The Glenn Beck Program - August 27, 2018


Best of the Program ｜ 8⧸27⧸18


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Elizabeth Warren is the dumbest person you know. She wants to change capitalism in the 21st century, and she's got a plan to do it. Glenn explains why it's a good idea, and why it would benefit workers.

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00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand.
00:00:11.960 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:00:18.540 It's Monday, August 27th.
00:00:21.080 Glenn Beck. 1.00
00:00:22.820 Think of the dumbest person you know. 1.00
00:00:25.420 Now, think of the dumbest person that they know. 1.00
00:00:31.660 And now think of the dumbest person that they know. 1.00
00:00:35.240 You're about to meet that person. 0.99
00:00:38.700 Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Elizabeth Warren.
00:00:43.680 So here's the situation.
00:00:45.180 Since the 1980s, giant corporations have kept on growing.
00:00:48.840 But more and more of the corporate earnings have gone just to the shareholders.
00:00:53.120 Okay.
00:00:55.420 They've sucked trillions of dollars in cash out of our companies, while workers have been left out. 0.85
00:01:02.160 The rich got richer, but workers' wages stayed flat.
00:01:05.500 Okay, let's stop for a second.
00:01:07.700 Let's take a little break, because there's a lot to swallow here.
00:01:11.500 This is Elizabeth Warren's proposal for capitalism in the new age.
00:01:19.120 In the age where the Democrats are embracing openly democratic socialism.
00:01:23.000 First of all, she says that it only benefits shareholders.
00:01:27.480 Well, I mean, that's the company's job.
00:01:29.480 Okay, the company's job is to benefit its shareholders.
00:01:32.100 I know you don't like that.
00:01:33.500 But shareholders are investors and, in a way, owners of the company.
00:01:37.220 That is what the company is there to do.
00:01:40.140 This is just, in my mind, but obviously not in Elizabeth Warren's. 0.92
00:01:43.160 But the idea that shareholders have sucked trillions of dollars out of the economy is completely ridiculous.
00:01:53.960 When you are a worker, you earn a salary.
00:01:59.660 And when you take that salary, you want to do something with it, because you want it to grow.
00:02:02.660 You don't want to go into poverty as you get older.
00:02:04.700 So you invest it in a company.
00:02:06.480 And when you invest it in a company, you earn a little bit more out of that.
00:02:10.800 You're not sucking it from anybody.
00:02:12.600 When you invest in a company and you make actual profits and things finally go well for once, that is not a...
00:02:21.180 There's no vacuum included.
00:02:23.280 You're not sucking it.
00:02:24.040 You're not stealing it from anyone.
00:02:26.480 And by the way, when you sell, if you buy a stock and you make a little bit of a profit and you sell it at a higher price,
00:02:31.300 the person somewhere out there who bought it from you, are they evil too?
00:02:37.420 It doesn't make any sense.
00:02:38.560 And the idea that this doesn't benefit workers, she gets into here.
00:02:44.180 Let's listen to a little bit more.
00:02:45.740 New bill, the Accountable Capitalism Act, will help level the plan.
00:02:49.840 I'm sure it will.
00:02:50.720 It'll put trillions of dollars in the pockets of workers, and it won't cost the taxpayers a dime.
00:02:56.300 Okay, stop.
00:02:56.920 So first of all, we go to the idea that this doesn't benefit workers.
00:03:00.900 The idea that capitalism is not benefiting workers.
00:03:03.200 The money that goes into stock purchases, into the economy, into investing, is not about benefiting workers.
00:03:13.820 That's not how the arrangement is set up.
00:03:16.320 And you might say, well, that's what she's trying to say.
00:03:18.780 That's what Elizabeth is bringing to the table today.
00:03:20.660 She's trying to change that arrangement, which is understandable,
00:03:23.040 except for the fact that the benefit workers get is called salary.
00:03:28.120 They get paid to go to work.
00:03:30.440 That's the arrangement.
00:03:31.180 They get paid.
00:03:32.500 They get their health benefits.
00:03:33.700 They get the 401k, which, by the way, you might notice has something to do with stock prices.
00:03:38.480 They don't benefit from stock prices, though, unless they buy stock, which, by the way, they do all the time.
00:03:47.680 That's kind of the way this works.
00:03:50.280 And the idea that you're trying to make a company and its stock price benefit the workers is part of the reason we're in the problem that we're in.
00:04:04.560 Let's listen to it a little more.
00:04:06.180 So here's how it would work.
00:04:07.580 First, the biggest corporations in America would need to make new legally binding commitments.
00:04:12.400 Of course.
00:04:13.000 Take into account what's good for their workers and not just what's good for their shareholders.
00:04:17.440 Of course, stop.
00:04:19.060 That's, again, every time a proposal like this happens, you have to hear it the right way, which is, you know, a new law is a new regulation.
00:04:28.420 It's going to cost the business money, and they're going to have to deal with that.
00:04:32.120 That is a—it's something that the left never likes to take into account.
00:04:36.420 They always love to sit back and say that these things don't cost you anything.
00:04:42.560 They don't cost you a dime.
00:04:44.120 Really?
00:04:44.460 Does this not cost us a dime?
00:04:47.040 Does it really?
00:04:49.160 When you create a giant new regulation, and this is a series of them as we'll get into them, that costs us all lots of dimes.
00:04:58.700 Lots of dimes.
00:05:00.060 All right.
00:05:00.540 More Elizabeth.
00:05:01.720 Workers would have a seat at the table when big decisions are made.
00:05:05.120 Oh, great.
00:05:05.540 My bill would make it so that at big corporations, workers would get to elect at least 40% of board members.
00:05:11.840 I mean, look.
00:05:12.540 All right, stop.
00:05:14.480 I'm having a real problem even getting through this.
00:05:16.920 So let's stop here.
00:05:20.280 40% of wage holders. 0.55
00:05:24.260 I mean, that is—it's ridiculous, right?
00:05:27.820 It's not true at all.
00:05:28.780 When your company does go into the boardroom, there's a huge issue there.
00:05:37.500 40% of board members would be a formula for disaster.
00:05:42.080 It's completely insane.
00:05:43.660 This is a ticket to bankruptcy for every large company in America.
00:05:46.480 How could you ever stop a pay raise, for example, if 40% of the board were representatives of the employees?
00:05:53.260 How is that even possible?
00:05:57.140 You would never be able to stop the spending.
00:06:00.040 This is basically a way to backdoor reunionization.
00:06:03.460 We all know that unions are getting hammered because they're terrible for the economy and because of, you know, there's also a recent Supreme Court decision you may have noticed.
00:06:12.280 So instead, let's just put representatives of the workers and powers and positions of power.
00:06:18.640 This is a longtime union dream that they're doing even harder than the unions did before, and they're trying to sell it as capitalism. 0.92
00:06:25.960 It's ridiculous. 0.93
00:06:27.220 Go ahead, Lizzie. 0.63
00:06:28.200 And third, to cut down on the dark money that flows from corporations into politics, my bill would require 75% of directors and shareholders to approve of political contributions before they're spent.
00:06:42.020 Ah, stop.
00:06:43.220 This is incredible coming from her.
00:06:45.620 Incredible.
00:06:46.520 The left just finished swearing up and down that, you know, the Supreme Court ruling that just came out about how you can't force union members to make political donations that they don't agree with.
00:06:58.840 And all those donations to unions went completely to the left.
00:07:02.680 Now, now, after that stopped, now they want to stop companies from using their money to donate to politicians because half of it goes to Republicans.
00:07:12.060 It's so transparent.
00:07:13.800 They were the ones cheering on you being forced into donations you didn't want to make.
00:07:21.540 And now, they want to make sure that companies don't spend their money the way they want to.
00:07:29.500 A little bit more.
00:07:30.780 Right now, giant corporations only work for their shareholders.
00:07:34.100 Oh, my gosh.
00:07:34.740 And that means they work only for the wealthy.
