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00:00:00.000 Hello America. Great show. Great podcast for you today. We're going to give you the recap of the debate. Lots of fun. Lots of fun. And it couldn't be at the expense of a better group of people.

00:00:12.900 So we'll tell you what happened in the Democratic debate. Also, Bloomberg was accused of calling somebody a horse faced lesbian and a fat. What was it? A fat winch or something like that. Well, I looked up where that came from. Oh, she should have quoted the whole thing. Wait until you hear the actual quote and where it came from. 0.96

00:00:36.040 Also, we try to look at what good has ever come out of a communist country. And the 1776 project, which is the answer to the 1619 project from the New York Times. Why this is so critical that people understand.

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00:01:37.060 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:43.420 So Bloomberg makes his first appearance and everybody is so desperate.

00:01:52.180 They all have to take Bloomberg out.

00:01:55.000 So the guns, even from sweet little grandma, Elizabeth Warren, who just doesn't like to say a bad word about anybody.

00:02:03.200 She had some words saved up for him last night.

00:02:07.080 Here's Bloomberg as he tries to make his case.

00:02:13.420 Bloomberg makes his case.

00:02:15.100 I'm a New Yorker. I know how to take on an arrogant con man like Donald Trump that comes from New York. 0.99

00:02:21.280 I'm a mayor. I was a mayor. 0.98

00:02:25.100 I know how to run a complicated city, the biggest, most diverse city in this country.

00:02:30.720 I'm a manager. I knew what to do after 9-11 and brought the city back stronger than ever.

00:02:37.140 And I'm a philanthropist who didn't inherit his money, but made his money.

00:02:41.760 And I'm spending that money to get rid of Donald Trump, the worst president we have ever had.

00:02:48.180 And if I can get that done, it will be a great contribution to America and to my kids.

00:02:54.580 Wow. Compelling, isn't it?

00:02:57.260 You know, it's funny because he doesn't strike me as America's neighbor.

00:03:00.620 I thought that was a mayor.

00:03:02.220 I thought that was Rudy Giuliani that really brought the city together.

00:03:05.060 He's the one that everybody looks at, not Michael Bloomberg.

00:03:10.300 It was Bloomberg's night last night to be taken apart.

00:03:16.620 And Elizabeth Warren had a lot to do with it. 0.96

00:03:20.080 Listen to Warren, one billionaire for another.

00:03:23.440 Do we have that?

00:03:24.360 Can we, Sarah, can we?

00:03:25.320 I'd like to talk about who we're running against. 1.00

00:03:27.200 A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. 1.00

00:03:33.660 And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. 0.99

00:03:35.760 I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.

00:03:37.720 Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns,

00:03:46.840 of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk.

00:03:54.080 Look, I'll support whoever the Democratic nominee is.

00:03:57.380 But understand this. 0.96

00:03:59.100 Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another. 0.99

00:04:05.760 You know, this kills me. 0.98

00:04:08.020 First of all, she's right. 0.99

00:04:09.600 One arrogant billionaire for another. 1.00

00:04:11.840 One is actually kind of charming, and the other one is just an ass. 1.00

00:04:16.600 But it kills me that they keep saying, I'll support whoever the nominee is. 0.99

00:04:22.580 Are you kidding me?

00:04:25.000 Do you see who's up on the stage with you?

00:04:29.480 I mean, it's one thing if you're like, look, you know, it's Mitt Romney, it's George Bush,

00:04:34.720 it's John McCain.

00:04:36.120 Well, they're all kind of the same.

00:04:39.220 These, you know, I don't know.

00:04:41.540 If it's Ronald Reagan, Mussolini, I'll vote for whoever the people want. 0.84

00:04:46.360 Uh, no, I don't think that's a good idea.

00:04:48.300 Isn't the lesson here, though, that the Democrats, I mean, they're all pretty much the same?

00:04:52.600 Yes.

00:04:53.100 Yes.

00:04:53.460 They just, they just claim not to be.

00:04:56.300 Varying levels of transparency on that.

00:04:58.740 Yeah.

00:04:58.880 But they're all pretty much the same.

00:04:59.940 So here's, this is, let me give you just the, just the feeling of what really, if you didn't

00:05:06.980 watch it, here's what you missed.

00:05:09.140 Cut one audio, please.

00:05:10.520 I mean, that's, that is the chaos of the Democratic Party.

00:05:32.460 Meanwhile, you had Donald Trump at a rally out in, I think it was California, wasn't it?

00:05:37.980 And he, the people carried a World War II veteran on their shoulders into the arena.

00:05:46.780 One makes you feel good about America.

00:05:49.500 The other one just tears it apart.

00:05:52.620 Which do you think Americans are going to vote for? 0.96

00:05:55.480 I mean, Ronald, he has become, Donald Trump, because the Democrats are so nasty and angry

00:06:05.560 and, and fighting and the, the, the, the, what is it?

00:06:10.300 The Bernie boys, which I think is just really a bad name for these guys.

00:06:16.820 The Bernie boys.

00:06:17.820 Bernie bros?

00:06:18.080 Bernie bros. 0.99

00:06:19.260 It makes it sound like they're just, you know, ah, they're crazy boys, you know, boys 0.98

00:06:23.100 will be boys. 0.98

00:06:23.760 No, no. 0.96

00:06:25.680 The Bernie bros are dangerous people.

00:06:30.140 You've got with, with what's happening on the, the left and with the Democrats, it makes

00:06:38.240 Donald Trump look more optimistic, more like Ronald Reagan, more of the happy warrior than

00:06:45.540 he ever has. 0.97

00:06:48.540 They are just a group of nasty, angry, unhappy people.

00:06:56.220 And I don't know why Buttigieg is not doing better than he, than he is, other than he's 0.82

00:07:02.100 clearly not qualified.

00:07:04.180 Um, and the, and the voting base, you know, you want to talk about homophobes.

00:07:08.780 Did you hear anybody, did you hear anybody on the right have a problem with Donald Trump

00:07:15.620 when he had, uh, uh, what's his name?

