The Glenn Beck Program - 'It's Time to Ban, Banning'？ - 8⧸08⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.

00:00:07.920 Okay, so how long are we going to allow Facebook to get away with the, oh, man, I'm sorry,

00:00:15.760 it was a total mistake.

00:00:18.520 First, it was the Russian ads during the 2016 election.

00:00:21.760 Then it was the Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

00:00:24.660 Now it's videos from conservatives are getting blocked, and I am not calling Alex Jones a

00:00:29.440 conservative.

00:00:30.060 This has nothing to do with him.

00:00:32.440 The latest example is a four-minute political ad for Elizabeth Hang.

00:00:37.180 Now she is a U.S. congressional candidate from California.

00:00:40.380 She's fantastic.

00:00:42.280 She's going to be joining us in a couple of hours.

00:00:45.040 Hang would seem to tick all of the right Silicon Valley boxes.

00:00:49.740 She's 33.

00:00:50.640 She's a minority. 0.99

00:00:51.580 She's a female. 1.00

00:00:52.580 She's a successful business owner. 0.92

00:00:54.520 She's a repub. 0.99

00:00:55.480 Oh, geez.

00:00:56.240 Well, that's the problem.

00:00:57.180 There it is.

00:00:57.900 That is the problem, isn't it?

00:01:00.820 No, no, no, no.

00:01:01.820 The problem really is the algorithm.

00:01:04.500 The algorithms at Facebook, they're just making it seem like they're trying to shadow

00:01:09.220 block people who are conservatives.

00:01:12.040 An algorithm is just a computer code, right?

00:01:15.220 Can't differentiate between political red and political blue.

00:01:18.800 How come it just seems to keep happening to the red?

00:01:25.300 Now, am I not supposed to know that Hang is trying to unseat Democrat Jim Costa?

00:01:30.620 Been in office 14 years?

00:01:33.120 Apparently not.

00:01:34.980 Now, I'm not saying that Facebook algorithms are definitely censoring conservative contact,

00:01:39.920 but I'm not not saying that either does look a little suspicious.

00:01:45.100 Does it not still just a little bit a tad, a tad?

00:01:49.160 So why did Facebook pull her video down?

00:01:52.820 Well, because it's pretty offensive.

00:01:55.420 The ad opens with Hang narrating the story about how her parents escaped from the Khmer Rouge

00:02:01.040 communists during the Cambodian Civil War and then fled to the U.S.

00:02:05.460 The video includes some graphic black and white photos of the atrocities in Cambodia.

00:02:10.900 She received an automated message from Facebook saying,

00:02:13.540 Your ad wasn't approved because it doesn't follow our advertising policies.

00:02:17.880 We don't allow ads that contain shocking, disrespectful, or sensational content,

00:02:22.600 including ads that detect violence or threats of violence.

00:02:26.360 Oh, really?

00:02:27.740 Really?

00:02:29.980 Cindy Sheehan, you should make note of this.

00:02:32.860 In a statement, Hang said,

00:02:35.100 It's unbelievable that Facebook could have such a blatant disregard for the history of so many people,

00:02:40.700 that so many people, including my own parents, live through.

00:02:45.600 I'm sure it's shocking for some people to hear about this kind of injustice, but that is reality.

00:02:51.880 Then yesterday morning, Facebook,

00:02:54.020 Oh my God, did that do it?

00:02:57.040 And you're a concern.

00:02:58.340 Oh my gosh.

00:03:00.740 Wow.

00:03:03.600 They said,

00:03:05.300 It's clear the video contains historical imagery relevant to the candidate's story.

00:03:10.700 Oh, so was it the algorithm?

00:03:14.060 Or was it a bunch of people that complained that communists were being shown in a bad light?

00:03:18.260 I'm just wondering.

00:03:20.800 What was different about Facebook's viewing experience yesterday versus Friday?

00:03:28.600 Because the ad didn't change.

00:03:31.600 No word yet on whether the responsible algorithm has been fired.

00:03:36.000 Facebook apparently is checking with the algorithm's Twitter feed before making any kind of decisions.

00:03:45.560 It's Wednesday, August 8th.

00:03:47.880 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:50.480 Okay.

00:03:51.420 Alrighty then.

00:03:52.500 Okay.

00:03:53.480 Welcome to the program.

00:03:54.880 Jim Dingle here.

00:03:55.900 We're going to peel the layers on the onion and see what's really happening.

00:04:00.480 Take the elevator down another floor and find out what's really happening in the root cellar.

00:04:05.680 Welcome to the program.

00:04:07.500 We've got a couple of things happening today.

00:04:10.400 We want to go over the election.

00:04:12.600 The election results.

00:04:13.860 We'll do that here in just a couple of minutes.

00:04:15.640 But I am, you know, I think we need to start again with what is happening with censorship.

00:04:26.160 And there's some really disturbing things that are happening.

00:04:29.740 And I've been, you know, I've been reading the comments of people going,

00:04:32.980 Oh, well, I'm not using hate speech.

00:04:34.800 So what difference does it make?

00:04:36.740 I'm not going to.

00:04:37.620 Really?

00:04:38.620 Really?

00:04:39.020 Are we this stupid as a nation?

00:04:41.920 No, no, no, no.

00:04:42.640 Don't answer that.

00:04:43.600 Although I will tell you this.

00:04:45.640 I do have just a wee bit of hope in the American people again today.

00:04:50.780 After the election results, just a little bit, just a little bit.

00:04:54.960 I'm like, wait a minute.

00:04:56.460 Maybe we're not all socialists now.

00:04:59.000 Well, but then I see things like 46% of GOPers say that the president, I want to get this

00:05:12.120 exactly right.

00:05:13.240 Do you have this in front of you?

00:05:14.340 43% should be able to, the president should be able to shut down media outlets and news

00:05:21.760 organizations that exhibit bad behavior.

00:05:24.720 bad behavior, bad behavior, just based on those two words.

00:05:31.600 Shouldn't you say, well, before I answer that, could you define bad behavior?

00:05:36.340 Seems like a part of the equation you need to understand.

00:05:39.820 You would need to understand that, you know, meet it.

00:05:42.220 Yes.

00:05:42.800 Right.

00:05:42.980 43% of Republicans believe that he should be able to do that.

00:05:48.400 12% and 21% agreed that Trump should have the authority over misbehaving outlets.

00:05:56.360 It's 12% and 26% see the media as the opposition.

00:06:00.580 Okay.

00:06:01.940 Can we delve into that for a second?

00:06:05.400 Is the media an enemy of the people?

00:06:10.000 Stu, your thoughts?

00:06:12.080 Um, I know.

00:06:14.280 I mean, no.

00:06:15.900 If I asked you, if I asked you this question, what are the things, what institutions do you

00:06:24.880 believe are driving a wedge, uh, between the American people and our traditional, uh, founding

00:06:34.600 documents?

00:06:36.060 Would I include the media in that?

00:06:37.860 Yes.

00:06:38.160 Yeah, probably would.

00:06:39.520 Which would be the biggest, what would you say?

00:06:41.480 The biggest institution?

00:06:42.320 Our education system.

00:06:43.180 Education system.

00:06:43.820 A huge part of that.

00:06:44.840 Okay.

00:06:45.260 Uh, but the media would be a big part of it as well.

00:06:47.200 All right.

00:06:47.880 So that doesn't make the media an enemy of the people, right?

00:06:52.040 Mm-hmm.

00:06:52.320 Does it make it an enemy of the Republic?

00:06:55.880 No, not, not to say that.

00:06:57.300 Let's not say the media, because I think it's a better case could be made for, for our universities.

00:07:02.840 It's a problem, right?

00:07:04.620 Facing the Republic, the way it's handled.

00:07:06.680 And that's a case for both of those institutions.

00:07:08.860 That doesn't mean that they're the enemy.

00:07:10.740 Again, we, but at some level, saying the press is the enemy of the people gives them too

00:07:17.100 much power.

00:07:17.940 Yes.

00:07:18.260 It's our job to decipher what they're saying.

00:07:21.260 And if we just sit here and say, well, they're saying the wrong thing and misleading us.

00:07:24.680 Well, it's our job to find the truth.

00:07:26.340 Yes.

00:07:26.560 It's not theirs. 0.96

00:07:27.400 Yes.

00:07:27.600 I mean, it's their job to say what is true and what is not.

00:07:30.260 But if they fail on it, we're the backstop there.

00:07:32.760 Yes.

00:07:32.960 Personal responsibility.

00:07:34.260 Yes.

00:07:34.460 And you, you know, you shouldn't be listening to people who say, trust me, trust me, everything

00:07:39.860 I say is true.

00:07:40.780 Trust me.

00:07:42.040 You should check everybody's facts.

00:07:43.940 Of course.

00:07:44.280 You should, you should not take it.

00:07:46.140 First of all, it, you know what the problem is with Ocasio-Cortez?

00:07:51.520 There's several of them.

00:07:52.840 I can give you 218 trillion of them from a recent study.

00:07:57.220 If you'd like.

00:07:57.740 Yeah.

00:07:57.920 No, I don't mean that.

00:07:59.280 I mean, here she is.

00:08:01.380 She went to BU, right?

00:08:02.440 Boston University.

00:08:03.560 Yeah.

00:08:03.780 That's a good university, isn't it?

00:08:05.480 Yeah.

00:08:05.660 It's a, it's a very highly respected school.

00:08:08.340 And very expensive, if I am not mistaken.

00:08:10.840 Okay.

00:08:11.140 So she goes to BU.

00:08:13.240 She graduates.

00:08:14.140 She gets her master's in economics and her master's in foreign affairs.

00:08:21.400 And I don't think she knows anything about either of those things.

00:08:24.580 Doesn't seem to in the interviews.

00:08:26.360 Right.

00:08:27.060 Now, is it possible, you know, she's been, remember.

00:08:31.820 In a car accident?

00:08:32.360 I was in New York a month ago and I walked by the restaurant she was working at six months

00:08:39.060 ago, right?

00:08:40.320 She was a waitress. 1.00

00:08:42.060 Yeah.

00:08:42.540 So is it possible that she has been thrust into national savior of one of the two major

00:08:48.540 parties and is, you know, the pressure is getting to her and she doesn't know how to 0.95

00:08:53.340 handle it?

00:08:53.800 I think that's possible.

00:08:54.900 I think she doesn't seem to have basic knowledge of these, of the things she's supposed to

00:08:58.980 be an expert in.

00:08:59.720 Okay.

00:08:59.920 I think, I think this is more likely.

00:09:02.260 We'll go back in your head to when you were 27, 28 years old.

00:09:05.940 Okay.

00:09:07.180 How sure of things were you?

00:09:10.460 I know, pretty sure.

00:09:11.960 Were you?

00:09:12.460 You know, I thought I was at least.

00:09:14.340 Yeah.

00:09:14.360 You thought you were.

00:09:15.020 Okay.

00:09:15.740 Um, I know at least for me, it took me until I was about 35 before starting in starting

00:09:21.360 at 30 is when I realized I was an alcoholic about 32, 31, or, you know, 10 minutes after

00:09:29.680 my 30th birthday.

00:09:30.560 I realized, I don't know, Jack, I think I do.

00:09:34.700 I think I do, but I don't, I, I could, I could argue and argue, but it would all come breaking

00:09:42.020 down eventually because I didn't have anything other than the facts that I had heard, the

00:09:48.680 arguments that I adopted.

00:09:51.060 You know what I mean?

00:09:51.580 I don't, yes, I certainly didn't have enough depth to be as sure as I probably was.

00:09:56.780 Correct.

00:09:57.440 Correct.

00:09:57.860 Right.

00:09:58.140 Because it's normal.

00:09:59.120 That's normal.

00:09:59.580 You're 28 years old.

00:10:01.080 You haven't, you haven't had the, you haven't had life throw you up against the wall.

00:10:06.420 Most likely, most likely in the way life can really throw you up against the wall.

00:10:11.680 So, so she's out here and she's gone to college.

00:10:15.460 She's got all these degrees, but she hasn't thought them through.

00:10:18.360 She wasn't, they're not teaching critical thinking in universities.

00:10:23.760 They are, they are indoctrinating you.

00:10:26.500 They are telling you what the answer is.

00:10:29.720 So if you've been indoctrinated, you can go out and spew that stuff.

00:10:33.060 But the minute somebody starts to challenge you, well, I'm not really an expert on that.

00:10:38.120 And that's what's happening.

00:10:39.320 Yeah, I, I, uh, I was in her restaurant where she worked was unions in union square and you've been to union square.

00:10:47.060 Yeah.

00:10:47.280 Um, basically it's a bunch of really nice restaurants and shops and high end capitalist real estate.

00:10:54.880 Yeah.

00:10:55.360 And then in the middle of it is a square where there's just nonstop socialist protests.

00:10:59.080 Yes.

00:10:59.520 Uh, and all the people that work in the restaurants that are serving the people who think this is a really nice area, um, but you know, are being nice to the really rich people.

00:11:09.520 And then they walk out and go to the socialist protests.

00:11:11.220 Correct.

00:11:11.540 Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:11:13.400 When I was there, they had a protest, which, uh, I would, of course I had to walk up to it and, and, and check it out.

00:11:20.960 Right.

00:11:21.180 And I would say the point of it was that Andrew Cuomo is way too conservative, like legitimately it was some socialist, democratic socialist candidate talking about how Andrew Cuomo had sided with wall street too often and, uh, was, was, was, you know, killing the left movement.

