On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by Rabbi Larry Cohen and Rabbi Linda Sarsour to discuss anti-Semitism and how to deal with it. Glenn also talks about the deep freeze and what to do when you can't get your car started.
00:09:47.600So, anyway, she says she is not going to stand by and see attacks and harassment and targeted policing of speech from a black Muslim woman elected official.
00:10:00.980Our sister, Sister Omar, in the name of combating anti-Semitism.
00:10:06.340We can stand up for Congresswoman Omar knowing her record and what she stands for.
00:10:13.400Oh, she's been in Congress for like several weeks, so her record is very, very, very, very clear.
00:11:28.500And so it was, it was the thing that was interesting in the class was every time the, the, the professor said Al-Qaeda, he sort of like his shoulders went up and, you know, Al-Qaeda, you know, hospital.
00:16:25.740You know, I have to tell you, I feel bad for Congresswoman Omar a little bit because we've all been through these kinds of situations before where, you know, you do something and you just didn't know.
00:16:48.520Like, for instance, we had some new neighbors move in just down the street.
00:38:04.840Your green card, your visa will be easy to get.
00:38:07.680It'll be the easiest place to come in to research for AI.
00:38:11.300AI, he's got to start making, he's got to start showing progress on the future instead of digging into the past because the left is not digging into the past.
00:41:12.800I wanted him to say now, everybody get into your American history class because we have to take down the founding fathers and tell you how racist they are.
00:49:23.620And I love you, I love you, I love you.
00:49:26.140When a guy is happily married, no matter what happens at work, no matter what happens in the rest of the day, there's a shelter when you get home.
00:49:33.620There's a knowledge knowing that you can hug somebody without them throwing you downstairs and saying, get your hands off me.
00:49:39.440And being married is like having a color television set.
00:49:42.680You never want to go back to black and white.
00:50:20.180And the guy had more romance in his little pinky than all the phonies in the Hollywood put together.
00:50:26.200And, you know, he was a guy like, you know, people used to laugh at him walking down the street because, you know, he talked funny and he looked funny.
00:50:34.100And I think that coming to StoryCorps with Annie and having a lot of people respond to that first story, we're going to play another story later.
00:50:41.260Just, you know, it's about reminding people that they matter and they're important and they won't be forgotten.
00:50:45.980And Danny and those, you know, that was the first week of StoryCorps.
00:50:49.840And, you know, it speaks to he was what StoryCorps is all about.
00:50:53.440It's about the grace and the poetry and the eloquence and the beauty in the stories of us, of all around us, hiding in plain sight if we just take the time to listen.
00:51:03.540So they became big hits with the StoryCorps audience and everybody loved them, as you can imagine.
00:51:12.420But then just a couple of years later, Danny and Annie received some news and they came back to StoryCorps to talk about the fact that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and it was a very fast spreading cancer.
00:51:32.600And he wanted one to record one last interview with Annie.
00:52:02.880And when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage four and stage, we actually that week named renamed our original booth, the Danny and Annie Parasa StoryCorps booth.
00:52:12.640And then the next week he said, I'm too sick to get to the booth, but I need to record one last interview with Annie.
00:52:19.600Will you come to our house in Sunset Park in Queens?
00:52:39.020The deal of it is, we try to give each other hope, and not hope that I'll live, hope that you'll do well after I pass, hope that people will support her, hope that if she meets somebody and likes him, she marries him.
00:52:55.740You know, he has everything planned, you know.
00:55:22.160She's just turned 71, and she came in to record one more story core to thank everyone and tell everyone that she's doing fine.
00:55:35.020She has all of his love letters, and it keeps her going.
00:55:39.500Yes, she got, after the last interview with Danny was broadcast on the radio, on public radio, and Danny actually heard it and then died about an hour later.
00:55:56.780And he got thousands and thousands and thousands of condolence letters.
00:56:00.540And still to this day, many years later, she reads one of those letters instead of the love letter she would have gotten from Danny.
00:56:07.880She buried a copy of those letters with Danny in the casket because she wanted to let him know that his life did matter.
00:58:10.280The things that you will do for your spouse or your spouse will do for you as you grow old together are the things that make all the difference.
00:58:31.920And they're the things that inspire the next generation.
00:58:37.680It is the couple that still holds hands.
