The Glenn Beck Program - August 29, 2018


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Glenn and Stu are joined by CNN's Jeffrey Toobin to discuss the latest in the war on cops, civil asset forfeiture, and Louis CK's new comedy show in New York. They also discuss Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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00:00:00.320 The Blaze Radio Network.
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00:00:06.140 Welcome to the podcast. It's Stu, along with Jeffy, who's joining me here.
00:00:10.580 Pat also was on the show today.
00:00:12.160 Yeah, he was alright.
00:00:12.860 He was okay. I mean, you know, if you like that sort of thing, I guess he was.
00:00:17.440 We start the show with Jeffrey Toobin, who, I mean, has made ridiculous points.
00:00:22.220 And a point, you know, you guys who watch a lot of cable news,
00:00:25.500 you wind up just hearing the same points over and over again.
00:00:27.240 I will say this for Jeffrey Toobin, I have never heard the point he made last night.
00:00:31.240 I've never heard anyone make it.
00:00:32.780 I've never heard anyone accuse this organization of this.
00:00:36.560 It's a claim about racism that is brand new to me.
00:00:39.760 So we've got a new thing in our, that's kind of interesting in this world.
00:00:42.800 It actually is, yeah.
00:00:43.980 You feel like everything's been said.
00:00:45.680 And Jeffrey Toobin breaks that today.
00:00:47.400 We have the new NPR study about school shootings, which is incredible.
00:00:52.020 Absolutely incredible.
00:00:53.220 And some great reporting by NPR.
00:00:54.520 NPR, you will be surprised that they even decided to do this.
00:00:57.860 Boy, that's for sure, because you'd expect NPR to look at the original number and go,
00:01:03.180 wow, that's bad.
00:01:04.100 You people are all bad instead of going, hey, that number seems high.
00:01:08.380 Yeah.
00:01:09.740 Louis C.K. is back from his Me Too, I guess, trip to Siberia.
00:01:15.220 That's where they wanted him to go.
00:01:16.580 So he's made his first comedy appearance in New York, and we'll talk about that and what's the appropriate punishments for these actions.
00:01:25.840 We'll get into that today, as well as a brand new story about civil asset forfeiture.
00:01:30.520 Another person who did nothing wrong, has no crime against him, and lost a bunch of their money in an inexplicable development across the United States.
00:01:39.100 I don't know why this is happening, why more people aren't standing up against it, but it is happening.
00:01:43.740 I mean, all these municipalities are using this, and there's a couple other ways now that people are sending us that these cities are using just to, you know, obviously it's for our safety and to enhance their payroll.
00:01:58.080 Yeah, it doesn't sound like a good idea.
00:02:01.140 And if you heard the rumor of Alex Jones viewing trans porn on the air by mistake, he's got an explanation from that.
00:02:08.840 It's fascinating.
00:02:10.180 We'll get to all of that today on the podcast.
00:02:19.180 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:25.480 It's Wednesday, August 29th.
00:02:26.980 It's Pat, Stu, and Jeffy for Glenn this week.
00:02:34.820 We were just talking about Trump derangement syndrome, and there's a couple of terms that circulate through the media all the time.
00:02:45.180 One of them is fake news.
00:02:47.000 The other is Trump derangement syndrome.
00:02:50.660 And they bug me, and I think they bother you to a certain extent, Stu,
00:02:55.540 because it makes it, I don't know, it just makes it seem like everybody who says anything about the president has Trump derangement.
00:03:05.300 And that's not the case.
00:03:06.260 I mean, we don't have it, and we complain about some of the things he does.
00:03:09.880 Yeah, I mean, the test usually is whether you can find things that you like, right?
00:03:13.960 And we've gone through many, many things that we do like, that the president has done.
00:03:19.760 But I will say...
00:03:20.960 Even his critics, though, I don't think are always affected with Trump derangement systems.
00:03:26.140 If you're a liberal, right, and you see things like Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh,
00:03:32.620 you may very well not like those on ideological grounds.
00:03:35.560 That doesn't mean you have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:03:37.940 That means you just don't like his picks, right?
00:03:39.700 There seems to be a different situation going on for some people, though.
00:03:43.260 Although, yeah, if there's any location that's infected with supposed Trump derangement syndrome,
00:03:51.980 it's just about everybody at CNN, including Jeffrey Toobin.
00:03:56.020 I mean, he's a guy that once in a while makes sense, but not really when it comes to Trump.
00:04:01.740 Yeah, he just, there's a sign of the, if you're going to make Trump derangement syndrome into something,
00:04:09.260 there's a sign of it of, like, pulling every issue, no matter how separate from race and hatred,
00:04:18.020 bring all of them to that, no matter what it is, whether it's a Supreme Court pick,
00:04:22.500 whether it's a tax decrease, whether it's talking about, you know, North Korea,
00:04:28.200 whatever you can, bring it back to the idea that the reason he's doing X, Y, and Z is because he hates black people.
00:04:34.040 Like, it's just going to that same boring analysis, saying every single thing revolves around that one issue.
00:04:41.400 And it shows, of course, it reveals your obsession with that issue.
00:04:44.980 It reveals your obsession, not ours, but your obsession with skin color,
00:04:50.800 with your obsession with, you know, reproductive organs, your obsession with that. 1.00
00:04:55.700 That's not something that we want to care about, but you're constantly bringing it up.
00:04:59.380 And this is a perfect example from yesterday with Jeffrey Toobin,
00:05:02.940 when he was talking about the president saying how if Republicans lose in the midterms
00:05:10.520 and the Democrats take control of the House, there's going to be violence in the streets.
00:05:16.100 And listen to the way Jeffrey Toobin spins that.
00:05:19.500 The theme here is, I'm Donald Trump, and I'll protect you from the scary black people. 1.00
00:05:27.100 Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization.
00:05:30.540 No, it's not.
00:05:30.840 And this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters
00:05:36.360 and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players.
00:05:39.860 This is about black versus white.
00:05:42.860 This is about Donald Trump's appeal to racism, and it just happens all the time,
00:05:47.960 and we never say it or we don't say it enough for what it is.
00:05:51.400 Don't say it enough.
00:05:51.980 But that's what's going on.
00:05:52.880 That is amazing.
00:05:54.220 Okay.
00:05:54.540 Antifa is widely considered just black people?
00:05:58.160 By whom?
00:05:59.280 By you, maybe?
00:06:00.540 Like you said, like we're just saying, Stu,
00:06:04.020 that says more about him than it does Donald Trump.
00:06:06.260 A lot more.
00:06:06.920 I mean, that's racist.
00:06:09.360 Because nobody considers Antifa just black people.
00:06:14.260 I consider them anarchists.
00:06:17.220 I consider them hell-bent on chaos and communism.
00:06:20.220 I don't consider them black necessarily.
00:06:23.940 Yeah.
00:06:24.220 Yeah.
00:06:24.700 But even more than that, we've done a lot of coverage on this group.
00:06:29.040 We've done multiple.
00:06:31.200 Glenn's done the week-long chalkboard on them.
00:06:33.620 He's done multiple big monologues about them, their history, where they came from.
00:06:38.180 First of all, they did not come certainly from African-American roots in any way.
00:06:43.000 They came from, you know, it started back in World War II.
00:06:47.140 But beyond that, all the videos we've seen of Antifa,
00:06:50.860 I'm not saying there's no black people in the organization.
00:06:53.260 They're usually not.
00:06:54.140 But I can't think of one picture in my brain of ever seeing a black person in Antifa.
00:06:58.560 Yeah, I can't either.
00:06:59.080 I'm sure they are.
00:07:00.180 I mean, just because of odds.
00:07:01.520 But I've never, I can't remember ever seeing one.
00:07:04.600 They're almost always like the person who you think you're going to bump into Starbucks the next day.
00:07:09.000 Some, like, you know, tortured, angsty, you know, 22-year-old who, you know,
00:07:14.740 who went to too many communist college courses and now thinks they're going to change the world by throwing things at people.
00:07:20.220 Right.
00:07:20.380 I don't know that I've ever heard anyone make the point before.
00:07:23.860 Ever.
00:07:24.080 This is, like, the first time I've ever heard the point that black people are associated with Antifa in some way.
00:07:29.140 Me too.
00:07:29.540 They're just, I always think of it as like that, like, Seattle, Starbucks-y, you know, angst.
00:07:36.360 Uh-huh.
00:07:36.680 I don't think at all.
00:07:37.700 It's not a racial organization at all.
00:07:40.020 It started against fascism back in the day.
00:07:42.600 And you can make an argument when it started, it actually did good things.
00:07:45.360 But it's been evolved to, at this point, it's ridiculousness.
00:07:48.720 I mean, it's just anything that they don't like.
00:07:50.760 They're just anarchists now.
00:07:51.780 Yeah.
00:07:52.180 Yeah, they're just left-wing anarchists.
00:07:54.560 Yeah.
00:07:54.780 And it's agonizing to continually hear the nonsense that everything's about race.
00:08:02.960 And, you know, that just diminishes when things are about race.
00:08:07.580 Right.
00:08:07.640 When you make everything about race, you've just watered down the actual racism that does exist.
