'It's Time to Ban, Banning'? - 8⧸08⧸18
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1 hour and 50 minutes
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168.68524
Summary
A political ad for Repub candidate Elizabeth Hagan was taken down by Facebook because it contained graphic photos of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. What's going on with the algorithm and why is this happening to conservative content on the platform?
Transcript
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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Okay, so how long are we going to allow Facebook to get away with the, oh, man, I'm sorry,
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First, it was the Russian ads during the 2016 election.
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Now it's videos from conservatives are getting blocked, and I am not calling Alex Jones a
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The latest example is a four-minute political ad for Elizabeth Hang.
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Now she is a U.S. congressional candidate from California.
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She's going to be joining us in a couple of hours.
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Hang would seem to tick all of the right Silicon Valley boxes.
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The algorithms at Facebook, they're just making it seem like they're trying to shadow
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Can't differentiate between political red and political blue.
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How come it just seems to keep happening to the red?
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Now, am I not supposed to know that Hang is trying to unseat Democrat Jim Costa?
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Now, I'm not saying that Facebook algorithms are definitely censoring conservative contact,
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but I'm not not saying that either does look a little suspicious.
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Does it not still just a little bit a tad, a tad?
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The ad opens with Hang narrating the story about how her parents escaped from the Khmer Rouge
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communists during the Cambodian Civil War and then fled to the U.S.
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The video includes some graphic black and white photos of the atrocities in Cambodia.
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She received an automated message from Facebook saying,
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Your ad wasn't approved because it doesn't follow our advertising policies.
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We don't allow ads that contain shocking, disrespectful, or sensational content,
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including ads that detect violence or threats of violence.
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It's unbelievable that Facebook could have such a blatant disregard for the history of so many people,
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that so many people, including my own parents, live through.
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I'm sure it's shocking for some people to hear about this kind of injustice, but that is reality.
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It's clear the video contains historical imagery relevant to the candidate's story.
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Or was it a bunch of people that complained that communists were being shown in a bad light?
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What was different about Facebook's viewing experience yesterday versus Friday?
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No word yet on whether the responsible algorithm has been fired.
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Facebook apparently is checking with the algorithm's Twitter feed before making any kind of decisions.
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We're going to peel the layers on the onion and see what's really happening.
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Take the elevator down another floor and find out what's really happening in the root cellar.
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We'll do that here in just a couple of minutes.
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But I am, you know, I think we need to start again with what is happening with censorship.
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And there's some really disturbing things that are happening.
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And I've been, you know, I've been reading the comments of people going,
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I do have just a wee bit of hope in the American people again today.
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After the election results, just a little bit, just a little bit.
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Well, but then I see things like 46% of GOPers say that the president, I want to get this
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43% should be able to, the president should be able to shut down media outlets and news
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bad behavior, bad behavior, just based on those two words.
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Shouldn't you say, well, before I answer that, could you define bad behavior?
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Seems like a part of the equation you need to understand.
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You would need to understand that, you know, meet it.
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43% of Republicans believe that he should be able to do that.
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12% and 21% agreed that Trump should have the authority over misbehaving outlets.
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It's 12% and 26% see the media as the opposition.
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If I asked you, if I asked you this question, what are the things, what institutions do you
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believe are driving a wedge, uh, between the American people and our traditional, uh, founding
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Which would be the biggest, what would you say?
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Uh, but the media would be a big part of it as well.
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So that doesn't make the media an enemy of the people, right?
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Let's not say the media, because I think it's a better case could be made for, for our universities.
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And that's a case for both of those institutions.
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Again, we, but at some level, saying the press is the enemy of the people gives them too
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And if we just sit here and say, well, they're saying the wrong thing and misleading us.
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I mean, it's their job to say what is true and what is not.
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But if they fail on it, we're the backstop there.
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And you, you know, you shouldn't be listening to people who say, trust me, trust me, everything
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First of all, it, you know what the problem is with Ocasio-Cortez?
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I can give you 218 trillion of them from a recent study.
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She gets her master's in economics and her master's in foreign affairs.
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And I don't think she knows anything about either of those things.
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Now, is it possible, you know, she's been, remember.
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I was in New York a month ago and I walked by the restaurant she was working at six months
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So is it possible that she has been thrust into national savior of one of the two major
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parties and is, you know, the pressure is getting to her and she doesn't know how to
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I think she doesn't seem to have basic knowledge of these, of the things she's supposed to
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We'll go back in your head to when you were 27, 28 years old.
