Glenn Beck is joined by Tucker Carlson, John Lott, and Bubba the Love Sponge to discuss the Media Matters onslaught on him. Also, Home Title Lock is a company that makes sure that you don t lose your title of your house.
00:00:32.080I don't know how they're going to stand up against this barrage.
00:00:35.360This is a, this is an evil organization, Media Matters, that has gone in and tried to find stuff that nobody was pissed about, that they can be pissed about.
00:00:46.760Uh, we talk about that, uh, at length today.
00:00:49.920Kind of something that went all the way through the show.
00:03:19.900We've seen somebody chased out by something they said in old comments.
00:03:24.740But the comments that I have seen are from a Bubba the Love Sponge show, which isn't always known for its tact and its acceptance in polite society.
00:03:41.620I was amazed at all the people, the blue check marks on Twitter, shocked that there could be a show named Bubba the Love Sponge coming from, I swear, the same people who wrote think piece after think piece about how the death of Gawker was the death of journalism.
00:03:54.880You do remember that he was very prominent in that story with Hulk Hogan, and that was the whole story surrounded Bubba the Love Sponge.
00:04:04.580The guy's one of the most successful radio hosts in the country and has been for a long time.
00:04:09.360These are the same people that listen to Howard Stern every day.
00:04:17.380Oh, at one point, they're like, you know, he's like, Elena Kagan is not attractive.
00:04:21.600And then they have the cable news thing that they do, Glenn, because they'll play the clips, and it's like Tucker Carlson says something that's offensive, and then comes out to silence.
00:07:43.060You are somehow shocked and horrified that he might have said something in 2006.
00:07:50.680And anyone who defends Tucker Carlson, oh my gosh, well, look at the anti-female, the misogynist,
00:08:00.240the anti-homosexual tirade just continues now with this person.
00:08:06.860No, no, no, I don't necessarily agree or disagree with anything that Tucker Carlson said, but I am not going to be outraged by something that was said in a comedic sense in 2006 when people have to go carry their dead children who weighed more at their death than my six-year-old son did.
00:09:31.900After you lose the voices like mine, like Tucker's, people who will actually stand up for you when you are in trouble for what you said and you,
00:09:44.140we will stand up and I have a long record of it standing up for people like Bill Maher weeks after 9-11 and ABC fires him.
00:09:55.240I have a record of standing up for James Gunn who said horrible things about a friend of mine, but I didn't think he should be fired.
00:10:04.540I will stand up for you, but after you silence voices like me, oh, I will be standing somewhere, be it under a bridge or in a prison.
00:14:48.380In some parts it says you have freedom of, you have a right to freely practice your religion or free speech.
00:14:56.140And then in other parts it says, well, only if it doesn't bother the collective.
00:15:00.020If it gets in the way of what the collective wants, well, then actually you don't really have those rights.
00:15:04.400And that's what modern democratic socialism in the United States is moving us toward.
00:15:09.920This society where you as an individual don't matter.
00:15:12.660What matters is what the collective wants.
00:15:14.620And if your desires, your beliefs, your religious beliefs, your moral beliefs, if that gets in the way of what's good for the collective, and who gets to decide that, well, the collective, I guess, then too bad for you.
00:15:27.760You need to just shut up and sit down.
00:16:28.360And even if you could have, and this is something I get into in the book, even if you could have this mythical world where everyone is collectively owning and managing property and everybody is happy with collectively owning and managing property temporarily, even if you could somehow do this without completely eroding people's liberty, without throwing people into concentration camps and doing all the things that socialists and communist parties have done for the past 100 years, you need to find a way to do that.
00:16:55.560You still have important moral controversies that occur in life.
00:17:01.700For instance, in a single-payer health care system, do you pay for abortion or not?
00:17:28.980You bring up the moral case, and this is part of what you're talking about.
00:17:33.000To me, the moral case for the free market is dirt strong, and the moral case against socialism perhaps is even stronger because of things, as you point out, you're going to have to, you know, alcohol, you say in the book.
00:17:55.440Alcohol, 40% of America, I can't believe it's that high, but 40% of America says, you know, drinking is immoral.