00:07:18.220 Peter Thiel speak at the Republican convention or the fact, I, I, I've heard a lot of problems

00:07:22.680 with Donald Trump naming the first gay cabinet level position, uh, member in American history,

00:07:28.540 which is happening right now with Grinnell, uh, and they seem pissed off about that.

00:07:32.940 Yeah.

00:07:33.100 Who even knows?

00:07:33.720 Who even really knows that nobody's paying attention.

00:07:36.460 Nobody's up in arms about that except the left left.

00:07:39.880 Nobody is up in arms about that, but wait a minute. 0.97

00:07:43.500 You've got a gay presidential candidate in, in Buttigieg. 0.98

00:07:46.540 Oh dear God. 0.97

00:07:47.540 No, their own people are turning away from it.

00:07:52.220 I mean, it is astounding.

00:07:55.700 Now here's Pete Buttigieg last night.

00:07:58.880 Listen to what he had to say.

00:08:00.540 Most Americans don't see where they fit.

00:08:02.820 If they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of

00:08:07.320 all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.

00:08:12.380 Let's put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in

00:08:18.220 an industrial Midwestern city.

00:08:20.280 Let's put forward somebody who's actually a Democrat.

00:08:23.360 Look, that's the line of the night.

00:08:26.960 That's a good point.

00:08:27.800 To me, that's the line of the night.

00:08:29.020 Let's put forth an actual Democrat. 0.67

00:08:31.540 It's the Democratic convention.

00:08:33.480 It's the Democratic primary.

00:08:35.420 You're running Bloomberg, who's whatever it is on a windy day.

00:08:40.160 If the wind's blowing this direction, he's that.

00:08:42.720 If he's on that way, he was a Republican just a few years ago.

00:08:47.540 Basically, Charlie Crist.

00:08:48.940 Yeah.

00:08:49.300 He's just whatever he needs to be.

00:08:51.920 And Bernie Sanders, and I got to stop calling him a socialist.

00:08:55.800 He's not.

00:08:56.760 He's a communist.

00:08:57.780 He has never met a communist regime that he didn't like.

00:09:03.540 Not one.

00:09:05.020 Not one.

00:09:05.500 He called communism, it was a low blow.

00:09:08.840 Because Bloomberg said that last night.

00:09:10.440 He went on about whether, you know, we've tried this before.

00:09:14.220 Like, we're not going to get rid of capitalism.

00:09:15.860 We've tried the alternative.

00:09:16.880 It's called communism.

00:09:17.780 And everyone's like, oh.

00:09:19.460 And then Bernie came out.

00:09:20.340 The next question, he goes, by the way, you said he's called me a communist.

00:09:23.640 And that was a low blow.

00:09:25.720 How?

00:09:26.120 I mean, like, I love this idea.

00:09:28.460 You're a socialist and you think communism is a low blow.

00:09:30.720 Let's put them all in a larger category called Marxism.

00:09:34.000 Right.

00:09:34.460 You're a Marxist.

00:09:35.360 How about that?

00:09:36.240 And you know what?

00:09:36.880 You know what's crazy?

00:09:38.100 Is it shows that they are just playing on people's naivety.

00:09:41.960 Yeah.

00:09:42.060 People don't understand that communism has actually never been done.

00:09:48.740 The Soviet Union and China, they claim to be communists.

00:09:52.860 But that's not it.

00:09:53.880 If you understand Marx, Marx says socialism is the road to communism.

00:09:59.780 You don't get to communism until everybody's like, oh, you know what?

00:10:03.820 I'm so happy. 1.00

00:10:05.740 We don't need a stupid gulag anymore. 1.00

00:10:08.700 We're all here and we're all just going to share the wealth. 1.00

00:10:13.020 Well, that's never happened.

00:10:15.700 Nor will it ever happen until Jesus comes and everybody says, you know what?

00:10:23.060 I just love him so much.

00:10:25.500 Here, take what you want of my stuff.

00:10:28.820 That will never happen.

00:10:32.660 Never.

00:10:34.260 But that's what communism is.

00:10:36.740 Communism gets this name of this bad name because you got to take it by force.

00:10:42.520 You have gulags.

00:10:43.420 You have indoctrination camps.

00:10:45.660 All of that stuff.

00:10:47.380 That, my friend, is socialism.

00:10:49.840 That is what brings you to communism. 0.99

00:10:54.720 Because the only way to do it is to kill all the people that like, no, you're not taking my stuff. 0.99

00:11:00.540 No, I don't want to do that. 1.00

00:11:02.340 Those people have to be reeducated or killed. 0.99

00:11:06.380 Once you get rid of them, well, then you're fine. 0.98

00:11:09.920 By the way, I'm a little more outspoken on Bernie today because we have a meeting after we finish our Wednesday night special and we are already now a week into what's coming next Wednesday.

00:11:31.560 And last night I had a meeting and again this morning and I went over all of the audio and all of the video that we have for next week's Wednesday night special, which is on Bernie Sanders.

00:11:43.640 And his communist radical ties and the people in his campaign.

00:11:50.480 This man is a danger.

00:11:53.960 And I am so sick and tired of having people tell me when when Jeremiah Wright's pupil was sitting in the in the White House.

00:12:06.000 And I said, the guy's a Marxist, the guy's a socialist. 0.97

00:12:09.540 Oh, how dare you, you racist.

00:12:12.320 When I in 2004, when I warned the Democrats, don't put Michael Moore in the presidential box because he is a socialist Marxist and you think you're using him. 0.82

00:12:26.380 But I'm telling you right now, they're going to come back.

00:12:29.020 You are going to be so surprised you're using them.

00:12:32.180 Right.

00:12:32.700 They're using you, buddy, and they're going to eat you. 0.81

00:12:37.520 I'm so sick and tired of being told, oh, that's just nonsense.

00:12:41.680 It's not.

00:12:42.560 It's very apparent now, isn't it?

00:12:45.600 Listen, because this may be the last warning you get.