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Um, I know at least for me, it took me until I was about 35 before starting in starting
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at 30 is when I realized I was an alcoholic about 32, 31, or, you know, 10 minutes after
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I think I do, but I don't, I, I could, I could argue and argue, but it would all come breaking
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down eventually because I didn't have anything other than the facts that I had heard, the
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I don't, yes, I certainly didn't have enough depth to be as sure as I probably was.
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You haven't, you haven't had the, you haven't had life throw you up against the wall.
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Most likely, most likely in the way life can really throw you up against the wall.
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So, so she's out here and she's gone to college.
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She's got all these degrees, but she hasn't thought them through.
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She wasn't, they're not teaching critical thinking in universities.
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So if you've been indoctrinated, you can go out and spew that stuff.
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But the minute somebody starts to challenge you, well, I'm not really an expert on that.
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Yeah, I, I, uh, I was in her restaurant where she worked was unions in union square and you've been to union square.
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Um, basically it's a bunch of really nice restaurants and shops and high end capitalist real estate.
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And then in the middle of it is a square where there's just nonstop socialist protests.
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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.
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And then they walk out and go to the socialist protests.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You're probably going to home to someplace where, uh, you are live with a roommate.
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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.
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Like the people who seem to be coming into the restaurant every day.
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And then every day they walk out and the answer is right in that square.
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My daughter, um, you know, lived in New York at the same time we did.
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I mean, I couldn't, I was like, you're not living here.
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I'm like, okay, I'm going to give you how much do you need?
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And well, probably about 3000 more to get out of murder hut city.
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Well, I'm not going to give that to you, but be careful.
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No, but that's where she was in her life at the time.
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We lived well, not in a murder hut, maybe more of a crack house where they were.
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We both lived in the same apartment complex years ago.
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And that was like a nicer part of, of, of that era for me.
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That was like when I was like, I stepped up to your murder hut.
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But it's true that I think not everybody in that situation feels that way, but many do.
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I mean, it's easy to fall into that trap, especially when you walk out of your business and seeing
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how everybody is dressed and see how everybody has a seemingly easy life in the restaurant
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And you're, you're confronted by people who are shouting rich people are bad.
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And think about this when you're young and you're figuring out the world, you tend to
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Well, a lot of people have swings, wild swings in each direction.
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This is, this has been reported the last few days that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when
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she was, uh, you know, back in the, this is way back several years ago, considered herself
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Um, and said that terms like feminism and empowerment were relics from the past.
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I would, it's one of the only interviews I think I'd pay for.
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She would never answer those questions, but I would love to interview her and find out
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She's, she cannot answer a single question about her views without getting all tongue
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Um, and, but I think it's because she's 28 and she's not been challenged.
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You know, if you're living and working around union square, that's, that's, you're not being
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This, I bring this up because opposing views, even views that you despise are not, um, bad.
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I challenge you today to listen to a podcast or listen to some, and maybe if you're a liberal,
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Listen to somebody you disagree with and, and then sharpen yourself.
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You might learn something new, but when your views are challenged, you become sharper because
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it, it requires you to say, well, wait a minute, I totally disagree with that.
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We are just trained to hear buzzwords and react against them.
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That does not make you someone who can save the Republic because you can't teach it to your
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All you can teach to your children are the knee jerk responses that mean nothing.
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He made me a, somebody who is strong in the constitution because he challenged me.
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And instead of just saying, well, he's black as the media would say, we did.
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And I hear it so much about people trying to make out that the press is the enemy of the
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And, uh, believe that what's kind of missing the point, like Glenn says himself, you have
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It's not like the press is going to take up arms against us.
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If they have a duty in the constitution to inform the public.
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And the only way that a republic will work is that the people are informed.
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And if the press is deliberately slanting the news, then they are not fulfilling their
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So in a sense of the word, you could say, well, that's what an enemy would do.
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It's an, it's an enemy of the Republic to, um, misinform or to hide information.
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However, that doesn't make it an enemy of the people.
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And there's a bigger point here, Chip, that, uh, I think everybody is missing and we'll get
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There are what, a couple thousand, uh, national football league players, people who are associated
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with the NFL, the best players in the world at their chosen profession.
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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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Well, there's kind of a situation we've got going on.
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The same sort of filtering process goes on with real estate agents, realestateagentsitrust.com
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basically looks and does the job of NFL scouts.
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And they find the best real estate agents in America.
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Right now there's about 1200 agents all over America that are rigorously qualified through
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their experience, their marketing plans, uh, their character and the results they get for
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And these are people who listen to the show, who watch the show.