00:07:37.200 Stop.
00:07:39.380 Seriously?
00:07:39.940 Honestly, they only work for their shareholders, and that means they only work for the wealthy.
00:07:46.720 52% of Americans own stock.
00:07:51.060 50.
00:07:51.460 More than half of the country does.
00:07:54.200 Are all, they're all wealthy?
00:07:55.980 All 52% of the Americans that own stock are all wealthy?
00:08:00.120 Because that's who gets the benefits from this.
00:08:04.720 And sure, rich people own more, but the bottom half of stock owners average $54,000 in stock.
00:08:12.760 The bottom half average $54,000 in stock.
00:08:17.420 Do you think these things make a difference?
00:08:19.100 They certainly do.
00:08:19.940 They're putting money in real people's pockets, and that's an important thing when it comes to retirement.
00:08:27.700 A big part of this, too, is she goes on to blab about how the rich get richer and wages stay flat.
00:08:35.360 Well, of course the rich get richer.
00:08:38.980 You know what?
00:08:39.300 I'm not going to deny that.
00:08:40.440 The rich do get richer.
00:08:41.340 You know why?
00:08:42.000 You know what?
00:08:42.320 It's one of the main reasons you try to become rich so you can become richer.
00:08:46.620 I know that sounds like evil capitalism at work, but you know what?
00:08:49.280 It's true.
00:08:49.940 When you have money, it's easier to make money.
00:08:53.340 That's true.
00:08:54.220 It's one of the reasons you do it.
00:08:55.840 It's one of the reasons you get up every day and you go to work.
00:08:58.400 It's one of the reasons you take risks with your life.
00:09:00.440 It's one of the reasons you might take a risk on a job that pays a little bit less in the short term
00:09:04.040 that might make a little bit more in the long term.
00:09:06.340 The idea is if you can get to that level, you can get to a point where you are comfortable enough
00:09:11.880 to do things that you like doing, and you're comfortable enough to maybe invest a little bit of that money
00:09:16.660 to make a little bit more.
00:09:18.140 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:09:19.220 There's nothing wrong with that at all.
00:09:22.380 You can handle some mistakes when you invest when you're wealthy. 0.99
00:09:25.440 You can overcome stupid purchases like filling your liberty safe with expensive purses your wife has acquired. 0.99
00:09:30.620 You can do things like that. 1.00
00:09:32.040 I know.
00:09:32.680 And the idea that wages staying flat, and they've been flat, they're stagnating.
00:09:39.020 How many times have we heard this?
00:09:40.580 And we don't only hear it from the left.
00:09:42.400 We hear it from the left and the right.
00:09:43.440 It's just not really true.
00:09:46.560 It's a great talking point.
00:09:48.780 If you haven't had a raise in a while, it might connect with you, and that's, of course, what they're going for.
00:09:53.720 It certainly feels right.
00:09:55.480 But it's not right for a few reasons.
00:09:58.960 Number one, most of it is just part of a statistical quirk.
00:10:02.380 When a 65-year-old making $100,000 leaves the workforce, who's he replaced by?
00:10:08.540 Another 65-year-old making $100,000?
00:10:11.420 No.
00:10:12.600 He's replaced by some teenager making $12,000.
00:10:15.680 As boomers retire, especially as they retire in mass, it's only going to exaggerate that little quirk. 0.99
00:10:24.280 So that doesn't mean that wages are actually stagnating.
00:10:27.840 It means that statistically, it's sort of a function of older people retiring and younger people replacing them.
00:10:35.640 There's also the idea that you're now getting paid in different ways than you did in the past.
00:10:40.660 There's always been benefits associated with work, yes.
00:10:43.040 But the cost of those benefits is rising a lot faster than wages.
00:10:48.740 In other words, the money that should come in your paycheck, the money that you earn, instead goes to benefits that are more and more expensive.
00:10:56.720 The costs to the company of health care, 401K matching, transit passes, if you get those, those have all risen about four and a half times as fast as wages.
00:11:08.020 Now, to me, as a capitalist in a perfect world, as someone who believes in my ability to make decisions in my life, you'd get all your money that comes from your employer.
00:11:19.320 All of it comes to you.
00:11:20.540 And then you go buy what you want, including your own insurance, or you invest it as you like. 0.99
00:11:25.100 But what's amazing is, the reason why that doesn't happen is because of people like Elizabeth Warren, progressives who believe that, you know, us little workers are too stupid to figure out how to spend our own money. 0.93
00:11:40.860 If we trust the workers, they'll spend it all on golden corral and on shotguns and dune buggies. 0.96
00:11:46.600 Who knows what they'll do with it?
00:11:48.340 So we can't trust them.
00:11:49.320 We have to make sure that it's required by the government to make sure that companies give you health care.
00:11:55.260 That costs companies money.
00:11:57.380 Their costs keep coming up.
00:11:58.560 They're paying you more.
00:12:00.180 You're just not receiving as much of it.
00:12:02.440 That's not a problem with capitalism.
00:12:04.260 It's a problem with progressivism.
00:12:05.640 The other thing is, you know, the number of what you earn specifically isn't necessarily all that important.
00:12:13.360 You know, to take a ridiculous example, if next year your boss offers you a dollar per year and cuts your pay to one dollar per year, but as a result of other economic changes, you're able to live the life of Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:12:26.080 Are you willing to take that deal?
00:12:27.720 I think everybody is.
00:12:29.020 Right?
00:12:29.480 If you can live that life and you only made a dollar a year, who cares what the number is?
00:12:32.980 It's about living a better life.
00:12:34.240 It's not that drastic, but I mean, in the 1930s, the amount of our disposable income we used on life's basics, think of like housing, clothing, food, gas, utilities, home furnishings, we spent 62% of our disposable income on all that stuff.
00:12:51.200 It has fallen consistently at about the same rate to about 33%.
00:12:55.820 So it's been cut in half, basically, the amount of money we spent on all of life's basics.
00:13:00.440 And that fall has continued to go on when our wages were supposedly stagnating.
00:13:06.260 As things get better and cheaper, it doesn't necessarily matter if the number's going up.
00:13:12.080 It's nice when the number goes up.
00:13:13.240 We all like when the number goes up.
00:13:14.720 But can you afford to live a better life is really the important thing.
00:13:18.540 And what we're seeing, the answer is more and more yes.
00:13:21.580 And by the way, all the stuff that we just talked about is not only cheaper, it's better.
00:13:28.340 Houses are bigger.
00:13:29.780 And they have things like central air that were only in super rich people's houses before wages started stagnating.
00:13:37.280 Cars are faster.
00:13:38.340 They're more efficient.
00:13:39.200 They're more safe.
00:13:40.300 So now we get better stuff for far less money.
00:13:44.020 These are good developments, but not if you're Elizabeth Warren.
00:13:46.740 Glenn talks about this in Addicted to Outrage.
00:13:49.920 His new book comes out September 18th.
00:13:51.460 If you haven't pre-ordered it, I mean, are you even an American?
00:13:57.860 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:14:05.740 You probably thought the media didn't understand the way the world works, but you were wrong.
00:14:11.020 You probably thought that the media didn't take serious issues seriously, but you were wrong.
00:14:21.020 You probably thought that the media didn't look into the real cause and the real underlying issues that people are dealing with every day.
00:14:32.300 And the way that these stories really develop, you probably thought they didn't get to that next layer of understanding.
00:14:39.660 But you were wrong.
00:14:41.520 And that was proven this weekend by CNN.
00:14:46.740 Molly Tibbetts, as you know, was murdered by an illegal immigrant while she was out running in Iowa. 0.99
00:14:57.060 She had her funeral this weekend, her service.
00:15:01.260 I mean, it's a terrible, terrible story.
00:15:04.460 And the discussion surrounding it has been, why did all these news organizations cover it so intensely when she was missing?
