The Glenn Beck Program - July 25, 2024


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Salena Zito & Tammy Bruce ｜ 7⧸25⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

141.78209

Word Count

5,627

Sentence Count

476

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 All right. We talked a lot of a lot of things way out of this insanity with Tammy Bruce.
00:00:05.560 She's got a new book out that is really, really excellent.
00:00:08.500 Selena Zito talked to us about what she's seeing in the neighborhoods and boroughs of Pennsylvania.
00:00:16.120 She's the one who called it for Trump in 2016.
00:00:19.180 She's the one who said it doesn't look like 2016.
00:00:22.560 I don't think it's going that way in 2020.
00:00:24.900 And she's seeing a change.
00:00:27.240 And it's a remarkable change in Democrats.
00:00:30.000 That she has picked up on.
00:00:31.700 You really need to hear that.
00:00:33.000 We also talk about what happened on the streets in Washington, D.C., the president's speech.
00:00:40.440 And we started with it's been a rough three weeks.
00:00:46.380 And I show you what you are maybe missing.
00:00:50.020 Yes, it's been hard.
00:00:51.080 But there's been a couple of really good things that have happened that you need to tie yourself to.
00:00:56.700 And that all happens in today's podcast.
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00:02:22.940 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:27.020 If you just joined us, you missed an effort to try to explain probably why you feel beat up and you feel tired.
00:02:40.320 We all do because we have watched our country take an absolute beating from the debate right into the assassination, right into the, you know, people on social media screaming, how could you possibly miss?
00:02:58.500 Which was just another assault on your senses.
00:03:01.020 And then the Secret Service director, Cheadle, coming out and saying, yeah, well, it was a slopey roof.
00:03:06.200 And so we don't like to put people on hot, slopey roofs.
00:03:09.220 And another.
00:03:11.160 And then a coup happens.
00:03:12.920 Kamala is made the nominee.
00:03:14.840 And they start changing history again.
00:03:18.780 And they start saying, oh, no, she was never the border czar.
00:03:21.260 When they were the ones who told us she was the border czar.
00:03:25.020 And then last night, the president, while he's doing that, the Palestinians are marching for Hamas in Washington, D.C.
00:03:34.220 and burning an effigy of Bibi Netanyahu and taking down the flags in front of the Union Station, a federal building, and burning the flags.
00:03:46.020 Anyways, that's what happened in the last three weeks.
00:03:54.300 And you're like, there's nobody doing anything.
00:03:57.060 There's nothing.
00:03:58.040 Well, let me show you another side.
00:04:02.100 And let me show you what happened when the Palestinians took the flag down.
00:04:05.900 They started burning it.
00:04:07.340 And there was a group of Americans that went in for that flag.
00:04:11.900 And they were police officers.
00:04:13.800 Let me show you the bravery it took to go in and get that flag.
00:04:22.040 Here you see maybe, what, ten police officers.
00:04:27.420 They are surrounded by an angry Hamas crowd.
00:04:31.620 And they are getting the flag off of the ground.
00:04:35.080 And people aren't happy.
00:04:40.360 And they lock arms with the flag and back out of the area.
00:04:46.900 I watch this.
00:04:49.240 And I am moved by the bravery of those officers.
00:04:53.420 And I am grateful to those officers.
00:04:55.760 That they remember who we are.
00:05:02.000 You have a right to burn the flag.
00:05:04.240 You're a moron if you do it.
00:05:05.680 But you have a right to burn the flag.
00:05:07.700 But you do not have a right to deface our monuments.
00:05:11.580 To write, Hamas is coming.
00:05:14.660 On our monuments.
00:05:16.580 Take down our flags.
00:05:18.040 And then fly the Palestinian flag.
00:05:22.380 No, I'm sorry.
00:05:23.560 You don't have a right to do that.
00:05:26.920 And in a sane America, you would have been arrested.
00:05:31.560 But we're not a sane America.
00:05:33.380 We're a very sick America.
00:05:34.880 But I want to show you the parts that are standing.
00:05:37.580 The left immediately went after Donald Trump when he stood up after being shot in the head.
00:05:53.240 Secret Service wanted just to rush him out of there.
00:05:58.740 But he said, and you can hear it on the tape.
00:06:01.320 No, no, no.
00:06:02.260 I need to say something to people.
00:06:03.700 No.
00:06:04.600 Wait.
00:06:05.360 Wait.
00:06:07.580 And then he did something that I fear too many of us have already forgotten.
00:06:12.800 Wait.
00:06:13.140 Wait.
00:06:13.420 Wait.
00:06:14.220 Wait.
00:06:18.040 He stands up with a clenched fist and says, fight, fight, fight.
00:06:29.220 The press immediately tore him apart saying, look, he wants violence.
00:06:33.840 No, he does not want violence.
00:06:35.820 He is saying, fight for your country.
00:06:39.960 Stand up for your country.
00:06:42.000 Do what those police officers did yesterday.
00:06:45.240 Fight for your flag.
00:06:48.780 Fight for our history.
00:06:54.180 It's not violent.
00:06:56.040 It is passionate.
00:06:57.440 And it is rooted in eternal truth.
00:07:01.440 There are far too many examples of people being cowards.
00:07:13.160 Far too many examples of people being stupid.
00:07:16.000 I come to you today to ask you to recognize the light.
