The Glenn Beck Program - December 14, 2020


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Lt. Col. Allen West & David Barton ｜ 12⧸14⧸20


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Alan West joins us to talk about the Supreme Court and why we should secede from the United States. We also discuss the best history book to buy this holiday season, The American Story: The Beginnings by David Barton.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, it's the Monday podcast. I was out at the White House on Friday when the president found
00:00:06.080 out about the Supreme Court. I'll tell you about that and why I think that Joe Biden said we're
00:00:13.820 going to replace even the doorknobs because it's riddled with COVID at the White House. I'll tell
00:00:19.880 you what that really was about. Also, we have Alan West joining us today on the podcast. He
00:00:26.700 talks a little bit about what seems like we should secede. He actually says it's the exact
00:00:34.000 opposite of that. We explain it. We talk about the best history book that should be on everyone's
00:00:40.940 list to buy this holiday season. Get it for every child, every grandchild. Get it for your home and
00:00:47.180 keep it. It is the best called The American Story, The Beginnings, and it's by David Barton. David
00:00:53.880 stops by to talk about that. And we delve a little bit deeper into the Christmas giving.
00:01:01.120 We do. And we also look at a new website, glennbeckart.com. That's something worth checking
00:01:07.220 out.
00:01:07.480 Yeah. And I think Stu said it best when he was like, you know, it's really surprising when
00:01:11.940 I look at COVID Gothic, which is one of my pieces that you can buy. He said, when I look
00:01:17.920 at COVID Gothic, it looks like it's actually good. I'm very supportive. That's the way.
00:01:25.480 I think I should put that review on glennbeckart.com. All right, here's a podcast.
00:01:29.880 My wife and I were supposed to go to the White House Christmas party on Friday, and she needed
00:01:51.480 to stay home and take care of some things at the house. So I took my youngest daughter,
00:01:57.160 Cheyenne, to the Christmas party. And we asked for a tour of the West Wing before the party because
00:02:05.940 she has never been there. And it's kind of an extra special thing. And I wanted to show her
00:02:12.440 the West Wing myself. And so we went in and we went about an hour early. And we were in the West
00:02:20.640 Wing, which is where the Oval Office is. And we were standing in, I think it was the Roosevelt Room
00:02:28.720 or the Cabinet Room. And the president went into the Oval Office and he was in there with Mike Pence
00:02:38.140 and Mark Meadows. And I found out later, that's when they found out about the Supreme Court.
00:02:49.360 We were out in the Rose Garden. And, you know, my daughter and I could see into the Oval.
00:02:56.060 By the way, Melania Trump has just been so maligned, so maligned. The Rose Garden is spectacularly 1.00
00:03:04.840 beautiful, even in the winter. It is really, I mean, the pictures just don't do it justice.
00:03:10.520 Just really beautiful. Anyway, so we were there and we could see. And let's just say the faces weren't
00:03:18.160 happy in the Oval Office at that point. The president didn't make it to the White House Christmas
00:03:26.140 Party. And it kind of, there was a kind of a pall over the Christmas Party because everybody knew
00:03:32.580 by the time all the guests arrived, everybody had heard what the Supreme Court said.
00:03:37.380 I was with a couple of the AGs from the different states. Nobody really understands why the Supreme
00:03:46.300 Court just didn't hear it. What do you mean you don't have standing? What does that mean? I'd like
00:03:50.720 to know. How do other states, how do 21 states file a suit and it's not even heard? See, that's the
00:04:01.200 problem. That's the problem. And that's why people will not get over this because they're not being
00:04:08.400 heard. We don't feel like there has been anyone who has actually defended, went to
00:04:16.080 Washington. How many Tea Party people did we did we send to Washington? And how many of them turned
00:04:21.640 on us? How many of them did nothing? Now we send Donald Trump and some of us. I didn't think he'd do
00:04:31.860 it. I didn't think he'd do it at all. He did it. He stood the entire time and he went to bat for
00:04:40.540 millions of Americans who have not been listened to probably almost for the last 20 years. We haven't
00:04:50.660 been listened to Barack Obama. Well, I think we should listen to everyone. You didn't listen to us.
00:04:57.600 Not once did you listen to us. Not once did you ask to meet with anyone. Not once.