00:08:12.760 And we see from time to time, certainly not as much as CNN sees it, but I don't think
00:08:20.000 I've ever heard Donald Trump even say anything about Antifa being groups of black people.
00:08:27.180 No.
00:08:27.420 I haven't heard anybody saying it, not just us.
00:08:30.460 Yeah.
00:08:31.000 Nobody claims that it's about blackness.
00:08:33.640 And this is what surprises me all the time, like, when you have these issues that pop up
00:08:40.380 with race, it's the left has immersed themselves so completely in this issue.
00:08:47.480 And to them, it is like the ultimate equation that solves all math problems.
00:08:52.560 You know, it's just, I remember when Barack Obama was going and they talked about an apartment
00:08:56.580 and they said that was racist.
00:08:58.320 It's like an apartment.
00:08:58.980 I lived in a lot of apartments.
00:09:00.500 It's like an apartment.
00:09:00.680 It's like an apartment.
00:09:00.820 There's a lot of white people that live in apartments.
00:09:02.380 Way more white people live in apartments nationwide than black people do. 0.97
00:09:05.300 I mean, it's just a, an absurd thing because Chicago was a dog whistle for black people.
00:09:12.820 Right.
00:09:12.940 And like, no, there's a lot of violence that goes on there.
00:09:17.300 Yeah.
00:09:18.180 Yeah.
00:09:18.660 Chicago.
00:09:19.320 That's a, that's code for black people. 1.00
00:09:21.440 It's an absurd instinct.
00:09:23.980 The word car.
00:09:24.800 That's code for black people. 1.00
00:09:26.620 Yeah.
00:09:26.820 Car.
00:09:27.120 Really?
00:09:27.840 The word the, if you use the too much, it's code for black people. 1.00
00:09:31.640 You mean the black people.
00:09:33.860 That's what you mean when you say the word the.
00:09:36.180 What, what explains that motivation though?
00:09:39.260 Racism.
00:09:39.800 I think it's racist.
00:09:41.120 I think that in and of itself is racist.
00:09:43.400 I think Jeffrey Toobin's a racist.
00:09:45.500 Uh, I I'm just so tired of beating around the bush with these people on what they are
00:09:50.700 and who they are.
00:09:51.560 I'm, I'm really kind of done with it.
00:09:54.400 When you see race everywhere, when that's all you think of, maybe you should turn that,
00:10:00.380 you know, look in the mirror, become a little bit introspective.
00:10:03.720 Maybe you're the racist.
00:10:05.240 Yeah.
00:10:05.320 Cause I think there's a, an instinct, especially with that, with the older, I mean, we used
00:10:09.300 to say this about Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews went through a generation in which race was 0.99
00:10:13.340 such a big issue for people.
00:10:15.320 Uh, and it was something that was constantly talked about.
00:10:18.760 And I, you know, really until Obama, uh, kind of got in there and, and, you know, he was,
00:10:24.420 he really came from that perspective of viewing everything through the prism of race.
00:10:30.060 He constantly saw things in racial terms.
00:10:33.760 To the point where he said this, you know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.
00:10:37.320 Yeah.
00:10:37.500 Right.
00:10:37.820 Cause, cause usually I, that's all I think.
00:10:39.820 That's all I think so.
00:10:40.540 Right.
00:10:41.340 Like you think of when you think of everything in the term of black and white, well, shockingly,
00:10:46.800 everything becomes a black and white issue.
00:10:48.420 Yeah.
00:10:48.620 And you know, it's, it's the same thing that happens with conspiracy theorists, right?
00:10:53.280 Conspiracy theorists, you get in, when you get down the road to nine 11 and you get down
00:10:56.320 the road to Sandy hook and you go down all these things.
00:10:58.220 Well, of course, every shooting seems like a false flag to you.
00:11:01.220 Every time you see something, you think it's a conspiracy theory with the government.
00:11:06.040 And it's the same thing with the left and race.
00:11:08.580 It's not this.
00:11:09.340 There are actual things just like with conspiracy theories.
00:11:12.320 Governments do actually do bad things.
00:11:15.860 They have done things at times that are really terrible, but it's the same thing with this,
00:11:21.060 where you have racial issues that are real.
00:11:23.500 There are actual racial issues that come up, but when you see everything that way, you can't
00:11:29.740 stop yourself from pulling things that are, you know, 15 lanes over from race back into
00:11:34.900 your lane.
00:11:35.480 Cause that's all you think about.
00:11:36.320 But it also like that's that lessens the real racism.
00:11:39.040 Yeah.
00:11:39.220 I mean, it just weakens that all the heck.
00:11:40.700 And that's what the same with, uh, you know, the, the full Trump derangement syndrome, you
00:11:45.640 know, there are times when you want to be against Donald Trump, but you listen to the deranged
00:11:49.820 syndrome people and you're like, okay, well no, I'm not that bad. 0.83
00:11:53.420 Yeah.
00:11:53.620 I'm not going there with you.
00:11:55.400 I mean, in a way that's letting someone else control the way you feel, which I don't like
00:11:58.720 either, you know, just because the media says stupid things shouldn't affect my opinion.
00:12:02.340 I should be able to come up with my opinion on my own.
00:12:04.180 But this is another example of it.
00:12:05.700 They did this thing a while ago where it was like, you know, 13 of the last 15 people
00:12:09.680 that Donald Trump has called dumb were black.
00:12:13.840 And this proves, and, and, and, and Toobin actually kind of references it there.
00:12:17.280 Except that seven or eight of them were the same person.
00:12:19.220 Yeah.
00:12:19.340 No.
00:12:19.560 Yeah.
00:12:19.740 I think it was, it was something like 10 of 11 or something like that.
00:12:23.040 Yeah.
00:12:23.320 It was Maxine Waters and Don Lemon, the two.
00:12:25.480 Right.
00:12:25.660 And so, and you also, to believe this theory, you have to also believe that he was not racist
00:12:31.080 at all until he was elected because he did, before that he was calling white people dumb
00:12:37.640 all the time.
00:12:38.740 All the time.
00:12:39.120 And then for the whole first year of his presidency, he only called one person dumb, Mika Brzezinski,
00:12:45.180 who's white.
00:12:45.760 So you have to believe he developed the racism, not in his first 71 years, but in the last year.
00:12:51.860 And in that last year, he developed the racism all solely based on Maxine Waters and Don Lemon.
00:12:59.020 Isn't an easier explanation of that is he doesn't like Maxine Waters and Don Lemon.
00:13:03.560 Maxine Waters and Don Lemon have been recently criticizing him.
00:13:07.540 And what Donald Trump does in those moments is called them dumb.
00:13:10.840 It's just like he called Jeb Bush dumb and Marco Rubio dumb and Tim Cruz dumb.
00:13:16.460 He had a really good point there.
00:13:17.960 Jeb Bush is dumb.
00:13:19.260 Some people are.
00:13:20.020 So is Maxine Waters.
00:13:21.240 Yes, she is.
00:13:22.160 Now, Don Lemon, I do not think is dumb.
00:13:23.820 Yes, she is.
00:13:24.260 He is an opponent and he's, you know, he's liberal at times and I don't, but Maxine Waters,
00:13:28.380 I think pretty clearly is dumb.
00:13:30.700 She makes incredibly stupid points all the time. 0.99
00:13:32.640 She's made a good case for being dumb the last few years, if not her entire life.
00:13:36.980 Her whole career.
00:13:38.400 I mean, it could be, there could be other examples.
00:13:40.320 Maybe she's, you know, losing her sharpness as she gets later in life. 0.97
00:13:44.020 I don't know.
00:13:44.460 But I mean, she is tripped up and made really insane comments. 1.00
00:13:50.580 Hank Johnson, you know, Hank Johnson comes out and says, Guam's going to tip over.
00:13:54.600 Can we not say that he's dumb because he's black? 1.00
00:13:57.120 He happens to be a black person.
00:13:58.440 No, that's a dumb comment.
00:14:00.800 White or black, whoever said it, that's a dumb comment.
00:14:03.780 You know, Guam's not going to tip over because you put too many military forces on one side of it.
00:14:07.260 Like it's, that's not what islands do.
00:14:09.700 Okay.
00:14:10.260 So, I mean, can we not observe that sometimes people have those moments?
00:14:14.260 Do you have that from a scientist?
00:14:15.940 Yeah.
00:14:16.300 I had it from a military source.
00:14:18.040 Okay.
00:14:18.460 Who immediately was like, uh, we don't anticipate that happening.
00:14:23.740 Great.
00:14:24.360 One of the greatest responses of all time.
00:14:26.120 So good.
00:14:26.740 But, you know, take, you're right.
00:14:29.040 Taking these things from issues that are not related to race and trying to move them into that, in that analysis.
00:14:37.320 Weakens the actual case.
00:14:39.860 And it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense.
00:14:42.840 It's the same thing, you know, like the alt-right.
00:14:44.760 Largely speaking, the alt-right is a, is a, is a small group compared to, uh, you know, conservatives and Republicans and everything else.
00:14:51.220 But when you try to, you know, call every single Republican alt-right, you, you fail.
00:14:58.900 You, you, you fail because you then weaken the case against people like Richard Spencer, who is really a problem.
