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The mouse has struck again.

again.

Mickey Mouse has

struck down the Mandalorian superhill hero,

canceling now Gina Carano

for her Republican Jewish analogy, and it only proves her point.

We begin with the cancel culture and what this impeachment is really all about in 60 seconds.

The Glenn Beck program.

All right, I want to talk to you a little bit about losing your identity.

I mean, some people have an identity crisis, but now that's taken on

a whole new meaning.

Seeing that cybercrime has gone up about 75% with coronavirus.

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Actress Gina Carano

has incurred the wrath of the mob.

The mob that runs Hollywood, the universities, and the arts.

She made a

historical analogy with the intention of giving people pause in their relentless crusade to ostracize non-leftists from society.

This is what she wrote in a post.

Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors, even by children.

Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews.

How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?

She is absolutely 100% correct.

They did it through propaganda, they did it through smears, and they did it through intimidation.

And they praised the people who did it.

So

if you were beating Jews in the streets, you'd be held up by the Nazi party as one of the good guys.

You'd get special praise.

If you said something in defense, the opposite would happen.

Well, just to show how much they don't hate her political views and don't want to silence people or beat them into submission,

they lobbied to have Disney beat her into submission.

And when she wouldn't submit, they fired her.

She is not currently employed by Lucasfilm.

And according to Disney, there are no plans for her to be hired in the future.

Her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.

Her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and

unacceptable.

What?

To say, hey,

you know how you get people to beat Jews?

You run a campaign and you get the neighbors to beat the Jews for you.

What?

You know what we should...

You know what we should?

We should start

banning things like Schindler's List, because that showed how the German people, not just the Nazis, how the German neighbors were involved, how people were involved in that that didn't wear the swastika or the uniform.

We should ban that.

You know what?

Stu, let's make a list of books we should ban.

Always a good idea.

Right.

With no historical echo at all.

Well, none.

None that could be

Nazis.

We can't mention it.

No, no, no, no.

No.

All right.

Let me tell you what's what's going on.

You know this already.

This is just to intimidate you and everyone else.

This is the way that dictators do it.

This is the way.

What does that mean?

Is that code?

Is that a Zionist code?

I can't talk about the code.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay.

This is the way dictators take over countries.

They take over countries by

propaganda.

That's why propaganda is so dangerous, Especially when it is being done by the state and, in our case, also powerful corporations.

Now, let me give you one of those powerful corporations, the New York Times.

Now, I'm going to

address the New York Times specifically on this article in about 50 minutes, so you don't want to miss that.

But there's an article that runs today, How Right Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol siege.

The New York Times writes,

Shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk radio stars promoted debunked claims of stolen election and urged listeners to fight back.

Two days before the mob of Trump supporters invaded the United States Capitol, upending the nation's peaceful transition of power and leaving at least five people dead, the right-wing radio star Glenn Beck delivered a message to his flock of listeners.

It's time to fight.

It's quoting, it's time to rip and claw and rake, end quote, Mr.

Beck said on his January 4th broadcast, quote, it's time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago, end quote.

Hmm.

Okay, time to rip, claw, and rake.

In his January 4th broadcast, it's time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago.

Why is that a problem?

Why is that a problem?

Because if you have a problem with that, you're criticizing how the left went to war four years ago, which I don't remember them doing.

I don't remember that part of the story.

You should listen to the monologue.

We'll get into that later.

Former Fox News host, Mr.

Beck, has speculated for weeks about baseless claims of voter fraud in the presidential race.

He told listeners that Donald J.

Trump had taught conservatives that you don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down when ridiculed into oblivion.

You can fight back.

Yeah,

that's true.

Is that a bad message?

Is that a bad message to tell people that you don't have to cower, don't live in fear, stand up for what you believe in?

Is that somehow now a bad message to reject the bullies?

I mean,

would you like to hear an anti-bullying message from, I don't know, the New York Times

it's amazing now it's not okay to say stand up straight don't be ashamed of who you are stand up if somebody calls you a name dismiss it stand up fight back speak the truth

mr.

