The Glenn Beck Program - July 29, 2019


Immunity By Skin Color | Guest: Brian Riedl | 7⧸29⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 53 minutes

Words per Minute

170.65388

Word Count

19,360

Sentence Count

41

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary

Donald Trump has been accused of racism, and the media has not even attempted to make an attempt at explaining why this is even a thing. The question is, will the media even attempt to try to explain it?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program you know i try not
00:00:09.700 to be too demanding i try not to ask for too much in life because it's hard but today i think i have
00:00:17.780 what i at least imagine is a simple request for the media a simple basic request i'm not going
00:00:26.040 too far i'm not asking for too much but i would like you to at least try to explain why trump's
00:00:36.400 baltimore comments were racist i'm not asking you to convince me i'm not asking you to come up with
00:00:44.180 an airtight case i'm not asking you to produce tapes that show donald trump talking about baltimore in
00:00:51.420 some racist way i'm not asking for any of that i'm not asking you for pictures of donald trump in a
00:00:56.700 hood i'm not asking you for him burning a cross on somebody's lawn i'm asking you to at least attempt
00:01:04.920 to explain why these comments are racist not just put it in the story and say trump's racist tweets
00:01:11.980 about baltimore i mean an actual attempt at explaining one time why these tweets
00:01:21.260 and comments were racist because that has not even been attempted from what i've seen from the
00:01:28.140 media this weekend we're talking about an accusation of racism here okay racism we all know really really
00:01:35.100 bad we don't like it at all okay it's one of the most serious accusations you can make about another
00:01:39.460 person right it's like the the most serious thing you can say about someone this side of child molester
00:01:45.800 okay we're talking about racism when you say that you should probably have at least some sort of
00:01:51.920 justification as to why the nearest i can take from the media right now is number one trump's comments
00:01:59.780 were about elijah cummings and elijah cummings is black well that is not evidence of racism okay
00:02:05.480 number two black people live in baltimore not all black people it's not 100 of black people live in
00:02:13.640 baltimore and it's not 100 of the population is black but there are some black people who live
00:02:18.000 in baltimore so the fact that they have a black representative and there are some black people who
00:02:22.780 live in baltimore apparently enough to conclude that donald trump is a racist it's enough for us to
00:02:29.200 conclude that this guy is one of the worst things we can all possibly imagine case you missed the
00:02:36.680 troop uh the tweets that came from uh you know late this weekend elijah cummings has been a brutal
00:02:42.740 bully shouting and screaming at the great men and women of border patrol about conditions at the
00:02:46.800 southern border when actually his baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous his district is
00:02:53.100 considered the worst in the usa uh trump went on to say his uh cummings district is a disgusting
00:02:59.800 rat and rodent infested mess if he spent more time in baltimore maybe he could help clean up this very
00:03:09.660 dangerous and filthy place if you're going to accuse someone of racism it is on you to give the
00:03:18.280 evidence as to why it's racist it's not on trump to have to disprove your claim of racism it's on you
00:03:23.780 to have to prove it when you accuse someone of what is essentially a crime in today's society
00:03:29.060 you have to be able to back it up with some level of evidence so we're gonna come by come back and go
00:03:37.020 through these comments step by step i want to know will the media even take the time to attempt to
00:03:45.660 explain it because right now they're just putting it in the headlines trump tweets racist things about
00:03:53.340 cummings trump tweets racist things about baltimore
00:03:57.180 why are they racist are you going to try to explain it we're going to break this down in 60 seconds
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00:05:13.580 it's stew in for glenn who's on vacation this week so the case for racism and donald trump
00:05:29.600 what is it number one i guess it's that elijah cummings is black and whenever trump criticizes
00:05:40.500 someone who isn't white the motivation is always assumed to be race he can't criticize anyone else
00:05:48.760 uh without racism being so the sort of core of it and what's fascinating about that is we're
00:05:57.600 essentially creating a standard in which a black congressperson cannot be criticized that is an
00:06:04.080 amazing superpower if you're in congress man you want that immunity by skin color that is something
00:06:11.360 that every congressperson could use if you're a congressman and you can say whatever you want you
00:06:17.440 can do as good or as bad a job as you want you can blow every assignment you have but if you happen
00:06:23.920 to be black the president of the united states can't say anything bad about you because it's
00:06:28.320 automatically race is that a standard you're comfortable with i don't even understand if you
00:06:36.580 read the tweets you go back and look at it donald trump doesn't even allude to race in any of them
00:06:43.780 you are not only assuming his intent to be race but also inserting race into the conversation where it
00:06:53.100 didn't exist at no point did he say anything about race is it racist simply because he used the word
00:07:04.700 baltimore or is that really where we are i know it was racist if you brought up chicago
00:07:12.100 when barack obama was president now it's racist if you just say baltimore
00:07:18.140 the country you live in is accepting that as a standard referencing a city is now racist
00:07:28.740 is it racist because some of the residents of baltimore are black
00:07:37.640 that's what makes it racist because some people who live there are black
00:07:43.880 this is completely insane you do realize that the media has come to this place where
00:07:51.660 they have built this long form sort of case over multiple years that donald trump is a racist
00:07:59.720 so therefore they are now free to apply it to any story they are free to say he is motivated by racism
00:08:09.020 whenever they want of course to engage in this sort of nonsense you have to ignore something
00:08:20.920 that everyone in america knows everyone who lives here knows the truth about what we're looking at here
00:08:30.040 with donald trump and his tweets which is donald trump says bad things about people
00:08:37.840 who say bad things about him
00:08:40.340 that's what he does this is not a freaking sixth sense type of plot twist the guy when he gets pissed
00:08:50.960 off at you says bad things about you there it is absolutely known so if you are going to say
00:08:59.040 something is racism it is on you to explain why every time he has someone say something bad
00:09:07.800 about him he attacks them regardless of their race it is up to you to explain and and and whittle this
00:09:18.860 one out for us as to why when he attacks a person of color you assume every single time it's race
00:09:24.100 every time he does it to a white person you just assign his motives to something else
00:09:28.720 but every time it's not a white person you say it's race that is not analysis and it's certainly
00:09:35.420 not journalism i mean it's one thing for rachel maddow to go on television and say well donald
00:09:41.480 trump's a racist and i think he's a racist because baltimore has black people who live in it i mean
00:09:46.060 that's not good analysis but at least at least it's someone giving an opinion
00:09:49.480 we're talking about journalists who are going on television and saying you are not a good journalist
00:09:55.980 if you don't say it's racist without any qualifiers you can't say that there's racial tension
00:10:00.960 around the comments you can't say they're racially tinged you have to say the man is a racist you
00:10:06.960 know it you've journalistically discovered it you have somehow been able to dive into this guy's brain
00:10:14.560 and despite the fact that he didn't reference race in any way you are able to decipher that he is
00:10:23.180 motivated solely by race some of these places that are saying this
00:10:32.020 have very clear information to know that it's not true for example the new york times has an actual
00:10:41.360 running list of all of the people donald trump has insulted since he kind of got back into the swing
00:10:47.940 of politics here in the past few years 598 individuals and organizations which donald trump
00:10:57.260 has insulted in some cases dozens of times each why are so many of them white this guy is the
00:11:08.200 crappiest racist i've ever seen he can't even figure out how to only insult black people
00:11:14.840 what do they all have in common and what do they all have in common they've all said bad things
00:11:22.840 about donald trump when you say something bad about donald trump donald trump responds and he
00:11:27.580 says bad things about you i mean just go through the a's of this list jim acosta white right i'm pretty
00:11:35.200 sure he was white when donald trump called him crazy general john allen pretty sure he was white when
00:11:43.140 donald trump said he failed badly anderson cooper pretty sure he was white when he called him a
00:11:49.880 waste michael avenatti pretty sure he was white when he called him a total loser but stacy abrams is in
00:12:00.080 the a's too he called her totally unqualified because she was black
00:12:06.280 this is what you have to believe how about the letter o tim o'brien a white writer for bloomberg
00:12:18.560 is dumb really stupid and dopey i don't know maybe he didn't think he was white
00:12:27.880 the words he types are black you know how about claire o'connor at forbes was she white when trump
00:12:37.940 called her a dummy how about danny o'connor who was i think running for congress when was he white
00:12:45.500 when he called him weak and a puppet pretty sure he was laurence o'donnell from msnbc was he white
00:12:52.620 when donald trump called him a fool dopey and one of the dumber people on television
00:12:59.280 oh yes those were all white but i can tell you this when he insulted elon omar that was racist
00:13:09.440 he only did that because she was black not because she's been out there calling him terrible names and
00:13:15.220 accusing him of all sorts of terrible things for years it's because she was black
00:13:20.540 these this is nonsense and they all must know it right they all must know this
00:13:31.000 we're all wildly aware of these issues are we not donald trump when you're a jerk to donald trump
00:13:40.540 he's a jerk to you when you're nice to donald trump he's nice to you
00:13:43.860 do we not know this the guy you know what what happened if elijah cummings came out tomorrow
00:13:52.000 and said you know what donald trump should be the next head uh on on mount rushmore because he's the
00:13:58.560 greatest president that has ever lived he would love elijah cummings he would say great things about
00:14:05.760 elijah cummings starting tomorrow if elijah cummings started saying nice things about him
00:14:11.720 and he thought they were legitimate he thought they i don't even know if you need to say you don't even
00:14:16.600 know if you they have to be believable elijah cummings if he reversed himself today donald trump
00:14:21.820 would reverse himself tomorrow guys the guy the guy did this with kim jong-un he he is saying
00:14:32.560 currently nice things about a north korean dictator this is not rocket science this is not elite level
00:14:42.080 physics when he says something bad about you it's likely because you said something bad about him
00:14:48.980 it doesn't matter what color you are it is nothing to do with race nothing and if you're going to say
00:14:58.420 like you look at the actual comments he made that don't have anything to do with race you have to
00:15:04.840 ask yourself can the criticism be applied to let's say a white person can it you know if he says oh well
00:15:12.760 this is uh this what did he say he said the state place was filthy he said the place was um dangerous
00:15:19.880 i mean can that be applied can filthy be applied to a white person first of all i give you pigpen
00:15:25.060 uh who absolutely was white and was filthy and i don't mind saying it about pigpen his name indicates
00:15:32.260 it unless you're a pig and then it's it's insulting to pigs it's not insulting to pigpen pigpen was white
00:15:39.160 but would trump use filthy to describe a white person let me give you an example of that do you
00:15:47.200 remember the red hen does the red hen pop up any memories to you the red hen is a breakfast place
00:15:57.780 i think it's some restaurant and it's a restaurant that sarah huckabee sanders went to it's owned by a
00:16:04.680 white person and this white person doesn't like donald trump and apparently some of the patrons there
00:16:10.920 didn't like donald trump and so when they saw sarah huckabee sanders sitting down for some you know