00:12:50.800 Bernie Sanders has surrounded himself with very dangerous people.

00:12:57.740 And you're going to meet all of them next Wednesday.

00:13:00.720 There is a chance that Bernie Sanders actually gets the nomination.

00:13:07.420 Now, I don't see that happening and it will be a colossal disaster if he does for the Democrats, but it couldn't happen to a better group of people.

00:13:20.700 However, if Bernie Sanders, if they try to engineer this, or even if somebody like Bloomberg gets that nomination, legitimately, Bernie Sanders and his Bernie bros will burn Milwaukee to the ground.

00:13:42.560 These people are serious, Marxist, communist, radical anarchists.

00:13:52.440 Last warning, America.

00:13:55.440 You're about to put one of these guys in office.

00:14:00.060 Last warning.

00:14:01.820 You know, here's the problem with Buttigieg.

00:14:12.080 I mean, Buttigieg, can I go to audio cut number 22, please?

00:14:17.400 Buttigieg has been lecturing people on Christianity for a while.

00:14:21.660 And this one, I don't know how people in South Carolina took this.

00:14:26.640 Cut 22, please.

00:14:28.260 Then, I just can't imagine that that requires of you that you be anywhere near this president.

00:14:35.060 Do you think it is impossible to be a Christian and support President Trump?

00:14:39.640 Well, I'm not going to tell other Christians how to be Christians.

00:14:43.060 But I will say I cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself and anything that I find in Scripture.

00:14:52.180 Now, I guess that's my interpretation, but I think that's a lot of people's interpretation, and that interpretation deserves a voice.

00:14:58.900 Okay.

00:14:59.540 Okay.

00:15:00.060 Very good.

00:15:01.480 Except the fact that a lot of people would find your lifestyle antithetical to what's found in the Bible.

00:15:12.060 I mean, you just, Pete, you can't make this claim.

00:15:16.860 You know, I just don't know how you would vote for him, because the way he lives his life, I mean, you know, you can't find that in the Bible. 0.90

00:15:25.020 Well, you also can't find anything but stoning of homosexuality and stoning of homosexuals in the Bible, too. 0.82

00:15:32.260 Old-timey, sure. 0.99

00:15:34.620 Bad, yes.

00:15:37.020 But it's not an endorsement.

00:15:39.720 Nowhere in the Bible is there an endorsement of that.

00:15:44.140 I mean, at best, you can say, well, Jesus never talked about it.

00:15:47.960 Well, Jesus never talked about tweeting, either.

00:15:50.560 I mean...

00:15:53.380 I just, it's a weird pitch from him.

00:15:56.840 I think, I think...

00:15:57.900 Why?

00:15:58.000 I think he thinks that he's showing a friendliness to faith, his version of it, and because so many on stage show a seeming almost aggression against faith, this will make him appeal to people in the middle who are like maybe conservative Democrats or maybe even, you know, liberal Republicans who might be faith-based and see, well, you know, everyone else seems to almost like...

00:16:27.980 I despise faith, at least he's mentioning it. 0.90

00:16:30.220 But I think it's almost the opposite because he seems like he's preaching to everybody else.

00:16:34.140 Right.

00:16:34.780 Exactly right.

00:16:35.500 And I don't think it works.

00:16:35.600 You can't pick and choose if you're going to use the Bible.

00:16:41.120 You're going to say, well, I'm a Bible-believing person.

00:16:43.980 It's like Donald Trump.

00:16:45.020 It drove me nuts when he was like, yeah, you know, I love the two Corinthians.

00:16:50.820 Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

00:16:52.320 Stop talking about it, okay?

00:16:53.980 But if you just want to say, look, I mean, you know, I try to live my life based on, you know, basic principles, many of them were found in the Bible, and I don't know how to square his behavior.

00:17:10.060 That's totally fine.

00:17:11.820 But he gets into, we're in Bible country now. 0.88

00:17:14.800 We're in Bible territory.

00:17:16.940 You know, you shouldn't go there.

00:17:19.080 You shouldn't go there.

00:17:19.780 Yeah, and it just, and look, talk about principles of being a good person.

00:17:24.140 Good.

00:17:24.700 You're good.

00:17:25.220 It's just hard to take preaching about faith and religion from a person who's also talking about nine-month abortions.

00:17:33.760 Yes.

00:17:33.880 Right, like this is a difficult sell. 1.00

00:17:36.340 I'm going to kill a baby after they're born. 1.00

00:17:40.180 No, no, I don't think you'll find that in the Bible. 1.00

00:17:44.240 You know?

00:17:44.920 Very little material on that there.

00:17:47.340 You just, and see, it's not even the whites that are at issue here on this. 0.86

00:17:53.880 It would be the Bible-believing blacks in the black churches of South Carolina. 0.94

00:18:02.220 They don't, one of the big things there is anti-homosexual. 0.90

00:18:07.460 I mean, I know they're Democrats, but.

00:18:09.920 You're referring to the polls that show, what is it, 41% of African-American voters would not be comfortable with a gay president. 0.64

00:18:16.000 Exactly right.

00:18:16.800 I mean, and those are Democratic voters.

00:18:19.420 You've got to tone down the radical anti-homosexual attitude there in some of your voters. 0.97

00:18:28.760 They're clearly bigoted against homosexuals. 0.90

00:18:33.480 Nobody will say that. 0.97

00:18:35.140 But that's what that group tends to believe.

00:18:38.680 You're not going to win, Pete, by preaching Bible to them. 1.00

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00:19:06.320 Pat, I don't know.

00:19:07.720 It's like there's a, there's a, there's a spirit in your walk.

00:19:11.820 You're just, you seem to sprint in here today.

00:19:15.280 I just, I just watched the greatest debate in human history.

00:19:18.900 Really?

00:19:19.500 Yeah.

00:19:19.680 I love it.

00:19:21.120 I loved it last night.

00:19:22.300 I mean, I, it's so painful to watch these debates, but when they went after each other

00:19:26.340 with a lot of the things that we'd say about them, isn't that amazing?

