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00:01:12.160 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:16.160 Who and what is really behind the pandemic?

00:01:23.480 Who profits from the pandemic?

00:01:26.140 What are the true origins of the virus?

00:01:29.560 There have been disturbing revelations about the vaccine and why it's being pushed so hard.

00:01:35.840 And it's time perhaps we ask dangerous forbidden questions surrounding COVID-19 and the pandemic.

00:01:42.120 Big tech and the government are doing everything they can to stifle the truth.

00:01:48.240 Because if we did start to ask these questions, we would no longer tolerate the draconian measures put into effect.

00:01:56.040 This is the reason to watch next Wednesday night's two-hour live commercial-free special done by me.

00:02:07.140 The probably the most dangerous chalkboard I have ever done.

00:02:12.120 One of the biggest reveals is the federal government's troublesome connection with big pharma.

00:02:20.560 A huge conflict of interest, but also a disturbing breach of trust between the American people and the government elected by them.

00:02:29.300 Most disturbing of all is the trail of emails showing a cover-up executed by a coronavirus cabal.

00:02:37.320 And it is a cabal.

00:02:39.820 They were more interested in protecting their legacy and their money than saving lives.

00:02:46.420 This is next Wednesday, November 17th, 8 p.m.

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00:03:25.460 And you're too dangerous for big tech questions live only next Wednesday night on Blaze TV.

00:03:31.840 From Blaze TV and radio is Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:03:37.100 Hi, Pat.

00:03:37.680 Hi, Glenn.

00:03:39.100 I'm excited about your special.

00:03:40.600 It sounds fun.

00:03:44.020 You know, I've seen the YouTube rules, and they are about five pages, very fine print, five pages of what can be said, what can't be said.

00:03:54.260 Yeah.

00:03:54.440 We have to edit everything for YouTube almost every day.

00:03:58.160 Oh, yeah.

00:03:58.580 Almost every day.

00:03:59.340 Yeah.

00:03:59.580 I mean, there is no such thing as unfiltered speech.

00:04:03.680 Did you see what Twitter was doing yesterday for Kyle Rittenhouse?

00:04:07.040 No.

00:04:07.480 They were suppressing anyone who said he's clearly innocent.

00:04:11.140 They were suppressing that.

00:04:12.620 I mean, there is no such thing as freedom of speech anymore in America.

00:04:18.680 There's just not.

00:04:20.220 You can't say that is the public square.

00:04:24.080 Social media is the public square.

00:04:26.980 It's tough because it's still their website.

00:04:29.640 So that's why they are able to do these things legally.

00:04:32.560 But, you know, it's not the public square, even though we want it to be the public square, I guess.

00:04:37.160 We are moving towards the metaverse.

00:04:39.660 Yeah.

00:04:40.040 No, look.

00:04:40.520 I mean, there's arguments to be made.

00:04:42.500 A lot of people make them about that.

00:04:43.940 It should be thought of as the public square legally right now.

00:04:46.740 It's not, though.

00:04:47.660 Yeah.

00:04:47.800 Well, that's why they can do all.

00:04:49.080 I just want you to know.

00:04:52.300 Do you have something you want to talk about, Pat?

00:04:54.300 Because I'd love to get your reaction on something.

00:04:55.980 But do you have something you want to bring up?

00:04:57.380 No, you can.

00:04:58.140 OK.

00:04:58.640 So are you familiar with the metaverse?

00:05:01.340 Yeah.

00:05:01.660 OK.

00:05:02.500 So everybody thinks, oh, that's that's Facebook.

00:05:05.400 Why are they metaverse?

00:05:06.440 That's ridiculous.

00:05:07.380 Blah, blah, blah.

00:05:07.940 No, no, no.

00:05:08.380 We are so far ahead on the metaverse and you don't even know it.

00:05:12.860 I want to tell you that on Wednesday, the World Economic Forum held the great narrative and they've been promoting this.

00:05:23.420 And what I'm going to read to you is on their website.

00:05:26.840 Now, remember, the World Economic Forum just partnered with the Biden administration to bring these things back there to bring these things into America.

00:05:37.120 We are now partnered with 20 different companies, public, public, private partnership and the World Economic Forum.

