Glenn Beck talks about the growing anti-racist movement on social media, and why it's time to prepare for the chickens to come home to roost. Glenn also discusses the latest on the Stop Hate For Profit campaign.
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00:00:34.880Um, we, uh, we also go into the most dangerous story of the day. It is something that I think you really, really need to pay attention to.
00:00:45.440And, uh, and, uh, it just is at that point now to where it's all coming. The chickens are coming home to roost. If I may quote Jeremiah, right?
00:00:59.140Um, it is, it now is the time where we really have to be very, very careful. Uh, and you'll hear all about that. And why I say this is the most important story of the day. It's where we start on today's podcast.
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00:01:22.440All right. I want to talk to you about what I think is the most important story of the day.
00:01:33.220And it comes from the Hill and the headline is just Facebook boycott gains momentum.
00:01:40.580All right. Doesn't sound like a, a big deal, right?
00:01:45.000Facebook is coming under mounting pressure from major companies to rein in hateful content on their platform.
00:01:56.180In the past week, companies like Patagonia, the North Face, Ben and Jerry's, REI have joined the Stop Hate for Profit campaign organized by civil rights groups in the wake of police killing of George Floyd.
00:02:12.800Organizers of the Facebook boycott acknowledge that while previous efforts to change Facebook's platform have fallen short,
00:02:19.300the national focus on racial injustice has put the spotlight on all aspects of life, including social media.
00:02:27.120Now, here you have big tech that already defines hate speech as this speech, any speech that disagrees with what the mob is saying.
00:02:49.860They kick two people off just in the last two days.
00:02:52.960They are coming for us one by one as it is.
00:02:56.520Now, you have the advertisers organized by the same people that put me out, put all of us out, the same people who have been boycotting Rush Limbaugh forever.
00:03:12.580You now have those people coordinating the efforts on Facebook.
00:03:17.860And with what's happening, what do you think is going to happen?
00:03:24.580Quote, this is from Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
00:03:30.680I think the country is reckoning with this legacy of systematic racism in a way that it hasn't before.
00:03:36.920You see this playing out in the public square, and it seems to be playing out in the political arena.
00:03:41.040That environment, I think, creates the conditions in which this advertising pause has so much appeal.
00:03:48.800Notice they call it a pause and not a boycott, because I don't think they know if they can survive without Facebook and Google.
00:03:57.460You don't know who's going to win on that battle.
00:04:00.940I would just like to say to Jonathan Greenblatt, you should watch.
00:04:05.140What is the HBO show that's out now, the Something of America?
00:04:13.020It's really, it's really, really good about Charles Lindbergh winning the 1940 election or 1939 election instead of, instead of Roosevelt.
00:04:27.200And it shows how they were just, the Jews are just sold out, just sold out.
00:04:33.220If you actually think, while you're there running the Anti-Defamation League, that the people of Black Lives Matter are your friends, you are insane.
00:04:49.080So the ADL, the NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press, and Common Sense have launched the Stop Hate for Profit campaign last week,
00:05:03.780calling on companies to pull their advertising dollars from Facebook for the month of July.
00:05:07.640There's been a lot of misinformation, says James Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense.
00:05:15.300He said, after Floyd's death, there's been a ton of hate and white supremacist content on the platform, and they just ignore it.
00:05:35.540The groups behind the current boycott are calling for Facebook to, among other things, create a threshold for harm where users facing harassment can speak directly with an employee,
00:05:47.460an internal mechanism for removing ads labeled as misinformation, and system for flagging content in private groups.
00:06:24.600Although the campaign was just launched last week, they're already received more than a dozen corporate sponsors.
00:06:32.140Outerwear companies, including Eddie Bauer, were some of the first to join,
00:06:36.740pledging to stop buying advertisements on Facebook and Instagram for July.
00:06:40.180The web browsing company Mozilla, shipping company Local Postal, film distributor Magnolia Pictures,
00:06:49.100and global freelancing platform Upwork have also joined the campaign.
