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All right.

I want to start with some audio from

Utah.

And the audio of Mitt Romney coming to the stage.

Do we have it?

Do we have it?

We don't have it.

Okay.

I don't know how that happened.

Let me reenact.

I think we had that for my show.

Is it not on my show's sheet?

Did we?

Thank you.

But you have to assume it was just

glorifying and very positive.

It was.

It was beautiful.

Other than that.

It was very warm.

Round booing.

It was really warm and fuzzy.

Yeah,

it was quite ugly.

It was quite ugly.

This is the GOP convention in Utah.

And everybody knows how I feel about Mitt Romney.

You love him, right?

Big fan.

You adore him.

Adore him.

Love him.

He's a Romney head.

People call him a Romney head.

He tours the country with other Romney heads.

Yeah,

you guys did that really good comedy tour together.

We loved it.

We loved it.

We loved it.

Okay, so

let me explain because

I was seeing all kinds of articles about this

and why Romney was booed and how rude it was and everything else.

For Mid Romney and the GOP and everybody else to understand what happened,

Mid Romney, I'm sure, is a nice guy.

I've met him several times, and he's always been kind and gracious, but I find him phony.

After, you know, after meeting with somebody for a few times

when they're not a senator, you can kind of see if they're phony or not as a politician he's a politician now normally that's not a bad thing but we're at a time where people don't want politicians politicians are perceived as saying one thing uh but they actually believe and do something else and they generally don't like the people who vote for them they're elitists Romney said, look, I'm a Republican, as they were still booing him.

I'm a Republican.

Yes, that's kind of the problem, Mitt.

I know this is a Republican convention, but that's kind of the problem.

What does that mean?

And so the GOP in Utah should wake up.

You either have to split, which would be a horrible mistake,

or you need to recognize that the majority of people that were there that were booing,

They're kind of booing the GOP as well.

And here's why.

What does the the GOP stand for?

Does it stand for the Constitution?

Because the Constitution, small government, trusts the people to do it themselves, America first without being bigoted.

That's what we thought Republicans stood for.

But we don't believe that anymore.

However, at the same time, you notice they didn't boo Mike Lee.

Mike Lee got a standing ovation and no booze.

Why is that?

Mike Lee is not a flamethrower.

He's not a bomb thrower.

He's not, he doesn't make fun of people.

He's not like Donald Trump, because that's what they try to say about anybody who disagrees with people like Mitt Romney.

He's Donald Trump.

No, Mike is constitutional, even when it goes against what he might wish could be true.

See, Mitt and GOP supporters, Mitt has spent the last few years calling half the country bigots, racists, and extremists.

And he may not have used those words, but through his actions and his lack of defense and cooperation with the senior senator from his state, Mike Lee, he demonstrates it all the time.

And quite honestly, the GOP, half of it, is tired of being called a racist, a bigot, or an extremist for believing in the Constitution of the United States of America.

That's it.

That's all that was about.

You disagree, Pat or?

No.

What are your thoughts?

I agree completely.

And

that's the right forum for what they did with Mitt Romney.

They let him know at a political convention what they thought of him.

I don't like it when

people on the right are doing that to him in public.

That's the, you know, that's the Maxine Waters

cost him on the streets, get in them in their face.

And then when he got on that plane, then people were yelling traitor at him.

I don't like that.

That's wrong.

That's wrong.

I don't like that either.

When he's on the stage, I mean, but he's on the stage at the Republican convention.

That's the time to let him know how you feel about him.

And

it made me uncomfortable.

I didn't like it, but that is the appropriate time to let him know exactly what you feel, that and at the election booth.

Right.

When he's in public, you just don't say anything.

I mean, we have to remember what our moms all taught us.

If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.

Now, there is an exception unless you do my job, because this would be a one-minute show, maybe a 20-second show every day.

Yes.

So

we have to have common decency.

And that is the thing that I think, again,

Mike Lee represents.

Common decency.

I mean, he can work with anyone.

He can work with Bernie Sanders.

How is he defined as a extremist?

And make no mistake, in Utah, that's half of what the GOP calls him.

They call him and believe he's an extremist,

you know, because they're still following an Oren Hatch kind of philosophy.

The Mike Levitt, Orin Hatch people are terrible to Mike Lee.

They treat him

as garbage.

Yes.

Yes.

He's treated by garbage by, surprisingly, a lot of very powerful people in Utah.

Let me play the audio.

You have the audio now.

Here he is, walking out on stage.

Now, you know me as a person who

says what he thinks, and I don't have the fact that I wasn't a fan of our last president's character issues.