00:16:15.740 i don't know pancakes or hummus or whatever the heck they were serving there
00:16:19.440 they decided to ask her to leave it was kind of a minor controversy a few months ago of course sarah
00:16:25.980 huckabee sanders was like all right fine i don't want to eat here if you don't want to serve me and she left
00:16:29.300 donald trump got wind of it you know what he said he said the red hen was a filthy establishment
00:16:34.760 it's owned by a white person but it was still filthy why because donald trump felt that would be the
00:16:40.760 best insult at that moment he has no idea he's probably never been to the red hen he would
00:16:45.280 probably never go to the red hen he has no idea whether it's filthy or not he just doesn't like
00:16:49.840 the people because they don't like him this is this is not deep calculus and everybody in the media
00:16:58.180 knows it it's got nothing to do with racism but i just love how deep the media has to go
00:17:07.880 to go after trump in these situations we'll go more into it here in about 60 seconds hold on
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00:18:30.160 we're talking about the accusations of racism against donald trump when it comes to these tweets
00:18:38.020 about elijah cummings in baltimore and a lot of one of a lot of the things you'll see is he's
00:18:43.280 criticizing a majority black district that's one of the big ones they keep phrasing it that way
00:18:47.680 now look it's 53 percent black so yes technically it's a majority black uh district but you know there's
00:18:54.860 very it's diverse population there's people of all sorts in this particular district it's some of
00:19:00.480 it's urban some of it's not so urban there's farms there's inner cities there's all sorts of things in
00:19:05.100 this district uh somehow trump has actually found a way to get in trouble for criticizing minorities
00:19:10.620 though when they're actually the majority in the district which is kind of a an interesting
00:19:15.340 gymnastics trick there but he's not criticizing the district he's not criticizing the people of the
00:19:21.820 district he's criticizing the incredibly crappy job its representative has done representing it
00:19:28.060 and we should point out with elijah cummings it's not his district i hate that i hate that wording
00:19:34.720 it's this sort of thing we're putting this is governmental supremacy that is all in our heads for some
00:19:39.600 reason it's not his district cummings doesn't own the district he works there he works for the people
00:19:45.100 there the congressman does not own his district and and i i know that's kind of uh linguistics there
00:19:54.000 but we keep turning politicians into kings and we need to stop that but trump isn't just some random
00:20:00.060 white guy donald trump i know this is weird i know he used to see him on the whole you know the reality
00:20:06.080 shows and stuff but he's the president of the united states he's not just some old white guy that you
00:20:10.480 don't like i mean it's just as much donald trump's district as it is elijah cummings district donald trump
00:20:19.600 has responsibilities for the outcomes and the way it's run just like elijah cummings does elijah
00:20:24.480 cummings is obviously more local but i mean donald trump has talked a lot about changing things in the
00:20:29.700 inner cities and he's had some really good results to uh to argue there i mean we can talk about the
00:20:34.800 economy and the way it's affected with uh minority unemployment rates which are at all-time lows
00:20:41.200 you talk about things like criminal justice reform which were high priorities for for many of these
00:20:46.100 communities but i don't think this is an argument that that elijah cummings wants he's been there for
00:20:51.420 20 years things have not gone well in those two decades
00:20:55.740 what is clear is that what elijah cummings is doing in this district is not helping and what
00:21:06.900 honestly what the voters of the district are doing isn't helping either because they keep sending this
00:21:11.420 guy back over and over and over again despite zero results if you want to criticize voters for their
00:21:17.180 decision making process that's a good place to start you know it's sideshow bob walking around in a
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00:22:38.420 dot com slash glenn it's doing for glenn back on the glenn back program we're talking about baltimore
00:22:44.960 and donald trump's tweets how racist are they and of course the part of the story which is always
00:22:50.140 fascinating to me about how despite the fact that pretty much everyone acknowledges uh at least
00:22:55.440 acknowledged until this weekend that baltimore had a real problem uh they just continue to keep voting
00:23:02.560 people like elijah cummings in and you know our system does allow for people to continually vote
00:23:08.820 for their own destruction that is something uh our system does allow for that's democracy and it's the
00:23:16.120 reason why we have a constitutional republic that is not completely dominated by democracy uh because
00:23:21.800 we are susceptible to making incredibly stupid decisions sometimes uh and that's something that
00:23:28.880 we all have to think about and probably solve but many of these cities if you look at the records
00:23:34.320 who's been running them and the results they've been coming out with the cities really need to be
00:23:40.100 thinking about this and should examine their voting patterns pat gray joins me from pat gray unleash the
00:23:45.620 incredible program on blaze radio television and of course podcast immediately proceeds this one
00:23:51.160 as a matter of fact uh so you know get up early and stay late uh anyway the the most racisty racist
00:24:01.600 who's ever raced yeah is in office right now and he's he must be stopped thank you i i find it
00:24:09.020 incredible that they just dropped any form of journalistic uh integrity by calling it just flat
00:24:16.460 out racist is racist when there's not a racist thing in his tweet show me what is blatantly racist
00:24:22.520 that you can absolutely just flat out call racist there's nothing no so that's a judgment call on
00:24:28.480 the part so they're not even using alleged assumed supposed none of those words apply i do think i
00:24:35.220 think that's the most fascinating part of this to me in that you know because again this isn't lawrence
00:24:40.080 o'donnell it's not you know uh rachel maddow doing this it's not only journalists doing it
00:24:46.840 they're actually like saying you're not a good journalist if you say racially tinged or alleged
00:24:53.800 racism they're they're calling out journalists it's like the tough guy thing if you if you uh if
00:25:00.240 you can't funnel a beer you're you're not you're not going to be in this fraternity it's like if you
00:25:04.780 don't call him racist with no qualifiers you're not in our fraternity anymore it's crazy that's an
00:25:09.760 amazing development it is because they are just guessing at his motives guessing oh absolutely
00:25:14.240 absolutely and it's not like he hasn't tweeted about white people he's he's an equal opportunity
00:25:20.440 offender and it's you know how many times has he called out others who were you know losers or
00:25:28.980 dummies or whatever and they are yeah many times in many cases yeah i mean the new york times has a
00:25:34.800 running list they have as of i think the last time they updated it was last month 598 individuals and
00:25:42.440 organizations in which he's insulted some of them dozens of times each and you go through it and i
00:25:48.560 did not count all 598 because i have a little bit of a life but i mean to me it seems like the
00:25:55.600 overwhelming majority are white people oh i think so yeah you know again so it's the same thing in the
00:26:00.400 country you'd expect it but again the opposition right and he's he's almost exclusively tweeting
00:26:05.920 about people who don't like him yeah so a lot of them are democrats did you did you see the victor
00:26:10.860 blackwell from cnn uh comments i first of all victor blackwell who who is this guy victor blackwell
00:26:17.960 i have never heard of this guy and i guess he's got a show on cnn on the weekends and he felt pretty
00:26:24.540 strongly about it here's what he said the president says about congressman cummings district
00:26:29.020 uh-oh he's fighting back the tears oh man oh bite that lip oh
00:26:37.760 come on that no human human would want to live there you know who did mr president i did you you
00:26:45.860 did from the day i was brought home from the hospital right to the day i left for college well
00:26:50.620 you didn't have any choice when you're a lot of people i care about still do there are challenges
00:26:54.860 no doubt wait but now that he has a choice now he has a choice he's gone i don't want to sound
00:26:59.680 self-righteous okay then don't but people get up it's too late for work there yeah they care for
00:27:06.140 their families there nobody said they love their children yeah pledge allegiance to the flag just
00:27:11.540 like people who live in districts of congressmen who support you sir okay they are americans too so who
00:27:17.320 wants to live there i do the guy left that utopia the very second it was his choice the very second
00:27:26.220 soon as he's out of high school he gets the hell out of baltimore and doesn't look back come on i mean
00:27:34.300 come on the gymnastics they will go through unbelievable to criticize trump and like you know
00:27:42.500 to the point of they're like now saying basically baltimore is disneyland oh in fact it's actually
00:27:49.840 better than disneyland because they have a lot more mice because i mean disneyland we only has the one
00:27:53.800 big one they've got millions glenn and i lived and worked there in uh 89 through 92 uh when we first got
00:28:03.860 to town our the station set us down to do these publicity photos and so we're looking for the place this
00:28:09.500 was before gps obviously and we're looking for the place and we go down this alley in baltimore
00:28:13.960 it's really one of those wide alleys and and uh it's paved and on every post is a sign that says
00:28:22.600 warning rat infestation which you already knew because you see all the squished rats on the on the
00:28:30.900 pavement that car after car after car drove over why because baltimore is rat infested and has been
00:28:38.980 for a long time for a long time at the time they estimated rats outnumbered people in balt in the
00:28:44.340 inner baltimore area 20 let's see there were 20 million rats to 2 million people so it's only a
00:28:51.620 10 to 1 ratio i mean don't give them voting rights i mean jeez you'd have a rat president in in moments
00:28:58.880 did you also see the on the blaze they posted a woman who lives in the area and she went through
00:29:03.720 the neighborhood showing you some some some of the garbage where some of these neighborhoods are
00:29:09.500 subject to dumping and people just drive in and dump their garbage there and you know there's
00:29:14.780 mattresses and washing machines and and i don't know all manner of trash in everybody's yards and
00:29:21.640 fields and abandoned row house buildings where there's been a tree growing inside of it that is
00:29:27.540 now taller than the building so this isn't something that happened overnight no it's been going on for
00:29:32.520 decades and everybody knows everybody knows it it also has the highest murder rate in the country
00:29:38.100 of large cities it's second overall uh second only to the mean streets of helena montana of course
00:29:43.600 i don't think it's helena but yeah but this is actually second i mean it's 56 deaths murders per
00:29:52.440 100 000 people that is skyrocket high oh yeah it's very high and it's been getting worse recently yeah
00:29:59.080 uh in fact you know the part when you say you're there 89 to 92 after that it went through a little
00:30:05.080 bit of a rebirth right um and kind of came back and has gone and unfortunately has slipped back down
00:30:10.360 the other way well they've been trying for a long time yeah to make baltimore nice that's why they
00:30:14.380 built the inner harbor and i think spent i don't know one or two billion dollars on it and that was
00:30:18.520 in the 80s that was a long time ago so they've been trying really hard and there are nice spots
00:30:24.220 yes absolutely there are but we all know there are parts of baltimore you do not want to let alone
00:30:30.940 visit let alone live in no question know it i mean the wire was a series all about it uh we we are all
00:30:40.180 100 uh you know deep in the knowledge of the problems of baltimore and yet trump is so far
00:30:48.200 in the heads of the media that they will actually come out and defend baltimore like it's paradise i
00:30:53.840 know like it's basically a sandals on an all-inclusive place to just go and you swim up
00:30:58.880 bar on every corner that is not what baltimore is sure isn't it isn't i mean this is a city i mean
00:31:04.480 even the orioles suck the blue jays are going to lose 100 games this year and still finish 10 games
00:31:10.780 ahead of the orioles that's how bad it is in baltimore right now this is i may be going to sports just