00:07:28.420 The shadows are growing so very dark.
00:07:32.060 But that is only possible when the light begins to get brighter.
00:07:37.780 Be that light.
00:07:39.380 Be that beacon of hope in somebody's life.
00:07:42.700 My executive producer, Ricky, this morning said it's been a rough three weeks.
00:07:58.620 And she had tears in her eyes and she said, I'm just watching my country be destroyed.
00:08:04.180 And all of us on the meeting, we all fell silent because we all felt exactly the same way.
00:08:20.140 But it's because of her bravery to say how she felt that I am giving you and her this monologue.
00:08:29.440 It's always darkest before the dawn.
00:08:39.800 They have trashed our country for 20 plus years.
00:08:45.440 They have brought us to the point to where we're at a breaking point.
00:08:49.300 A place where I said we would be.
00:08:51.920 I hoped that we would not.
00:08:53.940 But the country cannot go on much longer like this.
00:09:02.960 But I want you to take courage from the things, the two things that I just showed you that also happened this week.
00:09:08.800 And they were big things.
00:09:11.700 They're just not getting play in the media because that's not their narrative or their agenda.
00:09:18.680 Your narrative, your agenda, my narrative, my agenda is to save the republic.
00:09:28.040 Now remember, it was just four weeks ago that we were having the discussion whether we're a republic or a democracy.
00:09:36.720 And the same people that are lying to you today about Kamala Harris and the border czar and are in this sudden whipped up frenzy to change history.
00:09:49.680 All of them are doing it.
00:09:52.360 It's because they're exactly the same people.
00:09:55.480 And they are answering to exactly the same people.
00:09:58.220 It's just Kamala that they're helping and covering for now and not covering for President Biden.
00:10:04.940 Because President Biden, he has been used up.
00:10:08.220 He's finished.
00:10:09.500 Move on.
00:10:12.220 They are also the same people that were telling you four weeks ago that we are a democracy.
00:10:20.640 And when we spoke out and said, no, it's a very important distinguishing characteristic.
00:10:28.240 We are a republic.
00:10:30.200 We have a democratic vote.
00:10:32.820 But after that vote is taken, then we're a republic.
00:10:37.280 They told us we are conspiracy theorists that are whipped up by the right and Donald Trump
00:10:47.060 because it's our plot to make people believe we're a republic.
00:10:52.340 Well, let me quote President Biden last night.
00:10:57.200 Cut 15.
00:11:01.100 When Ben Franklin was asked, as he emerged from the convention going on,
00:11:09.740 whether the founders have given America a monarchy or republic,
00:11:14.200 Franklin's response was, a republic, if you can keep it.
00:11:20.420 A republic, if you can keep it.
00:11:23.580 Whether we keep our republic is now in your hands.
00:11:29.340 Yes, it is.
00:11:31.880 But what he means is go out and vote.
00:11:35.160 What Franklin meant was educate yourself.
00:11:40.760 Be a responsible citizen.
00:11:42.820 Care about these things.
00:11:45.820 Talk amongst yourself about these things.
00:11:49.360 Discover the truth.
00:11:51.300 Because the truth will be, there will always be people who try to hide the truth from you.
00:11:57.860 And it is your responsibility, not the media's responsibility, not my responsibility,
00:12:02.580 but your responsibility to educate yourself.
00:12:09.640 And when you see an injustice, fight!
00:12:14.240 Fight! Fight! Fight!
00:12:15.740 You fight for what is true.
00:12:25.120 And then you go to the ballot box.
00:12:28.100 You fight for the truth.
00:12:29.520 Because it's worth fighting for.
00:12:31.420 It's worth living for.
00:12:33.580 It's the only thing that will change our children's life for the better,
00:12:37.560 is the truth.
00:12:38.700 So, damn right, fight!
00:12:46.380 And use that one day that we have a democratic, democracy tool at our disposal,
00:12:57.520 and vote.
00:12:59.040 You know, I was going to say, may God save the republic,
00:13:13.940 but I was reminded that it was a millimeter
00:13:18.860 that the president walked off stage two weeks ago,
00:13:24.700 bleeding from the side of his head.
00:13:27.920 His ear was clipped off.
00:13:30.880 You and I both know that was a miracle.
00:13:34.160 How dare us feel beaten and discouraged
00:13:38.240 when the arm of God was made bare.
00:13:43.960 He's doing his part.
00:13:45.580 May you do your part,
00:13:49.200 and me do my part.
00:13:51.360 May we save the republic.
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00:14:02.740 323 in this year's first quarter of drugs
00:14:06.540 that we don't have enough of.
00:14:08.560 I don't know.
00:14:09.660 I think we're headed for some problems,
00:14:13.000 especially if we go into war or any other kind of shortage on this stuff.
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00:15:03.280 Now, back to the podcast.
00:15:05.500 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program,
00:15:07.440 and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:15:10.800 Tammy Bruce,
00:15:13.160 the author of Fear Itself.
00:15:16.120 Welcome to the program.
00:15:17.120 Hi, Tammy.
00:15:18.260 Hi there.
00:15:19.080 And I have to say,
00:15:19.800 it was the National Organization for Women.
00:15:21.680 Even I wouldn't go near.
00:15:23.040 That's what it was.
00:15:23.860 Leading Planned Parenthood.
00:15:25.260 All right?