00:15:16.540 And then when we found out what happened to her, which was yet another one of these situations where an illegal immigrant murders someone. 1.00
00:15:24.460 Someone, someone here illegally, someone who should not have been here to be able to commit the crime. 1.00
00:15:32.100 When that happens, you know, it kind of just goes away.
00:15:39.180 And CNN has covered it a little bit, but we were looking for something a little bit deeper, right?
00:15:45.540 Not just, you know, telling us the story, you know, of the events, but what, you know, can we go a little bit deeper?
00:15:50.860 Can we explore something beyond the surface of the story?
00:15:54.800 And to be fair, we kind of were harsh on CNN.
00:16:01.000 We kind of beat up on CNN a little bit.
00:16:03.260 We gave them a hard time for their coverage on the story.
00:16:05.760 We were like, why don't you go a little bit deeper?
00:16:07.260 Why don't you look past that initial layer?
00:16:09.380 No more surface stuff.
00:16:10.540 Why don't you go deeper?
00:16:11.640 You know what we're talking about.
00:16:13.160 Get to it.
00:16:14.020 Let's have a real conversation about this because it's important.
00:16:18.220 And on the, this weekend, I'm with my kids.
00:16:20.960 And, you know, as, as tends to happen, you get the, you get the news alerts that pop up.
00:16:28.800 You know, you get the little vibration on your phone, take it out of your pocket.
00:16:32.640 You look at it and you get to see the breaking news that's coming.
00:16:35.100 And I got this one from CNN and I found out that I was wrong.
00:16:38.120 I had been blaming them for not really going deep enough on this story.
00:16:40.860 And the whole time they were preparing a real expose, some real deep dive into what happened with Molly Tibbetts.
00:16:49.080 What was the real cause?
00:16:52.160 Was it just a murder or was there something more than that?
00:16:54.480 And they have uncovered that it is something more than that.
00:17:00.740 The alert I got, think about how many people subscribe to the CNN app.
00:17:06.720 And they got to have 20, 30, 40 million people on this app.
00:17:11.180 I mean, I don't know how many times it's been downloaded, but it's, it's one that many people have for news alerts.
00:17:15.620 And they finally took that next step.
00:17:18.680 Good job, CNN.
00:17:19.980 Here is the headline running while female.
00:17:25.320 You see, the danger is in illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:17:29.980 The danger is jogging. 0.55
00:17:33.840 That's the danger.
00:17:35.540 And they made sure to push this out to all of their subscribers.
00:17:39.000 Running while female, 43% of women runners say that they've been harassed while jogging.
00:17:48.280 Molly Tibbetts' tragic story puts these numbers in a new light.
00:17:53.320 And you thought they wouldn't go deeper.
00:17:56.760 You thought they really wouldn't examine this one to make sure we understood the real societal implications of the story.
00:18:04.740 No, you were wrong.
00:18:07.180 CNN did the work.
00:18:09.180 And they found the culprit jogging.
00:18:15.200 Now, I am not one to praise exercise.
00:18:20.160 I am not one to say positive things about something like jogging.
00:18:24.540 To me, it's one of the worst things in the world.
00:18:27.800 I would do anything to avoid it.
00:18:31.080 We all know it can create health problems.
00:18:35.680 Okay?
00:18:35.760 Exercise, generally speaking, very dangerous.
00:18:40.180 Okay?
00:18:40.720 We're talking major injuries can occur.
00:18:42.980 Even to the most elite athletes.
00:18:45.900 They happen all the time.
00:18:47.100 Watch a football game.
00:18:48.240 All the time.
00:18:49.200 These people are getting injured.
00:18:51.160 People can have heart attacks.
00:18:53.200 You know, major...
00:18:54.840 Look what happened to Harry Reid on the treadmill.
00:18:56.660 Terrible things can happen to you while exercising.
00:19:01.480 This is not a safe activity.
00:19:03.060 And I do not advise it under any circumstances.
00:19:05.060 But I'm glad CNN dove in here.
00:19:07.120 They seem to be saying the exercise is a little threatening for different reasons.
00:19:17.280 Running while female is their summary of the Molly Tibbetts story.
00:19:24.060 But it goes deeper than that.
00:19:26.840 Xenophobia and gender...
00:19:28.760 Of course, obviously, it's got to start there.
00:19:31.600 Are at the heart of the national reaction to the Tibbetts tragedy in multiple ways.
00:19:37.260 Xenophobia and gender is their summary of the story.
00:19:40.820 The alleged perpetrator is an undocumented immigrant.
00:19:46.000 Undocumented.
00:19:47.180 And the victim is a woman last seen out jogging.
00:19:50.520 Now, which one do you pursue?
00:19:51.840 Of course, you now know it's the jogging part that was dangerous.
00:19:55.840 It's a reality that American women are at risk in both situations. 1.00
00:20:00.620 Molly Tibbetts reportedly found herself in. 0.91
00:20:04.520 Running?
00:20:06.780 Yes, they're still saying the jogging part is dangerous.
00:20:08.960 And saying no or leave me alone.
00:20:12.360 A survey by Runner's World found 43% of women reported being harassed while running.
00:20:18.920 Now, obviously, no harassment is the right amount of harassment.
00:20:23.420 So we all know that that's a terrible thing.
00:20:25.860 And if a woman gets harassed for any reason, whether jogging or not, it's terrible.
00:20:31.380 We all are completely aware of that.
00:20:34.840 Women in relationships with men or simply encountering them in the street
00:20:38.260 face the risk of violence any time they rebuff a man's approach.
00:20:43.480 Now, look, you know, we're in the Me Too era here.
00:20:47.540 A lot of guys have done a lot of terrible things.
00:20:49.740 We all want it to stop.
00:20:52.160 However, you are in a situation anywhere you go in society,
00:20:55.660 any time you interact with another person,
00:20:57.480 any time you jog on a treadmill by yourself,
00:20:59.980 ask Harry Reid, you are in danger of violence.
00:21:02.720 Yes, you're always in danger of violence because people exist.
00:21:07.060 I guess if you get to that last thing where you're on, you know,
00:21:11.640 you've got your TV show, Last Man on Earth.
00:21:14.180 And of course, on that show, there's like a lot of other people for some reason.
00:21:16.580 But if you really were the last man on Earth, maybe you could avoid it for a while.
00:21:19.820 You're likely to get killed by a bear then, though.
00:21:22.860 We all die.
00:21:24.420 There's always a risk of violence.
00:21:25.820 So, yes, technically, anyone encountering someone else is at risk of violence.
00:21:31.540 But is that the proper way to talk about the world?
00:21:33.880 Is that the proper way you want your daughter to live? 1.00
00:21:36.080 Hey, I found it.
00:21:37.160 I met a new guy.
00:21:38.820 I must be constantly in desperate fear of violence.
00:21:44.580 Tibbetts' case brings home, from CNN,
00:21:47.380 home for women in the harshest terms, 0.99
00:21:49.660 in which misogyny hinders their freedom, their very right to exist.
00:21:54.540 First, the Tibbetts case has laid bare the uncomfortable reality
00:21:58.720 that not all dead girls in America are mourned the same way.
00:22:04.980 Isn't this so nice?
00:22:05.940 It's just, it's so nice.
00:22:07.400 Almost as nice a treatment as they gave McCain this weekend. 0.99
00:22:11.980 Those who do not fit into the narrative of white women in danger of being raped and killed 0.99
00:22:16.860 by lurking brown men get comparatively little attention 0.99
00:22:21.080 and consequently little or no portion of the nation's compassion.
00:22:27.760 Can you possibly be talked down to more than this article?
00:22:32.740 By the way, by CNN, given an alert on their news app running while white.
00:22:39.140 Eleven months before Molly Tibbetts disappeared, for instance,
00:22:43.500 a Virginia teenager, Nabra Hassanen, was killed allegedly by an undocumented immigrant
00:22:49.240 who has been charged with capital murder.