00:05:46.860 This is build back better.

00:05:48.720 So the great narrative was the conference that is happening this week to design the future.

00:05:59.340 Now, I want you to just listen.

00:06:00.940 This is how they opened it.

00:06:03.160 Design the future, the story for the future.

00:06:06.700 In order to shape the future, you have to imagine the future, design the future and then execute.

00:06:12.540 Over the next two days, they will decide how we decide, how we execute the great narrative.

00:06:20.800 But the great narrative is what is tomorrow going to look like globally?

00:06:26.340 The world has gone through a very difficult time.

00:06:29.720 People are now looking for transformation.

00:06:32.540 But the world needs a new blueprint, a new narrative.

00:06:36.620 Why?

00:06:37.020 Because 1% own more wealth than $7 billion.

00:06:41.680 Almost half the population lives in under $6 a day.

00:06:46.000 Because the last 60 years were the warmest on record.

00:06:50.440 We can't afford to waste more time on denial of climate change.

00:06:54.960 Because our digital world will be as important as our physical world.

00:07:02.940 By 2025, there will be five times more devices than people on this planet.

00:07:09.460 Because both to inspire hope and action, government, first and foremost, are in the business of installing hope.

00:07:21.480 Governments are instituted among men to protect these rights.

00:07:26.100 I'm sorry.

00:07:26.500 I thought it was install hope.

00:07:28.380 Imagine what role the government should play to install this new narrative.

00:07:35.300 A whole government approach is not enough.

00:07:38.600 All of humanity approach is needed.

00:07:42.020 Collectively, we are the author of this new chapter.

00:07:45.020 The future belongs to those who can imagine it and implement it.

00:07:49.140 How can we design the government to be future citizen ready?

00:07:54.240 How to lead the world into sustainable and a better future?

00:07:58.960 What will be the great narrative?

00:08:01.760 When we look at the world today, difficulties shape the future.

00:08:06.020 Three obstacles.

00:08:07.520 First, after the pandemic, people have become much more self-centered.

00:08:14.720 Really?

00:08:15.340 That's the big...

00:08:16.080 What role is...

00:08:17.720 What is the role of government?

00:08:19.480 Looking at our current position in human history,

00:08:22.340 We sit at the second of the first minute of the first day of the first year.

00:08:29.260 Human evolution to the wheel to today with technology.

00:08:33.620 In 50 years, it will be totally different.

00:08:37.200 The pace we've grown has been massive.

00:08:39.720 But we are putting our life onto one platform.

00:08:44.360 The future will be based on the platform we design now.

00:08:52.320 Does anybody think so far this is a little spooky?

00:08:55.420 The job is to bring people and humility together.

00:09:02.280 Hmm.

00:09:02.740 And humility.

00:09:04.180 How is this great government going to make us find humility?

00:09:08.780 Technology.

00:09:10.360 Technology.

00:09:11.600 Let's see.

00:09:12.800 The job is to bring people and humility together.

00:09:15.240 Technology.

00:09:16.440 And to bring better for our humanity.

00:09:20.260 Obviously translated.

00:09:21.220 How do you see the global future collaboration?

00:09:25.420 Hopefully in optimistic terms.

00:09:27.640 We know the world isn't inclusive or sustainable enough.

00:09:31.540 But we cannot forget the amount of progress made in 50 years.

00:09:35.420 We know the tensions like USA and China.

00:09:37.820 But we have always have common interests.

00:09:40.720 They want stronger cooperation between the US and China.

00:09:43.780 Including environmental issues.

00:09:45.820 Don't leave it alone to governments.

00:09:48.100 Business and science need to play a part.

00:09:50.560 Combine the common interest.

00:09:52.900 Make short term compromises for long term change.

00:09:56.300 We are in a new transformation of humankind.

00:10:00.700 If you want to change humanity.

00:10:02.800 We must change the world.

00:10:04.920 Let us use our energy to create a great narrative for humankind.

00:10:09.460 In the next two days.

00:10:12.340 Take our own fate into our own hands.

00:10:16.200 And who's that from?

00:10:17.380 The world economic forum.

00:10:20.540 Wow.

00:10:20.880 And the great reset.