00:11:40.020 Uh, and if you're surrounded by that, I mean, you think about, you go to work every day, you are working in a place where everything's incredibly expensive, but you're working at a restaurant where everyone keeps coming.

00:11:51.160 into your restaurant and seemingly can afford everything, but you can't because you are the ones working there and you're not making enough money to afford everything.

00:11:58.920 You're probably going to home to someplace where, uh, you are live with a roommate.

00:12:03.480 And this is most people, I don't know her situation exactly, but most people who do that, they go home, they have to work when they live with a roommate.

00:12:09.900 They're not enjoying life.

00:12:10.840 Like the people who seem to be coming into the restaurant every day.

00:12:13.180 And then every day they walk out and the answer is right in that square.

00:12:16.680 It's just easy.

00:12:17.660 So it's just 218 trillion.

00:12:19.320 All you need is the $218 trillion.

00:12:21.080 All these problems go away.

00:12:22.460 Here's the amazing thing.

00:12:23.340 My daughter, um, you know, lived in New York at the same time we did.

00:12:27.180 I had a pretty sweet apartment.

00:12:33.700 Sweet apartment.

00:12:34.760 It was like movie quality apartment.

00:12:36.680 It was very nice.

00:12:37.600 My daughter practically lived in a murder hut. 1.00

00:12:41.020 I mean, I couldn't, I was like, you're not living here.

00:12:44.400 She's like, dad, that's all I can afford.

00:12:45.800 I'm like, okay, I'm going to give you how much do you need?

00:12:48.380 And well, probably about 3000 more to get out of murder hut city. 0.92

00:12:52.280 Okay.

00:12:52.720 Well, I'm not going to give that to you, but be careful.

00:12:55.840 Here's a phone.

00:12:58.180 And she didn't hate the rich.

00:13:01.220 She didn't hate the rich.

00:13:02.580 No, but that's where she was in her life at the time.

00:13:06.520 This is where I am.

00:13:07.800 I had moments like that as well.

00:13:09.520 I was in murder huts as well.

00:13:10.880 Right.

00:13:11.240 Close.

00:13:11.580 I was in murder huts.

00:13:12.760 We lived well, not in a murder hut, maybe more of a crack house where they were. 0.98

00:13:16.360 It was crack house, but very fine people.

00:13:18.440 Very, very fine.

00:13:19.260 We both lived in the same apartment complex years ago.

00:13:22.000 And that was like a nicer part of, of, of that era for me.

00:13:25.220 That was like when I was like, I stepped up to your murder hut. 0.86

00:13:28.200 I wasn't a murder.

00:13:29.380 Again, it was a very nice crack house.

00:13:30.980 Very nice people.

00:13:31.820 Yeah.

00:13:32.200 But it's true that I think not everybody in that situation feels that way, but many do.

00:13:38.200 I mean, it's easy to fall into that trap, especially when you walk out of your business and seeing

00:13:44.060 how everybody is dressed and see how everybody has a seemingly easy life in the restaurant

00:13:48.400 that you can't afford.

00:13:49.620 And you're, you're confronted by people who are shouting rich people are bad.

00:13:54.740 They have what you don't have.

00:13:56.760 It would be very easy to fall into that trap.

00:13:58.840 Right.

00:13:59.060 And think about this when you're young and you're figuring out the world, you tend to

00:14:04.580 go.

00:14:05.160 Well, a lot of people have swings, wild swings in each direction.

00:14:07.260 This is, this has been reported the last few days that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when

00:14:12.720 she was, uh, you know, back in the, this is way back several years ago, considered herself

00:14:17.940 a follower of Adam Smith.

00:14:19.760 What?

00:14:20.380 Of course, the father of capitalism.

00:14:22.400 Um, and said that terms like feminism and empowerment were relics from the past. 1.00

00:14:26.780 Oh my gosh.

00:14:27.640 What happened?

00:14:30.600 I'd love to do an interview.

00:14:32.600 I would, it's one of the only interviews I think I'd pay for.

00:14:35.320 I would love to interview her.

00:14:38.940 She would never answer those questions, but I would love to interview her and find out

00:14:42.860 how did you get there?

00:14:44.500 Because I, again, I don't think she's stupid.

00:14:48.320 She's the worst advertisement for BU ever. 0.71

00:14:51.520 And democratic socialism.

00:14:52.640 Yes.

00:14:53.040 She's, she cannot answer a single question about her views without getting all tongue 0.57

00:14:57.780 tied.

00:14:58.060 And well, I don't really know.

00:14:59.160 Um, and, but I think it's because she's 28 and she's not been challenged.

00:15:04.500 You know, if you're living and working around union square, that's, that's, you're not being 0.58

00:15:08.660 challenged.

00:15:09.400 This, I bring this up because opposing views, even views that you despise are not, um, bad.

00:15:19.440 They are good.

00:15:21.040 You should read them.

00:15:22.520 You should listen to them.

00:15:24.200 I challenge you today to listen to a podcast or listen to some, and maybe if you're a liberal,

00:15:30.360 you're listening to me.

00:15:31.680 And so this will count.

00:15:33.120 Listen to somebody you disagree with and, and then sharpen yourself.

00:15:38.260 You might learn something new, but when your views are challenged, you become sharper because

00:15:46.320 it, it requires you to say, well, wait a minute, I totally disagree with that.

00:15:50.920 But why, why do I disagree right now?

00:15:54.680 We are just trained to hear buzzwords and react against them.

00:15:57.860 That does not make you someone who can save the Republic because you can't teach it to your

00:16:03.600 children.

00:16:04.020 All you can teach to your children are the knee jerk responses that mean nothing.

00:16:10.500 Barack Obama made me a better man.

00:16:13.680 He made me a better citizen.

00:16:16.460 He made me a, somebody who is strong in the constitution because he challenged me.

00:16:23.780 And instead of just saying, well, he's black as the media would say, we did.

00:16:29.880 What did we do?

00:16:31.420 We learned our own history.

00:16:33.020 We said that can't be right.

00:16:35.780 That can't be right.

00:16:36.840 Is that right?

00:16:37.960 Well, we learned some things were, some things were not.

00:16:42.180 That makes us stronger.

00:16:44.160 Challenge yourself.

00:16:45.680 Do more speech, not less speech.

00:16:48.860 Do not block people from speaking.

00:16:51.020 Speaking.

00:16:55.580 By the way, it's an inalienable right.

00:17:00.480 God gave it to you.

00:17:01.560 You can't take it away.

00:17:02.560 That was unalienable.

00:17:04.280 Inalienable, unalienable, interchangeable.

00:17:06.980 I don't know why it's an old timey thing.

00:17:09.360 It's weird.

00:17:09.940 Yes.

00:17:10.520 But unalienable is the one that's on the document.

00:17:13.800 Yes, sometimes it is.

00:17:16.060 It is the one on the document.

00:17:17.780 I think one of them is in the document.

00:17:20.140 The other one is sometimes quoted as in the document, but it's not.

00:17:24.560 But they're interchangeable.

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00:18:43.880 Glenn Beck.

00:18:45.640 Welcome to the, uh, welcome to the program.

00:18:47.620 Let me go to a chip in Florida.

00:18:49.080 Hello, Chip.

00:18:49.540 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:51.140 Good morning.

00:18:52.100 Hey, just wanted to, uh, make a comment.

00:18:56.260 Uh, y'all mentioned it earlier in your show.

00:18:58.840 And I hear it so much about people trying to make out that the press is the enemy of the

00:19:04.020 people.

00:19:04.360 Yeah.

00:19:05.360 And, uh, believe that what's kind of missing the point, like Glenn says himself, you have

00:19:11.460 to ask, what do people mean by that?

00:19:13.320 I think a lot of people miss the point.

00:19:15.740 It's not like the press is going to take up arms against us.

00:19:18.580 Correct.

00:19:19.160 If they have a duty in the constitution to inform the public.

00:19:25.460 And the only way that a republic will work is that the people are informed.

00:19:30.700 Correct.

00:19:30.920 And if the press is deliberately slanting the news, then they are not fulfilling their

00:19:38.400 duty.

00:19:39.120 So in a sense of the word, you could say, well, that's what an enemy would do.

00:19:43.020 Yeah.

00:19:43.140 It's an, it's an enemy of the Republic to, um, misinform or to hide information.

00:19:50.200 However, that doesn't make it an enemy of the people.

00:19:52.840 And there's a bigger point here, Chip, that, uh, I think everybody is missing and we'll get

00:19:57.740 to that next.

00:20:00.920 There are what, a couple thousand, uh, national football league players, people who are associated

00:20:06.200 with the NFL, the best players in the world at their chosen profession.

00:20:09.980 And that's honestly not a lot.

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00:20:13.880 Uh, it's hard to find someone, uh, who is going to wind up growing up to be in the NFL.

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00:21:01.240 Let's continue our conversation.

00:21:05.540 We just had a, we just had a caller in, um, and he said, you know, the, the deal is Glenn

00:21:10.500 is the, the press is keeping information, uh, from us.

00:21:14.260 They are, you know, selectively covering things and that's true.

00:21:18.540 And this is the reason that the press doesn't understand why we have Donald Trump.

00:21:22.820 Why, how could Donald Trump be elected?

00:21:25.780 Well, I'll tell you, because when you had good, normal people standing up and saying,

00:21:30.480 Hey, I just want a constitutional rule.

00:21:32.580 You called them extremists.

00:21:34.640 When you had Mitt Romney named as the worst guy in the world, an evil mongering.

00:21:42.720 I mean, the guy was progressive.

00:21:46.360 He gave the Massachusetts healthcare.

00:21:49.580 He was the worst guy in the world.

00:21:51.240 When you continue to reject those people and you're not listening to the American people

00:21:59.260 who are like, look, I'm trying to be reasonable here.

00:22:01.660 You're going to get somebody who says, sit down and shut up.

00:22:04.700 Now I don't like it.

00:22:06.260 I warned against it, but that is what's happening.

00:22:10.300 And media, you're only making it worse.

00:22:13.080 Now the debate is whether they're an enemy of the people.

00:22:16.260 No, they're not an enemy of the people.

00:22:18.520 Ignorance is an enemy of the people.

00:22:23.420 Apathy is an enemy against the people.

00:22:27.940 Those are both self-imposed.

00:22:31.260 Now you could make the case to me that when it was ABC, NBC, CBS, and you know, if you saw the movie,

00:22:41.500 the Washington Post, there was no way to release the Pentagon Papers.

00:22:45.340 If the Post didn't do it or the New York Times didn't do it, nobody else would.

00:22:49.140 Well, you don't have that problem now.

00:22:53.460 Why are we at the height of our ignorance?

00:22:58.140 There was a new poll out that showed our scientific knowledge as a people.

00:23:04.260 We are at the highest level of ignorance of science since like 1870, 1860.

00:23:20.020 Our failure to understand basic science is at about 90%.

00:23:24.440 That's slavery. 0.99

00:23:25.420 And here we are living in this technological world that is bound by science.

00:23:31.920 And we don't know it.

00:23:32.960 That's our fault.

00:23:33.800 That is our fault.

00:23:35.300 You don't know how things work.

00:23:37.780 Today, it is your fault because you can find it.

00:23:40.400 You can find out how to do anything online.

00:23:42.680 So we have to stop assigning blame to other people.

00:23:48.960 If you can't, if you say, well, look what CNN is doing.

00:23:53.120 Why are you watching CNN?

00:23:54.760 I got news for you.

00:23:56.200 Very few people are.

00:23:58.040 Very few people are.

00:23:59.360 Now, I understand it's important to point it out.

00:24:03.440 I'm only pointing it out because, I mean, I, you know, I send every tweet that I make comment about CNN.

00:24:10.560 I send it to CNN.

00:24:12.300 I'm making the comment to them.

00:24:14.000 Wake up.

00:24:16.120 Wake up.

00:24:17.100 What is wrong with you?

00:24:19.140 But I don't need, we don't need to talk about CNN every day.

00:24:22.640 Their ratings are like 700,000 viewers.

00:24:26.100 700,000.

00:24:27.660 That's about double the ratings that I had when I was on headline news.

00:24:33.640 Are you kidding me?

00:24:36.080 And much less than Fox and certainly the radio show.

00:24:38.980 Oh yeah, we had three.

00:24:39.600 We had 3 million a night at Fox.

00:24:42.480 I mean, it was crazy.

00:24:43.480 And I think like assigning blame is one thing, but assigning control of the way you react is another.

00:24:52.960 I hear so many people go down this road of like, well, of course we're doing this because they're doing this to us.

00:25:00.080 And it's like, well, that's you handing control of your life to CNN.

00:25:03.940 That's you handing you control of your life to the media, which we all have major problems with.

00:25:09.420 Why would we want them to make decisions for us?

00:25:11.580 They don't cause you to react in a certain way.

00:25:13.740 You choose how you react.

00:25:15.220 Look, we are in the fight of the Republic's life.

00:25:19.400 We are.

00:25:20.460 We are.

00:25:21.220 But our biggest enemy is ignorance and apathy.

00:25:24.500 How many of your friends do you know that can actually talk to you intelligently about the Bill of Rights?

00:25:30.760 How many people, how many of our citizens, our fellow, us, how many of us can actually defend Adam Smith's capitalism?

00:25:40.880 How many of us understand that it's not just wealth of nations, it's also moral sentiments?

00:25:46.860 That was his first book.

00:25:48.640 We only study one, and that is the problem.

00:25:52.060 It's a two-volume set.

00:25:53.460 We only follow the wealth of nations.

00:26:00.460 How many do you know that can actually make the case for moral sentiments?