00:05:04.140 You made fun of us. You made fun of us. The press made fun of us. Then they went after Donald Trump
00:05:12.160 unlike anything I have ever seen. It's obscene what was done to him. And why was it done? Because
00:05:21.220 he was actually listening to us and was actually standing against the corruption. He was just a
00:05:30.360 wrecking ball. I saw an article today that somebody called him a bulldozer and a bulldozer
00:05:35.480 doesn't. Bulldozers never end well in a in a city where finesse is needed. No, no, I'm tired of
00:05:43.520 finesse. Anybody else tired of finesse? Can we find another bulldozer? Because I'd go for a bulldozer
00:05:48.700 and a crane and a wrecking ball. And, you know, maybe there's a couple of buildings that really need
00:05:55.160 to be taken taken down. In fact, with an exception of the museums, all of those buildings that FDR built
00:06:02.220 in the 1940s. Anyway, so I'm wondering who does have standing in this? Because imagine that we're
00:06:17.480 all in a classroom and we all know the rules and there are 50 of us and we are all taking a test
00:06:29.080 except four have special conditions. So we're taking the test. We all have to have it done within
00:06:39.860 an hour. We all have to be monitored. We have to be in the same room. So we have a teacher looking
00:06:46.920 sure, make sure we're not cheating and no calculators. But we find out later that four of
00:06:55.200 the students at the time didn't really matter. They didn't have anybody looking over them. And there's
00:07:01.560 a pretty good feeling that they probably used calculators. And we're all graded on a curve.
00:07:09.320 And because of those four getting perfect scores, my A has gone to a B or my C has gone to a D.
00:07:17.920 Wouldn't I, as somebody in the classroom, have standing to raise my hand and say,
00:07:22.320 hey, excuse me, what they did affected my grade. I'd like just to at least talk about what they did.
00:07:35.720 If you didn't, you weren't allowed to at least talk about it and be heard, heard legitimately.
00:07:43.660 You'd never get over it. You'd never get over it. By the Supreme Court saying we don't have
00:07:53.480 standing. 21 states don't have standing. Now, maybe there's no case. I don't know.
00:08:04.060 I know we were promised a case. I haven't really seen the case. But nobody's hearing anything.
00:08:13.660 By not hearing the case, you don't have Thomas, Coney Barrett, Scalia, not Scalia.
00:08:28.880 Yeah, Alito. You don't have Alito actually on record.
00:08:34.840 Trusted friends, trusted people on record saying we heard all of the evidence. There isn't anything.
00:08:45.800 Now, you do have Alito and Thomas saying that in so many words, there's nothing here to really warrant us hearing it.
00:08:56.080 But that's not good enough in this case. The Supreme Court should have heard this case.
00:09:06.240 Because how do we come together and heal?
00:09:08.280 Because the people feel that we have been wronged every step of the way.
00:09:16.620 And when I say we, anyone who has supported Donald Trump, and many people support Donald Trump because of how he was treated in office.
00:09:27.060 I've met several people who voted against him, voted for Hillary Clinton, were Democrats, and said,
00:09:36.400 after I heard all the things, I decided to do my own homework, and I can't believe the lies that were told about him.
00:09:45.380 America likes the underdog.
00:09:48.020 America has always supported the underdog.
00:09:52.240 America, much to the surprise of those on the left, Americans do like justice.
00:10:01.980 They like it when the little guy wins.
00:10:09.360 So I'm there in the White House.
00:10:14.520 And it's not really a party atmosphere.
00:10:18.020 But it was really nice.
00:10:21.940 About halfway through, they said, the President and the First Lady are not going to be attending tonight.
00:10:29.700 And you would think that a room full of people that flew all the way across from everywhere in the country would be disappointed.
00:10:37.160 Everyone said, I completely understand that.
00:10:40.860 I wouldn't come downstairs either.
00:10:43.740 People traipsing around in my house all the time.
00:10:47.000 And then I got to go put on a happy face after I just got this news.
00:10:51.120 Everyone completely understood.
00:10:55.760 Now, I have a deeper understanding of what Biden did this weekend.
00:11:01.120 Biden said that he was going to exercise the White House because it's riddled with COVID.
00:11:10.740 And he was going to fumigate.
00:11:13.580 And he wants people to come in with hazmat suits.
00:11:16.660 And they'll tear up all the carpet and everything and they will just sanitize that place. 0.87
00:11:23.980 All the way down, it says, to replacing the doorknobs.
00:11:28.740 Let me tell you what that really is about.
00:11:35.380 President-elect Biden is set to move in to the 55,000 square foot mansion after his January 21st inauguration.
00:11:43.140 But he is insisting that the 132 room property be thoroughly disinfected beforehand.
00:11:49.920 White House historian Kate Anderson Brower said there's only a five hour window between presidents.
00:11:57.420 And I have another story.
00:11:58.700 Remind me about the Clintons and the five hour window.
00:12:03.760 There's only a five hour window between presidents.
00:12:07.260 That's when 95 staff have to pick up all of the Trump possessions and move the Bidens in.
00:12:14.040 They will clean and replace everything.
00:12:17.720 Biden is insisting that a team in hazmat suits will spray the entire residence with disinfectant after Trump leaves.
00:12:26.220 Remove the carpets, curtains and furniture.
00:12:29.900 All the way down to replacing the doorknobs.
00:12:34.460 Now, Stu.
00:12:36.200 There's five hours between anybody Trump in that in that house.
00:12:42.960 How long does COVID last on a metal surface?
00:12:50.240 Especially at a level that could infect someone.
00:12:53.320 Correct.
