The Glenn Beck Program - November 01, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Andy Biggs & Eddie Scarry ｜ 11⧸1⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

156.25154

Word Count

5,260

Sentence Count

440

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

Glenn and Stu talk about the invisible gap, and how to protect your home from being stolen. Plus, a story about a Palestinian activist who was jailed for a few months for hitting and abusing Israeli soldiers and turned it all around.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Stu, Glenn, how many times have you put your your home in danger of being stolen?
00:00:09.900 How many times?
00:00:10.860 How many times?
00:00:12.080 Eleventine.
00:00:12.860 You've eleven teen.
00:00:14.220 Have you you know about the invisible gap then?
00:00:17.140 I do.
00:00:17.760 I know about it.
00:00:18.720 Yeah, that's only because I've been a victim of it.
00:00:21.520 Eleven.
00:00:21.900 You've been a victim of that invisible gap.
00:00:24.680 Yes.
00:00:24.900 Of home protection.
00:00:25.800 Basically, I have homes all over the country that I that are still mine, but have been stolen.
00:00:30.760 So I just keep moving to new ones.
00:00:31.920 Wow.
00:00:32.420 There's no way to stop it.
00:00:33.680 Well, there is.
00:00:34.560 There is a very I mean, what we're talking about here.
00:00:37.420 Yeah.
00:00:37.860 Is home title theft.
00:00:39.180 Yeah, exactly.
00:00:40.120 Exactly.
00:00:40.680 Exactly.
00:00:41.160 But there's no way to stop that.
00:00:41.980 It could happen.
00:00:42.840 It could happen.
00:00:43.580 Anytime.
00:00:44.180 Anytime.
00:00:44.760 Just happened to me again.
00:00:45.460 I just got an email.
00:00:46.120 But there's a giant prophylactic.
00:00:47.860 You can put it happened again.
00:00:49.160 Yeah.
00:00:49.340 It's got another house.
00:00:50.420 Where?
00:00:50.700 Yeah.
00:00:50.860 I got to move today.
00:00:51.860 Now.
00:00:52.200 Holy cow.
00:00:52.900 One right here in town.
00:00:53.700 God bless you.
00:00:54.300 You should try home title on.
00:00:55.800 What's that?
00:00:56.320 Home title lock.
00:00:57.720 They'll they'll they'll protect your home from that invisible gap.
00:01:01.680 They will.
00:01:02.380 Oh, yeah.
00:01:03.140 But so I don't have to move every six months.
00:01:04.780 No, you don't have to move.
00:01:05.520 You won't have to lose money or your your home or anything.
00:01:08.820 It's great.
00:01:09.620 Wow.
00:01:09.880 But there's probably no way to sign up for it.
00:01:11.680 You can sign up right now.
00:01:12.720 Home title lock dot com.
00:01:15.920 Promo code back.
00:01:17.040 Then you say.
00:01:17.620 Yeah, but I want like 30 risk free days.
00:01:19.980 Well, you get that.
00:01:20.980 Oh, my gosh.
00:01:21.560 What a coincidence.
00:01:22.560 What?
00:01:22.940 Yeah.
00:01:23.600 Eleventeenth time.
00:01:24.360 It won't happen.
00:01:24.900 The the twelfteenth time.
00:01:27.280 It's home title lock dot com.
00:01:28.820 Promo code back.
00:01:29.780 I don't want double lock protection, though.
00:01:31.360 That's the thing.
00:01:31.960 A lot of times these protections are just double lock.
00:01:34.120 I want triple lock protection.
00:01:36.200 This is amazing.
00:01:37.240 Your first 30 days of triple lock title protection.
00:01:40.460 Is it available right now?
00:01:42.140 Home title lock dot com.
00:01:43.240 Promo code back.
00:01:44.460 Oh, glad we got that out of the way because we have to do a I'm now you can.
00:01:48.680 He can relax and we can do the podcast because you don't have to think about moving.
00:01:52.140 Here's a podcast.
00:02:01.460 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:08.740 All right.
00:02:09.700 I want to start.
00:02:11.340 Stu, describe what you see.
00:02:13.700 These are some old pictures from World War Two.
00:02:17.200 This is Paris.
00:02:19.620 Describe what you see.
00:02:20.840 Yeah, buildings that have been seemingly marked as if there may be Jewish residents.
00:02:27.160 Right.
00:02:27.760 Or business owners.
00:02:30.160 Yeah.
00:02:30.840 OK.
00:02:31.320 Somebody has taken in and painted the Star of David on these buildings to mark them as Jewish places.
00:02:38.660 But gosh, you don't ever see them in color.
00:02:41.580 So we dropped the color in the first batch.
00:02:46.040 Now you can see what these pictures really are in color.
00:02:49.960 This is Paris, not 1939 or 40.
00:02:54.820 This is today.
00:02:57.660 People are going around marking Jewish businesses and Jewish buildings all over Paris.
00:03:06.200 You are living in a house, your house.
00:03:09.740 You might have woken up to see the Jewish star.
00:03:14.380 Hmm.
00:03:15.920 Well, that would make me feel comfortable.
00:03:20.380 We cannot miss the signs any longer.
