The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： David Harsanyi ｜ 5⧸19⧸21

00:00:00.000 Hello, I'm Joe Biden, and I think this is a Glenn Beck podcast where they talk about

00:00:11.920 me and have you seen my shoe?

00:00:18.280 Today's podcast begins now.

00:00:20.320 I have something so delicious, I cannot wait, but I'm going to, I'm going to, because Stu

00:00:42.160 begs me every day, we're going to talk about Cuomo, aren't we?

00:00:46.380 We're going to talk about Cuomo, because he's the worst, you know, and I say, Hitler was 0.68

00:00:51.600 pretty bad, Stu, and you keep telling me not to talk about Hitler.

00:00:55.700 No, you could talk about Hitler.

00:00:58.760 I mean, Hitler, not alive, so he's not as much of a current threat, despite what the media

00:01:04.580 tells you, that he's around every corner.

00:01:07.520 Hitler killed old people, Cuomo killed old people.

00:01:10.520 True, some comparisons there.

00:01:11.920 It'd be, you know, the Hitler family moved to Long Island after World War II. 0.83

00:01:18.460 Scott Hitler, Debbie, Andrew, Hitler. 0.78

00:01:22.940 I'm just saying.

00:01:24.200 You did expose the other people in the Hitler family the other day, which was fascinating 1.00

00:01:29.380 to hear about.

00:01:29.960 Exactly right.

00:01:30.660 All right, so what are you whining about with Cuomo?

00:01:33.320 So a lot of people have been talking about the sexual harassment part of the Cuomo saga,

00:01:37.320 which is legitimate.

00:01:38.480 There's still a report coming from the attorney general of the state.

00:01:42.860 We don't know what's in there yet.

00:01:45.300 Here's one thing we do know, however, 100%, other than just andrewcuomoisawful.com, we

00:01:51.840 know that, but we also know that Andrew Cuomo doesn't care what you think about him and his

00:01:57.480 sexual harassment allegations.

00:01:58.840 Listen to this clip from yesterday.

00:02:00.400 There is a legal definition of harassment that is very clear.

00:02:04.140 All I was saying is just uncomfortable does not mean sexual harassment.

00:02:12.460 You make me uncomfortable by some of the questions you ask me.

00:02:16.720 That is not sexual harassment.

00:02:18.720 There are other elements that also have to be added.

00:02:22.080 Intimate has a number of manifestations.

00:02:26.880 I think we have an intimate relationship.

00:02:29.280 Don't you think that?

00:02:30.260 Oh my gosh.

00:02:31.100 Not a sexual relationship.

00:02:34.220 No.

00:02:35.280 No.

00:02:36.000 No.

00:02:38.160 Oh.

00:02:39.000 Major.

00:02:39.840 You know why that's so funny?

00:02:42.420 That is so funny because he's making light of the women he's been groping, you know,

00:02:48.820 by saying that.

00:02:49.680 And it's so funny.

00:02:51.800 It's hilarious.

00:02:52.580 Once you know the context that he's been accused, you know, of intimate relationships with people,

00:02:59.720 it's hysterical.

00:03:01.980 Oh, he is just, he's a ham.

00:03:04.060 He's a ham, isn't he?

00:03:05.040 Yeah, he is.

00:03:05.780 Now, despite all of his handsy escapades that he's been participating in, I happen to be one

00:03:11.900 of the people who think the larger issue is the thousands of old people he murdered.

00:03:17.700 Oh my gosh, you just go on.

00:03:20.960 Yeah, you go on and on.

00:03:22.640 We got it.

00:03:23.280 He killed old people. 1.00

00:03:24.700 Move on.

00:03:26.240 Now, for months, as you know, Glenn, the numbers of victims of Cuomo's policies were both known

00:03:34.340 to him and hidden by him.

00:03:37.500 By him.

00:03:37.820 By him, yes.

00:03:38.700 Now, the same could be said about his compensation for his viscerally repulsive book, which I

00:03:46.480 love.

00:03:47.240 The working title was How to Enrich Yourself by Murdering Grandparents.

00:03:51.900 I hate to.

00:03:54.000 It was one of, yes, that was the work.

00:03:56.040 It was one of the times it could have been kicked around.

00:03:58.960 It was actually called American Crisis, which is the title of the book and also what he unleashed

00:04:03.920 on America over the past year.

00:04:05.880 Uh, so before we got the truth about what his compensation was, he decided, um, to, of

00:04:15.400 course, make a few little announcements, Glenn.

00:04:18.580 He used a bit of distraction.

00:04:22.480 Let me quote.

00:04:23.780 Hours before the release of the figures, Mr. Cuomo made a series of major pandemic related

00:04:29.360 announcements, including the end of most mask mandates in the state for vaccinated New Yorkers.

00:04:35.880 The loosening of capacity restrictions on businesses and the return of the New York City Marathon

00:04:42.060 and the Tribeca Film Festival.

00:04:45.400 Oh, is that it?

00:04:47.260 That's all?

00:04:47.720 That's fantastic.

00:04:48.480 Wow.

00:04:48.720 Wow.

00:04:49.100 What an amazing timing.