00:15:04.460 Like that theory, that his, his theories, I think are real negative and certainly have nothing to do with conservatism.
00:15:10.500 But when you bring like Mitt Romney and you call him alt-right, it doesn't, there's no, there's, there's, you lose all value in your criticism.
00:15:19.120 Yeah.
00:15:19.480 And all credibility.
00:15:20.460 Yeah.
00:15:20.580 NPR has a really surprising study that they did.
00:15:34.980 I, I'm blown away that NPR, first of all, paid attention to it in the first place.
00:15:40.120 Secondly, actually reported their findings, uh, because this doesn't seem to fit their narrative.
00:15:45.560 No.
00:15:46.020 And it's one of those stats that when you hear it, it blatantly fails to you as possible.
00:15:52.540 You know, you see, you'll see liberals constantly share these numbers.
00:15:55.440 There's been 7,000 school shootings this year.
00:15:57.980 And you're just like, is there any moment where you just sit back and say, there's no way that's possible.
00:16:02.240 Like you obviously know it's not true.
00:16:04.860 Is there any part of you that gets to that point in your analysis?
00:16:07.980 Well, there were supposedly in 2015, 240 school shootings.
00:16:14.120 Right.
00:16:14.420 And we know that's preposterous.
00:16:15.820 Of course.
00:16:16.280 That didn't happen.
00:16:17.460 Now, sometimes they get to those numbers in various ways.
00:16:19.520 For example, um, a guy, uh, who has no association with a school at midnight feels despondent, leaves his home,
00:16:28.540 pulls into the back corner of the school parking lot and shoots himself.
00:16:32.240 Is that a school shooting?
00:16:34.040 No, but it was an incident with a gun on school grounds.
00:16:36.860 To any, uh, gun hating organization, that's a school shooting.
00:16:41.280 And they'll put that in.
00:16:42.340 You'll have times where police officers will come and the police officer will mistakenly shoot his gun that hits no one.
00:16:49.120 And they'll call it a school shooting.
00:16:50.480 Yeah.
00:16:50.600 Um, you know, someone, there've been times where pellet guns, some kid will bring in a pellet gun and shoot one of his friends.
00:16:56.080 And they'll call it a school shooting.
00:16:57.100 These are, these are the type of things they go in there to, to juice the numbers.
00:17:00.040 Because we know the problem is there.
00:17:02.280 There is a problem with school shootings.
00:17:04.480 However, it's just not this problem.
00:17:05.540 We know now we don't have to juice the numbers because there was 240 shootings in 2015.
00:17:10.200 And this is a U.S. Department of Education report.
00:17:14.200 So, you know, it's some credibility, I guess, behind it.
00:17:16.700 It's not like, you know, it's not Mother Jones or, you know, every town for gun safety.
00:17:22.140 This was a government report, which people, generally speaking, will take seriously.
00:17:25.760 The year was 2015-2016.
00:17:28.620 Nearly 240 schools reported at least one incident involving a school-related shooting.
00:17:33.480 NPR, God only knows the reason, decided to actually check into this.
00:17:38.560 Which is amazing in and of itself.
00:17:41.220 Because usually when the gun, when there's a stat about guns that make guns look bad, nobody looks into them.
00:17:46.580 That's kind of the policy.
00:17:48.100 Yeah.
00:17:48.780 But, uh, in this case, what they found was amazing.
00:17:52.980 240 school shootings.
00:17:54.280 They write, in 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one.
00:18:04.580 So what they're saying is not the stuff I'm talking about before, like it's a pellet gun or it's a guy committing suicide near school grounds.
00:18:11.440 No, they're saying 161 of the 240 were just nothing.
00:18:16.000 It's even more amazing than that because of the remaining 59 cases, uh, they couldn't be, some of those couldn't be confirmed or disconfirmed.
00:18:25.700 So they're unsure on them.
00:18:27.580 Oh, they actually found only 11 confirmed by either the schools or through news reports.
00:18:34.460 11 out of 240.
00:18:37.720 It's amazing.
00:18:38.220 It's amazing.
00:18:39.120 And, you know, again, if you have a school shooting, it's probably going to be easy to confirm.
00:18:42.600 You know, you call Parkland School District right now.
00:18:44.620 They're going to be able to confirm a school shooting occurred there.
00:18:47.100 Yeah.
00:18:47.180 Uh, some of this is amazing.
00:18:49.040 Uh, civil rights data collection for 2018 required every public school, more than 96,000, answer questions on a wide range of issues.
00:18:55.760 What it appears is they put the wrong number, like they, someone put, I think it was Cleveland, put 37 in for school shootings and they meant to answer the question before it.
00:19:04.900 So, gosh.
00:19:05.600 Now, if Cleveland had 37 school shootings, I feel like we might've heard of that.
00:19:13.960 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:19:17.180 You know, there's some kind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg hysteria going on right now.
00:19:40.980 And I, you know, not only is there a documentary, there's a major, uh,
00:19:47.180 movie release coming out, I think on Christmas day.
00:19:49.860 And now there's a CNN special.
00:19:52.280 Are they running the, is it?
00:19:53.340 I think they're running.
00:19:54.120 They're playing the documentary, which is incredible.
00:19:56.100 Man, are they promoting that thing?
00:19:57.740 Ruth hysteria. 0.98
00:19:58.840 Yeah.
00:19:59.740 Ruth hysteria is good. 1.00
00:20:00.900 I like that.
00:20:01.380 I like Ruth hysteria. 0.99
00:20:02.180 It is really amazing.
00:20:03.420 You know, again, there was a Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary made and just like praising her.
00:20:08.220 There's like a little cult following around her.
00:20:10.080 Like, and it's kind of one of those things that here's this little tiny old lady who's 1.00
00:20:13.340 super tough and doesn't give up on her, you know?
00:20:14.960 Yes.
00:20:15.300 And of course she's super liberal, which helps.
00:20:17.380 Um, but I honestly think it's, this part of it is like sort of a Betty white syndrome 0.65
00:20:21.460 where like, I, you know, I love Betty white, but like there was that thing she had a few 0.98
00:20:25.380 years ago.
00:20:25.880 Charm. 0.85
00:20:26.440 Oh yeah.
00:20:26.960 Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:20:27.680 Well, but after you reach a certain age and you know, I'm well aware of this is that
00:20:32.120 after you reach a certain age, people are like, Oh, he's cute.
00:20:35.000 I haven't reached that yet.
00:20:36.240 Well, you've reached the age where people think you're cute, but you have passed Ruth
00:20:41.640 Bader Ginsburg.
00:20:43.140 But it also is, I think, I think you're right with the Betty white syndrome. 0.86
00:20:46.180 And I think also it's a man.
00:20:48.440 We've got to build her up and make her happy. 1.00
00:20:49.980 So she doesn't leave.
00:20:51.500 I think there's something to that too, because I will tell you this.
00:20:55.060 If she were to retire tomorrow, they would hate her more than anybody has ever been
00:21:00.980 hated.
00:21:01.560 How dare you?
00:21:02.320 How dare you leave now?
00:21:03.760 Well, they did it to Kennedy.
00:21:05.560 Uh, they, they bludgeoned him for leaving.
00:21:07.780 They loved him for years because he was the, the quote unquote conservative that kept siding
00:21:11.400 with them.
00:21:12.020 Yeah.
00:21:12.380 Uh, he was the greatest guy in the world until he was gone.
00:21:14.860 And then he was the worst guy in the world.
00:21:16.440 The Ginsburg thing is so amazing because, uh, there's, there seems to be, I mean, other
00:21:23.140 than the speculation, I, I just can't figure out what the, what the reason for it all of
00:21:28.700 a sudden is.
00:21:29.440 I think she's an interesting character in which she's, if you think about it, if you're a
00:21:32.840 liberal, right?
00:21:33.360 Like the same way I love Clarence Thomas, right?
00:21:35.720 Clarence Thomas, because he's generally, he's the most conservative, uh, person on the
00:21:41.220 Supreme court.
00:21:41.820 And at least, you know, depending on how you measure it.
00:21:44.740 And those things are always tough to measure, but he's certainly one of the top one or two.
00:21:48.020 Uh, and he's a, you know, he, I think he does a great job on the Supreme court and, and
00:21:51.920 he, so he's really, so that part of it, if you're a liberal, you love Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:21:55.840 She never disappoints you.
00:21:57.200 She's always, always on the liberal side.
00:21:59.740 She never always, Oh wait, wow.
00:22:01.080 This one, she went the other way.
00:22:02.120 She's super predictable, a hundred percent.
00:22:05.380 Like, you know, basically Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez add about a hundred points to the IQ and put 1.00
00:22:12.080 her in the Supreme court, right?
00:22:13.360 Like it's that sort of arrangement.
00:22:14.840 Of course, the left loves that, right?
00:22:17.620 I mean, you know, she's, and you know, that's part of it.
00:22:20.840 I think another part of it is, you know, just her physical sort of stature, right?
00:22:25.600 Like she's this tiny, like old lady and just a power who's just still a powerhouse, you 0.94
00:22:31.420 know, like, and I think that's one of the things they like about, you know, Betty, that's 0.72
00:22:34.600 how Betty White had that resurgence in some ways. 0.97
00:22:36.480 In the past, we heard how much, what a relationship she had with Scalia and how he loved her and
00:22:41.180 they loved to battle.
