.880 Bizarre.

00:15:46.320 That's it.

00:15:50.980 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:53.320 A video that's not new, but it's about 20 years old from Saturday Night Live where Jimmy

00:16:12.340 Fallon dresses up in blackface for a bit has resurfaced for some reason.

00:16:18.160 Kind of interesting that it would, it would come up right now, but, uh, here's an instant

00:16:22.960 where NBC apparently didn't feel the same way in 2000 as they felt in 2018 about blackface

00:16:31.560 because, uh, Jimmy Fallon still has a job.

00:16:36.340 Uh, whereas you look at somebody like Megyn Kelly, whose crime was so egregious.

00:16:42.440 She actually talked about blackface.

00:16:44.820 She asked a question about being in blackface.

00:16:48.680 And the question was, if someone were to dress up a kid, I think they were talking about kids,

00:16:54.700 weren't they at the time?

00:16:55.940 Um, it was Halloween and they were saying if someone were to dress up to essentially honor

00:16:59.720 someone who they appreciated from a different race.

00:17:02.940 Like Diana Ross, for instance.

00:17:03.820 Diana Ross, yeah.

00:17:04.400 If you were to dress up as Diana Ross and you use blackface, would that be the same? 0.79

00:17:08.640 Uh, that was basically her question, right?

00:17:10.400 Yes.

00:17:10.720 Uh, and that question was so horrible.

00:17:14.620 It was akin to murder.

00:17:15.640 Right.

00:17:16.040 They had to go after her.

00:17:17.320 It really was.

00:17:17.720 And, and, and get rid of her, which is amazing.

00:17:21.260 Now we of course have covered how many other times this has popped up where, whether you

00:17:26.520 are headed the state of Georgia or Virginia or the country of Canada, or whether you are,

00:17:34.040 uh, Jimmy Kimmel with, uh, Carl Malone.

00:17:37.160 Oh yeah.

00:17:37.520 That's right.

00:17:38.200 Totally fine.

00:17:38.980 Oh man.

00:17:40.140 Totally fine.

00:17:41.220 And again, there was no, there wasn't even, it had nothing to do with Megan Kelly's question.

00:17:45.900 Megan Kelly's question was about something much less, uh, controversial, right?

00:17:51.220 Like, uh, let's say a kid who's dressing up and maybe he doesn't even understand the, uh,

00:17:55.480 the lines there and dresses up as someone they appreciate or even an adult doing that,

00:18:00.980 but in a complimentary way, these were always critical or mocking the person who they were 0.99

00:18:07.440 impersonating, Carl Malone was just being shown basically as dumb. 0.99

00:18:11.320 The whole joke was like, he can't talk. 0.99

00:18:13.640 Right.

00:18:14.140 Right.

00:18:14.280 That was the whole joke about Carl Malone.

00:18:16.180 Yes.

00:18:16.400 Jimmy Kimmel in blackface is saying Carl Malone can't talk.

00:18:20.500 That was the whole, there was nothing more to it.

00:18:23.100 It wasn't, there was no larger point.

00:18:24.660 There was no, I mean like Sarah Silverman, um, who is a comedian as well and super left

00:18:29.260 as well, uh, apparently lost a job because she dressed up in blackface as well. 1.00

00:18:34.340 I don't know if you're recognizing a pattern here on the people who are using, uh, the blackface

00:18:39.480 situation, but I mean, you know, Silverman, I think has a real argument to say it's ridiculous. 0.55

00:18:44.720 She was doing a bit essentially mocking racists, right? 0.95

00:18:48.340 Like you are, yes, she's utilizing blackface. 0.99

00:18:50.840 She's using it in a way to mock people who are, who are racist.

00:18:55.100 That is a, uh, should be a, if you're going to use blackface, that would be the one time 1.00

00:19:00.920 you'd think you'd be able to do it.

00:19:02.500 Now, I don't know why you'd want to do it.

00:19:04.340 Uh, not something that I, that I've ever entertained, but apparently everybody in Hollywood

00:19:08.520 is like, I can't wait.

00:19:10.160 We're not going to find a reason to use this.

00:19:12.240 It's going to be wonderful.