00:15:25.740 I mean,
00:15:26.120 that's right.
00:15:27.380 I knew it was one of those organizations I didn't like or trust.
00:15:30.980 Yes.
00:15:31.260 And now I am feeling the same way.
00:15:34.800 And thank you for your kind words about my first book.
00:15:37.740 And I have to say,
00:15:38.700 it's your work that when we talk about the transition of someone like myself from the left to the right,
00:15:44.000 really unlocks a lot of doors when it comes to the way I thought of things and what was possible.
00:15:50.040 So thank you.
00:15:51.600 Wow.
00:15:52.260 Thank you.
00:15:52.820 I appreciate that.
00:15:54.000 Well,
00:15:54.480 it's your scratch my back.
00:15:55.700 I'll scratch yours,
00:15:56.460 I guess.
00:15:57.160 Because it's a weird time we're living in,
00:16:01.280 and a lot of confused people,
00:16:03.160 and they're confused.
00:16:04.320 And it's so strange that you were on today.
00:16:08.280 I was reading something this morning,
00:16:10.020 and it is exactly like your book.
00:16:12.480 And I was reading something today.
00:16:14.740 I'm going to use it tomorrow.
00:16:15.880 And it's about the different kinds of lies that abusers use.
00:16:22.300 And it was all written for,
00:16:25.580 you know,
00:16:26.920 physical domestic abuse.
00:16:28.600 And that's what your book is about,
00:16:30.240 about how lies and fear is being used by really unscrupulous people.
00:16:36.860 And we are in an abusive relationship.
00:16:39.780 And the nice thing is,
00:16:40.720 you also have some answers.
00:16:41.900 And we'll get into that as well.
00:16:43.280 So explain that concept.
00:16:46.020 Well,
00:16:46.580 you know,
00:16:47.040 this,
00:16:47.820 the idea for the book started before COVID,
00:16:50.580 right?
00:16:50.800 The most immediate example we have where there was an awakening of people
00:16:54.760 was what governments around the world were doing with COVID.
00:16:58.920 But it's ancient.
00:16:59.920 It's a technique that is thousands of years old.
00:17:03.800 It is the notion of using fear to quell populations.
00:17:08.740 And it tends to work.
00:17:10.440 Look,
00:17:10.760 there's brainwashing for a reason.
00:17:12.920 There's cults for a reason.
00:17:14.640 The mind is susceptible to repeated messages,
00:17:18.840 and especially messages involving dire threats,
00:17:22.820 existential threats.
00:17:24.260 And we adjust in order to survive.
00:17:26.760 So this is the issue becomes a major government.
00:17:31.960 And yes,
00:17:32.840 we'll get into domestic violence in a second,
00:17:34.720 because this is like domestic violence writ large,
00:17:37.400 but it is from our government.
00:17:40.080 Yes,
00:17:40.560 exactly.
00:17:41.040 So the,
00:17:41.760 the issue is,
00:17:42.540 is that the more afraid you can make a population,
00:17:45.600 the more they'll retreat from activity.
00:17:49.600 And,
00:17:50.240 but it has to be done in a,
00:17:51.560 in a framework of your life is at stake in one way or another,
00:17:56.160 unless you do X.
00:17:57.740 And if you don't comply or adjust and pay allegiance to what we say is reality,
00:18:05.340 you will be punished.
00:18:07.100 And it's for your own good,
00:18:08.840 we're told,
00:18:09.420 of course,
00:18:09.900 and this crosses every single leftist issue,
00:18:14.120 global warming,
00:18:15.060 of course,
00:18:16.240 it was COVID,
00:18:17.160 the nature of,
00:18:18.100 of who's going to control what kind of medicine we need and what healthcare is.
00:18:23.160 It's,
00:18:23.600 it's the notion of,
00:18:25.140 you know,
00:18:25.660 a crime and even a bad economy.
00:18:27.980 Glenn is,
00:18:29.160 frightens people,
00:18:30.880 right?
00:18:31.160 You don't have enough money to get to work,
00:18:33.940 to feed your children.
00:18:35.240 And then you don't know if you can pay your rent.
00:18:37.980 Everything.
00:18:38.640 It's like an onion adds in to this notion that if you do not behave,
00:18:43.160 you will be harmed.
00:18:45.280 And then of course there's language,
00:18:46.860 which you're right.
00:18:47.400 My first book,
00:18:48.080 the new thought police was no warning people a quarter of a century ago.
00:18:51.980 That they were changing language,
00:18:54.160 not because they cared about,
00:18:56.120 you know,
00:18:56.720 manhole covers,
00:18:58.140 you know,
00:18:59.000 and what you call certain things.
00:19:01.460 It is the idea that the moment you are,
00:19:06.720 if you,
00:19:06.980 if you're unsure about what's safe to say,
00:19:10.060 because the rules keep changing,
00:19:12.020 then you will stop thinking about the issues.
00:19:14.700 And now,
00:19:15.560 of course,
00:19:15.920 we know you can get fired if you misgender someone,
00:19:19.420 which is insane.
00:19:20.460 Or if you don't use pronouns,
00:19:22.680 right now,
00:19:23.640 we're into forced speech,
00:19:25.520 but it all comes back around to making you unsure of what to think,
00:19:31.980 what you can say,
00:19:33.000 what you can do.
00:19:33.660 And then what,
00:19:34.080 what happens?