00:12:53.760 I mean, you can discover it later on.
00:12:56.900 But the idea that it's going to sit there for five hours or sit in the air for five hours and infect someone is beyond the scope of likely.
00:13:06.780 Right.
00:13:07.260 So don't you think changing the doorknobs seems a little odd, doesn't it?
00:13:14.540 First of all, I mean, even if you believed and you were legitimately worried about it, you would just spray down the doorknobs or clean them with disinfectant.
00:13:22.720 And it's not like you're going to, you know, Home Depot and buying a bunch of cheap doorknobs.
00:13:27.640 No.
00:13:28.040 Right.
00:13:28.440 Definitely not.
00:13:29.060 OK, so replace the doorknobs.
00:13:31.360 Why was that said?
00:13:34.060 This is my theory.
00:13:35.560 But I only have this theory because I took a picture of something in the oval, sorry, in the West Wing and I notice little things.
00:13:47.600 Now, I've been to the West Wing before and they've had these little tiny like colonial doorknobs, these little oval, little teeny ones.
00:13:55.860 You would think the man with such small hands, as they always said, would like the teeny doorknobs they had.
00:14:01.700 But he didn't.
00:14:03.660 And he said that they said the first day that he was into office, he said, really, these are the doorknobs we have here.
00:14:12.240 And they're like, yes, Mr. President, he said, I'll take care of that.
00:14:16.900 I took a picture of all of the doorknobs now in the White House.
00:14:20.260 Look at this picture.
00:14:22.320 They are absolutely beautiful.
00:14:23.860 Beautiful.
00:14:25.520 I think they're solid brass.
00:14:27.980 And it says the president, the seal of the president of the United States and has the eagle in the center.
00:14:34.260 Donald Trump put all of those in.
00:14:37.720 OK.
00:14:39.760 When they said and we're even going to remove the doorknobs, I am convinced it was a jab directed directly personally to him.
00:14:52.580 We will erase everything you have done, everything.
00:15:00.620 That's the kind of people you're dealing with.
00:15:03.920 There's no reason to remove the doorknobs unless you're sending a message.
00:15:08.900 You were never here.
00:15:11.840 That's interesting because there's certainly no justification to do it when it comes to COVID.
00:15:19.280 And there's no reason to.
00:15:21.440 I mean, it's completely ridiculous.
00:15:23.760 Obviously, that would mean.
00:15:25.440 What would that mean to the society if every time someone had COVID and was in a room, you couldn't touch the doorknobs?
00:15:30.680 I mean, it would be insanity.
00:15:31.800 Obviously, it's ridiculous.
00:15:33.080 It's completely ridiculous.
00:15:33.840 And they know it's ridiculous.
00:15:34.740 But there's got to be some other message behind it.
00:15:37.140 And that's interesting.
00:15:37.920 I mean, I don't know.
00:15:38.480 I had never heard that about the doorknobs before.
00:15:40.840 I've never heard it either.
00:15:42.140 I honestly I am calling the White House today and finding out if I can buy one just for the museum.
00:15:47.840 Oh, yeah.
00:15:48.480 They are.
00:15:49.620 They're spectacular.
00:15:51.140 They are.
00:15:51.740 They are truly, truly beautiful doorknobs and totally appropriate.
00:15:56.360 And I wouldn't I mean, most people would walk by and they would never notice unless you grab the door of, you know, and open up one of the doors, which I wasn't.
00:16:05.580 Hey, is this the Oval Office?
00:16:07.220 Let me just open it up.
00:16:08.420 Hey, he didn't do that.
00:16:13.120 Didn't do that.
00:16:14.740 But I think that's absolutely what it is.
00:16:19.060 Now, President Trump says he is going to declassified everything with the lying and the treason, you know, in his words, the Democrat lying and treason. 0.62
00:16:33.920 I think he should go further than that.
00:16:37.160 I think he should declassify a lot of stuff, especially the alien.
00:16:43.100 You want alien stuff?
00:16:43.700 I want alien stuff.
00:16:44.600 I really want alien stuff.
00:16:46.120 But he should he should declassify everything.
00:16:50.560 He says he's going to.
00:16:52.240 He should.
00:16:53.340 Why wouldn't he?
00:16:54.800 Why shouldn't he?
00:16:57.180 Don't we have a right to know this stuff?
00:16:59.200 Don't we have a right to know it's never coming out?
00:17:02.060 It will never, ever come out.
00:17:04.460 It will be declassified until probably 2065 when we're all dead.
00:17:10.700 And then it'll come out and people go, my gosh, they did this.
00:17:17.120 There are certain powers that are pretty cool if you're the president.
00:17:20.380 Like I have the pardon power.
00:17:22.340 I think Trump is underutilized.
00:17:23.800 I would be doing it all the time.
00:17:25.380 Every couple of days there'd be a new person I'd be pardoning.
00:17:28.360 I would find out people that I didn't like that were in legal disputes with someone else.