00:19:13.900 But Sarah Silverman is making a point against racism and she's still losing jobs because 0.97

00:19:18.920 of it.

00:19:19.840 Jimmy Fallon is now, uh, his tape has come out.

00:19:23.540 He has famously done a Chris Rock impression before on Saturday Night Live.

00:19:28.080 This time he did it in a very interesting way visually.

00:19:31.280 Here it is.

00:19:32.160 Rock, now we're talking.

00:19:33.740 Where is he?

00:19:34.580 Man, oh man, read this book.

00:19:37.460 I've seen who wants to be a millionaire and guess what? 0.93

00:19:40.300 Not a lot of black folks on the show, right? 0.93

00:19:42.820 Not a lot of black folks on the show.

00:19:45.000 Know why? 0.99

00:19:45.780 Because black folks don't like to answer questions. 1.00

00:19:48.200 Oh, they want to be millionaires. 0.99

00:19:49.800 But you got to ask that kind of question.

00:19:51.640 Like, in 1981, how many guys have cracked in Rick James smoke when he recorded Super

00:19:55.760 Free?

00:19:57.540 I mean, that's just wow.

00:19:58.880 You think the only way to get a brother on the show is to name it, who wants $50 cash

00:20:02.740 in a pair of poopers?

00:20:04.380 I mean, that's just, those are just jokes.

00:20:07.600 Again, that's just racially oriented.

00:20:10.560 Stereotypical jokes. 0.98

00:20:11.460 Like, black people know a lot about crack, is the joke. 1.00

00:20:14.660 Yeah. 0.99

00:20:15.020 That's what the joke is there. 0.99

00:20:17.100 The black people know a lot about crack. 1.00

00:20:19.080 And black people like sneakers. 1.00

00:20:22.720 Again, like, do I think that Jimmy Fallon is a racist? 0.95

00:20:26.160 No.

00:20:26.780 Would Chris Rock actually make some of those jokes?

00:20:29.300 Maybe.

00:20:29.800 I mean, Chris Rock does a lot of that type of humor.

00:20:32.380 He's doing an impression of Chris Rock.

00:20:34.500 But the double standard is impossible to ignore here.

00:20:38.360 Impossible.

00:20:38.760 You know, Jimmy Fallon, there's no reason to believe he's some big racist that's doing

00:20:44.660 these sorts of things.

00:20:46.440 But it is a situation where Megyn Kelly, for asking a question on the same network, gets 1.00

00:20:56.660 fired.

00:20:58.160 And this is something they were actually airing, not that long ago.

00:21:02.220 This is not 1975 we're going back to.

00:21:04.080 It's in the century.

00:21:05.440 Yeah.

00:21:05.860 You know, 20 years ago.

00:21:07.240 So, it's an amazing development, yet again.

00:21:12.140 It is.

00:21:12.740 And he's apologized for it.

00:21:14.220 He has.

00:21:14.840 Yeah.

00:21:15.700 But so did Megyn Kelly, and that didn't do her any good.

00:21:18.420 No.

00:21:18.660 But I'm sure all is forgiven already with Jimmy Fallon.

00:21:21.020 It's perfectly fine.

00:21:22.000 Don't worry about it.

00:21:23.400 I mean, you know, if you play by their standards, he should be fired.

00:21:28.660 Right?

00:21:28.920 I think it, if you're going to apply the same standard to everybody else as you applied

00:21:35.680 to Megyn Kelly, then he has to go, too. 0.99

00:21:39.100 And look, their standards suck. 0.99

00:21:40.600 And I don't want to embrace them. 1.00

00:21:41.520 Right.

00:21:41.980 I don't either. 1.00

00:21:42.400 They suck. 1.00

00:21:42.800 I don't either. 1.00

00:21:43.320 And I think, you know, with Megyn Kelly, they utilized that moment because they didn't

00:21:46.720 like her reporting that was critical of NBC for sexual harassment and other things.

00:21:51.820 I think they utilized that as a way to target her.

00:21:56.720 So there are other things at play here.

00:21:59.060 But you're right, Pat.

00:22:00.320 I mean, hypocrisy is, it's immeasurable.