00:26:04.920 Because that's critical.

00:26:06.760 That's the problem.

00:26:09.180 That's why capitalism is what it is.

00:26:13.480 Dirty, shady, in some cases.

00:26:18.760 You want to fix that?

00:26:21.520 It's easy.

00:26:22.460 Read moral sentiments.

00:26:25.620 But we also have to stop saying that more voices is bad.

00:26:32.280 It's not.

00:26:34.020 The voices.

00:26:35.740 If you didn't have Antifa, how weak would you be?

00:26:41.480 If we didn't have Antifa, would you really have done your homework on Mussolini, assuming you did,

00:26:48.820 Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, beside the black and white documentary?

00:26:54.420 I wouldn't.

00:26:56.520 I wouldn't understand truly the difference, where the split in communism and national socialism happened.

00:27:04.320 It's easy to defend when you can look at people like that and point to them and say they don't even know their own history.

00:27:12.980 They don't even know their own history and they also cannot define fascism because that's what they're doing.

00:27:21.040 This was a debate when we had the Sedition Act.

00:27:26.880 And the Sedition Act came just right after, right after the Constitution, just a few years later, the guys who wrote the Bill of Rights were like, yeah, well, they can't say that.

00:27:39.100 And so there was a big debate.

00:27:43.700 One of our founders, hey, he wrote, the Sedition Act appears to be directed against the falsehood and malice only.

00:27:53.080 In fact, there are many truths important to society which are not susceptible of that full, direct and positive evidence, which alone can be exhibited before a court and a jury.

00:28:04.160 Anyway, Stu, yes or no, absolute fight to the death, yes, no, or maybe, was there collusion with Russia?

00:28:21.920 Wait, absolutely yes, absolutely no, or maybe, I don't know.

00:28:27.180 Well, we don't know.

00:28:28.120 Oh, okay.

00:28:28.800 They haven't even released the report yet.

00:28:29.560 Is that how we're fighting this?

00:28:31.760 No.

00:28:32.520 Right.

00:28:32.760 Why aren't we fighting it that way?

00:28:35.720 Saying we don't know?

00:28:36.960 Yes.

00:28:38.000 Well, I think we are.

00:28:39.460 No, I know, but generally speaking.

00:28:41.360 Generally speaking, because you want to defend your guy.

00:28:45.000 Now, I don't think that there's necessarily, because you see, I think, again, it causes reaction.

00:28:49.260 CNN basically insinuates every night that they're absolutely, absolutely, they're saying, absolutely yes.

00:28:54.920 Right?

00:28:55.180 So the reaction to that is say, where's your evidence?

00:28:57.360 There's no evidence of that.

00:28:58.920 It didn't happen.

00:29:00.000 And so it's absolutely no.

00:29:01.180 Right.

00:29:01.540 And so you get, there's very little room for someone to say, well, wait a minute.

00:29:06.360 We don't even have the report.

00:29:07.860 We don't even have the facts.

00:29:09.260 What are we arguing about?

00:29:10.440 There's nothing, nothing hasn't come out yet.

00:29:12.020 We're giving CNN power by arguing this.

00:29:17.680 By arguing it.

00:29:18.840 We just, we should laugh at CNN.

00:29:21.280 We should laugh at them.

00:29:22.360 What do you do?

00:29:23.100 Look at these clowns.

00:29:24.320 They don't even realize it's hysterical.

00:29:27.040 They don't even realize who they've turned into.

00:29:31.640 They don't have any credibility.

00:29:33.840 They came in ninth in a, in a, in a poll, not of conservatives, of everybody.

00:29:38.980 They came in ninth, the ninth most credible news source.

00:29:43.000 They were just ahead of Sinclair Broadcasting.

00:29:48.820 Okay.

00:29:49.460 They were just ahead.

00:29:50.560 BBC.

00:29:51.200 So, you know, that was conservative.

00:29:52.760 No, BBC was number one.

00:29:55.300 Fox News was number two.

00:29:57.440 And I think either PBS or NPR was number three.

00:30:02.080 They were ninth.

00:30:04.260 If you could put the BBC and NPR up at the top of the list, there's some liberals in that.

00:30:11.680 They're ninth.

00:30:12.640 They're a joke.

00:30:14.360 Okay.

00:30:15.200 So he says, you know, there are other truths, many truths important to society, which are not

00:30:22.700 susceptible of that full, direct and positive evidence, which alone can be exhibited before a jury and a court.

00:30:28.360 So he's saying, look, you have to be able to have people say, I think this is true.

00:30:33.460 And it's not provable.

00:30:37.760 He says, if a citizen were prosecuted for his opinion that the Sedition Act was unconstitutional,

00:30:44.400 would not a jury composed of friends of the government find his criticism ungrounded, false and scandalous,

00:30:50.860 and his publication malicious, and by what kind of argument or evidence in the present temper of parties

00:30:57.780 could the accused convince them that his opinions were true?

00:31:01.240 So, in other words, go ahead.

00:31:03.220 Go ahead.

00:31:04.000 Go to Facebook.

00:31:05.200 Go to YouTube.

00:31:06.720 Say, no, look, really, I think this is...

00:31:08.940 They're not going to listen.

00:31:10.360 You really think they're going to listen?

00:31:12.900 Go to CNN.

00:31:14.160 I've done it.

00:31:15.160 Talk to them.

00:31:16.080 Look, this is true.

00:31:17.600 They're not going to listen.

00:31:18.700 No.

00:31:18.800 So, what this was, you cannot make truth the only factor in defense of freedom.

00:31:30.340 Because if you have truth, then you're going to have to say, well, jury, do you agree?

00:31:35.980 I mean, you know, that food, that's the best ever, right?

00:31:39.960 No.

00:31:41.060 No.

00:31:42.100 I don't agree.

00:31:45.360 It goes on.

00:31:46.260 The repudiation of conventional ideas struck at the heart of the matter when Wordman challenged the concept of such a thing as criminal, seditious, libel.

00:31:54.620 They concluded that such a crime would never be reconciled to the genius and constitution of a representative commonwealth.

00:32:02.040 Now, think of this.

00:32:03.040 That means, how can a government say you can or cannot say these things?

00:32:11.780 Who has a right in a country run by the people? 0.93

00:32:18.820 Not the collective, but the individual.

00:32:22.280 In a country where the individual is in charge of his or her own life, how can a government play the master?

00:32:34.080 If the government says, you can't say this about me, you can't make that charge, how dare you say those things?

00:32:42.740 That makes the government the master of the people.

00:32:46.620 When the people should be able to say, these people are full of crap.

00:32:51.580 They're absolute liars.

00:32:53.280 Who's in charge in that case?

00:32:57.280 You are.

00:33:00.120 We cannot ban or want to get rid of any speech.

00:33:06.880 In fact, Hay asserted this.

00:33:09.780 Every citizen should have the right to say everything which his passions suggest.

00:33:15.220 He may employ all of his time and all of his talents, if he's wicked enough to do so, in speaking against the government matters that are false, scandalous and malicious.

00:33:27.760 And despite this, should be safe within the sanctuary of the press, even if he condemns the principles of republic institutions, censors the measures of our government and every department and officer thereof, and ascribes the measures of the former and conduct of the latter, however upright, to the basis motives.

00:33:52.380 Even if he ascribes to them measures and acts which never even existed, thus violating at once every principle of decency and truth.

00:34:02.840 That is free speech absolutism.

00:34:04.800 That's where I live.

00:34:06.180 Yeah.

00:34:06.700 That's where I live.

00:34:09.040 Even if it's malicious, even if your intent is bad, it's protected by the person of that.

00:34:13.620 Tell me that Alex Jones and what he has said about me and this program over the years, his intent is bad, it is malicious, it's wrong.

00:34:21.480 And it's protected.

00:34:22.560 And it's protected.

00:34:25.220 And if you don't think so, then why can't you fire an African-American if you wanted an all-white staff? 1.00

00:34:31.500 I thought the Constitution was only to limit the government's powers.

00:34:37.660 Oh, maybe there's something else there.

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00:35:28.320 So there is a lot to discuss about the election last night.

00:35:40.680 Was there not?

00:35:41.700 Yeah, there's a lot of interesting things that happened.

00:35:43.980 The biggest race was that congressional special election in Ohio that people were talking about.

00:35:49.340 It looks like the Republicans are going to hold on there.

00:35:53.240 It was a very close election.

00:35:55.900 There are still some provisional votes.

00:35:57.460 You know, the Republicans are sort of claiming victory.

00:36:00.080 Democrats are not conceding is where we are right now.

00:36:02.580 But likely the Republican will hold on there.

00:36:04.260 Now, this is a this is a race.

00:36:06.020 This is a district that the Republicans have held since 1983.

00:36:09.300 So it's not normally close.

00:36:11.360 But this one was very close.

00:36:13.180 You know, a thousand or fifteen hundred votes, something like that.

00:36:15.860 But there's still some really, really good.

00:36:18.220 I mean, that's good news.

00:36:19.480 But there's also some really good news about even the Democrats that won.

00:36:24.760 Yeah, the Democrats, a lot of the Ocasio-Cortez slash Sanders side.

00:36:29.820 No, no, no.

00:36:30.140 Say it right.

00:36:31.340 Democratic Socialists.

00:36:32.480 No, say it right.

00:36:33.120 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:36:34.460 No, no.

00:36:36.040 You said a lot of.

00:36:37.680 Every one she endorsed.

00:36:39.360 Okay, I thought you were.

00:36:40.080 Every one she endorsed.

00:36:41.560 Yes, lost.

00:36:42.780 And that is a good thing, I guess.

00:36:45.220 You know.

00:36:46.640 So you have more of the classic.

00:36:48.940 We're hiding the progress towards socialism, Democrats, rather than the we're saying we are socialist Democrats, which is an interesting different.

00:36:56.720 It's a little shade of the same flavor.

00:36:58.700 Yeah.

00:36:59.020 But it's.

00:36:59.620 But at least it shows it shows what the remember that Democratic poll that came out from the center of the country.

00:37:06.780 It was it was done by the Democrats.

00:37:08.920 And they said, you know, you've got to stop going so radical.

00:37:12.880 Stop it.

00:37:13.860 Yeah.

00:37:14.120 That's not where the Democrats are in the center of the country.

00:37:16.980 It proved that out last night.

00:37:18.780 And we heard that on MSNBC the other day.

00:37:20.360 We got to find another word for socialist.

00:37:22.100 Yeah.

00:37:22.380 Because people we want these things.

00:37:24.360 But the socialism is a bad word.

00:37:26.320 Oh, no.

00:37:26.860 The socialism is defined by the bad things.

00:37:29.060 So look out.

00:37:30.340 It's going back under cover again.

00:37:31.840 I presume we'll give you all the details coming up.

00:37:36.180 Glenn Beck.

00:37:38.280 Unbeknownst to most of us, Christians in China are facing a wide scale persecution of religious liberties in the name now of communist doctrine.

00:37:47.820 It is beginning again.

00:37:50.440 Christianity is the fastest growing religion in China with nearly 67 million Christians.

00:37:55.860 But China is officially an atheist state.

00:37:59.060 And the Chinese government now has ramped up measures to eradicate Christianity in China.

00:38:05.840 Quote, Chinese leaders have always been suspicious of the political challenge or the threat that Christianity poses to the communist regime, said a scholar of Christianity at Duke University.

00:38:16.040 Under Xi, the fear of Western infiltration has intensified and gained a prominence that we haven't seen for a long, a long time.

00:38:25.380 End quote.

00:38:25.740 Quote, the Associated Press led an investigation, published their findings in an article titled For God or for Party, China's Christians face face test of faith, in which the author notes that, quote, children and party members are banned from churches in some areas.

00:38:43.300 At at least one township, they have encouraged Christians to replace posters of Jesus with portraits of President Xi.

00:38:51.880 Some Christians have resorted to holding services in secret.

00:38:56.660 The government now has closed hundreds of private churches over the past few months, and authorities have begun to seize Bibles and religious paintings and crucifixes.

00:39:07.260 Quote, a dozen Chinese Protestants interviewed by the Associated Press ascribe gatherings that are raided, interrogations and surveillance.

00:39:16.060 One pastor said hundreds of his congregants were questioned individually about their faith after reports after reporters visited Hanan in June.

00:39:27.500 Some interviewees said they were contacted by the police or local officials who urged them not to discuss any new measures around Christianity.

00:39:34.500 According to the Associated Press, at its heart, this is a fight again against the Western ideals, the Judaic Christian West.

00:39:45.280 In which the Chinese government continues to believe is a threat to their communist regime, and it should be. 1.00

00:39:54.920 Now, this is part of what the Chinese president has described as the effort to sinicize all of the nation's religions by infusing them with Chinese characteristics.

00:40:06.360 Sinicize. What does that mean, Stu?

00:40:08.180 No, don't look it up. Don't look it up.

00:40:10.040 In this context, what does that mean?

00:40:11.520 It means to make Chinese inform or practice?

00:40:20.000 What?

00:40:20.640 No, it sounds a little textbook.

00:40:22.800 How do you pronounce it?

00:40:24.640 Sinicize.

00:40:26.120 So, but it's in this, yes, I guess they're trying to...

00:40:29.380 How do you pronounce it again?

00:40:32.400 Sinicize.

00:40:33.240 That's what I said.

00:40:34.040 Sinicize.

00:40:35.680 Willie, we had to learn that before we went on the air.