00:04:50.600 I guess the science just supported that change in policy a few hours before his announcement.

00:04:54.500 That's what happened.

00:04:55.680 You know, it's a coincidence.

00:04:57.060 Things like that happen.

00:04:58.000 Yeah.

00:04:58.440 He was just following the science and the science said that this science should be announced

00:05:02.260 as a distraction before an embarrassing admission.

00:05:05.820 That's what the science said.

00:05:07.460 What was the announcement that was so embarrassing that Stu was trying to say he was hiding that

00:05:13.060 he, for his horrible scam of a book, he just, you know, received $5.12 million in advance

00:05:24.560 of $5.12 million.

00:05:28.140 And, you know, I mean, he got that for what?

00:05:32.040 Nothing?

00:05:32.520 Doing nothing?

00:05:33.240 I don't think that's fair.

00:05:34.820 His book was much worse than nothing.

00:05:36.800 Look, if he had only done nothing, what an amazing thing that would be for the state

00:05:44.760 of New York.

00:05:45.220 If he had done nothing, nursing homes would have just said, well, of course we're not

00:05:48.440 going to take COVID positive patients into our nursing homes with the most vulnerable

00:05:54.180 all around.

00:05:56.020 So him doing nothing would have saved lives is what you're saying.

00:05:59.840 Nothing would have been much better than Cuomo.

00:06:01.940 Literally having no governor at all would have been far superior from someone who seemed

00:06:09.020 intent of wiping everyone over 65 years old off the planet.

00:06:14.360 But $5.12 million.

00:06:17.700 Now, you may not be in the business of ending lives of innocent people for profit.

00:06:23.260 So you may not realize how much money this is for a book deal.

00:06:31.520 Yeah, I mean, it's a lot.

00:06:32.960 We know a lot about the book industry.

00:06:35.180 Almost no one, no one makes the kind of cash we're talking about, you know, now in 2021.

00:06:41.360 This is from the New York Times.

00:06:43.180 According to the publishing world, the revelation of Mr. Cuomo's payment elicited shock.

00:06:49.400 The amount appeared to be a staggering sum to pay to a politician who already had a meager

00:06:55.900 sales record for his previous book, a memoir that just sold a few thousand print copies.

00:07:02.000 Remember, we're talking about $5.12 million.

00:07:05.700 And I will say this, even if you take away $1.12 million from the total, it's still completely

00:07:12.720 insane.

00:07:13.180 And we know that for sure, because it was initially reported that Cuomo earned $4 million for the

00:07:20.020 book.

00:07:20.480 Right.

00:07:20.580 In fact, let me quote here how the left-wing magazine, The New Republic, covered it.

00:07:26.100 Why would anyone pay Andrew Cuomo $4 million for a book?

00:07:31.080 The good news is they didn't.

00:07:33.440 They didn't.

00:07:34.240 They didn't.

00:07:35.100 And remember, that's an incredible amount for any author.

00:07:39.020 But Cuomo is quite possibly the worst single author in the history of words.

00:07:46.400 That quote.

00:07:47.120 That is Andrew Cuomo.

00:07:50.140 Quoting, seven years ago, on the eve of being elected to a second term as governor of New

00:07:56.540 York, Andrew Cuomo completed a rite of passage familiar to all presidential aspirants.

00:08:01.480 He published a memoir, All Things Are Possible.

00:08:06.220 It's overlong at more than 550 pages, cliche-ridden and hopelessly dull, which is to say a standard

00:08:16.020 issue political tome.

00:08:18.040 Cuomo was paid more than $700,000 in advance by HarperCollins.

00:08:22.920 The book had an announced initial run of $200,000.

00:08:28.380 But five months after it was published, it had sold just 3,000 copies in hardcover and 13 audiobooks.

00:08:38.140 I love it.

00:08:38.680 Even by the dismal standards of the sub-genre of books by politicians, this was a flop.

00:08:47.600 Based on a conservative estimate of the governor's advance, Cuomo earned about $200 for every

00:08:54.200 hardcover sold.

00:08:56.300 $200 a book?

00:08:58.200 That was...

00:08:58.860 Yeah.

00:08:59.300 Yeah.

00:08:59.620 And 13 audiobooks.

00:09:01.560 Yeah.

00:09:01.960 Don't forget those 13 audiobooks.

00:09:03.200 That's total.

00:09:04.480 Not 13,000 audiobooks.

00:09:07.140 I'm legitimately telling you it was like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

00:09:20.540 That's how many times people clicked buy.

00:09:23.120 I just gave you the entire history of the book.

00:09:25.660 They had to pay Cuomo $200 per book.

00:09:32.920 I mean, it's hard to overstate how much of a catastrophe that is in every single way.

00:09:37.460 It's a business catastrophe.

00:09:38.080 Yes, yes.

00:09:39.120 So, when that happens to you, I'm just saying, you wouldn't ever write another book ever again.

00:09:50.040 And sheer, just out of shame, really guilty feelings on, gee, I just took $700,000 from

00:10:00.780 these people, and 13 audiobooks were downloaded.

00:10:05.200 I feel kind of bad.

00:10:06.640 Yeah.

00:10:07.160 And so, how did this new book work out for the company?