00:58:43.840It's the couple that still just hugs each other in the kitchen.
00:58:51.780I always wanted to be that guy who grew old with his wife.
00:59:08.060And I am so blessed to have that in my wife, Tanya.
01:07:05.420I know you've done a lot of work on the Green New Deal, which on its surface seems absolutely nuts.
01:07:15.180But you've you've really, you know, you've put the hood up on this thing and you've really looked at it to see using the facts of the actual deal to see what's in it.
01:07:36.980But in another way, it's it's just crazy.
01:07:39.720And it really, you know, I know she walked it back and I know that the authors walked it back a bit.
01:07:45.100But obviously, the very core of it is just nuts and that the core of it is that we're going to get rid of all our fossil fuels in 10 years and not just fossil fuels, but also nuclear energy.
01:07:54.480If anyone's at all serious about clean energy and moving away from carbon emissions and dismisses nuclear energy, they can't be taken seriously.
01:08:05.440It is the cleanest by far and helps us.
01:08:08.520We could use all of the nighttime energy just to be able to make hydrogen.
01:08:16.380I mean, there is so much that can be done with nuclear energy that would help us be completely emission free that anybody who says that they're serious about having energy and clean energy and they dismiss nuclear.
01:08:37.380Well, they are or very immature or don't understand how the world works.
01:08:41.620And, you know, this plan does not have any sort of it does not embrace economic reality as a way I could put it.
01:08:49.300I mean, imagine having to retrofit every single building in America in 12 years.
01:08:54.020Imagine having to retrofit every car or get a new car so they can run on electricity, which won't even be there because we won't have anything to generate.
01:09:25.940You know, free education, you know, free housing or guaranteed housing and a bunch of other things of that nature that really have nothing to do with with green energy or anything, anything like that to begin with.
01:09:38.020So, David, is there anything serious in it that you can look at and say, well, you know what, this is a solid idea?
01:09:58.120I think that there are many progressives who believe these are, you know, this was pulled back by the authors because it was mocked, not because they don't believe these things should happen.
01:10:08.960So we have to remember that these are the goals.
01:10:10.740And this is this is just authoritarianism.
01:10:13.660I mean, it tells you how to live your life on every level.
01:10:15.760It wouldn't be OK with me, even if we had if I thought a climate disaster was over the horizon.
01:10:20.580We have to we have to think about other things, including the economy and including our rights, as you mentioned.
01:10:26.780So, David, the real tell here is to me, the nuclear power thing.
01:10:29.900It's like if you are really concerned with the globe and the way it's warming, you're going to want to embrace nuclear power if you're actually serious about it.
01:10:49.580You're right about nuclear energy, but also we lead the world in reducing carbon emissions over the last few years, mostly, I think, because of fracking and natural gas.
01:10:59.020Yes. So if you eliminate that and you eliminate nuclear power, you're not really working towards anything.
01:11:04.300You just want an excuse to control the lives of people, because once you control all carbon, you control all life, which I think this is just a power play sort of thing.
01:11:13.560So how frightened are you that there are 70 co-sponsors of something that is truly ridiculous?
01:11:24.560I mean, I'm pretty frightened that all these Democratic candidates, leading ones, Kamala Harris and others, immediately endorsed this plan while the initial fact page was out there with all this stuff.
01:11:41.980Now, I don't think I'm not scared because I know it can't really happen, but I am scared with what will do the economy trying to make things like this happen.
01:12:29.260I mean, 10 years ago, if I called a Democrat a socialist, they would feign indignation and act like they had been insulted.
01:12:34.840Today, most Democrats seem to think that that's a pretty swell idea.
01:12:39.020So I think the debate has actually gotten a lot more honest.
01:12:42.520And this and other things are just part, really, of the fight between people who believe in free markets and people who believe in socialism.
01:12:52.680And I do wonder, though, I just want to quickly say if people understand what they're supporting.
01:12:57.580For instance, I saw a poll that said, you know, 72 percent of people want Medicare for all.
01:13:03.040But when they explained to them what Medicare for all actually meant, it dropped to 36 percent.
01:13:08.500So what does that mean, Medicare for all?
01:13:11.800It means we're going to take away your private insurance and throw you into a government government program of insurance.
01:13:17.860It's socialized medicine is what it means.
