'Pivot Point America'? - 9⧸28⧸18
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1 hour and 49 minutes
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148.59026
Summary
After watching the hearings, my kids asked me, "Dad, who won?" and I had to explain why the FBI didn't even have a chance to question Christine Blasey Ford. It's because they were cowards.
Transcript
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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My wife, my wife kept saying, please turn down the television, honey, because the kids
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Normally, if the news is on, the kids are not paying any attention at all.
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I said to my wife, I think the kids need to watch this.
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow and the next day, based on what happened yesterday,
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They both said to me separately, I don't understand the process.
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I don't understand what is, how is this even working?
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I tried to explain it, but I couldn't, because it made no sense at all.
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You have a prosecutor asking questions, line of inquiry, and then we go to five minutes
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Because my kids had to finish their homework and it lasted all day, I turned it off and
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Both my kids separately asked me last night, it's a quote, who won?
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I was thinking that last night as I turned on cable news.
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Is anyone thinking of the ramifications in Washington?
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Is anyone in Washington thinking about what this means for the republic?
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I can't call myself an American if this is what the American people want.
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But I will tell you, I cannot believe I'm wrong on this.
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I think yesterday is the first day that I could say,
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I don't think we're capable of keeping this republic.
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Anybody notice yesterday how the republicans behaved?
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Now, I'm not going to give them extra points because, honestly, the way they,
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the only reason why they didn't question Ford themselves is because, quite honestly,
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the most pessimistic part of me says because they were cowards.
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Because they didn't want to be asked themselves.
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They don't, they didn't want to be the ones on film, on television, asking a question
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that would then be taken and twisted into something angry, anti-women, pro-rapist.
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They got an ordinary-looking woman who was very qualified to ask all of the questions.
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What happens on cable news last night is, we don't know where she was going.
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We don't know why she was, what she was even building up to.
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Because this system was not designed to do what they did yesterday.
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Now, this is not its original design, but what it's been designed to do lately
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is just give political candidates airtime so they can position themselves with their voters.
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And if I hear one more damn person say about the FBI,
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Dad, I didn't say this woman is making all this stuff up.
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She said that there were four other people there.
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and the detective and the district attorney told me
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uh... about sexual assault and sexual harassment
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uh... that women and girls are treated in this country
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and that is an important part of the story as well
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that is not just an important part of the story
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really be talking about something entirely different
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think that you're something special don't try to if
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you you know if you you want to get rich or you
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have eight kids forget about it they're going to
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just a social deal socialism is actually a cultural
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deal and so and and basically where everybody has
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the same amount of money everybody has to be alike
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as well so if you like being a weirdo if you like
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being an oddball if you like being yourself you
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american system better don't try to get the danish
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apart and one reason why it would not work here
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is there was no diversity there was no diversity
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now that they have opened up the borders there's
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diversity and people don't want to live their life
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that way and it's falling apart am i wrong people are
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different people are different it's like it's a
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country of it's a boutique society of 5.3 million
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people that the danes they basically they're like
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shire and then when there's a whole bunch of of
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immigration look for in america you know we despite
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the fact that we have these you know controversies about
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the wall and about the immigration system and that a
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lot of people listening to us today disagree on this
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fundamentally we all come from immigrants and we all
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like immigrants we like hard-working people who come
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from different places and integrate into our society most
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of most europeans they can't handle it they don't know
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fundamentally from some other place like a thousand
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years ago the danish ancestors of current danes were
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vikings living in denmark a thousand years ago i have the
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slightest idea where my family was but i god knows they
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um arthur um one last thought um yesterday the hearings
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were people came into it and they saw what they wanted to see
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one way or another i don't think it changed anybody's mind
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um it was all about politics and the politics of destruction i think
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um but we you know when when lindsey graham spoke yesterday it kind of
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and i thought it was righteous indignation myself i think there are a
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lot of people that feel this way knock it off this is shameful
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what is happening um but there is a difference between
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righteous indignation and and playing the game the way others
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are playing it um they're they're playing for destruction
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if we reach out and play for destruction as well
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i think we lose and we we hasten our own destruction
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people think that that is surrender you what you want me to surrender you
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want me not to say anything that's not what i'm saying i'm saying