00:40:38.000 What they're trying to do is they're trying to make the Judeo-Christian world, the churches of the Judeo-Christian world, more Chinese. 1.00

00:40:51.480 Well, China is atheist. 0.82

00:40:54.540 That's why, just as Hitler did, they are replacing the pictures of Jesus Christ on the altars with President Xi. 0.88

00:41:01.960 Great, isn't it?

00:41:03.920 Willie Lam, a Chinese politics expert, University of Hong Kong, describes President Xi as a closet Maoist.

00:41:13.140 He's very anxious about thought control.

00:41:15.980 He definitely does not want people to be faithful members of the church because then people would profess their allegiance to the church rather than to the party or the president himself.

00:41:25.240 This whole thing is reminiscent of the early days of Christianity, but any of our older members of our audience might remember this is very reminiscent of what happened in Nazi Germany, and then again under Mao in Communist China.

00:41:45.660 If we are destroyed, disabled, or impudent because of our spending, who stands for freedom?

00:42:10.020 Who stands for the Muslims that are women that, you know, want to be a part of Islam, but would also like to have a job, drive a car, be considered something more than something that would just soil your honor or the family's honor if I don't get married when I'm nine to something my dad sold me to? 0.89

00:42:35.960 Who stands up for that person?

00:42:37.540 Is it going to be Canada?

00:42:39.160 Is it going to be Canada?

00:42:39.180 Is it going to be Canada?

00:42:40.280 Is Canada strong enough to hold the torch of freedom?

00:42:46.280 This is the one thing that we have in our bones.

00:42:49.240 We have it in our bones.

00:42:50.800 It's individual liberty, and that's why this collectivism thing, assuming that we are not too late with the university system and our own children, it's bred into us.

00:43:06.500 There is something different about us.

00:43:09.200 I was watching this show on the BBC over the weekend.

00:43:12.860 It's an older show.

00:43:14.280 It's called The Hour.

00:43:15.620 It comes from, like, I don't know, 2011 or 12.

00:43:18.160 You should watch it, Stu.

00:43:19.600 I think everybody, if you like good dramas, I mean, there's something about BBC.

00:43:25.600 It used to be horrible, right?

00:43:28.600 Is it just me?

00:43:29.140 It was, like, all upstairs, downstairs crap, and it's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

00:43:33.620 And then they started to get good, and they've done things like Sherlock, and you love it.

00:43:38.820 Every show they air, you watch, I feel like.

00:43:41.540 No, I don't.

00:43:42.000 I can't watch things.

00:43:43.100 Like, people have tried to turn me on to, like, you know, some of their other shows.

00:43:46.260 There's only a handful of shows that I like.

00:43:48.240 They're just cutting edge enough that I like them.

00:43:50.580 Some of their stuff is still, like, you know, why, why, the captain is riding his steed in to say, oh, shut up.

00:44:00.000 So, boat-related shows you're not going to watch.

00:44:02.860 I'm not going to like.

00:44:03.760 Anyway, but this show is called The Hour, and really well done.

00:44:09.980 It takes place in the 1950s television, and it's at the BBC, and they're trying to do a kind of like a 60 minutes,

00:44:19.260 which had never been done before in Great Britain.

00:44:22.220 Well, it shows the censors, the BBC government censors that are in all of the meetings and in the hallways

00:44:31.800 and watching every show going, you're not going to say that.

00:44:34.400 No, no, no, no.

00:44:35.160 You're not saying that.

00:44:36.180 You're not releasing that.

00:44:37.760 No.

00:44:38.800 No, no, no, no, no.

00:44:40.100 It's news.

00:44:41.340 Everybody else is printing it.

00:44:42.980 No, you're not saying that.

00:44:45.040 And all of the stuff they have to go through for funding and everything else, it just really makes you appreciate the freedom that we have here

00:44:53.520 that apparently nobody really appreciates.

00:44:56.540 But this is happening again.

00:44:58.140 It's sweeping the world again.

00:45:00.700 President of China is Mao.

00:45:04.560 They're going to try to wipe out Christianity. 1.00

00:45:07.940 And who will stand?

00:45:09.160 We have such a responsibility not to be heeded, not to be outraged at every little thing, but to be measured.

00:45:18.120 Yeah.

00:45:18.720 Well, I mean, in the past, how would you control something like that?

00:45:22.520 There were murders.

00:45:24.180 There were imprisonments.

00:45:25.940 And that stuff still goes on.

00:45:27.500 But they're in the middle of implementing.

00:45:29.180 I was just reading part of your book as we're going through it, Addicted to Outrage.

00:45:32.860 And you talk about the social credit system that's being implemented in China now.

00:45:36.960 Have you gotten to the prison system yet?

00:45:37.380 Have you gotten to that part yet?

00:45:39.160 Uh, I'm trying to think.

00:45:40.560 Oh, my gosh.

00:45:41.280 I don't know.

00:45:41.740 They are building.

00:45:43.100 Possibly?

00:45:43.600 Yeah, they are building.

00:45:44.920 Yeah.

00:45:45.460 Yes, yes.

00:45:46.020 They're building literal concentration camps. 0.53

00:45:49.720 I mean, and nobody's talking about it.

00:45:51.600 Right.

00:45:51.840 Nobody's talking about it.

00:45:52.720 But the social credit scheme is a little bit more subtle, right?

00:45:55.520 Yeah.

00:45:55.660 Like a concentration camp is a heavy handed iron fist sort of policy where the social credit

00:46:01.520 scheme, which is already being implemented and should be fully implemented by 2020, gives

00:46:07.000 it, if you are, let's say, speaking religion out of turn when you're not supposed to.

00:46:13.540 Well, it's not even that.

00:46:14.820 If I had Christian friends and I was communicating with them, I could get my social credit score

00:46:20.520 ruined.

00:46:20.980 Yeah, it reminds me of, I was watching a little bit of the Scientology thing that, what's her

00:46:28.680 face is doing?

00:46:29.800 Oh, God.

00:46:30.360 The King of Queens, Leah Remini.

00:46:32.740 Okay.

00:46:32.940 She was a Scientologist for many, her whole life, basically, and she, you know, wound up 0.64

00:46:37.500 leaving.

00:46:38.140 And so she has a series out about how that's, what that departure is like, what they do.

00:46:44.600 And that's exactly what she describes in that these people leave Scientology and it's not

00:46:51.180 just about them, about the effects on them.

00:46:55.160 They never get to speak to their children again.

00:46:57.360 You know, they, they are, they are excommunicated so far that if their children who are still

00:47:02.840 in the church talk to them, then they receive punishment, they receive the punishment.

00:47:08.220 And that is a really effective tactic.

00:47:10.820 It's every mob movie will teach you.

00:47:13.080 It's very good.

00:47:13.680 And so that's not a, it's not a good thing, but look at what they're, look at the heavy

00:47:17.880 handedness of that.

00:47:19.220 I mean, it's a, it's another thing.

00:47:20.640 And I don't know who protects you.

00:47:22.000 You talked about Canada.

00:47:23.240 I mean, Canada was largely built on people who were loyal to the crown.

00:47:26.220 Yes.

00:47:26.500 Right.

00:47:26.940 They went in the middle of the revolution and some people said, yeah, let's fight for

00:47:30.160 this place.

00:47:30.560 And some people said, eh, let's stick with Britain.

00:47:32.440 Most of those people went to Canada.

00:47:34.480 There's a, there's a theory out there that it's, there's a, one of the greatest political

00:47:38.520 experiments in history has happened between Canada, the United States, in which all the

00:47:43.720 same people from the same stock with all the same characteristics came to one area.

00:47:47.760 Wow.

00:47:48.120 I never thought of it that way.

00:47:49.440 And some chose to go and stick that way, you know, with the stick with the crown and see

00:47:54.660 how that played out.

00:47:55.340 Well, that played out like Canada and some people.

00:47:57.480 Which isn't bad.

00:47:58.000 No, it's good.

00:47:58.620 It's still good.

00:47:59.320 It's a great place.

00:48:00.400 Uh, you know, I mean, it's Canada is a great place, but if you had to choose, I know which

00:48:04.060 one I'm choosing and you see that they went with nationalized healthcare and they went

00:48:07.740 with large socialist programs and they haven't been able to compete economically, uh, with

00:48:12.180 the United States that, you know, and they've been benefit, they benefited from the, the essential

00:48:17.220 partnership that we have in many ways, but it's still a great place.

00:48:21.200 It's still great people and there's a lot of great things to say about it.

00:48:24.140 But I mean, if I'm going to choose, I'm, I'm choosing the United States.

00:48:26.840 And I think the way that played out shows a little bit about the differences when you

00:48:31.960 decide to choose large government versus smaller government.

00:48:35.200 When you tries to, you know, you, when you have the entrepreneurial people, uh, who might

00:48:39.720 be a little bit more aggressive in that fashion.

00:48:41.740 And what do they turn a country into?

00:48:43.520 America is just not prepared to live under the speech laws that everybody else has.

00:48:49.780 We're just not, we're just not, we are not cut from that cloth.

00:48:54.400 This whole political correctness thing to scare us, uh, away from saying things it's, it's,

00:49:02.880 it's, it's not American.

00:49:04.440 It's just not in our DNA to be that way.

00:49:07.240 I've got a right to say what I want to say.

00:49:09.180 Who are you to tell me?

00:49:10.220 No.

00:49:10.720 And it's that conflict that I think is really, um, really grating at us.

00:49:16.980 You know, there's a couple of things, you know, we're talking about China.

00:49:20.100 Try this Columbia journalism review from Columbia university.

00:49:25.540 There've been multiple sessions in Congress over the past year, looking at the failures

00:49:29.060 of digital platforms, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, including the failure to limit

00:49:33.360 the action of trolls spreading misinformation during campaigns.

00:49:37.040 But there have been very few concrete proposals from the government on how to deal with that

00:49:41.480 or with the virtual monopoly platforms have on certain types of information and how they

00:49:46.240 should handle user privacy.

00:49:47.980 Senator Mark Warner, Democrat hopes to fill that gap with a policy discussion paper.

00:49:52.720 He's been circulating in governmental and tech circles.

00:49:55.600 According to a report from Axios, the proposals in the paper are wide ranging and in some cases,

00:50:01.080 even politically impossible and raise almost as many questions as they try to answer.

00:50:07.280 So what they're trying to do now is to regulate the, um, the social media platform.

00:50:15.400 Now, who's been the main victim of social media, uh, smears?

00:50:22.360 Really?

00:50:23.260 Oh, those, uh, of, of social media smears or the companies, you know, the, the trolls who's

00:50:28.940 been the, who's really the victim here, right, left, or both.

00:50:34.300 Yeah.

00:50:34.720 I think everybody.

00:50:35.340 Okay.

00:50:35.520 I think everybody, right?

00:50:36.640 Trolls on the internet.

00:50:37.300 Correct.

00:50:38.440 Crosses party lines.

00:50:39.600 Yeah.

00:50:39.820 Crosses party lines.

00:50:40.740 And if you're not big enough to handle that, well, then you're not big enough to push

00:50:45.020 the on switch to your phone.

00:50:46.980 You, you need to understand you have a responsibility.

00:50:50.260 So what they want to do is take the responsibility away and, and give it to government to make

00:50:57.280 sure that they're monitoring everything, um, online and deciding now who's going to decide

00:51:04.640 this, which speech is hateful and which isn't now you can say all you want.

00:51:10.300 If you're on the left currently, currently you will say, well, hate speech is, is so obvious,

00:51:17.000 so obvious.

00:51:18.300 You have to be a moron not to see it.

00:51:21.080 Okay.

00:51:21.620 All right.

00:51:22.740 Can I just remind you that we were just a country that you believed was so hateful that

00:51:29.360 we were keeping gays in a closet?

00:51:32.080 What can I remind you of the 1950s and the red scare?

00:51:35.680 I mean, the red scare scares me and I don't like communism.

00:51:42.020 I'm glad I did not live in the 1950s because I probably would have gone to jail because

00:51:48.080 that is terrifying to me that this country did that.

00:51:53.960 You don't think that could happen again?

00:51:55.980 And for anybody who says this about, you know, Donald Trump, well, Donald Trump, 43% now

00:52:01.920 of Republicans say Donald Trump can, uh, it should be able to take out the members of

00:52:07.400 the press with bad behavior, bad behavior.

00:52:11.640 Let's remind you, he's not king.

00:52:13.700 He's not going to be president forever.

00:52:15.420 Somebody else is going to use that same power.

00:52:17.700 The same things we argued when Obama was in to the left.

00:52:20.780 And we said, Hey, you know, all these fancy new powers you're finding in the Oval Office,

00:52:25.060 these things that you yourself said you couldn't do.

00:52:27.880 And now all of a sudden you're doing so now the next guy, you might not like so much.

00:52:31.240 So, so let's just put this into perspective.

00:52:33.740 Do you really think that the next, the next, um, progressive Democrat isn't going to try

00:52:42.080 to limit your free speech?

00:52:44.980 If you, if you proceed and say we should limit free speech, you don't think that they're

00:52:50.860 going to, let me give you a couple examples.

00:52:52.300 You have this, now this white paper, they're starting to circulate this, by the way, most

00:52:56.880 people don't know this.

00:52:58.420 The Patriot Act was, uh, circulated in the 1990s.

00:53:03.480 And if I may quote this article, uh, it, uh, in some cases it is even politically impossible

00:53:10.720 to get it passed.

00:53:12.320 Patriot Act found a way to pass that, didn't they?

00:53:15.400 So same thing that's happening here.

00:53:17.740 Also, let me give you this notice nobody in the press is talking about Bill de Blasio.