00:10:10.320 I wonder.

00:10:11.340 May I quote again?

00:10:12.240 There's no question that they lost their shirts and that Cuomo was the beneficiary of what only

00:10:19.500 can be characterized as a bad commercial decision.

00:10:23.140 You think?

00:10:24.740 This is the founder and chief executive of Ideological, a publishing consultancy.

00:10:32.080 Bad commercial decision is quite a way to put it.

00:10:35.620 It's a little bit of an understatement.

00:10:38.020 It's basically like calling the importation of, I don't know, COVID-positive patients into

00:10:42.660 nursing homes a bad management decision.

00:10:46.440 Yes, it's true.

00:10:47.740 It is true, but a little bit of an understatement.

00:10:50.720 Quote, the more successful than its predecessor, you know, the one that sold 13 copies in audiobook,

00:10:58.480 it has sold 45,000 copies.

00:11:02.100 It, too, is a disaster from a sales standpoint.

00:11:05.320 And that was before Cuomo was hit with a cascade of scandals.

00:11:10.160 Its publisher, Crown, stopped promoting it earlier this year.

00:11:14.300 American crisis even plays a supporting role in one of those scandals.

00:11:18.460 While Cuomo and his aides were working or were at work on the book, they were simultaneously

00:11:24.040 working to undercount nursing home deaths early in the pandemic, according to the New York Times.

00:11:30.080 And that's an important point.

00:11:30.960 It's not just that the book was a catastrophe sales-wise, which it was.

00:11:34.620 And it's not just that it was a failure, which it certainly was.

00:11:37.880 It's that the book itself was a big part of the problem.

00:11:42.460 Quote, last summer, top aides to Mr. Cuomo gathered at the governor's mansion with editors

00:11:47.240 to read from the manuscript, a memoir of the pandemic's first months.

00:11:52.500 The aides, who had been directly involved in the pandemic response, took turns reading passages

00:11:58.120 and commenting on facts in the work.

00:12:00.960 Like, that didn't happen.

00:12:03.040 According to two people with knowledge of the gathering, which began on a Friday and stretched

00:12:07.380 into the weekend, the governor also read aloud from the work.

00:12:11.380 So in the same place, the same location, he was allegedly groping women.

00:12:16.580 And he was also forcing them to read his book.

00:12:20.960 I don't know which is worse.

00:12:25.840 I can't compute.

00:12:29.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:12:32.460 The craziest part about all of this is not that he may have forced his staffers to help

00:12:37.860 write the book, which is against the law, or that he completely failed.

00:12:41.620 I mean, he's Andrew Cuomo.

00:12:43.100 His life is filled with gigantic failures.

00:12:46.620 Hey, I'm not a failure.

00:12:48.400 Have you seen my nipple rings?

00:12:51.080 But there's no way there is no way this could have succeeded.

00:12:55.700 There was no path to success by giving him this much money.

00:12:58.520 Industry figures have estimated that the figure of assumed sales to justify this contract would

00:13:04.740 be in the very high six figures and possibly over a million, an astonishing number, particularly

00:13:10.180 given the disruptions caused by COVID-19.

00:13:13.120 It points to the kind of mania that grips some publishing houses and the bubbles that

00:13:17.320 many executives live in.

00:13:19.100 Cuomo's popularity among a certain set was so profound that the idea that American Crisis

00:13:24.840 could be the kind of book that makes a publishing house's year took hold.

00:13:30.220 So you can sit here and we can mock him for saying he only sold 5% of expectations, which

00:13:34.800 is what he did.

00:13:36.160 But 50,000 books for Andrew Cuomo is like a literal miracle.

00:13:41.060 That is incredible.

00:13:42.400 It is.

00:13:43.000 It really is.

00:13:44.100 I mean, he outperformed all expectations by like 10 times and still was only at 1 20th of

00:13:51.820 breaking even.

00:13:54.840 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:15:06.600 Oh, I have some, I have such good news, such good news.

00:15:12.380 You're going to love this.

00:15:13.480 You really are going to love this.

00:15:15.100 I've never heard of this group before.

00:15:17.180 Apparently, they've been around since 1929.

00:15:20.760 It's called the Consumers Research.

00:15:24.560 And again, I know nothing about this company or this 501c3.

00:15:30.040 I don't even know, but I will soon.

00:15:33.480 I'd like to have them on the air.

00:15:35.920 They have decided to go after the woke companies, all of these companies, from Coca-Cola to Nike 0.94

00:15:46.360 to American Airlines.

00:15:48.960 And I want to play three ads that they've just released that they need to go everywhere.

00:15:56.040 I'll tweet them out.

00:15:57.600 They've got to go everywhere.

00:15:58.840 Listen to this.

00:15:59.540 American Airlines, rated the worst, losing the most bags, shrinking legroom during COVID.

00:16:05.380 American requires passengers to show ID to fly, but attacks Texas's popular voter ID law.

00:16:11.760 Why is CEO Doug Parker trying to appease the radical left?

00:16:15.900 To distract from billions of taxpayer bailouts, from his $10 million payday, from Americans' record layoffs.

00:16:23.520 Doug Parker, American Airlines.