00:06:54.000As the world's largest on-demand remote talent platform, we're committed to building a safe and inclusive space for companies and professionals,
00:13:41.800This is not about police reform or policy changes or income inequality.
00:13:47.260This is insurrection by anti-American Marxist forces and millions of useful idiot supporters bent on the violent overthrow of the United States of America.
00:13:57.960There is no way to interpret the data in front of us any other way.
00:14:03.360You may be right to stay up in Idaho, because I'm in L.A. right now, and I can't tell you the level of tension you can feel just walking around a grocery store.
00:14:41.800The buildup to the Civil War looked eerily similar to what we're seeing today.
00:14:47.220Localized violent clashes and those insurrection taking up arms against official government authorities and the insurrection Southerness Democrat media fanning the flame.
00:15:12.720Now they are in our midst, our sons, our daughters, our neighbors, and we're paralyzed because the implications of what we're facing are horrifying.
00:18:18.360You know, we've got to get Carly Fiorina on because she just came out and she said she's voting for Joe Biden because we just can't have Donald Trump in office anymore.
00:18:30.420And I don't know what the hell she's even thinking.
00:18:32.440I mean, here she was somebody that was for Cruz.
00:18:38.660And now with what we're facing with Marxism, what?
00:19:07.520I think that Joe Biden would, you know, my son who's 20 and he was talking to me this weekend and he's saying, you know, Dad, this will be the first time I vote.
00:19:17.240And he said, you know, I'm having a tough time here.
00:19:19.180He said, if I vote for, you know, Donald Trump, we're going to have four years of chaos and rioting in the streets.
00:19:24.520And he said, if I vote for Joe Biden, we're going to have four years of a Great Depression.
00:19:27.920And I said, well, that might be the choice.
00:19:30.980But there is no question about the second.
00:19:33.220If Joe Biden is elected president, Glenn, and he puts in place and you've got Nancy Pelosi, a speaker, we will have a second Great Depression.
00:19:55.880So for someone like Carly, who is a great CEO, a Hewlett Packard, has a good understanding of the economy to say that I would vote for Joe Biden.
00:20:14.940All right, let me just say one thing about this.
00:20:19.420There are a lot of people who don't like Donald Trump.
00:20:22.240I like Donald Trump, but I mean, I know a lot of people do not like Donald Trump.
00:20:27.560It's not about his personality, folks.
00:20:29.680It's not about his personality or even his behavior.
00:20:31.800It's about who can get this economy back on its feet and who can lead us out of this crisis we're in.
00:20:40.680And anyone who actually thinks that Joe Biden would be better for the American economy than Donald Trump, I personally think, needs to have their head examined.
00:20:56.200I did a special last night, Stephen, that the that should put the press in in some sort of constitutional prison because of their unwillingness to tell the truth.
00:21:09.760This is all well financed by the left and by the Democratic operatives, and it's it's stunning how right out there it is.
00:21:47.040By the way, the people leaders of black lives matter anything black people.
00:21:50.040I mean, this is an anarchist organization that hates America, hates our Constitution.
00:21:56.880That's why they want to, you know, they want to erase our history as a nation.
00:22:00.860I mean, here we're a week away from July 4th, our Independence Day.
00:22:04.520And, you know, sorry, but why is it if we are such a racist country that every single, you know, Hispanic and blacks all over the world want to come to the United States?
00:22:13.660Stephen, help me out on I think we are in real, real trouble, especially if the Democrats win.
00:22:26.080The voices of conservatives are going to be lost.
00:22:29.500It's why I built the blaze, because I was I foresaw all of this stuff coming.
00:22:36.080And I was just wrong on timing, but it's just about what I used to say, Glenn is over the top.
00:22:43.560I mean, he's he's too much of a conspiratorialist.
00:23:00.900They are the most lunatic ideas that would have been laughed at three or four years ago are now mainstream liberal.