Beck did not live lobby for his listeners to invade the Capitol and a day later a day later because I've never done this before a day later he urged marchers in Washington to really kind of channel, quoting, your inner Martin Luther King.

Wait,

wait,

you asked people to channel their inner Martin Luther King, which, of course, I've heard you do thousands of times.

Yeah.

And the article is about how you tried to get people to riot at the Capitol.

I don't remember that part of the Martin Luther King story.

Well, remember when Martin Luther King said,

cower.

You've got to cower in fear.

Don't stand up.

Don't speak your mind.

Remember?

He was saying, when you go in to the lunch counter, cower.

I still remember.

He said, sit down.

That's what he said.

Sit down.

I mean,

I'm saying don't sit down.

Okay.

He said, sit down.

I mean, I'm glad they included the Martin Luther King point, but doesn't it totally disprove their argument from the first paragraph?

Yes, it does, but they don't care.

Mr.

Beck did not lobby for his listeners to evade the Capitol Day later.

He urged marchers in Washington to really kind of channel your inner Martin Luther King, adding that violence is just, quoting, just not who we've ever been, end quote.

No, no, no, no, this is.

Yes, they did.

But the language he used on his January 4th show

was typical of the aggressive rhetoric that permeated conservative talk radio in the weeks before the Washington siege.

Well, I can tell you this, the Martin Luther King point is typical of the Glenn Beck program for the last decade.

Yes.

Maybe decade and a half.

At least.

But wait.

What?

So there's a waiting.

No, I need at least one moment on this.

They're saying on December 4th, you said, January 4th.

Excuse me, January 4th.

Yeah.

You said

we need to fight.

And then also said, you need to fight like the Democrats did.

It's time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago.

And then you said the Martin Luther King thing, not on the 6th after the violence.

Right.

You said the Martin Luther King thing on the 5th,

the before the day of the violence right and they're still leading a column about the violence with you yeah well now

they're fascinating they're using me as the rhetoric that is heard all throughout talk radio it doesn't it seem like if okay you go down this road and you're like all right i'm gonna write this thing and here's a quote from glenn beck that looks really bad out of context i'm gonna put it in there

when you make the decision that you add

the martin luther king point which totally disproves what you've just written.

That might have been added because

we may have said, if you print this the way you say you're going to print this, your lawsuit will make your eyes bleed.

Okay.

They may have put the Martin Luther King thing in there because.

So this is not their suggestion.

This was

not their suggestion.

In fact, and I'm going to get into this.

Oh, because I have the email.

I'm going to show you where they started.

And it was, it's time to go to war.

and they left out as the left went to war four years ago they left that part out originally oh so yeah that was a negotiation point the comma in that sentence okay

so anyway the the reason why i'm bringing this up here is because i want you to know what is really happening in washington as we discussed yesterday the democrats don't have a prayer of impeaching uh i'm sorry of convicting donald trump okay they don't have a prayer of it.

They're not going to win.

So why are they doing this battle?

Several reasons.

I'll give you the biggest in a second.

First,

it's a distraction.

No, no, sorry.

It's a distraction.

First, it's a distraction.

You have to distract from what's really going on in the first 100 days.

The second thing that is happening now is

they are trying to make sure that you understand,

don't stand up, don't stand up, you cower in fear.

If anyone tries to run for president and take on the machine, the machine will kill them.

It will destroy them in every way possible.

And they're teaching you a lesson by teaching Donald Trump a lesson.

This is what you get if you come against us.

Okay.

But here's the third reason.

And it is, I believe,

a very important reason.

In fact, I think it might be the most important reason.

They are tying rhetoric directly to violence.

Now, they will never tie their rhetoric to violence.

But anytime the right says something, they tried to do this with a Tea Party, but we were so disciplined that we didn't ever give them an opening.

And they were trying to tie us into violence.

Well, now they have the one case where the tea party is violent seiu beating people in the streets during the tea party they had no problem with that no problem with that but our violent rhetoric which never turned to violence

that's where they were headed now they have it

so this article It's not a coincidence that A, that monologue was a monologue that referenced Media Matters.