00:22:04.300 And they have no, they don't care about it. 0.98

00:22:06.880 They don't care that they're being hypocritical. 0.98

00:22:10.120 Right. 0.97

00:22:10.680 Well, they don't, because nobody's going to hold them accountable.

00:22:17.440 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:22:21.820 And we've been talking a little bit about some of the racial issues, I would say, that

00:22:34.080 are going on.

00:22:34.640 Everything from Jimmy Fallon to an interaction in Central Park to now Minneapolis, which was

00:22:44.360 so disturbing and horrific.

00:22:47.460 A man, police were responding to a man who was sitting on top of somebody's car, I guess.

00:22:52.540 And I think he was inside the car by the time the cops got there.

00:22:56.040 And now the police say that he resisted arrest.

00:22:59.680 And I've heard that when they pulled him out of the car, he was resisting somewhat.

00:23:03.920 But later on, after they got him in the cuffs, he's walking with the cop down the sidewalk,

00:23:08.580 not resisting at all.

00:23:10.120 Then he sort of leans back and sits down against a wall on the sidewalk.

00:23:15.200 The cop tells him to get up and he gets up, complies.

00:23:20.100 They walk back around the police vehicle, still not resisting.

00:23:25.800 He's not doing anything.

00:23:26.840 Then he's down on the ground and the cop puts his knee in his neck and throat area. 0.74

00:23:32.180 He's face down on the ground with his hands behind his back, handcuffed.

00:23:35.580 And the cop has his knee on his neck for a full seven minutes.

00:23:42.860 And the guy pleads with him multiple times.

00:23:47.500 Please, I can't breathe.

00:23:49.460 Please, I can't breathe.

00:23:52.360 I hurt.

00:23:52.980 My stomach hurts.

00:23:54.060 I hurt everywhere.

00:23:55.140 And I can't breathe.

00:23:56.440 And he tells him this over and over.

00:23:57.820 And so do the people surrounding.

00:23:59.120 Yeah.

00:23:59.360 And the bystanders who are recording it on their phones are telling him, look, you're killing

00:24:04.080 this guy. 0.95

00:24:04.560 Get off of him.

00:24:06.340 And he doesn't.

00:24:07.820 And he doesn't listen to anybody.

00:24:09.860 He, in fact, it looks like he kind of drives his knee deeper into the back of his neck.

00:24:13.860 And then puts his hand in his pocket.

00:24:15.440 Yeah.

00:24:16.060 As he's sitting there doing it.

00:24:17.320 None of the police officers that are with him, the other three, they've all been fired by now.

00:24:22.620 Which is not sufficient.

00:24:25.020 They need to be charged with a crime here.

00:24:27.840 Murder or negligent homicide.

00:24:30.740 I don't know what the exact charge is.

00:24:32.820 But they killed the guy.

00:24:34.260 The officer killed the man.

00:24:37.480 It was really a horrific scene.

00:24:40.820 It's incomprehensible to watch.

00:24:43.600 How just, look, I am.

00:24:46.280 Big supporters of the police.

00:24:47.240 Big supporter.

00:24:47.820 And, you know, in these borderline situations, a lot of times I side with the police, honestly,

00:24:53.020 because, you know, they are in a situation where they should rationally fear for their

00:24:59.940 lives in these moments often.

00:25:02.680 They have families to get home to, too.

00:25:04.540 I bring, it's just not the situation, seemingly, in this case.

00:25:07.560 There's no reason for what this guy did.

00:25:09.320 I can't.

00:25:09.940 No reason.

00:25:10.400 I can't comprehend of one.

00:25:12.180 Honestly, like, I try, you know, you try to figure out what's their argument here.

00:25:15.820 Their argument seems to be, well, they had the power.

00:25:17.680 They could do whatever they wanted.

00:25:19.160 That seems to be the defense here, which is not a good defense.

00:25:23.820 Look, there's no reason.

00:25:25.840 Like, there's not a moment.

00:25:27.560 And the video is, when he's on the ground, you get all of it, I think.

00:25:33.100 There's not a moment where they just say to the guy, look, I understand you're uncomfortable.

00:25:37.540 I am going to let some of this pressure off.

00:25:39.480 If you move a muscle, I'm doing it again.

00:25:43.380 Never an opportunity for him to just lay there and play dead, right?