01:13:20.440And but people don't want to lose their insurance.
01:13:22.820They actually sort of like their insurance.
01:13:24.340So once they hear about the specifics, they don't like it.
01:13:26.940So if I want to be positive about the future, I say to myself, there are sort of these grand plans people like in theory, but might not like in reality.
01:13:35.000And that's usually what socialism is actually about.
01:13:39.100Well, unfortunately, it fools country after country after country.
01:13:43.700Tell me what it the the idea of getting rid of grounding all planes.
01:13:51.080Well, the plan is that we're going to have high speed rail.
01:13:55.720It's hard not to laugh when you talk about this stuff, but it's it's scary, too.
01:13:59.200But she she claims that we're going to have high speed rails and they'll work so well that we will sort of crowd out any need for air travel or actually for cars as well in urban areas.
01:14:10.860As you see, in California, they have a high speed rail that I think is one hundred billion dollars in debt right now and doesn't really work yet.
01:14:17.640So I'm not sure how we can envision that throughout the country.
01:14:22.740Every city that I've ever lived in that talks about having a high speed rail, it always fails, always fails.
01:14:29.660Always comes in overpriced, even just regular, you know, out here in D.C.
01:14:33.360They're trying to build expand the metro.
01:15:14.500They don't get into specifics about how they would ban things.
01:15:18.160And I don't think she uses the word ban on the planes.
01:15:20.660But she does use some sort of language when it comes to cars in urban areas of having government sort of explain to you how many cars you need or don't need and following through in that way.
01:15:30.580I can't say that she's put kind of the thought into this that would be nuts and bolts.
01:15:37.060You know, I mean, we don't know how these things are supposed to be accomplished for the most part, only that they should be their aims and goals.
01:15:43.100And occasionally she'll say, you know, she'll use she uses euphemisms for ban.
01:16:55.380I think she's probably one of the frontrunners and or is the frontrunner.
01:16:58.420And she had a CNN town hall where she just was bragging about how she wanted to take everyone's insurance away from them, health insurance.
01:17:05.740That's a huge, hugely important part of people's lives.
01:17:08.700So I think we're headed to a pretty bad place.
01:17:11.660I have to say, you know, I was not a fan of Donald Trump.
01:17:14.560And, you know, I generally am not a fan of politicians.
01:17:16.560But when he dropped a line about socialism in the State of the Union address, it made me very proud of the president.
01:17:23.240And I think it's an important battle to be won.
01:17:26.260I think young people don't understand it because they never lived through the Cold War and they don't know what it means.
01:17:31.800You know, my own parents defected from a communist country.
01:17:34.320I don't want anything like that for my kids.
01:17:36.240And I think it's going to be a pretty ugly fight.
01:17:40.440I thought when the president said we will not be socialist, I just talked about this yesterday in a monologue where what he was really saying is I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
01:17:52.820Anyone who's pushing for these kinds of things, this this Green New Deal, they are in violation of the oath they take in office.
01:18:01.060You you you're not protecting and defending the Constitution.
01:18:04.760The core of the Constitution is an individual rights.
01:18:08.920The core of socialism is collectivism.
01:18:28.380You know, there might not always be down to the definition socialist.
01:18:32.320But if they want to control what you buy, what you eat, what you see, what you say and all that stuff, to me, they're just, you know, it's just tyranny.
01:18:39.540I don't know to what level it's going to come here, but it's worth fighting against, I think.
01:18:43.880David Harsanyi from TheFederalist.com.
01:18:46.340Thank you for your your help and your research.
01:20:42.760We were talking about environmentalists and who these early environmentalists were.
01:20:47.320Now, you remember much of the 60s and 70s environmentalism was overpopulation scare.
01:20:51.420Yeah, where Obama's chief science czar in the 60s and early 70s was talking about sterilizing drinking water because by 1980, there would be way too many people.
01:21:04.860Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make.
01:21:09.660That was Paul Ehrlich, environmental legend, crazy person.
01:21:13.460Mein Kampf, however, also talked about this a little bit.
01:21:16.320First volume said, quote, the new Reich would have to conquer with a German sword the soil that the German plow would till in order to provide our people with the daily bread.
01:21:26.020The living space was, quote, specifically to secure adequate food supplies for the German people.
01:21:34.340Not liking Jews and getting living space for food was Hitler's big thing.