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If you need to sell your house fast and for the most money, or if you're looking to buy,
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go to realestateagentsitrust.com and you'll be introduced to the best agent in your town.
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We just had a, we just had a caller in, um, and he said, you know, the, the deal is Glenn
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is the, the press is keeping information, uh, from us.
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They are, you know, selectively covering things and that's true.
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And this is the reason that the press doesn't understand why we have Donald Trump.
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Well, I'll tell you, because when you had good, normal people standing up and saying,
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When you had Mitt Romney named as the worst guy in the world, an evil mongering.
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When you continue to reject those people and you're not listening to the American people
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who are like, look, I'm trying to be reasonable here.
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You're going to get somebody who says, sit down and shut up.
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I warned against it, but that is what's happening.
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Now the debate is whether they're an enemy of the people.
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Now you could make the case to me that when it was ABC, NBC, CBS, and you know, if you saw the movie,
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the Washington Post, there was no way to release the Pentagon Papers.
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If the Post didn't do it or the New York Times didn't do it, nobody else would.
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There was a new poll out that showed our scientific knowledge as a people.
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We are at the highest level of ignorance of science since like 1870, 1860.
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Our failure to understand basic science is at about 90%.
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And here we are living in this technological world that is bound by science.
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Today, it is your fault because you can find it.
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So we have to stop assigning blame to other people.
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If you can't, if you say, well, look what CNN is doing.
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Now, I understand it's important to point it out.
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I'm only pointing it out because, I mean, I, you know, I send every tweet that I make comment about CNN.
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But I don't need, we don't need to talk about CNN every day.
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That's about double the ratings that I had when I was on headline news.
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And much less than Fox and certainly the radio show.
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And I think like assigning blame is one thing, but assigning control of the way you react is another.
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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.
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And it's like, well, that's you handing control of your life to CNN.
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That's you handing you control of your life to the media, which we all have major problems with.
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Why would we want them to make decisions for us?
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They don't cause you to react in a certain way.
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Look, we are in the fight of the Republic's life.
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How many of your friends do you know that can actually talk to you intelligently about the Bill of Rights?
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How many people, how many of our citizens, our fellow, us, how many of us can actually defend Adam Smith's capitalism?
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How many of us understand that it's not just wealth of nations, it's also moral sentiments?
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How many do you know that can actually make the case for moral sentiments?
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But we also have to stop saying that more voices is bad.
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If you didn't have Antifa, how weak would you be?
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If we didn't have Antifa, would you really have done your homework on Mussolini, assuming you did,
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Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, beside the black and white documentary?
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I wouldn't understand truly the difference, where the split in communism and national socialism happened.
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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.
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They don't even know their own history and they also cannot define fascism because that's what they're doing.
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This was a debate when we had the Sedition Act.
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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.
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One of our founders, hey, he wrote, the Sedition Act appears to be directed against the falsehood and malice only.
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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.
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Anyway, Stu, yes or no, absolute fight to the death, yes, no, or maybe, was there collusion with Russia?
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Wait, absolutely yes, absolutely no, or maybe, I don't know.
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Generally speaking, because you want to defend your guy.
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Now, I don't think that there's necessarily, because you see, I think, again, it causes reaction.
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CNN basically insinuates every night that they're absolutely, absolutely, they're saying, absolutely yes.
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So the reaction to that is say, where's your evidence?
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And so you get, there's very little room for someone to say, well, wait a minute.
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They don't even realize who they've turned into.
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They came in ninth in a, in a, in a poll, not of conservatives, of everybody.
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They came in ninth, the ninth most credible news source.
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And I think either PBS or NPR was number three.
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If you could put the BBC and NPR up at the top of the list, there's some liberals in that.
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So he says, you know, there are other truths, many truths important to society, which are not
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susceptible of that full, direct and positive evidence, which alone can be exhibited before a jury and a court.
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So he's saying, look, you have to be able to have people say, I think this is true.
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He says, if a citizen were prosecuted for his opinion that the Sedition Act was unconstitutional,
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would not a jury composed of friends of the government find his criticism ungrounded, false and scandalous,
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and his publication malicious, and by what kind of argument or evidence in the present temper of parties
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could the accused convince them that his opinions were true?
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So, what this was, you cannot make truth the only factor in defense of freedom.
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Because if you have truth, then you're going to have to say, well, jury, do you agree?
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I mean, you know, that food, that's the best ever, right?
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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.
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They concluded that such a crime would never be reconciled to the genius and constitution of a representative commonwealth.
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That means, how can a government say you can or cannot say these things?
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Who has a right in a country run by the people?