I can guarantee you Media Matters has its fingers all over this story.

Second,

it's not a coincidence that it is coming out right now as they are showing all the violence on television that happened on January 6th, which was despicable and we condemned it immediately.

While it was happening.

While it was happening.

While that was happening, we're condemning it.

They take this video now and they're pushing it through, and they've got all the media showing Trump's violent rhetoric.

See, this is what happens when you have a leader that does this.

But now

they also want to tie in and say, yeah, but the leader also had some helpers along the way.

He had right-wing radio.

They have been trying to shut us down.

for so long.

The targets in this article, Rush Limbaugh, Dan Bongino,

Mark Levin, and me.

Well, two out of the four have cancer, so I think it's great that they're taking on cancer patients now and accusing them of horrible things as they are fighting cancer.

But

they're doing that for a reason.

They need us to be removed.

They need talk radio to be shut down.

I guarantee you, the House and the Senate will move and if they don't move it will just happen through the FCC.

They will do everything they can to silence our voices because they need you

to not have a freedom of association, freedom of speech.

They need you to stop having a place to where you can gather your thoughts.

They need you to feel alone.

But you won't be alone.

You won't be alone in this fight.

You won't be alone in your stand.

Because wherever,

wherever

there is a

group of people that are trying to erase

our God-given, constitutionally protected rights,

you will find good patriots willing to stand up and fight.

Did he say fight?

How do you mean fight, Glenn?

I know.

We're not intelligent enough to know after a lifetime of using the word fight, having cheerleaders go fight, fight, fight.

We're so stupid that we don't realize that there are many ways to take that term.

And especially those who listen to this program who have heard me talk about Gandhi and F uh and MLK

forever.

Incessantly.

I mean, gosh, going back to.

Okay, stop.

Don't need to hear it.

Just know this is why impeachment is happening.

This is what is happening in social media.

And it's about to come like a bag of bricks onto talk radio.

You will never silence me.

You will find me beneath a tree in your town square or in some farm,

and I will be there telling you the true history of America, what's truly going on, and how we need to stand shoulder to shoulder and try to be servants of the Lord

so he will provide us

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You were gone.

You were gone, Stu, to the Super Bowl when I got this letter and this email from

the writer at the New York Times.

I guess so.

Yeah.

And I read it and I was like, there's no way I said that paragraph.

There's no

way I said that paragraph.

And then I noticed the dot, dot, dot in between every line.

And so we looked the transcript up.

Oh, wait.

Oh, wait until you see the

the

gold medal olympian that had to uh be performing this article and writing this article the the jumps through the hoops and the twists and the bends

remarkable absolutely remarkable so new york times i take it as a great pleasure to fact check you

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Well, in reading the New York Times, I find out that Mike Lee does not have a problem with the riots.

I think he was cheering them on,

and he thought that Donald Trump should get a mulligan for it.

This is a story by Glenn Thrush.

Mike Lee suggests Trump should get a mulligan for the

Capitol Riot Day speech.

Wow, that doesn't sound like

Mike Lee.

In an email to Mr.

Lee's spokesman requesting an explanation of his remarks, it was not immediately returned, but some of his defenders on social media said that he was making a larger point about the need for civility in both parties, but that's only some in social media.

As an example of what he viewed as a recent transgression, Mr.

Lee singled out Representative Alexandria Casio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, for making it personal,

end quote, when she recently took a swipe at his ally, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

A swipe?

Wow.

I guess that's what she said when he was planning on having her killed.

I guess that was a swipe to the news.

You're calling someone a murderer is definitely a swipe.

It is a swipe.

It's definitely one word for it.

Senator Mike Lee here to answer the charges.

Go ahead.

The courts are listening, Mike.

Well, you know, unfortunately, she only accused him of attempted murder.

Right.

Right.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

If it was actual murder, then that wouldn't have been a swipe.

That would have been important.

But this was attempted murder.

Right?

Exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

One of the things I've learned is that, you know, you've got a problem with your news source when every single time they print something as to which you have personal knowledge, they're wrong.

Yeah.

I'm sure that's just a massive coincidence here.

Yes, I'm sure it is.

I'm sure it is.

It's probably that you're listening to

the wrong sources.

You're part of the conspiracy cabal, you know.

That's probably what the problem is, Mike.

Tell me first.

The interesting thing there.

Yeah, go ahead.

I just want you to, because I know the context.

And what is so crazy is the context that this was said in was to say, let's ratchet things down a bit, and I'm going to give everybody a mulligan because everybody makes mistakes.

You were talking to the left.

You weren't talking about Donald Trump.

That's exactly right.

I was talking to, and in that sense, in defense of, some of my colleagues on the far left who had said some really inflammatory stuff.

stuff that that rivals a lot of the things that are being attacked that have been said by people on the right.

And so I said, look,

referring specifically to those people on the left, people like AOC, Kamala Harris,

Corey Booker, and Chuck Schumer.

I said,

everyone from time to time says something that they regret, and they probably ought to take a mulligan on this one.

Everyone's entitled to one of those once in a while.

But the point is we shouldn't be saying things like this.

In no way, shape, or form did I say that President Trump ought to be taking a mulligan on this?

That had nothing to do with President Trump.

And yet somehow the geniuses at New York Times and the geniuses at Fox 13 in Salt Lake City and about 50 other news outlets throughout the country picked it up and took exactly that message directly contrary to the fact.

And the truth is, this reflects what

can best be characterized as reckless disregard for the truth.

But ironically, they're going to be the arbiters of truth here soon, Mike.

They are pushing for it and trying to silence anyone that has a different opinion.

No, that's exactly right.

And they're playing off of

the famous Supreme Court case, New York Times versus Sullivan.

Basically, gives them impunity to defame people so long as they're not acting with knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth.

And yet, oddly enough, here, they seem to have crossed that threshold.

And I've got another one for you.

They They just wrote a story about me today in the New York Times that

they knowingly, knowingly

are printing things that are just false as a news story.

If it was an opinion piece, that'd be one thing.

But this is a news story, and it's despicable, Mike.

Let's talk a little bit about the impeachment trial itself.

First of all, are you seeing any movement at all with anyone on either side?

The Democrats making a good case or any of the Republicans going, oh, I don't know.

That's a good point.

Okay, look, here's what I'll tell you on that front.

There's no doubt horrible things happened on January 6th.

There's no doubt that

we should have been able to avoid it.

I wish we had been able to avoid it.

I've said for a long time that

I don't think that there should have been an effort to try to win the election on January 6th, because if you read the 12th Amendment and if you read Article II of the Constitution, they don't make that possible.

It is the states that decide these things and not Congress.

Correct.

Congress is there only to count.

It has one job, open and count, open and count.

That's it.

These things that happened on January 6th were tragic.

They were horrific.

All of that being the case, that is different than what is on trial this week.

What's on trial this week

is different than that.

And there are a number of us, 44 of us, to be precise, that don't believe that it's appropriate for the Senate to exercise jurisdiction as a court of impeachment after a president's term of office has expired.

Can I give you something on this?

Just to play devil's advocate,

give Mike the quote from John Adams.

John Quincy Adams.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Here we go.

I hold myself, so long as I have the breath of life in my body, amenable to impeachment by the House for everything I did during the time I held any public office.

Yeah, that's great.

And I've seen that quote, and I understand his point.

I don't think he's necessarily approaching this as a text rulerist.

I don't think he's necessarily approaching this as someone who sees the abuse of government powers that can be brought to bear with an impeachment trial.

I don't think he anticipated the issues that could arise as a result of it.

Now, look, I will grant you this much.

As a strict textual matter, it is a very close call.

I actually think the text can be read one way or the other, thus requiring us to make some prudential judgment calls about how best it ought to fit into this framework.

But when you look at the floodgates this thing would open, you imagine what would happen, just, for example, the next time we have a red wave wave election.