00:25:47.280 Right.

00:25:47.480 They never gave him an opportunity to lay there completely and say, look, here is a, if you itch yourself, I'm going to do something.

00:25:56.680 I'm going to put my knee back here.

00:25:58.060 They never gave him even that chance.

00:26:00.060 No, there's not one moment where they have any empathy or sympathy or a moment of humanity for this man.

00:26:06.980 When he's begging and pleading that I can't breathe, you would think, even if it's just because they're being recorded by other people.

00:26:16.360 Right.

00:26:16.660 Self-preservation.

00:26:17.640 Yeah.

00:26:18.100 Just get off him so it doesn't look like you're killing the guy.

00:26:20.740 Like, there's not a moment where the I can't breathe thing reminds you of Eric Garner, which is a big story.

00:26:26.560 Come on.

00:26:27.100 You have to be reminded of that.

00:26:28.820 And just say, like, look, you're not one of these other officers that goes up to him and says, dude, like, I don't want to be in this next freaking Aaron Garner story. 0.90

00:26:35.580 Let's just get off his neck. 1.00

00:26:37.100 Get off his neck. 1.00

00:26:37.840 Yeah. 0.98

00:26:38.120 He's not doing anything.

00:26:39.060 If he moves, then do it again.

00:26:40.280 And you'd have an argument there, right?

00:26:41.720 Or let's get him up and put him in the back of the cruiser. 0.89

00:26:45.000 Exactly.

00:26:45.680 Get up.

00:26:46.220 Get in there.

00:26:46.600 If you do anything else, you're in major trouble. 0.98

00:26:49.160 Put the freaking stun, you know, the taser on him. 0.97

00:26:53.080 And, you know, without pressing the electrification button, for lack of a better word, as you know, not an officer. 0.99

00:26:58.920 But, you know, you put him and say, if you do anything, we're going to, I'm going to jam this button down and it's going to suck for you.

00:27:05.280 So don't do it.

00:27:06.040 At least give him a chance to comply.

00:27:09.260 Nothing like that.

00:27:09.980 Nothing like that.

00:27:11.120 And that is really disturbing.

00:27:13.080 You know, sometimes there may be part of this that we haven't seen that would explain why they handled it in a much more aggressive way than you would expect.

00:27:27.500 Right?

00:27:27.600 Like, sometimes there is an interaction where they have done something.

00:27:31.060 Maybe they, maybe he did fight back in a way that we didn't see.

00:27:33.840 But none of that would, like, we have soldiers who go to war and capture Al-Qaeda members and ISIS members and don't do things like this to them.

00:27:44.180 Yeah.

00:27:44.460 Right?

00:27:44.740 Like, it doesn't matter what they've done.

00:27:46.820 Once they get to a place where they are not fighting back and they are, they are, they have no ability to do anything, you know, we celebrate here in this country the fact that we send, you know, our fighters to foreign wars where they have killed thousands of our own people and we still don't do this to them.

00:28:06.880 We have massive debates of whether we're allowed to pour water on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or not.

00:28:12.780 Yeah.

00:28:13.300 We don't, you can't do this.

00:28:16.080 And the fact that you would do it in a situation where you know you're on camera and you know the history, you know the context of the situation, you know how this is going to be viewed, you know people are going to see it happen, and you know the risks.

00:28:31.960 And you disregard all of that.

00:28:33.420 And you disregard all of it because why?

00:28:36.460 Right.

00:28:37.140 Why?

00:28:37.720 Again, we'll have a trial.

00:28:39.100 We don't just, you know, we're not going to, you know, assassinate this guy in the street because he did something.

00:28:43.440 He should go.

00:28:44.280 There should be due process.

00:28:45.220 He should be due process.

00:28:46.300 But he should definitely be charged, I think, with something.

00:28:48.960 With something.

00:28:49.240 And I don't know exactly what it would be.

00:28:51.300 I think negligent, negligent homicide or some sort of high level manslaughter sounds right to me.

00:28:58.120 It may be, fall into the category where it's possible to charge them for murder.

00:29:02.920 And that might be appropriate here.

00:29:04.620 I mean, it looks, it looks that bad, certainly.