00:19:32.340 You can't beat that.

00:19:32.880 Do you remember the t-shirt?

00:19:33.960 Do you remember the t-shirt we made at Fox that said, what if Glenn Beck is right?

00:19:37.740 Uh, I think we should need, we need a new t-shirt that just says Glenn Beck was right.

00:19:43.300 Yes.

00:19:43.920 Uh, because they're now finally saying that the mask has come off.

00:19:47.360 Oh, completely.

00:19:48.640 They're now, I mean, you had a Democrat, if you can call him that call the quote socialist,

00:19:54.180 what he really is a communist on stage from the democratic party.

00:19:59.800 And how much did he hate being called out for his three homes?

00:20:04.880 Oh my gosh.

00:20:05.880 So good.

00:20:06.500 The wonderful Marxist in the room has a summer home.

00:20:10.780 Now, pardon me for having a summer home.

00:20:14.020 Yeah, we can't.

00:20:15.360 Not with your rhetoric.

00:20:16.580 We can't.

00:20:17.360 A lot of people, a lot of people in, in Maine or New Hampshire, wherever, Vermont, like

00:20:24.920 a lot of people.

00:20:26.180 Thousands have summer homes.

00:20:27.080 Like a lot of people.

00:20:27.940 Listen, here's the actual quote.

00:20:29.560 Mayor Bloomberg, would you like the question was not socialism?

00:20:32.780 What a wonderful country we have.

00:20:34.160 The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.

00:20:38.040 What'd I miss here?

00:20:39.700 Well, you'll miss that.

00:20:40.840 I work in Washington.

00:20:42.600 House one.

00:20:43.080 That's the first problem.

00:20:44.140 Live in Burlington.

00:20:45.200 House two.

00:20:45.860 That's good.

00:20:46.360 And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp.

00:20:49.660 Forgive me for that.

00:20:50.680 Where is your home?

00:20:51.780 Which tax haven do you have your home?

00:20:54.520 New York City.

00:20:55.560 Thank you very much.

00:20:56.560 And I pay all my taxes.

00:20:58.800 Wait, he has a summer camp?

00:21:00.420 Yeah, it's a summer camp.

00:21:01.520 It's not a summer home.

00:21:02.380 It's a summer camp.

00:21:03.100 Is that where he sends capitalists to be re-educated?

00:21:08.060 Well, a summer camp sounds more gritty.

00:21:11.480 Yeah.

00:21:11.880 It sounds like it's a little cabin, a little tiny cabin.

00:21:13.600 It sounds like it's a KOA campground.

00:21:15.460 Yeah, that's right.

00:21:16.080 I pull my RV up.

00:21:17.300 Of course, we've seen the home, and it's a nice home.

00:21:19.340 It's not a camp at all.

00:21:21.300 It's a home.

00:21:22.020 There's no tent part of that house.

00:21:24.480 Oh.

00:21:24.780 You know.

00:21:25.340 That was, I mean, because people, I think rightly so, said Bloomberg did pretty poor in this debate.

00:21:30.160 But, I mean, he had some good moments.

00:21:31.320 That's a good moment.

00:21:31.780 He did great.

00:21:33.480 He did great if it was a presidential general election.

00:21:40.000 He's going after all the socialist Marxists in the Democratic Party.

00:21:45.480 They're the only ones going out for these things.

00:21:48.060 He seems to be the only one not embarrassed by capitalism.

00:21:50.740 And, look, there are a lot of Democratic voters who are not Bernie Sanders.

00:21:54.860 You know, those people are going to, I think, look at some, the voters, not the candidates.

00:21:59.140 The voters are going to look at that and say, well, at least somebody's saying, you know, like, maybe we should be able to keep our own health care.

00:22:05.520 Well, do you remember when they asked, anybody here, you know, like socialism or, you know, want to stick up for capitalism?

00:22:15.480 Nobody.

00:22:16.000 It was only Klobuchar, right?

00:22:17.040 Klobuchar was in.

00:22:17.600 One, raise your hand for capitalism.

00:22:19.620 One.

00:22:20.700 Boy, there seemed to be a lot of talk about socialism and capitalism.

00:22:26.460 The audience last night, they weren't capitalists.

00:22:31.240 No, do they stack that?

00:22:33.020 No, these are just the.

00:22:34.360 That's just amazing.

00:22:35.840 Isn't it?

00:22:36.260 It's amazing that so many.

00:22:38.120 I mean, these are, this is just the audience.

00:22:40.260 So you would think rank and file Democrats, right?

00:22:42.940 Piling in to see this.

00:22:44.620 And none of them applaud capitalism.

00:22:47.440 None of them like capitalism.

00:22:49.220 So, so let's, let's play those.

00:22:51.680 Could we play, play the cut 10, the weak applause for capitalism?

00:22:59.200 I believe in capitalism, but I think our, the goal of someone in government and a president of the United States should be a check.

00:23:08.900 One of them was Bloomberg, I think.

00:23:10.540 I think so.

00:23:11.360 It was like, I believe in capitalism.

00:23:14.280 Wow, Amy, it's a good thing you brought your husband and Bloomberg was there.

00:23:23.180 Now, listen to this.

00:23:25.580 Bloomberg says throwing out capitalism would get Trump reelected because communism doesn't work.

00:23:31.980 Listen to this.

00:23:34.860 Booze for capitalism. 0.52

00:23:36.420 I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get reelected than listening to this conversation. 0.99

00:23:42.000 This is ridiculous. 0.97

00:23:45.300 We're not going to throw out capitalism. 0.98

00:23:47.920 We tried that.

00:23:48.880 Other countries tried that.

00:23:50.200 It was called communism and it just didn't work.

00:23:52.200 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:23:57.460 They're stepping on my toes now.

00:24:01.060 It worked great.

00:24:02.320 You should have seen the chandeliers in the subways there in Russia.

00:24:06.480 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:24:07.820 Beautiful.

00:24:09.000 Again, I thought that was another pretty good moment for Bloomberg.

