Antifa harasses Ted Cruz and his wife at a D.C. restaurant. Glenn Beck calls them "cowards" and asks why they are not courageous enough to stand up and speak their minds in public in order to speak the truth.
00:00:00.000The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
00:00:30.000That sounds peaceful and nice, doesn't it?
00:00:43.100That was Washington, D.C., Antifa, harassing Ted Cruz and his wife as they tried to have just a date night in an upscale D.C. restaurant.
00:00:51.300The group followed Cruz into the building, surrounded them, yelled in their faces, and even surrounded their table.
00:01:00.000Antifa filmed the entire thing, as one of their members badgered Senator Cruz with a barrage of ridiculous questions about Brett Kavanaugh.
00:01:08.460The couple eventually had to flee the restaurant.
00:01:29.080This is a message to Ted Cruz, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the rest of the racist, sexist, transphobic, and homophobic right-wing scum.
00:01:42.860So now let me recap here for a minute.
00:01:44.740Antifa tracked down a public figure in a public place, harassed him, yelled at both Cruz and his wife, then used the Twitter platform to make it go viral and added a threat to boot.
00:01:58.800Now, we've been asking Twitter to show us some sort of standard that users can look to so we know what is or isn't suspendable or bannable offense on their platform.
00:02:10.900It appeared we finally got that when they banned Alex Jones.
00:02:15.640Now, if you remember right, why was Alex Jones banned?
00:02:19.620Twitter had claimed that he had engaged and targeted and harassed CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.
00:02:27.860They stated, and I quote, tweets designed to threaten, belittle, demean, and silence individuals have no place on this platform.
00:02:39.340So here is a serious question for the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.
00:02:46.200How is what Antifa did to Senator Cruz and his wife any different at all to what you banned Alex Jones for?
00:02:54.780In fact, Alex Jones seems tame in comparison.
00:02:59.720They targeted two people at a public space.
00:03:03.040They harassed them, belittled, demeaned, and tried to silence them.
00:03:06.960They even went a step further and added an actual threat.
00:03:10.840This is miles worse than what Alex Jones did to Oliver Darcy.
00:03:15.420As of this morning, the Washington, D.C. Antifa Twitter account at Smash Racism D.C. is still active.
00:08:10.560But one of those principles that we stand up for is innocent until proven guilty.
00:08:19.640Since when did we become this nation of witch hunters?
00:08:24.360Since when did one person's voice matter more than another voice?
00:08:30.100Since when have we felt comfortable living in a society that if you can tell a better story, if you can perform better, if you're in the, if you're in the popular group, you can destroy somebody else.
00:08:49.140Because that's what's happening with Brett Kavanaugh.
00:08:51.520I don't know if he's guilty or innocent.
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00:33:52.200Because I've also read that she said she was drunk.
00:33:55.560She she also doesn't even remember how she got home.
00:34:01.300Pat, how is that possible in in a turning point in your life, in it, in an event that is supposedly so traumatic and it would be that so traumatic and you don't remember any of those details?
00:34:14.460That's that's hard to believe she told no one at the time, not even her best friend or her mother, and no one can corroborate this for people.
00:34:24.540She identified as being at the party, including Kavanaugh, all deny knowledge of the gathering in question, including her lifelong friend who says, I don't recall any of this.
00:34:35.680Her own immediate family doesn't appear to be backing her up.
00:34:40.860Her mother, her father and her two siblings are all conspicuously absent from a letter of support released by a dozen relatives, mostly on her husband's side of the family.
00:35:48.200She said, in the Washington Post, she said to the Post, she was upset when Trump won in 2016 because Kavanaugh was mentioned as a Supreme Court pick.
00:36:02.540Kavanaugh was not mentioned in that first round.
00:37:02.080You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:37:05.320So a few weeks ago, I started reading a book called Springtime for Snowflakes, and I stopped about halfway through because I really, really liked it.
00:37:12.760But I wanted to make sure I knew who this author really was, because if you look at his resume, how's it look, Pat?
00:37:20.520It looks like he's an atheist, perhaps, extremely liberal.
00:38:54.560As you said, Glenn, I was a left or libertarian communist, published widely in communist circles, read very widely, looked up to as a kind of an example for what Marxism or communism could be.
00:39:08.680And then I came out against the social justice movement back in 2016 in October.
00:39:15.760And I was roundly attacked by thousands of people on the Internet and hundreds of people inside of my university, put on paid leave, quickly damned by a group calling themselves the diversity, equity and inclusion group.