00:31:17.140 because i know football's around the corner and i know you're the only person around here i usually
00:31:22.040 have to sit in this room with glenn yeah and he's not excited yeah you're the only person i know who's
00:31:26.480 actually excited i'm so excited about football returning yes uh and i'm more excited about that
00:31:31.640 than i am rats in baltimore really yes that's a and again how what's the oriole to rat numbers in
00:31:38.960 baltimore i gotta believe like and or the ravens uh-huh like hundreds of thousands to one right
00:31:45.820 just name them the rats and go for it i think you do that um i was fascinated by this i know
00:31:52.220 you're a big peyton manning fan this story is fascinating to me um it's a it's a it's a column
00:31:58.080 written about uh about peyton manning and here's the title everybody loves peyton manning but for how
00:32:04.560 much longer uh-oh and it goes into okay you know peyton manning's the guy everything he can go he can
00:32:10.000 sponsor of any product people want him to every big broadcasting opening that comes up he's always the
00:32:15.540 first guy mentioned yeah people talk about him trying to get him for senator for governor for
00:32:19.980 president right like this is peyton manning he has that sort of profile here's the question though
00:32:24.140 as the column reads in a culture that seems hell-bent on savaging its icons how long can it
00:32:29.020 last america is in full teardown mode right now nobody gets to skate on i was young and stupid or
00:32:34.020 those are my beliefs i stand by them anymore fair or not and we all think of reputation shattering
00:32:38.600 overreach even if we can't all agree exactly which reputations were unfairly shattered that's the way
00:32:43.800 the world is now this isn't limited to either political party or ideology both sides want to
00:32:48.620 claim their stars and demonize the other side manning has thrived because he has kept his beliefs
00:32:53.300 tucked close he is to coin a phrase sticking to sports still we can rough out the edges of his ideology
00:33:02.800 uh-oh number one he's a frequent visitor to and possible member of augusta national no so right
00:33:14.300 there this guy wait he's a possible member of we don't even know he's a member huh now i thought
00:33:21.060 the way that reads it you think he's going to say the kkk is going to be under that but no no it's
00:33:25.640 augusta national augusta national it's a golf club wow so we know he's a golfer okay he's donated to
00:33:34.380 republican figures no he hasn't including the recent presidential campaigns of mitt romney
00:33:41.380 and jeb bush wow now how much do you hate him more recently he's played golf with donald trump
00:33:51.880 and spoken at republican events bastard now to say this is an observation folks not criticism he's
00:33:59.340 not i don't think he's even trying to make the case that this should happen right bayton manning
00:34:03.000 um there's nothing wrong with me but manning or anything else or anyone else voting the way they
00:34:07.480 wish and associating with whomever they wish of course but you don't have to work hard to see how
00:34:11.180 manning like everyone else who believes in something more than kicking back and watching netflix could end
00:34:15.860 up in the middle of it the us versus them kickball team picking that america has become
00:34:20.380 returning to the public eye means surrendering control of your image and manning guards and
00:34:25.400 nurtures his image as closely as any athlete ever has if he steps back into the life spotlight he'll
00:34:30.740 make sure to do it in a way that keeps everyone happy otherwise he'll just keep doing what he's
00:34:35.200 done for the past few years showing us exactly what he wants us to see and nothing more it's fascinating
00:34:40.220 because they go into um you know the accusations from his time in college where a one woman said
00:34:46.900 that he made sexually sort of uh suggestive jokes and gestures and may have had contact in some way
00:34:54.660 right and basically they're saying like if he comes out and he starts if he turns into an out
00:35:00.460 republican where he may use that against him he will then be is it me too'd or whatever and all of a sudden
00:35:09.100 those things will become serious like we're at a time now where even when you go your entire life
00:35:14.880 trying to avoid being a figure in these sort of culture wars they will suck you in sort of
00:35:22.780 against your will oh for sure and that is a weird world to live in isn't it it is especially for
00:35:28.540 somebody so beloved as peyton manning is there anybody who doesn't like him i don't know if i've
00:35:33.560 run across anyone i can't think of anybody the guy's was great at hall of fame career he's great at all
00:35:40.180 these commercials he's just seems to be fun and the reason he didn't take the uh the monday night
00:35:46.100 football gig was because he didn't want to analyze his own brother he's just he's a great guy seemingly
00:35:51.700 it does seem that way yeah so why not destroy it they will that is especially since he's a republican
00:35:57.300 apparently oh no you can't have that can't have that that'll be bad do you think peyton wants his jeb
00:36:01.740 bush money back though you gotta you gotta believe yeah i mean he's thrown some bad interception is
00:36:08.520 in his life but that's one you definitely want back all right pat gray i get the podcast every day
00:36:14.100 and you're gonna be joining me uh this week too right we're gonna be doing some uh tomorrow pat
00:36:18.180 and stew here uh for glenn for the rest of the week so we're excited about that as well get uh the
00:36:22.540 podcast at pat gray unleashed and follow him on twitter at uh pat unleashed follow me as well
00:36:29.380 at world of stew the number is 888-727-BECK back with more in a second
00:36:33.600 it's stew in for glenn back you can follow me on twitter at world of stew i'll be filling in for
00:36:38.640 glenn on tv this week as well tonight we have an ilan omar update which is of course uh completely
00:36:44.200 amazing as it always is with our friend ilan uh as my hometown's number one mike tyson's punch out
00:36:51.820 player ranked number one i feel the need to comment on the story because this is insane
00:36:57.320 fortnite the game that i guess everybody plays on their phone um had a uh one of these uh tournaments
00:37:04.020 at arthur ash tennis stadium now this is the largest tennis stadium in all of tennis uh it has a
00:37:12.160 capacity of 10 000 more than wimbledon so we're talking 24 000 i've been there it's where they play
00:37:18.160 the finals of the u.s open it's a huge stadium they did a video game tournament there the winner was
00:37:25.160 a 16 year old who won a 3 million dollar grand prize for winning a video game tournament
00:37:32.060 i did not win 3 million dollars for my mike tyson punch out championship second place and this i find
00:37:40.220 almost as amazing as these things go down second place was a 24 year old who won 1.8 million third
00:37:47.220 place won 1.2 million fourth place won 1.05 million fifth place 900 000 every single person by the way
00:37:57.560 the fifth place 900 000 was a 13 year old every person in the tournament won at least 50 000
00:38:05.180 holy crap do i need to start playing more video games i am in the wrong freaking industry
00:38:13.080 i gotta listen to glenn beck every day i could just be sitting home playing games making this sort
00:38:18.560 of cash that's the path to financial freedom folks i'm the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
00:38:34.100 this is the glenn beck program there's a fascinating thing in the middle of going on
00:38:39.960 in our culture and in the media and we see it over and over and over again as it goes to
00:38:46.040 the president of the united states donald trump and it's a strange thing because i think conservatives
00:38:52.700 typically are on the right path but maybe don't have it exactly right a lot of times i think of it
00:39:01.820 this way where i see the media say things about donald trump and sometimes look there are things to
00:39:06.780 criticize about trump uh that's totally fine but it is this the level that you go to i think tells
00:39:14.780 a lot about who you are and how hard you're trying to be fair to be truthful to be realistic
00:39:22.820 there are people who defend donald trump over every little thing even when it's clear he's not
00:39:28.140 right and there's people who bash him for every little thing when it when it's clear he is right
00:39:32.200 and there's no reason i mean are we not adults are we not americans are we not men and women that
00:39:39.200 can stand up for what we actually believe and say the truth you're gonna bow to the media or the you
00:39:45.180 know or or the king or whoever it is that's is that who we are because if that's who we are we've
00:39:50.760 given up on what america is supposed to be and i think there's this situation where the media
00:39:56.200 in in particular goes so far to try to come up with these mental gymnastics to figure out a way in
00:40:02.780 which they disagree with donald trump that it becomes incredibly laughable
00:40:08.860 this is not a thing where
00:40:13.980 it is a an understandable disagreement it's not a thing where you could see one side and not the other
00:40:23.460 and i think conservatives a lot of times look at this and say media bias which is there it's
00:40:27.460 blatantly there okay there's always media bias against republicans it's particularly high in the
00:40:33.600 era of donald trump as we become more partisan you know the media gets worse and worse i think
00:40:38.680 but i really think there's a distinction between trump coverage and bush coverage and reagan coverage
00:40:44.280 and all of the rest in that there is surely the bias that exists but there's also a different level
00:40:51.620 of obsession the media is obsessed with this man they are absolutely he dominates their thoughts 24 hours
00:41:00.620 a day no matter what story happens they have to figure out a way to bring it back to donald trump
00:41:07.160 doing something wrong donald trump is involved in the story even when he's not and they'll take
00:41:13.340 completely non-controversial things and make them into controversies just so they can try to fire up
00:41:21.600 i don't know if it's the click machine i'd like to i'd like to think it was capitalist where they were
00:41:26.280 just like i we would need more clicks let's tighten the coverage but i honestly think it's more than that
00:41:30.380 i think they're just completely obsessed there's like a there's almost like a a a clinical
00:41:35.900 illness going on here when it comes to how often they have to bring it back to something that donald trump
00:41:43.340 has done and so with this story about baltimore take the very non-controversial statement that
00:41:51.220 baltimore has some serious freaking problems this is something as of friday we all knew and understood
00:41:58.740 this was not a controversial statement and because donald trump comes out and tweets about it
00:42:05.460 all of a sudden the media in real time remakes baltimore into the happiest place on earth
00:42:14.000 it's basically i mean if it's not downtown disney i don't know what is and again i mean think of the
00:42:23.480 you could mark the argument that baltimore is much better because they have so many more mice than disney
00:42:28.500 does they just got that one big one mickey's heading up the whole operation there at disney
00:42:33.200 they got millions and millions of rats for you in baltimore this is one of those things where
00:42:39.100 you know look baltimore is not it's not a lysium it's not it's not some paradise it's not what it is
00:42:47.700 does baltimore have nice areas sure does does baltimore have a great baseball stadium sure does does
00:42:54.560 baltimore have some great people it sure does but it has massive problems the wire was fiction but not
00:43:01.500 that much fiction it's pretty close one of the reasons why everyone loved the wire and it got
00:43:07.540 such great critical reviews all those years was for its realism there's real corruption in baltimore
00:43:12.280 there's real crime in baltimore there is a lot of trash all over the place in baltimore there are a lot
00:43:18.320 of rats all over in baltimore these are real things now you can say that donald trump is wrong in his
00:43:24.400 criticism that he's criticizing cummings you can say that he is wrong uh for i mean you know
00:43:31.760 an american president criticizing an american city like that you can say you don't like the objects of
00:43:36.140 that that's that's all on the table but to act as if all of a sudden baltimore is this wonderful place
00:43:41.580 where there's no problems and no one can even understand what kind of credit where is this guy
00:43:46.460 coming from this guy's criticizing like it's like 90210 i'm pretty sure that's where that was filmed
00:43:54.000 right in downtown baltimore we like are you kidding me baltimore is basically paradise on earth
00:44:03.820 they will go to that level discredit themselves that much to try to disagree with trump for another news
00:44:14.100 cycle let's get into the facts about what is going on in baltimore from some of the very people who