00:24:11.540 I thought so, too.

00:24:12.180 It was.

00:24:12.700 Not in the primary.

00:24:14.120 I don't know.

00:24:14.640 I think, again, he's not trying to get Bernie voters.

00:24:17.320 He's trying to get Biden voters.

00:24:18.960 He's trying to get people who are like Klobuchar or Buttigieg, whatever this moderate lane supposedly is.

00:24:24.420 And I think there's a good chunk of Democratic voters who want the big programs, who want gay marriage and all those sorts of things, but don't want capitalism destroyed.

00:24:33.480 There is a contingency of Democratic voters who do that.

00:24:36.600 None of them were there last night, but there is a contingency.

00:24:39.000 No, we're not there.

00:24:39.320 Right.

00:24:39.560 They did not show up for that.

00:24:40.980 I mean, you still hope that people in Middle America, right, Democrats in Nebraska, still believe in the capitalist system.

00:24:46.900 You would hope.

00:24:47.700 Yeah, remember.

00:24:48.480 I'm not sure it's true, though.

00:24:50.120 I'm not.

00:24:50.640 I don't see a lot of evidence of it.

00:24:52.060 They did that whole test of what would you feel comfortable voting for. 0.97

00:24:56.320 And, you know, there was gay president, Muslim president. 0.94

00:24:58.380 The least popular one in the entire thing was socialist. 0.77

00:25:00.260 I mean, you know, again, I think it's still a very negative connotation.

00:25:03.600 But with Democrats, 74% were okay with it, right?

00:25:08.440 Is that not?

00:25:09.360 No, not this poll that we saw.

00:25:10.960 It was 47% overall, but I believe 74% of Democrats would vote for a socialist.

00:25:17.700 Well, let's just take that on its face, right?

00:25:19.440 So 26% are not comfortable voting for them at all.

00:25:23.020 That's enough to lead the pack in the field right now if you get those people.

00:25:26.740 Now, look, you still have to get some of the other people, too, to win the nomination at the end of the day.

00:25:31.840 But with a divided field like that, he's the only one who seems brave enough to step out.

00:25:36.400 And Klobuchar, to some degree, did this.

00:25:37.780 But brave enough to stand up and just say, look, yeah, capitalism.

00:25:41.080 It's hard to hide when he got $64 billion.

00:25:43.740 He has to.

00:25:45.240 It's difficult to hide, yeah.

00:25:46.420 But even he has to apologize for his wealth by saying he's giving it all away.

00:25:51.320 You're not giving it all away.

00:25:52.980 What are you talking about?

00:25:53.860 He signed the giving pledge, didn't he?

00:25:56.300 Yeah.

00:25:57.400 Which is, you know, Gates did this.

00:25:59.620 And, I mean, one thing he's bad at is giving it away, apparently.

00:26:03.340 And, by the way, he gives it away every time he buys a new house.

00:26:07.780 He is, I mean, look, he's giving it a fortune to largely hardcore left-wing causes,

00:26:14.240 including anti-gun causes that are far to the left of even where Bernie Sanders is.

00:26:19.780 So this guy is no conservative.

00:26:21.060 He's no moderate.

00:26:22.320 He just has the ability to actually say, hey, the entire economic system of this country shouldn't be torn down tomorrow.

00:26:28.780 This is what's crazy.

00:26:30.980 This is what's crazy.

00:26:32.280 He, the Overton window, is in the Soviet Union to where Bloomberg looks like he's a moderate. 0.87

00:26:43.880 Crazy.

00:26:44.660 That's amazing. 0.99

00:26:45.340 The guy is a totalitarian autocrat.

00:26:49.300 That's what he is.

00:26:50.280 He's an absolute extremist on the Second Amendment and on climate change.

00:26:54.320 Climate change.

00:26:55.240 And have you noticed, has anybody noticed how everyone is now starting to talk about everything in the Constitution?

00:27:01.880 Like, you know, we should re-examine that.

00:27:04.000 I mean, you know, maybe we should have term limits on the Supreme Court. 0.94

00:27:09.880 You know, and we should get rid of the Electoral College and the Second Amendment doesn't work. 1.00

00:27:15.560 And maybe we should look at the First Amendment. 0.90

00:27:17.140 This is the longest-running Constitution in the history of all mankind, and it has produced the greatest period of freedom and wealth and health the world has ever seen.

00:27:30.700 And suddenly everybody's talking about, eh, maybe we should crack that thing open.

00:27:35.980 No.

00:27:37.700 No.

00:27:38.280 What do you say we return to the Constitution?

00:27:41.480 What do you say we start using it from time to time?

00:27:43.960 You know, we used to make fun of, and I apologize, we used to make fun of those people that carried the pocket Constitution around with them.

00:27:51.940 We're like, oh, he's got the pocket Constitution.

00:27:54.080 Why don't you read the Constitution?

00:27:55.200 Yeah, okay, buddy.

00:27:57.060 Thank you for carrying the pocket Constitution around.

00:27:59.900 Thank you.

00:28:00.620 Thank you.

00:28:01.700 They were right.

00:28:03.960 They were right.

00:28:05.980 We got so lost.

00:28:08.300 And now we're to the point to...

00:28:10.660 Okay.

00:28:13.960 Sorry, I've just got so much processing in my head right now, and I'm so...

00:28:17.920 I'm on the edge.

00:28:19.140 Today is the day.

00:28:20.160 I'm...

00:28:20.560 Do I look bloated?

00:28:21.780 Do I look bloated?

00:28:22.640 I tell you what, that's been every day.

00:28:24.400 I just thought that was...

00:28:25.300 No, it's...

00:28:25.500 You're normal.

00:28:26.040 It's been typical.

00:28:26.600 No, I think I'm cycling.

00:28:28.040 I think I'm cycling now.

00:28:29.440 Here's the thing.

00:28:30.860 Here's the thing.

00:28:31.680 How do you get people to buy into Nazism, communism?

00:28:43.320 How do you do it?