00:19:35.000 You don't challenge the government.
00:19:37.640 You step back,
00:19:38.960 you withdraw from public and cultural life.
00:19:42.040 That's at least what they intend.
00:19:43.580 And from,
00:19:44.620 and you become neurotic,
00:19:46.560 chronic fear becomes mass anxiety.
00:19:49.860 And you,
00:19:50.240 and the wife of a friend of mine is refusing to have children because she's so worried about global warming,
00:19:55.800 which is,
00:19:56.780 I told you it is.
00:19:59.500 And I said to him,
00:20:00.800 I said,
00:20:01.160 tell her that her child might be the person who fixes that issue for her.
00:20:06.540 But it becomes,
00:20:07.580 correct.
00:20:08.320 You know,
00:20:08.840 it's this,
00:20:09.380 this dynamic.
00:20:10.400 And it's not one last point.
00:20:12.440 It's not that fear per se is the issue.
00:20:15.400 Fear is a gift.
00:20:17.160 It is meant to be transitory so that you can use your logical and reasonable mind to make a plan.
00:20:24.300 What the left has done is it has weaponized fear to make it chronic and that you adjust to it and it becomes normal.
00:20:31.840 And you just begin to withdraw from a whole variety of things,
00:20:36.780 you know,
00:20:37.000 saying who you support for president,
00:20:39.680 or if you listen to Glenn Beck or,
00:20:42.180 you know,
00:20:42.560 what you're willing to say to people.
00:20:45.260 And that's,
00:20:45.900 this book is,
00:20:47.820 shows the history of this,
00:20:49.360 that what the fear that we experience in our lives right now is not natural.
00:20:55.240 It is not organic.
00:20:56.840 It is not inevitable.
00:20:58.040 And it can be stopped with some very simple personal action.
00:21:03.280 Okay.
00:21:03.780 So,
00:21:04.220 so help me out on that because I,
00:21:05.840 I think that courage is contagious and we're starting to see it.
00:21:09.500 That moment where Donald Trump shot in the head.
00:21:11.980 And if Biden would have done it,
00:21:13.260 I would have said the same thing shot in the head,
00:21:15.920 uh,
00:21:16.780 after,
00:21:17.200 especially after everything that he's gone through.
00:21:19.460 And he says to the secret service,
00:21:21.640 wait,
00:21:22.040 wait,
00:21:22.480 wait,
00:21:23.060 wait.
00:21:23.820 And he stands up and he puts his fist and he says,
00:21:26.760 fight,
00:21:27.460 fight,
00:21:27.720 fight.
00:21:28.260 That doesn't mean get in the streets and gun people down.
00:21:31.120 That means fight for what you believe in fight for what you know is true.
00:21:35.200 Um,
00:21:35.700 and that is the worst thing that could happen,
00:21:39.060 uh,
00:21:39.980 to regimes that want to control people.
00:21:43.700 Uh,
00:21:44.240 and it's so hard,
00:21:46.440 but we're seeing more and more examples come up with,
00:21:49.380 you know,
00:21:50.120 real courage of their convictions that don't have to do it.
00:21:53.520 You know,
00:21:54.200 it hurts them to do it,
00:21:55.660 but how do we foster that?
00:21:58.660 Well,
00:21:59.140 you know,
00:21:59.520 it's,
00:21:59.940 that is,
00:22:00.860 and it,
00:22:01.220 it,
00:22:01.500 it,
00:22:01.640 it is contagious.
00:22:03.680 The Trump example is perfect.
00:22:06.000 Oh,
00:22:06.240 not just at the rally.
00:22:07.360 That was a remarkable life-changing moment for,
00:22:09.940 I think everyone,
00:22:10.680 but,
00:22:11.540 but what he has with stood with the law fair,
00:22:14.360 but also people who listen to you every day and people who listened to Rush Limbaugh every day are also examples that,
00:22:22.280 look,
00:22:22.720 you can speak your mind.
00:22:23.900 It is worth doing.
00:22:25.700 Here are these ideas we can talk about.
00:22:28.280 You're not alone.
00:22:29.740 And what it is besides,
00:22:31.580 you know,
00:22:32.120 recognizing that reaction in yourself,
00:22:34.720 because this is a very weak construct.
00:22:37.020 Everything the left does is weak.
00:22:39.200 Uh,
00:22:39.380 it's,
00:22:39.680 it's,
00:22:40.020 it's made up.
00:22:41.340 These talk about cheap fakes.
00:22:43.280 The left is a cheap fake,
00:22:44.940 uh,
00:22:45.820 and it moves Marxism through,
00:22:47.420 but in,
00:22:48.060 in the solution here.
00:22:49.840 And for me,
00:22:50.620 and because I've experienced it on personal issues.
00:22:53.620 So we're talking about politics,
00:22:55.540 but there are personal things that we experience.
00:22:58.560 And many people watching that rally,
00:23:00.800 it was like a switch that went off where the moment you see dramatic courage.
00:23:06.580 And Trump mentioned this to,
00:23:08.480 to a reporter.
00:23:09.220 He said,
00:23:09.740 when he got up from that platform,
00:23:11.840 he knew he'd been finally,
00:23:13.420 he understood he'd been shot in the head.
00:23:14.980 And he felt the blood and he tasted it.