And I'm also no fan.

Wow.

I mean, this is just a blood bath.

Aren't you embarrassed?

Aren't you embarrassed?

And I'm also not embarrassed.

He's saying all the wrong things.

Yeah,

stop, stop.

He's saying all the wrong things.

He's antagonizing the crowd.

Instead of saying, Look, I take it.

I wasn't ashamed, but I take it.

I know a lot of people are upset at me.

I get it.

I get it.

Go ahead.

Let it out.

Go ahead.

He's like, Aren't you embarrassed?

What?

I mean, it's just the

elitist

speaking, I think.

You take it like a man on stage.

You take it like a man.

And you

say,

I understand.

I get it.

I will say this in his defense.

He had to know that was coming.

And he went anyway.

And he spoke anyway.

He had to.

He had to.

He kind of had to, but he faced it and took it.

And

how did that decision work out for us?

Maybe that was not very well.

He had to.

Maybe he didn't have to.

There's another side to it.

Yeah.

I mean, he still really believes.

He still really believes that

he's on the right side.

And maybe he is.

I don't think so, but maybe he is.

He still believes he's on the right side of

history and what is coming.

He's still playing a long game, he thinks, that, you know, people like people who follow Mike Lee are extremists and are going to fall by the wayside.

I don't think so.

I mean, I just don't think so.

You know, we believe we're the hope of freedom for the future.

And I don't see anybody on this side sitting down.

But he, you know, he.

He believes that.

And is what makes him even more infuriating.

I wonder how he is going to fare in his next election.

I mean, I don't think people are going to forget this.

Oh, I think he loses that people will forget it.

Yeah, I think he'll lose.

Yeah, I do.

Not to a Democrat, maybe, but he'll be primary and lose to a Republican.

That's what I think.

A Republican or a constitutionalist?

Well, yeah.

I mean, somebody on the right.

Yeah, but Mitt Romney's on the right.

Not really.

I mean, somebody right, Mitt Romney.

He was the guy who said on that very stage, look, I've been a Republican my whole life.

A Republican who was pro-abortion for some time in the 90s, if we would remember correctly.

A Republican who had Romney care instituted in Massachusetts.

That's not much of a Republican.

I mean, that's really the main problem with Mitt Romney from the beginning is that he's not really on the right.

He's not really terribly conservative.

No.

No.

No.

Hard to believe.

Well, he started, he really kind of started out

where Oren Hatch was.

And at least Oren Hatch started out as a staunch conservative.

I mean, he was Mike Lee for a while.

And I mean, not quite as good, but he was Mike Lee for a while and then just went to hell in a handbasket.

And it was the system that corrupted, and the system is corrupting

a lot of the GOP all around the country.

I was, you know, I kind of feel, I guess maybe this is a theme, Pat.

We were talking earlier.

As a human being, I feel bad for Ted Wheeler.

Intellectually, I don't really feel bad for Ted Wheeler.

No, he brought this on himself.

I mean, he condoned it for a year.

And now all of a sudden, you've had enough.

Oh, okay.

Well, it's kind of late in the game for that.

Yeah.

And I kind of feel the same way about Mitt Romney.

You know what I mean?

I kind of, you know, he brought this on himself, and

intellectually, I have no sympathy, but as a compassionate human being,

that was a tough one.

I wonder if Mike Lee wondered what his ovation would be.

Yeah,

I'm sure he had some trepidation, but

you wouldn't want to.

Can you imagine being the next speaker?

That is,

you know, it's kind of, in some ways, it couldn't get worse than that.

But in other ways, you have no idea what's coming.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

I just want to, I want to read this story to you and show you the power of one.

The power of one parent getting involved and calling another parent and another parent calling another parent and that parent calling another parent.

It is the power of one.

All of a sudden, you have a tidal wave on your hands.

This happened this weekend in South Lake, Texas.

It's a small little town, conservative town,

and affluent.

The test scores show there is, and this is almost unheard of, if not unheard of entirely,

in America or any nation, where blacks and whites perform equally as well on all of their final tests.

That doesn't happen.

Well,

they wanted to transform

the school and make the school have more diversity.

Now, listen to the way this is written.

Supporters of local candidates who oppose a school diversity plan rallied in South Lake, Texas over the weekend.

Nine months after officials in the affluent Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools, voters delivered a resounding victory on Saturday.

Okay, so what was it?

I mean, because it sounds nice, right?

They just, well, all they want is just a peaceful school, one that, you know, isn't racist and, you know, admires cultural differences.

No, that's not exactly what they wanted.