00:39:31.460And the scales just fell from my eyes, Glenn.
00:39:35.500Basically, what happened, I started seeing the left for what it really is.
00:39:39.640And it's just scratch the veneer, the thin veneer of egalitarianism and so forth.
00:39:45.280What you come up with is a totalitarian left.
00:39:47.740You told me in the podcast, and I'm paraphrasing here, so let me get your real, you know, your words.
00:39:54.040But you told me that at one point when you saw what was being done, you know, libertarian communism was more of a theory that it was like, next time we'll do it right.
00:58:45.840Once you start wondering, you gotta, yeah.
00:58:48.500Anyway, um, I come from a long range, uh, line of raging alcoholics whose lives and
00:58:53.900families have been deeply affected by alcoholism.
00:58:55.980I've seen the very dark and public destruction of addiction and because I seem, uh, to have been able to keep it together and no one seemed to notice my drinking problem.
00:59:33.820So, yeah, you know, but I was a high functioning, uh, high functioning alcoholic.
00:59:38.360Um, please, if you, if you know somebody in that, uh, in that state, there's a couple of podcasts that I've done for the book, addicted to outrage, which is not about this, but it is about our addiction to other things.
00:59:50.220So it does have some addiction talk in it, but, um, um, there's a podcast that I did with Ben Shapiro, his Sunday special last Sunday.
00:59:58.580Also a new one that came out today, uh, the school of greatness, uh, with Lewis house, which is, I think really, really good.
01:00:07.580And it goes into some things, um, surprisingly, I think it was because I had three hours sleep in 48 hours that I opened up about my dad a little bit more than I ever have.
01:00:18.120Um, and, um, so you might find some interesting things there or some possibly some roads to healing yourself on, on things.
01:00:25.560Strangely, we didn't talk about the book, addicted to outrage, which is, uh, kind of the point that I was there for.
01:00:32.080But, uh, anyway, anyway, so there is a story, uh, on the blaze today.
01:00:38.860And, uh, Mike is here to talk about it.
01:01:24.960Uh, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, the New Yorker piece first broke with Ronan Farrow, uh, and, uh, Jane Mayer, I think was the other, uh, person who wrote it.
01:01:34.100Um, so that came out the same day, the New York times released their first story.
01:01:37.620And in it, they admitted that they had tried, uh, to verify the story and could not, but that in the process of that, they had come across people who remembered the, or, or the, the accuser, the second accuser talking after the incident and saying that she couldn't remember if it was Kavanaugh or not.
01:01:53.860They had included that same paragraph in a story on Monday, following up.
01:02:00.020And then on Monday, they had edited this story and taken that part out because people started using that.
01:02:07.360Republicans started using that and being like, Hey, this is the New York times, not a conservative publication saying that there's a chance.
01:02:21.520I thought for the New York times, very honest for the New York times to come out and say, look, we, we talked to the, these people that she said, they said that she had talked to them and said, I'm not even sure if it was Kavanaugh or not.
01:02:34.980And that's one of the reasons why the New York times added that in.
01:02:38.760That's kind of some crucial information, right?
01:03:27.560And I'm looking at the two versions of the article that I was able to get using internet archives and going back and pulling the older version.
01:03:35.460And I see the one and I see the other, and I clearly see that it's been removed.
01:03:40.040I make sure read it a couple of times, make sure.
01:03:59.200Now, has there been any response since this has been revealed?
01:04:04.720And since you've put this out and, and, and it's, you know, it's starting to go around that, oh, wait, it's called the way back machine.
01:04:13.240Yeah, which is, which has to be something the New York Times knows about because I'm, I assume that their reporters have used it too.
01:04:20.100I mean, I've used it dozens of times over the course of my journalistic career, which is much less of a career than the New York Times and their reporters.
01:04:28.160Uh, but as, as of now, the last I checked, the New York Times hadn't come out and, and admitted that they changed it or admitted anything.
01:04:36.920Um, which is just, I mean, it's, it's, it's a crazy story, especially in how clearly proven,
01:04:43.240this is, this isn't something where we're just speculating or assuming this is, I have a copy of the old one.
01:05:38.340Yesterday on morning, Joe, the other one, uh, Jane Mayer wrote with Ronan Farrow was on and Joe Scarborough asked her about it.