00:23:17.260 It was like,
00:23:17.740 he knew,
00:23:18.380 and this could have been his last public utterance.
00:23:22.160 And when he,
00:23:23.040 but he looked out and he realized the audience had not left him.
00:23:28.400 That there was no stampede.
00:23:31.140 And that still gives me chills because he said at that point,
00:23:34.780 when I saw they were still there and that gave him,
00:23:38.480 he didn't say this,
00:23:39.480 but it's,
00:23:39.880 it's correct.
00:23:40.680 That gave him courage,
00:23:42.020 right?
00:23:42.360 That's when he decided,
00:23:43.700 yes,
00:23:43.980 I have to say X.
00:23:45.920 So there was this,
00:23:47.540 this teamwork.
00:23:49.060 He gave them courage by standing up and by being himself,
00:23:54.160 right?
00:23:54.540 This is not a,
00:23:55.240 it was quintessentially Trump.
00:23:57.240 And when he looked out,
00:23:58.760 that is what generated the fist in the air and the fight,
00:24:03.000 fight,
00:24:03.300 fight,
00:24:03.580 which for me,
00:24:04.220 if you think you might be dead in 30 minutes or,
00:24:07.320 or shorter,
00:24:07.840 you're going to encourage people to not give up.
00:24:12.200 And that takes courage is not giving up because of what we face.
00:24:17.640 Obviously you think,
00:24:18.520 my God,
00:24:18.900 if he had been killed,
00:24:20.140 what that would have done.
00:24:21.400 And that's just what a regime perhaps hopes for is that even if it's an,
00:24:26.020 they didn't have anything to do with it or whatever the things were,
00:24:28.540 it's like,
00:24:28.820 oh,
00:24:28.960 well,
00:24:29.080 that's great news.
00:24:29.980 And we saw that with some of the left on social media.
00:24:32.340 It's like,
00:24:32.700 oh,
00:24:32.900 darn it.
00:24:33.620 Too bad.
00:24:34.180 He missed.
00:24:34.720 Right.
00:24:35.060 is that this is the kind of thing that reminds people of what's at stake.
00:24:40.840 So for me,
00:24:41.780 the first,
00:24:42.500 I have a series of packs that I write about at the end of the book is that we
00:24:47.040 make decisions,
00:24:48.260 Glenn,
00:24:48.660 right?
00:24:48.980 A decision,
00:24:49.780 a genuine decision is powerful and it can change your life.
00:24:53.480 It's not about thinking about something or entertaining an idea.
00:24:57.200 It's deciding.
00:24:58.520 And in this case,
00:24:59.280 the first thing we have to do is decide to not let strangers like these
00:25:04.960 people in the democratic party,
00:25:07.560 not let strangers control what we think of ourselves.
00:25:12.060 That's first,
00:25:13.120 because that's the gaslighting that they're telling you,
00:25:16.440 you're a bigot,
00:25:18.140 you're white supremacist,
00:25:20.080 you know,
00:25:20.500 you're a racist.
00:25:21.460 Now,
00:25:21.600 of course the new one,
00:25:22.400 you're a transphobe.
00:25:23.460 If you think that men shouldn't be in women's sports,
00:25:26.480 all of it is madness.
00:25:29.180 And if you can decide,
00:25:30.900 and I've,
00:25:31.400 I've learned this,
00:25:32.600 this rule being in television and you,
00:25:34.960 I'm sure you know,
00:25:35.740 this rule,
00:25:36.120 we,
00:25:36.580 we,
00:25:37.040 we care about what people think,
00:25:38.660 but we are not going to let the lunatics of the world determine what the
00:25:43.760 conversation is or what we think of ourselves.
00:25:47.620 That's one of a five packs.
00:25:49.780 And it,
00:25:50.340 it is about courage.
00:25:51.500 It's the,
00:25:52.000 they want to kill our courage with fear and making you feel there's nothing
00:25:57.680 you can do about it.
00:25:58.840 It is a house of cards.
00:26:00.920 It is a lie.
00:26:02.040 And when you like for the book,
00:26:04.740 you know,
00:26:05.140 the moment you realize it,
00:26:07.980 it's amazing.
00:26:09.780 The transformations that happen.
00:26:11.600 It's,
00:26:11.840 it's what helped me get out of the left in general.
00:26:14.240 And to see other people meeting Rush Limbaugh at a station.
00:26:18.940 I was at KFI in Los Angeles,
00:26:20.580 a conversation with him for two hours changed my life.
00:26:24.400 Getting to know you makes a difference and continues to make a difference.
00:26:28.500 So it is the contagiousness of it,
00:26:31.020 but these things unlock doors.
00:26:32.940 And,
00:26:33.420 you know,
00:26:33.580 you don't know the burden you've been carrying like fear until it's off your
00:26:37.840 shoulders.
00:26:38.200 And it's liberating.
00:26:40.520 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.
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00:26:45.620 find the full episode,
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00:26:50.100 Selena,
00:26:50.900 welcome back to the program.
00:26:52.780 How are you?
00:26:54.680 Oh,
00:26:55.240 I'm doing fine.
00:26:56.380 How are you?
00:26:58.180 I'm good.
00:26:59.040 So let me ask you,
00:27:00.940 am I,
00:27:01.700 am I reading the tea leaves right from you that you are seeing things that
00:27:06.340 might be very encouraging for 2020 or 2024?