00:22:41.960 So she's had that kind of bit of, a little bit of love with that.
00:22:45.140 But can you imagine?
00:22:46.120 And she's fought for women's rights. 1.00
00:22:48.080 For women's rights.
00:22:48.660 For all the causes that are popular.
00:22:51.240 But I mean, think about this from a news organization standpoint.
00:22:53.580 This is essentially a pro Ruth Bader Ginsburg propaganda piece.
00:22:58.080 She, you know, it's, it's basically trying to turn her into a cult. 0.96
00:23:01.420 Hero, which has sort of happened.
00:23:03.080 And this is on that, on that level.
00:23:05.820 Should CNN be airing that?
00:23:08.640 I mean, to me, the answer is no.
00:23:10.580 Even the same thing with, you know, with Scalia, right?
00:23:15.320 Like Scalia passes away.
00:23:17.100 Should you be, should you make a documentary or air a documentary that's a one-sided propaganda
00:23:23.280 piece about Antonin Scalia if you're a news organization?
00:23:27.380 Probably not, right?
00:23:28.700 I mean, if you're going to do the thing about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you probably also have
00:23:33.200 to do it for Antonin Scalia if you want to even attempt to look fair.
00:23:36.320 Well, the good thing is, is that she believes in the United States and the Constitution.
00:23:40.940 And that, you know, there's nothing better.
00:23:45.060 Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:45.640 We saw that in this.
00:23:47.400 The word woman does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution.
00:23:52.560 Nor does the word freedom, Your Honor.
00:23:56.880 Booyah! 0.99
00:23:57.920 Oh, did she nail him?
00:24:01.240 Wow.
00:24:02.020 That's supposedly based on a true incident, I guess, from her past, which was in her 30s
00:24:07.040 and, or 20s, I don't know, but the Supreme Court justice leans in and says, the word woman 1.00
00:24:14.660 doesn't appear even once in the U.S. Constitution.
00:24:20.800 Nor does the word freedom, Your Honor.
00:24:26.260 Except for, well, it does.
00:24:29.420 But other than that, don't worry about the facts.
00:24:31.820 That's great.
00:24:32.960 It is.
00:24:34.880 I mean.
00:24:35.720 It's not in our Constitution, though, right?
00:24:38.200 I mean, it's like.
00:24:38.540 Yeah, it's in our Constitution.
00:24:39.920 But you've got to go all the way to the first amendment before you find the word freedom.
00:24:45.280 So it's pretty tough.
00:24:46.940 I mean, it's tough to find.
00:24:48.800 And she is the one who famously, as Jeffy was kind of just pointing out there, said that
00:24:54.200 South Africa's Constitution was.
00:24:56.780 Yeah, South Africa's is the one which you should focus on.
00:24:59.660 And Canada, because it was written in 1982.
00:25:02.960 Ours is too old.
00:25:04.860 But, for instance, in South Africa.
00:25:08.060 Hey, what does that analysis mean for her? 1.00
00:25:10.040 You know, it's like, I love this idea that the oldest person on the Supreme Court can tell
00:25:14.520 us it's, you know, the Constitution's too old.
00:25:17.340 Should we start throwing out Supreme Court justices at 65, too?
00:25:20.420 One of the reasons that she really liked the Constitution from South Africa.
00:25:24.320 Well, they came up with a really incredible concept of an independent judiciary.
00:25:30.160 Yeah, who would have thought of that?
00:25:31.260 Why the hell didn't we think of that?
00:25:33.060 An independent judiciary?
00:25:35.280 What if we had, wait, what if we had an independent judiciary, an independent legislative branch,
00:25:42.980 and you couple that with an independent executive branch?
00:25:46.120 You're just talking crazy now.
00:25:47.460 But they're all separate and co-equal.
00:25:50.920 What would happen?
00:25:51.780 I mean, I can't even think what kind of government you'd have then.
00:25:55.740 It's like, what do you mean they came up with an independent?
00:25:58.260 We did that 240 years ago.
00:26:00.780 What are you talking about?
00:26:02.520 Have you seen our Constitution, Ruth?
00:26:04.700 Have you read it?
00:26:05.760 Certainly, by her rulings, I don't think she's read it.
00:26:08.080 And by this little trailer, I don't think she's read it.
00:26:11.260 You're telling us that the word of freedom is not in it?
00:26:13.820 And I love the way she pauses there because it's so powerful.
00:26:16.800 What does she say?
00:26:17.600 So powerful.
00:26:18.380 The first time I heard it, I thought she was saying,
00:26:20.580 no, the word woman isn't in there, but the word freedom is.
00:26:23.700 No.
00:26:24.340 Listen to this carefully.
00:26:25.680 The word woman does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution.
00:26:30.160 You can tell he's a bastard, too.
00:26:31.520 The word woman.
00:26:31.860 You can tell.
00:26:32.200 You can tell.
00:26:33.320 Listen to the tone of his voice.
00:26:34.940 Almost like, you know, Christian Bale's Batman.
00:26:37.300 Yeah.
00:26:38.440 The word woman.
00:26:39.580 It's almost like he's vomiting the word woman.
00:26:41.820 It's so offensive to him.
00:26:43.560 The word woman.
00:26:46.500 Listen to this.
00:26:47.420 The word woman does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution.
00:26:52.740 Nor does the word freedom.
00:26:54.240 Yeah, nor does the word freedom.
00:26:55.040 Nor does.
00:26:55.820 Your Honor.
00:26:56.540 Oh, my.
00:26:58.220 Ooh, that's powerful.
00:26:59.900 Oof.
00:27:00.720 That's just a stinging indictment.
00:27:03.240 I mean, freedom.
00:27:04.940 Freedom of speech.
00:27:06.200 I think the point is that the U.S. Constitution is flawed.
00:27:10.540 And, you know, the word woman's not in it.
00:27:13.760 Neither is the word freedom.
00:27:15.480 Neither do we have, I guess, an independent judiciary that's set apart.
00:27:19.260 I mean, it's ridiculous.
00:27:20.680 Was she arguing for a new amendment to the Constitution at this point?
00:27:24.160 In this particular?
00:27:25.400 In this moment?
00:27:26.000 I don't know.
00:27:26.560 Because I haven't seen the movie yet.
00:27:27.700 The only thing you can maybe think of, and off the top of my head, I can't, I don't know.
00:27:31.440 But she's just saying that she's not concluding the amendments?
00:27:34.020 Like, we had to amend the Constitution to get freedom in it?
00:27:37.540 Well.
00:27:37.740 Is that what she's trying to say?
00:27:38.720 If you would have said, it doesn't appear until the amendments, that's one thing.
00:27:43.800 Because the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.
00:27:47.260 Right.
00:27:47.660 I know.
00:27:47.880 But what I'm saying is if she's arguing for, which I would maybe suspect, the Equal Rights Amendment,
00:27:52.460 maybe she's saying we have to add in the word woman here with another amendment?
00:27:59.000 I don't know.
00:27:59.680 I'm trying, again, I'm giving her too much of a break here.
00:28:01.840 Way too much.
00:28:02.560 And we always do that.
00:28:03.500 Yeah, I know.
00:28:04.240 They never do that for us.
00:28:05.700 No, of course, never.
00:28:07.000 Never.
00:28:07.260 But I'm just trying to understand.
00:28:08.560 I feel like that's valuable to at least try to understand it.
00:28:11.400 But I can't wait till Christmas Day when this power will move.
00:28:13.900 Oh, we're taking the family.
00:28:15.340 Oh, yeah.
00:28:15.820 You are.
00:28:16.240 Oh, man.
00:28:17.360 Before we open presents, we're headed to.
00:28:19.640 Yeah.
00:28:20.160 Oh, man.
00:28:20.720 I've already got the wine ready to go.
00:28:23.600 Open it up, take a drink, a sip of wine, go to the movies, and just celebrate Roosteria.
00:28:27.800 Yeah.
00:28:28.020 And go for it.
00:28:28.860 And Ruth Bader Ginsburg is about the size of my Elf on a Shelf, too.
00:28:31.980 So it kind of fits with the Christmas thing.
00:28:33.300 She does look like Elf on the Shelf. 1.00
00:28:36.500 She's so tiny.
00:28:38.000 Tiny but powerful.
00:28:39.080 Tiny but powerful.
00:28:39.780 But powerful.
00:28:40.940 That's tremendous.
00:28:41.720 It's kind of like tiny.
00:28:42.900 You know, the same way people think about small dogs.
00:28:46.320 We're like, you know, it's really difficult for a small dog to be ugly.
00:28:49.840 Even though, like, I have pugs.
00:28:51.320 And pugs are absolutely ugly.
00:28:52.820 But people think they're cute because they're small.
00:28:54.680 Yes.
00:28:54.980 Right?
00:28:55.180 They're small.
00:28:55.520 And not Jeffy doesn't.
00:28:57.980 But, of course, Jeffy, you know, look at Jeffy.
00:29:01.340 But there's that thing where I think when you're small and powerful, it gives you that, like, there's some cool part of that that people like.