00:17:34.420 And then I would find that third party, even if they were guilty, and I'd pardon them anyway, just to piss off the people that I didn't like.
00:17:41.380 I would be pardonpalooza for me.
00:17:44.280 Really?
00:17:44.640 Yes.
00:17:44.780 So if you really hated me and somebody had murdered my wife, you would pardon the murderer just to piss me off.
00:17:51.480 That's a pretty extreme case, but yes.
00:17:53.600 That's exactly what I would do.
00:17:55.280 But yes.
00:17:55.900 Okay, good.
00:17:56.840 I like that.
00:17:57.520 I think, look, it's his unquestioned power, basically.
00:17:59.600 I hope you don't ever become president.
00:18:01.380 No, I would be a terrible president.
00:18:03.120 Because I would do this stuff all the time.
00:18:05.300 I would look for it.
00:18:06.300 Pardoning, I mean, would be the greatest thing.
00:18:07.940 I would like, if I was angry at a sports team, I would pardon, like if one team won, the other team lost, I would pardon everyone on the losing team if I was mad at the winning team.
00:18:19.480 I would go to ridiculous lengths.
00:18:21.460 Again, it's boiling down to murder.
00:18:23.240 You're letting murder.
00:18:24.620 I want murderers everywhere.
00:18:26.980 All the murderers would like me.
00:18:29.220 And they'd all be on my team.
00:18:31.420 If you want a bunch of people on your team, you want murderers on your side.
00:18:35.360 Trust me.
00:18:36.800 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:18:42.440 Lieutenant Colonel Allen West on with us.
00:18:44.920 Now, he is the guy who delivered Texas and fought real hard.
00:18:51.600 The things that are going here in Texas, going on with the Democratic Party, shady games.
00:18:59.220 It's millions and millions and millions of dollars coming into the state to flip it blue.
00:19:04.580 He kept it red.
00:19:05.580 Welcome, Allen West.
00:19:06.700 How are you?
00:19:07.980 Hey, it's good to be with you, Glenn.
00:19:09.360 And Merry Christmas.
00:19:10.240 Merry Christmas.
00:19:10.740 So you said something this weekend, if I may quote, Supreme Court in tossing Texas lawsuit that was joined by 17 states.
00:19:20.740 A hundred and six U.S. congressman has decreed the state can take an unconstitutional action and violate its own election law, resulting in damaging effects on the other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequence.
00:19:34.660 This decision establishes as a president precedent that says states can violate the U.S. Constitution and not be held accountable.
00:19:42.220 This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic.
00:19:47.700 Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the Constitution.
00:19:56.480 I'm for that.
00:19:57.640 I'd like to know what you mean by that.
00:19:59.500 Well, it's very simple, Glenn, and I know that there are some people that have shown their ignorance and incompetence saying that I'm calling for secession, when actually the people that are violating and not following the Constitution are the seditionists and those that are advocating secession.
00:20:15.260 The bottom line is that how will states be able to protect themselves if, by our Constitution, if states have a grievance and they do have a First Amendment right to petition their government for a registered grievance, if they have a grievance against another state, the original jurisdiction of that by the Constitution goes to the Supreme Court.
00:20:35.040 But yet the Supreme Court just said in their decision last week of Friday that they're not going to hear it.
00:20:41.520 They tossed it out.
00:20:42.340 So how do we make sure that states who are following the law and they are receiving damages because of states that did illegal activities, unconstitutional actions, violating their own election law by having courts, by having secretaries of state, by having governors change election law, where do they go to redress their grievances?
00:21:03.280 And so I think it is very important, very imperative that we do start looking at how these states, if we're going to have a more perfect union, which is what the preamble of the Constitution said, and abide by the Constitution, they have to look at how they combine together and have a strong voice.
00:21:19.240 If the Supreme Court is going to continue to take this stance of not protecting law-abiding states, which under the 14th Amendment, there is an equal protection under the law clause.
00:21:29.020 So let's stick with the Supreme Court decision first, and then we'll get to the rest of this.
00:21:36.020 The Supreme Court did reject hearing it.
00:21:40.380 I think that was a massive mistake, especially when half the country feels like nobody's listening to us.
00:21:46.620 Nobody's even listening to us.
00:21:48.660 They should have listened.
00:21:50.080 Whether that changed the outcome or not, it should have been ruled on.
00:21:54.780 However, the one thing that was ruled on was the case itself.
00:22:00.960 They threw it out, and even Scalia, Barrett, not Scalia, but Alito and Thomas agreed with not hearing it.
00:22:15.200 What does that tell you, if anything?
00:22:17.300 Well, it tells me that I am very concerned that the Article III of the Constitution says that courts are supposed to interpret law.
00:22:27.540 Now, if all of a sudden we have justices that decide, you know, that they're not going to interpret the law, they have actually abdicated one of their enumerated duties and responsibilities.