You'd see massive calls for impeachment proceedings on Hillary Clinton, for Benghazi, on Jim Comey, maybe even for Jimmy Carter, going back to the fact that he gave away the Panama Canal.

This would result in an interminable succession of absurd impeachment proceedings.

And I don't think that's good for the country.

I don't think we ought to give Congress that power.

So

when the Chief Justice decided not to be seated for this,

does this make this a kangaroo court?

I mean, isn't that part of the Constitution?

First of all, it's not at all clear to me that the Chief Justice declined anything.

From what I understand, the Chief Justice was never invited to preside.

They

knew that by, yeah, they knew that by the time we got the Articles of Impeachment,

10 days or so, mind you, after they had passed them, and nearly a week after President Trump had left office,

they knew that he wasn't the president, and thus it wasn't appropriate to have the Chief Justice attend.

Someone floated the rumor that he had been invited and declined.

Now, unless there's

something out there that's changed, that's simply not true.

My understanding is that he was never invited in the first place.

Why?

Well, they knew he's not the president, and therefore there's no reason to have the Chief Justice.

Okay, so does it make this?

I mean, is it constitutional to an impeachment?

Doesn't it say the Supreme Court justice comes and

oversees it?

Yes, yes.

If, in fact, the president is being tried for impeachment.

But here, we don't have the president or the vice president or any civil officers of the United States.

You have a former president.

It's a different thing.

It doesn't require the chief justice to preside.

By my reading, it shouldn't allow us to have a trial trial at all.

Now, this would have been different.

That would have been a completely different set of questions we were facing.

Have the House of Representatives initiated this process and actually delivered the articles of impeachment right after they passed them.

They didn't.

They sat on them.

Why?

I'm not really sure.

You're going to have to ask Nancy Pelosi that question.

But it makes a huge difference for them, and they really need to live with the consequences.

And that's what they're facing now.

So one of the reasons why I don't think there will be a shift in in the outcome of this impeachment, remember, in order for an impeachment trial to be successful,

you can have no more than 33 senators voting to acquit.

We've got 44 already who are saying just on jurisdictional grounds alone, we shouldn't do this.

And so unless something dramatic changes, which I don't see, we're nowhere close to the...

So then why are they doing this again?

This is remarkable stuff.

This, to me, leads to

banana republic kind of stuff, because as you've just said, you know, you get a red wave, then who do they take out?

This is what dictatorships do.

This is what banana republics do.

So what is their gain?

What is the real goal, do you think, Mike?

It appears to me that they're doing everything they can.

to smear Republicans, smear conservatives, smear people who support or or supported Donald Trump at any moment.

And all along the way, they're characterizing the evidence.

In fact, it's not, at least so far, it's not like a normal trial.

They're not bringing in witnesses.

They're basically reciting things from news reports written by their liberal allies with the most smearing characterization they can possibly find.

Some of them turn out to be inaccurate.

I made an objection last night

to some evidence that they claimed to have that I personally knew about, and I asked that it be stricken because I knew it not to be true.

Look, it's always hard for me to speak to another person's subjective intent.

But what I do know is that they seem to be having a good time doing everything they can to just say Republicans are awful.

And all of these people who supported Donald Trump are awful.

And I think that's unfortunate.

So the problem with this is, is they are not only saying they're awful, but they're also using social media, the media itself,

and

the New York Times article today to silence people

and to label them as violent extremists.

We have 5,000 troops still on the ground in Washington, D.C.

without a defined mission.

That doesn't happen.

The Department of Homeland Security says there is no credible

or specific threat.

What is going on, Mike?

You can't keep calling half the country violent extremists.

And I mean, because at some point you're like, well, then we got to do something about it.

If they're all violent extremists, we have to do, well, what do you do?

This is not about an election anymore.

You know, I tell you, Glenn, we have to take down that wall.

Every day when I come into work, I have to pass this enormous wall with razor wire, with armed military all around it.

Not only are these bad optics, this is bad substance.

This is not who we are.

This is not what we need to do.