00:22:51.680 In that case, initially labeled an incident of road rage by police,
00:22:55.360 the man kidnapped and raped Hassanen and then dumped her body in a pond near his house.
00:23:00.940 She's a Muslim wearing a headscarf and she had been walking to her mosque
00:23:04.540 after the dawn meal at a nearby McDonald's.
00:23:08.160 Neither Donald Trump nor the White House has ever spoken publicly about her murder.
00:23:13.620 Well, you know, first of all, that is a big deal, right?
00:23:17.160 And it proves the point of, you know, it's another example at least of the point of why
00:23:21.420 it's, you don't want illegal immigrants in your country. 0.99
00:23:24.820 It does not mean that they have, they're going to kill everyone.
00:23:27.940 Most of them don't.
00:23:28.620 But there's no reason to import crime.
00:23:33.240 That being said, you know, this story wasn't covered by a lot of news organizations.
00:23:39.200 It's not one that we, that I ever saw.
00:23:41.380 So I'm glad it was brought to light here.
00:23:43.480 And perhaps there's a point there that this one should have been made as big a deal as Molly Tibbetts.
00:23:49.060 I don't know all the details, but as presented here, maybe it should have been.
00:23:52.940 But the idea that it's because of her skin color, it's because of her religion, does not connect with me.
00:24:01.420 Because that one pisses me off just as much as the last one.
00:24:04.740 There's no, there's no upside.
00:24:06.860 There's no point in which we're like, you know what? 0.97
00:24:08.220 I guess that illegal immigrant murder is completely okay. 1.00
00:24:11.780 That's not what we're saying here.
00:24:12.800 There is a limit to the amount of different stories you can follow at a given time.
00:24:18.160 And a lot of these times they fall into news cycles where they, you know, are dominated by other stories.
00:24:23.940 But that is a big story and it should be covered.
00:24:28.540 She goes on,
00:24:29.460 I mean, that is borderline slanderous.
00:24:59.460 It is not true in any way.
00:25:06.780 That is not how anyone I've ever met believes.
00:25:13.120 Human beings, regardless of your obsession with the color of their skin,
00:25:18.200 your obsession with the color of their skin,
00:25:21.140 all deserve life.
00:25:24.740 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:25:27.160 You hear us talking about this a lot on the right side of the aisle.
00:25:30.400 It's something we really believe in.
00:25:32.080 And you'll note that we mourn just as much 0.91
00:25:34.820 when a black mother has her daughter or son aborted. 0.82
00:25:40.920 We mourn just as much for them. 0.93
00:25:45.740 Rarely do I hear that from the left.
00:25:48.680 Rarely does a progressive ever bring up the fact that tens of millions of minorities
00:25:57.020 could be alive today if not for progressive policies.
00:26:02.420 They could be alive if you didn't end their life before they were born.
00:26:06.560 The CNN op-ed, which by the way, did I mention they sent it as a news alert?
00:26:14.120 There are historic underpinnings to the hierarchy.
00:26:18.740 The white female runner killed by the foreign savage. 0.99
00:26:22.860 How it plays upon and replenishes existing prejudice. 1.00
00:26:26.320 Whether looking at the Jim Crow narratives of white women under threat by black rapists 0.93
00:26:31.780 or more recent examples like the Central Park jogger case, 0.95
00:26:37.580 parallels persist between the black man's figure and that of the undocumented immigrant.
00:26:42.160 The Central Park jogger, what?
00:26:46.000 That's more, I mean, it is more recent than Jim Crow, 0.84
00:26:49.300 but it also can, you know, it happened in, what, 1989?
00:26:55.440 That's your recent example?
00:26:59.340 Goes on to say, undocumented immigrants are less likely, not more,
00:27:02.480 to commit crimes of any kind.
00:27:07.180 Just to make sure we all understand.
00:27:09.380 The crime rate for undocumented immigrants is 100%. 1.00
00:27:14.720 The first step they take onto our land is a crime. 0.96
00:27:19.920 The fact that you want to say that's not a crime is an argument for you to change the law,
00:27:24.360 but it's not an argument for you to ignore that it's a crime.
00:27:27.640 An illegal immigrant is committing an illegal act the first time they step foot on our country. 1.00
00:27:33.360 Then they are stuck to stay here.
00:27:40.620 And what do they do while they're here?
00:27:41.880 Well, they have to commit either identity fraud or tax evasion.
00:27:46.400 They have to get a social security number somehow to pay taxes or they're not paying taxes.
00:27:56.360 Neither one of those you're supposed to do.
00:27:58.220 One study does show that illegal immigrants commit violent crimes at a higher rate than legal immigrants,
00:28:09.540 but a lower rate than Americans.
00:28:11.740 One study does say that.
00:28:14.200 But that's not really the question, is it?
00:28:17.560 What level of crime is appropriate to import?
00:28:20.600 What level of crime is the right level of crime to bring into your country without approval?
00:28:31.220 You know, when you have, if you're at a birthday party, you're at your kid's birthday party,
00:28:35.400 and someone crashes it to eat cake, likely named Jeffy,
00:28:39.360 and someone comes in and they start eating cake,
00:28:42.240 if you make the argument,
00:28:44.040 hey, I don't think this person should be invading my kid's birthday party here.
00:28:48.880 That's, you know, that's not the right thing.
00:28:50.980 Why are they eating our cake?
00:28:52.360 Does anyone ever bring up,
00:28:54.000 well, did you know they're actually eating less cake than the average person who was invited?
00:28:59.180 So what?
00:29:00.720 They're not supposed to be there eating cake in the first place.
00:29:05.340 That's not, you don't measure this by whether, you know, 0.99
00:29:09.000 we all know there's a lot of crazy Americans. 0.99
00:29:11.680 We're fine. 0.99
00:29:12.220 People act as if we think we're so much better.
00:29:14.620 Have you ever dealt with people?
00:29:15.820 They're all terrible.
00:29:16.620 This is why I'm wishing for the one person, I want to be the last man on earth.
00:29:20.800 And even then, I'd be disgusted with myself.
00:29:23.700 It's not to say that people in America are all perfectly law-abiding.
00:29:28.260 We do have issues with crime here.
00:29:33.400 But you don't import it.
00:29:37.360 Legal immigrants, by the way, have the lowest level. 1.00
00:29:40.220 People who actually bother to follow the law and come in here legally have much lower crime rates.
00:29:49.660 Maybe that's something we should encourage instead of encouraging illegal immigration.
00:29:55.600 I mean, but how insulting is this?
00:29:57.680 The fact that the Molly Tibbetts killing is not about an illegal immigrant committing a crime that we didn't need to have 1.00
00:30:04.020 because we don't need to have illegal immigrants here. 0.84
00:30:06.260 We have legal immigrants, and a lot of them are great, and I'm glad we have them here.
00:30:09.540 They make our country better when we do it legally.
00:30:12.660 But when you import crime and some family has to deal with the loss of their daughter,
00:30:17.900 and in fact, thank you for the story, two women have to have parents that have to deal with the loss of their daughter.
00:30:26.320 And we didn't need that to happen.
00:30:27.880 And then you blame it on misogyny, you blame it on xenophobia, you blame it on gender, and you blame it on jogging.
00:30:40.360 I am not above blaming all of society's ills on exercise.
00:30:44.380 But in this particular case, it's crazy.
00:30:47.900 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:31:14.680 You can subscribe on iTunes. Thanks.
00:31:16.960 So the president has stepped up his attacks on Jeff Sessions, and he is now hinting that his days as attorney general are numbered.
00:31:24.740 So we get to read and go through another cycle of this for the 417th time, I believe, since these two got together.
00:31:32.840 They are not a good couple.
00:31:34.900 By the way, it's Stu in for Glenn Beck. He's on vacation this week, back next week.
00:31:37.740 888-727-BECK is our phone number, and at worldofstew on Twitter.