00:10:22.840 Jeez.

00:10:23.360 Is that not freaking terrifying?

00:10:26.580 Yeah.

00:10:28.020 Incredible.

00:10:28.880 I mean, they do seem like they're much further along.

00:10:32.120 Than.

00:10:33.020 They are.

00:10:33.900 The.

00:10:34.420 Hey, well, Facebook's changed their name.

00:10:36.260 You know.

00:10:37.160 It's a lot.

00:10:38.320 No.

00:10:38.640 It's a lot further along than that.

00:10:39.960 This is so far along and we are not invited to the table.

00:10:44.680 Humanity is not invited to the table.

00:10:46.820 Just our overlords are invited to the table and they will decide for us.

00:10:51.940 This is the scariest thing I've ever seen because it's not just America.

00:10:56.840 This is the world.

00:10:58.340 They are playing.

00:10:58.940 Everybody's on board with it.

00:10:59.820 Yeah.

00:11:00.080 They are playing for the world.

00:11:03.040 And they're using the same verbiage too.

00:11:06.220 They're all doing the.

00:11:07.200 Oh, yeah.

00:11:07.560 Build back better.

00:11:08.180 Build back better thing. 0.94

00:11:08.620 Oh, yeah.

00:11:09.100 Which is the great reset.

00:11:10.700 Yeah.

00:11:11.200 And by the way, I just want to.

00:11:12.580 I just want to say this.

00:11:13.500 We're looking for.

00:11:15.300 Let's see.

00:11:15.940 We know the tensions like USA and China, but we have common interests.

00:11:19.820 We want stronger cooperation.

00:11:21.160 USA and China, including environmental issues.

00:11:23.260 Don't leave it alone to the governments.

00:11:24.960 Combine the common interest.

00:11:26.520 Make short term compromises for long term change.

00:11:29.640 Now, let me play you what John Kerry said yesterday about China and the Uyghurs.

00:11:35.140 How in your in the several months of meetings behind the scenes with China, did you bring

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00:11:48.540 How did you address it and how did you kind of overcome that in reaching this final?

00:11:52.560 Well, we're honest.

00:11:53.500 We're honest about the differences and we certainly know what they are and we've articulated

00:11:59.320 them.

00:11:59.980 And but that's not my lane here.

00:12:02.420 That's my job is to be the climate guy.

00:12:07.260 You also had Nancy Pelosi say we have to get climate change done and we can't get bogged

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00:12:15.780 John Kerry is currently fighting legislation to to ban anything made by slaves in China. 0.52

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00:12:27.440 This is the kind of short term compromises that will show us in the future.

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00:13:41.220 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:46.540 Mr. Bill O'Reilly.

00:13:48.960 From Bill O'Reilly dot com.

00:13:50.620 Tell me, sir, the biggest story of the week.

00:13:55.560 Well, a popular story is a Rittenhouse situation.

00:13:58.540 As far as what's important to the United States, it's the battle between Biden and Trump over

00:14:07.580 the January 6th documents in the National Archive.

00:14:11.440 So which one do you want to handle, Beck?

00:14:13.340 Well, I think we should handle the one you think is the biggest story.

00:14:15.800 You know, it just depends on how you're looking at your country.

00:14:20.460 So the Rittenhouse story is over.

00:14:23.620 He's not guilty.

00:14:24.660 And it's just another example of how the media convicts people without any knowledge of what

00:14:31.960 happened.

00:14:33.100 Everybody ran a montage, including me.

00:14:35.500 I'm sure you did.

00:14:36.960 Yep.

00:14:37.180 Yep.

00:14:37.900 Of all these far left people convicting the 17 year old.

00:14:44.380 And still doing it, honestly.

00:14:46.560 And Twitter today is suppressing people who are saying he's innocent.

00:14:52.380 I did not know that.

00:14:54.820 See, I'm not in that world, that world of Twitter and Facebook and all that.

00:15:00.140 And that is a very corrupting force in America.

00:15:04.040 Yeah.

00:15:04.360 Seeing that most people get their news from Twitter, Facebook, etc.

00:15:08.200 And so once you replace reality with unreality, so then your life is going to careen if you

00:15:16.300 do that and your personal life is going to careen and collapse.