00:29:10.980 Yeah.
00:29:11.140 And I think that's the main part.
00:29:12.800 Because there's no real, like, you could easily love Breyer, who's also old and also super liberal.
00:29:19.520 Right?
00:29:19.700 Like, there's, you know, you could have, I mean, you could go and praise Sotomayor, who, in some measures, is to the left of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:29:28.340 And it's younger and Hispanic.
00:29:30.980 You could do that if you wanted to as well.
00:29:32.820 But they're picking Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I think, because of just physical qualities, which, again, they say you should never do.
00:29:39.260 But she's tiny and she's old and she's cute. 0.99
00:29:42.520 And, like, you want to give her a little hug and maybe pet her.
00:29:47.120 Right.
00:29:47.420 You know?
00:29:47.820 You want to help her up and walk with her? 0.99
00:29:49.820 Yeah.
00:29:50.200 You want to just give her a big hug.
00:29:51.680 She's Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:29:52.980 I don't necessarily.
00:29:53.740 I really don't.
00:29:54.100 But I want to, personally, I want the new Ruth on a Shelf now.
00:29:59.140 Ruth on a Shelf is a solid product.
00:30:01.180 That's a solid, we could easily save some of those.
00:30:03.040 Yes.
00:30:03.580 You feel like your house might be haunted with it, though.
00:30:06.140 I don't think I want to come out in the middle of the night and the thing's just scampering across the ground somehow.
00:30:11.620 Wait, how did that happen?
00:30:13.560 I think it could happen.
00:30:15.600 A Ruth on a Shelf easily comes alive.
00:30:17.800 That would be tremendous.
00:30:19.140 And that I don't want.
00:30:20.260 No.
00:30:20.740 It's scary.
00:30:21.700 It's a frightening thought.
00:30:24.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:30:40.660 The Me Too movement continues to swim along quite nicely.
00:30:45.520 And, you know, make sure that people don't work.
00:30:48.480 And, I mean, and that's fine if people have actually committed egregious crimes.
00:30:58.720 You mean like one of the founders, Asia Argento, who is apparently now getting thrown out of her jobs?
00:31:04.160 Yes.
00:31:04.400 Which is interesting.
00:31:05.620 That's an interesting development.
00:31:07.060 That is interesting.
00:31:08.160 Yeah.
00:31:08.360 You know, I don't know how to handle this stuff because when you have a legal system, right, what you do is in advance of the trial, you have laws on the books, and then people know what those laws are.
00:31:21.620 And then when you go in and you have a trial and you're found guilty, there on the books is a range of punishment, which would be applied to the person who committed the crime.
00:31:30.140 So you're saying after you have, say, I don't know, presented evidence and a jury has perhaps said that there's enough evidence to say, yes, you're guilty.
00:31:42.240 And then after that, there's some consequences.
00:31:45.520 Yes.
00:31:46.180 That is what I would have.
00:31:47.160 Before that, what happens?
00:31:48.500 Because you're a bad person.
00:31:50.840 Okay.
00:31:51.340 Before that.
00:31:51.840 So just the accusation is enough to say you're a bad person, you need to get out of your job.
00:31:57.540 And that seems to be where we are now.
00:31:59.220 So you feel the punishment right away.
00:32:00.860 You lose all of your jobs, you lose your company, you lose everything, whether you did it or not.
00:32:05.060 And again, it is certainly just for people like, let's say, Harvey Weinstein, who did a lot of terrible things.
00:32:12.120 However, on that same front, you should actually be convicted of a crime before the punishment gets associated with you.
00:32:23.140 And we've jumped the gun on that one.
00:32:24.900 And we now believe the person should get punished immediately.
00:32:27.520 And with someone of Weinstein, it's easy.
00:32:29.260 We all suspect that he really did all these things.
00:32:31.900 And it seems overwhelmingly, there's an overwhelming amount of evidence, including his own words on tape that indicate that.
00:32:38.620 So, you know, no one really cares on that one.
00:32:40.960 But when it comes to someone like Louis C.K., is a good example of this.
00:32:45.700 Louis C.K. was part of the Me Too movement.
00:32:48.880 And if you remember the story, basically, he did things to himself in front of women.
00:32:55.260 After he asked them if it was okay.
00:32:57.840 Yeah, awkwardly.
00:32:59.040 I mean, as you'd expect from Louis C.K., very awkward.
00:33:01.880 Hey, can I do this in front of you?
00:33:04.020 Well, one of the stories even was that one girl remembered that he asked and I said, no.
00:33:10.320 No, and so it didn't happen.
00:33:11.620 So it didn't happen.
00:33:12.400 Right.
00:33:12.600 Yeah.
00:33:12.820 So she said no.
00:33:14.120 Amazingly, it worked.
00:33:14.420 And he didn't do anything.
00:33:15.900 Yeah.
00:33:16.180 Right.
00:33:16.660 Right.
00:33:17.120 Now, the others said yes.
00:33:18.880 And now they're still complaining about it.
00:33:20.260 Right.
00:33:20.660 Well, if you didn't want him to do that, then you should have said no.
00:33:23.640 Right.
00:33:24.100 And then if he continued, you'd have a case.
00:33:27.760 Yes.
00:33:27.980 And from my understanding is that there's no allegation that he ever did that against their will.
00:33:34.280 Yeah.
00:33:34.660 Is that true?
00:33:35.460 I don't know if any of them said that.
00:33:38.460 I don't remember any of them saying that.
00:33:39.560 I mean, it's creepy what he was doing.
00:33:41.240 Yes.
00:33:41.920 Very creepy.
00:33:42.400 But he did ask for permission and seemingly permission was granted.
00:33:46.960 Yeah.
00:33:47.160 Or I think there was one group of women. 1.00
00:33:49.120 Some were saying that they didn't say anything.
00:33:50.480 They didn't say anything and they just kind of laughed at him.
00:33:52.460 Right.
00:33:52.720 Because he said, I'm going to take my clothes off now, okay?
00:33:55.240 And they kind of went, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, uncomfortably and then stayed.
00:33:58.160 Right.
00:33:58.460 He didn't leave.
00:33:58.800 Because he takes his clothes off and they're so upset they don't leave.
00:34:02.600 Well, I mean.
00:34:03.520 Now, their argument here.
00:34:04.520 He's a comedian.
00:34:05.260 He's a comedian and he's powerful and famous.
00:34:07.240 Now, this is somebody who's before.
00:34:08.640 Now, comedians have all power over people?
00:34:10.440 Yes.
00:34:10.540 Because I wasn't aware of this up until this point.
00:34:12.700 Well.
00:34:13.080 Comedians have this extraordinary power over people's will.
00:34:17.240 How are you still working?
00:34:18.580 I don't know.
00:34:19.420 Well, I guess you could argue.
00:34:20.660 I mean, again, I think their argument is poor.
00:34:22.900 But their argument is he does have power in the world of being a comedian.
00:34:27.160 And these were people who were trying to rise.
00:34:29.460 Like, you know, like Jerry Seinfeld certainly has some impact.
00:34:32.260 At the time, he was doing a TV show.
00:34:33.940 He was doing other stuff.
00:34:34.700 He had deals with Netflix.
00:34:36.000 Those are all gone.
00:34:36.960 But at the time, he did.
00:34:38.360 Right.
00:34:38.900 So he did have some kind of power.
00:34:41.120 Right.
00:34:41.260 Like, you have power.
00:34:42.080 Like, you know, would you say, you know, Jerry Seinfeld could have an influence on a young comedian's career?
00:34:48.180 Yeah.
00:34:48.280 I mean, the answer to that, of course, the answer is yes.
00:34:50.260 Were these all young comedians that he did this in front of?
00:34:52.340 I know at least a few of them were.
00:34:54.600 You know, there was one who said that, I mean, even talk about a weak allegation.
00:35:03.400 The allegation.
00:35:05.440 Again, these are just such weird topics.
00:35:07.200 The allegation was that Louis C.K. got on the phone with a woman.
00:35:14.000 Oh, yeah.
00:35:14.020 That's right.
00:35:15.180 And the woman, during the call, suspected.
00:35:19.620 Suspected.
00:35:20.140 Believed.
00:35:20.940 Believed.
00:35:21.460 He never said he was.
00:35:22.260 Oh, that's right.
00:35:22.760 I remember this.
00:35:23.400 But suspected that he was masturbating while on the phone with her.
00:35:26.240 Oh, my gosh.
00:35:26.900 Now, there was no confirmation of that.
00:35:28.840 But that's what she thought was going on.
00:35:31.300 And that was a Me Too allegation.
00:35:32.860 And he was so powerful that she could not hang up?
00:35:36.200 I guess so.
00:35:37.260 Okay.
00:35:37.620 There you go.
00:35:38.520 I mean, let's be honest.
00:35:40.600 He did not ask for permission.
00:35:43.200 Well, he's on the phone.
00:35:43.960 He didn't say he was doing it either.
00:35:45.700 No, she just believed it.
00:35:46.740 She just believed it.
00:35:47.500 Right.
00:35:47.660 So, the idea is, okay, well, Louis C.K. could then go to some manager and say.
00:35:52.620 Anybody could say that.