00:22:38.060 So they should have at least heard the case, should have allowed the evidence to come forward and make a decision on it, and not just simply say, we're not going to accept the case.
00:22:47.560 And so, therefore, it comes back to my statement.
00:22:50.620 What protection do law-abiding states have against states that are going out there and violating the Constitution and violating law?
00:22:59.800 You cannot have states that all of a sudden decide, well, we're going to have this universal mail-in ballot thing.
00:23:05.540 You don't have to have signature verifications.
00:23:07.740 We'll accept these ballots any time after the November the 3rd election.
00:23:12.780 And look at what has happened in New York.
00:23:14.660 Claudia Tenney is supposedly up by 12 ballots, and then guess what happens? 0.98
00:23:18.680 Oh, we found 12 ballots.
00:23:20.040 So if you want to talk about disenfranchising legal voters, it's these unconstitutional acts that are doing it, but like you just said, where do people go, where do states go to have their voices heard?
00:23:32.960 The right to petition their government for redress of grievances, that is the foundation of our Declaration of Independence that Thomas Jefferson wrote.
00:23:40.920 So what do, I would imagine, the AGs would need to get together and do this together to make sure that they are blocking unconstitutional rulings, et cetera, et cetera.
00:23:54.940 What does that mean to you in your eyes?
00:23:58.180 How do they do that?
00:24:00.700 Well, I mean, I am not a lawyer by trade.
00:24:03.560 I'm just a simple, stupid paratrooper that took a note to the Constitution back in 1982.
00:24:07.960 And I just see this as a threat.
00:24:10.840 I see this as a fracture to our Constitutional Republic.
00:24:13.780 So it's not just the state attorney generals.
00:24:16.280 It's also the state legislators.
00:24:18.840 If you are a state legislator in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin, you need to rise up.
00:24:25.660 You need to stand up and say that we cannot allow the judicial branch in our state or the executive branch in our state to supersede and to usurp.
00:24:36.840 Our duties and our responsibilities, they cannot change law.
00:24:41.900 We're the ones that have been duly elected by the people to do such.
00:24:45.860 So I think another thing that needs to happen, these state legislatures need to bond together.
00:24:50.400 And I would hope that the state legislatures in these respective four states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, will take an action and take a stand today.
00:25:00.040 Do you see that happening?
00:25:01.940 Have you heard any rumblings of that?
00:25:04.300 I have not.
00:25:06.420 And it just goes back to me asking the question is the courage that it took back in 1776 for those 56 men to stand up and establish the United States of America.
00:25:19.280 I am really concerned that we still have that courage in this country.
00:25:22.460 I have often thought of the only words that were spoken by George Washington during the actual Constitutional Convention.
00:25:32.040 Of course, New York was looking for special exceptions and handouts, as usual.
00:25:36.680 And Ben Franklin had fought and fought and fought against it.
00:25:41.420 And they were starting to get, you know, starting to enter into really horse trading and it was getting ugly.
00:25:47.500 And the whole room stopped and Ben Franklin looked at George Washington and he he stood up.
00:25:54.240 And the only thing he really said during the convention were these words.
00:25:58.860 Let us raise a banner that the wise and the honest can repair.
00:26:05.020 The rest is in the hands of God.
00:26:08.040 And what he meant by that was do the right thing.
00:26:13.340 We haven't come this far to screw it up.
00:26:16.200 Just do the right thing and it will be repairable in the future because they'll see that we tried to do the right thing and they'll want to do the right thing.
00:26:26.060 But also, when you do the right thing, God's going to do what God's going to do and just accept the consequences one way or another.
00:26:34.660 No, you're absolutely right.
00:26:37.640 And, you know, a lot of people took some consternation with that final sentence in my statement.
00:26:43.480 But if you go to the preamble of our Constitution, what does it say?
00:26:47.280 It says we, the people of these of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union was the very first thing established justice.
00:26:54.760 So what our founding fathers knew was that in order to have a more perfect union, we had to have a constitution.
00:27:00.100 We had to have a rule of law.
00:27:01.560 If we have gotten to the point where we don't believe in that rule of law, we're not going to have a more perfect union.
00:27:07.180 And that's why I talked about a union, the words that they use, of law-abiding states that abide by the Constitution.
00:27:13.520 That's how we have a perfect union.
00:27:15.840 And you're right.
00:27:17.220 Leaders, what I learned in the military, leaders know what right looks like.
00:27:21.000 And leaders don't pick and choose when to do what is right, which comes back to what the Supreme Court did last Friday.
00:27:27.280 You do what is right all the time.
00:27:29.420 You interpret the law.
00:27:30.600 That is your responsibility by the Constitution.
00:27:33.680 And now states have to be concerned, where do we go to redress our grievances if the highest court in the land, which by original jurisdiction, that's the only court we could go to, decided to not listen to us.
00:27:46.240 So, Alan, let me ask you a difficult question.