00:27:12.380 Yeah.
00:27:13.040 So 20,
00:27:13.760 this year seems is very,
00:27:15.600 very similar to 2016.
00:27:18.300 In fact,
00:27:18.780 I encourage people to write,
00:27:20.560 read my book,
00:27:21.660 the great revolt,
00:27:22.620 not because I read it,
00:27:24.300 but basically because it's a blueprint for what's happening right now.
00:27:28.440 It tells you everything that's happening and why,
00:27:31.300 but makes you understand why and how this conservative politics,
00:27:36.340 populist movement sort of began and strengthened.
00:27:40.480 Everyone said after 2020 that,
00:27:43.700 well,
00:27:44.060 you know,
00:27:44.760 2016 Trump was just an outlier.
00:27:47.000 And I remember writing in 2020 after Biden won,
00:27:50.600 I said,
00:27:50.860 I think the outlier is Biden,
00:27:53.080 not Trump.
00:27:54.300 And I think that COVID is sort of,
00:27:57.460 and,
00:27:57.660 and,
00:27:58.040 and people's reaction to it is sort of what,
00:28:02.160 what,
00:28:02.680 what made things different.
00:28:04.680 So anyway,
00:28:06.460 so why,
00:28:06.940 why,
00:28:07.520 why do things seem similar?
00:28:09.240 Well,
00:28:09.540 I mean,
00:28:10.660 Vice President Harris is very,
00:28:14.940 very similar to Hillary Clinton in that she is very disconnected from the
00:28:23.320 very people that will make this election go for one person or the other.
00:28:29.740 People that do not live in Pittsburgh or Philly or New York or DC or Milwaukee,
00:28:36.920 but,
00:28:37.240 or Detroit,
00:28:38.800 but the people that live in Vernon County,
00:28:42.160 Wisconsin,
00:28:43.080 or Kenosha,
00:28:44.720 Wisconsin,
00:28:45.220 or that live in Erie County,
00:28:48.240 Pennsylvania.
00:28:49.220 Right.
00:28:49.860 And this,
00:28:50.520 this election is very much about those voters and,
00:28:54.960 and who appeals to them.
00:28:57.080 And Harris is much further left than either Hillary was.
00:29:02.420 And I suspect if she doesn't,
00:29:06.660 if there's no change in her and there cannot be,
00:29:09.480 because she is on the record talking about herself,
00:29:12.420 other people are not.
00:29:13.760 And she will probably do four points worse than Hillary in a state like
00:29:19.460 Pennsylvania.
00:29:21.160 Wow.
00:29:22.100 And you're saying too,
00:29:23.560 that the,
00:29:24.360 I read your article yesterday that lifetime Pennsylvania Democrats are now,
00:29:31.260 they're not sitting this out,
00:29:32.760 they're turning and becoming Republicans.
00:29:36.040 Right.
00:29:36.820 It's very,
00:29:37.600 very emotionally different to be one party and vote the other party.
00:29:43.340 Because you're mad at your party,
00:29:44.880 right?
00:29:45.280 For whatever reason.
00:29:47.500 It's a very different dynamic.
00:29:49.500 If you physically change your political party,
00:29:54.320 because now the sale is complete.
00:29:58.000 The breakup is complete.
00:29:59.740 It's not like you broke up a little.
00:30:01.920 It's not like go back together,
00:30:03.920 broke,
00:30:04.240 break up,
00:30:04.800 go back together.
00:30:06.340 You're divorced because there,
00:30:08.880 you know,
00:30:09.160 the identity of being a Democrat in Pennsylvania.
00:30:14.480 I mean,
00:30:15.300 I mean,
00:30:15.700 well in Pennsylvania or whatever,
00:30:18.200 these,
00:30:18.420 these legacy Democrats,
00:30:20.660 people that are born both Catholic and,
00:30:23.040 and Democrat,
00:30:24.300 right?
00:30:24.580 It's just,
00:30:25.580 it's such an emotional part of your identity.
00:30:28.540 It's such an emotional part of who you are because it's what your parents were.
00:30:33.660 It's what your grandparents were.
00:30:36.060 And,
00:30:36.100 and it's very difficult.
00:30:38.280 And it's not as difficult to,
00:30:40.340 to vote for a Republican if you're a registered Democrat.
00:30:42.980 However,
00:30:43.320 it is very difficult to literally change your party.
00:30:47.940 And are you seeing that just anecdote,
00:30:51.460 anecdotally,
00:30:52.580 or is,
00:30:54.920 so what,
00:30:55.320 what is giving you the impression this is happening a lot?
00:30:57.760 So I use just one woman as an example,
00:31:02.080 because she has just a powerful story to,
00:31:04.060 to tell Shirley Hall.
00:31:05.620 I hope people go and read the story.
00:31:07.360 They can just find me on Twitter at Zito Selena,
00:31:11.160 but you know,
00:31:12.480 sure.
00:31:13.000 Shirley Hall,
00:31:14.260 I used as an example,
00:31:15.520 but the massive movement of Democrats changing to Republicans in Pennsylvania
00:31:22.120 in the past eight years has been,
00:31:26.220 I would have never,
00:31:27.240 even I would have never predicted it because it is common to,
00:31:31.260 you know,
00:31:31.760 vote for someone else and stay your party.
00:31:34.020 But for you to make that emotional decision is very,
00:31:37.700 very different.