00:03:27.400 Remember, sometimes the mask slips on the bad guys and we're seeing this an awful lot.
00:03:34.720 I want to tell you a story about our head to Mimi.
00:03:39.440 This curly haired, blonde, rosy cheeked 20 something.
00:03:44.020 She was a Palestinian activist who was jailed for a few months for hitting and abusing Israeli soldiers.
00:03:51.880 Well, this was a photogenic media martyrdom.
00:03:56.280 She immediately became she's just a loving peace Palestinian person.
00:04:01.740 She just wants peace.
00:04:03.180 Turned her into a worldwide freedom fighter.
00:04:09.440 Slash political prisoner who just wanted peace.
00:04:15.300 Now, some would say that that's you know, that was the goal of this particular moment where she was slapping down the police officers or the soldiers.
00:04:26.360 Well, she let her mask down just a little bit this week.
00:04:30.460 She posted on her social media, quote, we will slaughter you and you will say what Hitler did to you was a joke.
00:04:42.120 We will drink your blood and eat your skull.
00:04:46.220 Come on.
00:04:47.200 We're waiting for you.
00:04:49.100 Ah, the peace, Nick.
00:04:52.140 She's fantastic.
00:04:54.160 Release the doves, everyone.
00:04:55.640 Prepare the peace banquet.
00:04:56.800 Dessert will be Jewish brain sorbet with a little blood coulis.
00:05:01.100 Mmm.
00:05:02.500 Take that, Indiana Jones.
00:05:05.800 So why does the mask slip and why do we ignore it?
00:05:11.680 Well, the mask slips.
00:05:13.220 I'm not sure.
00:05:13.900 Is it arrogance and pride?
00:05:16.020 The sudden inability to contain the glee?
00:05:19.260 The deep-seated desire to proclaim the full extent of their true goals for the whole world to hear and be in awe?
00:05:27.320 I think that's what it usually is.
00:05:30.100 Just arrogance and pride.
00:05:33.020 They want to take their masks off.
00:05:37.040 Now, maybe it's the finger of God giving us a hint.
00:05:40.260 Ooh, wow.
00:05:41.780 Look, I wonder how that mask slipped a little bit.
00:05:44.200 What was underneath that?
00:05:45.440 You got that, everybody?
00:05:47.260 Do you remember on 9-11, the images of the Palestinians dancing in the streets, passing out candy?
00:05:54.940 The rest of the world was lighting candles.
00:05:57.360 They were passing out candy.
00:05:59.200 For a minute, the world again glimpsed the true face of Arafat's PLO.
00:06:04.360 Now, just before Tamimi, Hamas's Abu Marzouk explained why Gaza's resources had been used to build a network of terror tunnels instead of bomb shelters to protect civilians.
00:06:20.180 Here he is.
00:06:20.740 On TV, he's being asked, you've built 500 kilometers of tunnels, but you haven't built a single bomb shelter.
00:06:31.300 And he goes on to explain that the tunnels are meant to protect the Hamas fighters under the civilians that are up on the surface.
00:06:42.580 Protecting civilians, he says, is the responsibility of the United Nations and Israel, not Hamas.
00:06:50.180 But I don't know.
00:06:53.040 I mean, you know, that's from the party that has had absolute rule of Gaza since 2006.
00:07:00.220 I don't have the idiot's guide to the laws of war, but I'm sure if I did, I would miss that chapter.
00:07:06.600 But it is important to recognize every time the masks slip, because this evil is knitted together.
00:07:19.620 They don't necessarily have everything in common between all of these groups.
00:07:26.660 But they do have the destruction of the Western way of life, the traditional family, Jews, Christians.
00:07:38.380 Even more normal is when the mask slips with the then-Vice President Biden, who tells how he used blackmail to get a Ukrainian prosecutor off the backs of his son's friends.
00:07:56.000 Or when the mask slips and George Soros explains on 60 Minutes that he topples economies for fun.
00:08:04.880 Or the World Economic Forum lets you know in an ad, you'll own nothing, and you'll like it.
00:08:14.660 They announce that you're going to be a modern-day serf, dependent on those who own it all, and you better like it.
00:08:22.980 The elites always let you know that, yes, they do think they know better.
00:08:28.120 And the task at hand is to find the most convenient way to make the masses comply.
00:08:33.220 That's important.
00:08:34.880 The elites are always looking for ways to make the masses comply.
00:08:41.160 Well, one way, one model, is our new model, China.
00:08:46.180 Many times, of course, the mask was actually never on in the first place.
00:08:51.240 Some are never shy about telling you exactly what they intend.
00:08:54.800 For instance, Hitler published it all in a book.
00:08:58.040 It was in a book, for Pete's sake.
00:09:00.400 If you've ever read it, I recommend you do.
00:09:02.940 If you've ever read it, you know exactly that the Germans knew everything that he was going to do.
00:09:12.340 Now, maybe they were using their blindfold because he was maskless and they didn't want to see all of those warts.
00:09:21.960 Iran is pretty unambiguous about their highest ideals, death to Israel, death to America.
00:09:30.420 Relatively little room for interpretation there, even if you believe that jihad means struggle for personal benefit.
