In this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn talks to the American people about the hurricane recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating storm that has devastated the southern coast of Florida and the aftermath of the storm. He also talks about the dangers of the mainstream media and the lack of coverage of the situation.
00:03:01.180So that means half the country is only hearing that they are not in everything that the other side said to them is being dismissed as conspiracy theory or dangerous misinformation that only plays in to see.
00:03:19.860I told you, I told you, I told you these people were dangerous when these people are the ones who have been the first responders.
00:03:27.680We have been there long before FEMA ever showed up.
00:03:33.360Let me give you two other stories and then we're going to go to the phone.
00:03:36.360My premise here is you are going to lose your freedom of speech.
00:03:44.040Elon Musk came out yesterday and said, believe me, they will try to shut down X by any means possible.
00:03:57.260If it wasn't for Elon Musk, we would be in a much different situation.
00:04:06.400He is the only man of any real clout and power that is standing up against this push.
00:04:13.800And you cannot dismiss this as a conspiracy theory because you have in the last week, Barack, Hillary, Harris, Walsh and the left all giving speeches or interviews saying this has to stop.
00:04:38.980There is a there is a new pullout from the agencies or on the agencies and the bosses, the the bosses of all of the federal agencies were asked in a new Neapolitan Institute survey about the individual freedoms that Americans have.
00:05:03.600Fifty one percent of those people in charge of our agencies say Americans have somewhat too far too much freedom.
00:05:21.840Fifty seven percent believe the government has way too much control over their lives.
00:05:27.320We are looking at a difference of a big difference of a very important opinion.
00:05:33.600Between those who are in the agencies who control your life through their own regulation, not Congress, their own regulation, they believe you have somewhat to far too much freedom.
00:05:51.620So, you know, among the Republican federal agency chiefs, thirty three percent agree and Democrats, sixty eight percent disagree.
00:06:05.320So, even the Republicans are out of step.
00:06:10.720But this is why RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk.
00:06:20.720That's why they're saying cut the size of the federal government.
00:06:45.880He's announced the Improving Digital Identity Act in September 2020.
00:06:52.240He says, quote, it's time for the United States to catch up with the developed world on digital identity technology.
00:06:59.600He says this is a very bipartisan bill.
00:07:03.380Remember, among the people who believe you have far too much freedom.
00:07:08.420He says it's vitally important to ramp up safeguards to protect against identity theft and fraud.
00:07:17.220When has our government been afraid of identity theft?
00:07:23.200In bipartisan manner, a member of Congress appears to be collecting evidence to bolster their argument for why digital identification is required.
00:07:32.440Apparently, the only way we can be safe is if we all have digital ID.
00:10:42.980We need to take care of our people first, our families first, who have probably worked very
00:10:48.340hard their whole lives, never asked anyone for anything.
00:10:51.520The pride of an American, the pride of an American, the American hard worker who does a full day's work and more and never asked for any charity.
00:11:00.980Well, they were stuck and they're counting on us.
00:11:04.360They're counting on us to be there, to be present, to do their very best.
00:11:09.660And all the people who are in the area are using the essentials they have inside of themselves, their skills, their personal things they're able to do.
00:13:25.240I raise funds in other ways during the year.
00:13:28.820So when we come on the air and ask you about, you know, an emergency situation, we can tell you that we're not paying our phone bills or staff, you know, employees, you know, the money.
00:14:42.520Choice seems pretty simple to me, because I see Patriot Mobile.
00:14:46.760They've got an action side of them not related to Patriot Mobile that Patriot Mobile donates to to be able to help us elect the right people in school boards.
00:14:57.580And and even, you know, all statewide elections, they're not involved in any federal election.
00:16:24.000And what happened with the helicopter?
00:16:27.580So, you know, I think I made the mistake of of asking for new conspiracy theories for Christmas because all the ones I got last year came true.
00:16:34.620And so, you know, we we were we were on the ground pretty early in Florida.
00:16:42.160You know, we always say that that people have to understand that FEMA and the National Guard are not first responders.
00:16:47.060They're second responders and responders locally.
00:16:49.880The local first responders are also victims.
00:16:51.940So they're not always fully up to speed.
00:16:54.260So that's why we put first shrimp boots on the ground and get to work right away.
00:16:57.800The good thing about the United Cajun Navy is that we don't have to ask our lawyers for permission to do anything.
00:17:02.360We just ask them to show up to the bond hearing later and we'll deal with it.
00:17:06.080So anyhow, when we first got down there, we were hearing reports about people getting getting stopped and getting, you know, impeding the relief efforts.