00:16:25.420 Serve your customers, not woke politicians. 0.93

00:16:28.340 It's like a political attack ad, but just aimed at a company.

00:16:36.560 So something I learned from Bill O'Reilly.

00:16:41.480 Bill said to me at one point, he said, look, you're going to get a lot of heat.

00:16:49.000 He said, so when you have a fight that you don't think you can win, let me in.

00:16:56.840 I'll do something.

00:16:59.220 And I said, well, what would you do?

00:17:01.220 And he said, oh, I'll talk directly to the CEO on TV.

00:17:06.440 And I said, and that helps.

00:17:10.000 And he said, CEOs do not like their name in the press.

00:17:16.800 They don't like it applied to controversy or anything about them.

00:17:22.960 They like it when their name is mentioned, you know, in newspaper articles about how great they are, but not tied to any kind of scandal.

00:17:33.820 He said, they hate it, hate it.

00:17:37.880 This company is going and saying, gee, is it because they lost all this money and had to have a big bailout from the government?

00:17:45.720 Or is it because what was his name?

00:17:49.180 The CEO just got a $9 million salary.

00:17:53.800 They're not going to like that.

00:17:58.300 Let me play busted number two.

00:18:01.720 Listen.

00:18:02.280 Nike is constantly political.

00:18:04.340 Why?

00:18:05.020 Cover.

00:18:05.680 Congressional reports suspect Nike used forced labor in China.

00:18:09.580 Religious minorities were ripped from their families, sterilized, sold to factories.

00:18:14.120 Nike made shoes in those same areas.

00:18:16.380 Congress tried to ban Nike's labor practices.

00:18:19.000 Nike fought back with highly paid lobbyists.

00:18:21.520 Rather than hiring Americans, Nike chose China.

00:18:25.060 John Donahoe.

00:18:26.040 Nike.

00:18:26.900 Stop exploiting foreign labor. 0.98

00:18:28.840 Serve your customers.

00:18:30.260 Not woke politicians.

00:18:32.840 John Donahoe.

00:18:36.340 Love it.

00:18:37.460 And the last one on Coca-Cola.

00:18:39.980 Coca-Cola is getting political.

00:18:42.160 Attacking Georgia's popular voting law.

00:18:44.540 Why?

00:18:45.080 To distract.

00:18:46.160 From years of dismal sales, terrible 2020 results.

00:18:49.520 Reports suspecting they benefited from forced labor in China.

00:18:53.280 Coca-Cola products are poisoning America's youth and worsening the obesity epidemic.

00:18:57.960 So the company tried funding phony science to minimize the harms.

00:19:01.600 But they got busted.

00:19:02.880 James Quincy.

00:19:03.920 Coca-Cola.

00:19:05.000 Stop poisoning our children.

00:19:06.820 Serve your customers.

00:19:08.220 Not woke politicians.

00:19:09.980 Is that fantastic?

00:19:11.320 James Quincy.

00:19:12.460 James Quincy poisoning America's youth with the footnotes underneath it.

00:19:18.000 Do you have to watch these as TV commercials with the footnotes underneath it on why that's a true statement?

00:19:23.880 It's fantastic.

00:19:27.000 Fantastic.

00:19:28.320 Now, our job is you go to consumersresearch.org.

00:19:36.760 Consumersresearch.org.

00:19:38.160 Go there now and click on the Say No to Woke Companies.

00:19:44.740 And you'll find those three ads.

00:19:47.160 More are coming.

00:19:48.160 I can't wait to hear the one about baseball.

00:19:50.560 Major League Baseball.

00:19:53.240 And Babe Ruth.

00:19:54.920 Why are you fondling little children?

00:19:58.600 The Woke Companies campaign, Say No to Woke Companies, is at consumersresearch.org.

00:20:08.600 Get them and tweet them out one at a time.

00:20:12.180 Put them on your Facebook.

00:20:13.920 Put them everywhere.

00:20:16.420 America, you finally have somebody in your corner that is actually fighting for you.

00:20:22.100 I love this approach.

00:20:24.980 It's a really interesting approach.

00:20:26.400 I can't remember ever seeing anything like it.

00:20:30.320 You know, usually you don't hear attack ads against products and companies.

00:20:34.720 Big tobacco.

00:20:36.120 Were you old enough to remember the fight against big tobacco?

00:20:38.580 Oh, yeah.

00:20:39.180 Yeah.

00:20:39.520 Yeah.

00:20:39.860 Okay.

00:20:40.120 So this is what they did to big tobacco.

00:20:42.640 Yeah.

00:20:43.200 I guess.

00:20:43.640 I guess.

00:20:44.080 Yeah.

00:20:44.260 That's Marlboro, man.

00:20:45.940 Why are you killing people?

00:20:48.480 Yeah.

00:20:48.660 I guess they were just.

00:20:50.000 Yeah.

00:20:50.320 I don't know why I'm separating that, but I think in a way, it's almost like Pepsi would

00:20:56.500 run and should run commercials against Coke like this, like a competitor, right?

00:21:02.340 That is trying to say, look at all the bad things that are happening with this particular

00:21:05.620 company.