01:05:45.400And she was saying, well, I guess the New York times are spec them, but they must not have done their, like she was defending her piece against the New York times.
01:06:07.620Uh, just go there now and pass it on because I guarantee it's not going to be passed on by the, uh, the mainstream media.
01:06:13.360John Ziegler, uh, wrote an op-ed piece on, on some of this as well.
01:06:18.440He talks about how Ronan Farrow and journalism has just jumped the shark here.
01:06:23.280Um, he, uh, quotes Farrow, the offices of at least four democratic senators have received information about the allegation and at least two have begun investigating it.
01:06:32.180The democratic Senate offices reviewing the allegations believe that they might merit further investigation.
01:06:38.780He writes, this is what's called the news hook.
01:06:40.820The basis for why an allegation is newsworthy.
01:06:43.640The standard here used to be a criminal charge or at least a legitimate lawsuit, but now if an unnamed partisan political operative with huge self-interest to push a damaging story, regardless of its truth, simply get information and say it ought to be looked into further.
01:06:59.700This now reaches the threshold of publishing and journalism, or more likely, this is a dangerous new rule only in effect when democratic senators want more time to torpedo a damaged Republican Supreme court nominee.
01:07:13.100He then goes on and says the New Yorker, uh, contacted Ramirez after learning of the possible involvement in the incident involving Kavanaugh.
01:07:20.620The allegation was conveyed to a democratic seven at Senator by civil rights lawyer, a lawyer.
01:07:24.840He says, okay, so as I read this, a democratic lawyer gave the allegation from a democratic accuser to democratic senators who then leaked the information to a liberal press.
01:07:36.340Gee, what could possibly go wrong here?
01:07:39.780Um, quote, she was at first hesitant to speak publicly, partly because her memories contained gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident.
01:07:47.440Her initial conversations with the New Yorker was she was elected to characterize Kavanaugh's role in the alleged incident with certainty, end quote.
01:07:55.260He writes, so 35 years after the alleged incident, one which, uh, their accuser admits she was drunk.
01:08:03.200Sounds like she has no clear idea what she really, what really did or didn't happen.
01:08:06.420This moment when Pharaoh and mayor should have moved on from this story, or at least found numerous corroborating witnesses, spoiler alert, they have none quote after six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney.
01:08:24.40035 years after the incident, she can't tell her story, but 35 years and six days later, after speaking with her democratic lawyer, she can suddenly recall the amazing and graphic details.
01:08:35.600Ramirez apparently is the first person in history to have a far better memory of something that supposedly happened 35 years ago while badly drunk after having spoken to somebody who was not there.
01:08:47.160She was also parroting the democratic talking points on the FBI investigation.
01:08:52.620Um, it's a really good article and it talks about how journalism is truly dead.
01:08:59.780Because none of these things would have been acceptable.
01:09:02.920Well, and Ronan Farrow was on with George Stephanopoulos either yesterday or the day before defending the peace and Stephanopoulos asked him point blank.
01:09:12.540Well, weren't you concerned about this story because there's no eyewitnesses?
01:09:18.080And he said, no, we've, we corroborated it with people who know her that said, yeah, they've, they've seen Kavanaugh drunk as well.
01:15:58.860And people on our side chose not to believe it or chose to overlook it or chose to just, you know, just bat it away.
01:16:05.660But you can't do that, was what I was saying.
01:16:07.860And I was also critical of other aspects of our side.
01:16:12.760But, you know, it's just so rare in America today for anybody to be able to say, I have an open mind about accusations against somebody and I will wait for the evidence.
01:16:26.040I mean, this week has just been such a nervous breakdown.
01:16:30.860What the left has done regarding Kavanaugh is just assume that he's guilty based on allegations alone without evidence.
01:16:40.960I mean, without more evidence, let's put it that way.
01:17:10.460And therefore, you know, you can you can engage in full for character assassination and pay no price for it.
01:17:17.960Is that the kind of society we want to live in where a mere accusation unsupported by convincing evidence will be enough to completely destroy a person's reputation?
01:17:30.560I mean, you know, people used to fight duels over their reputations.
01:17:34.700Reputation is still an incredibly important thing.
01:17:39.320I mean, imagine if you've spent a lifetime, you know, trying to live an upright life and people regard you with respect.
01:17:47.520And in the Kavanaugh's case, you're a federal judge.
01:17:50.120And suddenly the whole world thinks of you as a as a would be rapist.