And I call on Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and my colleagues in the Senate and counterparts in the House to tear down this wall and do it now.

Mike Lee, thank you so much.

Mike Lee, Senator of Utah, I'd like to talk to you more about that.

It's interesting.

I never thought, I mean, mean, I remember Reagan saying that.

Never thought I would hear Mike Lee

say those words to Chuck Schumer about a wall, let alone

the wall around the Capitol.

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You know, talking to Mike Lee, you know, when I asked him about the constitutionality, he kind of deferred to the way it's going to be used.

It's really wrong the way it could possibly be used.

And I think John Quincy Adams did see that.

I think that's what he was talking about, that some radicals could get in and they could come after me because of whatever.

But, you know, Mike has been the one who really changed my mind on, I said, why do we put these people in jail?

Meaning like former officials that did things wrong.

Did things like really wrong.

Hillary Clinton, in my opinion, she should have gone to jail.

And he said, once they've left office, you don't, he said, in my opinion, you don't want to go after people because it will start this cycle and of revenge.

Of revenge.

And he's been consistent about that for a long time.

For a long time.

And, you know, now that Trump is out of office, what are you doing?

I mean, this is the second time they've tried to impeach him with nothing.

With literally nothing, knowing they could not

convict him twice.

You don't think revenge might be a thought?

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One that just came out, does media violence lead to the real thing?

What?

If you are consuming a lot of violence

and you're hearing violent rhetoric, can it lead to the real thing?

The New York Times wants you to know, yes.

Now, we've talked about that with movies.

We've talked about that with violent video games.

And we've told you that it doesn't lead.

It just

can lead to those people who are susceptible to it.

And now apparently the New York Times has decided, oh, you know what?

Maybe there is something to that.

You don't think it has anything to do with what they're saying in the impeachment trial, do you?

Nah, that's too.

Oh, also, the New York Times has come out with a new article about how Donald Trump has henchmen.

He's got some people doing his bidding.

He's got right-wing talk radio and how that has affected people all over this country to rise up in violence.

Oh, yeah.

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So I want to start here.

I want to start with

a story.

And it's a true story.

It's about Gandhi.

A woman who took her son to see Gandhi because she couldn't stop him from eating candy.

And it wasn't easy.

to get to Gandhi.

It wasn't easy to see Gandhi, but she did.

And she stood in front of Gandhi and he said, and she said, my son, would you please tell my son how damaging sweets are, that he has to have a balanced diet?

And Gandhi said,

come back in two weeks.

She was really kind of smoked.

I mean, it was not easy.

She walked for miles with her son

under a scorching sun in India.

And all the way, she's like, what was the point of that?

Going to see him.

And then he's like, come back in a couple of weeks.

Well, they return home.

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Two weeks later, her son is still obsessed with sugar, candy, and she makes the trek again.

Gandhi says,

boy.

You need to stop eating candy.

Sugar is bad for your health.

She looked at him and said, you couldn't have said that the first time we were here?

What was the two-week wait for?

Why didn't you say because that's all he said?

That is what

he looked at her and he said,

I told you to come back in two weeks because I have an unhealthy love of sugar myself.

And I needed two weeks in order to give up candy before I told someone else to do it.

Now, the reason why I know this story is true, because there's some speculation that this is

myth.

But I know it to be true because Al Gore used it in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance.

So, if anybody wants to fact-check that, you better talk to Al Gore because I believe everything that Al Gore writes.

The reason why I'm starting with that is because I have an unhealthy,

an unhealthy attraction to sweets myself

sweets being what i'm about to talk about

so i am not one to judge but i'm at least one to recognize when there's a problem i at least am striving

to do better every day i am striving to rise above my own personal petty emotions my own personal gains or losses

and just do the right thing.

Because I don't believe God is on my side or God is on your side.

I believe we have to work for God to be, for us to be on God's side.

He loves all of his children and he's dismayed whenever we have an unhealthy attraction to sweets.

With that being said,

Let me explain what has happened on a new story from the New York Times.