00:29:06.700 It does.

00:29:06.940 You always hold back to try to understand whatever context you're missing.

00:29:10.480 But in reality, unless there's something, I can't even think of what the thing would be that would justify this behavior.

00:29:20.040 Guys, on the ground, face down, with his hands handcuffed behind his back.

00:29:25.720 What's he going to do?

00:29:27.320 There's nothing he could do.

00:29:28.160 And it's so disturbing because of how many fantastic officers that we have and how great they usually are.

00:29:36.120 Yes. 0.96

00:29:36.320 And this plays right into the whole hysteria about the cops are just killing black people left and right. 0.99

00:29:43.760 Yeah. 0.98

00:29:44.000 Which is not the case.

00:29:45.380 Yep.

00:29:45.880 And, you know, we always say this about other groups, right?

00:29:48.860 We say this about, we were talking about ISIS moments ago.

00:29:51.960 You know, when there's a terrorist attack, it is, yes, of course, we can all say how bad it is.

00:29:56.840 The most important people to say how bad this is are other Muslims. 1.00

00:30:01.700 If there's a Muslim terrorist attack. 0.94

00:30:03.320 If ISIS is responsible.

00:30:04.340 This is why people like Zutty Jasser are so important to come out and say, yes, that behavior is completely wrong.

00:30:11.240 Those people are doing the wrong things that, you know, but, but there's also a good section of our community as well.

00:30:17.580 And they're great people.

00:30:19.380 Police officers need to have credibility to do that.

00:30:21.940 Now, look, we have to also take a step back when you're talking about what's going on and what seems to be coming as far as protests and all of this.

00:30:30.120 We have a decent amount of murders in this country more than any of us would like.

00:30:37.100 They go on often. 0.97

00:30:38.680 When they happen, when a black person kills a white person, it is not appropriate to say all black people are responsible for that. 0.96

00:30:47.520 The person, the individual who commits the crime is the one responsible for it.

00:30:50.960 The same way, and everybody needs to remember this today, the same way that when one police officer, let's say he's guilty completely of murder,

00:30:58.860 which again, it looks like it to me, you know, I'm no legal expert, but if he is, we should not hold other cops responsible for that behavior.

00:31:07.100 Number one.

00:31:07.880 And number two, we have to recognize that these things are terrible and they happen and we have a system to deal with them the best way that we can.

00:31:14.500 If that system reacts the way it's supposed to, we can all be really pissed off, but that does not mean that we should, you know, be, you know, burning down cities.

00:31:25.200 Right.

00:31:25.840 Right.

00:31:26.500 It's not the way that that should work.

00:31:27.900 They got fired immediately.

00:31:29.960 My guess is they get charged within a few days when they're, as they're gathering evidence, there has to be some time for the system to play out.

00:31:37.580 But I don't think it's going to take long.

00:31:39.680 And there's plenty of evidence.

00:31:40.760 They had, we've been informed by the police department that they all had their body cameras on.

00:31:45.640 So there's, there's that evidence and the people who were filming it that were bystanders begging the police to get off of him and to listen to him and to ease up a little bit.

00:31:56.140 And in fact, several of them said, you're killing the guy.

00:32:00.100 And then he was motionless after a while.

00:32:02.580 And they still kept his knee there.

00:32:03.640 And they still kept his knee in his neck and throat.

00:32:06.440 At the very least, the guy had passed out at that point.

00:32:08.860 At the very, he might've been already dead by then.

00:32:11.000 He might've been dead.

00:32:11.800 But you think of like, if you're in a situation where you're being restrained or you, something like that, someone's choking you, right?

00:32:19.040 Like your body is going to do everything it can to protect against that, right?

00:32:22.840 You're going to, your chin's going to be pushed down.

00:32:24.760 You're going to tighten your neck.

00:32:26.040 It's going to give you some level of protection.

00:32:28.400 When you pass out, you stop doing that, right?

00:32:31.540 So now everything's just collapsing on top of each other.

00:32:34.540 The windpipe is closing.

00:32:35.940 Yeah.

00:32:36.180 And the fact that you, and he's suffocated, it's, I just, it's, it's inexplicable.

00:32:41.380 Terrific.