00:27:53.060 Say all of these things fail, and on the 20th of January, or whatever it is, Joe Biden is sworn in, and that's just the ruling of the courts and the system and the legislatures and all of that.
00:28:13.380 But what is it going to take to get people to come back into the fold and not split apart?
00:28:26.780 Well, I think when you just said the ruling of the courts, first and foremost, the courts need to hear the people.
00:28:31.920 And if the courts refuse to hear the people, then you're going to have an issue come January the 20th.
00:28:37.440 And we cannot live in a country where every single time there is a Republican that is elected, George W. Bush, he's illegitimate.
00:28:44.660 When Donald Trump is elected, he's illegitimate.
00:28:47.180 Let's resist him.
00:28:48.500 When Amy Coney Barrett is brought onto the Supreme Court by constitutional process, she's illegitimate. 0.99
00:28:54.020 Brett Kavanaugh is illegitimate.
00:28:55.640 We cannot have progressive socialists that believe that they can rule by absolutism and totalitarianism and everything that doesn't agree with them is illegitimate.
00:29:03.600 So I think that the first and foremost, the American people need to go by the electoral process, the ballot process.
00:29:10.600 But if you start to have mandates, edicts, orders, and decrees that are handed down, such as red flag laws, such as mandatory gun buybacks, these things, I believe that the American people have a right to say no.
00:29:24.780 Thank you very much, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West.
00:29:29.100 Thanks for your stand and your time this morning.
00:29:31.400 Appreciate it.
00:29:32.380 Thank you.
00:29:32.980 God bless.
00:29:33.480 God bless you.
00:29:34.240 Merry Christmas.
00:29:38.940 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:29:42.620 So the number one question I am asked online, in person, skywriting.
00:29:56.420 I'm expecting skywriters to say, what do we do?
00:30:00.840 That is a topic, I think, for the first of the year, because it requires much more prayer than I have afforded it at this point.
00:30:11.200 The thing that I know we must do is recognize that much of what's going on is our fault, because we didn't educate ourselves, and we didn't educate our children.
00:30:26.000 We thought we were, because we put them, think of how stupid this is.
00:30:30.140 We put them in a state-run school and expected that state-run school that was getting federal funding to teach our children never trust the state or the federal government.
00:30:46.280 That's not going to work out well.
00:30:48.200 It's not going to work out well.
00:30:49.920 And it hasn't.
00:30:51.060 So the first thing we have to do is re-educate ourselves.
00:30:54.760 And if you are looking for a Christmas gift, or if you are just, if you just want to make sure that you know the American story, I want you to buy the new book called, and I have nothing to do with this, The American Story, The Beginnings.
00:31:12.380 This is by David and Tim Barton.
00:31:14.940 It is the best book that they have ever read, that they have ever written.
00:31:20.560 It tells our story in very short chapters and really takes you from just before the pilgrims and takes you through the founding and the separation of church and state and everything else.
00:31:35.600 And the great thing is, it has like, gosh, what is this, 50-page footnotes in the back, so you don't have to trust David Barton.
00:31:47.760 Boy, it's much more than 50 pages.
00:31:51.300 You don't have to trust David Barton, the author.
00:31:54.820 You can go look it up for yourself.
00:31:56.840 The American Story.
00:31:58.720 Get this for your family for Christmas.
00:32:02.040 Get one for each kid.
00:32:03.820 David, welcome to the program.
00:32:09.200 You're in a, you sound like you're in a bad sell spot, David.
00:32:15.680 So tell me about the book.
00:32:17.320 You know, you gave this to me, what, about a month ago, a month and a half ago, and it's just like you.
00:32:22.720 I thought this was a galley, and you were like, hey, here's a new book, read this.
00:32:26.600 It's not a galley, it's the actual book, it's finished.
00:32:30.780 And so I didn't say anything.
00:32:32.600 I started to read it, and David, I think I finished the first, I sat down to read it, and I ended up at the Boston Massacre, which is page 129, before I got up and I was like, oh my gosh, the time has flown.
00:32:48.120 This is fantastic, fantastic, David.
00:32:52.760 Thank you, sir.
00:32:54.760 Yeah, it's kind of what we've learned over the years, is that the story of America is best told in stories, amazingly.
00:33:03.120 Yeah.
00:33:03.260 And that's what we've gotten away from in recent decades, and even the past century since progressives have come in.
00:33:09.280 We just don't tell stories well anymore.
00:33:11.640 And when you look at the stories, and, you know, whether it be the Boston Massacre, or whether it be back to the Pilgrims, or back to even Columbus, who's got to be the greatest villain in the world today.
00:33:21.400 And that's simply because we no longer know the story.
00:33:24.240 We just know the narrative that groups like 1619 and others would push on us, and we just don't know the stories anymore.
00:33:30.540 So that's what we felt was really important to get out, was to go back to the people, find out who they are, and tell the story of what occurred.
00:33:37.180 And as you said, we footnoted it all.