00:44:21.980 today are going crazy about donald trump's statements about the city we'll do that in 60 seconds
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00:45:32.740 so we're talking about baltimore it's doing for glenn on the glenbeck program by the way
00:45:50.300 talking about baltimore trump tweets about them tweets about cummings he's called a racist we
00:45:54.920 went through all that last hour if you want to go back and hear a real breakdown as to why that
00:45:59.300 criticism is ridiculous i encourage you to look at the podcast today get that wherever podcasts are
00:46:04.320 sold for free so baltimore is known to have a few problems has a few issues
00:46:13.020 now baltimore if you if you follow baseball at all you know the orioles are absolutely horrible this
00:46:19.480 year but they have gone three for three their last three mayors have all resigned in disgrace
00:46:25.300 so that's pretty good i mean if you can go three for three in that category what a wonderful
00:46:30.240 achievement the bbc had a report about poverty in america where they talked about 25 percent
00:46:37.820 of representative cummings district lives in poverty a full quarter live in poverty baltimore city schools
00:46:47.140 rank among the lowest in the state of maryland in 2015 what the washington post reported that the
00:46:53.560 average life expectancy in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods is nearly 20 years below the
00:46:59.340 national average they say 14 baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than north korea
00:47:07.700 eight are doing worse than syria again what do you think the washington post is saying about this
00:47:16.680 issue today according to that deep right-wing hardcore conservative think tank known as orkin pest control
00:47:28.060 baltimore is one of the most rat infested cities in america
00:47:33.760 orkin ranks baltimore number six on the list and all of the top 10 most rat infested cities
00:47:43.580 are controlled by democrats the baltimore sun has been very critical of trump's comments
00:47:50.620 lighting them up in in multiple op-eds in april they had a different story about what their city
00:47:58.320 was dealing with is it a filthy mess as trump claims they say food containers balled up clothes
00:48:05.820 paper banana peels plastic bags and tons of other pieces of litter line the shoulders of roads
00:48:13.400 pile up in alleys and are strewn across fields and yards not only is it unsightly and contributes to
00:48:21.280 a rodent problem but it can create a glum and gloomy feel i wouldn't say it goes right into the
00:48:30.160 tourist board advertisement but i think it's backing up what the president says and what as of friday
00:48:35.800 everyone in america knew about baltimore it's got its problems baltimore is deadlier than chicago and
00:48:43.600 detroit it has the highest homicide rate in the united states
00:48:50.360 now when it comes to violent crime it is it's only seventh so it's not doing as well there
00:48:58.080 the homicide rate has been over 300 a year from 2015 to 2018 in 2017 it became the homicide capital of
00:49:08.620 the united states 56 murders per 100 000 people that is high it makes it 20 the 21st highest city
00:49:15.920 in the world it is below juarez mexico that is what we're talking about when it comes to competition
00:49:25.220 juarez
00:49:26.560 rats are so bad in the city that pbs aired a documentary
00:49:37.800 called rat film the name of the documentary is rat film
00:49:48.220 what do you want to talk about when you're talking making your documentary about uh baltimore
00:49:55.480 i want to talk about the rats let's call it rat film
00:49:59.580 the baltimore sun again covered something called the perpetual trash problem
00:50:11.020 this is not new everyone in the media knows this is going on
00:50:17.800 and it's not just people in the media it's the politicians who deal with baltimore on a regular
00:50:25.760 basis let's take a trip back uh down memory lane a little bit 2018 uh the baltimore mayor uh
00:50:33.760 katherine pugh who by the way resigned in disgrace she had a little bit of a an issue when she was
00:50:42.100 touring baltimore and had some comments that i don't think uh would disagree with donald trump's
00:50:52.060 analysis of baltimore listen about a year ago city leaders identified some of the city's most
00:50:58.520 violent neighborhoods what the hell we should just take all this down to target who you can smell the
00:51:04.620 rats under baltimore's violence reduction initiative oh jesus just last week we went
00:51:09.620 with mayor pew she toured in east baltimore neighborhood this is a new one i've been
00:51:14.000 out in 54 years this is a new one baltimore's violence reduction initiative is about taking
00:51:19.220 steps to rid communities of the cornerstones that contribute to crime oh my god you can smell
00:51:25.120 the dead animals blocks of dilapidated buildings help to hide the addiction that's crippled this
00:51:30.460 community now i don't know maybe it was a barbecue going on you spelled the dead animals maybe it
00:51:35.020 was someone was cooking up some some cheeseburgers but my guess is it was dead rats
00:51:39.720 that's the mayor of baltimore saying we should just tear all of this down i can smell all the dead rats
00:51:47.660 this is not something that's controversial
00:51:53.480 this is this is not something that everyone did everybody as of thursday and friday of last week
00:52:03.120 admitted this was true everybody knew it including someone you'll see on the debate stage this week
00:52:10.620 bernie sanders now sanders today is out there saying the president is super duper racist for saying bad
00:52:16.760 things about baltimore i don't know how saying bad things about baltimore is racist i think it's
00:52:23.120 because black people might live there this is going to really become you know uh now again bernie's
00:52:31.340 from vermont so maybe he's never lived in a place where other people that are black live but they live
00:52:36.860 all over you can't criticize black people by criticizing a city because black people live in every city
00:52:41.960 that's i know this is controversial bernie it's okay african americans live all over the place now
00:52:49.420 i know it wasn't like that in 1793 when you first got into congress but it's different now
00:52:55.780 here's bernie sanders on baltimore in 2015 but anyone who took the walk that we talk we took
00:53:04.160 around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation you would think that you were in
00:53:10.020 a third world country but today what we're talking about is a community in which half of the people
00:53:16.960 don't have jobs we're talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are
00:53:25.040 uninhabitable we're talking about a community where kids are unable to go to schools that are decent
00:53:31.220 that's bernie sanders first of all it's always i always love those moments where someone says
00:53:36.820 something really bad and people clap we're talking about a community with half the people not having
00:53:40.800 jobs yeah yep that's what we're talking about yeah that means half of them do uh bernie talking about
00:53:49.680 the world as a third baltimore is a third world country not controversial then despite the fact
00:53:54.560 that they've had decades of local democratic leadership they were having a democratic mayor a democratic
00:54:02.140 representative and of course at that point a democratic president of the united states
00:54:07.500 late in his second term who apparently did very little to turn that around we've seen now historic
00:54:14.940 lows in african-american unemployment but that's not important right now this goes on i mean it's been
00:54:23.080 going on for a very long time go back to 1989 this is uh maryland i think state senator mike
00:54:29.160 miller in 1989 listen it helps educate my constituents as to why baltimore needs the
00:54:35.900 economic help i mean baltimore is a it's worse than in inner city washington dc it is
00:54:42.140 um i hope you don't have to play this on tape i mean it is a it is a war zone i mean it's crack i
00:54:50.480 mean it's you know these dime bags of pcp i mean you've got we've got they've got one quarter of every
00:54:55.520 kid who's not in school each day 50 of the kids who start off in school don't graduate so looking
00:55:01.560 at things from a statewide perspective we really have to do things to help that's not controversial
00:55:06.640 that's just being honest there's massive problems going on in a lot of these major cities baltimore
00:55:12.240 is not immune it's just been one of the worst performers and look the reason donald trump is
00:55:17.960 criticizing cummings and baltimore has little to do with how crappy baltimore is
00:55:22.780 you if it was a if he had a fight with a guy in chicago he'd say it about chicago
00:55:27.280 this is what donald trump does he insults people who disagree with him but he's right on the analysis
00:55:32.240 here everybody knows it baltimore has had massive problems that have piled up on top of each other
00:55:40.760 because they keep electing the same people over and over and over and over again and it will not
00:55:47.560 change unless they do something different
00:55:50.740 but now we're supposed to sit back and all pretend as if this isn't the reality
00:55:59.120 i'm not gonna do it i don't think you're gonna do it and i expect more or at least i require more i
00:56:05.280 don't know that i expect more but i require more out of the media i require more out of people who
00:56:10.500 claim to be journalists than to fall into this nonsense every 10 seconds every time there's another
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00:57:28.420 stew in for glenn back here in the glenn back program 888-727-BECK is the phone number uh mick
00:57:49.560 mulvaney chief of staff uh on uh television this weekend talking about these comments here's what
00:57:54.420 he said well you know though that this is a majority black district and when the president
00:57:59.040 calls it rat infested he says no human being would live there do you understand that that is offensive
00:58:05.060 to the americans who do live there i understand that everything that donald trump says is offensive
00:58:09.740 to some people keep in mind uh about two weeks ago the president said things that were critical of
00:58:14.920 aoc and her squad and was immediately accused of being a racist a couple days later nancy pelosi said
00:58:20.900 some things critical of that same group of people and she was defended by the media and by folks on
00:58:25.320 the left for not being racist when donald no human being would want to live there when donald trump
00:58:30.580 attacks this is being perceived as racist do you understand why i understand why but that doesn't
00:58:35.960 mean that it's racist i don't the president is pushing back against what he sees is wrong it's how
00:58:40.240 he's done in the past and he'll continue to do in the future so you think this is just hyperbolic
00:58:44.120 i absolutely do and i hope the folks actually pay attention to it and realize what democrats in congress
00:58:49.220 are doing instead of helping people back home they're focusing on scandal in washington dc which
00:58:53.860 is the exact opposite of what they said they would do when they ran for election in 2018 i mean look
00:58:58.540 they know which video donald trump was referring to in fact they've we'll go over that here in just a
00:59:02.920 minute uh the places featured in the video no human being would want to live in you know a lot of people
00:59:10.720 live in places they don't want to live in that's not it's not a surprise it doesn't mean no one
00:59:14.740 will live in any place in baltimore even any place in this district they all know what video he was
00:59:19.820 referring to and it's it's a video that features some of the worst places in baltimore it's talking
00:59:25.680 about the problem with the trash with uh the crime with the corruption with the burned out buildings
00:59:32.880 all the bad things about baltimore it wasn't featuring the nice upscale neighborhoods obviously
00:59:37.440 but everyone in the media knows this and they act as if they don't they act as if oh well he means
00:59:44.040 everybody in baltimore shouldn't live in baltimore it is just ridiculous uh we'll get into the details
00:59:50.820 on this and what what is happening in the world of journalism where they've really just given up
00:59:56.520 they've given up even trying to be fair here and it does everybody a disservice
01:00:01.680 you're listening to glenn beck it's stewing for glenn on the glenn beck program he's on vacation this
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01:00:24.480 get 10 off uh we're going to be doing an update on the fabulous love life of ilan omar apparently she
01:00:34.260 may be getting a divorce from her husband who she already divorced before and then lived with
01:00:41.080 while they were divorced and she was married to some to someone who many speculate might be her
01:00:47.280 brother it's not confusing at all uh we'll get into it today you can watch by the way glenn's special
01:00:53.540 from last week on youtube right now if you want to see kind of the background of the story it is