00:15:19.760 And now on a national basis, we have that coming, too.

00:15:26.100 Because as you just said, many, many people, they don't use standard news agencies anymore.

00:15:31.520 And they're smart not to because almost all of them are corrupt.

00:15:36.040 So Meadows, let's switch to the other story.

00:15:40.240 Meadows says now he is not going to cooperate with the January 6th committee because they

00:15:45.660 are battling over the executive privilege.

00:15:48.280 Right.

00:15:48.860 You know, it's a kangaroo court.

00:15:51.240 They're saying if he doesn't testify today, he'll be held in contempt of Congress.

00:15:55.960 And I think he's pretty fine with that.

00:15:57.660 But I hold them in contempt.

00:16:00.380 But what do you think what do you think is happening there?

00:16:04.300 And what is this really all about?

00:16:06.340 Well, Beck, as you know, because you've known me a long time, I'm essentially a reporter.

00:16:10.920 All right.

00:16:11.580 I mean, I'm a blabbermouth and an analyst and all that.

00:16:15.040 But my career is based on reportage.

00:16:18.200 So when I saw this, this is about Biden versus Trump.

00:16:25.340 This is mano a mano.

00:16:28.080 So Biden basically says, if you're a former president, you don't have executive privilege.

00:16:34.940 You don't have it.

00:16:36.320 And I'm going to write an order that says you don't have it.

00:16:39.280 And I'm going to go into every nook and cranny I can to find out exactly what you said to

00:16:44.580 all of your advisors while you're in the White House.

00:16:47.320 So everybody understands.

00:16:49.900 And then Trump says, no, I do have executive privilege and you can't do that.

00:16:55.840 And I'm going to file a lawsuit, which is he's done.

00:16:58.700 And then late last night, the federal court stayed the Biden action.

00:17:05.100 OK, so I predicted.

00:17:06.860 OK, so did I predict that?

00:17:08.620 Why did O'Reilly predict that?

00:17:11.040 Because I actually did some reporting back.

00:17:13.480 Did you know that on the second day he was president, Barack Obama signed an executive order?

00:17:24.440 It is one, three, four, eight, nine.

00:17:29.300 And that executive order says that presidents who leave the White House continue to have executive privilege

00:17:38.820 and all of their documents contained in the National Archives are sealed, are secure.

00:17:47.380 Did you know that?

00:17:48.480 I did not know that.

00:17:49.960 OK.

00:17:50.500 I thought, quite honestly, hang on just a second.

00:17:52.420 I knew it.

00:17:53.200 I thought nobody reported on it.

00:17:55.760 Nobody looked.

00:17:57.400 OK.

00:17:57.680 Nobody cares about what the reality of the situation is.

00:18:03.660 So, look, I got a little.

00:18:04.620 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:18:05.540 Before you go on.

00:18:06.120 I thought that was, you know, like that all the time that, you know, the papers were sealed.

00:18:14.100 I guess the Sandy Berger thing should have told me the difference.

00:18:17.760 Why should they be open to everyone?

00:18:22.100 A president of the United States has the right to private counsel.

00:18:26.660 It's just like you and your lawyer or your doctor.

00:18:29.760 OK, so right to have private conversations, because many of those conversations are,

00:18:34.980 well, why don't we consider this?

00:18:36.780 Why don't we do that?

00:18:38.060 And it never comes to fruition.

00:18:40.700 But the point of the matter is that here we have two presidents, Biden and Trump.

00:18:48.080 Biden is trying to destroy Trump.

00:18:51.220 There's no doubt in my mind.

00:18:53.160 It's personal.

00:18:54.760 He feels threatened.

00:18:56.880 Biden is doing so badly that Trump is gaining momentum.

00:19:03.140 So Biden is trying to destroy him and wants to go in and look at every private conversation

00:19:09.680 that Trump had in four years and try to find something that he can feed to the New York Times.

00:19:17.540 OK, that's what this story is all about.

00:19:19.720 But the real outrage of the story is my little news agency, Bill O'Reilly dot com.

00:19:26.020 All right.

00:19:26.640 A very small agency could find this information and no one else can because no one else cares back.