00:31:42.520 And I saw this relationship sort of developing, and I tweeted out an observation that Trump is to Sessions as Michael Scott is to Toby Flenderson.
00:31:55.860 Now, if you happen to be a fan of The Office, I think you understand that immediately.
00:32:01.640 Michael Scott, the boss, literally despised Toby Flenderson and spent most of his time just torturing him about all sorts of things.
00:32:12.840 He hates him with every fiber of his being at this point.
00:32:20.260 And he really, like, wants him to leave under any circumstances.
00:32:24.660 If he ever does leave, he'll celebrate it.
00:32:27.720 And he wants him to leave, and he seems to be in charge of him, but he can't find a way to fire him.
00:32:38.180 Which seems very odd in both situations.
00:32:43.660 But when you really look at this, I think it plays out pretty well.
00:32:49.440 First of all, you have this idea of just utter contempt.
00:32:54.120 And this is a strange thing that's developed between Trump and Sessions.
00:33:00.280 If you don't know, Jeff Sessions was the first senator to endorse Donald Trump.
00:33:05.740 I mean, it seems like a zillion years ago, doesn't it?
00:33:08.480 Steve Bannon and Sessions met together and decided that Trump would be the best vessel for what they believed America should be.
00:33:15.560 They went to Trump with ideological agreement and said, let's bring this guy on board.
00:33:23.500 Let's support him.
00:33:24.860 He can do what we want to do.
00:33:27.280 So they were very tight.
00:33:28.960 I mean, you know, Sessions put a lot at risk at that time, and Trump repaid him for that.
00:33:33.840 I mean, they were very close throughout the campaign.
00:33:35.980 Real agreement.
00:33:37.400 Everything seemed fine.
00:33:38.820 He names him Attorney General.
00:33:40.320 And then, obviously, we've seen a little bit of a falling out.
00:33:44.840 It's interesting because Sessions was still senator when, at the very beginning of the Trump administration, before he was confirmed and went into the cabinet.
00:33:56.340 And he took 12 votes and voted with Trump on 100% of those votes.
00:34:01.000 He has a perfect pro-Trump voting record for over 12 votes.
00:34:05.740 And they were huge allies.
00:34:07.900 But now they despise each other.
00:34:09.600 And now it's turned into, you know, Michael versus Toby on The Office.
00:34:16.360 And, I mean, I want to review some of this because we've done some deep research here.
00:34:20.040 Tell me you could not hear these things playing out between Trump and Sessions.
00:34:27.440 Tell me this does not seem like the reality of a meeting between these two.
00:34:32.380 Let's start here.
00:34:33.740 Just the utter contempt that Trump has this point for Jeff Sessions.
00:34:40.200 Listen.
00:34:41.640 Should I keep going?
00:34:45.880 Why are you the way that you are?
00:34:48.220 Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way.
00:34:54.760 I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.
00:35:01.900 I mean, that could be a tweet where Sessions is tagged.
00:35:08.340 I hate all the things that you choose to be.
00:35:13.560 And every time I try to do something fun and exciting, you make it not that way.
00:35:18.740 Like, this is, it almost sounds like a Trump tweet. 1.00
00:35:24.900 And, you know, you can just tell at this point that Trump thinks Jeff Sessions is a complete moron. 0.99
00:35:33.160 He thinks, you know, him recusing himself from the Russia thing and these decisions he's making with the Department of Justice. 1.00
00:35:39.880 He's just stupid. 1.00
00:35:42.000 He's a complete idiot. 1.00
00:35:43.860 Listen. 1.00
00:35:45.420 Can I just say that of all the idiots in all the idiot villages, in all the idiot worlds, you stand alone, my friend. 1.00
00:35:56.120 With the exception of my friend, that could absolutely be something that Trump said. 1.00
00:36:00.640 This could be like we're listening to a meeting inside the Oval Office between Trump and Sessions.
00:36:09.540 And at this point, it seems like Trump hates Sessions more than he hates, like, most dictators.
00:36:21.960 Listen. 0.98
00:36:23.300 If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice. 0.99
00:36:30.640 This is what happens with Sessions. 0.99
00:36:34.660 That is about the relationship at this point.
00:36:36.860 At some point, you need to just fire the guy.
00:36:39.200 Now, maybe they're going to wait until after the election.
00:36:42.800 But it's been a long time.
00:36:46.220 Maybe we're just, I don't know.
00:36:48.100 Maybe, you know, that seems to be what's being hinted now.
00:36:50.960 It's going to wait until after the election.
00:36:52.740 But, I mean, think about this as well.
00:36:54.380 You know, Trump always comes up for nicknames for people.
00:36:57.620 And Michael Scott calls names, comes up with names for Toby as well.
00:37:03.220 Listen.
00:37:03.860 Who let the Lemonhead into the room? 1.00
00:37:06.200 You are a waste of life and you should give up. 0.99
00:37:09.840 Tell me if Jeff Sessions walked into a room right now into a meeting, that Trump wouldn't either say that to him or tweet it to us. 0.99
00:37:17.960 Jeff Sessions, the Lemonhead, just walked into the room.
00:37:21.620 He should just get out and give up.
00:37:24.020 Feels like, uh, it feels pretty fair.
00:37:28.620 And you wonder at times whether this relationship is going to escalate to physicality.
00:37:34.520 This is the worst. 0.99
00:37:35.720 You are the worst. 1.00
00:37:36.560 I hate looking at your face. 1.00
00:37:37.980 I want to smash it. 1.00
00:37:41.240 I mean, this is the relationship in a nutshell.
00:37:46.440 And, of course, the one thing that he's been very clear about, Trump really wants Jeff Sessions out.
00:37:57.000 And that's pretty much what happens with Michael Scott and Toby Flenderson as well.
00:38:01.880 No, this is not a joke.
00:38:04.620 Okay?
00:38:05.640 It was offensive and lame.
00:38:07.600 So, double offensive.
00:38:09.080 This is an environment of welcoming.
00:38:12.640 And you should just get the hell out of here.
00:38:14.540 That's probably the last tweet.
00:38:18.800 That's probably it right there.
00:38:21.080 I stand by this.
00:38:22.680 I think this works out well.
00:38:23.800 I don't know who the other characters are.
00:38:26.800 I mean, I would love to get your suggestions on that.
00:38:29.740 Because I think all of the characters fit somebody in this White House.
00:38:32.740 This is a good, it's a good situation.
00:38:34.740 I think it's a good comparison.
00:38:36.580 But that level of contempt right now, it's uncomfortable.
00:38:44.540 It really, at this point, is just uncomfortable.
00:38:46.920 Which, of course, is what the office did so well.
00:38:48.920 Was to just elevate that awkwardness to those incredible levels.
00:38:52.980 So, I don't know.
00:38:55.280 I'd love to get your thoughts.
00:38:56.100 888-727-BECK is the phone number.
00:38:58.380 Or you can get me at World of Stew.
00:38:59.800 If you have an idea of what other office character goes with the person of the administration,
00:39:04.000 I'd love to hear them.
00:39:05.240 Or somebody in the sort of presidential orbit.
00:39:07.560 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:39:23.160 An interesting claim about the environment, by the way, that Glenn is enjoying this week off,
00:39:28.480 comes from the BBC.
00:39:31.020 And I found it to be particularly interesting.
00:39:33.560 And brought to light some really important things about our environment that I did not understand.
00:39:41.720 We all want to be good stewards of the Earth.
00:39:44.500 We all want to help out.
00:39:46.300 We want to do our part.
00:39:48.020 You know, keep super green or whatever.
00:39:52.040 But this one I'm not sure that I want.
00:39:55.100 There are certain things the environmentalists want that even in the perfect world,
00:39:59.400 I don't think I'd actually desire.
00:40:01.220 This is Deborah Tabert.
00:40:04.380 She is from the Australian Koala Foundation.
00:40:08.240 And she was recently on the BBC.
00:40:10.480 Listen.
00:40:11.340 You have to understand this planet's in trouble.