00:31:38.600 And I think that the Democrats had a 600,000 vote over registration than Republicans in,
00:31:49.160 in 2022,
00:31:50.540 right after that election.
00:31:51.600 And that is now whittled down to under 300,000.
00:31:56.160 Wow.
00:31:59.100 That's big.
00:31:59.620 So what is it?
00:32:01.120 That is really big.
00:32:02.940 I cannot.
00:32:04.200 And it's happening in counties that will swing the election.
00:32:08.120 Look,
00:32:08.420 the election is not going to be decided by Allegheny County where Pittsburgh is,
00:32:12.440 or Philadelphia County where Philly is.
00:32:15.020 Those are the,
00:32:15.700 those numbers essentially stay right about the same.
00:32:19.040 They're maxed out where it is decided is in the margins in the small counties,
00:32:25.000 Blair County,
00:32:25.920 Erie County,
00:32:26.760 Cambria County,
00:32:27.640 you know,
00:32:28.340 500,
00:32:29.200 600,
00:32:29.840 thousand more votes that changes the entire election.
00:32:34.200 So what is it that there's making people say,
00:32:37.360 I,
00:32:37.820 I,
00:32:38.520 I've got to switch parties.
00:32:40.120 What is there?
00:32:40.840 A,
00:32:41.380 is there one event,
00:32:42.480 one thing,
00:32:43.280 or is it a series?
00:32:44.560 What are you hearing?
00:32:46.220 It is a series of things.
00:32:47.900 Mostly,
00:32:48.660 you know,
00:32:49.160 people in these areas,
00:32:51.440 you know,
00:32:52.020 like where,
00:32:52.460 where president Trump did his rally in Butler there,
00:32:55.560 nobody goes to Butler County.
00:32:58.080 Nobody,
00:32:59.060 nobody goes to Butler County,
00:33:00.660 not Republicans or Democrats.
00:33:02.980 Donald Trump does.
00:33:04.060 It makes him,
00:33:04.960 them feel seen.
00:33:06.680 It makes their concerns feel seen.
00:33:09.360 All of a sudden you start feeling very,
00:33:11.620 very different about who has your back.
00:33:16.460 And the coalitions of the parties have also changed.
00:33:19.060 Democrats were always the party of the working class since the new deal
00:33:22.620 coalition was formed under FDR.
00:33:24.640 And Republicans were the part of the,
00:33:26.820 of the elite,
00:33:27.780 the country club.
00:33:28.780 Those changed dramatically beginning in 2006.
00:33:34.460 Ironically,
00:33:34.980 when the Republicans lost the house and Senate that year,
00:33:38.100 but you saw when Republicans voted for Democrats that year,
00:33:43.180 they voted for Democrats who are conservative.
00:33:45.380 So they were mad at both parties and,
00:33:48.100 and they,
00:33:48.840 they wanted to stick it to the Republicans.
00:33:50.780 And so this evolution has been going on for,
00:33:55.240 for about 10 years,
00:33:58.700 eight years,
00:33:59.600 or no,
00:34:00.800 20 years,
00:34:01.700 almost 18 years.
00:34:03.540 But,
00:34:04.580 you know,
00:34:05.800 it's not listening to the voters.
00:34:08.740 It's not hearing the voters.
00:34:11.500 It's belittling the voters.
00:34:14.280 And,
00:34:15.520 and,
00:34:15.840 and,
00:34:16.020 and,
00:34:16.600 and it's in a large part,
00:34:18.880 as I talked about in my book,
00:34:20.400 that pressure hasn't just come from politics.
00:34:23.160 It's come from our cultural curators,
00:34:25.840 institutions,
00:34:26.920 academia,
00:34:27.780 big government,
00:34:28.740 the media,
00:34:29.900 all corporations,
00:34:32.600 the NFL.
00:34:34.680 They all are located their headquarters in the super zip codes that were the
00:34:40.780 most wealthy and most powerful live in Washington and New York.
00:34:44.220 They're very disconnected from the people that who's,
00:34:49.700 who buy their tickets to their movies,
00:34:51.680 who buy their music,
00:34:53.460 who sit in their seats,
00:34:55.060 who buy their,
00:34:55.940 you know,
00:34:56.320 their beer.
00:34:57.360 Right.
00:34:58.480 They all,
00:34:59.440 you know,
00:34:59.720 know they're,
00:35:00.440 they're all sort of this like incestuous group,
00:35:02.620 and I'm not saying they're bad.
00:35:03.860 They just don't know the people that they serve,
00:35:07.260 including their schools and including our government.
00:35:10.120 I have argued forever that the RNC should be located in Columbus,
00:35:14.540 Ohio and not Washington,
00:35:16.240 D.C.
00:35:17.220 Right.
00:35:17.780 Like all these needs,
00:35:19.360 all these large institutions need to decentralize because they have lost
00:35:23.700 touch with the people that buy their products or who they serve.
00:35:28.420 And so that has impacted our politics.
00:35:32.200 Let me,
00:35:33.040 let me play something from Chuck Schumer just a couple of days ago where he was
00:35:38.180 announcing Kamala Harris.
00:35:41.520 Listen to what he said here.
00:35:42.740 So now that the process has played out from the grassroots,
00:35:47.420 bottom up,
00:35:48.140 we are here today to throw our support behind vice president Kamala Harris.