00:09:38.640 It might, to a few Muslim friends of mine, but I can tell you in Iran, with the leadership, it certainly doesn't.
00:09:46.560 Their latest proxy is the Houthis in Yemen.
00:09:52.640 Their motto, a curse on Jews.
00:09:55.800 That's their motto.
00:09:57.020 A curse on Jews.
00:09:58.540 You know, just for a little spice, a little color.
00:10:01.620 ISIS also never pretended it was anything other than what it was.
00:10:04.940 And in Hamas's case, their charter is out on the internet for anyone to read who cares to.
00:10:12.800 It's clear about what it thinks the solution to the Palestinian-Arab conflict should be.
00:10:20.300 Genocide.
00:10:21.800 There's not a mask in sight.
00:10:24.240 So the people that are wearing masks, when they slip, we fail to see it.
00:10:29.640 But when they're not wearing masks, we're wearing blindfolds, and we refuse to see it.
00:10:37.460 How? Why?
00:10:41.720 From the height of our enlightened intellectual arrogance,
00:10:45.600 we pretend to know better than what the people who are talking to us about what they are going to do.
00:10:53.400 We think we know better.
00:10:55.040 We think we know how they think better than they think themselves.
00:10:59.640 That's how we can pretend that we could have peace with genocidal maniacs, terror groups.
00:11:04.820 If we'd just be willing to sit down and talk things over, you know, tea and crumpets,
00:11:08.800 and we could maybe have those finger sandwiches.
00:11:11.940 Never stopping to ask the other side.
00:11:15.220 Never stopping.
00:11:18.920 Always, always saying, well, wait, your charter says this.
00:11:24.100 They're not even willing to pretend in engaging in the same process.
00:11:31.540 We know better, and if you don't, you better.
00:11:36.400 We know that the heart of all people want the same thing, right?
00:11:41.420 All people, really.
00:11:42.820 They just want to go about their business and raise their kids in peace.
00:11:46.020 We all, given the chance, would choose life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right?
00:11:51.400 No, that's not true.
00:11:56.120 We forget the West is unique in history.
00:12:01.140 When we say these were inalienable truths that were self-evident,
00:12:06.300 they were only self-evident because they were first taught for 40 years in the pulpits of America.
00:12:14.360 The value to be placed on an individual human right,
00:12:18.520 an individual and individual freedom, individual choice, that's unique.
00:12:24.540 The thought that the other side may not cherish the same values,
00:12:27.700 may not want what we want, is uncomfortable, frightening, and inconvenient.
00:12:32.460 And because we're protected by oceans between us,
00:12:35.680 we just don't believe that people could think any other way.
00:12:40.160 It means we don't know it all.
00:12:42.420 We don't understand.
00:12:43.760 It means we may not have an easy or convenient solution
00:12:47.260 because reality is messy.
00:12:50.920 And we need to wake up to that.
00:12:52.960 Life is hard, but it's worth it.
00:12:57.260 Wake up.
00:12:58.360 Grow up.
00:12:58.980 Grab a good, strong dose of intellectual, spiritual humility.
00:13:07.580 I don't want war.
00:13:10.180 And I don't want war against all.
00:13:13.940 But neither should we be so naive to think that
00:13:16.600 what's under the mask,
00:13:19.060 what they tell us in their own words,
00:13:21.180 is somehow less true than what we think should be true,
00:13:24.560 or wish should be true.
00:13:26.600 Not all problems have easy solutions.
00:13:29.760 Not everybody wants the thing that we think they should want.
00:13:32.740 Not everybody agrees with us or will agree with us
00:13:35.080 if we could just sit down and talk long enough.
00:13:37.800 Almost 50% of Americans
00:13:40.600 no longer believe in the freedom of political speech.
00:13:44.860 How many Americans would be willing to go door to door
00:13:47.880 to take their neighbor's guns if they were just empowered to?
00:13:51.240 Here in the country, built on justice for all.
00:13:56.400 Blind justice.
00:13:57.520 We are willing to turn a blind eye
00:14:00.060 to massive corruption of our legal system.
00:14:02.960 Why?
00:14:03.540 Political reasons.
00:14:04.600 How can we know that everyone wants the same thing
00:14:08.960 on the other side of the planet
00:14:10.320 when we're just learning in very dangerous ways?
00:14:13.760 Many of our own fellow Americans
00:14:15.160 no longer see a place for our own country in the world.
00:14:18.580 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:22.060 Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona.
00:14:25.840 We are Israel's ally,
00:14:28.440 but the U.S. cannot send blank checks to Israel
00:14:33.420 or any place else with no oversight.
00:14:37.100 Amen, Andy Biggs.
00:14:38.360 How are you, sir?
00:14:39.680 I'm good, Glenn.
00:14:40.400 Good to be with you.
00:14:41.360 Thank you.
00:14:42.280 So tell me what you're,
00:14:43.700 because you're getting heat, of course,
00:14:47.020 I hope it's not from a bunch of Republicans,
00:14:50.480 except maybe the usual.