00:40:13.900 And I believe our prime minister did know that, but somehow or other he's lost it.
00:40:18.180 I want your listeners to really think 85% of the world's forests are gone.
00:40:23.140 You've got to start thinking, how does this affect me?
00:40:26.260 And I think we've all become a bit in denial.
00:40:28.960 In denial?
00:40:29.440 Hmm.
00:40:31.800 In denial.
00:40:32.780 It's an interesting observation.
00:40:34.320 So I guess we all have to think about how this will affect us.
00:40:36.920 85% of the forests are gone.
00:40:43.160 That sounds really bad.
00:40:46.340 Really bad.
00:40:47.160 Like, I don't, I mean, I don't want that to happen.
00:40:48.740 I mean, I don't want our country to be all forest, right?
00:40:51.400 We don't want everything to be forest.
00:40:54.140 We like some areas where we can do our thing.
00:40:56.380 But what's the appropriate amount?
00:40:58.840 I mean, first of all, you'd know that you have deserts, right, that are pretty natural.
00:41:04.640 They don't have forests on them.
00:41:06.980 You know, Antarctica doesn't really have forests on it.
00:41:10.740 The tundra doesn't have forests on it.
00:41:12.700 Right off the bat, you know that not everything is going to be covered by forest.
00:41:16.920 But as far as the areas that we're in, what's the appropriate percentage?
00:41:20.340 You know, a quarter?
00:41:23.980 That sounds like a lot of forest to me.
00:41:27.120 But a half?
00:41:27.940 I don't know.
00:41:28.260 What's your goal?
00:41:29.140 What's the optimal amount of forest that would be in our world?
00:41:34.740 I don't think it's half the land, but let's say half the land was covered in forest.
00:41:43.000 Half of the land.
00:41:45.640 That would be a lot of forest.
00:41:47.780 But apparently not as much forest as we once had.
00:41:50.860 Now, I was not aware of this, but we're working through the BBC's numbers here and the Australian
00:41:57.020 Koala Foundation and trying to figure this out.
00:42:00.740 If 85% of the world's forests are now gone, what does that mean historically for how much forest we had?
00:42:10.780 Currently, we have about 4 billion hectares of forest.
00:42:14.700 Now, I know you guys are constantly measuring things in hectares, but don't worry about it.
00:42:20.260 You don't need to know what a hectare is.
00:42:21.520 4 billion hectares of forest currently exist.
00:42:25.720 So, to get to this number of 85%, one of the issues with that number is that for it to be true, sometime in history, all land on Earth would have to have been forests.
00:42:44.220 Now, I'm pretty sure there's been different, you know, there's tundras and there's deserts and there's all sorts of different landscapes.
00:42:56.960 I don't think in history all land had ever been forest.
00:43:03.520 But maybe I was wrong.
00:43:04.820 Maybe at some point it was, you know, everything looked like, you know, upper Vermont and everything was a forest.
00:43:13.400 Okay, let's take that.
00:43:15.540 The other problem with this theory, because if 85% of our forests have disappeared, the other part of this theory is all land would have to be forest, but also all ocean would have to have been forests.
00:43:33.700 Now, I'm not a historian, I'm not a geologist, but I am a thinker.
00:43:43.480 And it seems to me that the oceans weren't at any point in our history covered in forest.
00:43:50.860 But see, there's a problem with that too.
00:43:59.120 That's still not enough forest.
00:44:02.480 For her numbers to work, all of the Earth would have to be covered in forest, plus 80% of another Earth.
00:44:12.660 Did the forests live on top of the other forests?
00:44:18.900 How do you get that much forest?
00:44:21.720 We all like forest.
00:44:22.980 That seems like too much.
00:44:26.880 Sure, we'd have an ample supply of maple syrup at any time, and that would be a positive.
00:44:33.300 Though I feel like the poorest fish would be bumping into trees all the time.
00:44:38.300 Be trying to swim around down there with all these tree stumps everywhere.
00:44:41.500 It would be very difficult.
00:44:45.280 You hear these things all the time.
00:44:48.400 And there's always another one.
00:44:50.580 Always another scary claim going around.
00:44:54.060 This one is from about a year ago, but it's making the rounds yet again on left-wing Twitter and social media.
00:45:02.440 An apocalyptic mass extinction will begin in 2100.
00:45:06.380 In the past 540 million years, the planet has endured five such wipeouts, including the extinction of the dinosaurs.
00:45:15.220 The worst took place 252 million years ago and is known as the Great Dying.
00:45:19.120 That's not the title you want on your event.
00:45:23.160 The disaster killed off more than 95% of marine life when the seas suddenly became more acidic.
00:45:28.160 And they know that for a fact.
00:45:33.620 But the next one is going to be just as bad.
00:45:36.540 The next one is going to be even scarier.
00:45:38.580 Are you scared of the mass apocalypse coming?
00:45:40.800 Because we've already lost 85% of the forests.
00:45:42.980 What's next?
00:45:43.820 You.
00:45:44.520 You're next. 1.00
00:45:45.460 You're going to die. 0.97
00:45:46.380 By the way, can we say how paranoid Republicans are about illegal immigration? 0.99
00:45:51.760 That being said, let's get back to the environment which is going to kill you in a few years.
00:45:55.820 Your kids, they're all going to die in a giant cataclysmic wipeout that Mother Nature is going to take revenge on them for, for your actions, for your SUV. 0.95
00:46:06.280 But gosh, those paranoid Republicans.
00:46:08.460 I just hope, and I'm very concerned, that the Pope's message of, hey, don't drive your SUV gets through.
00:46:17.600 Because that's exactly what he should be focusing on right now.
00:46:24.900 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:46:38.460 John McCain has passed away, as you likely heard, over the weekend.
00:46:44.720 He had fought brain cancer and, you know, hadn't been to Washington in quite a while to be able to do what he loved.
00:46:53.940 He loved being a senator, and he did it for decades.
00:46:58.820 He was, as you probably are aware, a very, you know, well-decorated war hero who endured way more than I will ever do for anybody when he was tortured at Vietnam and came back to, of course, go into the government.
00:47:20.860 And, you know, there's, we can get into his whole, his whole history as far as, as far as his service in government, which, you know, a lot of times, frankly, I was not a huge fan of.
00:47:34.160 But just as we would mourn any, you know, soldier who took their time and, and risked their life for us, whenever someone like that passes away, it's a sad day.
00:47:45.700 And John McCain, you know, was, was highly appreciated by so many when it comes to his medical, or excuse me, his military service.
00:47:54.860 Even if you just look at that, it's a, it's a, you know, it's a real loss.
00:48:01.160 You know, as a senator, as I said, you know, wasn't a huge fan of a lot of his policies, but he did do it for a long time.
00:48:09.320 And he was there, you know, doing what he thought was right.
00:48:12.300 And certainly he, he did vote, you know, a way that I liked on, on, on many occasions, just also many that he didn't.
00:48:20.240 But, you know, policy is policy and politics are politics.
00:48:22.900 You know, I think the best way to look at John McCain is the way his family is looking at him.
00:48:26.200 And if you see the way his family is handling it as, as well as, as humanly possible and respecting, and, you know, missing their dad and, you know, their husband.
00:48:34.640 It's, it's, you know, you could tell it's, it really hurts.
00:48:39.440 These are situations nobody wants to deal with.
00:48:41.540 And when they announced, of course, that they were going to stop treatment, it was incredibly upsetting for, for the family and for, you know, anybody who knew him.
00:48:51.660 We, we of course see the ugliness pop up almost right away when something like this happens.
00:48:57.680 Uh, we see it immediately from, uh, from social media now. 0.99
00:49:04.260 We no longer have to wait for the dumb politician to start trashing them the next day. 0.98
00:49:09.480 You get it right away on, on social media. 0.98
00:49:12.100 Uh, some of the tweets, uh, in response here, John McCain heavily promoted the lies that led to the Iraq war.