00:23:09.840I mean, my goodness, they want to tear down the statues of Grant, of Jefferson, of Washington, of Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill.
00:23:16.880Some of the greatest people who walked on the planet are somehow racist or bigots or, you know, by the way, you know, you are winning an argument with the left.
00:23:27.620OK, Glenn, you know, you are winning an argument with the left when they resort to calling you a racist because they've run out of arguments.
00:23:34.100So they just, you know, resort to, oh, you're a racist.
00:23:39.380Well, now I don't know if you saw, but there is the same group of people are now taking on Facebook and they are saying you have to hunt down racist and you have to start banning them, demonetizing them and silencing them more than they already are.
00:24:13.800Yeah, I am so glad that you and I are of like mind on this, Glenn, because, you know, a lot of our conservative friends, you know, think that was crazy that I wrote that article.
00:24:23.980Now, let me kind of state my position.
00:24:26.000First of all, do I think that Google and Amazon and Facebook and Twitter have left wing, you know, biases?
00:24:34.460And do I think that they give 90 percent of their money to Democrats?
00:24:51.980What I'm saying is that the Internet, first of all, if it had not been for our great technology companies and, you know, whether you like the politics of Google or Apple or Amazon, they're amazing companies.
00:25:03.520There are trillion dollar companies that are leading the world.
00:25:06.380And the only people who will benefit if we take down Amazon and Google and Facebook and, you know, companies like Apple and Microsoft are the Chinese.
00:25:16.740I mean, China is behind this plot to try to break up high tech because they want companies like Huawei and TikTok and others to take the supreme position that we now have.
00:25:30.600Point number two, we never could have even gotten through this crisis of the last three months had it not been for our amazing technology companies.
00:25:36.380Not just the big five, but thousands and thousands of innovative technology companies that made it possible for us to to continue with our with our work.
00:25:45.740For many of us, you know, from our homes or remotely, it's just been an amazing thing.
00:25:51.380And so let's not punish companies for being successful.
00:26:13.200And I don't think the one thing I can say, I don't think our founders ever considered corporations being more powerful than the king or the government.
00:26:23.120And so there is really no protection against them.
00:26:31.220We have to give stop giving them special protection.
00:26:35.280They they have all the rights that are afforded to any company, but they shouldn't be receiving any special rights or any special protections from the government.
00:26:45.760I certainly agree with that, you know, and I would say this, though, that, you know, you and I have talked before about this.
00:26:51.960The worst president, I think I wonder if you still believe this, but I believe that the worst president in American history was Woodrow Wilson, who gave us.
00:27:24.720People are not learning the right American history.
00:27:27.800Glenn, you know, this, the idea that Henry Ford and John D.
00:27:31.400Rockefeller and Carnegie and these amazing, amazing Americans who built this country are robber barons is crazy.
00:27:40.420I mean, it's a day of the people who built the railroads, build our energy industry, build our banking system and made America the great country that we are.
00:27:48.300Henry Ford is how is Henry Ford a robber barons?
00:27:51.640He provided half of our country with automobiles.
00:27:54.980So my point is, you've got if you've got companies that are giving things that people want, how can Google be a monopoly?
00:28:42.420That's what you're saying, Glenn, is that they're too successful.
00:28:45.480And, you know, look, I mean, there's no such thing as being a company being too successful.
00:28:50.620We have five companies in America today that are trillion dollar companies, or at least they were before the financial this financial crisis.
00:28:57.860And, you know, think about every American as a shareholder in these companies.
00:29:01.820Every American is, you know, they employ hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people.
00:29:20.100But nobody puts a gun to your hand and says you have to have a Twitter account or that you have to have a Facebook account or that you have to have a Facebook account.
00:29:24.820If there's Google, if you don't like them, don't use them.
00:29:27.340And incidentally, I guarantee you, Glenn, when you and I are talking five or six years from now, there's going to be other companies that are going to displace these companies from the top, you know, from the top of the heap.