In fact, the school board put a presentation to game, to

into play.

for a teacher's retreat.

They were given a preview of the kind of instruction they would be expected to oversee and carry out in a cultural competency regime.

In the slides presented in this retreat, this is what caused the havoc in Southlake.

Teachers and administrators who choose to treat students, parents, and colleagues equally, regardless of their skin color or ethnicity, were accused of cultural blindness.

A state in which differences are ignored and one proceeds as if differences don't exist.

White privilege is being able to navigate daily life in the American culture without having to think about race.

The administrators were encouraged to construct a white identity, discussing what does it mean to you to be white and whiteness, as well as naming some characteristics of white culture.

Then they went into white fragility.

The presentation then went in against stereotyping, which says happens when you generalize about a person while ignoring the presence of individual differences.

This is how bad it has to get before most white people notice: burning crosses, swastikas, clan, the N-word.

Well, needless to say, the teachers went back and they were like, ah, I don't agree with this.

Now, this is in Texas, so a few teachers did object.

Are those teachers in your school district?

Because I can guarantee you

this is happening in your school.

I guarantee you.

So there's all of this stuff

about systematic racist

and racism and how you can't look at people all the same and treat them the same.

It's treating people the same and looking at them no differently that has led to the good test scores, I believe, in Southlake.

One of the best schools and school systems in the country.

So what happened over the weekend?

In an unusually bitter campaign that echoed a growing national divide over how to address issues of race, gender, and sexuality in schools, candidates in the city of South Lake were split between two camps.

Those who supported new diversity and

inclusion training requirements for Carroll students and teachers, and those backed by political action committees that were formed last year to defeat the plan.

Holy cow!

This paper's out of touch, right?

Oh,

it's NBC News, the local NBC.

Candidates and voters on both sides described the election as a fork in the road for

Southlake, a wealthy suburb 30 miles northwest of Dallas.

So goes Southlake, a local conservative commentator warned in the weeks leading up to the election.

So goes the rest of America.

In the end, the contest was not close.

Candidates backed by the conservative family PAC, which has raised more than $200,000 since last summer.

Notice, all of a sudden it's about money and an evil PAC.

Those people did really well.

In fact, Randy Robbins received 70%, 70.4% of the vote.

His opponent, Sabrina Hakame, received 29% of the vote.

In the city council place 5 election, Amy Torres-Lep

had 70% of the vote.

Her opponent had 30.

In the CISD school board race, number four, Cameron Cambryant received almost 70% of the vote.

His opponent, 31% of the vote.

In the school board place number five, Hannah Smith received almost 70% of the vote.

Her opponent, Ed Hernandez, 30% of the vote.

Now, here's what's interesting.

Hannah Smith, she's a radical.

I don't know if you know this, Stu.

You pay attention to South Lake politics, I'm not sure, but Hannah Smith, oh, she's a radical.

She's a South Lake lawyer who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

There's a bad recipe for you.

Yeah, there's a really bad.

She won against Ed Hernandez, a business consultant.

She's now now on the school board.

Oh my gosh, I might transfer my kids to,

I might move to Southlake so I can get my kids into that.

Can you imagine having her on the school board?

That's fantastic.

The reason why I want to bring this up is because the parents all stood together.

They stood up.

They were against the press.

They were called names.

Smith has received all kinds of threats.

I mean, it's been really, really bad.

But they won.

And 70% came out against.

Because once you explain what they're teaching,

nobody is for that.

And this, I can guarantee you, this or forms of this are happening in your school right now because this is a national movement.

And it must be taken out of your school or your kids have absolutely no chance of survival.

Yeah, the best thing that happened in this situation, too, was all the national media attention.

I mean, once people recognized what was going on there, it was easy to defeat.

But it needs to be called out.

You know, like Demi Lovato, the singer, we brought this up a couple of weeks ago, seemed to have like some, she went to high school in Texas and seemed to have some sort of high school rivalry with this town.

And so posted.

the videos of these parents just like saying like, hey, I kind of don't want my kids to like think about skin color all the time.

You know, like these sort of really rational rational requests from the parents, but they were all edited to kind of make them look like they were racists.

And she tweeted it out to her multiple millions of followers, and it became kind of this big story and all this back and forth went on.

And that

guaranteed the defeat of critical race theory in this town.

Yeah.

Well, that and honestly, the school board members that voted illegally

against the parents' wishes, they did not have a hearing on critical race theory because they knew how it would go.

So they voted privately in secret to put it all in.

Yeah.

And once that was found out, I mean, two of them went to jail.