01:17:53.900Yeah, it's just it will destroy his life.
01:18:00.140And the sad fact of this Me Too hysteria and nobody wants women to be abused or harassed or mistreated in any way.
01:18:12.620But on the other hand, you can't just start destroying everybody in their career just on an allegation.
01:18:20.240Right. And we're in a dangerous territory here.
01:18:23.000Correct. And, you know, what first of all, so what a lot of the feminists and the Democrats are saying is we have to believe women because in the past women were not believed.
01:18:36.920Well, it's a little more complicated than that.
01:18:39.440I mean, yes, it is true that that in the past, sometimes women perhaps were not believed.
01:18:48.360But first of all, we do know that false accusations of rape have been made by women.
01:18:56.320Women do sometimes lie about rape and with terrible consequences.
01:19:00.940Right. I mean, if you remember the Tawana Brawley episode a few years back, which brought Reverend Al Sharpton to fame, what did he do?
01:19:08.120He presented this teenage girl who claimed that she had been raped and abused by four New York City cops.
01:19:18.180There have been many, many cases where women have alleged things that haven't been true.
01:19:23.980The other instance that comes to mind more recently was a rape on campus.
01:19:29.740It's the Rolling Stone story in which a student alleged that she had been gang raped at a fraternity in at the University of Virginia.
01:19:38.700And, you know, everybody's stereotypes were rolled out.
01:19:41.840They said, oh, these frat boys, you know, that's just the kind of thing one would expect from them.
01:19:46.920The same sort of thing happened at Duke where an exotic dancer or stripper or whatever claimed that the lacrosse team had had raped her.
01:19:55.960So so it's not unheard of for women to make false accusations.
01:20:00.120That's the first thing we have to understand.
01:20:01.820And the consequence of a rape conviction or a sexual assault conviction or or even a belief that somebody committed that crime are so severe that, of course, we should guard against, you know, flimsy or unproven accusations.
01:20:17.860Because the consequences are so dire for the person who is accused.
01:20:22.760But the other thing we have to realize as grownups is, look, in most instances of sexual assault, there are only two witnesses.
01:20:32.060It does not happen for the most part in a public place.
01:20:36.900And and because of that, of course, it is hard to parse what really happened.
01:20:45.760And so we do look for other forms of corroboration.
01:20:50.560And and those include whether the woman sought medical care right away.
01:20:55.440Did she tell other people at the time?
01:20:58.020You know, did anybody see them together and so on?
01:21:01.960And then also you look for patterns of behavior.
01:21:05.940So in the Me Too movement, which I've been broadly supportive of, you know, I think that men who abuse women should be held to account and they should be shamed and punished.
01:21:18.780And but what's what's notable in the most high profile cases that we've seen over the past year or so is that there are patterns of behavior that these these men, when they behave this way toward women, it's not just one woman.
01:21:34.140It's a whole bunch of women who come forward and say, yes, me too.
01:21:38.800And and so now this this movement, unfortunately, which was really, I think, a beneficial thing for our society, is being transported, transformed into a partisan cudgel to to go after Kavanaugh.
01:21:55.880And and these, you know, these supportive statements are just they don't pass the the the minimal standards of evidence of evidentiary trustworthiness.
01:22:09.820So, for example, the story that the New Yorker ran, which I think is a is a disgrace to journalism.
01:22:15.260The woman in question there was remembering something that happened more than 30 years ago and was saying that she herself, the person making this accusation, was so unsure of whether it had been Kavanaugh or not, that she had to wait six days and consult her memories and consult her lawyer.
01:22:36.480Mm hmm. Before she could come forward and say to the New Yorker, yeah, I think it was him.
01:22:42.240Yeah. The last thirty five years weren't suspicious, weren't sufficient to consult her memories.
01:22:48.780But the last then the six days were those were those were really helpful.
01:22:53.200So so as we get as we're on the just the eve, I guess, of the testimony of this woman before the Senate tomorrow, if you had to guess, what will be the outcome of this?
01:23:07.340Do you do you see Brett Kavanaugh being confirmed?
01:23:12.080Well, first of all, it's still apparently up in the air as to whether the first whether Christine Lazy Ford will even show up.
01:23:21.180People are not sure. Dianne Feinstein recently said she wasn't sure.
01:23:26.720So I think if if she fails to testify, then there's absolutely no question that he'll be swiftly confirmed.
01:23:33.540But or I shouldn't say no question, but very little doubt in my mind.