00:29:47.420With the algorithms that is coming and AI, I mean, I think you and I disagree on the dangers of AI, but I'm telling you I'm right on this one, too.
00:30:01.120And it's mind control possibilities of AI are going to change absolutely everything, Stephen.
00:30:14.800I mean, and I don't want the government to have all of that power.
00:30:20.680I don't want Google to have all that power.
00:30:24.280I don't know how to get rid of it, but we have got to think out of the box here and we will agree on one thing.
00:30:31.280Stop giving Google special protection and Facebook and everybody else and don't regulate.
00:30:40.060If you regulate, that will they have all the money in the world to buy all the regulation that they want and they will regulate it in their favor.
00:30:50.080And then we're really screwed, really screwed.
00:30:52.920That's why we have the big three automakers and we put great companies like Auburn out of business.
00:31:57.640Yes, they're protecting the incumbent powers rather than the little guy on the street that's coming by to try to, you know, that's why big business tends to support regulation.
00:33:36.900What would be the thing that they would be like, oh, crap, not that?
00:33:39.980Yeah, I would like to see 100 Republican legislators refer to the Democratic Party as a racist party, as a seditious party, as a totalitarian party, and treat them not quite as badly as they treat Republicans.
00:34:00.680You know, I mean, we have Nancy Pelosi accusing the Republicans of murdering this guy, George Floyd.
00:37:02.300And like I say, I just wish the Republican Party was speaking with the same voice that Trump does.
00:37:08.740And he's a little bit has his hands tied in a way because he's the president and so you can't leave it to one man alone to fight this battle.
00:37:24.980David, David, give me give me why you say in your book that Trump will smash the left and win.
00:37:32.980And tell me what he should be doing today, because there's a lot of people now saying, you know, Joe Biden, you know, at least the chaos will stop with Joe Biden.
00:37:43.020It'll be more chaos with Donald Trump.
00:40:18.760And all the worst states, surprise, surprise, are Democrats states.
00:40:23.360What I think that Trump will prevail is, first of all, Americans aren't stupid.
00:40:33.020You know, they can look at these mobs, and Democrats can say all they want, that they're peaceful protesters.
00:40:39.840But anybody who's watched what is going on in Lafayette Square knows that if it weren't for the National Guard there, they would climb the White House fence and burn the White House.
00:40:54.940You know, I thought what Alinsky actually said in his infamous book, that the 60s leftists were right to burn it down.
00:41:04.660In the 60s, the left used to say the cops are the occupying army in the inner cities.
00:41:12.660It's the Democrats that are the occupiers of the inner cities.
00:41:17.740My book Blitz starts off with why was Donald Trump, who for 30 years was a major public figure, everybody knew who Donald Trump was.
00:41:30.060Nobody was calling him a white supremacist, except maybe Al Sharpton.
00:41:37.960So why did they call him a white supremacist before he even got into power?
00:41:44.480And the answer is, he was a threat to their dirty little secret.
00:41:49.000They have a major scandal to hide, which is the Democrats, I've said this on your show before,
00:41:55.720where they control every major inner city in America, every killing field, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, 100%, and have for 50 to 100 years.
00:42:09.440So everything that's, there isn't a Republican in sight in Minneapolis, or any of these cities.
00:42:15.560All these mayors are left-wing racists.
00:42:18.040The fact that they're black, usually, doesn't absolve them from being racist, unless you've drunk the left-wing Kool-Aid.
00:42:30.460Which is a phrase, drink the Kool-Aid, a phrase that came from Jim Jones, which was a Marxist Democrat that had everybody drink the Kool-Aid.
00:42:42.320Well, I know it's by Derek Sherman, apparently, the one who killed George Floyd, insofar as he killed him.
00:42:51.980This was a police procedure, it didn't kill people, but if you have COVID-19, as he did, and you were higher in fentanyl, which, in fact, you'll know it's a lie.