00:14:53.480 Yeah, probably the usual folks coming after me,
00:14:56.120 but the bottom line is they know as well as I do
00:14:58.780 that we don't need to look any further than, say, Ukraine,
00:15:02.280 where literally billions of dollars
00:15:04.620 have just kind of evaporated.
00:15:07.000 We're not sure where.
00:15:07.660 We know materialis ended up as far away
00:15:10.800 in Central Africa, rebellious states.
00:15:14.400 And so we're broke.
00:15:16.060 U.S. is broke,
00:15:16.740 so everything that we're going to give to Israel
00:15:18.440 is going to be borrowed.
00:15:20.340 And while we have far greater regard for Israel,
00:15:23.980 we view them as a historical ally,
00:15:26.820 we actually have this emotional tide to Israel
00:15:31.360 besides economic and technological and military,
00:15:35.700 we need to know where the money's going.
00:15:37.480 We need to know it's actually being used
00:15:39.260 appropriately and correctly.
00:15:42.000 And that is a critical issue.
00:15:45.060 If we don't do that,
00:15:46.400 and then if we don't remove some of these Biden policies,
00:15:49.780 then we're basically undermining and handcuffing Israel
00:15:52.900 at the same time that we're basically borrowing
00:15:56.040 from future generations to support Israel.
00:15:58.180 I mean, I saw yesterday our Secretary of State say
00:16:02.640 that we have all kinds of things,
00:16:06.920 you know, on all of our aid to Iran
00:16:08.980 to make sure that Hamas is not getting any of the money
00:16:13.440 except for milk and bread.
00:16:15.280 And I thought to myself,
00:16:16.900 I'd like to know what that rigorous program is
00:16:21.420 because I don't believe that.
00:16:23.580 Yeah, and you shouldn't believe that.
00:16:26.580 This is the same guy that told you
00:16:28.180 when they were giving $6 billion back to Iran
00:16:30.400 just a few weeks ago,
00:16:31.900 they said this will not be spent on anything
00:16:34.740 other than humanitarian aid.
00:16:37.040 And the very same day,
00:16:39.360 you had the,
00:16:40.100 I don't know whether you call him,
00:16:41.420 undersecretary,
00:16:42.240 but basically the vice premier of Iran says,
00:16:46.320 no, we'll use it any way we want to.
00:16:47.940 Correct.
00:16:48.420 And the bank holding it was Qatar,
00:16:50.880 which we know is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood
00:16:53.400 and Hamas.
00:16:54.940 Exactly.
00:16:55.760 I mean, come on.
00:16:57.740 No, no, I mean, and it's true.
00:16:59.600 And so I believe that that $6 billion being released
00:17:03.720 actually was a catalyst for Hamas
00:17:07.000 because now they knew that they had
00:17:08.280 further economic support.
00:17:10.700 And then in 2021, don't forget this,
00:17:13.760 Biden gave $235 million to the Palestinians
00:17:19.020 for ostensibly humanitarian efforts.
00:17:21.580 And then he's promised another $100 million
00:17:23.560 for humanitarian relief.
00:17:26.220 The problem is that money is fungible
00:17:29.160 and it's going to go right in to Hamas.
00:17:33.040 And so we basically are funding Israel on one side
00:17:37.000 and funding enemies of Israel on the other,
00:17:39.300 whether it's going through to Hezbollah or Hamas.
00:17:43.260 Well, we were kind of doing that in World War II.
00:17:46.460 We might be fighting Germany,
00:17:48.060 but we allowed companies like IBM and Coca-Cola
00:17:53.000 to just keep doing business over there.
00:17:55.520 And that really helped them a great deal.
00:17:58.400 This time it's our government.
00:18:00.280 One hand is helping, one hand is slapping down.
00:18:03.560 It makes no sense.
00:18:04.560 The bill that the new speaker has put together,
00:18:09.900 I think is fantastic.
00:18:12.720 If $14 billion to Israel does not include any aid to Ukraine,
00:18:18.600 it's got to be separate.
00:18:20.080 And it cuts some of the,
00:18:22.800 it takes the, what is it, $14 billion from the IRS
00:18:26.360 and their slush fund,
00:18:28.300 which they have not put to use yet.
00:18:30.760 So it takes that away.
00:18:32.740 And then with your amendment says,
00:18:35.520 we have to track every dime of it.
00:18:38.360 This is something that I think Republicans
00:18:40.600 should be universally happy with.
00:18:44.680 Yeah, I think so.
00:18:46.240 You would, you would think so,
00:18:47.780 but never forget, Glenn,
00:18:49.660 that I carry a certain amount of baggage with me
00:18:53.500 within my own party.
00:18:54.920 So I always remember that.
00:18:56.400 I always remember that.
00:18:57.400 But the bottom line is, I think as from a policy point of view,
00:19:01.920 my colleagues, the vast majority of them will support this.
00:19:05.600 And I hope to see that amendment come forward
00:19:09.080 in the process that we're engaged in today.
00:19:12.860 Good.
00:19:13.360 How can we help?
00:19:15.320 Just get the word out.
00:19:16.640 That's it.
00:19:17.440 The word's got to be out.
00:19:18.840 And people need to know that,
00:19:20.460 let their congressmen or women know
00:19:22.200 that this is where we need to be.