00:35:53.660 Anybody who's been on the phone with that guy could say, yeah, I believed he was pleasuring
00:35:57.560 himself when we were on the phone.
00:35:59.200 And I'm really offended by that.
00:36:00.400 And I think, I think for all of my stress, I need like three and a half million dollars
00:36:06.760 from this guy.
00:36:07.280 Yeah, I think so, too.
00:36:07.740 No, you know what?
00:36:08.760 No, I don't want to seem greedy.
00:36:10.500 Two million.
00:36:12.160 So, their argument is, okay, well, he could behind the scenes say, you know what?
00:36:16.140 I just don't like her work.
00:36:17.040 I don't think she's a good comedian. 0.99
00:36:18.820 And then she might not advance in her career.
00:36:21.040 Of course, a lot of times, comedians will say, you know, anybody will say that.
00:36:25.160 If they feel, a lot of people feel inaccurately that others have thwarted their careers.
00:36:30.080 Right?
00:36:30.320 A lot of people say, well, this person's keeping me down.
00:36:33.260 It's a very human instinct to believe that.
00:36:35.400 Unless you have real evidence of someone doing it, it's hard to take anything from it.
00:36:40.320 So, and there was very little of that with Louis C.K.
00:36:42.960 I think one person, I think, may have said that, if I remember correctly.
00:36:45.760 And I was headed in the opposite direction.
00:36:48.080 I think a few of them were saying that it seemed like he did things to help them.
00:36:54.720 Right.
00:36:54.980 Like, it was, like, awkward.
00:36:56.020 And because of the awkward situation, he actually tried to assist them in their career.
00:36:59.360 So, Louis C.K., for the first time now, has come out and done a comedy set in New York.
00:37:08.900 How dare he?
00:37:09.320 Was it the comedy cellar?
00:37:10.840 Was it the comedy cellar?
00:37:11.680 It was one of those smaller clubs.
00:37:12.960 115 people were there, not knowing he was coming.
00:37:15.940 So, you know, and comedy cellar in Carolines in New York, a few clubs like that are famous for big-time comedians popping out out of nowhere.
00:37:24.660 You're just there for a normal show.
00:37:26.320 Practice their new set.
00:37:26.980 Yeah, practice their new set, try out some new material, and then leave.
00:37:30.320 So, out of nowhere, Louis C.K. comes out for his first public appearance, does a normal comedy, does not mention.
00:37:34.880 Standing ovation.
00:37:35.480 Standing ovation before he even starts.
00:37:37.460 Does not mention the scandals at all.
00:37:40.760 Just does his little routine, tries some stuff out, and leaves.
00:37:43.440 There was apparently one call from a patron of the appearance said, I wish I would have known in advance so I could have made the decision whether I wanted to come or not.
00:37:53.880 Which, you know, I guess I can understand, though, I bet they would have no trouble filling the room.
00:38:01.280 And I just think this is an issue when you don't use the justice system.
00:38:04.460 There's no punishment that has been allocated already.
00:38:09.320 Like, we saw Glenn Thrush from the New York Times, and he's been at Politico and a bunch of different things.
00:38:15.180 You know, a left-wing sort of White House-type reporter who also got a Me Too allegation against him.
00:38:21.420 The allegation against him was that after late-night parties, he would often hit on younger employees of the papers he was working for.
00:38:32.580 And again, he was a—these are people who want to get into journalism.
00:38:35.420 He's an important, powerful journalist, and there was no accusation that he actually forced anyone to do anything.
00:38:43.580 The accusation was that he should have known better to not fraternize with the younger workers.
00:38:50.960 So—and what happened with him is he's back working.
00:38:55.060 You know, he did not seem to have—he did lose—he was suspended, I think, for a while, but I think he's back now working.
00:39:00.800 But there's no set punishments because there's no legal system here, right?
00:39:05.000 We've decided to go around the legal system.
00:39:07.160 Right.
00:39:07.820 And we've decided that these things should be educated in our own minds.
00:39:12.540 What do we think Louis C.K. did?
00:39:14.520 What do we think Glenn Thrush did?
00:39:15.760 What do we think, you know, Kevin Spacey did?
00:39:19.560 And we will allocate those as it comes.
00:39:22.480 What was it?
00:39:22.920 Jeffrey Tambor had a Me Too allegation.
00:39:26.240 Yes, he did.
00:39:27.040 He seems to have felt no repercussions about it at all.
00:39:29.960 After this, he was in The Death of Stalin.
00:39:31.920 He, you know, he was—you know, people—I don't know.
00:39:35.680 Do people just believe him?
00:39:37.380 Because he would—you know, because he's on the right side of things?
00:39:40.260 Possible.
00:39:41.000 Yeah.
00:39:41.340 You know, maybe—it doesn't seem to be a real obvious pattern here.
00:39:46.640 Is it wrong for Louis C.K. to now be able to come back and talk about things that he thinks are funny in front of people?
00:39:53.340 Well, I mean, I think the answer to that is if people don't show up, he should probably stop doing it.
00:39:57.060 If he—you know, he'll—if people aren't interested in hearing what he wants to say, then he can't be a stand-up comedian anymore because people don't want to hear him.
00:40:06.820 And that is a, you know, a market-based job.
00:40:11.260 If people like your comedy, they come, and you get to do it for a living.
00:40:14.520 If they don't and you suck and they don't come, then you don't. 0.96
00:40:17.280 So, the outrage here that we have to allow, you know, we have to make sure that he never gets in front of people again and he has to be punished until the end of time, it's kind of a crazy instinct.
00:40:32.420 You know, I don't know.
00:40:33.540 It's almost as if we're addicted to outrage.
00:40:35.720 Is this your job this week?
00:40:39.340 No, I'm not.
00:40:40.140 This is Jeffy.
00:40:41.060 No, I've come up with a useful job for Jeffy.
00:40:46.120 You're looking at this stupid poster the whole time right across from me for the addicted to outrage.
00:40:50.500 For those of you listening on radio, that's all I see.
00:40:52.920 Yeah.
00:40:53.160 I look at Stu, and I see this glutton back.
00:40:55.460 Well, it is coming out soon, so you can buy that.
00:40:57.580 But I guess that's—in some ways, it's tied to that, right?
00:41:01.060 I mean, we all act as if we're perfect, and we all act as if we've never made a mistake, and we all act as if we can just slam everybody who has had their public issues, when in reality, like, there has to be—and this is, I think, part of the job of people who really support the Me Too movement and think its work is important, and a lot of it is,
00:41:21.460 that you have to take a stand as someone in the Me Too movement to say this particular claim is bullcrap.
00:41:28.720 This particular claim doesn't rise to the level of what we're talking about.
00:41:32.860 You know, the fact that there's a statement made by someone that's a little bit sexualized or—I mean, who was the guy?
00:41:39.380 Was it Amazon, I think?
00:41:41.140 Was it the Amazon guy who was at a party?
00:41:44.360 He was one of the heads of Amazon Development, I think, or I think it was Amazon, not Netflix, but it was one of the big streaming providers.
00:41:49.760 And he went to a party, and he said some offensive things to a woman at a party.
00:41:53.660 He was hitting on her, and that was, I think, the only allegation, that he was inappropriate in conversation at a drunken Christmas party.
00:42:02.760 And, like, that is something—you know, if you look back at The Office, the show, things like that happened all the time.
00:42:10.360 And it's not appropriate, but, like, that person would just have a—people would think he's a dirtbag,
00:42:15.740 or people would say, do you believe he did this once, but now he doesn't seem to do that anymore.
00:42:19.300 And it would kind of blow over, and now we have to make sure they're fired.
00:42:23.580 We have to make sure they pay some public penance.
00:42:26.060 And he was?
00:42:26.700 And he was.
00:42:27.160 He did white up—you know, I think he resigned.
00:42:28.900 Yeah.
00:42:29.080 I think he resigned under pressure is what actually happened.
00:42:31.600 I mean, who among us haven't been drunk at a Christmas party and started hitting on—
00:42:35.300 I mean, think about—
00:42:37.140 Quite a few of us.
00:42:38.000 Who among us?
00:42:38.680 Quite a few.
00:42:39.400 I mean—
00:42:39.940 Quite a few of us.
00:42:40.740 Certainly, Jeffy would—if these standards were around in the 1830s when Jeffy was coming of age,
00:42:48.160 I mean, I can't even imagine what would have happened to him.
00:42:51.660 But, you know, look, there is—there should be some level.
00:42:56.220 Most—I don't know what the percentage is, but I bet there's half of people while meeting their significant other at work.
00:43:03.160 Yeah.
00:43:03.500 I don't know.
00:43:03.960 I mean, I'm guessing it's the percentage.
00:43:04.640 That's probably a high percentage, yeah.
00:43:05.680 Probably a high percentage, right?
00:43:06.780 I mean, you have—or—and then if you want to add in people who are at bars that have been drinking, you're even higher, right?
00:43:13.740 I mean, like, you—that shouldn't mean if you do something inappropriate, and many women made this argument around the Me Too point when that was really happening, 1.00
00:43:23.440 is that, you know, that's part of what I want.
00:43:27.620 Like, I want there to be some available level of sexuality that is able to be expressed by someone I'm trying to court.
