Glenn Beck talks about the Obamas 60th birthday party and how it cost him $12 million to make it. He also talks about how Obama got to where he is now. Glenn Beck is an American conservative commentator, radio host, and host of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News Radio.
00:03:51.640Let me just give you the, let me just, let me, let me just read the article about this.
00:03:57.280Seen from the sky, the sprawling setup of Barack Obama's 60th birthday celebration, and on the ground, some of the creme de la creme of entertainment, sports, and political worlds are starting to arrive.
00:04:10.740Now, I don't know if you saw the picture, but, you know, when I have a, when I have a small get-together, you know, I don't think I've, well, no, we had a, we had a Christmas party here where we had a little tent outside.
00:04:29.180It was the size of my back porch, not bigger than my $12 million mansion, which, by the way, I would really like to know, how did he afford a $12 million mansion?
00:04:42.800And the $8 million mansion he has in D.C.
00:05:11.680Oh, well, I, if you see his $12 million estate, the tents dwarfed it for a little get together, you know, with canopies and catering stations that dwarf Obama's mansion.
00:05:26.520The Daily Mail can reveal the true scale of the party that, according to the former president's spokesman, was scaled back from a 500-person extravaganza to a small affair, only for family and close friends.
00:05:38.900The island's airport was above, with private jets and helicopters flying in ahead of the party.
00:05:45.860No, they couldn't have been going to the party.
00:05:47.460They're all, they're all greenies, right?
00:05:49.460I mean, you don't want to put more air pollution out there.
00:05:52.980I mean, what is the CO2 footprint of a private jet and helicopter?
00:05:58.560Anyway, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen flew in around 3 p.m. on Friday, ex-NBA star Dwayne Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, and actor Don Cheadle were also spotted arriving on Martha's Vineyard.
00:06:14.200They also learned that Jay-Z and Beyonce were already on the island, as is George Clooney, along with Oprah Winfrey, just some of the names believed to have made the final cut.
00:06:25.500But, oh, man, we should have, I, wouldn't you love to have seen the tension going back and forth with the Obamas?
00:06:55.500Um, exclusive images, uh, show that the vast marquee being erected behind Obama's waterfront property as workmen busily put up the canvas and set up catering equipment as the clock to the big event ticked down.
00:07:26.080Um, it was, uh, laid next to the main house, leading onto a vast marquee inside long tables where guests will dine were visible along with shabby, chic dining chairs.
00:07:38.140Uh, a large raised stage at the far end of the marquee showed speakers and technical equipment unpacked and ready.
00:07:45.560Purple sweet peas and cream rhododendrons sat in pots and large circular light fixtures sat on tabletops.
00:07:52.360A sperry tent had been erected behind the main marquee and behind that, the catering tents.
00:08:01.120Uh, a staging tent with just uniforms for servers and staff could be seen on the other side of the house.
00:08:06.940So they had a, they had a huge tent with just uniforms in it for the people serving the close number of friends.
00:08:14.980Musician quest love of the roots is among the guests expected to attend and perform.
00:08:19.700Um, and also, uh, they are providing a free meat menu for guests.
00:08:25.280The menu is said to include spam wasabi made with plant-based faux beef and faux pork and just eats plant-based eggs.
00:08:35.140Cheesesteak egg rolls made with impossible beef and cheese sauce from perfect day will be offered.
00:08:41.040But for those wanting the real taste of what the vineyard can offer, they have learned now that they will be stations with oyster shuckers to provide the best of the Cape's fresh shellfish.
00:08:51.980Notice they don't mention lobster is also, uh, one of, uh, you know, one of the main delicacies there on the island.
00:08:59.620And preparations were scaled back for the birthday bash.
00:09:03.700Um, uh, but the birthday boy was a drastic, uh, was forced to drastically cut the guest list, trimming it down to just family and close friends.
00:09:12.540Thanks to the surge in COVID, uh, 19 Delta variant baloney.
00:09:18.020No, they didn't have any baloney there.
00:09:20.000No, I don't think they had any, no, but, uh, the president did go golfing.
00:09:24.720Uh, it's the story was quick to point out.
00:09:27.940He took to the greens on farm net club at the edges of the town of Oak bluffs.
00:09:33.080The 60 year old joined the club, which boasts that it is fully organic with groundkeepers using no chemicals or pesticides.
00:09:40.020The course also encourages caddies and not carts.
00:09:44.340And the president and his three companions towed the line and walked the course.
00:09:49.480Membership is $12,000 a year on top of a $350,000 initiative, uh, initiation fee and is currently full capacity.
00:10:01.700What a, I mean, he's living your life.
00:10:05.140He cut a svelte and casual figure as he spent the afternoon with friends.
00:10:10.020Then he rounded off his day with a trip to the family favorite, the barn, a bowling bistro and bar.
00:10:16.120It appears to be boys only evening of bowling and food and music at the venue.
00:10:20.380It had been closed for the entire day to allow security sweeps.
00:10:24.020And the raining evening was peppered with many disappointed would be diners and bowlers who hadn't got the memo that they would be turned away.
00:10:32.520Michelle and the girls were not with him.