00:33:40.160 Our objective is to document truth, and so we've gone back to original sources that we've been collecting for years, and that's really the basis of telling the American story.
00:33:49.400 I mean, David, it's really fantastic.
00:33:52.400 And you've told Christopher Columbus' story in, gosh, 20, no, not even that, 10 pages.
00:34:05.320 10 pages.
00:34:05.960 10 pages, everything you need to know about Christopher Columbus, at least just to get a handle on who he really was and what really happened.
00:34:16.160 And so you start there, then you go through the Reformation, which is, what, three or four pages?
00:34:21.260 You tell them in such a clear and concise way, and you don't get bogged down in all of the stuff that usually is on your history test that doesn't mean anything.
00:34:34.140 You know what I mean?
00:34:35.960 Yeah, that was me, Glenn, because I was a math and science guy.
00:34:39.980 I was the principal of the school.
00:34:41.340 I taught math and science.
00:34:42.340 I hated history.
00:34:43.400 I did not like history.
00:34:44.520 I stayed completely away from it until I started finding the stories.
00:34:48.080 And when we literally started collecting the old stuff, you go, my gosh, I've never heard this before.
00:34:53.240 Who's this guy?
00:34:54.080 Never heard of a Wentworth Cheswell and never heard of a Jack Suss and all these black heroes that suddenly started popping up in the American Revolution.
00:35:02.700 You go, we wouldn't be America without these black heroes.
00:35:05.600 I've never heard of these guys.
00:35:07.540 And so that's what got me into history was finding out all this stuff that I had never been exposed to and what was considered to be a fairly rigorous educational training that I had.
00:35:18.600 I'd never heard of any of these guys.
00:35:20.500 And so now I love history because it is the stories.
00:35:23.460 But that's not where America has been for a while.
00:35:25.540 I think I was kind of vicariously typical of a lot of people, the reasons we don't like history.
00:35:30.960 And that's what we're trying to get around with this book.
00:35:34.160 You have seven chapters just on the Pilgrims to the Puritans.
00:35:40.000 Why?
00:35:41.620 The Pilgrims, as it turns out, and this is – let me back up to say one of the things that we've done over the years is we've seen the attacks on different aspects of history.
00:35:50.880 And not knowing if they're true or not, we go back and say, well, is that accurate?
00:35:54.840 And let's go back and see what the truth is.
00:35:56.560 And so we'll research it.
00:35:57.920 And so we're really aware of a lot of the things that attack America in so many ways.
00:36:02.120 And the 1619 Project is one of those.
00:36:04.980 Now, at the time we were doing this book three years ago, 1619 Project hadn't come up yet.
00:36:09.500 But we'd already seen the attacks coming from the professors, et cetera.
00:36:13.300 And so the narrative is that America is founded as this great slavery.
00:36:18.000 We were founded on slavery.
00:36:19.260 Everything about America is slavery.
00:36:21.200 The free market system is based on slavery.
00:36:23.260 That's why you can't have it anymore.
00:36:25.020 And everything is that way, except that's just not the way it was in America.
00:36:28.740 Slavery did come in, but it didn't even come in in 1619.
00:36:31.980 The first legal case of slavery is 1651, so they've missed that already.
00:36:36.460 But it was not the Jamestown people that guided America.
00:36:40.140 It was the Pilgrims and what they brought. 0.99
00:36:42.100 They're the ones who brought the free market.
00:36:44.020 They're the ones who brought equality.
00:36:45.460 They're the ones who brought great relations with Native Americans.
00:36:48.400 They're the ones who established private property.
00:36:51.200 The things that America believes in didn't come out of 1619 or Jamestown.
00:36:54.920 They came out of the Plymouth people.
00:36:57.020 They came out of the Bible-oriented Reformation people who said, hey, here's what the Scripture
00:37:01.360 says about how we get along with others and about how we work and how we have private
00:37:05.900 property and how we have free market.
00:37:08.020 And that's what the key to the narrative is.
00:37:10.400 It's not the 1619.
00:37:11.820 It's the Pilgrims. 0.69
00:37:12.480 And so that's why we spend a little more time on that to show how that they developed
00:37:16.520 all the good things of America, and they don't need to be torn down just because the 1619
00:37:20.980 project wants to wrongly claim a bad narrative.
00:37:23.720 And you cover Jamestown as well.
00:37:27.820 And you talk about the Pilgrims.
00:37:31.480 You know, when you say they were for private property, they weren't always for private property.
00:37:36.360 When they were coming over, they had almost a united order.
00:37:41.120 They had almost socialism or communism is what they were going to do based on everybody
00:37:47.060 being, you know, a loving brother in Christ.
00:37:50.300 We'll just put everything together.
00:37:52.020 And it didn't work out.
00:37:54.120 It did not work out.
00:37:55.500 And that's one of the things I really like about the Pilgrims is the courage they had to
00:38:00.320 change their own lives and abandon what they had previously believed if they found what
00:38:04.480 the truth was.