01:21:37.680BBC wrote about the movement that influenced Hitler, including the, quote, growing concern about the allegedly negative effects of industrialization and urbanization.
01:21:45.620There was also a belief in the virtues of agrarian society and the panic over Germany's limited resources of food and raw materials.
01:21:52.380And the only thing keeping those quotes off a Prius bumper sticker is they're too long.
01:21:58.260Environmentalists of the day also noticed Nazi green efforts.
01:22:00.940German conservationist Wilhelm Leinenkamp wrote that Nazis, quote, refuse all kinds of compromise and demand strict literal fulfillment.
01:22:08.880Those refusing the call of sacrifice are under attack, and rightly so.
01:22:13.100I mean, does that not sound like something they say about climate deniers?
01:22:15.840That sounds like something that could be in the New York Times today.
01:22:18.960The Green and the Brown is a book by environmental professor Frank Ukoet, or not a conservative book,
01:22:24.360shows similarities to modern day environmentalism are unmistakable.
01:22:27.580As he sums up nicely, quote, the lion's share of conservationist publications written between 1933 and 1945 could be printed again today without raising eyebrows, end quote.
01:22:38.780We know this to be true because they just had a paper that was almost put into the journals that took pages from Mein Kampf.
01:22:49.160The Nazi policy of Dauerwald, or Eternal Forest, was a nationwide, top-down, sustainable forestry program that was a passion project of Hermann Göring.
01:24:06.220Optiman Tax Relief is a great place to go.
01:24:08.360They are America's number one tax resolution firm.
01:24:11.000They know a lot of people who have tax problems are good people who either came on hard times or got screwed by the IRS or whatever the situation is.
01:24:19.680You can't fight these people at the IRS by yourself.
01:28:54.840You haven't had any nutrition for a longer period of time.
01:28:59.980Malnutrition over a few days, pretty easy to get over.
01:29:02.900You know, as long as you've had water, you can probably get over that pretty easy.
01:29:08.500But starvation is also on the list of things that the British now need to worry about as warehouses will surely run out of fresh food and medicine.
01:29:19.080And, of course, as ITV is now pointing out over in Great Britain, an explosion of immigrant-fueled crime.
01:29:27.760Now, this is weird for the press over in England to be speculating about immigrant-fueled crime, seeing that you can't talk about immigrant-fueled crime unless you're a racist.
01:29:45.660Are they talking about the people who are just coming over and trying to make society a little bit better and make things a little bit better for their families?
01:29:51.660No, they're probably talking about white Americans or Canadians that are in, you know what I mean?
01:29:57.440Now, the health minister, Stephen Hammond, he has advised the NHS, the National Health Service, to begin purchases of emergency medical supplies, including stockpiles of body bags.
01:49:34.440So let's talk seriously here for a minute about the people who are seriously trying to get cattle ranches and cows eliminated from our diet entirely,
01:49:50.440and they do it in the name of global warming.
01:49:54.680Yeah, I think what, you know, we always try to emphasize to people is really cattle and people that are cattle raisers
01:50:01.500are part of the climate change solution, not a problem.
01:50:04.440So, as you mentioned, cow farts off the top, that definitely is fake news.
01:50:09.940I can say before I was at National Cattlemen's, that was actually part of my research was measuring methane from cattle.
01:50:16.360So it does come out the front end of the animal, but it's overblown in terms of its contribution to climate change,
01:51:21.680So there was a report that came out in, like, 2006 called Livestock's Long Shadow from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that looked at all livestock.
01:52:08.760So the first thing that was truly wrong was the comparison to transportation.
01:52:13.220So essentially how they got that 18% number was they did what's called life cycle assessment.
01:52:19.160So it's a bit into the weeds, but essentially you add up everything that gets emitted over the entire life cycle of a process.
01:52:26.320So we're going to talk about livestock.
01:52:28.020That would be everything that comes from feed production to feed the livestock all the way through to, you know, the slaughter of the animals.
01:52:35.200And what was really key in that report was the biggest chunk of that 18%, a third of it, was what we call land use change.
01:52:43.260So specifically things like deforestation down in Brazil, which is, of course, again, another pressing issue, but we don't have a deforestation problem here in the United States.
01:52:53.340So that was really one of the key problems was they added in everything for livestock.