It all goes back to this ridiculous several years ago, there was a video of a couple of students who were singing along with a rap song and said, said the words in the rap song instead of, I guess, you know, because the N-word doesn't rhyme with the word it was rhyming with.

So apparently they, and I don't know the whole history.

They may have been terrible videos, I don't know, but like a couple of students doing something dumb, and the town felt like, oh, well, our reputation is on the line.

We need to take steps to show that we're aligned with Ibram Kendi for some reason.

So, you know, this sort of stuff goes on around the country.

And if it doesn't get pop stars tweeting about it and NBC News writing giant articles trashing the town as racist, if those things don't happen, a lot of this stuff just slides by parents because, you know, they don't, they do it behind closed doors.

And unless a a lot of attention gets, you know,

put on it, they don't know.

I really would like to talk to the candidate running for the Beaverton School Board in Portland, Oregon.

She is standing up against critical race theory and comprehensive sexuality education.

It might not go the same way as it did in Texas.

It'll be fascinating to watch.

Her name is Jeanette Schadd or Shadd A-S-C-H-A-D-E Shad.

And she is running by herself.

You know, the school district says they're just doing culturally relevant teaching.

Uh-huh.

CRT, critical race theory.

Critical race theory, culturally relevant teaching.

Oh, no.

So if you call and say, are you doing CRT?

Yes.

Yes, we are.

But

ours is culturally relevant teaching.

Oh, my gosh.

These schools are just getting completely out of control.

Completely out of control.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

By the way, another reason to be proud,

SpaceX,

the crew has returned to Earth.

Do we have the Splashdown

video and audio here that that we could play.

There it is.

There's the splashdown of SpaceX, a private company

going out in space.

Okay, so now a private company has done this, but let me show you what the government of China has done.

Please, wait, what's about to fall from space?

A bit of bad news for you, some bad outer space news.

It's kind of important.

This week, China launched a rocket for its space station, and that went great.

The rocket is successfully in orbit, but the launcher, which is the size of a 10-story building, accidentally also went into orbit and is descending back to Earth, and no one knows where it's going to crash or what it's going to crash into.

Yeah.

Well, that's not quite true.

So this is the thing.

It was supposed to go up.

It's a booster.

And like he said,

size of a 10-story building.

It was supposed to go up into space, but they miscalculated a little bit.

So it is technically in space, in lower Earth orbit, but it's decaying now.

And they didn't get it up far enough.

So it's going to come back to Earth soon.

And rest assured, the Chinese are all over it.

They say we can't predict when and we can't predict where it's going to hit, but we can rule a few places out.

We believe it won't hit any place north of New York

and any place

more southern than New Zealand.

So

no Antarctica.

So

no Antarctica.

Ruled out.

No Alaska, no Canada.

Of course, their calculations were wrong in the first place.

Hadn't exactly been a banner year for Chinese science, I would say.

No.

There's been a couple of issues people may have noticed that have cropped up from China over the past

year.

Yeah, if you follow, you have to follow some of the scientific journals that I follow.

I know that this is a science-based show.

Well, we're known for science on this program, many awards, I being a doctor.

Yeah.

Of course.

And we did a, if you missed it, a 47-part series last year on the inner workings of Chinese science, won multiple awards.

Some people may have missed that series and don't know.

Yeah.

Chinese

had kind of a crap heap year when it comes to their scientists.

Kind of don't want to listen to him about anything right now.

Yeah, I know.

You know, I think the 10-story building that's going to be coming down to earth in flames

that could just, you know, land on a neighborhood,

you know, might not be the best PR thing for the Chinese space agency.

I guarantee it will kill a lot less people than the last mistake they made.

That one I'm pretty sure of.

Well,

I mean, unless it hits New York.

Remember, it says

no one north of New York.

So that includes New York.

10-story building falling from space.

How many blocks?

This series?

How many blocks could that take out?

That thing coming at an angle, imagine it's coming down like, you know, Broadway.

It would take

how many?

What kind of destruction would it do?

And would Biden even say anything?

It would be really interesting to be completely ignored.

You know what?

You know what?

Now I'm really pissed.

Now I'm really pissed.

I am going to tell Hunter that he should eventually get out of that Chinese

space firm thing that he's doing, that I have no idea what he's even doing.

Do you know it's 100 days in?

He promised he would get rid of all of his shares in China.

Still hasn't done it.

Stunning.

I'm stunned.

Yeah, I know, I know.

I can't wait for that.

It's not really a real thing.

Can't wait for the coming headlines of

Republicans pounce on Joe Biden not commenting on half of New York City being wiped out by a Chinese building falling from space.

No, no, no, no.