00:53:22.920 Bill de Blasio said, if you could remove news core from the last 25 years of American

00:53:28.460 history, we'd be a different place.

00:53:31.360 Yes.

00:53:32.560 Yes, he's right.

00:53:34.760 But there's no comparison between a progressive critique of America and overwhelmingly corporate

00:53:40.220 media.

00:53:40.680 By the way, when a president who doesn't believe in free speech is trying to undermine

00:53:44.380 the norms of democracy, Bill de Blasio is saying that, um, you know, there, if, if we

00:53:52.400 could just get rid of Fox news, we'd be a better place.

00:53:57.400 Stu, tell me about the Senator from Connecticut.

00:54:02.960 Uh, Chris Murphy, uh, he big proponent of freedom on the internet, big net neutrality

00:54:10.160 guy.

00:54:10.500 So just so you know, the net neutrality people are coming from the right position, but here's

00:54:14.100 what he said about the info wars situation.

00:54:16.480 Info wars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and

00:54:23.480 YouTube to tear our nation apart.

00:54:24.960 These companies must do more than take down one website.

00:54:29.560 The survival of our democracy depends on it right now.

00:54:33.740 Facebook, YouTube, everybody else.

00:54:36.160 They are being advised by people like the Southern poverty law center, and they're being, um, advised

00:54:43.620 by people like media matters on what hate speech is, who is a hater.

00:54:49.600 Who's a, who's danger.

00:54:51.160 Who's not.

00:54:52.020 Do you believe that?

00:54:54.960 We have to be people that stand up for the most vile voices.

00:55:03.780 You have to, because if you don't, they will come for ours.

00:55:08.980 If you watch, it won't be long before the next target.

00:55:13.880 They've just done this with Alex Jones.

00:55:16.300 And quite honestly, they're trying to intimidate Twitter hats off to Twitter.

00:55:23.700 Twitter won't take him down because they say he hasn't violated any of our standards.

00:55:27.480 If he does, we will.

00:55:30.420 Now, I can't believe he hasn't.

00:55:32.280 Well, he hasn't, according to Twitter.

00:55:35.300 And they're trying to bully them into joining the club.

00:55:39.280 And so far, they haven't.

00:55:40.740 But once they finish with him, who's next?

00:55:44.820 You just heard it from a senator in Connecticut.

00:55:49.400 It's the tip of the iceberg.

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00:56:51.080 Glenn Beck.

00:56:51.920 I think some really good news that, I don't know, restores a little bit of faith in America,

00:56:58.580 for me at least, it comes from the election last night.

00:57:03.620 The primaries, which you're not hearing an awful lot about, I'm sure, in the press today

00:57:09.220 because they don't have a lot to gloat about, especially if you were a socialist.

00:57:13.900 And we'll give you the full update on what happened yesterday in the primaries next.

00:57:21.700 Okay.

00:57:22.180 At the Netroots convention, it's all settled.

00:57:25.640 It looks like the 2020 contender for Donald Trump from the Democrats is going to be Elizabeth 0.59

00:57:31.640 Warren, which I, for one, welcome.

00:57:35.760 Yeah.

00:57:35.900 If you want Donald Trump to have another term, Elizabeth Warren's a dream for you.

00:57:40.100 It's yeah.

00:57:40.600 She's basically a more liberal Hillary. 1.00

00:57:43.780 You know, she's, she's just as bad a candidate as Hillary is. 1.00

00:57:48.560 She's not, you know, she just has more Sanders cred where like a Joe, again, people make fun

00:57:54.520 of Joe Biden, but Joe Biden is a, it's a wily guy.

00:57:57.800 He's a fighter.

00:57:58.860 He is, he will, he is the only candidate the Democrats have currently.

00:58:02.200 This is my belief.

00:58:03.060 The only candidate the Democrats have currently that can throw punches with Donald Trump.

00:58:08.460 I agree.

00:58:09.300 Because he will.

00:58:10.240 I mean, it would be fun to watch.

00:58:11.320 It would be a, again, if you're in this for entertainment, Trump, if you're, if you're

00:58:15.080 from another country and you're like, I don't care if America survives or not, it's a fun

00:58:19.540 one to watch because they will, they will fire back at each other.

00:58:22.920 They, you know, they don't, he will, it will be successful in the point of he will not get

00:58:28.100 pushed around like Hillary constantly just like gave that little look and that little 1.00

00:58:32.340 shrug and I can't believe this guy over here.

00:58:35.920 Can you believe it is the thing I'm supposed to say according to focus groups.

00:58:40.240 That's not Joe Biden.

00:58:41.520 He comes off as largely able to, you know, work in that world.

00:58:46.900 Yeah.

00:58:47.040 I was thinking when you said he comes off largely, I was thinking creepy, very creepy, but maybe

00:58:52.200 that wasn't the, it would be the creepiest race. 1.00

00:58:56.240 So anyway, but they're, they're looking at, you know, Elizabeth Warren and I welcome that,

00:59:00.740 especially based on what happened last night.

00:59:03.840 Now it was not a great night for, uh, Republicans.

00:59:07.940 It wasn't a great night for Democrats, but it was a horrible night for democratic socialists.

00:59:15.000 Yeah.

00:59:15.720 Oh no.

00:59:16.560 What a terrible thing.

00:59:17.640 Like, you know what?

00:59:18.660 You said something about an hour ago that made me rethink.

00:59:21.560 I was really, really optimistic, uh, about this, but now that only means that they're going

00:59:26.220 to go back underneath, you know, put their mask back on.

00:59:29.460 We'll see.

00:59:30.060 I mean, the energy is still on the far left.

00:59:32.560 I'm part of me would like them to be winning these primaries, the socialists, because then

00:59:38.100 you're going with a socialist who's saying they're a socialist and they're open about

00:59:42.580 it.

00:59:42.720 We can go through the money.

00:59:43.740 Vox, by the way, left wing site went through this and found over the next 30 years, the

00:59:48.260 total of these, of the plans, uh, proposed by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders run at $218 trillion,

00:59:56.680 which is a tad more than we have.

01:00:01.800 Um, and so I think, uh, there's a, an argument that I'd rather have that debate.

01:00:07.020 I'd rather have a Sanders verse constitutionalist debate.

01:00:11.560 Mike Lee, uh, uh, Sanders, Ted Cruz, Sanders.

01:00:15.260 I'm, I'm all for it.

01:00:16.340 I would love that because then you're talking about two honest people who embrace their philosophies.

01:00:20.580 Don't try to hide them.

01:00:21.480 Don't try to be underground.

01:00:23.520 Don't, uh, take little tiny steps towards their goals.

01:00:27.160 They say what they want.

01:00:28.600 Yeah.

01:00:28.960 And they go for it.

01:00:29.800 Cause that's where we are.

01:00:30.660 That's where the American people are.

01:00:32.400 That's what the American people at least say they want.

01:00:34.680 Yes.

01:00:35.140 And we're there.

01:00:36.100 We look, we have a choice.

01:00:37.780 We can either go back to the constitution or we can go towards, you know, socialism,

01:00:42.680 communism, totalitarianism, whatever it is.

01:00:45.660 Uh, we can go that direction one way or another.

01:00:48.320 Uh, why don't we just have that debate?

01:00:51.980 So all of the, all of the masks came off recently, uh, and, uh, they started, um, you know, touting

01:00:59.340 all of these democratic socialists cause we're all socialists now.

01:01:02.220 Apparently not.

01:01:03.780 Apparently not.

01:01:04.600 Do you have any of the, uh, races and how far of a blowout they were in some of them?

01:01:08.140 Uh, I can guess that, that, yeah.

01:01:09.700 Um, of course I just closed it.

01:01:11.200 Some of them were, you know, fifth place.

01:01:13.640 And these were the, these are the ones that, uh, Ocasio-Cortez, I mean, you want to talk

01:01:18.300 about from zero to hero to zero again.

01:01:22.200 It's still, I mean, look, it's early.

01:01:23.900 She's going to win her race. 0.99

01:01:25.140 There's almost no doubt about that.

01:01:28.140 She's going to, but if she would have, if those races would have won, we'd be having 0.99

01:01:32.420 a massively different conversation.

01:01:34.380 Yeah.

01:01:34.500 You'd have a big argument to say, okay, the left is really going that way.

01:01:39.020 And I, I kind of wish, again, kind of wish they would, um, but, uh, let's say, uh, uh,

01:01:44.100 Abdul Al-Sayed, he was the, uh, uh, uh, was the, uh, candidate in Michigan for governor.

01:01:52.280 That was kind of the Sanders-esque candidate, uh, did not win.

01:01:56.180 Uh, then, uh, Ohio moderate Democrat, uh, who rejects things like, uh, Medicare for all

01:02:03.960 and abolish ICE, uh, and tuition-free college, uh, almost wanted the house district that 1.00

01:02:10.120 Republicans have held for 35 years.

01:02:12.360 Um, so that almost worked there and still it's, it's not entirely decided, but I think

01:02:16.800 the Republicans are going to hold that there.

01:02:18.280 But remember, that's a Democrat that was moderate.

01:02:21.840 Uh, right.

01:02:22.360 That's what I mean.

01:02:22.840 So the, the moderate, the moderate performed well, the, uh, Sanders-esque performed poorly

01:02:28.980 in Michigan.

01:02:29.840 As absolutely expected by everyone except for the Democrats and the media.

01:02:33.960 Two established-backed candidates also beat self-styled Berniecrats in Michigan House

01:02:38.180 primaries.

01:02:39.120 The Kansas second with former Bernie Sanders staffer Brett Welder, um, facing Sharice Davids

01:02:45.140 is too close to call, though Davids appears to be ahead.

01:02:49.000 Uh, so it's one of those things where every, there was no wins for the socialist left yesterday.

01:02:55.520 You can look at that both ways.

01:02:57.000 I think if you're looking at it from a, uh, a Republican or conservative perspective, it's

01:03:01.640 kind of a bad thing because...

01:03:04.260 They're going to go back underground.

01:03:05.540 They're, A, they're going to go back underground.

01:03:06.820 And B, the, the people who aren't socialists have a better chance of winning.

01:03:10.980 Mm-hmm.

01:03:11.200 Um, now some of these races where you go to a race where it's a hard blue sort of district,

01:03:17.840 you know, if you're on the Democratic side, you want the socialists in there, right?

01:03:22.860 You want them to win.

01:03:23.760 And the fact that they, they might lose some of those districts is a bad thing for them.

01:03:26.920 But again, the more this can be outed, I think the better.

01:03:29.640 The more that people will outwardly come out and talk about a policy that costs $218 trillion

01:03:34.620 with major caveats, by the way, $218 trillion does not cause, is massively understates the

01:03:41.200 cost of their, uh, universal jobs program and does not include at all the universal housing

01:03:45.640 program that they, they want.

01:03:47.460 But, and also leaves everybody hungry, as far as my, my math goes, because there's no

01:03:51.260 universal food program here that you know is going to have to come at some point if

01:03:55.500 the economy starts destroying, destroying itself.

01:03:58.180 It is, it's, it's remarkable how many trillions of dollars this costs every single year.

01:04:04.240 It doesn't include a universal internet.

01:04:06.060 It doesn't include a lot of the big things they talk about all the time.

01:04:09.000 But those are, you know, pennies on the dollar when you're talking to $218 trillion.

01:04:12.540 So what do you think happens from here?

01:04:13.460 What was the, what was the original prediction?

01:04:16.100 Uh, I was on Fox and I said, uh, we just found that audio, didn't we?

01:04:21.960 Do we have that audio?

01:04:23.160 Yeah, we had it a few days ago.

01:04:24.300 I don't think it's ready at the moment, but we can put it together.

01:04:27.060 Um, Sarah, see if you can find it.

01:04:29.720 Um, because I was on Fox and do you remember the setup?

01:04:34.640 Because it was, it was, I was talking about, I think, President Obama and how they were just,

01:04:40.520 you know, denying, denying, denying that this is what they really wanted.

01:04:43.880 And it was true. 0.94

01:04:44.460 And I, I got really frustrated.

01:04:45.900 I said, you know, at some point they're just going to take the mask off and they're just

01:04:49.340 going to say, you know, capitalism doesn't work.

01:04:52.020 And I still think that can happen.

01:04:54.000 And I, I, it is happening.

01:04:55.740 Well, no, no, no.

01:04:56.740 I know that.

01:04:57.460 I mean.

01:04:58.000 That they were going to stand on that and really make the case and possibly win.

01:05:06.020 I'm not sure based on last night, I'm not sure that's a winnable argument yet in America,

01:05:11.780 but we are also having really good job numbers, really good growth right now.

01:05:18.420 The economy feels pretty good.

01:05:20.260 If we would hit a, a major bump in the road, I think that election goes a different way.

01:05:27.460 I think when you're talking about major societal change like this, you don't just win, right?

01:05:34.200 You have to, you have to establish yourself as the alternative first.

01:05:38.520 So the fact that we have, let's say capitalism now, and you might have people saying socialism,

01:05:44.500 socialism, socialism, socialism, and they're not going to, they might not win now, but as

01:05:49.280 you just pointed out, and this has happened throughout history, you know, it's not just

01:05:53.480 like, oh, there's two competing parties and one takes over when, once there becomes this

01:05:57.860 decision that the way you hear the argument enough that the thing that would save us is

01:06:03.220 socialism. When there's a reason to be saved, people look around and they find the only other

01:06:09.540 thing they've heard of. And in this case, it would be socialism. We saw that, that happened

01:06:14.520 in, you know, Nazi Germany, right? I mean, it was, it was, Nazism didn't come in and just win the,

01:06:19.100 oh, that's a great idea, we should go with that. It wasn't until there was real strife

01:06:22.280 and people looked around and said, holy crap, we have nothing. Wait, that one guy was saying

01:06:25.680 he could solve it. And then they went to Hitler, right? That is, it's happened throughout 0.95

01:06:32.240 history in many, many countries, that being obviously, as usual, the most extreme example

01:06:35.780 to make the point. But the situation here, if socialism can grab a foothold and say,

01:06:40.540 this is a legitimate second option, when option one fails, that's where people turn.