00:32:41.840 You know, there's one thing where mistakes do happen in police work.

00:32:46.420 If you, there can be a bad incident.

00:32:48.100 It could be something where you're trying, you don't realize something innocent is happening and you react.

00:32:52.880 You think it's threatening and, you know, people have been shot in that way.

00:32:57.200 All terrible, but not this.

00:32:59.700 This is, this, it develops over a long period of time.

00:33:02.820 There's nothing happening there.

00:33:04.860 There, it's inexplicable.

00:33:07.060 It doesn't necessarily mean, and this is, I guess, worth pointing out. 0.98

00:33:10.520 It doesn't necessarily mean they were doing it because they wanted to kill a black guy. 0.86

00:33:13.560 It could just be terrible police work. 0.98

00:33:15.440 Yes.

00:33:15.760 Right.

00:33:16.080 I think there's, it's impossible to avoid the racial parts of this. 0.86

00:33:20.440 Clearly going to be part of the conversation on it. 0.90

00:33:23.060 It doesn't necessarily mean they, they left the house that day and they were like, you know what I'd like to do today is find a black person to put my knee on their throat. 1.00

00:33:30.240 But it doesn't, like that part is separate.

00:33:32.600 It can be a part of the conversation, but separate of who the person is, it just seems to be absolutely horrific police work at the very least.

00:33:41.220 And, you know, maybe, maybe if the guy resisted at the very beginning, which I didn't see because it wasn't on this particular video.

00:33:47.220 But maybe that pissed him off to the point where, yeah, I'm just going to be on this guy's neck.

00:33:51.860 It might not have been racial.

00:33:53.280 He just might have, anger may have taken hold.

00:33:55.720 It doesn't excuse it at all.

00:33:56.960 No, not in the least.

00:33:58.340 But it is, it is, a lot of times that is the factor.

00:34:00.220 Like, you know, you see this is happening where, a good example of this was in the NFL, was it last year?

00:34:05.340 Where the guy in Pittsburgh hit the, hit the, the quarterback in his head.

00:34:11.680 Oh, yeah.

00:34:12.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:34:13.120 I can't remember the exact two, two players it was.

00:34:15.760 It was the guy who hit the quarterback in the head with his helmet.

00:34:18.260 Yeah.

00:34:18.520 At the end of that game.

00:34:19.720 And, um, a lot of criticism for the game.

00:34:23.560 Obviously, he's going to get suspended and all this thing.

00:34:25.940 His, his comeback to that was, he called me the N-word.

00:34:29.500 Now, there's no evidence of that.

00:34:31.500 The NFL went through all the tapes, did not find any evidence of it.

00:34:34.380 There's no reason to believe it actually occurred.

00:34:36.540 And nobody else apparently heard it.

00:34:37.900 Right.

00:34:38.240 And nobody else heard it either.

00:34:39.540 Including other African Americans who were there, did not hear it.

00:34:42.420 Right.

00:34:42.620 But the, the bigger part of that is, it still would not justify what he did.

00:34:47.120 Exactly.

00:34:47.380 It would under, you'd be understanding why he'd be pissed off about it.

00:34:51.280 You'd understand, yeah, he's pissed off.

00:34:53.140 He got called a racial slur.

00:34:54.520 But that does not mean you hit an unprotected head with a helmet at full speed.

00:35:00.720 That's not okay.

00:35:02.380 Even if he did call him that.

00:35:04.240 And I think a lot of times we get locked up into, well, well, how, why did he, what was

00:35:08.380 his motivation?

00:35:09.240 Why did this guy do something wrong?

00:35:11.140 Did he commit a crime?

00:35:12.380 All of those things are immaterial to what the action was at the end there.

00:35:17.720 When the guy is, even if you want to take the parts where he's awake and dismiss them,

00:35:23.000 the guy clearly at some point passes out and he still keeps his, his, his knee on his neck.

00:35:28.960 I'm sorry.

00:35:29.880 You just, I, I can't find any justification.

00:35:32.760 I can't find anything other than this seems to be a case where whatever the legal maximum

00:35:39.760 is, is where it should land.

00:35:41.920 Yeah.

00:35:42.040 Na, na, na, na.

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