00:18:03.840Well, are they going to be, are they going to have to own the alcohol production?
00:18:10.700And how do you force somebody to do it?
00:18:24.880I think socialism inevitably leads to complete chaos because any time you try to force people to receive the same amount of wealth for doing the same amount of work as people who are working not nearly as hard as you are, it's a race to the bottom across an entire society.
00:18:43.160People stop working hard because there's no incentive to work hard, and normally you incentivize people by giving them a profit, by paying them more money.
00:18:51.500But you can't do that in a socialist society.
00:18:53.880So how do you convince people to work harder?
00:18:56.180Well, you put a gun to the back of their head, and you say, work harder.
00:18:59.520And if you say, well, we don't like this, then you go to prison.
00:19:02.400You go to the internment camp, and you learn your lesson, and then you get to come back in society and be a slave for the rest of your life.
00:19:08.360That's how socialism inevitably works.
00:19:10.740It fails every single time because it's in fundamental violation of human nature.
00:19:16.360Right, and you get into this, socialism's fatal flaw, where you talk about its flaw is that.
00:19:32.900Humans, as I was just saying, humans are motivated by their own individual achievements, by their own goals, by what would benefit them and their families.
00:20:01.900Sacrifice yourself for the good of the collective.
00:20:04.540And when you try to do that, I mean, just think about this in your personal life.
00:20:08.160Think about this in your own workplace.
00:20:10.240I mean, everybody who's worked a job knows that there are people at the company who aren't working quite as hard as you're working, and how that makes people feel around the office.
00:20:19.780I mean, it never works out well because at a fundamental human level, we understand that it's not fair to reward people equally for disproportionate amounts of work.
00:20:37.100And yet, Karl Marx and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders and all of these people would like to pretend that these things don't exist.
00:20:46.280This whole system is completely delusional.
00:20:50.020And when you read Communist Manifesto, that's what you walk away with.
00:20:53.540You say, well, how can – a lot of people talk about, well, why do kids on college campuses read Communist Manifesto and become socialist?
00:21:02.300And, you know, obviously, there are a lot of professors out there indoctrinating kids with communism and socialist ideas.
00:21:10.440But I think that a simpler solution is that they're just all high and drunk and stoned out of their minds, and that those are the only people who would ever find this to be an appealing system.
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00:22:23.880I have been saying for a while that courage is contagious, and we need to look for people with courage and highlight them and show them to our sons and daughters, because it is contagious.
00:22:38.280When you see somebody who is standing up against all the odds, you – well, at least in the America that I know, you can't help but admire them.
00:22:48.220I want to introduce you to one of those guys with tons of courage, David Harris, Jr.
00:22:53.440He is the author of Why I Couldn't Stay Silent.
00:23:19.160So most people, when they look at me, they don't think anything other.
00:23:23.340I'm a part of the black community, but I have an interesting dynamic in the book where I talk about I got to enjoy family gatherings at my mom's side of the family, family gatherings at my dad's side of the family, and how completely different they were.
00:23:39.420But I've dealt with my share, plenty share of racism.
00:23:41.860So let's talk about that, because you then really could complain that you don't fit in either.
00:23:50.260I felt that way for a long time, actually.
00:23:53.420Growing up in a very small town in Northern California, predominantly white, I did get picked on by the black folks, because most of my friends were white.
00:26:08.440And so I said, well, honestly, I said, well, my dad, because I look more like him, not having any understanding of what was really going on,
00:26:18.920that really shaped a lot of the heartache that I felt and that I grew through.
00:26:24.440Because then my father, he loved me in ways by providing for me.
00:26:28.600I found out later that he actually took me out of the house because things weren't going well with my mom.
00:26:33.500And she was doing some things that weren't admirable.
00:26:37.320And so he didn't want to leave me in that situation, so he got me out of it.
00:27:19.700You know, having to take my girlfriend at the time, having my white friend go pick her up for our semi-formal prom at her house just to get her to the prom so that I could be her date.
00:27:38.440So that all led to a life of partying, drinking, smoking a lot of weed.
00:27:44.740And then before I knew it, I knew the people that had it in quantity.