01:06:45.280 Here's a better, here's a better example of that. And that is England. England had gone

01:06:51.000 through two wars. People couldn't afford things. They couldn't, they couldn't afford to rebuild

01:06:57.040 and the hospitals, you know, bills and everything else. And so in Churchill was dead set against it.

01:07:03.580 This is, this is not us. This is not a Western philosophy. This is not the way to solve this

01:07:10.940 in a capitalist free society. Well, people were hurting too bad from the war. I mean, they were

01:07:17.320 really, really struggling. And so the country went socialist. That's why England is in the shape

01:07:24.640 that it's in today. That's why their hospitals are in the shape today. And it didn't come through

01:07:29.760 somebody saying, oh, you know what, this is just so much better than, and everything was fine.

01:07:34.260 It came at a time when people were really struggling. Yeah. And that's dangerous. You know,

01:07:39.660 this is why, again, we fight about principles all the time. Because in the moment, anything feels good.

01:07:46.080 You can always be convinced by somebody that, that, that, that today's situation is different.

01:07:50.440 We were talking about the media the other day about how, you know, whether you want to advocate

01:07:57.880 for someone to be removed from the internet, whether you want to advocate for someone to

01:08:01.020 be fired from their job for a joke they made in the past. And if you reverse that and you

01:08:05.220 look at it from a different perspective, do you still feel the same way? The key there though

01:08:10.260 is implementing that policy when the, when the situation turns around. If you're out there

01:08:14.560 defending some liberal who made some joke, some writer you just hired or some actor that

01:08:20.640 you like, and they made a joke about the right and, and you want them thrown off the, some

01:08:25.700 people are saying, throw them off the internet and you're saying, no, come on, this is just

01:08:28.340 a joke. Remember that phrasing next time a conservative gets accused and that's a principle,

01:08:34.720 right? It's a principle. You can always find someone who will come to you and say, this time

01:08:40.520 is different because dot, dot, dot, there's always someone who's going to come up to you

01:08:45.360 and say that everyone around you, all your friends are going to tell you, of course I

01:08:49.700 agreed with you last time, but this time is different because X, Y, and Z. You have to

01:08:54.400 resist that temptation. That's why, that's why Alex Jones is such a good example. He is

01:08:59.100 so vile. He's the worst. Yeah. I mean, and we are, we have a very long, almost 20 year

01:09:04.880 record of, of standing against him, uh, and, and what he does and what he says. I mean,

01:09:11.840 he's just a vile individual back in the day when 51% of Democrats believed Alex Jones's

01:09:18.760 theories about Bush being involved in nine 11. That was, that was who he is. It's who

01:09:24.280 he was. He was working with socialists like Cynthia McKinney on these projects. He's no right

01:09:29.920 winger. He's about, he's as right wing as the alt right. That's who this guy is. And

01:09:36.680 the fact that he's continually lumped in with the right is something to really point out and

01:09:40.380 be frustrated over. But the idea that you can go and take him off, whether he's left

01:09:44.180 or right, it's just not the right move. It is an allowable move. It is a move that Facebook

01:09:49.960 and all these organizations can do. It is their prerogative. I believe, however, they shouldn't

01:09:56.680 do it. Or I believe that they should just be very clear as to what exactly he violated

01:10:05.680 that, that is a content driven, uh, contributor driven website. That's a platform. And so I

01:10:14.420 go and put my stuff on the platform. You can't just make arbitrary rules because you're affecting

01:10:19.840 my business. Yeah. Okay. I'm, I'm, I'm putting a lot of stock in that that business is stable.

01:10:25.680 You can't arbitrarily say, Oh, Nope, you're out. You're in. I want to know what the rules

01:10:31.240 are. I wanted to know them very clearly because my business will not violate them unless they

01:10:37.060 start to violate our principles. And then of course we will. And here's the rule. Don't

01:10:41.800 become a pain in the ass to the company. That is what's happened here. It's gotten not honestly,

01:10:46.120 like people are like, Oh, well, he's saying bad things about, uh, liberals and that's

01:10:49.840 why he's taken off. That's not true. He's just a pain in the ass to Facebook. He, Facebook

01:10:55.400 is being dragged in front of congressional hearings. They're being pressured. They're

01:10:59.680 being hassled. They don't want to deal with it. And that's why they pulled the same thing

01:11:04.040 with Apple. They don't want to deal with it. Yes, you're right. You're right. But you

01:11:07.700 can say that all you want, but it's not necessarily with him. It is, um, but with, with

01:11:14.780 others, it's not, we're not trying to be a pain in the ass, but believe me with the 0.73

01:11:19.240 money media matter spends, we're a pain in the ass to them too. And the way I phrase

01:11:23.160 that is more critical of these companies. I don't mean it in that, like, because you're

01:11:26.720 right. It's completely impossible to decide what's going to make that make you a pain in

01:11:30.480 the ass. But the, the idea that they dropped him for any actual content reason is ridiculous.

01:11:35.820 It has nothing to do with him harassing anybody. It has nothing to do with him being a lunatic,

01:11:39.280 which he is. What changed from the last 20 years? Yeah. What changed? It just, people have

01:11:43.800 brought it to her attention. They're sick of dealing with it. And this, yes, this will

01:11:46.900 give them short term hassles of their policies, but long term, they will no longer have to

01:11:51.480 deal with these questions. And I have a feeling though. Yep. They, because they will move on

01:11:56.000 these social justice warriors. Oh yes. Media matters, et cetera. We'll move on to the next

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01:13:18.860 So Grand Theft Auto five, Grand Theft Auto five, the video game has been out for five

01:13:24.120 years, still like number three on the video game charts after five years. Wow. Has sold

01:13:29.400 90 million copies has taken in more money than any movie in history. Oh, over $6 billion

01:13:39.800 for this game, which they continue to keep updating and is still selling as if it was a brand new

01:13:46.700 release. 90 million copies. Unbelievable. Scene. Who, who, who wrote that program? I, I, I think

01:13:57.420 I'm related. No, really? I do. I think I'm related. Wow. Yeah.

01:14:02.900 Glenn Beck.

01:14:08.220 This was the sound in Iran protests in the streets, thousands chanting, not death to America,

01:14:16.820 but death to the dictator, not death to Israel, death to the dictator. Now we've seen protests

01:14:25.420 against the Iranian regime in the past 2009 during the Obama administration seemed like

01:14:30.380 the sounds of, uh, you know, regime change were blowing in the wind, but nothing ever

01:14:34.260 materialized in many ways because the white house, I think, um, undercut that showed them

01:14:40.320 that they were alone. But now that we've dropped the sanctions, bailing out the mullahs with billions, 0.91

01:14:47.660 uh, now that we've stopped doing that, maybe things will change. Something different has been

01:14:54.220 happening over the last week. The protests in 2009 were made up mostly of the youth, but young and old

01:15:00.100 alike are now hitting the streets and death to the dictator. You got to remember there is no bill of

01:15:05.540 rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran saying things like that means your death, but they're doing it 1.00

01:15:12.320 anyway. So now why are they taking this risk? I do believe it's because president Trump scrapped the

01:15:19.460 nuke deal ever since he started hinting about that. The real, which is their dollar lost 99% of its

01:15:26.500 value. Imagine that now being traded on the black market at 112,000 to one us dollar. Iranians are

01:15:34.400 rushing to gold dealers to save what little they have before it all comes crashing down. The demand for

01:15:38.940 gold in Iran and Venezuela has tripled. The price of food has shot up 50%. Water shortages are breaking

01:15:47.040 out all over the country. Women continue to be arrested, uh, you know, for getting caught outside

01:15:51.760 without a headscarf. This is not going to end well for the regime. The Iranian people have been pushed

01:15:57.700 to the brink. They are sick and tired of seeing all of the sanction money that was freed up after the

01:16:04.120 nuke deal, uh, float a group like a groups like Hezbollah. They're spending the money that we gave 0.55

01:16:10.980 them as we said they would with Hezbollah Hamas and the war in Syria instead of their own people.

01:16:17.380 There was a frustrated bus driver in Iran. He said this via Twitter, how dare the regime sends money,

01:16:23.500 send money to Hezbollah and the Palestinians when our country is in trouble. Our revolution's aim

01:16:29.820 wasn't to support dirty Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah while being oppressed here. Enough is

01:16:36.840 enough. The first wave of snapback sanctions went into effect yesterday. More sanctions target the

01:16:43.920 country's oil industry. They hit in November. Things are going to escalate. The civil unrest is on the

01:16:53.160 rise. There will be crackdowns and people will die. I hope we keep the Iranians in our prayers.

01:17:00.280 The Iranian regime has been a hostile adversary of the United States since 1979. They have been a root 1.00

01:17:08.380 of many of the problems in the Middle East and around the world. And if the Iranian people successfully 1.00

01:17:14.000 take their country back, this is a group of people in the Arab world that understand democracy and

01:17:22.860 freedom. And that could change things for the better very soon.

01:17:38.540 It's Wednesday, August 8th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:42.780 Really excited to have Elizabeth hang on. Elizabeth is running for which district here? 1.00

01:17:49.520 The 16th district in California, congressional candidate. She is really the rights answer to 0.99

01:17:58.240 Alexandria. What's her name? Alexandria Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez, who kind of bottomed out yesterday. 0.84

01:18:08.260 Elizabeth has a remarkable story. And I think it's so remarkable and effective that Facebook decided to

01:18:15.280 ban the video. And do we have a piece of the video? Play a little bit of the video. Do we have

01:18:21.760 a piece or not? No? Elizabeth is here so she can just tell us what was on the video. Hello, Elizabeth.

01:18:28.000 How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Thank you so much for having me today. You bet. You bet.

01:18:32.840 First of all, are you, your family or any of your potential constituents affected by the fire?

01:18:38.280 No, actually. In the constituents, yes. I mean, the air quality here is so bad right now. I think

01:18:47.000 on the AQI, I just looked at it this morning, it was like 156 for air quality outside.

01:18:54.780 Well, our prayers are with everybody in California and the firefighters. Okay. So, Elizabeth, tell us a

01:19:02.140 little bit about yourself. Tell us who you are.

01:19:04.540 Thank you. Yes. Happy to. So, you know, my name is Elizabeth Heng and I'm running for

01:19:09.320 Congress here in California, Congressional District 16. I grew up here in the Central Valley.

01:19:14.420 I went to college at Stanford. I ended up coming back to the Valley to work with my brothers to

01:19:21.200 create jobs here in the Valley. We opened up a number of cellular franchises, T-Mobile in particular,

01:19:27.440 up and down California. But at the time, I saw firsthand how government regulations truly impacted

01:19:35.080 job creation for us here in California. And this is back when the financial crisis happened,

01:19:40.860 the healthcare bill passed, and I was really frustrated with what was coming out of Washington,

01:19:45.860 D.C. at the time. And therefore, I thought to myself, I was so fortunate to have gone to a

01:19:50.620 university. I could go to Stanford University and I was student body president there, but I didn't know

01:19:57.100 a single person in politics. So I decided to go to Washington, D.C. to go learn the legislative

01:20:04.700 process. I ended up going to being in D.C. on and off for about six years working for a conservative

01:20:11.540 member in Congress at Royce down in Orange, California, Orange County, working on the Foreign

01:20:17.180 Affairs Committee. By the end of my time on Capitol Hill, I actually became one of the directors

01:20:23.740 for this last presidential inauguration. And it was an opportunity of a lifetime to work on the

01:20:31.920 peaceful transfer of power. My job was to oversee thousands of movements to make sure that we

01:20:39.140 inaugurated our next president of the United States for President Trump and oversee 450 congressional

01:20:45.840 staffers. One incredible thing that I want, a story that I want to share with you, and I remember

01:20:51.460 being in, when all of these movements were taking place, I remember Clinton had just arrived, Bush had

01:20:59.400 just arrived, there was a lot of excitement on Capitol Hill, and my brother posted something to Facebook.

01:21:06.760 He said, 33 years ago, my parents came to the United States as penniless refugees. Today, they're sitting

01:21:16.240 on the platform with the next president of the United States of America. Hashtag progress.

01:21:24.180 I realized at that moment that nowhere in this world would that have been possible. And it's why I

01:21:31.200 continue to dedicate my life to the service of this country. And after that experience, and I was

01:21:39.220 actually doing grad school at the same time, I was flying back from Washington, D.C. to New Haven to go

01:21:44.900 to Yale to getting my business degree every other weekend for two years. One thing I would say,

01:21:51.440 one thing I would say is that never run the, be one of the directors for inauguration and go to grad

01:22:00.280 school full-time school full-time. Wait a minute, hang on just a second. I would think for more than

01:22:06.760 one reason, not only are you tired all the time, but I bet if anybody found out, you were real popular

01:22:11.600 at Yale. I was not that popular at Yale. Yes, yes, yes. Well, neither was I. You know, I went in,

01:22:20.340 you know, conservative. I came out more conservative. It was, but it was a lot of fun. I really got to

01:22:26.740 fine-tune, you know, free market principles and, you know, my, you know, and Milton Friedman concepts

01:22:34.020 and how I do believe that that's the reason our country is great and why I'll continue to

01:22:39.680 sort of defend those ideologies. So, Elizabeth, tell me about Facebook and what happened because

01:22:45.840 your video, it just tells the story of your parents. Correct, correct. When I decided to run for

01:22:54.260 Congress, a big part of my message was great things can come from great adversity. You know,

01:23:01.960 as I mentioned sort of earlier, my parents, my parents are from Cambodia. They lived through,

01:23:09.700 they survived genocide there and came to the United States as legal refugees. For some reason,

01:23:16.540 Facebook didn't like that story. And last week, they revoked my ability to advertise that message.