00:10:34.000It seemed to be a afternoon of golf and a boy's night out.
00:10:38.240The muted thump of music and bowling balls could be heard along and through the night with Obama finally emerging shortly before 11 p.m.
00:10:47.360News that the party had been scaled down has been met with mixed response in the island's string of small towns, including Oak Bluffs, Edgar Town and Tisbury.
00:10:55.820One resident said, I know a lot of people were counting on the income from all these people flooding in and now they're disappointed.
00:11:05.300But to be honest, the place is still busy and there's a lot of people who won't miss the traffic.
00:11:09.480The streamlined gift guest list will be hosted to an event under the canopy carry catered by Nancy's in Oak Bluffs.
00:11:20.440It's a takeout of the family eatery that provides seafood classics and frozen cocktails and whose menu is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern cuisine.
00:11:30.680Guests at the 60th birthday can expect to enjoy all the fresh shellfish and seafood the vineyard can offer, as well as famous gyro plates, grape leaves and falafels.
00:11:43.720On Tuesday, two women were walking their dog and they were haranguing gawkers who swiftly reported any unknown vehicles to the local police.
00:11:54.540A spokesperson for the president, Miss Obama, issued a statement which read due to the new spread of the Delta variant over the past week, the president, Miss Obama, has decided to significantly scale back through the event.
00:12:06.360The president is appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people again.
00:18:39.000And this energy right here is un-f***ing winnable.
00:18:45.220They can't f***ing put a phone together like that.
00:18:46.940That is Mr. Rimes, who we have invited on this program.
00:18:53.220I don't think he's going to be taking me up, but I would love to talk to him about that little rant.
00:18:58.220He said the best thing that came out of COVID was a lot of learning.
00:19:02.000And the way he said it, and because he's not wearing a mask, and I can see the full face expression, I think he was saying we learned a lot about the federal government and a lot about what people will do.
00:19:15.220Somebody else spoke out against the passports this weekend.
00:19:20.100It was Joe Rogan, who is on fire right now.
00:19:25.980Because when you give people freedom, you let people do whatever the f*** they want to do, they actually find ways to succeed and grow and thrive.
00:19:33.680But as soon as you put the boots to them, as soon as you tell them, you have to do this or you can't do that.
00:20:30.740They can't keep all of your kids home from school.
00:20:33.400They can't keep every government building closed, although I've got a long list of the ones that they might keep closed or might ought to keep closed.
00:20:40.920We don't have to accept the mandates, the lockdowns, the harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats.
00:20:52.840Nancy Pelosi, you will not arrest or stop me or anyone on my staff from doing our jobs.
00:20:58.600He said, Americans should not accept anti-science positions that may be championed by the Biden administration, promising that if President Joe Biden tries to shut down federal agencies,
00:21:28.600he will stop every bill coming through the Senate with an amendment to cut their funding if they don't come to back to work in person.
00:21:38.180There is a feeling of, as Busta Rhymes said, empowerment.
00:21:47.580People are not going to take another round of lockdowns.
00:22:00.440However, you have a growing government and a growing police state.
00:22:06.520And I want to I want to explain to you why no one is doing anything about the violence on the streets while they're building a police state.
00:22:25.720So I couldn't help but notice you were sitting down thinking about, you know, watching something with the family, you know, maybe watching a movie, you know, you want something good, don't you?
00:22:35.580You know, something with a great plot and beautiful cinematography.
00:22:40.580That's what I love, you know, something just beautiful in the family oriented, you know, with a lot of salty language and some violence, lots of violence, lots of blood.
00:22:54.260And maybe some steamy adult scenes, you know, I'm saying that's the way it feels every time you go and you try to watch something on television.
00:23:03.700Unless you have vid angel video angel is an algorithm that you actually control and you can set it so it will filter out what you don't want to see in your home.
00:23:18.340You set the filters for exactly everything you want to see and then watch it with your family.
00:46:11.820And I promise, uh, I may bring a scalpel, but it's going to be a scalpel on what is going on in financial markets and with the government and decentralization.
00:46:21.640I had two very powerful Washington DC people write to me this weekend and say, I've never heard of Carol Roth before.
00:46:32.060So let's talk about, let's talk about, uh, what, you know, where do you want to start?
00:46:38.900Well, let's just start with the overarching theme of what's been happening over the last call it 16 to 17 months, because we have seen the government use the excuse that one person's plight is going to justify disregarding the rights of others.
00:54:40.380And then in terms of the compensation, people say, oh, well, they got PPP relief.
00:54:45.120People don't understand that the amount of PPP relief was not only a fraction of the overall, like, $6.6 trillion that had been spent on relief,
00:54:58.080but also a fraction of what was needed to shut these businesses down for months and months on end.
00:55:05.760And the real tragedy of this entire thing, in addition to, obviously, the subjugation of the rights,
00:55:11.460is that they wanted to do this right to begin with.
00:55:14.180They could have done compensation right out of the box to small businesses, let people stay on the payrolls, stay employed.
00:55:23.520It would have cost them about a trillion to a trillion and a half dollars, I project, based on the numbers.
00:55:28.700And they could have bought themselves several months to figure out mitigation strategies.