01:00:58.700 fascinating and uh it's you know certainly i don't care about ilan omar's love life but there are a lot of
01:01:03.800 actual legal and uh legal complications associated with this and there's the idea that maybe she
01:01:10.220 should have to answer for the potential crimes that she has committed uh she's she's answered for a
01:01:17.360 couple of them and admitted a couple of them and and paid some penance for that in the form of fines
01:01:22.420 and other things but there's a lot more to this story and we're going to get into it more tonight
01:01:26.320 on tv blaze tv.com slash glenn and the promo code is glenn i want to get into brian stelter's commentary
01:01:34.520 from this weekend now brian is a media uh a media critic basically he's like the journalist of
01:01:41.760 journalists and he goes on you know cnn and talks about how sound journalistic practices are
01:01:50.420 it's his job and he has really been leading the charge i would say on the idea that journalists
01:01:57.300 kind of aren't really journalists newspapers are not doing their duty if they don't just come out
01:02:03.460 and say donald trump's racist tweets without qualifiers if you say alleged racism it's just
01:02:09.480 not good enough for brian and i find it to be really fascinating particularly in this case i mean if you go
01:02:16.400 back to ilan omar for example uh you can say all right well there's the send send them back thing
01:02:24.520 and some of the people who you know they were born here and you know maybe you could try you know you're
01:02:29.640 again you're guessing at his intent right i mean you're still guessing as intent to call him a racist
01:02:33.800 but at least you can try to put something together well this baltimore story man i mean he's just saying
01:02:38.440 baltimore has problems and cummings is responsible the fact that some people who live in baltimore
01:02:44.220 happened to be black and that cummings himself happens to be black is not even part of the
01:02:50.100 criticism it's not even alluded to it's just saying that there are major problems in a major city we all
01:02:54.880 know that there are major problems in baltimore well brian selter wants you to know there are six
01:02:59.860 things going on with this baltimore story and i there probably are six things but i don't think it's
01:03:07.560 this six things here's uh brian selter on cnn this weekend there are six things going on at the same
01:03:13.580 time i want to tell you all six all six number one the tweets are part of a pattern of racism
01:03:18.440 displayed by trump for several decades number two the tweets are factually inaccurate in several ways
01:03:24.560 number three they are the result of trump getting distorted information from his friends at fox news
01:03:31.380 those friends are actually doing him a disservice oh no number four the tweets are a petty response to
01:03:36.980 democratic oversight of trump by democrats like cummings what's number five number five they are a
01:03:42.040 distraction distraction from other important issues right maybe trump distracts on purpose
01:03:46.700 maybe he doesn't do it on purpose either way they're a distraction but number six number six
01:03:52.580 racist and ridiculous stereotyping of a part of the country is damaging to the country as a whole
01:03:58.840 and that must be covered and it must be covered that way even if it's distracting once again every day
01:04:06.020 trump posing challenges for the press i think what media outlets should not do is just put trump's
01:04:12.700 hateful rants in the headline and then move on that's just stenography instead i think we should
01:04:18.560 start somewhere else we should start with what is true and that's the he really outlines his theory
01:04:26.180 pretty well there right the theory is you can't just do the news if you do the news and you just say
01:04:34.420 what donald trump said and if you want to say he's wrong on this point he's right on this point you can
01:04:38.300 do it that's not enough that's stenography you're just copying and pasting basically what you need to
01:04:44.160 do instead is form the opinion fully that donald trump is a racist and just say it as if donald trump
01:04:54.640 said it himself if donald trump is carrying around a card that says you know he's a member of the kkk
01:05:01.140 which would be difficult you'd probably have to change parties before doing it but i think they'd
01:05:04.300 let him in as a democrat if he did that then you could maybe say the guy is racist but here you're
01:05:10.740 really just guessing i mean there's at no point does he even reference race in any of the tweets
01:05:15.300 you're assuming the reason why he thinks things are bad in baltimore which we all know is true
01:05:21.560 that the reason he believes that is because he thinks black people are responsible not one
01:05:31.420 individual african-american representative cummings who he is putting a lot of the blame on
01:05:36.840 but all black people because of their the color of their skin this is absurd it's certainly not
01:05:43.580 something that you can write down as a journalist and feel comfortable with you are assuming the man's
01:05:48.860 intent even if you believe it to be true you should absolutely have qualifiers on it and you
01:05:55.160 and as a journalist you probably shouldn't write it at all if you're an opinion person that's another
01:05:58.380 story so what i find really fascinating here is there's two parts of this and they are trying
01:06:05.860 to have it both ways in several instances this is it's it's kind of interesting here let me give you
01:06:14.520 brian outlining point number one here he's talking about uh the baltimore district which representative
01:06:21.940 cunning cummings represents and as he will tell you trump just doesn't know the facts about it listen
01:06:28.940 let's start with the map of the actual seventh district now i'm a marylander so i used to live
01:06:33.640 nearby went up to school here in towson so this is the district uh that cummings represents it includes
01:06:39.740 farmlands in baltimore and howard county it covers the johns hopkins university campus in baltimore
01:06:45.960 it covers a lot of baltimore actually it includes beautiful neighborhoods throughout the city it also
01:06:51.880 includes suburban areas like ellicott city and columbia it also includes parts of baltimore city that are
01:06:58.720 struggling and have been struggling for a long time baltimore city is complicated some parts are well
01:07:03.920 off some parts are struggling there are pockets that feel absolutely abandoned once you've seen
01:07:09.740 all of the seventh district then it's time to report on what trump said he said on twitter on saturday no
01:07:16.420 human being would want to live here in this rodent infested mess he called the district disgusting
01:07:22.940 and said that maybe cummings should spend more time in that filthy place he's saying go back to where you
01:07:29.420 live even though cummings sleeps there all the time once you've addressed the tweets the big questions
01:07:35.680 for newsrooms are where did this come from who's telling trump this stuff how did he get this distorted
01:07:41.900 impression of the seventh district okay we'll get there in a second so the idea here is that trump is
01:07:47.680 an idiot he's uninformed on this story he's blabbing about the seventh district he doesn't know anything
01:07:51.860 about it doesn't he realize that this district is not just these rundown areas it's also uh these farms
01:07:57.460 and white people live there doesn't even realize that these are upscale neighborhoods there's nice
01:08:01.520 universities there's beautiful areas all over baltimore this guy thinks it's all trash no human
01:08:05.460 being would want to live there of course the problem with this analysis is if your point is that he's
01:08:13.400 that it's it's diverse it's upscale there are white people who live there apparently doesn't that hurt
01:08:22.440 your claim that he's talking about race if the if the area that we're talking about has all these
01:08:28.900 diverse uh populations then doesn't that kind of hurt your argument now you might say well i mean you
01:08:37.020 know he is right though stelter's right and that there are diverse things going on in this particular
01:08:44.140 area well yes that's true and you know does anyone think that donald trump thinks that no human being
01:08:50.420 would want to live in a nice suburb does anybody believe that did anybody who actually is trying
01:08:56.100 to think about this honestly think donald trump was talking about the nice suburbs do you think so
01:09:02.320 he tends to build golf courses in nice suburbs why on earth would he think no human being wants to live
01:09:11.500 in a nice suburb i mean he's saying no one would want to live here he's not specific though i guess he
01:09:23.640 calls out the district but he says no one would want to live here well i mean maybe he was talking
01:09:30.420 about a specific place inside the district maybe he was referring to a specific video that only outlined
01:09:38.960 the negative parts the parts with problems because that's what the video was about now you could
01:09:44.540 excuse brian stelter for not knowing that he was talking about a very specific video with the only
01:09:51.620 problem with that is brian stelter's about to tell you he was talking about a specific video brian stelter
01:09:58.720 is about to outline specifically the video that donald trump saw and was tweeting about he knows which one it
01:10:06.600 was because he's about to criticize him for watching it listen this is what was on fox and friends in
01:10:13.180 the 6 a.m hour on saturday there was this clip of cummings questioning the homeland security secretary
01:10:18.480 about conditions at the border then fox brought in a guest named kimberly clackick who went to
01:10:25.060 impoverished parts of west baltimore and made videos of trashed lots and ruined row homes fox called her a
01:10:32.040 republican strategist they've called her that for more than a year now but there is no evidence that
01:10:36.760 she's ever been employed by a campaign that's interesting she did run for a local county gop
01:10:40.760 position and lost last year so they call her republican strategist maybe because she wrote right-wing
01:10:45.580 blog posts for this website for a while then she started getting booked on tv again and again again as a
01:10:51.180 so-called strategist on the hill and on fox and other shows her linkedin profile pointedly says she's a
01:10:56.900 commentator quote not under contract which means she's going on fox for free so earlier this month
01:11:02.600 she decided to take on cummings by making web videos about baltimore's rundown neighborhoods but i tell you
01:11:07.960 all this to explain here is where the president is getting his information clackick was booked on fox
01:11:12.620 again on saturday the president was watching and then an hour later he tweeted
01:11:16.620 so of course as you hear stelter knows he's actually tweeting about the rundown areas right no one would
01:11:27.120 want to live there in a burned out row home in a row in a row home with rat rodents running around in
01:11:33.840 it and trash filling it well no no one would want to live there no human being would want to live there
01:11:37.960 we all know human beings like to live in the nice suburbs again this is intentionally
01:11:43.600 he's intentionally showing that he's trying to avoid what is real and that is what the biggest
01:11:50.900 problem i have with the media here i will say here he points out for some reason over and over again
01:11:55.820 that he that she was not a strategist and she was not paid um i guess that's kind of true i i don't know
01:12:03.560 i don't know her or no you know much about her i will say that uh it was interesting that in tim alberta's
01:12:09.400 new book uh very clearly says that cnn contributor anna navarro never worked for an actual republican
01:12:16.740 campaign at least that anyone this is a quote anna navarro of cnn a republican strategist
01:12:22.800 who had strategized on behalf of no campaign that anyone could recall so it's an interesting
01:12:29.600 criticism coming from cnn there but you know the criticism of trump is that he's just tweeting
01:12:35.380 whatever fox news says now what's interesting here is that you know media matters uh has an actual
01:12:40.920 employee whose job it is whenever donald trump tweets to figure out if they can see if fox news
01:12:47.840 ran a segment about that thing at a specific time so they could tie them together that's a job in america
01:12:54.440 and i guess trump gets credit for it creating new jobs
01:12:57.940 but again if the idea is that donald trump is a racist and is just looking at fox news and just
01:13:07.320 parroting whatever is on fox news you can say all those things one issue you're going to have with
01:13:14.540 that in this particular case is the person who said it on fox news is black so you have an african
01:13:21.540 american commentator who is criticizing the way baltimore has been handled over the past few years
01:13:27.720 makes a statement and i guess donald trump turns off the racism to understand what she says