01:23:24.960 And yesterday, they decided, oh, no, no, wait, wait, sorry, we're not shadow blocking you at all.

01:23:29.300 That was a total mistake. And that's absolutely maddening to me, right? To feel like my story is

01:23:35.720 being silenced on Facebook or any other public platform because censoring the voices of Americans

01:23:41.380 who have different viewpoints or just want to tell their story isn't right and Facebook needs to be

01:23:45.960 held accountable. The only thing they said to me yesterday was, I apologize for the confusion here.

01:23:51.320 You know, and what is ridiculous about that is that had I been a liberal from, say, Los Angeles,

01:23:58.020 this would have never happened. And, you know, I, it was ridiculous that it took five days and a

01:24:05.720 national movement for them to say, oh, by the way, I apologize for the confusion here. What about

01:24:11.440 everybody else who are not able to get a national movement? You know, it's so incredibly important

01:24:19.020 on these, for these liberal tech giants to have, like, diversity in political thought.

01:24:27.820 Other way, if we don't, if we allow these tech giants to be able to censor conservative voices,

01:24:34.480 um, that's a problem here. Um, and I, do you think it goes farther than concern? I mean,

01:24:39.860 censoring any voice I think is bad. More voices, not fewer. We have a new poll that just came out.

01:24:45.840 46% of what they describe as GOPers, um, uh, say that the president should have the right to,

01:24:53.380 uh, uh, uh, censor, uh, bind or silence those, uh, uh, press organizations that have quote,

01:25:01.720 acted badly. I think that's insanity. It's, it's, it's, it's insane. Um, it's important to have

01:25:09.640 diverse political thoughts and that's the great part about our country, right? I might not agree

01:25:14.180 with a hundred percent of what anybody says. I don't think anybody does, but you should have the

01:25:19.240 right to, with the fundamentals of free speech and, uh, you know, and it seems as if our country

01:25:24.620 is trending in a different direction. We've seen firsthand how communism, socialism doesn't work

01:25:30.540 anywhere in this world. Like, give me a good example. You can't find that. Well, they would

01:25:35.100 say, they would say that, you know, the Netherlands, socialists would say, well, it works in the

01:25:39.780 Netherlands, works in, you know, Holland, works in Sweden. Yeah. But it, you know, having like sort

01:25:46.860 of traveled sort of around the world, working on foreign policy, like, you know, our system isn't

01:25:51.800 perfect here in the U S but it is the best that I've seen out there. Um, and I'll continue to sort

01:25:57.800 of, and I'll continue to defend that those, the freedom of thought, the freedom of speech,

01:26:02.440 freedom of religion, and all those big principles, um, from our founding fathers.

01:26:06.680 What does it mean in California that you are, um, that you're running? What is the movement

01:26:12.780 in California? There seems to be a possibility of, of some movement in California. Do you think

01:26:20.300 there is politically? Politically? I truly believe that there is here. I mean, it's gone so far

01:26:27.400 left here in California, and especially here in the central Valley, it's, it's, it's frustrating.

01:26:34.020 We've been dealing with the exact same problems that we have been dealing with decades for decades

01:26:40.520 now, all of it's under the umbrella of over-regulation. And I believe that people in the

01:26:46.060 central Valley in particular are beginning to wake up, um, wake up and pay attention and pay attention

01:26:52.700 to that because, uh, you know, growing up here, this is one of the poorest congressional districts

01:26:58.760 in the whole, uh, in the whole country. It's ranked on like 400, one of the 412th poorest

01:27:04.880 out of 435 in the country. We can do better. Um, and as I, how do you, how do you, I mean,

01:27:12.960 that's, you know, um, um, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would say the same thing probably about her district, 1.00

01:27:18.980 that it's very, very poor. And you can kind of understand that that's how socialism can take

01:27:23.880 root. How do you present, you know, the pick up yourself by your own bootstraps kind of, uh,

01:27:30.440 uh, idea to people who are really struggling? Yeah. I mean, if you, I think people are starting

01:27:37.380 to realize that I support the president, right? And it is undeniable that our economy is at an all

01:27:42.920 time high right now. What last, it was 4.2% GDP growth here in the country, you know, our unemployment,

01:27:48.960 rate, um, is at a, uh, uh, at all time low. Um, and it is undeniable that things such as the tax

01:27:57.160 plan, for example, put more money in people's pockets here in our district. And my opponent,

01:28:03.620 Jim Costa voted against that. Um, and so people, although the unemployment rate is significantly

01:28:11.080 higher than, uh, the rest of the country, it's a lot better than where they were two years ago.

01:28:17.380 Who's your favorite founding father?

01:28:19.880 Ooh, my favorite founding father. Uh, uh, I don't, who would yours be? I'm out of, out of curiosity.

01:28:28.400 Who's mine?

01:28:29.740 Yes.

01:28:30.380 Well, mine is George Washington, but, uh, yeah.

01:28:33.840 Gotta go Ben Franklin on that one.

01:28:35.540 Gotta go Ben.

01:28:36.100 I'm all Ben Franklin.

01:28:37.160 Ben Franklin.

01:28:37.420 All right. Elizabeth, uh, thank you. Uh, thank you so much and, uh, keep up the good fight there

01:28:43.400 in California. And, uh, please pass on to everybody in California that our hearts and our, our thoughts,

01:28:49.620 our prayers, our backs, and some of our money going to California to, uh, to help them through

01:28:54.360 this, uh, tough time with these fires. God bless you. Thank you so much.

01:28:57.460 Thank you. Bye-bye.

01:28:58.820 Thank you so much.

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01:30:15.540 Let's go to Larry in Oklahoma. Hello, Larry, you're on the Glenbeck program.

01:30:22.260 Hi, Glenn. How are you doing?

01:30:23.160 I'm great, man. How are you?

01:30:25.080 Great. Got a little bit of rain here in Southwest Oklahoma today.

01:30:28.120 Where are you? Where exactly are you in Oklahoma?

01:30:31.700 Southwest corner, little area called Warica Lake, about 40 miles north of Wichita Falls.

01:30:38.920 Okay. Nice. Anyway. Okay. Larry, I'll never, I'll never admit this certain, and we don't want

01:30:45.400 Facebook to hear about this, but they kind of did us a favor with, uh, blocking conservative ads.

01:30:52.440 Just think of this a week ago, we didn't know who Elizabeth Hange was today. I can send money to

01:30:59.260 her campaign. Thanks to Facebook. I will tell you this. I will tell you this. That is an interesting

01:31:05.400 thing that came up in my own, in my own mind. And I've been following her for a while, uh, and

01:31:11.280 watching her in California. Um, and when she said, you know, they blocked my ad, I thought,

01:31:18.780 yeah, but I've been following you and you're on the air today where you haven't been on the air

01:31:24.860 because of the Facebook thing. And I find that, I find that, um, you know, something that I don't

01:31:31.800 think Facebook was, was thinking the same thing with Alex Jones. Did you see he's what the number

01:31:37.360 three downloaded app now? Right. Cause everyone's rushing. They were watching on Facebook. Now

01:31:43.400 they're going to the app and they're watching him. They may actually end up making him more money,

01:31:47.220 which is, it's, it's somewhat silly because of course the app store is run by the same people

01:31:51.740 who banned him from iTunes and started this in the, in the first place. Correct. But I mean,

01:31:55.540 I think, I don't think they should ban the app either, obviously. Uh, but yeah, it's probably

01:31:59.500 going to want, it's certainly probably going to be a short term burst to his income. Yes.

01:32:05.020 Right. Because people will be, will be signing up for things and yeah, you know, he'll get a nice

01:32:09.400 little attention. He'll just fade away. He'll be isolated, you know, in his own little digital

01:32:14.180 ghetto, which, oh, and that nice. I love, I love the ghettoization of societies. And the question is 0.60

01:32:21.080 how do people, males in particular, become vital without his male vitality formula? That's the only

01:32:27.740 thing saving America and American men right now, Larry. And if, if, if male vitality formula goes 1.00

01:32:33.720 away, I don't know what we're going to do. It's not helpful. Is it Larry? Oh, not at all. Not at all.

01:32:38.840 Yeah. Yeah. All right. Good. Thanks Larry. Well, he's a vital male. He is. He's a vital male. He

01:32:43.280 probably did. What do you do for a living, Larry? Larry? Yeah. Yeah. What do you do for a living?

01:32:49.680 I'm sorry if we were boring you. Oh, no, no, no. Okay. I'm retired. I'm retired. You're retired. What did you do?

01:32:55.680 Served in the military and then was in a national advertising, a publishing company out of

01:33:03.960 Pennsylvania. Wow. What were you, what'd you do in the military? What'd you do in the military?

01:33:08.600 First I worked on nuclear missiles and then I was in the infantry where we broke things and

01:33:15.000 killed people. Right. And so you could always blame your hair loss on the missiles.

01:33:19.120 Well, sort of. Yeah. Although, although my hair is halfway down my back. So you still have hair on

01:33:27.280 your head or just the hair on your back? Yeah. Okay. Good. All right. The hair from my head is on my

01:33:32.620 back. All right. And I never used any of Alex Jones's stuff. Right. All right. Larry, thank you so

01:33:38.200 much. I appreciate it. Okay. When we come back, uh, there is something that I think is being called

01:33:44.700 the most tone deaf message of the year. I think it is the exact opposite. Next.

01:33:59.700 This is the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the program. I'm glad that we are joined now by

01:34:05.560 Mr. Pat Gray. Oh, me too. I love Pat Gray. Oh my gosh. Who doesn't? You know what I mean? Yeah. Who

01:34:10.540 doesn't? Yeah. Yeah. You love him too? Oh. So are we all Pat Gray now? Yeah. I'm egotistical

01:34:18.940 enough to proclaim that. Yes. We are all Pat Gray now. So Pat, I want to play something. Now

01:34:24.240 this is called the most tone deaf message of the year. I have the opposite viewpoint. This

01:34:32.720 is a commercial now, uh, of Jack in the box and Jack is coming into an office and he

01:34:40.700 is, uh, in each hand, he has two bowls of food. Okay. Here it is.

01:34:47.120 While other burger places serve the same old stuff. I'm the only one with the bowls to serve

01:34:51.440 something different. I mean, just look at my teriyaki bowls. Choose from steak or chicken

01:34:55.360 covered in teriyaki sauce. Plus your choice of white or brown rice. What about these bowls,

01:34:59.480 Jack? Hey, you got some pretty nice bowls there and so does Dan. Thanks Jack. Those

01:35:03.540 are some nice bowls. Everyone's going to want to get their hands on Jack's bowls. Come

01:35:07.940 try my bowls. Jack, the lawyers aren't comfortable with the new marketing campaign. Why? People

01:35:13.520 love my bowls. See that right there? You can't say that. I can't say people love my bowls. No.

01:35:17.840 What about try my bowls? No. Check out my bowls. Absolutely not. How is that out of touch?

01:35:24.280 That is exactly the conversation we're all having. Well, and they prove it at the end with

01:35:29.160 the lawyer. Yeah, that's what I mean. They show you they're totally in touch with what's

01:35:31.940 going on right now. Exactly right. It's one thing just to do the first part of it. But

01:35:36.320 once they introduce the lawyers and they're like, can't say bowls, there's nothing wrong

01:35:41.300 with bowls. Try my bowl. But but it sounds bad. So now people are starting to come out and

01:35:47.980 they're very offended by this, which I'm sure Jack in the box is fine with because people like

01:35:54.160 we're talking about it. It's going viral. Mm hmm. So, you know, hats off to Jack, who

01:36:00.300 is quite possibly the creepiest representative of anything I've ever seen. Yes. I mean, it's

01:36:08.900 a weird, very weird campaign start from from the very beginning. It was weird. Yeah. With

01:36:13.880 the with the guy with the styrofoam head. It's just bizarre. Just bizarre. It's very strange

01:36:21.100 to because growing up in the east, there were no Jack in the box. Yes. The only thing I knew

01:36:25.940 about them is they had a breakout of E. coli. Well, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where

01:36:32.660 I believe that happened. Yeah, I think so. And you never forget it. It's one of those

01:36:37.800 things you're like, I don't think I'm going to go to Jack in the box. I don't know the

01:36:41.560 last time I've been to Jack in the box. Now, I do go to Jack in the box fairly often, as

01:36:47.020 you can see by my appearance. Mm hmm. And I actually thought of this one day. I was sitting

01:36:51.240 in Jack in the box and I was thinking about how I never went to one as a kid. I didn't

01:36:56.020 have there weren't around. And the only thing I knew about it was this E. coli

01:36:58.660 breakout. And then I looked over because four kids died in that. It was a really serious

01:37:03.500 thing. Yeah, it was bad. And this is in the 90s. Mm hmm. And I sat there and as I looked

01:37:07.700 over at my two children that I bring to Jack in the box for breakfast, like a decent amount,

01:37:12.280 I thought to myself, look at the amazing faith in capitalism that I have and how we can.

