Glenn Beck talks about the anti-Semitism crisis at Columbia University and calls for an end to political correctness. He also talks about why we need to stop paying our debts, and why we should not be worried about our debt.
00:01:48.760Now, Columbia University, as it was heading into Passover, as Rabbi Link to the Ivy League School urged Jewish students to stay home.
00:01:59.320Intense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation from the White House and New York officials.
00:02:05.880The atmosphere is so charged, Columbia officials announced students can attend classes and even possibly take exams virtually starting Monday.
00:02:14.360The first day of Passover, a major Jewish holiday.
00:02:17.540Tensions at Columbia and many other universities have been high ever since the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel.
00:02:24.040However, the situation in Columbia escalated in recent days after university officials testified before Congress last week about anti-Semitism on campus
00:02:31.980and pro-Palestinian protests on and near campus as they surged.
00:02:36.860The latest crisis opened up Columbia's president to new attacks from her critics with the Republican Elise Stefanik demanding she step down immediately because school leadership has clearly lost control of its campus.
00:02:50.400Look, I want to make sure we don't make the same mistake we made when we first heard about political correctness.
00:02:58.240We heard about political correctness and DEI and CRT and all of these things.
00:07:01.440We now know who and what is responsible for it.
00:07:05.820Israel's unpreparedness on October 7th shows that even powerful nations can be surprised in catastrophic ways.
00:07:12.380Fortunately, Congress, in a rare bipartisan act, voted early Saturday to reauthorize key intelligent powers that provides critical information on hostile states and their threats ranging from terrorism to fentanyl trafficking.
00:07:29.860Now, again, New York Times, let's just have a recent, I mean, a decent conversation and just say, okay, powerful nations can be surprised in catastrophic ways.
00:07:46.880But powerful nations can also think catastrophic things can happen and them not be surprised.
00:07:54.960For instance, every American knows right now we have an open border.
00:08:02.080If you were serious about catastrophic things happening in the United States, you would be paying attention to our open borders.
00:08:13.180You would make sure that that was sealed off and only people we knew who were coming in and could vet could come into the United States.
00:08:39.680You are using these things to distort and control.
00:08:45.640Civil libertarians argue that surveillance bill erodes Americans' privacy rights and pointed to examples when American citizens got entangled in investigations.
00:08:55.480Importantly, the latest version of the bill adds dozens of legal safeguards around the surveillance in question.
00:09:02.440The most expansive privacy reform to the legislation in its history.
00:09:07.820Well, that's because it's not, it's not had any.
00:09:11.940They just keep giving them more power.
00:09:15.040At the center of the debate is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, originally passed in 1978, demanded that investigations gain an order from a special court to surveil foreign agents inside the United States.
00:09:28.000Collecting the communication of foreigners abroad did not require court approval.
00:09:36.300Many foreign nationals rely on American providers such as Google and Meta, which route or store data in the United States, raising questions on whether the rules apply to whether the target, whether they are here or there and where their data is collected.
00:09:52.120In 2008, Congress addressed that conundrum with Section 702.
00:09:56.520Instead of requiring the government to seek court orders for each foreign target, this is not even what we're talking about.
00:10:04.440Do you have a problem with foreign targets?
00:10:08.160Does somebody is using Google to store all of their stuff in a cloud and they live in a foreign and they are putting it up into the cloud in some foreign place and they are foreigners.
00:16:42.820They don't care about the actual women alive and having to go into restrooms and locker rooms on college campuses with perverted men who are trying to exploit things like the Title IX changes that were just made.
00:16:55.080So I'm done with all these Democrats who want to lecture us on women's rights and how the Republican Party doesn't respect them.
00:17:02.960So focused on the rights of a woman to abort her baby and then not at all about what's going to happen to her child once it's born, if it's female, never mind the mother herself.
00:17:13.760What happened on Friday is an abomination.
00:18:47.080At what point is there a breaking point at some point?
00:18:52.320Well, I mean, we're waiting to get a Supreme Court opinion over the next couple of months that could rein in these out-of-control agencies.
00:19:23.720But Barack Obama was actually doing the things, and the torch has been picked up by his successor, Joe Biden.
00:19:30.800He's the one who, on his own, wrote this letter to all universities saying, yeah, by the way, I'm getting rid of due process for men on college campuses.
00:19:43.200They're no longer going to have the right to see the evidence against them.
00:19:46.520They're no longer going to have the right to cross-examine.
00:19:48.800They're no longer going to get a live hearing.
00:19:52.640We're going to have victims' rights advocates decide all of these cases and just pretend that they're impartial.
00:20:04.700Remember his pen and his phone on the immigration policy?
00:20:07.220He was doing the same thing in this lane.
00:20:09.680And Trump, God bless him, came in and undid it all.
00:20:12.920What can be done with the pen can be undone with the pen.
00:20:16.160And now Joe Biden has come in and gone the other way, and yet what he's done with Title IX, with these two things we're discussing, is much more permanent.
00:20:25.900It's much worse than an executive order.
00:20:29.260It's an agency regulation, which is going to be a lot harder to undo.
00:20:32.720It can be undone, but we need a different president.
00:20:36.000So how are we going to deal with this?
00:20:39.800There are things, I can guarantee you, I mean, they did a study three years out.