01:52:57.280And then when they compared it to transportation, they just looked at tailpipe, you know, or emissions directly from vehicles, right?
01:53:05.280They didn't add in all the emissions that go into building vehicles, that go into maintaining all of our transportation infrastructure from roads to airports, et cetera, et cetera.
01:53:32.640I have, well, this time of year, I think I now have about 100 head, so it's not a lot.
01:53:38.400But our animals are grazing on natural grass, and, you know, we're trying to do, you know, all right by the animal, right by the planet.
01:53:52.500Everybody I know who's a rancher or a farmer, they are more concerned about the environment than any environmentalist because their living is made on making sure that that soil and those animals are taken care of
01:54:09.500Are you concerned at all about this new hybrid beef product that is coming out as people are saying that that's going to be much better for you?
01:54:31.480Yeah, so I think a lot of things in this space are just, there's a lot of media hype relative to, like, what actually happens on the ground.
01:54:40.820So, as you just pointed out, I mean, you're the same as all the other ranchers across America, and there's over 700,000 cattle producers in this country.
01:54:51.260It's the single largest segment of American agriculture.
01:54:54.460So people, the reality is, is people are dedicated to doing the right thing, as you said.
01:55:00.020And in terms of those products, you know, again, it is a lot of hype in terms of their sales.
01:55:05.680They're fairly small in the grand scheme of things.
01:55:09.620And, of course, the cell-cultured products don't actually even exist yet.
01:55:13.560You know, there's just a lot of media coverage about them coming out at some point, but they're still not commercially available.
01:55:18.960I think our biggest challenge is just this real big chasm we have in terms of understanding between the normal consuming public that's disconnected from agriculture by a few generations and some of this marketing that is surrounding some of these products because they're trying to use some of the misinformation that's out there to their advantage, especially with regard to environmental impacts of cattle production.
01:55:43.960I have to tell you, Sarah, there is there is nothing more healthy for a family than to go and spend a summer on a farm.
01:56:06.440As my kids and I went out to go capture a sheep that was lost from the flock and we had to go out and we spent about an hour chasing this darn thing because we're city slickers.
01:56:21.800We, you know, we talked about scriptures.
01:56:24.340You learn everything about the circle of life and how to take care of the planet.
01:56:29.540There is something to be said that as we lose these things in an agrarian culture, as we have lost them, it's it's one of the sources for losing our way on so many things because there is what you read about is not what life on the farm or life on a ranch is actually like.
01:56:52.880Yeah, I think you're 100 percent right on that.
01:56:55.340I mean, in the last 100 years, we've gone to, you know, from a majority population in rural areas and in agriculture to now it's, you know, less than 15 percent of the U.S. population is in rural areas.
01:57:09.900And it's sometimes like you point out some of these basic things, you know, cycle of life that have been lost, that connection has been lost for people.
01:57:19.020And that, you know, what you mentioned earlier, the upcycling, I mean, that's really our way to try to drive that home to people is.
01:57:27.840Yeah, so everybody's heard of recycling, right?
01:57:29.880Essentially taking one thing and making something of equivalent value.
01:57:33.040Upcycling is taking something of little or no value to people and making a higher value product.
01:57:38.780And again, when we think about beef production, cattle production, that's exactly what's happening, right?
01:57:43.940I mean, cattle are eating plants that we can't eat and they're using lands that we can't use for crops otherwise.
01:57:51.560And they're making this super nutrient rich food for us.
01:57:55.260And so, again, it's just using a different word to kind of try to drive home to people the basics that, again, if you are on a ranch or you are connected with agriculture, some of this seems like a no-brainer.
01:58:06.580But because people are removed a few generations, you know, we do have to kind of explain the basics again to people.
02:03:33.920That's the way, that's why her eyes look that way.
02:03:36.660When she gets excited or angry, her eyes, like, really just do that really wide thing.
02:03:42.320And I don't know, it's been such a weird thing with this Green New Deal in that we saw the draft that came out, which the draft was posted mistakenly, Glenn.
02:03:58.140And it should not be, like, if you handed it to an intern who had never heard of the project and that's what they came up with, maybe that would be an excuse.
02:04:04.640The fact that your chief of staff wrote this as his notes is pretty bizarre, even if it is just a draft.