00:19:36.440 Now, I'm not putting you in that category.

00:19:38.160 I'm just saying that the real the real the corporate news agencies with budgets of one hundred million dollars,

00:19:46.300 they don't have researchers that can go in and look.

00:19:48.840 Of course, they do.

00:19:49.360 They're not curious.

00:19:50.520 So so and they're not looking for that angle on the story.

00:19:53.900 So so wait a minute, Bill.

00:19:55.260 So he put in an executive order that said it's all private.

00:19:59.580 Right.

00:20:00.260 Obama did.

00:20:01.240 The most important thing of this executive order, again, if people want to look it up, it's one, three, four, eight, nine,

00:20:08.700 is that President Obama clearly stated that past presidents have executive privilege.

00:20:20.200 So then why did you say you knew the court was going to rule in this?

00:20:25.060 Because I knew about this order.

00:20:26.520 And so the federal court can't override Obama's executive order can't do that.

00:20:37.180 That has to be done on a constitutional basis.

00:20:40.700 Was Barack Obama wrong in this?

00:20:43.740 Was this an unconstitutional executive order?

00:20:46.880 Why didn't Biden because you can rescind executive orders?

00:20:50.220 Why didn't Biden just rescind that order?

00:20:53.120 Who knows?

00:20:54.460 But he didn't.

00:20:55.400 It's still on the books and the Biden people don't know about it because, again, nobody looks.

00:21:01.540 Nobody cares.

00:21:02.400 Well, we're going to do this.

00:21:03.780 You're going to do that.

00:21:05.420 All right.

00:21:05.980 It's like the remain in Mexico executive order under Trump.

00:21:11.000 OK, Biden's not throwing it out.

00:21:12.880 And a judge goes, federal judges, well, you have to go through a process.

00:21:18.580 You just can't throw it out.

00:21:21.040 And therefore, today, the remain in Mexico policy exists.

00:21:27.140 It's there.

00:21:28.340 That's the law.

00:21:30.000 Not being followed.

00:21:30.640 But yes, you're exactly right.

00:21:32.100 Not being followed.

00:21:33.340 But my point is that we're all in great jeopardy.

00:21:37.120 All of us.

00:21:37.960 Because we're now living in a country that doesn't care about the truth and the facts.

00:21:45.320 And let's get back to Rittenhouse.

00:21:48.160 So all of these people on The View and Morning Joe and usual suspects, all right, people who have just no credibility, they don't know what happened to this kid.

00:22:00.360 And I said that to my audience from the jump.

00:22:03.820 The only thing I know about Kyle Rittenhouse at the time when he ventured into Wisconsin with an illegal rifle and he could be convicted on the illegal rifle.

00:22:16.800 OK, the only thing I know is that his parents should not have allowed him to do that.

00:22:21.400 That's all I know.

00:22:23.200 Bad parenting.

00:22:23.620 You know, and so I am not going to speculate about the life of a fellow human being.

00:22:31.500 I'm not going to convict him.

00:22:34.420 All right.

00:22:35.240 And let me rephrase what I just said, because I don't want to convict the parents.

00:22:40.060 He's a 17 year old kid.

00:22:41.780 It may not have been bad parenting.

00:22:43.300 It was just a bad choice on his part.

00:22:45.660 He's 17.

00:22:46.100 Well, I said the parents should not have allowed him to go.

00:22:50.840 But I don't know his circumstance.

00:22:52.860 Yes, I don't either.

00:22:54.200 OK, so if he's living in your house and he goes, hey, mom and dad, I'm going to take this rifle and go into a riot situation in Kenosha.

00:23:02.800 I say no.

00:23:03.480 Me as the dad go, I don't think so.

00:23:05.920 Right.

00:23:06.360 Exactly right.

00:23:07.900 Exactly right.

00:23:08.860 So now, do you think the press is going to actually support a verdict?

00:23:17.460 I mean, assuming that the verdict comes back as not guilty, will the press accept that?

00:23:25.880 Yeah.

00:23:26.520 They have to accept it because they look like clowns now.

00:23:31.660 No, no, they really don't.

00:23:33.200 I mean, they're already saying this judge is out of control.