00:21:06.040 Because while its motivation seems to be stop getting involved in woke politics, it's not

00:21:12.680 necessarily about that, right?

00:21:14.780 It's just profiling really bad things that have happened with the company that the company

00:21:19.200 wants you to forget.

00:21:20.320 So the problem is, is that they know Pepsi's never going to do that because Pepsi doesn't

00:21:26.620 want to get on the other side of the woke culture.

00:21:30.080 You know, they're probably most likely part of it.

00:21:32.520 Oh, sure.

00:21:33.340 But but also yesterday.

00:21:35.780 So New York, they pulled the mask band.

00:21:40.100 And so you don't you don't have to wear the masks anymore.

00:21:43.760 Let me see if I can find this.

00:21:45.500 Here it is.

00:21:45.840 New York City supermarket.

00:21:48.420 It's called Morton Williams supermarkets, and it's caught up in the conflicts on the

00:21:54.900 masks.

00:21:56.120 Morton Williams customers are sharply divided over the grocery chain's decision.

00:22:00.780 Controversy kicked off Monday when the popular supermarket emailed customers about its decision

00:22:06.000 to comply to comply to comply with the new CDC coronavirus guidelines starting Wednesday when

00:22:15.180 New York State will drop the mask mandate.

00:22:18.800 The short email just explained the new policy and the Big Apple grocer said we will not ask

00:22:25.520 for proof of vaccination.

00:22:27.020 Well, that was stomping on a hornet's nest and the the chain put out another email just

00:22:39.520 a few hours later.

00:22:41.660 We recently sent you an email explaining our policy regarding masks in doing so.

00:22:47.800 We knew that we were stepping into a hornet's nest and that many would feel that this is a

00:22:51.600 premature decision better suited for a later day.

00:22:53.940 Well, we didn't know that we would be held hostage.

00:22:57.320 So help me.

00:22:58.260 I am now in front of this flag of the world culture, and I'm reading this statement.

00:23:04.200 We will put up signs encouraging customers and employees to continue wearing masks regardless

00:23:09.600 of their vaccination status.

00:23:11.500 And and and please be respectful to those who do not feel comfortable.

00:23:17.320 Wait a minute.

00:23:19.220 Wait a minute.

00:23:20.140 They're now telling the mask, the non mask wearing population of New York that they have

00:23:29.220 to be kind to the mask wearing people of New York who are not following the science.

00:23:38.600 Now, I have no problem.

00:23:40.220 You want to wear a mask for the rest of your life.

00:23:41.960 That's your choice.

00:23:42.700 I think you're missing out.

00:23:43.660 I think it's ridiculous, but especially if you're ugly, that's OK.

00:23:48.120 Go ahead.

00:23:48.700 Continue to do it.

00:23:49.760 Like, I wish there was a mask for my entire body, but there's not yet.

00:23:55.200 That's clothing.

00:23:55.960 That's what clothing is.

00:23:58.020 Yes.

00:23:59.040 Yes.

00:23:59.380 You're right on that.

00:24:00.520 Unfortunately, it doesn't do enough for me anymore.

00:24:02.980 I need a moo moo. 1.00

00:24:04.340 Anyway, anyway, the you know, if you don't want to wear a mask, fine.

00:24:10.780 If you do want to wear a mask, fine.

00:24:13.780 If you want to get the vaccine, fine.

00:24:16.120 You don't want to get the vaccine.

00:24:17.300 Fine.

00:24:17.640 I don't really care.

00:24:20.020 We are on the mend.

00:24:21.640 The CDC, if you want to follow the science.

00:24:26.820 Then why aren't you following the science when the CDC scientists reluctantly finally come

00:24:35.120 to the conclusion that you don't need to wear a mask?

00:24:37.500 You're fine.

00:24:38.200 Yeah.

00:24:38.360 Well, I and I think you hit on the most frustrating part about this, because, yes, it's really

00:24:44.580 frustrating when they don't follow the science and all of that.

00:24:47.760 The excruciating part of this is is being berated for a year for not wearing a mask outside

00:24:56.800 by the left killers.

00:24:58.260 And now the second the CDC admits what we've all known the entire time, that there's no

00:25:04.880 outdoor transmission largely of this virus.

00:25:07.480 There have been zero documented cases outside of close conversation outdoors in the entire

00:25:15.600 world since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:25:18.520 According to that number, let me just say you that that number is zero, zero.

00:25:24.740 So I want you to consider that it is zero.

00:25:27.480 Right.

00:25:27.740 So zero is the number for an entire year.

00:25:30.480 We've taken people screaming at us for following the science.

00:25:34.800 And now day one after the CDC decides to admit what has been known about vaccinations for a

00:25:42.900 very long time, that this is not something you need to worry about.

00:25:46.480 But then we're like, they're like, oh, gosh, please don't criticize.

00:25:50.940 You guys aren't going to get upset about this, are you?

00:25:53.560 You guys aren't going to start criticizing people who make different choices than you.

00:25:58.040 Everyone has a right for their own decision making and risk assessment.

00:26:02.100 And you need to make sure you don't be mean to others.

00:26:05.740 You're telling us that after this year, you're coming to us with that nonsense after all of this.