00:27:49.660And then before I knew it, I had a pager that would go off 50 to 100 times a day from everybody wanting any from weed to acid to mushrooms.
00:29:58.420Raised in church early, but then left after my parents divorced.
00:30:01.880The choir would quiet down, and somebody would stand up, and they'd testify what God was doing in their life.
00:30:06.980And then the choir would go crazy, the church would go crazy, and the choir would keep going.
00:30:11.380That kept happening, and people kept sharing what God was doing in their life.
00:30:14.280And it was becoming evident to me that God was not only real, that he was actively working in people's lives, but I was missing out, and I was doing the devil's work.
00:31:29.400I just want to know about this God that loved me so much that in the middle of my sin-drenched life, he reached down and showed me he loved me.
00:31:38.940And in that moment, I thought about, I said, what about Jennifer?
00:41:17.060Look, it's kind of like the old Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, where they're trying to predict whether somebody is going to commit a crime in the future.
00:41:27.820And, you know, if you talk to them, most of these laws are fairly vague.
00:42:13.640And you'll say, well, you already have laws from that.
00:42:16.840If you have a felony, you're banned for life from having a gun, even if it's a nonviolent felony.
00:42:22.640Depending upon the state, like California, almost any misdemeanor can ban you from being able to go in and get a gun.
00:42:30.260But what they don't want to have is they want to have it so you can be banned if you simply have an arrest but not a conviction,
00:42:40.020or somebody files a complaint and there's not an arrest.
00:42:43.640So there is, there is, the way I read this is if somebody said, let's say, John, you get a divorce and it's an ugly divorce and you have a lot of guns,
00:42:53.680and your ex in the battle says to the police, you know, my husband, I think he's unstable and I think he's, you know, he's got a lot of guns and I'm worried that he might do something.
00:43:07.260They have the right then to go in and take your guns without any kind of hearing on that.
00:43:20.960And the standard of evidence is very low in many of these cases.
00:43:28.160You can have what they call reasonable cause, which is just a hunch.
00:43:32.840If the judge just has a hunch based on, slightly more than a hunch based on the complaint that the ex-wife has filed or the wife involved in the divorce, that can be sufficient.
00:43:45.300And even when they have a hearing after 21 days or so, depending upon the state, again, they don't bring in experts.
00:43:53.620And it can simply be, you know, is there a 51 percent chance, you know, slightly more than a coin flip, that you could be a danger.
00:44:02.920You could have your guns taken away on a long term basis.
00:44:09.780Because they're assembling, you know, as you see, John, we haven't talked about this, but I'm sure you're you're on this far more than I am.
00:44:20.300They're assembling by taking away a little right here and a little right there and then pressuring the financial system not to do business with gun manufacturers, et cetera, et cetera.
00:44:34.140They're all they're doing is making it absolutely impossible on many levels.
00:44:41.740And that way they can say we never touched the Second Amendment.
00:44:45.860No, it's clear that they want to make it costly for people to have guns.
00:44:50.060And they do it in many different ways, as you say.
00:44:52.960In Washington, D.C., where they just voted in the House on these universal so-called universal background checks, which are background checks on any private transfers of a gun.
00:45:05.560It costs one hundred and twenty five dollars to do a transfer on a gun per gun per gun.
00:45:11.220If I if I give my son all of my guns and I give him ten guns, it's twelve hundred and fifty dollars because he has to pay for the transfer and the quote background check.
00:46:00.500When other states have passed these laws, I get phone calls sometimes from some state legislators.
00:46:06.520A few years ago, when Colorado passed this law, I got a call asked me what amendment I would put up on the bill.
00:46:12.560My suggestion was to put up an amendment that would exempt people below the poverty level
00:46:17.560from having to pay the new state tax on each gun that was transferred, with the exception of two pro-gun Democrats in the state house.
00:46:26.500Every other Democrat voted against exempting people below the poverty level from having to pay the new state tax.
00:46:32.960How many taxes can you think of that Democrats will fight tooth and nail against exempting somebody below the poverty level from having to pay?