00:23:36.960 This judge is.

00:23:37.760 Wait a minute.

00:23:38.020 Wait a minute.

00:23:39.580 That's going to.

00:23:40.480 That's a low level.

00:23:41.800 Way down the chain of journalism.

00:23:46.480 You're not hearing that from the Washington Post.

00:23:49.340 You're not hearing that from these other people because all they care about is their own career.

00:23:53.160 I'm hearing it from CNN.

00:23:56.200 Well, that's low level, I guess.

00:23:57.980 It reinforces the low level on the food chain.

00:24:00.620 All right.

00:24:03.760 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:14.240 John Ziegler is on the phone.

00:24:16.880 He is a senior columnist at Mediite.

00:24:19.100 He is a controversial guy, both left and right, because he calls them as he sees them.

00:24:24.740 I think he's one of the braver guys.

00:24:26.940 I think he's also a little suicidal in his approach, but he is also one of the only people

00:24:34.100 I know that when he says, this is what I believe, I know that's exactly what he believes.

00:24:39.560 And that is very rare and worth a lot today.

00:24:42.680 Hello, John.

00:24:43.120 How are you?

00:24:44.300 Wow, Glenn.

00:24:45.040 You know, I think the main reason I come on your show is just to hear your different intros

00:24:47.980 to me.

00:24:49.100 Well, that one was really good.

00:24:51.520 Thank you.

00:24:51.800 My wife would agree with just about everything you just said.

00:24:53.820 Yeah, especially the suicidal in your career.

00:24:55.800 Exactly.

00:24:56.220 That was the part that I was thinking about.

00:24:58.100 Yeah, okay.

00:24:59.260 So, John, you wrote a great article after 10 years of investigating the Penn State scandal.

00:25:04.400 Here's what the case taught me about modern media.

00:25:08.540 And I can't believe Mediite actually let you print this, but they did.

00:25:15.700 Well, that's a story.

00:25:16.920 Yeah, I know.

00:25:17.520 I know.

00:25:17.780 They have, we're not going to relitigate the Sandusky thing you say.

00:25:24.640 You know, I did a podcast with hours and hours and hours with the benefit of hindsight.

00:25:28.700 But you want to use that to show us, for instance, let's compare it now and show us COVID.

00:25:39.700 Right.

00:25:41.260 No, you've hit on exactly why I think this story is relevant.

00:25:45.740 Although I will say, you know, here we are on the 10th anniversary of the Penn State scandal.

00:25:49.720 And for those who don't remember, this is the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal that resulted in the firing of the great Joe Paterno and three Penn State administrators going to jail.

00:25:58.740 And Sandusky is going to almost certainly die in prison.

00:26:01.740 I mean, that story in and of itself was a huge story.

00:26:04.000 And the fact that we have rewritten history and told you what really did happen in our epic podcast with the benefit of hindsight is, I think, inherently relevant in an irrational world would be relitigated by the news media.

00:26:15.140 But being realistic, I think, John, I want you to know, you know, people, people like you who speak the truth that is unpopular, they are always recognized much later, usually when they're dead.

00:26:27.720 But I think your I think your podcast and all of your reporting on this, I think it will turn that story around eventually.

00:26:36.060 I would like to believe that it probably will be after I'm dead.

00:26:39.160 I'm preparing my nine year old daughter to to to eventually take the reins on that.

00:26:43.160 But look, I appreciate Glenn, I appreciate that more than, you know, and let me just last thing on my podcast.

00:26:47.980 I mean, people who have no interest in this story find it to be the most amazing podcast that they've ever encountered.

00:26:53.960 I mean, it's it's gripping.

00:26:55.300 It's entertaining.

00:26:56.180 I have a female co-host who was a television sportscaster here in Los Angeles, who's now the proper professor of media at Syracuse University named Liv Sabib. 0.97

00:27:05.120 It's an amazing ride.

00:27:06.420 And we have proven this case beyond any comprehension and any shadow of the doubt.

00:27:11.260 And you will learn so much about humanity in the news media.

00:27:14.300 And I believe you will learn how we got into this covid mess, because a lot of what I wrote in this media column relates directly to covid.