00:43:37.360 If not, I mean, you know, there has to be some sort of—
00:43:41.520 Well, we have to realize that no means no, right?
00:43:43.780 A hundred percent.
00:43:44.660 And so when, you know, when you start bashing Louis C.K., remember, he asked.
00:43:51.280 Right.
00:43:51.840 He asked.
00:43:52.340 And that's the thing.
00:43:53.100 It's gone from no means no to don't ask.
00:43:55.880 Yeah.
00:43:56.500 Yeah, it has.
00:43:57.280 And, you know, that is a—
00:43:59.160 Don't flirt.
00:43:59.620 Don't ask.
00:44:00.180 Don't ask.
00:44:00.660 Don't show interest.
00:44:01.640 Don't look.
00:44:02.520 Don't—certainly don't touch.
00:44:03.760 Um, so how do men and women ever get together again?
00:44:09.640 You know, to ask fundamentally, how does the species continue?
00:44:12.840 Yeah.
00:44:13.180 At some point—
00:44:13.980 That's the problem.
00:44:14.580 In every relationship, you go in for your first kiss.
00:44:18.860 Rarely are you saying—
00:44:20.640 Hey, do you mind?
00:44:21.460 Would you mind signing this contract that allows me to—for my lips to touch yours?
00:44:25.480 Like, that's not how it happens.
00:44:27.200 You know, and there are people who misjudge it, right?
00:44:30.380 Like, I mean, I've always been on the case of being such a wuss that you wait way too long,
00:44:36.360 and eventually it's so obvious that it's time to go for it.
00:44:39.780 That's what I waited till.
00:44:41.140 Because, you know, I'm a loser.
00:44:42.760 But, you know, not everybody's that way.
00:44:44.780 Sometimes people call it wrong.
00:44:46.700 You know, sometimes—and that shouldn't be—that can be something where we say,
00:44:50.580 Hey, you know, that's inappropriate at this place.
00:44:52.840 Hey, don't do that anymore. 0.75
00:44:54.020 No, I'm not interested.
00:44:55.260 Thank you.
00:44:56.000 Then the person absolutely needs to stop.
00:44:57.800 But, you know, there has to be some room for men and women, 0.96
00:45:02.940 and maybe men and men and women and women, to do the little dance.
00:45:06.160 Yeah.
00:45:06.400 That is part of it.
00:45:07.600 That's not Harvey Weinstein, but it is part of it.
00:45:13.760 This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.
00:45:16.740 Alex Jones was caught in a little bit of a—just a little—kind of a sticky wicket, if you will.
00:45:29.660 A bit of a moment.
00:45:30.520 Yeah.
00:45:30.860 He was showing how to navigate on his website, on InfoWars.
00:45:36.800 Which does seem to be a high percentage of their programming.
00:45:39.180 Yeah, it does.
00:45:39.580 But it's just how do you get to the male vitality formula pills.
00:45:43.160 Because that's how he makes all his money.
00:45:44.760 So, yeah, they spend some time with that.
00:45:47.480 So he's showing how to navigate on his smartphone, and then he taps it, and it goes back to the original screen that had all of his tabs out there.
00:45:56.360 Yeah, it brings like—where you see like nine tabs on the screen at the same time.
00:45:59.720 Mm-hmm.
00:46:00.800 One of the tabs was a transsexual porn site. 0.76
00:46:09.060 And—
00:46:09.660 It could happen to anybody.
00:46:10.860 It could—well, anybody who's surfing for trans porn, yes.
00:46:15.260 For those of us who don't necessarily frequent those sites, can't happen to you.
00:46:20.600 Okay?
00:46:21.440 So I thought, okay, well, maybe somebody just went in there, and here's what he's going to say, even if it's not the case.
00:46:28.880 Somebody photoshopped that into his phone.
00:46:30.900 Right.
00:46:31.380 That's illogical, right?
00:46:32.380 Because you can do that.
00:46:32.680 He says that all the time when there's no evidence of it.
00:46:34.220 Yeah.
00:46:34.360 Why not go with that right defense?
00:46:36.380 Somebody in the deep state photoshopped that.
00:46:39.440 Mm-hmm.
00:46:40.120 And that's not what he said, which is fascinating to me.
00:46:45.440 Here's instead how he explained his little trans porn site. 0.61
00:46:51.440 And also, what about the trans porn on your phone, Alex?
00:46:54.460 Are you ever going to talk about that?
00:46:56.080 Say that again. 0.71
00:46:57.320 Say that again. 0.71
00:46:57.960 Trans porn on your phone. 0.93
00:47:00.460 That's all they keep talking about.
00:47:02.840 You know, I saw a couple news articles about that.
00:47:04.740 It's ridiculous.
00:47:05.400 I was, like, looking up some reporter we're trying to hire today and punched in some number.
00:47:09.520 It popped up porn on my phone.
00:47:10.860 Everybody's had porn pop on their phones hundreds of times.
00:47:13.420 So I'm sitting there with a phone on air showing it to everybody because I couldn't get a URL up in the studio.
00:47:19.340 And then, like, something pops up.
00:47:21.500 I'm like, oh, my God.
00:47:22.600 And I looked at it.
00:47:23.480 It wasn't the news blurted out because there was nothing there.
00:47:25.800 They blurted it to then say something was there.
00:47:27.900 Then you went to it with some porn menu.
00:47:29.680 I probably had porn menus pop up 500 times on my phone.
00:47:32.940 So I appreciate your call.
00:47:33.840 Because you're surfing them.
00:47:35.140 It's insane, ladies and gentlemen.
00:47:36.680 There's two types of people.
00:47:37.860 People that look at porn and people that lie about it.
00:47:40.420 But I wasn't looking at porn on my phone.
00:47:43.460 I don't take phones on air that I look at porn on.
00:47:45.860 And so I saw all that.
00:47:47.900 I didn't respond to it.
00:47:48.840 I mean, if I respond to half the attacks on me, it'll be ridiculous.
00:47:52.260 But I'll say this.
00:47:53.320 The Amazon ads, the Viagra ads, the weird non-plastic bag ads are taking my iPhone over.
00:47:59.580 iPhones didn't used to be that bad like Android.
00:48:02.280 It's a great point there with the plastic bag ban ads that are taking over his iPhone.
00:48:06.980 He does seem to be admitting that he looks at porn.
00:48:09.380 Absolutely.
00:48:09.780 He got with that phone.
00:48:11.500 Like, you know, Alex Jones looking at porn or trans porn is absolutely not the worst thing about him.
00:48:16.880 Like, that's probably one of his better characteristics.
00:48:19.760 So I don't know why that would be a big deal.
00:48:21.480 It's just, you know.
00:48:22.400 The trans community thought it was unusual because he bashes trans people so much.
00:48:26.820 Yeah.
00:48:26.900 And every time there's a trans story, he's, you know, he's raving about it, ranting about it. 0.85
00:48:31.700 And so it's interesting that he's actually looking at trans porn when he's ranting about trans people.
00:48:37.800 The trans site was excited.
00:48:40.020 The trans site was very happy.
00:48:41.180 Very happy about it.
00:48:42.380 Yeah.
00:48:43.280 Yes.
00:48:43.960 I mean, that's fascinating.
00:48:46.760 Maybe not as transphobic as you once thought.
00:48:49.040 There you go.
00:48:49.860 And that's probably what he should say.
00:48:51.300 There was a years ago, there was a morning show host in Texas City that I once lived in who got into a traffic accident while leaving a gay bar at two in the morning and then left the scene and went home or whatever.
00:49:13.860 And so it was kind of an issue.
00:49:15.640 And then so there's a lot of, you know, and he's a conservative talk show host.
00:49:21.380 And so people were wondering, what were you doing at a gay bar?
00:49:24.820 And he said, well, it shows you I'm not homophobic like they say I am, doesn't it?
00:49:29.320 That was his explanation.
00:49:30.720 So maybe that's a good one for Alan.
00:49:32.660 It's actually a good response.
00:49:33.280 It shows you I'm not transphobic.
00:49:33.860 I'm transphobic.
00:49:39.420 Oh, man.
00:49:40.620 I'm telling you, it does bode to, you know, one of the things that I live by is clear your search menus.
00:49:47.180 That's what you.
00:49:48.320 One of the things.
00:49:48.940 Clear your search menus.
00:49:49.680 Good safety tip.
00:49:50.380 Thank you, Jeffy.
00:49:51.160 I believe in that 100%.
00:49:51.700 So does this happen to you?
00:49:53.520 Does porn pop up on your phone.
00:49:56.100 Hundreds of times.
00:49:57.040 500 times.
00:49:58.620 Is that, there seems to be a real issue with your phone.
00:50:01.280 I will say no, that doesn't happen.
00:50:03.860 Especially on an iPhone.
00:50:04.880 I mean, iPhone is like, it's a closed ecosystem.
00:50:07.940 And when I'm looking for reporters, I will say it has never popped up while looking for reporters to hire.
00:50:16.220 Well, is it possible that this particular trans porn star happens to have some journalism chops? 0.89
00:50:22.620 Is it possible she's out covering the tough stories in between porn shoots?