00:46:41.780And it just, you know, if my research convinces me of anything, it's poor minorities, particularly poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas
00:46:53.420who benefit the most from having the option to be able to go and protect themselves.
00:46:57.460These fees aren't going to stop you or I from being able to go and buy a gun.
00:47:01.100But poor blacks who live in these high crime areas, it may be enough easily to stop them from owning a gun legally to protect themselves and their families.
00:47:11.980So quickly, before I move on to the Washington state debacle, let me just leave the audience with this.
00:47:20.100John has put together a white paper along with Carlisle Moody from College of William and Mary and the Crime Prevention Research Center.
00:47:29.280This was their conclusion on red flag laws.
00:47:32.720Now, remember, this is your Republican Senate that is doing this.
00:47:40.420The red flag laws had no significant effect on murder, suicide, the number of people killed in mass public shootings, robbery, aggravated assault or burglary.
00:47:50.120But there is some evidence that rape rates rise.
00:47:55.220These laws apparently do not save lives.
00:48:02.840Washington state said that if you can't sell a gun to anybody who is 20 unless they're 21 and they agree to all these other things,
00:48:12.820the sheriffs say we're not imposing we're not enforcing this law.
00:48:18.640We find that it is unconstitutional and we're not we're not going to do that.
00:48:23.820And now the state is going after those sheriffs and going after FFLs, which is, you know, a private dealer that if they say they're not going to they're not going to abide by that either.
00:48:38.820They're going to put them out of business and they're talking about jail time.
00:48:42.880What is what is the story on this, John?
00:48:45.100Right. Well, Washington state, Paul Allen and others have passed three initiatives in the last three elections.
00:48:53.440And there's just a myriad of complicated laws now in Washington state for going owning a gun.
00:49:00.120This last one had everything from 10 day waiting periods for buying a semi-automatic rifle to raising the age for somebody to be able to own a gun up to age 21 to creating a gun registry to,
00:49:17.100as we were just talking about before, adding in fees and taxes, essentially, on top of the cost that they had already imposed for people be able to go in and own a gun.
00:49:27.520It's just I mean, people have to understand how complicated the existing laws are even before they had this initiative.
00:49:36.980You if you had a female friend who is being stalked or threatened and she calls you up late in the evening asking you to go and borrow a gun for a few days
00:49:46.960until she can go to the store and buy one herself, you'd be creating committing a crime unless unless the attacker,
00:49:56.980the stalker was physically there in front of you all when you loaned her the gun.
00:50:01.800And as soon as he left, even if you knew he was going to be coming back later, she'd have to give you back the gun.
00:50:06.760This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous.
00:50:08.900So do they have a leg to stand on when it comes to the sheriffs?
00:50:12.780Can they can they take these sheriffs down?
00:50:16.680Well, the thing is, the sheriffs are a creation of state law.
00:50:21.580And so, you know, the federal government can't force individual sheriffs to do things.
00:50:27.400But states can have a lot of leeway in terms of of, you know, what they can make sheriffs do.
00:50:35.760And, you know, it's heroic in some sense for these sheriffs, despite the risks that they're facing personally themselves,
00:50:42.760to be able to go and object to these rules.
00:50:47.440I mean, they're elected officeholders, but, you know, it's still the state that sets up the rules by which they operate.
00:50:55.380John, thank you so much. And we'll stay in touch.
00:50:58.940Appreciate all the work that you do. God bless.
00:51:00.840CrimeResearch.org. He is with CrimeResearch.org.
00:51:06.640That's how you can follow him. His name is John Lott Jr.
00:51:10.300If you've not read any of his books and you are interested in the Bill of Rights
00:51:15.980and the reason why the people should have access to arms and, yes, even the scary black ones.
00:51:26.020Boy, gun racism just doesn't stop with the left, does it?
00:51:29.420You need to read his books. An easy one to get started is the book Control.
00:51:36.040It has my name on it, but we had the best in gun researchers and the people who do this for a living
00:51:46.680really support that book and fill that book.
00:51:50.620We had about four or five different people on it, and they were the top of the line,
00:51:55.940the people who are fighting for your right in the Second Amendment.