01:37:17.020 This is a company that had an issue in which they actually killed four children. They're

01:37:23.580 thrilled that we're talking about. I'm sure they are. They're sure they're breaking this

01:37:26.220 having bring this back up. But they I'm still bringing my kids there. It's the burrito place.

01:37:33.560 What's the name of the burrito? Chipotle. Chipotle. Chipotle as Al Sharp used to call it. Yeah,

01:37:39.580 they had that same issue. Bluebell ice cream had this had a similar issue as well. Do not say

01:37:44.000 those things about Bluebell ice cream. No, that's wrong. Do not say. Sure.

01:37:47.500 It was Listeria. It was Listeria. It wasn't E. coli. If they had chocolate chip mint Listeria.

01:37:53.800 I'd eat ice cream. I'd still eat it. As soon as it came back on the shelves, I'm diving right

01:37:58.560 back into Bluebell. I'm there. I remember we had I'm eating the stuff that they're not quite

01:38:02.980 sure of. Uh huh. I'm still eating it. I guess could be tainted. This might not be. I'm rolling

01:38:07.720 the dice. I had it in my freezer when the thing broke and I ate it anyway. I remember

01:38:11.620 before. I did too. I remember. Uh, I remember when, uh, we lived up north and, uh, everybody's

01:38:20.180 like, oh, Texas Bluebell ice cream, Bluebell ice cream. I'm like, ah, come on. It can't

01:38:23.480 be that good. It is that good. I don't know what they do to it. I don't care what they do

01:38:29.500 to it. I think they put crack in it. Do they? Yeah. There's crack. So good. So good.

01:38:33.520 It is good. Anyway. But anyway, they have a 68 share, by the way, in Dallas, Texas.

01:38:38.040 They what? Oh, that's how good it is. A 68 share of the ice cream market. 68% of the

01:38:43.500 ice cream market. Yeah. 68% of all ice cream sold here is Bluebell. Did they change? Did

01:38:48.760 that change at all? Uh, after this, you know, I haven't checked that in a while. So yeah,

01:38:53.500 it may have, but I, I don't think so because they got all their shelf availability back.

01:38:58.580 Oh, everybody waited. I mean, stores, stores said empty, empty. We're waiting for the Bluebell

01:39:03.760 to come back. Yeah. It's crazy. You guys get into this, uh, craft ice cream at all? Craft

01:39:08.040 ice cream? Yeah. You know how like beer, like you have like, there was Bud and Budweiser and

01:39:11.760 then now there's the craft beers. Little makers of specialty stuff. Yeah. Where they make little

01:39:14.900 tiny batches with crazy ingredients. Yeah. And like, you know, you had like the old school

01:39:19.260 where it was like Breyers was like the lighter ice cream. And then you had like the Haagen-Dazs

01:39:24.560 and Ben and Jerry's was like the really rich stuff. This stuff embarrasses the, like the

01:39:30.580 Ben and Jerry's of the world. I mean, it is so like, it's like double the calories. It's

01:39:36.000 you take one spoonful and it's, it's almost an entire candy bar. I already look like Colonel

01:39:40.760 Sanders. Why are you doing this to me? You know, that's true. You do. Uh, and that's

01:39:46.760 something we need to exploit. But, uh, yeah, no, I, uh, I feel like maybe we could get

01:39:52.740 something, maybe just try some of them to let people know on the air. No. What? No.

01:39:58.080 Sometimes a butterfat content of those is really, really high, which is, I like the higher the

01:40:05.860 butterfat count, uh, the happier. I don't trust people who don't like gristle. I would not

01:40:12.920 consider myself in the gristle fan category. So we have a trust issue. We do. We always

01:40:18.260 have Stu. We've always known. We've always known, uh, speaking of trust, uh, you know,

01:40:24.120 we really need to pay attention to the voices that are being snuffed out and silenced. Uh,

01:40:32.120 yesterday we talked a little bit about, um, Alex Jones, but there's an update today.

01:40:37.180 Yeah. I was just going over some of the, uh, drudge report headlines, info wars, Amazon quietly

01:40:43.040 stops recommending Alex Jones products. So Amazon's in on it now, Instagram bands, Tommy

01:40:49.280 Robinson. He's the guy on the right in the UK. Yeah. But I think I don't know. I know people

01:40:55.020 from England who have followed him and they all say the same thing. The guy has gotten rid

01:41:01.580 of anybody around him. That was any kind of extremist at all. You know, he started, I think

01:41:07.800 he started a group and then it was infiltrated by some extremists and he kicked them out and

01:41:12.240 then he disbanded it. He's like, that's not who I am. I think this guy is actually could

01:41:17.420 be a really good guy. Yeah. And yet Instagram banned him. Twitter suspends a bunch of libertarian

01:41:22.920 accounts. I, are you telling me if this is the way we're going to do this, if you're cracking

01:41:28.300 down on hate speech, there's nobody on the left that's hateful. Louis Farrakhan comes to

01:41:36.240 mind, uh, immediately. Nobody's talking about banning him, taking him off Twitter or Facebook

01:41:41.420 or Instagram. They got rid of his blue checkmark on Twitter. No! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Holy

01:41:48.380 cow. Yeah. How is, has anybody heard from him? I'm worried. We sent a relative over to check

01:41:55.580 on him? Seriously, there's not a single person on the left who's spewed any hate? Come on.

01:42:00.740 Michael Moore? You've got people who have threatened the president's life. Keith Olbermann?

01:42:04.860 Right. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Do you, how do you feel? I hadn't heard the Amazon one you just

01:42:09.480 mentioned. Yeah. I, so they're still selling his products, but they're not recommending

01:42:14.620 them. I don't think I have a problem with that. But what does recommend mean? Probably

01:42:19.540 means if you're clicking on similar like content or they think you'll like it. They'll say you'll

01:42:22.820 probably like this too. You'll probably like this too. And that's how a lot of people get

01:42:26.880 their sales. Discover new things. You know what that is? Yeah. It's an algorithm, right? I mean,

01:42:30.520 they're just, but it is, it's Cass Sunstein. It's nudge. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, I don't

01:42:35.920 know that I get it, but you have to ask for it. Like does Amazon have even, like they certainly

01:42:40.860 don't have the legal requirement, but do they even have the, you know, cultural requirement

01:42:45.120 to recommend things that they find to be bad? No, I don't think so. And it's their business

01:42:50.980 model. They can do what they want, but I don't think I'd have a problem with that on Facebook

01:42:54.140 or YouTube either. If they, if they just weren't recommending his videos, I don't think they

01:42:58.500 can do whatever they want. As far as that goes. I have to tell you, I am usually the

01:43:03.140 recommends on YouTube are all wrong for me. They pissed me off. I don't want any of that

01:43:07.340 crap. But anyway, I don't have a problem with any of these companies doing this. I want to

01:43:14.820 see it in writing and then I want to see it consistently in imposed. And we're not going

01:43:21.120 to, you're not going to, they're not going to tell you exactly what it was. They want it

01:43:25.560 loosey goosey. And because we can then say, okay, you took that guy out. Okay. How about

01:43:31.160 this one? How about this one? How about this one? How about this one? Have we heard of

01:43:35.020 Sarah Jung being eliminated from any of these social media? Seriously? No, seriously. I

01:43:39.520 mean, that's as hateful and ugly as it gets the stuff she was saying about why I would go

01:43:43.480 back to Keith Oberman. I'd go back to Keith Oberman. Come on, man. Keith Oberman. He's,

01:43:48.400 he's, he's a horrible, horrible guy. And that's why these roads are, are, are dangerous. Faulty

01:43:55.200 to go down. And you can always find somebody if, if, if, you know, you get, well, if he's

01:43:59.480 that, well, then he's that and we could go down that road forever. And then everyone's

01:44:02.800 banned. You know, eventually we all get to the point where everybody has a problem with

01:44:06.160 something. However, how do we put a stop to this? Do we not bring it up? Do we not stand

01:44:11.120 up and remind them of their hypocrisy? We just sit down and say, okay, well you got the

01:44:16.640 right to do that. I think that we need to defend, um, uh, you know, pretty much anybody

01:44:22.940 unless it's clear cut and the violation is posted and you know exactly what it is and

01:44:28.820 it's consistent. I think we just need to point them, point things out and send it to Twitter

01:44:35.500 or whoever Twitter is the only one that's standing. And I think they're bullying Twitter.

01:44:40.080 Oh, clearly they're going to get tons of pressure. It'll be interesting to see if they can hold up

01:44:43.640 to it because usually these companies don't in the long run, even when they initially do

01:44:47.800 the only one. But again, like, you know, we can fight about it. We can talk about it. We

01:44:53.120 can protest. We can do all those things, but the, you know, look, there are other services

01:44:57.360 out there right now that exist that allow whatever conservative message you want to be posted.

01:45:03.180 We talk about losing your voice. It's losing the audience that are Twitter customers. It's losing

01:45:07.540 the audience that are Facebook customers. I, you know, you don't have a right to their audience.

01:45:11.920 You don't. And, you know, there's plenty of places on the internet you can post. You

01:45:15.700 can post whatever you want. I mean, basically whatever you want, as long as you don't violate

01:45:19.620 the law. You know, there's, there are those extreme restrictions, but outside of that, you

01:45:25.980 can do it. You do not have a right to go on their service and post, post these things as

01:45:30.660 long as they don't violate. What is it that you could say that would violate things more

01:45:35.860 than this? I mean, child porn, things like that that are against the law. I think outward

01:45:40.400 there's certain levels of threats, right? That are going to be prohibited. Terroristic

01:45:45.980 threats. I'm holding in my hand a book called the anarchist cookbook published in 1972. The

01:45:52.480 guy who wrote it, he was a kid, um, grew up in the sixties and was a radical. He changed

01:45:59.000 his mind a few years later and has tried to get it off the market ever since when, um, when,

01:46:06.240 when Columbine happened, they had a copy of this book and he was horrified and did everything

01:46:13.140 he could to get it taken off. Can't get it taken off because he doesn't own the rights

01:46:16.640 to it. It's sold in Barnes and Noble. It's sold on Amazon. If, if this is okay for Amazon

01:46:25.700 for Barnes and Noble, which I'm fine with them selling, I really am. And it's, if this is

01:46:32.380 okay, what speech is not, is not okay. This book shows you how to make gas, uh, to kill

01:46:40.500 people, how to torture people, how to really hurt people, how to make bombs. I mean, have

01:46:45.140 you ever seen it, Pat? No, it's, it's, it's incredible. There's a great documentary, by

01:46:49.080 the way. Uh, do you remember the name of it on the top of your head? We'll get the name

01:46:52.620 of it here. It's on, I think Netflix that actually has an interview with the guy. Yeah.

01:46:56.440 He's dead. Yeah. Right before he died. It just came out a few years ago. Right. How do you

01:46:59.960 get this stuff evenly applied then? Yes. I don't, I don't think we can. That's why

01:47:05.200 the freedom of speech is our cornerstone. Yeah. You have to have the freedom of thought

01:47:10.200 and the freedom of speech. Thanks, Pat. Appreciate it. I don't, I don't appreciate

01:47:16.560 it as much as Glenn does, but it's slightly. I was lying. Okay. Okay. So I'm even less

01:47:21.980 than the lie, but the truth is Pat Gray Unleashed will be coming up on the blaze

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01:48:57.940 standing in line at a Wawa and which is a, like a, I don't know, circle K or seven 11. Uh,

01:49:03.860 and, uh, is she standing in line and this guy is fumbling with his wallet and he realizes he

01:49:11.240 doesn't have enough money to buy the things that he was buying. She had already said to herself

01:49:16.500 earlier that, you know, if somebody ever is in front of me, I'm going to, I'm going to help them

01:49:21.000 out. If they're ever, you know, they can't afford the food, I'll take care of it. So she's standing

01:49:25.760 behind this guy and she just thinks he's a, you know, nobody kind of washed up kind of guy without

01:49:30.260 money. And, uh, he's kind of scruffy looking. And, uh, she says, I I've, I've got that. He says,

01:49:36.700 oh my gosh, that you don't have to do that. And she's like, no, no, no, no. You, you know, I'll

01:49:41.160 help you. She pays the bill. He turns around and he says, thank you. What's your name? She

01:49:47.380 introduces herself. He says, I'm Keith. She said, you know, you look just like Keith Urban. And he

01:49:55.320 said, well, I am. It was Keith Urban that she was helping out. He no word on why he didn't have

01:50:03.460 enough money in his wallet, but he didn't have enough money in his wallet. She thought

01:50:07.340 she was doing a good deed for this out of luck guy who just didn't have any money. Turns

01:50:11.640 out to be Keith Urban. That's a great scam for Keith Urban. Just constantly go to places

01:50:16.300 without your wallet. I tell people that all the time. No, really? I'm Keith Urban. I look

01:50:19.500 different on TV or on stage, but I'm, I don't mean everyone should pose as Keith Urban. I'm

01:50:24.920 saying if you're Keith Urban, don't bring your wallet. No, it'll wreck it for me. Because

01:50:27.960 I stand in the 7-Eleven and I'm like, I don't have enough money. I'm Keith Urban. Anybody have

01:50:33.040 any money? Has that worked yet? No, it hasn't. It hasn't. But it has for this fraud up in

01:50:36.920 New Jersey. This guy who's claiming to be me. Glenn Beck. Mercury.

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