The Iranian nuclear deal is the most overhyped and talked about diplomatic deal of the 20th century. It was supposed to be a miracle deal, but it's actually a bad deal. Glenn Beck explains why and why not.
00:00:05.780So the Iranian nuclear deal. Let me just say it this way.
00:00:09.500The most overly hyped and talk about piece of diplomacy in the history of overly hyped and talked about diplomacy. Ever.
00:00:20.100The Obama administration did everything in their power to convince us this deal was an absolute miracle delivered to us by God.
00:00:26.300That it was a product of some diplomatic genius, as if Obama channeled the ghost of Winston Churchill through John Kerry to wow the Iranians at the negotiating table, forcing them to bend to our will, pay no attention to those giant crates of cash on the tarmac at the airport.
00:00:44.660All that talk of this deal and the diplomatic move of the century was actually the equivalent of, Stu, correct me if I'm wrong, a 20-yard punt on first down.
00:00:56.300That was a very good sports analogy. Thank you. Appreciate it.
00:01:00.180Obama didn't want to have to deal with Iran, so all he did was he punted the football to another president.
00:01:07.180That's what the Iranian deal really is.
00:01:11.060It's an elaborate delay tactic that was overly hyped by an administration looking to build a legacy.
00:01:19.180On the campaign trail, Trump kept the hype train rolling by making the Iranian deal one of the talking points.
00:01:27.220Worst deal of all time. It's a bad deal. Don't get me wrong.
00:01:32.000But the president has little to say in actually doing anything about it.
00:06:54.420I think our youth, they don't even know it's possible.
00:06:57.540They don't know that anything has any value.
00:07:01.520And this comes from never having to fight for somebody, never having to fight for something, never, never losing something, never losing a game, never coming in last, never made to feel uncomfortable.
00:07:20.900Think of the things that truly have meaning in your life.
00:09:07.300And we're trying to take those things away from everyone.
00:09:13.980And it's what's making our life meaningless.
00:09:18.820You know, in America, we think that we can protest and ban and tear down and rip up and legislate our way out of anything bad or anything uncomfortable.
00:09:34.120Biloxi School District just banned the books to kill a mockingbird.
00:09:39.820Now, they've just banned that from the eighth grade curriculum.
00:09:45.040The students were in the middle of studying it, and the school board vice president said, there were parents that were complaining about it because there's language in this book that makes people uncomfortable.
00:09:54.560We can teach them the same lesson in another way that's not uncomfortable.
00:12:43.320You changed the lives of your children.
00:12:46.380There's nothing more important than that.
00:12:51.060I'd like to point out that, you know, studying to kill a mockingbird promotes the exact kind of virtues and conversation that we are in desperately need of today.
00:13:02.540Also, school district in Biloxi, you might also know that generations of Americans have studied to kill a mockingbird.
00:13:10.100And somehow or another, we have all managed to survive our uncomfortableness.
00:13:15.180There is this movement in America into one giant pansy pillow line safe space.
00:13:24.900There's no such thing as a safe space.
00:13:32.720I was teaching in church a couple of months ago.
00:13:35.920And I asked, I was teaching actually during the week, I was teaching the young adults, the 16, 17, 18-year-olds.
00:20:26.280A third grade dropout daddy who was quoting Michelangelo when he was a cook at Cal Maritime.
00:20:32.480Saying to us, boys, I won't have a problem if you aim high and miss.
00:20:35.880But I'm going to have a real issue if you aim low and hit.
00:20:38.680So here's his father, who was a cook at this university years ago.
00:20:45.540Had to drop out of his, out of school because his family had been hit hard and he needed to help, you know, grow food and help at the house.
00:24:11.640A 16-year-old in Burlington, Iowa, shot to death in March 2016.
00:24:15.880Friends and family told local newspapers that he was gay.
00:24:19.480He identified as both male and female, and occasionally went by a female name.
00:24:24.820The Justice Department lawyer will serve as a county prosecutor in the case.
00:24:30.360And I guess this is one of those situations legally that is very odd, right?
00:24:35.900You don't normally apply these sorts of resources to individual murder cases.
00:24:39.940And what they're saying here basically is that seemingly Jeff Sessions is interested in applying the law to individual cases when they show real merit.
00:24:49.760And he is not embracing the wider sort of systemic ideas where you're going to change laws to try to prevent these things in a larger sense.
00:25:01.400He's taking each case as individual cases, but he's just as passionate of prosecuting and maybe even more passionate in prosecuting a transgender person getting murdered than the typical evil white Christian male.
00:25:12.940So, it's a pretty interesting story because the New York Times here, I would say it reads as they're sort of giving him credit.
00:25:20.540Like, wow, he actually seems to give a crap about transgender people.
00:27:22.240And we don't need, I mean, I can't understand.
00:27:24.620And if somebody kills you, there's a higher level.
00:27:32.520If they're killing you, intentionally killing you because they didn't like the color of your skin or they didn't like that you were a liberal or a conservative or gay or straight or Christian or Muslim.
00:27:47.780If there's additional crime to that, shouldn't the highest, shouldn't the highest problem that we have in our society is the murder, the hatred that's so deep.
00:28:03.960And it could be just because, you know, you've been jilted, but you gave into your hatred that was so deep that you thought the only way this can be cured is by killing another person.
00:28:17.360In the story, it says something like, you know, Mr. Sessions opposed rules that turned attacks against transgendered people based on their sexuality.
00:28:42.860Now, I mean, this is an exceptional reason, but it just shows, you know, how crazy people can become.
00:28:53.180And by not listening to each other, by not talking to each other.
00:28:57.620I, you know, I was, I was, um, in a meeting, um, yesterday morning in, um, our church council and, and we were going over the new Testament and I kept getting hung up on.
00:29:13.340I kept getting hung up on one place and I ended up not listening and I should have, but I got, I got hung up in this place in first Peter where he's talking about, you know, the, the lively stones.
00:29:30.360And if you, if you understand the, the, the, the way things were written and why things were written the way they were in, in the Bible, you know, that bricks are people that are all made by somebody powerful into being exactly alike.
00:29:53.680It's why the Israelis or the Israelites were making bricks.
00:30:00.520I mean, that story, they're making bricks because they're all slaves.
00:30:20.220And it is the worst part of our human nature.
00:30:23.300It is the part that is quite honestly, the enemy of man and the enemy of God, that part of our human nature that wants everyone else to believe and be just like we want them to be.
00:31:46.100Would we would we just take scientists?
00:31:48.420If this was going to restart us, would we just take scientists?
00:31:55.020Would we just take people who are rocket scientists or or or or believe all in one thing?
00:32:06.080Or would we also say, you know, if we're going to really have a human society, we should bring some painters along and a couple of people who can write and play music.
00:32:17.320Like, we should take some artists with us, maybe a poet or two.
00:32:22.120Noah brought the duck-billed platypus along.
00:33:06.700And there's a lot of wisdom in Charlie Daniels.
00:33:12.100I don't want to talk to him about, I do want to talk to him about his past and the legends that he has met, met with and been around and the influences on his life.
00:33:23.300But I also want to talk to him about just finding your way.
00:33:27.060He's led a remarkable life starting with his childhood.