00:19:24.060 Okay.
00:19:24.460 Thank you very much, Andy.
00:19:25.420 I appreciate it.
00:19:25.980 I think we actually may have gotten a big win
00:19:29.360 for as much as I said to the Republicans,
00:19:34.180 have a plan.
00:19:36.220 I think we, by the skin of our teeth,
00:19:39.360 may have gotten a win in the speaker appointment
00:19:43.400 because it seems to be going well,
00:19:46.160 at least what he's proposing that I know of.
00:19:49.300 Let's see if he can pull it together now.
00:19:51.540 Yeah.
00:19:51.900 I mean, if you want to be optimistic,
00:19:53.440 and it'll be interesting to see,
00:19:55.740 I mean, the same types of spending proposals
00:19:57.500 are right around the corner, right?
00:19:58.920 So we're going to have to see how that goes.
00:20:00.920 But I have no problem with sending the money to Israel.
00:20:03.720 Look, I'm pro-Israel.
00:20:05.420 I'm not pro-war, U.S. war.
00:20:09.200 And I'm not blind.
00:20:11.060 It's not like Israel,
00:20:12.320 hey, Israel, do whatever you want with our treasure.
00:20:14.860 No, I want to know exactly where every dime goes.
00:20:20.820 That's the only responsible thing to do.
00:20:23.780 And I think having, you know, people watching our money,
00:20:26.580 no matter where it is going,
00:20:28.000 is so essential, especially on this administration.
00:20:31.820 But it should be for every administration.
00:20:34.400 And, you know, we're broke.
00:20:37.240 Okay, what do you want?
00:20:38.860 What do you want?
00:20:39.420 Do you want the IRS?
00:20:40.300 Or do you want, and by the way,
00:20:43.060 don't believe this thing that it was for the uber rich.
00:20:45.520 They came out after it passed and said,
00:20:48.380 most of it is targeting now people that are not wealthy.
00:20:54.140 So don't buy into that lie.
00:20:57.260 And they have the money sitting there.
00:20:58.880 It's not being used yet.
00:21:01.020 So take that $14 billion off of that
00:21:04.160 that we've already borrowed and send it to Israel.
00:21:06.980 No more, no more.
00:21:08.300 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:21:12.180 Well, Blaze Media was stupid for letting Harry Scarry
00:21:16.220 ever walk through the door on his way out.
00:21:19.660 He is at the Federalist now, a D.C. columnist,
00:21:23.260 and on the program to talk to us about his article on Joe Biden,
00:21:28.020 not managing or confronting, but being the problem.
00:21:33.180 Eddie, how are you?
00:21:34.480 I'm doing good.
00:21:35.540 Thanks for having me.
00:21:36.320 You bet.
00:21:36.680 So I read this, and if you can, just take people through it.
00:21:39.960 I think it would be better than me reading it.
00:21:42.700 Yeah, I mean, this is something that I've written on before,
00:21:45.080 and it just irritates me to no end any time I see it.
00:21:50.240 Just reading through the reports, and in particular,
00:21:52.600 I was reading a New York Times op-ed the other day
00:21:54.940 that spoke of, look at what Joe Biden is confronting,
00:21:59.220 the things he's struggling with.
00:22:00.780 He's got two hot wars on his hands.
00:22:02.700 And then, of course, he's trying to steer us through inflation
00:22:05.360 and keep the economy on track.
00:22:07.420 These are all problems that started with Joe Biden.
00:22:11.440 I don't remember any of this happening with the previous administration,
00:22:14.840 and yet it's as if it's always phrased in news reports,
00:22:19.260 in op-eds, on cable news,
00:22:21.420 as if these are things that have happened to him,
00:22:23.360 as if he's a victim of circumstance.
00:22:25.000 You know, when it comes to hyperinflation,
00:22:27.280 I use one quote from the New York Times,
00:22:28.900 referred to it as a glaring liability that looms for Joe Biden.
00:22:33.540 Oil, gas prices, quote, Biden's frustration with soaring prices.
00:22:39.220 I mean, these are all things that he has had a hand,
00:22:41.780 if not outright instigating,
00:22:44.700 certainly creating an environment
00:22:46.380 that anybody could have predicted these things happening.
00:22:49.100 Oh, wait, on inflation,
00:22:52.020 absolutely been shoveling coal into the furnace.
00:22:55.680 On gas prices, he's the guy.
00:22:59.140 We had a surplus before he got in.
00:23:02.960 He's absolutely the guy.
00:23:04.280 When I heard, I played a clip from,
00:23:06.760 who was it, our Secretary of State,
00:23:09.400 just, what was it, a couple of weeks ago,
00:23:12.220 saying, you know,
00:23:13.500 I haven't had to spend any time at all on the Middle East.
00:23:16.540 It's been the quietest and best it's been
00:23:19.100 for anybody in my position for decades.
00:23:23.200 Well, yeah, that's because Trump had that all contained,
00:23:28.480 and then you started sending money over to Iran,
00:23:32.340 and now look what we have.
00:23:34.300 I mean, it's crazy.