00:17:22.920And so we weren't really experiencing it like other people were.
00:17:25.880We were getting reports of it for sure.
00:17:27.340But then we were we started getting frantic calls and texts and pictures and stuff sent to us from our volunteers over at that site saying, you know, what in hell is happening in this?
00:17:39.340You know, they said that the the this Blackhawk did a low pass like he was going to land.
00:17:43.980And they started giving them the X signs with their arms saying, you know, it's a no land zone.
00:17:47.720And he kept coming down and, you know, look, I wasn't there myself, but I've watched a video a bunch of times.
00:17:54.360I am a pilot. I'm a big swing pilot, not helicopter.
00:17:56.740But it does look to me like, first of all, he was he was flying too low.
00:18:01.420FAA says you have to stay 500 feet over any structure of person.
00:18:06.400But it looks like he does a a left bank and then aft pitch, which increased, in my opinion, the strength of the rotary wash that you saw blowing all the materials in the tents everywhere.
00:18:19.160And then he pitched forward and took off.
00:18:21.420So I really don't you know, everybody's been sending us information on the aircraft.
00:18:26.140They're saying, you know, I don't want to say like because we don't know for sure, but they think they know who it belongs to and where it came from.
00:18:33.420So nobody knows, including myself, what the intent was.
00:18:37.040Some people are telling me, oh, the pilot just lost his situational awareness and made a mistake.
00:18:40.800I'm like, listen, Blackhawk pilots are the top guns of the rotary wing.
00:18:44.220The only Blackhawk pilots that make mistakes are the dead ones.
00:18:47.880You know, I mean, these guys are some of the best helicopter pilots in the world.
00:18:51.880Seems like either we had just like a rogue hotshot or they were trying to send some kind of message.
00:18:57.640I hate to go down that rabbit hole, but I mean, everybody's seen the video now.
00:19:01.160Like, I'm happy to hear what anybody thinks.
00:19:04.140So do I I know somebody who has a Blackhawk, believe it or not.
00:19:13.220I didn't know you could buy them, but you can strip down, apparently.
00:19:18.320Do we know if this was private, at least?
00:19:37.480One of our one of our followers like, you know, was really good with video and they were able to like kind of close up on it and see the two pilots in the cockpit.
00:20:35.520And also, even if it let's say it was, you know, military, the last thing I want people doing is going and trying to find out who the pilots were and start harassing them.
00:21:43.440And I'll tell you, Glenn, we just so happened that the week before Helene hit, we had some pre scheduled meetings in D.C.
00:21:51.700And one of those meetings was at FEMA.
00:21:53.220And so they had us up into the incident command center, which is like their war room.
00:21:58.120And they had just done a level one activation and they were watching Helene and talking to all the local emergency managers and making plans.
00:22:06.340And I did not meet anybody in the entire building when I was at FEMA that was not a passionate, dedicated person that cares about their job and cares about helping people in trouble.
00:22:19.120So FEMA as an entity seems like it's just another F word.
00:22:26.440And you can say what you want about the leadership of FEMA and the political appointees, but the people on the ground, and there are people on the ground in North Carolina, have been since I got there.
00:22:37.100But, yeah, don't be ugly to those people.
00:23:44.260And what's worse than being short people, and this is something that was intimated to me from some FEMA management people that obviously won't be named,
00:23:55.100but it's not just not having enough bodies, Glenn.
00:23:58.520They're more experienced staff or elsewhere, and you know what I'm talking about.
00:24:03.720And so it's like they have people, but they're kind of fairly new hires still carrying around their employee handbook trying to figure out what's going on.
00:24:10.700So they've requested, to their credit, these people have requested from their higher-ups to bring in some of these more senior, experienced people.
00:24:21.720And my understanding is that that hasn't happened yet.
00:24:25.100I can't thank you and every single veteran that is on the ground.
00:24:32.360I mean, the American people are really good people, but we don't have the experience, per se, that you guys do.
00:24:40.420The veterans and especially Special Forces guys, you guys sprung into action and set these systems up like only really military can do.
00:24:50.200You just had what you had, and you made good with that, and you set it up, and you organized.
00:24:57.160And I think you made the difference between life and death with a lot of people.
00:25:29.120And I think one of the other things that helped us out as an organization with regards to, you know, local or locals or federal officials trying to stop relief efforts is that we put it out there very early that anybody getting in our way, we're offering an all-expense-paid free swamp tour back in Louisiana.
00:26:19.240We have assets in Destin and Ocala, and we're moving more into the area.