00:35:55.020 I'm clapping.
00:35:56.260 Stop.
00:35:56.420 You don't have to.
00:35:57.040 Nobody applause.
00:35:57.740 All right.
00:35:58.980 So he says from the grassroots up,
00:36:02.400 the process has worked from the grassroots up,
00:36:06.260 making people,
00:36:07.940 trying to convince people that this was something that the average person voted
00:36:12.760 for or wanted.
00:36:13.420 Are any Democrats a little disgusted by they were told to sit down,
00:36:21.380 shut up,
00:36:21.740 you can't have a primary when they wanted a different person.
00:36:25.420 And now it's too late.
00:36:27.080 And now they're just trying to make it look like everybody's for Kamala Harris.
00:36:31.640 And it's all good.
00:36:32.520 And this is the way democracy works.
00:36:35.040 Yeah.
00:36:35.660 No,
00:36:36.320 this is not from the grassroots up.
00:36:38.100 I mean,
00:36:38.280 the amount of,
00:36:39.040 I keep singing that song,
00:36:40.480 even though I don't particularly care for them anymore.
00:36:43.400 The Dixie chicks.
00:36:44.640 And I know they took Dixie off,
00:36:46.520 whatever,
00:36:47.480 but the song gaslighting,
00:36:49.500 right?
00:36:50.300 Like it just keeps playing over in my head.
00:36:53.460 And,
00:36:54.060 and,
00:36:54.340 you know,
00:36:54.700 the assumption that they believe that voters are stupid,
00:36:58.460 stupid,
00:37:00.320 you know,
00:37:00.940 I mean,
00:37:01.540 you know,
00:37:02.320 if you earnestly love Joe Biden,
00:37:04.360 and you earnestly worked really hard volunteering,
00:37:09.120 you know,
00:37:09.440 being at the polling,
00:37:10.900 whatever throughout the entire primary process as well into this general
00:37:15.120 election season.
00:37:16.000 And then you're being told that someone you never voted for,
00:37:19.520 who's never earned a vote is that this was all orchestrated by the elites.
00:37:24.980 And there's no way to put lipstick on this pig.
00:37:30.000 So,
00:37:30.880 um,
00:37:31.400 you started by saying,
00:37:33.000 you know,
00:37:33.520 that Joe Biden was the outlier.
00:37:36.700 Are we at a place yet,
00:37:38.620 Selena?
00:37:39.000 And I,
00:37:39.340 I,
00:37:39.760 I love you because you know,
00:37:41.100 history.
00:37:41.720 Are we at the place where Woodrow Wilson got to,
00:37:45.240 where he scared the American people so,
00:37:48.500 so badly about progressivism that they had to change their name and go
00:37:53.820 undercover and become liberals and take that seat.
00:37:56.900 Um,
00:37:58.400 are we at that place to where this is about to turn on them hard for a long
00:38:04.680 period of time?
00:38:06.680 Well,
00:38:07.580 you know,
00:38:08.620 we are polarized.
00:38:10.440 Okay.
00:38:11.460 However,
00:38:11.960 I do believe this is going to be a transformational election cycle.
00:38:16.760 So I wonder how much that polarization shifts.
00:38:20.540 I think the person and the people who change that polarization more so is,
00:38:27.400 will be the Democrats and not the Republicans because of what they're trying to force their
00:38:32.680 voters to buy into.
00:38:34.240 And so I do think there is,
00:38:37.320 is it's beyond a realignment,
00:38:39.640 right?
00:38:40.320 We've already realigned.
00:38:41.940 I think,
00:38:42.700 um,
00:38:43.420 there is that we are going to see a temporary day of,
00:38:47.720 of,
00:38:48.380 of Democrats move to the Republicans,
00:38:50.780 um,
00:38:51.920 because of the way this was handled so heavy handedly.
00:38:56.360 Yeah.
00:38:57.940 Selena,
00:38:58.660 thank you.
00:38:59.040 Always.
00:38:59.380 As always,
00:38:59.820 you're great.
00:39:00.760 Really appreciate it.
00:39:01.620 Thank you.
00:39:02.220 Selena,
00:39:02.460 Selena Zito,
00:39:05.520 a dear friend and,
00:39:07.160 uh,
00:39:07.480 somebody,
00:39:07.940 one of the reporters,
00:39:09.000 the only reporters that I think you can really trust.
00:39:11.660 There's a handful of them out there,
00:39:12.920 but Selena is on top of my list because she actually talks to people,
00:39:17.040 not institutions.
00:39:19.000 SelenaZito.com is her web address.
00:39:21.760 You can follow her at Selena Zito,
00:39:23.740 uh,
00:39:24.540 or Zito Selena on Twitter.
00:39:26.700 And the book that she was talking about,
00:39:28.680 she wrote in 2016 called The Great Revolt.
00:39:31.420 It is well worth your read.
00:39:33.640 Selena Zito.
00:39:34.840 Na,
00:39:35.140 na,
00:39:35.440 na,
00:39:35.700 na,
00:39:35.940 na,
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00:39:36.560 na,
00:39:37.100 na,
00:39:38.300 na, na, na.
00:39:38.480 Na, na, na, na.
00:39:39.280 Na, na, na, na, na, na.
00:39:39.400 Na, na, na, na, na.
00:39:40.540 na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
00:39:40.820 na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.