00:23:36.180 Exactly, and a story that actually I was just looking at
00:23:38.680 just this morning in Axios,
00:23:40.240 was talking about this, how child care,
00:23:43.420 it says parents' average child care payment
00:23:45.860 is up 32% from 2019.
00:23:48.500 And then it says the price surge
00:23:50.220 outpaced overall inflation.
00:23:52.480 Okay, I remember that the Inflation Reduction Act
00:23:55.700 had about $24 billion in federal aid
00:24:00.460 for daycare centers and preschools.
00:24:02.700 Okay, just as you said,
00:24:04.320 when you're dumping money on these things,
00:24:06.480 and then it runs out, which it did,
00:24:08.760 the price surge that anybody could have seen coming,
00:24:12.060 then it's suddenly, oh, well,
00:24:14.140 this undermines the White House's efforts
00:24:16.140 to combat the economy.
00:24:18.060 No, this is their fault.
00:24:21.900 So, Eddie, are people waking up to this?
00:24:26.520 I mean, I was actually just talking about this
00:24:28.700 with my colleagues this morning.
00:24:30.360 This guy has, everything he has touched
00:24:33.220 has been ruined.
00:24:34.960 We had actual relative peace.
00:24:36.800 You had Israel that had some engagement
00:24:39.660 with the Arab world under Trump.
00:24:42.420 We did not have the issue with the gas prices.
00:24:45.320 We were energy independent.
00:24:46.620 We didn't have the inflation troubles.
00:24:48.680 It's amazing that it's even up for debate
00:24:51.200 that this man would be reelected.
00:24:53.900 It's truly amazing.
00:24:55.780 But, I mean, anything can happen.
00:24:57.840 It is America.
00:24:59.180 So, where are we headed on,
00:25:01.200 I mean, because the Ukrainian stuff,
00:25:02.800 and I know you have been,
00:25:05.600 you know, you've got a,
00:25:06.460 you had a great article out on
00:25:08.180 proof and smoking gun of bribery.
00:25:12.380 It has to be there,
00:25:13.740 or it's not a scandal at all.
00:25:15.820 I've got to have apps.
00:25:16.720 I have to have his fingerprints
00:25:17.900 and pictures and his son to testify
00:25:21.840 that, yes, he was doing something
00:25:23.860 before it's even worth looking at.
00:25:26.860 All of this stuff that happened in Ukraine
00:25:29.920 being swept under the table,
00:25:31.760 I don't know if it's going to
00:25:33.540 actually ever do anything.
00:25:36.540 And here we are sending all of this money
00:25:38.780 to the same people in Time Magazine this week.
00:25:42.380 They're saying, yeah, the, you know,
00:25:44.600 you're sending all these billions of dollars over
00:25:46.380 and everybody is on the take over in Ukraine.
00:25:51.280 I mean, where are we headed?
00:25:54.460 I mean, right, and yet we talk about Ukraine
00:25:57.640 as if it's been this precious democracy,
00:26:00.080 not even an ally,
00:26:01.980 definitely not a democracy.
00:26:03.540 I love how it's been portrayed that way.
00:26:05.660 I mean, whatever you think about Ukraine,
00:26:08.360 whether it's the continued billions
00:26:10.860 and billions of dollars
00:26:11.860 is necessary to combat Russia,
00:26:14.000 whatever you think of that,
00:26:15.460 that country is not a democracy.
00:26:17.540 It is not even really an ally.
00:26:19.940 Hasn't been forever.
00:26:21.960 And yet we're supposed to put our necks on the line,
00:26:25.640 give money to them
00:26:26.860 as if it's a sweet, innocent little country.
00:26:30.000 No, you look back into the very recent,
00:26:31.820 the very recent past,
00:26:34.320 Zelensky was shutting down,
00:26:35.820 shutting down media,
00:26:37.220 shutting down TV stations.
00:26:38.500 He's now suspended elections.
00:26:40.260 He's basically shut down
00:26:41.600 all political opposition,
00:26:42.900 but that's the democracy that we're doing this
00:26:45.540 in the name of democracy.
00:26:47.420 Horrible, horrible.
00:26:48.940 Eddie, there was a time where I feel like
00:26:50.180 this stuff would work with the mainstream media,
00:26:51.960 where they would be able to just kind of
00:26:53.680 frame these things in a particular way
00:26:56.020 and the American people would have
00:26:57.340 no real other source of information.
00:26:59.960 Is there a chance of pushing back against this?
00:27:02.900 I mean, is there enough of an alternative media now
00:27:05.060 to correct these misconceptions?
00:27:09.540 I think so.
00:27:10.680 I mean, I think most people,
00:27:12.100 especially within the last,
00:27:13.700 like, six or seven years,
00:27:15.740 they can turn on CNN
00:27:17.880 or turn on MSNBC
00:27:19.140 or read the New York Times
00:27:20.240 and they're being told
00:27:21.700 the exact opposite
00:27:22.880 of not only something
00:27:24.320 they may have looked up
00:27:25.400 or something they've happened
00:27:26.180 to come across already,
00:27:27.820 it's what they're experiencing
00:27:29.300 in their own lives.
00:27:30.800 You read the New York Times
00:27:31.840 or watch MSNBC
00:27:33.960 and the economy is banging.