00:49:18.720 He championed the NATO bombing of Libya.
00:49:21.020 He supported and armed the jihadists destroying Syria.
00:49:23.980 He played a role in bringing neo-Nazis to power in Ukraine and backed Saudi Arabia's genocide in Yemen.
00:49:29.560 He was no hero.
00:49:31.600 From someone who almost definitely, uh, did as much, uh, for the country and the military as John McCain.
00:49:38.280 Surely, this guy on Twitter did that.
00:49:40.380 Uh, once again, uh, this, the, the great part about this, these are responses to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:49:46.100 Now, she wrote something seemingly the, the, the only sane thing I've ever seen her do.
00:49:51.500 She says, John McCain's legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency in American service.
00:49:57.620 As an intern, I, uh, learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Senator Kennedy.
00:50:04.640 He meant so much to so many.
00:50:05.960 My prayers are with his family.
00:50:07.100 I mean, again, that's a very controlled, calm, reasonable wish of, of, you know, uh, farewell to a well-known figure.
00:50:17.320 I don't really get it when it comes to wishing people, uh, condolences on Twitter.
00:50:26.820 It feels like it's too serious a thing.
00:50:29.000 Maybe I'm back in the old days where, like, I don't know, people, Twitter seemed so frivolous.
00:50:33.480 Now it's the most important thing in the world, apparently.
00:50:35.460 But, like, if you don't tweet, like, if you don't tweet your condolences in the right way, you get beat up.
00:50:42.360 Trump is going through this now.
00:50:43.660 I mean, he obviously didn't get along with McCain, you know, he recognizes that he did something for the country, but he's not a huge fan, obviously.
00:50:49.940 I mean, they've had a long-time rivalry, so he tweets out something, and he puts his picture on it, and it's not really talking about a service as much.
00:50:56.120 It's just like, hey, I hope his family feels better about this.
00:50:58.480 And now, CNN's spending multiple segments on it this morning.
00:51:02.120 What should Trump have tweeted as far as condolences?
00:51:05.640 Seriously?
00:51:06.580 Do we live in a world where that matters at all?
00:51:08.220 I mean, people telling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she craps the bed, she doesn't know the facts, her credibility has plummeted, we know you're just controlled opposition, you, my dear, are no progressive, it would have been better if you had not said a word, John McCain is dead, one devil less on the planet, all of hell rejoices.
00:51:32.080 You know, it doesn't get any worse than that.
00:51:37.140 It's interesting, though, you know, because she talks about the friendship with Kennedy, and that was a real problem, you know, when it comes to his politics, in my opinion, where he did go across the aisle so much.
00:51:48.720 McCain-Kennedy was a great example, that bill.
00:51:51.460 McCain-Feingold, another great example.
00:51:53.260 McCain-Lieberman was another one.
00:51:54.660 You know, things he tried to promote to, you know, move the country in a way I think was wrong.
00:52:02.980 But at least we did have, you know, we did have some tributes for him.
00:52:06.840 Hillary Clinton had one, and of course, obviously couldn't, this is something I found as a real theme this weekend.
00:52:13.480 Listen to Hillary Clinton's eulogy, if you will, of Senator John McCain.
00:52:18.140 He did believe in the institution, and he knows, he knew that the Senate couldn't work if we didn't work together.
00:52:27.300 I think it was heartbreaking to him that, as he said in the speech he gave right before he voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act, that we need to cooperate.
00:52:40.360 We need to learn how to trust each other again and do better to serve the people who elected us.
00:52:45.800 And, you know, he was so typically John in those remarks, because he said, stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on radio and TV and the Internet to hell with them.
00:52:57.000 They don't want anything done for the public good.
00:52:59.680 He really understood in the marrow of his bones what it meant to be an American and how important it was for us to, yes, disagree and differ.
00:53:11.180 But at the end of the day, to come together, to work together, to trust each other, to get things done.
00:53:18.340 All right, this is enough of this.
00:53:19.420 He will be missed for many.
00:53:21.280 What's amazing there is, I mean, first of all, she highlights that John McCain told me to go to hell, which I don't remember.
00:53:27.000 Apparently, he told talk radio to go to hell. 0.98
00:53:30.180 Don't listen to him and go to hell. 0.60
00:53:31.580 He never got along with talk radio, and people on talk radio didn't particularly like his politics all that much.
00:53:37.380 But, of course, this is what they love about John McCain, right?
00:53:42.480 Like, they don't love, you know, they'll talk about the military service a little bit, but when it comes to his politics, what they like about him is when he agreed with them.
00:53:53.380 Hillary Clinton thinks talk radio is a problem, and the fact that John McCain agreed with Hillary Clinton is why Hillary Clinton respects John McCain.
00:54:01.060 I mean, listen to the tributes.
00:54:06.900 I've heard it all weekend on the drive-in today.
00:54:10.980 What's the greatest moment of McCain's legacy?
00:54:14.520 His concession speech to Barack Obama.
00:54:18.540 That's what he's remembered for.
00:54:21.720 And you might say that was a great speech, and it's part of American history.
00:54:25.480 It's part of the American tradition that we have politicians who will cede power, they will give up when they lose, they will concede, and those things are all great.
00:54:35.940 And, you know, as far as, you know, 99% of these races end that way. 0.88
00:54:41.420 And he gave a nice speech about coming together, but again, the moment they liked about John McCain was him saying, come together behind Barack Obama.
00:54:51.220 Sure, we'll have our disagreements, but come together behind our president.
00:54:57.520 And that's not because, they wouldn't like that.
00:55:00.480 You think they're going to go back and say Hillary Clinton's best moment was, he said, come, she said, come together behind Donald Trump when she lost?
00:55:08.700 You think they're going to look back at the legacy like that when Hillary Clinton passes away, God forbid?
00:55:15.060 And they're going to look back at it the same way.
00:55:16.680 Here's the other one they always bring up.
00:55:18.260 This is the other clip that they love.
00:55:19.740 This is from John McCain during his 2008 battle with Barack Obama at one of his town halls.
00:55:26.940 I've got to ask you a question.
00:55:28.420 I do not believe in, I can't trust Obama.
00:55:32.660 I have read about him, and he's not, he's not, he's a, he's an Arab. 0.97
00:55:39.680 He is not.
00:55:42.060 No?
00:55:42.800 No man.
00:55:43.320 No man.
00:55:43.980 No man.
00:55:44.360 He's a, he's a, he's a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on, on fundamental issues.
00:55:52.900 And that's what this campaign is all about.
00:55:54.920 He's not.
00:55:55.640 Thank you.
00:55:56.940 Thank you.
00:55:57.480 Oh, look, that was a great, I actually liked the way he handled that.
00:56:00.080 It's a great clip.
00:56:00.880 And, you know, the fact is that, uh, you know, he was correcting the record, which is what he should do.
00:56:06.340 But again, that's what they liked about him.
00:56:08.540 You know, the fact that when he voted for the surge in Iraq, which by the way, was very effective, they were not on his side.
00:56:14.680 If you listen to him during that campaign, did they give him a lot of credit during that campaign about that moment?
00:56:19.360 Maybe a little bit, but mainly they were telling him how evil he was for, you know, picking Sarah Palin.
00:56:27.980 So people kind of forget what these things, you know, were at the time.
00:56:32.860 People forget, uh, how this went.
00:56:37.080 It's interesting to look at his voting record, by the way.
00:56:39.580 And, you know, I was going through this, uh, as we were prepping for the show today.
00:56:43.700 I, you know, he voted with Donald Trump 83% of the time.
00:56:50.240 So this idea that he was this real, you know, maverick and was opposing Trump on everything isn't exactly right.
00:56:56.660 Now, he was, you know, towards the left side of the Republicans, uh, as far as senators go and his votes.
00:57:04.900 But he was large, he largely voted with Trump on most things.
00:57:10.660 Again, 83% of the time.