00:26:12.360 After Rachel Maddow actually had the set.

00:26:17.540 She did, too.

00:26:19.060 She she had the set to be able to go on television and say, you know, I'm going to have to rewire 1.00

00:26:25.360 my whole thinking because I have to stop seeing people not wearing a mask and think you're a

00:26:31.420 danger.

00:26:32.020 You're going to kill somebody.

00:26:33.620 You're selfish.

00:26:35.360 You're a Republican denier.

00:26:38.060 What?

00:26:38.580 I mean, the problem is the problem is they have viewed America through this lens.

00:26:47.060 Their little mask is like a little armband saying what party they belong to, say a little

00:26:55.720 little red armband.

00:26:58.280 And anybody who didn't wear a mask, that was like a Jewish star. 0.97

00:27:02.700 They could see who the enemy was and they liked those categories.

00:27:08.620 It's us versus them. 0.99

00:27:10.560 I don't like that.

00:27:12.240 I don't like that.

00:27:13.300 I never have liked that.

00:27:14.620 I wouldn't like it if it was reversed. 0.93

00:27:17.420 And, you know, they've been pushing it and pushing it and pushing it.

00:27:21.720 And now that the science agrees with those who didn't wear a mask or don't want to wear

00:27:28.260 a mask anymore.

00:27:30.260 Now, the science says, yep, you don't have to wear a mask.

00:27:33.880 They're going crazy and asking for mercy.

00:27:36.340 And yet they bashed this supermarket so badly for just complying with the law and science

00:27:45.960 that they humbly withdrew and said, well, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:27:50.480 We'll ask everybody.

00:27:51.640 We'll we'll ask everybody if they'll still wear a mask.

00:27:54.380 That's insanity.

00:27:56.240 That is mob rule.

00:27:58.420 That's not America.

00:27:59.540 That's not science.

00:28:01.080 That's mob rule. 0.90

00:28:03.120 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:10.500 All right.

00:28:11.320 So I want to bring in David Harsany, who is, I think, a brilliant, brilliant man.

00:28:16.840 I rue the day that we let him escape from our clutches.

00:28:23.720 David Harsany is now the senior writer at National Review and wrote a couple of articles

00:28:29.700 that I want to talk to him about.

00:28:30.760 One is let's start here with the abortion and the abortion bill that the Supreme Court

00:28:37.900 just took up.

00:28:38.920 Hi, David.

00:28:39.360 How are you?

00:28:40.840 I'm well.

00:28:41.320 Thanks for having me.

00:28:42.560 Good.

00:28:42.920 Good.

00:28:43.160 I want to run this theory by you on why the Supreme Court took this particular case, because

00:28:51.520 they have they've passed a lot of cases up and but they took this one up and and the the

00:28:58.780 logic from my friends who watch the Supreme Court and know kind of these things said that

00:29:05.360 they've been looking for the right case and they only took on one aspect of this.

00:29:11.300 And that is the 15 months, you know, viability law and weeks, 15 weeks, of course.

00:29:20.160 Yeah.

00:29:20.400 I'm sorry.

00:29:21.000 15 weeks viability clause.

00:29:23.440 And the reason why my friend tells me that this is happening is because this is the way

00:29:30.820 to eventually dismantle all of it.

00:29:34.920 But you have to come in at something reasonable.

00:29:38.800 People can agree with Roe versus Wade is is all about viability.

00:29:43.560 Well, babies are more viable.

00:29:46.020 You know, that was 20 or 21 weeks.

00:29:48.480 Now they're viable at 15 weeks.

00:29:50.860 And so they're moving that to slowly make this their first pitch in with something scientific

00:29:59.360 and not something that is religious or based on morals, per se.

00:30:06.320 Do you buy into that, David?

00:30:09.660 I don't.

00:30:10.840 Yeah, I kind of do.

00:30:12.320 I mean, I don't know, you know, the idea that there have some kind of political angle

00:30:16.880 that they're looking at is something I wish that they wouldn't do.

00:30:20.180 But maybe it's just the reality of the world.

00:30:21.740 Right.

00:30:22.120 So if that's the case, the viability aspect is a good one, because as a political matter,

00:30:28.080 most Americans are not if not totally against abortion, want the restrictions after the

00:30:34.140 first trimester.

00:30:35.020 So viability, which is always changing, which actually proves that the whole idea of viability

00:30:39.500 is nonsense, actually, is a good issue to, you know, to tether to as you move forward.

00:30:47.040 Yeah.

00:30:47.520 Yeah.

00:30:48.080 And even if you don't change anything else, eventually we get down to the baby is viable

00:30:53.840 at any time, you know, just because of science and the way it is, it's moving forward.

00:31:01.140 Let's talk a little bit about the unless you want you have something else you want to go

00:31:05.540 into your your article on abortion was great, by the way.

00:31:08.640 You want to touch on that?

00:31:10.100 Well, I appreciate that.

00:31:11.160 I just wanted to make the quick point that that the idea that, you know, you don't have

00:31:15.880 technology to save someone doesn't mean that they're not alive.

00:31:18.620 In the 1700s, we couldn't save people from infection.