00:28:45.740 Hitler said, you've got to create the biggest lies.

00:28:49.360 The bigger the lie, the more easy it is.

00:28:53.680 And it's the small ones that are hard.

00:28:56.380 That never made sense to me.

00:29:01.440 Well, let's see.

00:29:03.480 How many Americans right now, especially the youth, where it always comes from, especially 1.00

00:29:11.000 the youth, will say, yes, a man can have a baby.

00:29:16.860 Yes, a man can have his period.

00:29:19.900 No, he can't.

00:29:20.880 If you're bleeding downstairs, go see a doctor, okay? 0.96

00:29:26.000 If you're a dude, and every month you got blood shooting out of you, see a frickin' doctor. 0.95

00:29:33.700 Something's wrong. 0.52

00:29:35.420 But how many people are willing to say that?

00:29:37.740 If they can get you to say something that you know absolutely, positively cannot ever happen,

00:29:45.320 that a man cannot have a baby. 0.97

00:29:47.580 You could put a baby in a man, but he ain't pushing it through his pee-pee. 0.97

00:29:53.500 I don't know how you keep it alive.

00:29:55.380 Thank you for using the technical term.

00:29:57.000 Thank you.

00:29:57.180 Thank you.

00:29:57.720 I appreciate that.

00:29:58.820 No man is menstruating today.

00:30:01.640 And if you think so, you need to see a doctor as well.

00:30:06.760 But how many of us have already accepted that lie?

00:30:09.540 If they can get you to say that, or to be afraid to say, excuse me, dummy, no, if you

00:30:20.040 are afraid to say that, they just got you to deny something you know absolutely, positively,

00:30:27.020 scientifically, no questions asked, you are now either staying silent, or you are agreeing

00:30:33.720 with it. 0.98

00:30:34.500 And that's without putting the rat cage on your head. 0.86

00:30:36.880 Exactly right.

00:30:37.540 Like in 1984.

00:30:38.920 What do you think they can't do?

00:30:41.200 It's so easy.

00:30:42.000 What lies will you tell in your life if you're willing to go there first?

00:30:51.640 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:53.940 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:31:25.400 Thanks.

00:31:25.940 Let me go right to Dr. Wilford Riley, professor at Kentucky State University, author of the

00:31:30.540 book Taboo, and a guy who started the 1776 project.

00:31:35.460 He's going to talk to us about today.

00:31:38.540 Doctor, welcome to the program.

00:31:41.560 Thanks for having me on.

00:31:42.580 Sure.

00:31:43.440 Now, normally, you would give me the professional courtesy of calling me doctor as well, seeing

00:31:47.620 that I worked hard, just as hard as you, for my doctorate.

00:31:50.820 But I...

00:31:51.740 Are you also a doctor?

00:31:53.900 I am a doctor.

00:31:55.020 I'm a doctor of humanities, which means I can operate on people's feet, I think.

00:32:01.040 Mind.

00:32:01.420 Oral surgery.

00:32:02.620 Pardon me?

00:32:03.600 I said on their minds, maybe.

00:32:06.100 Well, I mean, I don't think we have to have this professional squabble about it now.

00:32:09.320 So, doctor, I want to thank you for coming on the show.

00:32:14.580 Thank you for what you're doing.

00:32:17.560 And tell me why you got involved in trying to set the record straight from the 1619 project.

00:32:26.100 Sure.

00:32:26.440 I will say I'm one of the founders of the 1776 project.

00:32:30.920 But there are a large number of pretty elite people involved.

00:32:34.120 Bob Woodson, really, at the Woodson Center is the guy that brought our group together.

00:32:38.700 I mean, you've got Glenn Lowry, legendary economist, Tlaib Starks, the organizer, Carol Swain,

00:32:44.640 John Sibley Butler, pretty impressive lineup, Coleman Hughes, the editor at Quillette.

00:32:49.260 But the idea of the 1776 project, I mean, it is a nonpartisan, I'd say for most of us,

00:32:54.460 center-right at least, black-led response to the New York Times 1619 project.

00:33:00.860 And the 1619 project, your intro on this is pretty much dead on point.

00:33:04.800 This is an idea.

00:33:06.740 This is a series of editorials that became a business initiative that the USA began in slavery,

00:33:13.460 and that really the thing that defines the country the most or the thing that makes the country unique

00:33:19.320 is the fact that we had historical slavery here.

00:33:22.700 And 1776 is a response to that.

00:33:25.980 I mean, we point out – and an initiative on its own.

00:33:28.100 So we point out a number of things.

00:33:30.100 First of all, almost all societies had slavery until the 18th century.

00:33:34.620 If everyone was guilty of evil and the USA today is unique, it was not the evil that made us unique.

00:33:40.200 So we point out some of the flaws in the 1619 narrative, and there are many,

00:33:45.060 like the claim that the Revolutionary War was fought so that America could keep slaves.

00:33:49.020 That's absolute nonsense.

00:33:51.660 Yeah, that's – one of the – Gordon Wood, who's the country's probably leading Revolutionary War historian,

00:33:57.200 has really taken that apart where he points out that that ignores everything that actually led to the war,

00:34:03.120 taxation without representation, French and Indian war debt, I mean, armed battles in the streets,

00:34:09.260 the Boston Massacre, that's all pushed aside.

00:34:11.080 Right, and it also dismisses the first original draft of the Declaration of Independence

00:34:16.720 in Jefferson's own handwriting, where one of the – the last usurptation is a paragraph

00:34:23.540 that is passionate against slavery.

00:34:27.580 Where's that?

00:34:29.020 Yeah, I mean, I think – so a one-sided narrative is a bad narrative.

00:34:33.120 I mean, an obvious point is that for literally as long as we had slavery in the USA,

00:34:38.100 there was a powerful anti-slavery movement led by white and black people of goodwill,

00:34:43.580 from Frederick Douglass to John Brown, that, one, we don't have slaves in the USA.

00:34:47.880 We haven't had slaves since 1865.