00:26:23.580We're going to have boat assets, supplies, and air assets just like we did in North Carolina.
00:26:28.440So nobody has to worry about whether we're coming.
00:26:31.260We're already there, and we're going to help as many people as we can.
00:26:34.720The good thing about Florida is they do such a good job with these hurricanes as a state that usually we're just there for, like, maybe a few days or a week handling the life-threatening emergency stuff.
00:26:45.900And then the state comes in and starts running their show, and it's – you know, they take over, and they have a tremendous snapback game.
00:26:55.280Yeah, Ron DeSantis is absolutely incredible, just incredible with the system.
00:26:59.500Everybody should have a Navy SEAL as a governor.
00:28:05.820Especially when they're grappling down from a helicopter as they were over the mountains and, you know, pulling people up in the helicopter.
00:28:15.500When I saw Corey Mills do that, I'm like, what?
00:32:12.460And I am proud to have earned the support of the vast majority of delegates.
00:32:17.560And to have been elected the Democratic nominee, I am proud to have received the endorsement of leaders around this country from every background and walk of life.
00:33:01.160Like, it's tough to take because, you know, this would they would sit on this and press on it and say, wait a minute.
00:33:06.220But you're saying you you won the votes.
00:33:08.720You won the votes of the delegates after correct the sitting president endorsed you and you pushed everybody else out of the race.
00:33:16.380And after you sat on the information that he was almost a vegetable for four years, three and a half years, you said, trust me, I'm there with him.
00:35:00.720And he still thought that that there's, you know, that the hate speech is banned by the First Amendment and that you can't say fire in a crowded theater.
00:35:10.080Things that anyone who studied this issue know immediately are wrong.
00:35:49.780You can't, you know, there's no, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact that kind of, you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree.
00:36:00.800And people go and then people self-select where they go for their news or for their information.
00:36:07.660And then you just get into a vicious cycle.
00:36:09.580So it's really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I've been involved in this.
00:36:18.560And, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some accountability on facts, et cetera.
00:36:30.560But, look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
00:36:49.040Notice they are not talking about who the final arbiter is on mis and disinformation.
00:36:56.900The arbiter that they are asking for is them.
00:37:00.560That they will alert social media and everyone else.
00:38:14.700It looked to me that as soon as they realized what they were doing, they were pulling away.
00:38:19.760And I've seen more stuff than I can tell you blown over, including one of my soldiers was blown over by an Apache.
00:38:28.180I mean, it actually sent him tumbling.
00:38:29.420Many years ago in Korea, a lieutenant and I were flying a hawk, and we were tactically flying the riverbeds, and it just so happened it was also the vacation season in Korea.
00:38:41.580And the Koreans set up these canopies and easy-ups on the river and float in the water.
00:38:47.800And we were following the riverbed, not going real fast, and I thought I was high enough until I looked out and I saw canopies tumbling and flying every which direction.
00:39:33.500There's a lot of agencies that have them.
00:39:35.140Once again, also, at Fort Hood, I got accused of flying over a neighborhood while I was at my house having a lunch, and I actually looked out and saw the Black Hawk, and I don't know if it was a customs or who it was, but after they found out that I was actually at my house and not flying, I got redeemed on that one.
00:39:59.500But, no, if they had wanted to really cause some damage, they would have come in a lot lower.
00:40:09.040And it looked to me like as soon as they realized, oh, crap, we're blowing.
00:40:13.880And it was light stuff from looking at the video.
00:40:18.800So I really, in my heart of hearts, I don't think it was done on purple.
00:40:31.640As I said, I'm a minister, and I'm a district superintendent of a church, and I wanted to thank you for the other evening as you went off the show.
00:40:44.880You talked about getting God back in our families.
00:41:56.860I was in Kansas City yesterday, and I was with a small group, and it was just a kind of a Q&A thing.
00:42:05.600And God came up an awful lot, and it was a secular thing.
00:42:12.420And I think people, I think the people who are awake, and they're religious and awake, are willing to talk about God because they know that's the only thing left.
00:42:25.960There doesn't seem to be fear anymore.
00:42:39.460Now is the time to prepare and do all of the things that we're supposed to do because I think he's coming.
00:42:46.760I would have never said that 20 years ago on the air, you know, and you certainly wouldn't be, I wouldn't have said it on the air like a lot, you know, maybe once.
00:43:02.800And I think the people, we have, we've had everything torn away from us, and like our children, the one opinion that Christians should not shy on stating is, I believe in Jesus Christ.