00:31:21.680 It didn't mean they weren't alive.

00:31:22.780 And I think that that's the argument.

00:31:24.360 That's a rational, non-religious argument to make to people.

00:31:27.320 It's a moral argument, but I think it's a strong one.

00:31:31.680 David, I miss your clear thinking.

00:31:34.060 Um, you are one of my favorite people and, and, uh, you are just a, uh, a passionate person

00:31:41.440 without basing your arguments in, in passion.

00:31:44.800 Um, let's talk a little bit about the squad.

00:31:47.920 You just wrote an article for the national review.

00:31:49.920 The squad is rooting for Hamas. 0.92

00:31:51.940 David, I don't, I don't think even, even under Obama, I don't think it was this bad.

00:31:57.740 I don't think I have ever seen such clear cut good versus evil.

00:32:04.960 And we seem to always be picking the side of evil in the last few months.

00:32:09.920 Talk to me about Israel and Hamas.

00:32:12.800 Yeah.

00:32:13.320 I mean, listen, Israel is an imperfect plate democracy or, you know, a democratic nation 0.95

00:32:18.240 like many others, a liberal nation where there are courts of law and, and, uh, people are

00:32:22.360 allowed to defend themselves and the nation is allowed to defend themselves.

00:32:25.020 So, you know, I have no problem with people who are critical of Israel, but when you take

00:32:29.680 the side of Hamas, which is just, it's a death cult essentially that wants not only to 0.97

00:32:34.460 kill Israeli civilians, they want their own civilians martyred in this cause. 0.99

00:32:38.340 I just, it escapes me how anyone, anyone with any kind of moral understanding of the

00:32:44.980 world can, can make an equivalency between the two.

00:32:47.860 Israel is clearly defending itself on that. 0.63

00:32:50.380 Whether you believe Palestinians should have a state or not, this is not about that.

00:32:53.820 Hamas doesn't accept a two state solution. 0.90

00:32:56.680 It wants a one state solution.

00:32:58.920 And, uh, you know, every country, any country, our country, we would respond probably in, in

00:33:04.960 a more, more aggressive way than, than even the Israelis are doing. 0.96

00:33:08.080 Now, people talk about civilian casualties.

00:33:10.840 If you think about what Hamas is doing, they're embedded within civilian populations.

00:33:15.040 Then you, do you realize that the amount of civilians who are unfortunately dying in this

00:33:19.660 conflict is actually rather small compared to other ones.

00:33:22.600 So I just, it's hard for me to even understand this one.

00:33:25.660 Many, you know, most things on the left, I try to understand their point of view, but this

00:33:28.940 Hamas boosterism within, you know, I don't understand it, but I do think a lot of it has 1.00

00:33:35.200 to do that we're talking with the fact that we're talking about Jews here.

00:33:38.140 And I can't be dissuaded of that by anyone.

00:33:40.940 So, um, that's how I see it.

00:33:43.820 Well, that was, um, I had, uh, Dershowitz on yesterday at talking about this and he said

00:33:48.440 pretty much the same thing.

00:33:49.560 He said, look, you don't see the squad or anybody outraged by Tibet and what's happening

00:33:56.020 in Tibet or, you know, what's happening with the Uyghurs. 0.73

00:34:00.320 They're just not there.

00:34:01.460 And he said, the reason is the only logical conclusion he can come to is because their

00:34:06.640 enemy isn't Jews. 0.62

00:34:08.980 He said, if they were Jews, they'd probably care all of a sudden. 0.99

00:34:14.380 Right.

00:34:14.920 And not just that they're Jews, maybe that they're Westerners, you know, in the sense

00:34:18.020 of colonizing this area and people have a bad grasp of the history of this situation.

00:34:23.100 They always want to go back in time and restart history in 1948 or 1967 or even before.

00:34:27.960 And it's simply not how it works.

00:34:30.660 But, um, yeah, I agree with him.

00:34:32.720 I think this does have to do with Jews.

00:34:35.240 So when you see Rashida Tlaib, Nakba never ended, give the audience a definition of what

00:34:43.220 Nakba is.

00:34:45.820 Well, you know, they were constantly talking about occupied territory, but when you say

00:34:49.460 Nakba, which means that I think it's translated as the catastrophe, you're talking about 1948.

00:34:54.640 You're talking about the very existence of the Jewish state.

00:34:58.300 For her, um, occupied territory is all territory, even towns that have Jewish names dating back

00:35:05.280 to, you know, before Christ, and that she believes that that all should belong to a new

00:35:10.260 Palestinian state, which is, of course, never existed as an Arab country ever.

00:35:14.820 Um, so that's what she's talking about.

00:35:16.760 We're not actually talking about, you know, 1967 armistice lines.

00:35:20.760 We're talking about all of Israel.

00:35:23.860 Why are people, I mean, David, it seems so clear to me, um, you know, who the Nazis are, 0.79

00:35:32.260 uh, especially in this.

00:35:34.500 I mean, they, they keep saying that the, the right is, uh, is all about white supremacy,

00:35:40.560 et cetera, et cetera.

00:35:41.620 I'm not about white supremacy.

00:35:43.120 You're not about white supremacy.