00:34:49.800 I've never had a slave or been one, and neither has anyone else who's currently alive

00:34:53.540 who was born in this country.

00:34:54.920 So these are the sort of things that we point out.

00:34:57.560 And in contrast to the narrative of 1619, which is that racism still defines –

00:35:01.880 the racism of 300 years ago still defines exactly what America is today.

00:35:05.700 That's crazy.

00:35:06.180 We have a pretty simple thesis, which is that the United States of America is a flawed

00:35:10.140 but very good society.

00:35:12.060 It's simply not that difficult to make it here, and almost anyone can,

00:35:15.840 given hard work and personal responsibility.

00:35:18.440 People regularly come to the USA from countries where cars are a bit of a luxury item,

00:35:22.420 like Ethiopia and Vietnam, and go on to outperform both black and white native-born Americans.

00:35:27.920 So there's absolutely no reason we should expect less of middle-class black people

00:35:32.780 or Appalachian white ones, for that matter, than we do of recent immigrants from Botswana

00:35:37.020 or the Philippines.

00:35:37.760 That's crazy, and that is a form of racism.

00:35:40.040 So this is – go ahead.

00:35:41.700 Go ahead.

00:35:42.320 No, no.

00:35:42.720 We're responding.

00:35:44.680 1619, although it presents as purely academic, is to some extent a business initiative.

00:35:48.600 I mean, they have a curriculum designed with the Pulitzer Center and so on.

00:35:51.420 So many of us, including me, have fairly elite business backgrounds,

00:35:54.560 and we're responding across a range of avenues, I mean, curricula, media like this,

00:35:59.540 so on down the line.

00:36:00.380 I mean, the narrative can't go unchallenged, that the USA is not the world's best country,

00:36:05.520 but rather its most evil.

00:36:06.640 That just doesn't make any sense empirically.

00:36:08.180 Well, they are already – it's already creeping into our schools,

00:36:12.820 and they're taking this at face value.

00:36:15.840 I heard an ad for the podcast from the New York Times, and they said, you know,

00:36:21.380 and there are some disagreements, but that's what we do best is try to get people to talk

00:36:26.740 and find the truth.

00:36:27.720 No, you have taken a theory that is flawed from the beginning,

00:36:32.200 and you've merchandised it, marketed it, and now it's being taught in some schools

00:36:38.540 around the country.

00:36:39.380 It is – it's really dangerous to teach this kind of nonsense,

00:36:46.220 and I can't thank you enough for actually following through and not just talking about it,

00:36:53.580 but getting the curricula changed in schools to make sure we're teaching the truth.

00:36:59.500 Yeah, and in the book you mentioned, Taboo, the 10 Facts You Can't Talk About,

00:37:03.520 recently came out with Regnery.

00:37:04.540 This is something that I talk about, and it's kind of the invasion at a level below

00:37:08.920 what most people recognize of certain ideas into the American mainstream.

00:37:13.300 So I frankly don't think most people know what their kids are learning in school.

00:37:16.900 They don't.

00:37:17.680 Yeah, this is very important.

00:37:19.340 I would actually – a statement for the parents out there, look at it.

00:37:22.600 There are specific things like what sex education is being taught,

00:37:25.580 what American history is being taught, that any thinking father or mother

00:37:28.600 should ask their child's school district about.

00:37:30.680 Yeah, I'm in – yeah, I recently observed this with some of my own younger relatives,

00:37:36.240 and it's pretty striking.

00:37:37.800 At any rate, so the response to 1619 – I mean, thank you for the compliment.

00:37:42.640 One thing I would emphasize is that nobody – obviously not you, obviously not me –

00:37:47.040 is arguing that slavery was good.

00:37:50.680 Right. 0.78

00:37:50.800 What we're saying – yeah, it's ridiculous that it even needed to be said.

00:37:54.560 But what we're saying is a series of empirical points.

00:37:57.160 One, American slavery was not historically unique.

00:37:59.800 Every other country, including the many civilized black nations of Africa, 1.00

00:38:03.620 had a form of slavery that was as bad or worse until quite recently.

00:38:08.900 Two, we don't think that slavery was the defining feature of the USA.

00:38:13.740 We don't think it's what made America unique.

00:38:15.660 With no disrespect for that southern culture, the south was a bit of a backwater

00:38:19.100 before the Civil War, and that's why they lost.

00:38:21.280 And a big reason for that was the reliance on this sort of feudal surf agriculture.

00:38:25.400 And third, finally, we do not believe – we do not believe that after 155 years of abolition

00:38:31.960 and, by the way, 53 years of affirmative action, Asians or middle-class blacks or Jewish Americans,

00:38:37.740 Cubans, members of any other minority are still oppressed.

00:38:40.480 That's a meaningless term.

00:38:41.440 So it's important that this be responded to with a real curriculum that says,

00:38:46.060 yes, the USA is not perfect because only God is perfect,

00:38:48.900 but these are the advantages that we have over other societies,

00:38:52.840 and to some extent these are the advantages where they exist that they have over us.

00:38:56.120 And this is why we exist as the country we are today,

00:38:59.080 and that doesn't trace back to racial quarrels 300 years ago most of the time.

00:39:04.220 Do you address the fact that more slaves went to Brazil

00:39:11.160 or that Mexico is given the status of beating the United States to abolishing slavery,

00:39:20.520 but they said we'll stop it in 100 years?

00:39:24.940 I mean, that's not the abolishment of slavery.

00:39:27.980 You know, we had to do it through civil war,

00:39:30.400 but, you know, they could declare anything they want,

00:39:33.980 but that wasn't the abolishment of slavery.

00:39:36.600 Yeah, we discuss all this.

00:39:38.300 I mean, one point I want to make, and I don't mean to be glib here,

00:39:41.020 but history is such for almost everyone.

00:39:43.220 If you're talking about Irishmen, Japanese Americans,

00:39:46.800 women couldn't vote until 1920. 1.00

00:39:49.120 So, yes, absolutely, slavery existed in almost all societies. 0.78

00:39:52.780 I'm not attempting to apologize for the white slave trade of blacks. 0.97

00:39:55.740 No, no, no.