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fight the right way people kind of have given up on
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that you shouldn't do that yeah no glenn beck speaks truth right now
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you know there is not a long-term reward that comes from being a bad person
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most people listening to us today are conservatives like you and me and they
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were watching the the they have a they have their own filter bubble look we
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all hear things through our own experience and through our own biases i
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righteous indignation look if you're a senator and you're in a hearing fine
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but for the rest of us standing up to the left standing up to the other side
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when they're wrong around the thanksgiving table or on social media
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it has a very limited impact why because we're not going to actually be taken
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seriously unless we hold our own side to the same moral standard
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so if we really want to be effective on the right what we need to do is we
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need to look at contempt and hatred and mockery and sarcasm and derision
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on the right and call it out and say these are not these arguments are not
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living up to my own moral standard and we hold ourselves to a higher moral
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standard we will not lose i've got the data on this glenn
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it is and in the long run the the moral high road which doesn't have to be weak
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it doesn't have to give in to anybody else's argument but to say through love
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and respect i believe that you are not living up to your own objectives and to
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say to our own side we will not stand for hatred that's not who we are that's the
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secret to long-term success i i believe that we are entering a time and
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yesterday i didn't only hastened it where people see this and they don't want
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to be a part of either side they don't want to be a part they're good democrats
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who do not stand with antifa and are bothered by that
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but also um we are we shout down people not the way they do necessarily on the
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do you see any movement on the left that common sense democrats are starting
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to say wait a minute i i'm not in lockstep with this
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i do this is this is not what gets all the publicity screaming ladder is what
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gets all the publicity on the right and on the left
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but when i look at the data i see 70 percent of americans hate it
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they feel that they're being on and again this is half right wing and half left
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wing 70 percent of americans believe that we're being held hostage and we're
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being terrorized by powerful people who are profiting from us hating each other
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and saying terrible things to each other they don't like it
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they they they want to fight back we have a the the opportunity to create a new
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moral movement where we can bring our brothers and sisters on the central left
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and even on the left together to try to solve some problems in this country and
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where we can say i don't hate you these kinds of these what's going on in the
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senate right now what's going on with these hearings right now is a proxy battle
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it's like an angolan civil war where the soviet union the united states are
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to fight it out on somebody else's battleground americans have to say
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enough with these ideological this ideological warfare between right and
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left and where we're being the ones in the middle where we're effectively
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being held hostage we want better than this in this country we don't have to
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back down from the conservatives at all we just have to recognize that we
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don't have to agree it's okay in this country to have actual disagreement that's
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the basis of our excellence you know your message has always been so good glenn
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because you don't hate anybody and we have to as leaders we have an opportunity
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to help americans to love their enemies and so doing to find the basis of our
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strength arthur brooks thank you so much for being on the program uh we have to have
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you on more often you are uh well spoken well thought out full of facts and you're
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on the right path arthur brooks you can follow him at arthur brooks at arthurbrooks.com
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slash podcast you can listen to his podcast i highly encourage it um and he is also the
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i will tell you um one thing i was impressed with yesterday uh was donald trump uh most republicans
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if not all i've seen in my lifetime since ronald reagan fold immediately immediately somebody is
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even bluffing at the table i've got this they fold they don't want to fight they're not willing to fight
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donald trump allowed this fight to happen yesterday and kavanaugh would have been completely discredited
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i think under any other president he would have just gone away discredited because they would
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have said you know what it's not worth it we don't believe those charges and he would have had no
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platform to defend himself donald trump the one thing to say about him he is a fighter he does not
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give up and uh you know sometimes that's good sometimes that's bad yesterday it was very good
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because i can't think of any other president in my lifetime since ronald reagan that would have stood
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for this and would have stood against it do you know i don't know i think he surprises me uh on a
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pretty regular basis and i guess i should be used to it by now but um you know that's why that's why
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people voted for him yep for for this very reason he's willing to he's willing to stand and make this
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fight because he believes in it that's and it's great it's just nothing i really didn't think he
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had it in him yeah you know we've we've talked about it before you've got to admit when you're wrong
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and here's another case of me being wrong and i i will tell you i think they're gonna confirm him
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uh and they confirm him i think this guy is such a solid citizen at least from what i know
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that i don't think he would ever do this but boy oh boy democrats i would hate to see your case come
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up against the supreme court with him and if you're feinstein and you you're you're battling in the
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good luck to you yeah he is a solid citizen and will be fair but you deserve every sleepless night you
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get prior to that just wondering if he can be fair glenn back mercury