01:13:32.960 and then parrots it on twitter and when they turns the racism back on
01:13:38.260 the mental gymnastics you'd have to have to actually believe this nonsense
01:13:45.700 is it's beyond anything you've seen in the olympics and i think the truth is that i don't think he i don't
01:13:52.980 think brian actually does believe that i don't think he does i mean it's just this constant thirst
01:14:00.300 to find anything you can be critical of i mean there is plenty to be critical of of donald trump
01:14:06.480 if you want to find real things but to go to these lengths to criticize him of first not understanding
01:14:14.300 the district which disproves your point on racism not proves it and then says he's quoting anything fox
01:14:19.420 news quotes says including from an african-american commentator in which he'd have to turn off his
01:14:25.580 racism to accept and then turn it back on to tweet i mean there's just not a sensible line of thought
01:14:32.800 that runs through this analysis and this is all over the media it's not just him we have to find a way
01:14:38.960 to go back to actually calling balls and strikes don't praise donald trump at every freaking turn no
01:14:43.620 matter what he does don't bash him at every turn no matter what he does there is a point of
01:14:49.280 individual personal analysis and we need to find it again it's stew in for glenn beck on the glenn
01:14:55.760 beck program uh we all know me too allegations usually end careers but not if you're if you could
01:15:00.940 be an advocate for global warming just enough you can usually get by them neil degrasse tyson who has
01:15:05.860 had multiple accusations against him is going to be okay you can all breathe a sigh of relief he was
01:15:11.460 accused in one instance and i just love i'd love this just because this game his game is so weird
01:15:16.920 he says he was examining a tattoo of a woman uh who had a tattoo of the solar system which stretches
01:15:23.200 along her arm to her collarbone and she said he followed the tattoo with his hand putting it into
01:15:28.500 her dress he said he was looking for pluto this is the nerdiest sexual assault in history and when asked
01:15:35.600 about it he said while i don't explicitly remember searching for pluto at the top of her shoulder it is
01:15:40.380 surely something i would have done in the situation as we all know i have professional history with the
01:15:45.340 demotion of pluto which had occurred officially just three years earlier so whether people included or
01:15:51.100 not in their tattoos is of great interest to me and this guy's walking away scot-free
01:15:56.000 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program hey it's stew in for glen
01:16:09.940 here on the glenbeck program glen's on vacation this week myself and pat and rest of the week uh
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01:16:20.580 you can use the promo code glen 20 and check that out you can also see uh the ilana amar special from
01:16:26.200 last week from glen uh i know that's been going around quite a bit you can check that out there
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01:17:07.500 stuff so thank you so much for uh becoming a member at blaze tv.com we uh we have an interesting
01:17:15.160 development and this is one that's been many years in the making there was a time and i'm
01:17:21.340 going to bring you back in history to a time in which one of the two parties claimed to care
01:17:28.520 about the budget now this i know it feels weird it feels like i'm bringing you back to a time where
01:17:35.700 people had like members only jackets on and maybe people were you know at sock hops at their local
01:17:41.160 high school no it's much more recent than that uh it was like 2010 and it was a big topic of
01:17:47.300 conversation i remember doing shows about it many times uh glenn's written books about it uh there is a
01:17:53.340 a real problem with the way we spend money we do not have a revenue problem in this country there's
01:18:00.220 plenty of money the question is what do we spend it on and how much of it is just basically being
01:18:06.600 borrowed slash printed the tea party came along in 2010 and had the biggest wave election in history
01:18:13.120 or at least about 100 years um largely based on those sort of principles smaller government
01:18:18.740 constitutional values uh smaller uh levels of of spending smaller levels of debt and somewhere in
01:18:29.060 there from somewhere between then and now we lost our caring about these topics we've lost our ability
01:18:40.560 to manufacture a give a damn you remember that whole thing we used to care about these things and we don't
01:18:47.000 anymore and they're not going away they are getting worse and much much more frightening because these are
01:18:57.660 the numbers we're seeing now are worse than anything we saw during the obama administration when it
01:19:03.760 comes to debt and spending and now there's no party to push back on it both sides are just kind of
01:19:10.100 accepting it these parties these numbers are much much bigger and to make matters worse we're doing this
01:19:15.420 in the middle of a really good economy these are debt numbers we haven't seen unless you're talking
01:19:21.500 about like great recession type numbers this is stuff that we're seeing on on on levels that are that
01:19:28.460 have to terrify if you look at them and that's one of the reasons why we try to do as little looking at
01:19:33.840 them as possible uh but i can't help that i mean i i do think it's an important thing i thought it was
01:19:39.720 important uh in 2010 when the tea party thing was going on i thought it was important when we launched
01:19:44.860 this show back in 1998 i thought it was important before then the entire time you know this has been
01:19:54.020 a problem that's been escalating it's not going the other way around it's not getting better we just
01:19:59.480 talk about it a lot less and that's kind of a problem we just signed a massive budget deal
01:20:06.300 but what does it mean is it really as bad is it is it really as bad as i'm making it out to be
01:20:13.280 because i don't want to sound all global warming on you i don't want to be i don't want to give you
01:20:17.240 the uh you know the the sky is falling by in in 18 months and we're all going to die
01:20:22.140 i mean there's a way of looking at this and being very concerned but seeing the real underlying issue
01:20:28.900 and i think we can do that and we're going to at least attempt it if i don't get too scared
01:20:33.320 with brian riedel from the manhattan institute he's going to be here in 60 seconds
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01:21:42.480 brian riedel is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and he joins us now i wrote a story for
01:21:57.400 national review new budget deal puts the final nail in the tea party coffin which made me have a
01:22:02.460 wonderful day the day i read it thanks for the optimism i appreciate that brian um but you're
01:22:07.640 completely right right we've completely given up as as a i guess as a conservative movement we
01:22:13.660 just seem to no longer care about debt or deficit that's the conventional wisdom in washington you
01:22:19.620 know i'm i've i've lived in washington 18 years forgive me um and i i've worked in the senate for
01:22:26.260 six years recently and so i i i talked to a lot of lawmakers and i know them very well and the
01:22:32.500 conventional wisdom in washington is that you the voters the conservative no longer care about spending
01:22:38.420 and deficits and so why should they say why should we put up with the angry media and the the angry
01:22:45.780 liberals when conservatives don't really care and as evidence that conservatives don't care a lot of
01:22:52.620 them generally fight frankly the election of donald trump uh he president trump called himself the king
01:22:58.400 of debt he said he will not touch social security and medicare and in doing so he defeated people
01:23:06.240 like ted cruz who ran on issues like less spending so the lesson that was taken by lawmakers is all right
01:23:13.360 if you guys don't care about if you voters don't really care about spending and deficits then we
01:23:18.280 don't either and i i think that is i think they're reading that generally accurately i mean i think
01:23:25.160 maybe people are more focused on you know whatever cultural issue is going on and and this is a big
01:23:30.960 problem and it never seems like to get you know all the effort we put into it during the tea party
01:23:35.000 era did we get anything out of it i mean you can kind of understand how people get there
01:23:40.100 yeah well what the challenge is a lot of the tea party movement and this uh was was focused
01:23:47.140 a lot on the stimulus and and the wall street bailouts and to and to then later obamacare
01:23:53.580 the issue was eventually uh much but not all of the stimulus expired uh and the wall street bailouts
01:24:02.720 were mostly paid back so what happened is what was left was the real underlying driver of 30 of the 30
01:24:10.540 year deficits which is social security and medicare if you look at the the numbers for the next 30 years
01:24:16.060 this is amazing the congressional budget office focus uh forecast 80 trillion dollars in new
01:24:22.060 deficits over the next 30 years they say that social security and medicare will run 103 trillion
01:24:29.500 dollar shortfall and the rest of the budget will run a 23 trillion dollar surplus that's how they get
01:24:35.500 to 80 trillion that is an amazing statistic 103 trillion dollars in deficits for medicare and
01:24:42.140 social security but the rest of the budget and i feel like this is not actually realistically how
01:24:47.720 these things play out is a 23 uh trillion dollar surplus to get to still 80 trillion dollars in new
01:24:54.480 debt in the next 30 years that's amazing exactly exactly and the issue i think what a lot of people in
01:24:59.400 washington will say is okay once we got past the stimulus and and and the wall street bailouts
01:25:05.500 that addressing the deficit means addressing social security and medicare and they've concluded
01:25:11.860 that republican voters do not want to reform social security and medicare therefore there's nothing left
01:25:18.920 to do but spend i mean that is i mean it's again i can understand how they get there uh but that is an
01:25:25.700 it's an amazing thing to essentially admit let's before we get back and i want to go over some of
01:25:31.040 the tea party stuff and and how we kind of got here but can you guys walk us through the latest budget
01:25:37.140 deal is it i mean is it something where we've completely abandoned all responsibility or is it
01:25:43.720 worse than that we've abandoned all responsibility you know that the crown jewel of the tea party was the
01:25:50.600 2011 budget control act this lowered discretionary spending by 2.1 trillion dollars over 10 years
01:25:58.740 well pretty much as soon as the ink was dry they started weakening it uh republicans wanted more defense
01:26:06.220 spending democrats wanted more non-defense spending so they just kept raising the cap each each two years
01:26:12.220 they would raise the caps more and more since 2014 they raised the caps by 770 billion
01:26:20.220 dollars and this time around they essentially just repealed the caps and went back to what
01:26:25.580 discretionary spending would have been had there never even been a budget control act so when you
01:26:30.540 think back to 2011 all that work all the grand negotiations to talk about defaulting on the debt limit
01:26:37.260 with president obama they they did they worked did all that work to get the budget control act
01:26:42.460 caps and then they just ignored it in terms of the cost moving forward here's what's really scary
01:26:47.580 they're raising the caps by about 160 billion per year for two years but the way it's scored that's
01:26:56.060 going to permanently raise the baseline which means in two years they're going to start from that higher
01:27:02.240 level right and therefore according to the congressional budget office this is going to cost about 1.7
01:27:09.020 trillion dollars over the next 10 years because they're just going to keep starting from the higher
01:27:14.440 spending level every year going forward so when you say how bad is this it's that bad that's really
01:27:20.340 because every every dollar you spend is really ten dollars because it's there there's no way anyone
01:27:26.380 ever goes down from where they are it's always an increase off of the most recent year so each dollar
01:27:32.880 you spend is another ten dollars over a decade and that adds up really fast that's exactly it in two
01:27:39.340 years and that's why that's why one of the reasons we got this level is they raised the caps a couple
01:27:44.240 years ago and then when they got to now said well we're not going to go back down now we raised the
01:27:49.200 caps a couple years ago we're going to keep the we're going to keep raising them and so you're it's
01:27:53.600 exactly it so this is going to be 1.7 trillion dollars over 10 years because they're they're going
01:27:59.820 to they're going to use the new higher level as their starting point next time around