00:50:27.440 I think that's possible.
00:50:29.120 It's possible.
00:50:30.040 Absolutely it is.
00:50:31.320 It's possible.
00:50:32.480 Okay.
00:50:32.780 Let's grant him that.
00:50:34.060 I don't know how much.
00:50:35.060 Alex knows how tough it is to run a website and have people subscribe to it.
00:50:39.120 And that's what that porn person was doing. 1.00
00:50:42.500 Mm-hmm.
00:50:43.140 Because she, he offered Alex a free pass.
00:50:48.760 Oh, really?
00:50:49.620 To the site.
00:50:49.800 Yeah.
00:50:50.200 Yeah.
00:50:50.540 Come on, Alex.
00:50:51.260 If you like it, I'm here for you.
00:50:52.680 I thought it was nice.
00:50:57.640 What an amazing world we live in.
00:50:59.600 It's just an amazing world.
00:51:00.600 So she did actually respond to this?
00:51:01.960 Yeah.
00:51:02.540 And she offered a free pass.
00:51:06.340 That's pretty smart, actually.
00:51:07.600 Yeah.
00:51:07.880 That's funny.
00:51:08.600 You might as well jump in there.
00:51:09.680 But I think the days of the porn sites all popping up on your screen, which did happen
00:51:16.600 in the past, are long gone.
00:51:17.700 Yeah.
00:51:17.840 I think that doesn't happen as much anymore.
00:51:19.540 I do.
00:51:20.460 It certainly doesn't happen 500 times.
00:51:22.340 No, it does not.
00:51:23.580 But it does, if you don't, if you don't delete your search entry, if you type in a word and
00:51:31.080 it pops, you know, then whatever you've been searching for or bringing up comes up as a
00:51:36.280 reminder, hey, I'm still here for you.
00:51:40.660 Is that what happens?
00:51:42.180 Maybe.
00:51:42.640 It could happen.
00:51:43.280 That's what I understand.
00:51:43.960 It's possible.
00:51:44.640 Somebody has told you about that.
00:51:45.880 Yeah.
00:51:46.120 Yeah.
00:51:46.340 They've had it happen to them and they related that story to you.
00:51:49.260 Can you imagine the amount of trans porn being tweeted and sent to Alex Jones right now?
00:51:54.560 Oh, man.
00:51:54.960 Oh, my gosh.
00:51:55.260 I mean, it's got to be, people are probably trolling him constantly with it now.
00:51:59.260 Hey, check out this new conspiracy theory I found, Link.
00:52:02.240 This guy's going to be opening up so much trans porn.
00:52:06.480 I guess that's what happens, you know?
00:52:08.460 Yes.
00:52:09.020 You know, whatever.
00:52:09.860 It's not like we had a high opinion of Alex Jones and we're like, wow.
00:52:13.860 This happened to a pastor while he was on his church.
00:52:16.940 That might be notable.
00:52:18.080 Like, the fact that Alex Jones does weird things is the least surprising thing.
00:52:21.280 I mean, it's good for him, right?
00:52:22.280 It's keeping him in the news other than being blocked from, you know, bringing people to
00:52:25.540 his site.
00:52:26.120 And by the way, let's say once again, we're absolutely opposed to Alex Jones being eliminated
00:52:34.000 from all of these sites.
00:52:36.340 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
00:52:40.240 Real estate.
00:52:40.980 Put his stuff back up and let the people decide.
00:52:44.520 Okay?
00:52:44.720 If they want to see it, they see it.
00:52:46.660 Stop banning people because they have a differing point of view.
00:52:52.120 Now, again, Facebook is a private business and so are all the rest.
00:52:55.760 So they can do that if they want.
00:52:56.900 It's just not the right thing to do.
00:52:58.260 Yeah.
00:52:58.740 The interesting part, I think, in this conversation, because I think we all agree that private
00:53:02.400 businesses can do whatever they want.
00:53:04.200 And we all agree that Alex Jones is trash.
00:53:06.880 And we all agree that even though Alex Jones is trash, he should still be left on the platform.
00:53:12.220 Yes.
00:53:12.480 The interesting addition to this is a lot of these social networks get protections from,
00:53:18.480 you know, legal action because they claim to be, hey, we're just user-generated content.
00:53:25.620 You know, we're just a platform, right?
00:53:27.920 And so, like, for example, if someone were to post child porn on Twitter, Twitter doesn't – the employees
00:53:36.900 of Twitter don't go to prison for child porn, right?
00:53:39.880 If someone posts a terroristic threat on Twitter, they then don't, you know –
00:53:47.760 You can't go to Twitter for that and blame them.
00:53:49.840 It's like Twitter's fault, right?
00:53:50.800 Yeah.
00:53:50.980 And they get protections from these situations, as they should, by the way.
00:53:54.100 Or copyright fraud is another one.
00:53:55.680 If someone posts a copyrighted material, then people, you know, if they do it and don't
00:54:03.320 try to take it down, they can get in trouble for it.
00:54:05.140 Right.
00:54:05.200 But generally speaking, if someone just posts something, they'll have a window there to
00:54:09.260 take it down as soon as possible.
00:54:10.300 And it's not like they're going to put Twitter out of business for it.
00:54:12.740 But for that protection, there's a responsibility.
00:54:16.200 Yeah.
00:54:16.340 And their responsibility is to not control the content.
00:54:18.760 Yeah.
00:54:18.920 So they can't be a partisan entity and get that.
00:54:21.780 So you can't be biased.
00:54:22.260 Right.
00:54:22.700 They can't.
00:54:23.840 And they are.
00:54:24.560 And they kind of are.
00:54:25.760 And Ted Cruz has brought this argument up before.
00:54:28.700 So it's a good argument.
00:54:29.740 Yeah.
00:54:30.260 I mean, again, I still think they should be able to handle their own content.
00:54:35.480 But, you know, maybe you don't get the same protections.
00:54:38.140 Right.
00:54:38.300 If you want to go that direction and you want to make it an all-liberal social media
00:54:41.760 site, you should, in my view, should be able to create it.
00:54:43.900 If you want to create, you know, liberal.com and make it all people tweeting to each other
00:54:49.360 about liberal things.
00:54:50.400 Except that's not what you agreed to when you got these protections.
00:54:54.760 So you're going to have to change the rule if you want to do it that way.
00:54:59.320 Or we just remove the protection.
00:55:02.240 And you're subject to prosecution when somebody does something on your site.
00:55:07.180 Which is it?
00:55:08.320 What do you want?
00:55:09.820 Yeah.
00:55:10.060 And the easiest thing is just let people decide.
00:55:12.000 Stop.
00:55:12.160 Yeah.
00:55:12.480 Stop.
00:55:13.100 And I think their supposed good motives and the motives of many people in Congress are
00:55:18.700 like, hey, you've got to take a responsibility for what's on your site.
00:55:20.780 You need to take responsibility.
00:55:21.860 And they all went in front of Congress and said, you know what?
00:55:23.980 We do.
00:55:24.540 This is on us.
00:55:25.520 We need to do better.
00:55:26.740 Not really.
00:55:27.560 No.
00:55:27.960 You really don't need to do better.
00:55:29.640 You don't really need to do it.
00:55:31.540 People will click on the things they want to click on.
00:55:33.420 People will like the things that they want to like.
00:55:35.400 It's not your responsibility.
00:55:36.600 Not your responsibility to manipulate what people believe.
00:55:38.820 Even if they believe dumb things or inaccurate things, even in that circumstance, when there's
00:55:44.360 other crimes that are committed like threats and child porn and stuff, yeah, that's your
00:55:47.920 responsibility to get it off as soon as possible.
00:55:50.040 Yeah.
00:55:50.220 But that's different than speech.
00:55:52.640 And you should just leave it up there.
00:55:53.780 So what?
00:55:54.160 Alex Jones wants to say something that's blatantly false over and over and over and over again.
00:55:57.660 So what?
00:55:58.380 We figured it out all these years.
00:55:59.780 Why can't we now?
00:56:00.860 Yeah.
00:56:00.980 I mean, it's not like I believed in the 9-11 theories to begin with.
00:56:06.460 So what's the big deal now?
00:56:09.040 It's not like I really thought that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a false flag operation.
00:56:16.840 I never believed that.
00:56:18.260 You know, there might have been some people who did.
00:56:20.080 But I think any normal human being knew that that was an actual event that occurred and
00:56:27.540 a real tragic one.
00:56:28.660 Yeah.
00:56:28.880 And I think we all can agree.
00:56:30.600 One thing that Alex was right on is that everything starts at the Gulf of Tonkin.
00:56:35.940 There's nothing that doesn't start there.
00:56:38.560 That's right.
00:56:39.000 That's where it all started.
00:56:40.740 It is.
00:56:41.580 That is where it all started.
00:56:42.620 The Gulf of Tonkin.
00:56:43.300 Exactly right.
00:56:45.660 You could go back a little bit further to the Rothschilds if you wanted to.
00:56:52.260 Oh, right.
00:56:52.520 If you wanted to.
00:56:53.640 But, you know, we won't go there right now.
00:56:55.080 I don't want to go to high level.
00:56:56.320 That's Alex's job.
00:56:57.360 Right.
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