00:27:36.520 It is absolutely working for everybody.
00:27:39.740 How is he doing it?
00:27:41.740 And it's like you go to,
00:27:42.620 you just realize
00:27:43.360 you had to take out a second mortgage
00:27:44.680 to even go to the grocery store.
00:27:46.460 I think, you know,
00:27:47.280 what the media is doing,
00:27:48.560 they're just getting,
00:27:52.180 shredding every last bit
00:27:54.180 of their credibility,
00:27:55.240 not even just by blatantly
00:27:56.680 contradicting information
00:27:58.740 that you can easily look up
00:28:00.020 on your own,
00:28:00.660 but by telling people
00:28:01.700 that what they are experiencing
00:28:03.320 day in and day out
00:28:04.380 is actually not the truth.
00:28:06.160 I mean, for anyone
00:28:07.360 to still be waking up to this,
00:28:09.000 you really have to,
00:28:09.800 it really takes an exercise
00:28:11.200 in self-delusion.
00:28:12.520 So help me out with this, Eddie,
00:28:15.220 that we're deploying 300 more troops
00:28:17.380 to the Middle East.
00:28:18.140 I think we sent 900 last week.
00:28:20.300 There have been 28 attacks
00:28:22.740 on U.S. forces by drones now,
00:28:26.060 28 attacks in the Middle East.
00:28:28.900 I think it's only going to get worse.
00:28:31.720 What are we headed for
00:28:32.840 in the Middle East, do you think?
00:28:35.560 That's a good question.
00:28:36.700 I think that this is a more complicated,
00:28:41.460 or I guess this should be treated
00:28:43.120 more seriously and gravely
00:28:45.480 than I think that the White House
00:28:47.740 and the Senate are trying to lead people.
00:28:51.020 This is just a matter of,
00:28:51.900 oh no, just dump more money
00:28:53.340 onto Israel because that's our ally.
00:28:55.680 I mean, I take for granted
00:28:56.440 it's our ally and they deserve our support,
00:28:58.080 but we have been supporting Israel
00:28:59.780 for decades now.
00:29:00.780 A long time, yeah.
00:29:01.840 For decades.
00:29:02.840 And I mean, I'd like to see them,
00:29:04.460 I'd like to believe they put that money
00:29:06.320 to good use over these years,
00:29:07.740 and I'm sure it did have its uses.
00:29:09.480 And yet, what happened back earlier in October
00:29:12.660 still happened.
00:29:14.180 Tragedy.
00:29:15.240 But how committed are we to this exactly?
00:29:18.340 We're already dealing with
00:29:19.280 what's going on with Ukraine.
00:29:20.360 We're already looking at
00:29:21.640 what's going to happen with Taiwan.
00:29:22.900 I mean, something is going to have to give.
00:29:26.120 And I, you know, I asked Stu earlier,
00:29:28.120 and maybe you know the answer to this.
00:29:29.840 If Turkey is,
00:29:31.740 who has come out against Israel,
00:29:34.160 if Turkey gets into a real bad fight with Israel
00:29:38.120 and Israel responds and Turkey is hit,
00:29:43.200 Turkey is a NATO ally.
00:29:44.620 Are we supposed to defend Turkey
00:29:47.280 by going to war against Israel?
00:29:49.500 What the hell?
00:29:50.160 I mean, this is such a mess.
00:29:52.520 Such a mess.
00:29:53.140 Right, exactly.
00:29:53.900 Exactly.
00:29:54.360 And I think that that's why when you have,
00:29:56.380 I was just reading a story about,
00:29:57.940 you know, I think that Mike Johnson
00:29:59.100 was actually very smart to say,
00:30:00.520 okay, we'll do the Israel aid.
00:30:02.300 But again, something is going to have to give.
00:30:04.000 In this case, we're going to have to take
00:30:05.300 some of that IRS money
00:30:07.440 that you're trying to pump into the agency.
00:30:09.700 And then we'll talk.
00:30:11.740 And yeah, you have the White House,
00:30:12.720 you have the Senate,
00:30:13.520 both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate
00:30:15.340 saying, no, no, no, we have to do this right now.
00:30:17.320 No, no, no.
00:30:17.840 I think that Mike Johnson's on the right track.
00:30:19.580 We need to buy a little bit of time
00:30:20.660 and talk about this
00:30:21.400 for the reasons you just stated.
00:30:23.840 Exactly right.
00:30:24.700 And the other thing is Andy Biggs,
00:30:28.560 I just talked to him
00:30:29.320 and he's trying to get,
00:30:31.080 you know, the watchdog agencies on it.
00:30:34.260 So any money that goes over to any place,
00:30:37.900 but Israel included,
00:30:39.880 we should know where that money is going.
00:30:42.340 It shouldn't just be a big check
00:30:43.860 that we hand over to people.
00:30:45.420 We've got to start tracking the money
00:30:47.700 and knowing where it's being spent
00:30:50.160 and what is being done with it, I think.