01:28:04.120 now when it comes to uh spending this new money at least some of this in theory you're getting
01:28:09.340 something for we're getting to a point now where the higher and higher percentage of the budget is
01:28:14.660 just us paying interest on money we've already previously borrowed um what is the how big how much
01:28:22.060 of the budget is uh is just interest at this point and how big does that get going forward
01:28:27.000 this is scary um right now it doesn't look bad right now about uh 10 of the budget is interest
01:28:36.340 on the debt which doesn't look that bad it's projected uh to triple in in in nominal dollar
01:28:43.520 terms over the next decade and as a percent of the budget more than double to about 20 percent of
01:28:48.760 to about 20 percent and then over the next couple decades get to about 30 percent here's what's scary
01:28:54.740 though all of these all of these numbers i just mentioned assume interest rates stay at record
01:29:01.820 lows and the scary thing is every point that interest rates go up will cost 13 trillion dollars
01:29:10.120 over the next 30 years god or one and a half trillion over the next decade every point so if
01:29:16.880 interest rates go up let's say they return to 1990s levels which we don't think of as being a
01:29:23.000 particularly high interest rate era right if interest rates return to 1990s levels you add
01:29:29.260 four trillion dollars over the decade and 40 trillion over three decades because the debt is so big
01:29:37.280 that even small movements and interest rates will bury us so the numbers are bad as it is in fact
01:29:44.840 even with low interest rates interest becomes the biggest part of the budget within three decades
01:29:50.360 and that's with record low interest rates if they if interest rates rise we get buried
01:29:56.040 um you write in a national review uh this i thought this was amazing because you know you talk about
01:30:01.500 how people don't care about these cuts and they don't actually want them i mean listen to the listen
01:30:06.140 this is amazing a reference by a conservative house republicans in 2017 and 2018 to trim the growth
01:30:11.400 rate of entitlement spending from 5.9 percent all the way to 5.8 percent so again we're not talking
01:30:18.600 about actually cutting anything we're cutting the increase from 5.9 to 5.8 that was rejected and a
01:30:25.660 a bill that was going to reduce unnecessary spending by 0.002 percent of the budget not 2 percent not 0.2
01:30:35.420 not 0.02 but 0.002 percent of the budget even that was said to be uh there's just nothing left in the
01:30:43.600 cupboard we can't cut anything i mean these are these are not exactly uh this is not austerity
01:30:49.440 we're talking about here these are very minor minor changes and i mean it really does enforce that
01:30:55.560 there is it feels completely hopeless brian yeah i mean you know i start to wonder what exactly do
01:31:02.360 republicans come to washington to do i mean if you can't even cut the growth rate of government from
01:31:07.700 one-tenth of one percent not cut spending but just have it grow one-tenth of one percent at a slower
01:31:13.700 annual rate why are you even here and and and let me tell you how that relates to this bill uh i did
01:31:20.420 some math and i and i have been blasting this out to my friends in the house and senate for the last
01:31:25.100 couple days we could pay for at least the first two years of these caps not the 1.7 trillion over
01:31:31.860 the decade but the short term 320 billion we could pay for that by just cutting the growth rate of
01:31:40.300 entitlements again by one-tenth of one percent basically you know like i said from 5.9 to 5.8
01:31:46.580 that would actually pay for this bill members of congress the republican party will not even cut
01:31:54.220 the growth rate of entitlements from 5.9 to 5.8 percent in order to pay for the first two years of
01:32:00.740 this bill they will not even do that it's incredible all right i want to ask you about uh
01:32:06.000 i want to ask you about your perspective on what the tea party actually was in just a second because
01:32:11.300 i think trying to figure out i've struggled with this over the years and i keep bouncing back and
01:32:15.980 forth as to whether it was a real movement or whether it was just sort of a movement of convenience at
01:32:20.480 that time we're gonna take a 60 second break and back with more uh terrifying horror movie uh about
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01:33:32.480 talking to brian riedel of the manhattan institute uh i want to get through a couple
01:33:55.400 quick things here in our couple minutes remaining if we could brian the the tea party do you think
01:34:01.040 and there's kind of a competing analysis here um is it when the these focuses on spending on
01:34:07.100 government growth was it one of those things where you know most people never really meant
01:34:12.380 it as far as you know budget controls but it was the closest weapon around someone broke in
01:34:17.060 they grabbed the lamp because it was the closest thing there it was at the time the thing everyone
01:34:21.260 was talking about it and the tea party used it to try to push back into power or was it one of
01:34:26.920 those things where people really did mean it they did connect with the constitution but they felt like
01:34:30.940 they did everything right they pushed as hard as they could got nothing out of it and have
01:34:35.880 basically just kind of given up well i think i i could say i i was there when the tea party started
01:34:41.320 uh at the time i was running budget policy at the heritage foundation a lot of the tea party uh
01:34:47.080 meetings would would circulate my data i think that it was legitimate concern about debt and deficit
01:34:52.840 because there was such sticker shock about about the deficit rising to 1.4 trillion dollars
01:34:59.500 in 2009 the challenge i think with the tea party is they were there was a lot of concern about the
01:35:06.820 deficit to the extent it was driven by the wall street bailouts the stimulus and obamacare
01:35:12.920 and once we got past some of those policies expired or we weren't able to repeal obamacare
01:35:18.680 and and and and it became that well the actually much more the deficit is is based on policies
01:35:25.080 that we benefit from social security and medicare primarily that's when a lot of the tea partiers
01:35:31.220 lost interest so i think it was you could say that it was kind of convenient that a lot of tea
01:35:37.000 partiers were concerned about the deficit when it was based on what they considered programs they
01:35:42.720 didn't benefit from but when once you got back to their own benefits it kind of faded away
01:35:48.000 additionally some interest was lost just because the republicans couldn't do that much to cut the
01:35:53.820 deficit with president obama in office right um i mean paul ryan you know people criticize him
01:35:59.600 he did everything he could but as long as president obama was in office you can't repeal obamacare
01:36:05.580 and i think that kind of led to some you know why are we bothering uh views from among tea partiers
01:36:12.060 um one more thing here if we could do how much time do we have left because i i would love to
01:36:17.300 and we're about down to about a minute do you have uh do you have a couple minutes on the other
01:36:20.920 side brian or do you need to do you need to run okay because i i would love to ask you about
01:36:24.380 particularly kamala harris's policy when it comes and for lack of a better term quote-unquote policy
01:36:32.660 when it comes to her medicare for all proposal where she seems to be saying she wants all the stuff
01:36:39.940 from bernie sanders policy but without any of the middle class tax increases which to my eye seems
01:36:47.260 completely impossible but i'd love to get someone who's a lot smarter than me to talk about that for
01:36:51.880 a second um we'll come back with brian riedel uh riedel on the other side of the other side of the
01:36:56.480 break also i believe we have uh an appearance from jeffy coming up as well which is always a pleasure
01:37:03.920 for no one we'll get back in just a couple of minutes uh 888-727-BECK is the program uh phone
01:37:11.540 number and i want to make sure that we don't leave you on such a depressing note we'll come back and
01:37:17.060 we'll be depressing about the democrats and tell you how much worse they're going to be than what
01:37:21.760 you already have it's all that fun here on the glenn beck program back in a second
01:37:26.960 you're listening to glenn beck it's doing for glenn on the glenn beck program uh this week we've got
01:37:42.200 a couple more debates everyone's really excited about them i'm sure brian riedel is one of them
01:37:47.400 uh he's by the way brian's a great follow on twitter at brian underscore r-i-e-d-l he's from the
01:37:53.580 manhattan institute and if you care about the budget i know a lot of people in this audience
01:37:57.020 really do care uh he's a great follow and you get lots of uh real information about it um and one of
01:38:02.800 the things that i'm fascinated about is this idea of kamala harris who wants to give everyone all the
01:38:09.800 bells and whistles that people like bernie sanders want to give give you the full socialist palette
01:38:13.420 here but she's not going to raise taxes on like anybody unless they make a billion dollars a year or
01:38:19.260 more is pretty much how i understand it can you get any sort of rational sense as to what she's
01:38:24.800 claiming to be able to accomplish here and can she pay for this program or even come close to it
01:38:30.320 kamala harris did something remarkable she got the bernie sanders campaign to see that she's living in
01:38:37.700 economic fantasy land that is wow even the sanders campaign says you've gone off into la la land you've
01:38:46.240 accomplished something special um you know medicare for all would cost in the best case scenario an
01:38:53.200 additional 32 trillion dollars over the decade in a more realistic scenario probably about 40 trillion
01:38:59.200 dollars let's just do the math i mean basically that nearly doubles the size of the entire federal
01:39:03.820 government um because the entire federal government is projected to spend about nearly 50 trillion over
01:39:09.580 the next decade so you're you're nearly doubling the government if you took every democratic tax the rich
01:39:15.760 proposal the wealth tax the 70 tax rates higher capital gains financial taxes higher corporate taxes
01:39:24.280 higher estate taxes they add up to at most three trillion dollars and that's using the left's own numbers
01:39:33.180 that assume that that these policies actually work you know that people keep working and paying the
01:39:38.280 taxes even according to their own math you could not pay for more than one tenth of this program
01:39:45.400 even if you did every single tax the rich plan proposed by every single democratic candidate it is
01:39:52.220 mathematically impossible to do what kamala harris is proposing and this was this is what brings you back
01:39:57.880 to what bernie sanders is saying in a moment of honesty i guess the bottom line is you have to raise taxes
01:40:05.880 massively on the middle class it's not just rich people it's not just executives it's not just financial
01:40:12.040 transactions this is regular people making regular salaries and their taxes are going to go through the roof to
01:40:17.980 pay for this you could confiscate 100 of the income of everyone earning five hundred thousand dollars or more
01:40:25.560 and it wouldn't pay for medicare for all i mean like you could cut a hug i mean and let's assume
01:40:31.400 they all keep working you know like even if like you could you confiscated a hundred percent of their
01:40:35.480 income it still wouldn't pay for this now the sanders people have nothing to brag about because
01:40:40.280 bernie sanders medicare for all bill um actually has the revenue section as tbd
01:40:46.920 we'll figure out the pay for later there actually is no no pay for section in the sanders medicare for
01:40:52.720 all bill the one that members of congress keep saying we need to pass yeah sanders can't actually
01:40:57.440 come up with the taxes either but at least he admits that you can't increase spending by 32 trillion
01:41:04.560 dollars by taxing the one percent i mean this is this is so comical that it should be laughed at
01:41:13.340 and let me end in the actual padded room here for a moment because medicare for all is just what one
01:41:18.560 tiny slice of the green new deal uh which i don't know what it has to do with being green at all
01:41:24.820 but i mean go beyond this and when you get to the aoc sort of territory i mean this is
01:41:31.740 almost an incalculable cost as to what they're actually proposing well i mean they have a universal
01:41:38.460 basic income for everybody um free income for everyone quote not willing to work they're going
01:41:44.860 to rebuild and retrofit every house and building in america they're going to they're going to take
01:41:50.460 every place airplanes fly and replace it with high-speed rail so imagine every place in america
01:41:56.040 where there's a little bit regional airport we're going to instead spend billions on high-speed rail