01:23:38.480If she does testify and is extremely persuasive, then the balance might shift.
01:24:51.660And therefore, her her her case, you know, I think she should be heard.
01:24:58.140I think people should make an evaluation.
01:25:00.020But but it does seem odd the the way she has behaved.
01:25:05.840And of course, we can get into this later.
01:25:07.660The Democrats have been appalling in the way they've handled all of this.
01:25:12.240We're speaking with syndicated columnist Mona Sharon about the outrage culture.
01:25:18.880Last hour, Mona, we were talking with Michael Recknenwald, who also has seen his his share of vitriol from the left.
01:25:27.740And we were we were talking about how we can come together in this country and kind of heal the wounds and and move forward as a civilization.
01:25:39.140And I just we were trying to find our way to getting back to some unity because we're so divided in this country.
01:25:48.020And there's probably groups of people, at least two groups.
01:25:51.160The Antifa people are never going to join hands with us.
01:25:53.480And on the other side of the spectrum, the alt right neo-Nazis aren't going to join hands with us anyway.
01:26:18.580I mean, one of the things that that Twitter has done, I think, is amplify and provide a an echo chamber for all of our worst impulses and our most divisive voices.
01:26:34.600And, you know, people who are on Twitter a lot are the ones who think that we're on the verge of a civil war in this country.
01:26:39.740It is incredibly, you know, it's incredibly poisonous.
01:26:48.020At the same time, you're so right to raise the question of whether there are any things that unite us now.
01:26:56.460Glenn Thrush of The New York Times posted recently, you know, is there any institution or thing about the United States that we all agree on?
01:27:05.320And somebody said, well, maybe the military, but there has to be more than that.
01:27:09.740As you say, the Bill of Rights, our history of religious tolerance, you know, the Constitution, the, you know, love of liberty, love of human rights, individual dignity, all those things that we have always prided ourselves on.
01:27:27.820And, look, one of the reasons that I did what I did at CPAC and some of the other things that I do is in an effort to say, look, I'm willing to criticize my own side.
01:27:43.960Be willing to be critical of your own side because it has to start there.
01:27:48.100And once people then give you credit for a certain amount of fair-mindedness, that can be the beginning of a conversation.
01:27:58.220And some of the conversations that I've had with people who are sort of on the center-left have been very productive in that sense.
01:28:04.700But I have to say that this week it's been really tough.
01:28:07.960I would love to see, and I haven't, I would love to see some people on the left saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you know, let's not railroad Judge Kavanaugh and all men, you know, or men who went to prep school or so on and so forth, because we feel so passionately about, you know, abortion.
01:28:30.620That's why this thing has become so rancorous.
01:28:33.180It's because the stakes are Roe v. Wade being overturned, and the idea on the left seems to be all means, fair or foul, all means have to be employed.
01:28:43.340If it means destroying someone's reputation, then that's all right.
01:28:48.360And, you know, some of the people on the left don't even realize that people like us are fair-minded and are just trying to evaluate the evidence dispassionately.
01:29:03.180They think, how could you possibly believe Brett Kavanaugh?
01:29:06.080It's just, it's really difficult to bridge that divide.
01:29:10.960Yeah, we are definitely in a tough place right now.
01:29:16.320So if people want to have access to your books, your articles, where would you send them?
01:29:25.980They can also find me at the Ethics and Public Policy site.
01:29:32.640My work is published in National Review online.
01:29:35.760It's available in lots of other newspapers.
01:29:38.540Recently, I'm a syndicated columnist, and one of my, unfortunately, this past, within the past few weeks, one of my, one of Pat Buchanan's columns was put out under my name.
01:29:52.000So I'm getting a lot of mail from people.
01:29:56.260But yes, and people should go to Amazon.com and check out my new book because it's called Sex Matters, and it describes how modern feminism got us into a lot of the difficulties we're facing with sexual behavior and sexuality in general,
01:30:14.140and differences between men and women, which they were very keen to deny, and I think that will shed some light on where we are.
01:30:23.020It's called Sex Matters, How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense.
01:39:01.040I mean, you should be wise enough to know not to put yourself into a compromising prediction or predicament, I guess.
01:39:11.980A compromising position, I think, is the word I'm actually groping for.
01:39:16.600But in the case of, like he mentioned, Matt Lauer, in the case of Matt Lauer, Matt Lauer would apparently, according to some of the stories.