00:57:12.240 And when you, um, 538 puts together something they called the Trump score, which is a way to combine how you vote with the president and how your demographics of the, of your voting populace should affect that.
00:57:27.660 So if you're a, you know, they give, um, if you're in Maine, you're Susan Collins, right?
00:57:32.100 And everybody's Democrat there and you're somehow a Republican in office, they should say, they give you a predicted percentage that you would vote with the president.
00:57:40.000 Which would be lower because, you know, you're, you're, you're, you don't want to necessarily, you're a moderate, right?
00:57:45.380 You're in a moderate state.
00:57:46.900 And if you're a bright red state, you're in Utah, you're expected to vote a lot with the president.
00:57:51.360 Uh, John McCain is not like a far left example of Trump voting when it comes to that score at all.
00:58:05.120 He's in the middle of the pack.
00:58:06.000 And listen to the thing again, you go back and everybody remembers his thumbs down vote on healthcare.
00:58:12.580 First of all, that's overblown.
00:58:14.220 It's hard to put yourself back in this situation, but it wasn't like the overturn of Obamacare was going to happen.
00:58:20.460 If he had voted yes on that, they had narrowed that down to, if you remember these terms, skinny repeal.
00:58:26.060 And skinny repeal had no chance, no chance of actually being pushed through.
00:58:31.200 It was a, it was a hail Mary.
00:58:33.240 It was as if there's three seconds left in a game, you're down by a touchdown.
00:58:37.320 And the, the, the coach calls a hail Mary and John McCain at quarterback decides to take a knee and they don't even try it.
00:58:43.300 While yes, you throw the hail Mary, the chances of it being completed are so incredibly low.
00:58:48.300 You have to remember that that likely wasn't going to overturn Obamacare anyway.
00:58:52.420 They had to build an entire bill from scratch after that.
00:58:57.040 None of the people in the house agreed with the people in the Senate on it in the first place.
00:59:00.280 It was just a, a hurdle to get through procedurally.
00:59:04.400 And it's, so it gets overblown because, you know, McCain had a bit of drama in him.
00:59:08.840 He had a bit of a, a bit of that in him.
00:59:11.440 But I mean, listen to the other things he opposed when it comes to the things, uh, when he voted against Trump.
00:59:17.540 Uh, he both voted against the, uh, tariffs.
00:59:24.300 I have no problem with that vote.
00:59:26.640 Uh, he, uh, voted, um, against, uh, let's see, where's another one here?
00:59:34.460 Uh, scrolling through the list.
00:59:37.760 Uh, he voted against, uh, he voted, excuse me.
00:59:43.780 He voted for sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
00:59:49.060 I mean, do you have a huge problem with that?
00:59:53.740 He voted in favor.
00:59:55.120 So Trump did not want it.
00:59:56.780 Uh, he voted in against extending government funding for two weeks.
01:00:02.020 He voted against raising the debt limit when Trump said he wanted it.
01:00:06.880 I mean, are these votes that you really hate?
01:00:12.900 I mean, generally speaking, you know, his voting record with Trump was not a problem.
01:00:17.260 I think his history, uh, as far as it go, going back multiple decades, you could definitely find a lot of problems as I outlined earlier.
01:00:25.720 But I think it's important to take the high road.
01:00:27.480 And I learned that from the master of the high road, and you know him, of course, as Alex Jones.
01:00:34.140 There's no higher road than the road that Alex Jones takes on every issue.
01:00:39.120 And he wanted to make sure he, he knew how much he respected John McCain's service in government.
01:00:46.040 Listen to the high road being taken here.
01:00:48.460 I'm going to take the high road here on John McCain.
01:00:51.620 John, Sidney McCain III, August 29th, 1936, August 25th, 2018.
01:00:58.180 It was only three days short of his 83rd birthday.
01:01:01.760 Because I've been on air 24 years, and McCain's been a hated figure with conservatives and nationalists.
01:01:07.120 Okay, wait, hold on, stop for a second.
01:01:08.160 This is too, this is too much of the high road to do without some nice piano music.
01:01:11.960 Do we have some inspiring?
01:01:13.880 There we go.
01:01:15.740 Okay, let's get the Alex Jones real tribute here.
01:01:19.340 So I've had people that were in the Hanoi Hilton, famous naval aviators.
01:01:24.780 Who's hated.
01:01:25.720 And army aviators, you name it, who were in the Hanoi Hilton with him, saying that he was taken care of in the VIP area.
01:01:31.040 Because he was basically a traitor, and they called him Songbird McCain. 0.89
01:01:37.760 So he's hated and a traitor so far. 0.75
01:01:39.280 And you know that his father was a famous admiral, head of the Pacific Fleet, his grandfather an even more famous admiral.
01:01:44.640 So he's a big blue blood like Robert Mueller and the Bushes or others.
01:01:48.140 They come from railroad families, you name it, very elite.
01:01:52.560 That said, I want to say that I want his soul hopefully to rest in peace.
01:01:56.420 I don't wish death on anybody.
01:01:59.020 I don't wish hell on anybody except maybe child molesters. 0.99
01:02:01.660 He's a child molester. 0.99
01:02:02.720 Not quite a child molester. 1.00
01:02:03.280 McCain was a tortured figure.
01:02:04.500 He was a pretty good naval aviator.
01:02:06.240 He did flame out on the ship once and should have been court-martialed but got away with it.
01:02:10.120 And he was a pretty good pilot overall.
01:02:11.940 And he did fly over combat zones and had scud missiles.
01:02:15.820 And Sam missiles shot at him.
01:02:17.820 Service-to-air missiles.
01:02:18.820 So I mean, the guy was, I mean, obviously at some level had had courage.
01:02:23.380 And you could say, quote, a hero.
01:02:25.980 Wow.
01:02:26.340 Is there anything more heartfelt than that?
01:02:31.120 Let me tell you the history of John McCain because I'm going to take the high road. 0.99
01:02:33.740 He was a traitor. 0.99
01:02:36.020 He was hated. 1.00
01:02:38.140 You know.
01:02:39.420 I don't, but I don't want him dead.
01:02:42.440 And I, you know, hopefully he's resting in peace, you know.
01:02:46.500 But, you know, obviously not exactly a fan, I would say.
01:02:51.140 Alex, that is a heck of a tribute right there.
01:02:56.580 I mean, you can just see the disgust.
01:02:59.500 He's basically, it's basically the Michael Scott, Toby Flenderson thing.
01:03:02.860 Except, except Alex Jones was not John McCain's boss.
01:03:10.820 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
01:03:21.140 Tiger Woods this weekend.
01:03:35.300 He's a golfer.
01:03:37.720 For a living, he hits a small white ball with a club.
01:03:42.880 And he tries to direct it towards a hole, which exists on a very flat piece of grass.
01:03:48.580 At least the grass is very short.
01:03:49.600 Sometimes there's some hills on it.
01:03:51.140 But generally not.
01:03:51.940 And he tries to hit it on there and then hit it in the hole.
01:03:55.540 And if so, he would then get a score.
01:03:59.680 And in this particular sport, the low score is better.
01:04:05.300 I tell you this because I don't know that everyone knows it.
01:04:07.960 Because for some reason, Tiger Woods is required to answer deep political questions as he's walking off the course.
01:04:14.860 Listen to this from this weekend's tournament.
01:04:16.940 Well, he's the president of the United States.
01:04:18.800 And you have to respect the office.
01:04:21.140 And no matter who's in the office, you may like, dislike the personality or the politics.
01:04:31.820 But we all must respect the office.
01:04:34.220 Do you have anything more broadly to say about the state against the discourse of race relations?
01:04:39.160 No.
01:04:39.940 I just finished 72 holes and really hungry.
01:04:42.260 The question was, do you have any deeper comments on the state of race relations in America?
01:04:53.260 The guy just walked off a golf course.
01:04:56.060 Let him go get a cheeseburger. 1.00
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