00:30:54.360 Yeah, no, I actually just,
00:30:56.200 I was speaking,
00:30:57.000 it was just this past summer
00:30:58.280 with a friend of mine who's in the FBI
00:31:00.280 and he was sent over to be in Israel
00:31:03.440 and Tel Aviv for a number of years,
00:31:05.140 I think at least five.
00:31:06.180 And he told me that,
00:31:07.100 he said,
00:31:07.720 that completely radicalized me.
00:31:10.040 He was like,
00:31:10.460 dealing with their government,
00:31:11.780 he said,
00:31:12.160 they just straight up demand things.
00:31:14.500 They say,
00:31:14.920 well, this is what we need from the US.
00:31:16.360 This is what we're going to get
00:31:17.360 in order for us
00:31:18.220 to actually continue our relationship.
00:31:20.140 He said,
00:31:20.520 the entitlement that goes on there
00:31:22.240 is just insane.
00:31:23.860 And it is because we just,
00:31:25.200 we just hand out money,
00:31:26.420 fists of money
00:31:27.040 and no one's supposed to say anything about it.
00:31:29.100 No one's supposed to check.
00:31:30.320 And quite honestly,
00:31:31.200 except for the last president
00:31:32.720 that I know of,
00:31:34.120 we're the only one
00:31:34.920 that ever says that to you.
00:31:36.080 You know what?
00:31:36.680 You want our money?
00:31:37.620 This is what you're going to have to do.
00:31:39.440 You do this.
00:31:40.640 And if you're not doing that,
00:31:41.760 then no,
00:31:42.960 no,
00:31:43.400 you're not getting the money.
00:31:46.080 Last question.
00:31:47.620 How do you feel about our new speaker?
00:31:50.840 I strangely feel
00:31:52.520 like maybe he's
00:31:53.700 going to be like good
00:31:56.300 for,
00:31:56.860 you know,
00:31:58.360 small government constitutionalists.
00:32:00.380 Am I lying to myself,
00:32:01.880 Eddie?
00:32:03.440 No,
00:32:03.880 it's funny.
00:32:04.260 I just asked my,
00:32:05.040 my colleague at the Federalist.
00:32:06.180 I said,
00:32:06.560 is Mike Johnson
00:32:08.160 the most nondescript person?
00:32:10.640 No one's ever even heard of him.
00:32:11.980 Is he about to become
00:32:13.180 a right-wing hero?
00:32:14.660 Yeah.
00:32:15.380 Just based on this,
00:32:16.680 just based on this package
00:32:17.980 that he,
00:32:18.560 that he said,
00:32:19.340 because,
00:32:19.580 you know,
00:32:20.020 to give you a sense
00:32:21.360 of how remarkable it was,
00:32:23.600 the deal he's trying to cut
00:32:24.720 or the deal he's proposing
00:32:25.720 for Israel aid
00:32:26.860 and putting it
00:32:28.080 as a standalone item.
00:32:30.300 There was a piece
00:32:31.280 in the New York Times
00:32:32.100 just this morning
00:32:33.160 just saying how deeply
00:32:34.620 unserious he is
00:32:35.820 because all of this money,
00:32:37.040 all of it to Ukraine,
00:32:38.560 everything for Israel
00:32:39.720 and the IRS,
00:32:40.680 all of that should go together.
00:32:41.880 There should be no discussion
00:32:42.760 about it whatsoever.
00:32:43.480 That just tells you
00:32:44.060 how unserious he is.
00:32:45.060 No,
00:32:45.420 that tells you
00:32:46.040 he is on the right track
00:32:47.260 and I like what I see so far.
00:32:48.960 Yeah,
00:32:49.360 me too.
00:32:50.040 Me too.
00:32:50.780 I,
00:32:51.080 it would be,
00:32:52.560 it would be,
00:32:53.560 I mean,
00:32:53.960 he could clearly become
00:32:56.060 a massive hero
00:32:57.620 overnight
00:32:58.700 if,
00:32:59.860 if he decides
00:33:00.980 to put through
00:33:02.800 the legislation
00:33:03.680 that everybody
00:33:04.720 in the country
00:33:05.260 has been screaming
00:33:06.000 for on the right
00:33:06.940 and stands,
00:33:09.400 stands by it.
00:33:10.560 The key will be,
00:33:11.820 can he get the Republicans
00:33:14.180 to vote like Democrats?
00:33:16.380 In other words,
00:33:17.100 can he get all of them
00:33:18.940 on board
00:33:19.520 and just say,
00:33:20.520 we're going this way,
00:33:21.680 guys,
00:33:22.180 let's go.
00:33:23.600 That'll be the key.
00:33:25.180 Exactly.
00:33:25.720 And if you have to
00:33:26.360 clog it up,
00:33:27.100 clog it up.
00:33:27.700 That's fine with me.
00:33:28.660 Fine with me too.
00:33:29.320 Eddie,
00:33:29.520 thank you so much.
00:33:30.240 God bless.
00:33:31.400 Thanks, Glenn.
00:33:32.040 You bet.
00:33:32.360 Eddie Scary,
00:33:32.940 he is from The Federalist.
00:33:34.660 He is their DC columnist
00:33:36.320 and author of the book
00:33:37.380 Liberal Misery.
00:33:38.220 Na, na, na, na.