00:27:22.220 And and the main parts of that are what happens when everyone gets locked in emotionally and professionally into a narrative in no time where we don't know the true facts and where everyone is in a panic, a moral panic in this case involving child sex abuse.

00:27:42.000 We all lose our minds and then the experts see an opportunity to to forward their agenda.

00:27:49.720 And once the story is written and it can happen in only a couple of days, and that's what happened in Penn State, a couple of days, 10 years ago, we were told a nonsensical story about Jerry Snusky having raped a boy in a shower and a coach telling Joe Paterno and he basically doing nothing at Penn State covering up for this former assistant coach.

00:28:10.760 That story is absurd. Now, sometimes absurd stories happen, but they come with evidence that this one did not.

00:28:18.540 In fact, if you listen to the podcast, you know, we've proven what actually did happen and it's not that.

00:28:23.780 But once everyone's invested, there's no going back.

00:28:28.120 And I guess one of the more amazing elements of both this story and with regard to COVID is that when the facts come in now and they're unequivocal, they're overwhelming.

00:28:39.480 No one seems to care anymore.

00:28:41.620 No one, no one, no one will admit they were wrong.

00:28:45.280 Now, as a married guy, I'm well trained in admitting what I'm wrong, even even when I don't really think I am.

00:28:52.500 Correct.

00:28:52.780 So I truly do not understand. When did we stop admitting that when more information comes in, we can go, oh, wait a minute.

00:29:02.500 We rushed to judgment, especially when this keeps happening.

00:29:06.560 It's as if Duke Lacrosse never happened. It's as if Daronos never happened.

00:29:11.100 It's as if Jussie Smollett never happened. The Covington kids never happened.

00:29:15.560 We're seeing it with Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:29:17.100 It's time and time again. And the media never learns their lesson, mostly because they're never held accountable, Glenn.

00:29:25.880 Well, I think they actually kind of are.

00:29:28.260 I mean, the the blaze, you know, our streaming service and, you know, with YouTube, we beat the CNN ratings many nights, many nights.

00:29:40.140 It is crazy how low their ratings are going. However, you're right.

00:29:45.400 They just think that's because we're all stupid.

00:29:48.360 So they don't they're never they're never called into question on what they actually did and what they reported.

00:29:55.640 And you can see that again with the with the White House now and the the Russia hoax.

00:30:01.940 Well, we know where that came from and we know the media participated in it, but no one ever gets fired.

00:30:09.440 No, no point. I mean, yes, as institutions, they are suffering in the ratings.

00:30:14.020 I think that a large part of that is because of lack of trust.

00:30:18.000 I mean, there's this narrative going that everyone's turning off television news in comparison to last year because there's no election.

00:30:23.920 Well, that's part of it. But I think what happened with covid destroyed what was ever left of their credibility in a large portion of the population.

00:30:31.560 But let me give you a really let me give you a really good example that, again, is from the Penn State case.

00:30:36.360 But I think you guys are going to enjoy this because this shows this relates in some weird ways to covid.

00:30:42.040 The Dr. Fauci of this case was a woman by the name of Sarah Gannam.

00:30:47.300 All right. Now, you guys fit on this narrative and tell me how absurd this is.

00:30:50.900 All right. So we were told 10 years ago that the woman who broke this case was a 24 year old Penn State graduate by the name of Sarah Gannam.

00:30:58.920 I'm 24 years old. I don't know about you guys, but when I was 24, I didn't know crap about crap.

00:31:03.960 I mean, I can't I can't. I was a television sportscaster, an NBC affiliate in Ohio and West Virginia.

00:31:09.600 I can't in retrospect believe they even let me on the air at 24.

00:31:12.440 I agree. I'm the same way.

00:31:14.360 All right. So she's 24 years old and immediately the media says, we found our expert, our Dr. Fauci.

00:31:20.600 Tell us what happened in this story, Sarah.

00:31:22.560 So she leads everybody in this panic down this path that turns out to be completely absurd.

00:31:28.980 Now, let's follow her narrative from there.

00:31:30.840 She wins the Pulitzer Prize because the media loves this narrative.