00:38:05.200 And in their case, they grew up in a world that everybody in the world at that time thought
00:38:10.380 slavery was fine.
00:38:11.640 Everybody in the world at that time thought having a top-heavy government was a good thing
00:38:15.880 to do, whether it was a king or a monarch or something else.
00:38:18.760 Everybody in the world at that time was essentially practicing socialism slash communism.
00:38:24.020 And so that's what they've grown up in.
00:38:25.740 But as they take the individual time to get in the scriptures and say, wait a minute, did
00:38:30.180 you see what that scripture just said?
00:38:31.780 That's not what we've been doing for the last 500 or 700 years.
00:38:35.340 And so they are really, really great thinkers in the sense that they would look at things
00:38:40.480 objectively and say, hey, here's what the scripture says, but we're not doing that.
00:38:44.140 Let's do what the scripture says, because that's going to work out better.
00:38:47.320 And they did have the courage to take themselves on and change so many things that they did.
00:38:52.380 And so even as the governor, William Bradford said, he said, we had the socialistic system
00:38:57.680 as if we were wiser than God.
00:39:00.060 And then we found what the truth was.
00:39:02.740 And that's what I appreciate about the pilgrims is the fact that they were looking for truth.
00:39:06.720 And when they found it, they had the courage to apply it.
00:39:08.980 And if they had not have done that, we would not have the model that we have from that culture.
00:39:13.440 And it's a great model for America to follow.
00:39:15.860 They are really great examples of using the scientific theory.
00:39:21.080 Are they not?
00:39:23.400 They are.
00:39:24.500 And, you know, for me, I have I'm on a new crusade right now.
00:39:29.000 And I have never in my life thought that truth is as important as I think it is now.
00:39:34.420 And I am sold on that.
00:39:36.580 And I know that those areas probably where I don't know what the truth is yet.
00:39:39.760 And I've got to find that.
00:39:40.840 So I'm learning how to dig things out that I've never had to dig out before.
00:39:45.460 And I have come to the point where I can no longer accept what any we've gone through
00:39:51.380 the last several decades with good intentions.
00:39:53.820 We didn't think our teachers were specifically lying to us.
00:39:56.740 And we thought they were doing what they could.
00:39:58.240 And we didn't think the media was specifically lying to us.
00:40:01.260 And now we don't believe that anymore.
00:40:02.880 And so the question is, who can I trust?
00:40:05.100 How can I trust?
00:40:06.040 And where can I find what's accurate and what's true, whether it be in the election stuff
00:40:09.660 or whether it be in what's going with education or economics or anything else?
00:40:13.920 There are folks now who are just repeating stupid stuff because that's what they were told.
00:40:18.460 And we just can't trust the good intentions anymore.
00:40:20.900 And so I've really been on a quest for truth and going back and finding out what is true.
00:40:26.340 And a lot of the things we're talking about in that book really have not been presented
00:40:30.440 through American education in probably 80 or 90 years.
00:40:34.200 And so it's been a rediscovery journey for me.
00:40:36.760 But it takes that scientific type of inquiry to go back and test everything and check it
00:40:42.300 out and look at the results, check the evidence.
00:40:45.920 And I think that's where America is going to have to get back to, is not only do we have
00:40:51.380 to have a love for the truth, now we have to go find the truth.
00:40:54.660 And that's something that we have not had to do in America for 100 years.
00:40:58.360 We've trusted our teachers.
00:40:59.540 We've trusted our leaders.
00:41:00.600 We've trusted the political people.
00:41:02.380 You know, we may have had differences, but they weren't in their intents bad.
00:41:07.620 We can't make that assumption anymore.
00:41:09.440 And so we're in a whole different period, and that's really kind of what has driven
00:41:13.960 me to do what we did in this book.
00:41:16.740 Well, David, you accomplished it and then some, as I say.
00:41:20.620 And you know I mean this because I wrote it to you.
00:41:23.340 I'm not just saying this on the air.
00:41:24.800 I wrote it to you after I finished the first 120-some pages in one sitting.
00:41:30.720 David, this is an exceptional book.
00:41:32.840 I mean, it is the one history book that I would urge every home to have.
00:41:39.180 There's only another.
00:41:40.520 The only other book I have really just pounded on that is the 5,000-year leap.
00:41:47.600 It is the one that gives you all of the principles of America.
00:41:52.400 And if you understand those principles, you understand how you can recreate it.
00:41:57.160 You also understand what's wrong with America.
00:41:59.060 This, The American Story, The Beginnings, needs to be in every listener home.
00:42:06.720 Don't buy it to digital download.
00:42:10.080 Buy it to have a paper copy of it in your home.
00:42:15.140 The American Story, The Beginnings by David and Tim Barton.
00:42:18.820 David, can you buy this on Amazon?
00:42:21.520 Yes, sir.
00:42:22.200 It's available on all major outlets.