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In a country where the individual is in charge of his or her own life, how can a government play the master?
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If the government says, you can't say this about me, you can't make that charge, how dare you say those things?
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That makes the government the master of the people.
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When the people should be able to say, these people are full of crap.
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We cannot ban or want to get rid of any speech.
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Every citizen should have the right to say everything which his passions suggest.
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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.
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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.
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Even if he ascribes to them measures and acts which never even existed, thus violating at once every principle of decency and truth.
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Even if it's malicious, even if your intent is bad, it's protected by the person of that.
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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.
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And if you don't think so, then why can't you fire an African-American if you wanted an all-white staff?
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I thought the Constitution was only to limit the government's powers.
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So there is a lot to discuss about the election last night.
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Yeah, there's a lot of interesting things that happened.
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The biggest race was that congressional special election in Ohio that people were talking about.
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It looks like the Republicans are going to hold on there.
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You know, the Republicans are sort of claiming victory.
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Democrats are not conceding is where we are right now.
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This is a district that the Republicans have held since 1983.
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You know, a thousand or fifteen hundred votes, something like that.
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But there's also some really good news about even the Democrats that won.
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Yeah, the Democrats, a lot of the Ocasio-Cortez slash Sanders side.
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We're hiding the progress towards socialism, Democrats, rather than the we're saying we are socialist Democrats, which is an interesting different.
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But at least it shows it shows what the remember that Democratic poll that came out from the center of the country.
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And they said, you know, you've got to stop going so radical.
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That's not where the Democrats are in the center of the country.
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I presume we'll give you all the details coming up.
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Unbeknownst to most of us, Christians in China are facing a wide scale persecution of religious liberties in the name now of communist doctrine.
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Christianity is the fastest growing religion in China with nearly 67 million Christians.
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And the Chinese government now has ramped up measures to eradicate Christianity in China.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
00:40:26.120
So, but it's in this, yes, I guess they're trying to...
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.
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.
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Willie Lam, a Chinese politics expert, University of Hong Kong, describes President Xi as a closet Maoist.
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?
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.
00:42:50.800
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.
00:43:09.200
I was watching this show on the BBC over the weekend.
00:43:19.600
I think everybody, if you like good dramas, I mean, there's something about BBC.
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.
00:43:43.100
Like, people have tried to turn me on to, like, you know, some of their other shows.
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.
00:44:03.760
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.
00:44:45.040
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
00:45:09.160
We have such a responsibility not to be heeded, not to be outraged at every little thing, but to be measured.
00:45:18.720
Well, I mean, in the past, how would you control something like that?
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.
00:45:52.720
But the social credit scheme is a little bit more subtle, right?
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.
00:46:14.820
If I had Christian friends and I was communicating with them, I could get my social credit score
00:46:20.980
Yeah, it reminds me of, I was watching a little bit of the Scientology thing that, what's her
00:46:32.940
She was a Scientologist for many, her whole life, basically, and she, you know, wound up
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
00:46:55.160
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.
00:47:13.680
And so that's not a, it's not a good thing, but look at what they're, look at the heavy
00:47:23.240
I mean, Canada was largely built on people who were loyal to the crown.
00:47:26.940
They went in the middle of the revolution and some people said, yeah, let's fight for
00:47:30.560
And some people said, eh, let's stick with Britain.
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.
00:47:49.440
And some chose to go and stick that way, you know, with the stick with the crown and see
00:47:55.340
Well, that played out like Canada and some people.
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
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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.
00:48:43.520
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,
00:49:10.720
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
00:49:47.980
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?
00:50:23.260
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.
00:50:40.740
And if you're not big enough to handle that, well, then you're not big enough to push
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,
00:51:22.740
Can I just remind you that we were just a country that you believed was so hateful that
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.
00:51:55.980
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
00:52:17.700
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.
00:52:33.740
Do you really think that the next, the next, um, progressive Democrat isn't going to try
00:52:44.980
If you, if you proceed and say we should limit free speech, you don't think that they're
00:52:52.300
You have this, now this white paper, they're starting to circulate this, by the way, most
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
00:53:12.320
Patriot Act found a way to pass that, didn't they?
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
00:53:34.760
But there's no comparison between a progressive critique of America and overwhelmingly corporate
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
00:54:10.500
So just so you know, the net neutrality people are coming from the right position, but here's
00:54:16.480
Info wars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and
00:54:24.960
These companies must do more than take down one website.
00:54:29.560
The survival of our democracy depends on it right now.
00:54:36.160
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.
00:54:54.960
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.
00:55:16.300
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.