00:31:34.160 You know, a semi-attractive Penn State graduate female brings down the entire Penn State football program. 1.00

00:31:39.900 Oh, my God. They're salivating over this.

00:31:42.020 She never writes a book about the case, which is impossible as a Pulitzer Prize winner.

00:31:46.720 It's impossible. But there's a reason why she didn't write a book, because she can't.

00:31:49.760 Not because she's just a bad writer, but because her narrative would get her in big trouble about what really actually happened. 0.95

00:31:55.060 But she she gets a great gig at CNN. 0.99

00:31:57.560 So she goes from a tiny little paper in central Pennsylvania to CNN where she does nothing, nothing.

00:32:04.480 The only thing she gets known for are having snowballs thrown at her in a snowstorm she's covering and giggling on set with Wolf Blitzer while covering a horrendous abuse case.

00:32:14.100 So then she she gets, I believe, let go by CNN.

00:32:18.500 She doesn't just suddenly retire at the age of 30. 0.91

00:32:21.880 And we never hear from her again.

00:32:23.820 She's an assistant professor in Florida now on the 10th anniversary.

00:32:27.960 She comes back to do a podcast about the Sandusky case.

00:32:31.120 She is claiming in her podcast that she is a new Sandusky victim who died of an overdose in 2018 because of their trauma of the Sandusky abuse.

00:32:41.620 Did this person ever claim to be a Sandusky accuser when they were alive?

00:32:45.400 No, you're not a trial accuser.

00:32:47.460 They were not a settlement accuser.

00:32:48.860 I have all the settlement documents.

00:32:50.500 Their family was a huge Sandusky supporter.

00:32:53.100 They died of an overdose in 2018.

00:32:54.840 By the way, Sandusky's in prison.

00:32:56.060 I doubt there was any abuse going on at that time.

00:32:58.780 And then after after this guy's death in 2018, a year later, there are numerous articles about his overdose because the family is trying to get media coverage for his cause.

00:33:09.740 A year later, still no mention of Jerry Sandusky by the parents.

00:33:14.200 Then all of a sudden, just before the statute of limitations comes in, they get the most unscrupulous lawyer in this case.

00:33:20.660 And they sue Penn State for a lot of money with zero record of this guy ever claiming to be a Sandusky accuser.

00:33:27.580 And then the media reports on Sarah Gannam's podcast that this is a Sandusky victim.

00:33:34.280 You can be a Sandusky victim without ever even claiming it.

00:33:39.520 And here's Sarah Gannam, who's still the Dr. Fauci of this case.

00:33:42.860 I'm the Rand Paul to Sarah Gannam.

00:33:45.420 Unfortunately, I'm not a U.S. senator, so no one's paying attention to me.

00:33:48.640 But this woman should be, this woman's credibility should be completely destroyed. 1.00

00:33:52.900 And this is someone the news media put on the pedestal as a heroine.

00:33:57.920 She's a fraud. 1.00

00:33:59.200 And it's happening constantly in this media environment.

00:34:03.480 But again, we're not going to talk about the Sandusky thing.

00:34:06.960 You are the only person I know that can wind yourself up.

00:34:10.420 I mean, you're just like, hey, John, hey, John, how are you doing?

00:34:15.520 I'm doing, you're like, I'm doing pretty good.

00:34:18.360 I'm doing pretty good.

00:34:19.320 But let me tell you about the Sandusky thing.

00:34:20.980 And then by the end, you're like foaming at the mouth.

00:34:23.620 And all I said was, what's going on?

00:34:26.880 But isn't that an amazing story?

00:34:28.920 It is.

00:34:30.000 It is.

00:34:30.600 I'm a big believer.

00:34:31.440 And it is.

00:34:32.080 If you wait long enough, the truth will come out.

00:34:35.000 It's just many people stop paying attention.

00:34:36.700 Well, and you're exactly right where we started, which is this is what's happening right now

00:34:42.340 to the New York Times reporter that wrote everything about the Russia hoax.

00:34:47.240 It's all false now, provenly false.

00:34:49.980 She's not returning the Pulitzer Prize.

00:34:53.040 New York Times is not firing her.

00:34:55.820 They just move on.

00:34:57.460 And that is the problem with the media.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 12, 2021

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