00:39:56.440 But it's worth noting that there was also a black slave trade of whites,

00:39:59.300 or at least a Moorish one.

00:40:00.340 I mean, the Barbary slave trade,

00:40:01.780 and inspired the verse Shores of Tripoli and the Marine Corps hymn.

00:40:05.660 This went on from 1600 to 1800.

00:40:07.940 The powerful Muslim nations of North Africa,

00:40:09.960 when they fought the white states of southern Europe,

00:40:12.360 would take everyone they captured, quote-unquote, 0.90

00:40:15.060 surgically modify them and make them into slaves and serfs. 0.73

00:40:18.220 Serfdom itself, that idea that you're a peasant,

00:40:20.700 just pushing a sulky plow for most of your life,

00:40:22.760 that existed in Russia and most of Europe, southern France, until 1866.

00:40:26.780 So if you're going to say that people were unfree in America,

00:40:32.820 you have to say also in context that people were unfree almost everywhere in the world.

00:40:37.860 The West did not begin the institution of slavery,

00:40:40.900 but I will say that though it took too long and it took hard fights,

00:40:44.340 it is modern Western culture that eliminated slavery globally.

00:40:47.780 No other culture, including the proud black and Moorish states many of my ancestors came from, 0.97

00:40:52.760 even thought about doing this, until the modern abolitionist movement began in England and the USA.

00:40:59.740 So we have our sins, but we also have our virtues,

00:41:02.340 and it's silly to focus only on our sins, especially given that we live here.

00:41:06.920 We're insulting our own society when we do so.

00:41:09.180 So here's the thing that I think most Americans just want.

00:41:13.200 I don't care if we hear about the bad things.

00:41:16.160 I think we need to know about the, all of the bad things that America did,

00:41:19.640 or we won't learn and change.

00:41:22.200 So we have to learn about those things, but perspective, man, perspective,

00:41:26.880 and look at it in context of the day, look at what everyone else was doing,

00:41:32.840 and understand that, you know, it's an ebb and flow.

00:41:37.160 Sometimes we're better, sometimes we're worse.

00:41:39.920 I mean, at the time that we're fighting against communism and Nazism in the 1940s,

00:41:46.720 we're also throwing Japanese Americans into concentration camps.

00:41:52.800 I mean, it's both.

00:41:55.520 It's both.

00:41:56.420 Just like humans, we're both good and bad as individuals,

00:42:01.580 and it's that constant battle between those two forces inside of us

00:42:06.780 that shows, in the end, who you are.

00:42:10.280 Were you generally moving forward,

00:42:13.200 or were you somebody that was fighting for evil the whole time?

00:42:18.320 Yeah, I think that's well put.

00:42:20.220 My old martial arts sensei phrased it as,

00:42:22.820 every human being has a back and a front.

00:42:25.340 And I think that's roughly accurate.

00:42:26.900 When you're looking at the presentation of a man, or of a human being, of course,

00:42:31.060 you want a warts and all portrayal,

00:42:33.160 which is a very famous description of an actual picture.

00:42:35.540 But what I think you very often get from the activist left in the USA

00:42:39.100 is an almost all-warts view of the country,

00:42:41.960 and a warts-free view of other rival societies. 1.00

00:42:45.180 It's simply idiotic to spend hours and hours 0.99

00:42:48.280 fulminating about the fact that the USA, at one point, had slavery, 1.00

00:42:52.180 and then go on to praise, say, China,

00:42:54.580 or the civilized nations of Africa, or the Arab world.

00:42:56.620 Much of the Arab world has slavery today.

00:42:58.520 I know.

00:42:59.060 There's more slaves today than there was during the entire Western slave trade,

00:43:03.160 combined, all of those years.

00:43:04.660 So, doctor, tell me how the average person can access this information

00:43:10.460 or can, you know, play a role at all in helping you with this battle.

00:43:16.980 Sure, yeah, and thanks for asking.

00:43:18.720 I mean, we're all fairly easy to find.

00:43:20.400 I'm Wilfred Riley, W-I-L-F-R-E-D-R-E-I-L-L-Y,

00:43:24.220 online, Facebook, Twitter.

00:43:25.660 You've mentioned Hate Crime, Hoax, and Taboo, the books I've written.

00:43:28.220 I'm one of many people.

00:43:29.380 Bob Woodson is the original initiator of the project.

00:43:32.140 If you Google Woodson Center, they'll be more than glad to accept donations

00:43:35.900 to 1776 or to their overall work.

00:43:39.360 And, of course, we have a professional website that just went live,

00:43:42.280 although we're still uploading headshots and so on.

00:43:44.020 It's 1776 Unites.

00:43:46.560 I believe that would be .com because we are equipped to receive donations.

00:43:49.660 But if you Google 1776 Unites, it'll be the first hit.

00:43:52.740 Unites with an S. With an S? Unites?

00:43:55.560 Yes, 1776 Unites.

00:43:57.880 U-N-I-T-E-S. 1.00

00:43:59.500 That is correct.

00:44:01.540 And, yeah, we're more than glad to accept outreach.

00:44:04.020 Again, Wilfred Riley, we've got Glenn Lowry on the project,

00:44:06.780 John Sibley Butler, Carol Swain.

00:44:08.860 I mean, many of these are names you will have heard.

00:44:10.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:11.100 Coleman Hughes over at Quillette is handling a lot of media and social media.

00:44:14.780 So we thought this is a fairly impressive group of people.

00:44:17.320 Some of us had met for lunches before, just as black people in the business community.

00:44:21.020 And the idea was, well, we really need to respond to this because this is nonsense.

00:44:24.480 And it's going to increase racial tensions in a way that's not good for black people 0.62

00:44:27.820 or, just as importantly, for our white countrymen.

00:44:29.960 And I think we responded effectively.

00:44:31.660 Thank you so much, Doctor.

00:44:32.540 I appreciate it.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 20, 2020

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