00:35:44.620 I honestly don't know anybody who is, I know they exist, but that is a very, very small number.

00:35:52.020 And they keep calling us Nazis because we believe in the constitution, which is not part of the

00:35:59.560 Nazi philosophy.

00:36:00.520 However, these, uh, you know, the squad is saying things that the Nazis would agree with. 0.84

00:36:08.480 And many people, uh, on Twitter, you can still find their, their statements glorifying the killings of, of Jews.

00:36:18.500 Is America, are we that detached from reality?

00:36:23.440 Does, does this continue down this road or do we wake up or not?

00:36:28.660 I'm asking, I guess.

00:36:31.220 Well, I'm sure you've seen, there are people who compare how progressives speak and how white supremacists speak.

00:36:37.640 And it's often quite similar in their outlook on the world.

00:36:40.060 It's identitarian.

00:36:41.240 It's about color.

00:36:42.360 It's, it, it, it, uh, takes away agency from people and just makes it all about the way they're born,

00:36:48.400 which is the exact opposite of what, you know, Martin Luther King Jr.

00:36:51.560 was talking about, et cetera.

00:36:52.820 Um, so I think that, that in many ways, they transpose that kind of thinking onto every situation.

00:37:00.060 So like Israel, it's about white people and brown people. 0.82

00:37:04.580 When in fact, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are refugees from Arab nations who never lived in the West,

00:37:10.960 who look just like Arab people do. 1.00

00:37:13.260 And, uh, you know, but they can't understand that, that not everything is about race.

00:37:18.040 I don't know if we're ever going to wake up.

00:37:19.760 I am actually, I've always sort of thought that, you know, rhetoric about the end of the country,

00:37:25.200 about the end of the constitution was overdone, but now I don't think that anymore.

00:37:28.660 I think it's in real trouble because I don't think that the left progressive left at least believes

00:37:34.040 in neutral principles that are in the constitution, free speech, you know, individual rights of any kind.

00:37:40.280 And so that's a huge problem.

00:37:41.900 And the younger you are, the less you believe in it.

00:37:44.240 And now that they run the schools and the colleges and the, you know, and the big business,

00:37:49.160 I don't know how you, you turn it around anymore.

00:37:53.740 Well, that's, uh, that's more depressing than I used to make you, uh, when we would talk, uh,

00:38:01.880 I remember times when I would tell you stuff and you'd be like, okay, I don't believe any of that.

00:38:07.140 And I don't want to believe any of that.

00:38:08.840 I'm there now, David, you're right.

00:38:13.340 Um, how much of the responsibility of this, and this is one hope that I have that Americans will wake up

00:38:20.180 because they saw low gas prices, jobs being created, not phantom jobs, but jobs, prices kept low, uh,

00:38:30.480 and peace in the middle East and the right track with China and Russia.

00:38:35.420 And now all of it is coming undone all at once.

00:38:39.300 And my hope is that people will actually see, well, wait a minute.

00:38:45.820 Yeah, I didn't like the way he tweeted and I didn't like some of the things he did, but compared to this,

00:38:52.180 I want more of that and not this.

00:38:55.760 And I, I think there's, there's the possibility that they're exposing themselves because, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:39:04.680 Biden's policy, the reversal of the, the foreign policy that Trump had is the reason we have this happening, uh, over in Israel now.

00:39:16.260 Agree or disagree?

00:39:18.460 I think part of it is, is definitely the reversal having to do with Iran, having to do with releasing funds to the Palestinian authority,

00:39:26.600 having to do with the Palestinian authority, trying to create a problem to push the Biden administration,

00:39:32.100 to push Israel into some sort of deal, things like that.

00:39:35.960 Um, and I think there will be blowback in the larger sense to what's going on because if things turn poorly in the economy,

00:39:42.640 people react that way and they have for a long time.

00:39:45.060 And in fact, even though Donald Trump lost, the Republicans actually did relatively well in that election as far as the house goes and things like that.

00:39:51.640 So, yeah, I think there'd be some reaction.

00:39:53.500 My problem with that is that that's, you know, economic and, and, and something I agree with.

00:39:58.660 I'm for capitalism and all of that.

00:40:00.840 However, there are underlying issues having to do with the constitution that I'm not sure people are really, uh, you know, grasping or, you know,

00:40:08.240 my own kids go to school and the things they learn are really off to me, to say the least.

00:40:13.600 So I worry about that sort of thing.

00:40:15.660 Yeah.

00:40:16.740 Um, all right, David, we'll talk again.

00:40:18.940 Thank you so much for being on the program.

00:40:20.540 David Harsani.

00:40:21.480 He is a senior writer, national review and author of Euro trash, which is coming out.

00:40:27.440 I think in a couple of weeks, isn't it?

00:40:30.060 Isn't it, David?

00:40:30.780 I'm the fall.

00:40:31.500 No, it's coming out in the fall.

00:40:33.020 Uh, we'd, I'd love to have you back.

00:40:34.480 Make sure you come back, uh, for that at least, but we'll have you back before then.

00:40:38.660 I hope, um, David Harsani.

00:40:40.460 Thank you so much.

00:40:41.380 Thank you.

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