01:42:00.500 we're going to replace every car in america that runs on gas i mean i have been scoring bills in
01:42:07.240 washington for 18 years you can't even score this stuff it's incalculable there's not there's no
01:42:13.460 way to even estimate how much would it cost to rebuild and retrofit every house and building in
01:42:19.280 the country i mean essentially what they're saying is we should tear down the entire country and build
01:42:23.860 a new one that is you know in many ways that is exactly what they are saying uh brian riedel i am
01:42:30.920 making i'm starting a movement to get brian riedel as a moderator of a democratic debate i want this to
01:42:35.760 happen this would be entertaining people would tune in for that uh brian real that would be fun i
01:42:41.000 would have to watch it though oh yeah well you wouldn't have to i think they're asleep most of
01:42:44.900 the time anyway uh brian real manhattan institute uh at brian underscore riedel r-i-e-d-l on twitter
01:42:50.360 brian thanks for joining us uh that's a fascinating uh look at how bad the situation is and again like you
01:42:57.460 get to the same point i think most people do as as conservatives or republicans i don't like a lot
01:43:02.360 of the spending stuff republicans do but it's a hell of a lot better than that isn't it
01:43:06.720 i mean it's a hell of a lot better than that jeff fisher from the fabulous podcast uh it's i was
01:43:15.720 gonna say the fisher files that's the old school one that's the old one yes uh it is a chew in the
01:43:19.480 fat with jeff fisher uh joins us now um does this stuff scare you at all oh look they're they just
01:43:25.460 want to spend everybody's money and re remake the country why don't you want that stew yeah i know
01:43:30.020 just tear down the country and build a new one speaking of tearing down the country though can
01:43:33.440 we kind of get by the uh what did trump call uh baltimore the uh hellhole progressive democratic
01:43:38.620 hellhole that it is what's that i forget what he said in his tweets but uh you mentioned the wire
01:43:42.700 uh critically acclaimed on hbo for six or seven years did it paint the picture of a wonderful
01:43:48.820 suburb where everything runs perfectly and there's nice manicured lawns no it did not no it painted a
01:43:54.780 picture of corruption and drug abuse and a city hellhole yeah uh there was a show prior to that
01:44:01.160 uh on television that was critically acclaimed called homicide life on the streets that was based
01:44:06.800 in baltimore uh the same thing and it was also that was both shows were based on a book from a
01:44:12.480 baltimore sun reporter called homicide a year on the killing streets so i mean it's not like a big secret
01:44:20.520 yeah and the baltimore sun is one of the big you know newspapers coming out being critical of trump
01:44:25.480 and saying like you can't criticize us what are you talking about i mean sure we have a couple issues
01:44:29.940 but you shouldn't be talking about it let us talk about it right well you know what he's the president
01:44:33.400 of the united states i think talking about you know a major city and its massive problems does fall
01:44:39.100 under his purview it does and it's been you know look uh elijah cummings has done such a great job
01:44:44.160 in his uh 80 terms as uh as a congressman that you know somebody i can anything be done with it now
01:44:51.940 i don't know i don't know i mean i guess i mean you can't give up i guess no it does feel i mean you
01:44:57.360 know detroit is another thing the democrats are talking about detroit obviously uh this week and
01:45:02.720 you know you look at detroit it has had certain areas have come back fun in in a funny in a hilarious
01:45:10.960 development a big part of the comeback of certain areas of detroit has to do not with giant government
01:45:16.760 programs but rich white executives dumping billions of dollars into a city that they love
01:45:22.840 that they earn because of capitalism capitalism yeah that's right that's the word yeah i'm sure
01:45:28.820 that'll be covered uh this week it's just agonizing now look some of the things that uh we can talk
01:45:35.220 about today you know i like to do a few headlines that i love the headlines but you don't want to delve
01:45:40.720 into the story right i mean you just want to live with the headline don't don't bog me down with
01:45:45.940 facts no more information you don't need any more than that like the the study that says eating ice
01:45:49.980 cream for breakfast helps improve mental health good i don't want to read anymore i don't want to
01:45:55.160 know anymore i just want to live with that headline right sounds good it's good it's too good to check
01:45:59.920 it is it's just i don't want to know the information sure the background probably says you'll die of
01:46:04.880 something else but your mental health is better yeah and sure the background says something about
01:46:09.180 probably not but don't no just go with the just read the headline and move on headline we also
01:46:14.860 have uh health officials are warning mcdonald's customers to get vaccinated amid hepatitis outbreak
01:46:20.420 in arkansas i don't want to know about it well i don't live in arkansas thankfully no and there's
01:46:25.800 it doesn't have anything to do with mcdonald's and sure mcdonald's customers are firing guns
01:46:30.400 at employees because they got an order of cold fries sure that's happening i don't want to know why i
01:46:35.880 don't want to know where it was pretty understandable on that one though thank you uh thank you okay
01:46:40.840 that's one of those i think everybody can understand what movie was that was it falling
01:46:44.320 down with them yeah uh michael douglas right remember that and i remember that was one of
01:46:48.800 those things where he he came up and wanted to get breakfast and it was like two minutes after the
01:46:52.520 breakfast deadline and he just starts threatening everyone and it was one of those movies that's like
01:46:56.980 that's definitely a crime but i i'm rooting for him everyone i'm rooting for him everyone's for it
01:47:02.420 just like uh we're getting a petition now that i think i'm for i'm almost for this petition that
01:47:06.940 wants to change the date of halloween uh they've got you know almost 100 000 signatures now they want
01:47:12.640 to change it to uh the last saturday in october instead of october 31st i think i could be for that
01:47:20.540 that's interesting i think i could be for that you know they want to obviously the you know the people
01:47:25.200 that are starting the petition are you know hawking their halloween wares and want people to buy all
01:47:29.160 their halloween stuff but i kind of like the idea of it being on the last saturday of the month yeah
01:47:34.380 just in the middle of the week whenever october 31st falls in yeah having kids too i mean you
01:47:38.740 that is a that is a nice that would be a nice little change yeah like even with even with or without
01:47:43.500 kids i mean i don't like going out during the week i'd rather do it on saturday you are the creepy
01:47:49.000 guy that shows up at everybody's door begging for candy aren't you i i am i will say this as uh someone
01:47:54.260 who i have a six uh and a seven year old kid uh and they um go out trick-or-treating every year and
01:48:03.620 the decrease in the percentage of or the the amount of kids that are out on the streets trick-or-treating
01:48:11.080 from when i remember going out as a kid i mean it's got to be 70 percent less people i mean i does it
01:48:17.040 does seem like it's way less now i know they have more of these events like the trunk or treat thing and
01:48:22.000 and maybe that's where kids go now more often but i mean i want to take them out old school
01:48:26.340 trick-or-treating you're walking door to door i want you tired i want that bag on your shoulder
01:48:31.220 i want you to to by the end of it like you're passed out in a candy coma like i want that whole
01:48:36.440 experience plus i've raised my children on how to get more candy than all the other children
01:48:40.020 if you want to talk about halloween the secret to halloween now i hate to say this on the air man
01:48:44.860 because it gives up this is a good plan okay this works every every time all right you always bring an
01:48:49.920 extra bag as a parent okay to carry so when your kids go up to trick-or-treat and they have a little
01:48:56.960 bit of candy oh did you guys just get started and they give you more so when your kids come back to
01:49:01.760 the sidewalk you take the candy and put it in your bag so the kid only has a little bit in theirs so
01:49:07.100 every door they go to is trick-or-treat oh did you guys get just get started and they give you more
01:49:11.840 that is brilliant on multiple levels because first of all you're of course counting people into
01:49:17.060 extra candy no i'm just helping my children so they don't have to carry such such a weight of
01:49:21.460 candy stew sure and the second part of that is you've now apprehended all of your child's candy
01:49:27.140 so now you can just sit there and eat your fill while they think they're getting extra
01:49:31.800 and they come back and they're like that's actually less than i got last year that's a shame
01:49:36.360 that's a shame kids it's a sad outcome i will say uh the the best halloween costume i ever had
01:49:42.300 when i was a kid was uh a three-headed skeleton so my head is the middle skeleton and then the two
01:49:50.520 on the shoulders are inflatable skeletons okay so it's a three-headed skeleton and that doesn't
01:49:55.500 sound like any amazing um uh you know costume until you walk up and you're with someone who's
01:50:03.240 dressed in some other costume they give them one candy bar and they say hey you got three heads i guess
01:50:08.380 i gotta give you three and they do he said they do right in front of the other people
01:50:12.600 it's amazing this is a sort of innovation that's a good plan i mean it's wonder how we're both
01:50:19.580 overweight strange all right uh jeffy uh you can get uh chew in the fat wherever you get your podcasts
01:50:24.520 uh and you're going to be joining us uh all week with pat as well absolutely love to have the two in
01:50:28.560 the fat segment and uh you know be fun sounds good all right jeffy thanks and we're back in just a
01:50:32.880 second
01:50:33.060 you ever get to that point where you think the world can't get any stranger
01:50:38.980 well let me tell you the story of carissa pinkston carissa is a model and she has apparently been
01:50:47.980 wrapped up in a new controversy when people found comments on her social media that she was not
01:50:54.380 allowed to make she said p being transgender does not make you a woman it makes you simply
01:51:01.860 transgendered she got a bunch of pushback on that comment on facebook and she responded she said i
01:51:09.460 really do want to take back my trans comment because if they can say they're women i can reclaim my virginity
01:51:15.760 she went on and said look the you know gender it's just science
01:51:22.400 well she got in trouble for that and the comments came to light and because of them pinkston was
01:51:30.100 fired now this is a very store a story you're totally used to at this point right someone comes
01:51:37.120 out says something critical against the things that you're supposed to say and gets fired totally a
01:51:41.860 normal story in 2019 america however this one takes a couple twists when she goes on she finds out
01:51:48.340 she gets fired she goes on instagram and says i wasn't ready to come out about it yet but i got fired
01:51:54.200 and i've been receiving hate mail and death threats ever since i've been forced to so i've been forced to
01:51:58.000 tell the truth i am transgendered i transitioned at a very young age and i've lived my life as a female
01:52:05.800 ever since it's been very hard to keep this secret but what i said about trans women is a direct
01:52:10.840 reflection of my inner uh inner securities and have since come to realize that i am a woman we all are
01:52:17.340 now that's a twist right she comes out she's critical of being trans of transgendered people
01:52:23.720 then they find turns out she is transgendered now we go all m night shamalan on you why because this
01:52:32.120 weekend the same model comes out and says this i apologize for any transphobic remark i've made
01:52:38.100 towards the trans community i panicked and thought if i came out as trans that i could somehow make
01:52:43.660 things better for myself but it appears i've only made things worse i'm truly sorry i am 20 and i'm a
01:52:49.200 human and apparently human woman from birth i make mistakes but i refuse to let them define me i hope
01:52:54.940 you can all forgive me and move on because i'm such much i'm so much more than this incident and i'm not
01:52:59.520 a coward well i mean i don't even know i feel like even m night would would stop one twist short of where
01:53:09.580 that one came to a halt so she was just to keep track she was not transgendered she just faked being
01:53:19.180 transgendered to try to get out of her transgender controversy simple simple you're listening to glenn
01:53:24.100 back
01:53:24.760 you