00:55:35.300
And they're trying to bully them into joining the club.
00:55:44.820
You just heard it from a senator in Connecticut.
00:55:55.380
Liberty Safe just this summer was invited to bring one of their safes up to the White House.
00:56:01.660
There's this great picture of this big, beautiful white safe sitting in.
00:56:07.300
I don't even know what room that is in the White House.
00:56:11.100
They were participating in the Made in America product showcase of the White House.
00:56:14.580
There were only 50 companies that were allowed one from each state.
00:56:18.240
And Liberty Safe was brought in because their product is just unbelievable.
00:56:25.440
Vice President Pence said it was just spectacularly beautiful, which it is.
00:56:31.960
And it is a secure place to keep your guns or your documents.
00:56:37.560
I want you to buy Liberty Safe now if you're in the market for something to protect your
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.
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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.
00:57:25.640
It looks like the 2020 contender for Donald Trump from the Democrats is going to be Elizabeth
00:57:35.900
If you want Donald Trump to have another term, Elizabeth Warren's a dream for you.
00:57:43.780
You know, she's, she's just as bad a candidate as Hillary is.
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.
00:57:58.860
He is, he will, he is the only candidate the Democrats have currently.
00:58:03.060
The only candidate the Democrats have currently that can throw punches with Donald Trump.
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
00:58:35.920
Can you believe it is the thing I'm supposed to say according to focus groups.
00:58:41.520
He comes off as largely able to, you know, work in that world.
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.
00:58:56.240
So anyway, but they're, they're looking at, you know, Elizabeth Warren and I welcome that,
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.
00:59:18.660
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.
00:59:32.560
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
00:59:43.740
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,
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.
01:00:16.340
I would love that because then you're talking about two honest people who embrace their philosophies.
01:00:23.520
Don't, uh, take little tiny steps towards their goals.
01:00:32.400
That's what the American people at least say they want.
01:00:37.780
We can either go back to the constitution or we can go towards, you know, socialism,
01:00:45.660
Uh, we can go that direction one way or another.
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.
01:01:04.600
Do you have any of the, uh, races and how far of a blowout they were in some of them?
01:01:13.640
And these were the, these are the ones that, uh, Ocasio-Cortez, I mean, you want to talk
01:01:28.140
She's going to, but if she would have, if those races would have won, we'd be having
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
01:02:12.360
Um, so that almost worked there and still it's, it's not entirely decided, but I think
01:02:18.280
But remember, that's a Democrat that was moderate.
01:02:22.840
So the, the moderate, the moderate performed well, the, uh, Sanders-esque performed poorly
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
01:02:39.120
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.
01:02:57.000
I think if you're looking at it from a, uh, a Republican or conservative perspective, it's
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.
01:03:11.200
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?
01:03:23.760
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
01:03:47.460
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.
01:04:06.060
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.
01:04:13.460
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?
01:04:24.300
I don't think it's ready at the moment, but we can put it together.
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.
01:04:45.900
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.
01:04:58.000
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.
01:05:20.260
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
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
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
01:12:00.140
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and turning, you're not getting a good night's sleep in the first place. If you are drenched
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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.
01:14:08.220
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,
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
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
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
01:17:08.380
of many of the problems in the Middle East and around the world. And if the Iranian people successfully
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?
01:17:49.520
The 16th district in California, congressional candidate. She is really the rights answer to
01:17:58.240
Alexandria. What's her name? Alexandria Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez, who kind of bottomed out yesterday.
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,
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.
01:28:19.880
Ooh, my favorite founding father. Uh, uh, I don't, who would yours be? I'm out of, out of curiosity.
01:28:30.380
Well, mine is George Washington, but, uh, yeah.
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.
01:29:29.020
And it took a while to sell the house and it was just frustrating. And I know what it's like when
01:29:33.680
you want to sell your house or you have to sell your house or you want to find the right house,
01:29:38.000
how you need somebody on your side. Well, real estate agents, I trust.com. That's the location
01:29:44.580
where you can find the real estate agent in your area. That is top notch has, has real knowledge on
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your neighborhood, your area, um, has the information on what your home is really worth.
01:29:58.020
And they're going to help you get your home ready for sale. So you can get the most amount of money
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out of it. So whether you're buying or selling, you go to real estate agents, I trust.com. And
01:30:07.540
you're going to find somebody that's really going to help you out, sell your home on time. And for the
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most amount of money, it's real estate agents, I trust.com.
01:30:15.540
Let's go to Larry in Oklahoma. Hello, Larry, you're on the Glenbeck program.
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
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
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
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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.