00:20:46.420I was reading about how the left was looking at all of the levers and the knobs and the dials that they could just turn even 5% and no one would even notice.
00:20:57.940And it would put us on a different trajectory that could not be undone.
00:21:02.820How are we going to get rid of all it?
00:21:17.680While we were focused on other things, they were taking over legislation in 50 states and at the federal level when it comes to so-called trans rights.
00:21:27.540And whenever you hear that term, you should remind yourself it means at the erasure of women, at the expense of women's rights.
00:21:35.100I was looking on Friday when Title IX, when the revisions came out, you know, where are the women's groups?
00:21:41.520Where are they to say this is too much?
00:21:45.760We are not redefining women and we're not allowing so-called trans women, which is a completely made-up thing.
00:21:52.960There's no such thing as a trans woman.
00:21:59.000Into our bathrooms and our locker rooms, in our grade schools, in our colleges where women don't want to share their locker room with some random man who claims he's a woman.
00:22:10.820Have you seen some of the videos on the Internet of the men who exploit this provision?
00:22:16.600It's not all lovely, genuinely confused men who really want to pass as women.
00:22:22.820The vast majority of the time, it's either someone who's a pervert, who's exploiting it because he gets off on seeing women half-dressed,
00:22:31.240or it's somebody who's called an autogynophile who gets sexually aroused by wearing women's clothing.
00:22:38.320Why does he have the right to come into my daughter's bathroom or a locker room where she's half-dressed?
00:23:01.480Talk about, like, all these left-wing organizations that were supposed to stand for, let's say, against anti-Semitism,
00:23:09.280have been co-opted by people who are on the other side,
00:23:11.580or for women's rights have been co-opted by people who are on the other side.
00:23:16.020Bit by bit, they've been laying the groundwork for legislation in all these states to allow medicalization of children to have their penises chopped off,
00:23:29.580And our side was asleep at the switch.
00:23:31.780And by our side, I mean the side of reason.
00:23:35.100So we're waking up, and we have a lot of work to do.
00:23:39.100Can I ask you, the tone of your voice on this is just different.
00:23:43.180And I hear that it runs to the core of who you are and what you believe.
00:23:48.440You know, when we first met, 2008 or so, you know, we both were doing jobs.
00:23:56.780And there was a lot of, there were a lot of things that, because it wasn't happening this fast, that you'd be like, okay, let's hit that story and that story.
00:24:06.500Now, for at least for me, there is, there's no time for me to hit stories that I may want to.
00:24:50.320You know, there's a, there's a good and an evil.
00:24:52.920I actually was giving a talk at a Stanford business class on Friday and they were saying, some of the comments in your videos online speak in terms of good and evil.
00:25:27.900I mean, he's been great on the non-woke versus woke battle.
00:25:31.060But we did a long story on the nonsense at Nickelodeon and put on one of the women who had grown up there as a child star and she had terrible things to say about them.
00:26:06.520How could any straight news person indulge this with two seconds of thought?
00:26:12.520Like we do have to take a side, you know, and rhetorical arms against this lunacy.
00:26:19.980And, you know, whether it's fascism or moral rot, the absence of God in our public spaces and private spaces has led to the uprising of the devil or a devil-like figure.
00:26:32.540And, you know, I'm not even that religious.
00:26:34.840I just see this as a, you know, as a human.
00:26:37.980No, I know, I know James Lindsay is, he's an atheist.
00:26:43.960And he said, Glenn, there's no other word to describe this other than evil.
00:26:47.440It is just flat out evil what's going on.
00:26:52.660Let me, may I recommend something to you?
00:26:56.040I don't know how long your drive is or your commute or anything.
00:26:58.580But next time you have about 20 minutes, go to Audible and listen to the new production came out last month on 1984.
00:27:09.800It's about an hour and a half in total.
00:27:11.960But just listen to the first 20 minutes.
00:27:14.180It's been a long time since I've listened to 1984.
00:27:16.480And I want you to hear it because it's different than reading it right now.
00:27:23.460And there are scenes where the parents are afraid of their children.
00:27:27.860There are scenes, the first 20 minutes is like, wow, we're here.
00:27:32.820I mean, it's, you know, when I read it, probably when you read it in high school, you read it and it was science fiction.
00:28:06.820I, it was shocking to me this time around when I, when I listened to it, it is, and how the actors, I don't know if any of the actors went, you know, that kind of sounds like the stuff we're doing right now.
00:28:20.400I mean, it's, it's phenomenal how eye-opening it is.
00:31:19.500Because it must be pointed out that when the evil governor of Florida was saying the exact same thing
00:31:26.020about kids and creepy stuff at Disney that liberals now find intolerable at Nickelodeon,
00:31:31.620he was dismissed as a hick and a bigot.
00:31:34.240But why would a kids' content factory like Disney be all that different than the one at Nickelodeon?
00:31:41.520A 2014 CNN report discovered that at least 35 Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children,
00:31:49.080and in 2021, Disney child star Alison Stoner confessed she only narrowly survived the toddler-to-train-wreck pipeline.
00:31:58.060The next year, child star Cold Sprouse told the New York Times that young actresses at the Disney Channel were heavily sexualized from an early age.
00:32:06.940You know, Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because that's where the money is.
00:32:11.400And the reason we find pedophiles in the Boy Scouts and the Rectory in kids' TV is that's where the kids are.