There's a news story out from the Times that says how right-wing radio stoked anger before the Capitol siege.

Shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk radio stars promoted debunked claims of a stolen election and urge listeners to fight back.

Okay,

that's the headline.

Let me just tell you what really happened.

On Friday, Michael Greenbaum, who's the author of this ridiculous opinion piece that is disguised as news,

he wrote to me, hi, Glenn, Michael Greenbaum here at the New York Times.

I'm a reporter covering media and politics.

My hand was already on delete.

We're writing an article on conservative talk radio, specifically the content that aired in the period shortly before the attack on the U.S.

Capitol.

You are mentioned along with other prominent hosts, including Limbaugh and Hannity et al.

Oh, man.

I wonder,

they must be doing an honest search for the news.

They want my opinion because

they want to be set straight.

They want the other side.

One example we cite is your January 4th broadcast in which you said, now remember, this is one

example.

Where we will cite you saying, quote, it's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw and rake.

It's time to go to war.

Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find patriots fighting.

You don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down.

The country, as we know it, is over, and we're going to have to find ways to stop them.

Wow, that's one powerful example.

What else did I say?

I want to go to the Capitol right now after hearing.

Right.

Now, in that quote, one

example,

there are ellipses.

Oh.

Otherwise known as dot, dot, dot.

It's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw and rake.

It's time to go to war.

Dot, dot, dot.

Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find patriots fighting.

Dot, dot, dot.

More than one.

You don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down.

Dot, dot, dot.

The country, as we know it, is over.

We're going to have to find ways to stop them.

Wow.

Wow.

That's a lot of dot dot dots.

A lot of of dot dot dots.

And I'm sure those dot dot dots.

The four?

They really don't matter.

You know what I'm saying?

They didn't remove anything.

They probably removed like a commercial.

Right.

They did.

You know, this portion of the program brought you by.

Probably did that.

Yeah.

I'd like to ask you if you'd like to comment about that broadcast or in general about the impression that your show gave listeners about the accuracy of the election results.

My email is

I'm so tempted.

My phone number is.

Gondy, Gondy, Gondy.

Martin Luther King, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Jesus didn't have a phone.

He didn't live in those times, so he didn't technically say don't give out somebody's phone number.

But I.

My deadline is Friday evening.

Happy to answer any questions you have as well.

Thank you, Michael.

Oh, well, Michael, thank you so much for that.

So I didn't call back.

I know exactly what they're going to do.

I was, my, my response was,

well, it wasn't my index finger, but I know I, I know I used a finger in my response.

And that was wrong.

Jesus wouldn't have done that.

But I still have an unhealthy taste for sweets.

I'm a work in progress.

Luckily, my

CEO of Mercury,

Tyler Cardin,

he got the same email and he decided to send that to our attorneys and also our PR firm, you know, along with a transcript to find out what that, that, that, that was.

So I want to give you exactly what I said

on January 4th.

It's time to decide who we are.

That's kind of the theme of today's program.

Next hour at this time, I'm going to specifically ask who we are, who you are, because it's time to decide.

But I'll tell you this, it's time to give the left exactly the same thing they have been giving us for at least four straight years.

It is time to fight.

Now, what would that mean, Stu?

If I said prior to that,

it's time to give them the same thing that they've given us for at least four straight years.

It's time to fight.

Was I referring to the non-violent protests that have been happening over the summer?

Or was I referring to the fight that they put up in Washington and the people that were colluding

to slow down or stop Donald Trump because his policies were crazy?

Because to accuse you of saying something wrong there, you would...

By definition, unless you, of course, dot, dot, dotted it all, you yada yada it away.

Right.

But you have to basically say that what the Democrats had been doing for the past four years was terrible, too.

Because you're specifically saying the same tactics.

Now that's weird, isn't it?

Because I don't remember those stories from the New York Times.

Right.

Where they were highly critical of all the Democrats and all the things they were doing.

No.

When you specifically say the same way they've been doing it.

Right.

And if you were going to say that's violent, well, then are you saying those peaceful protests are violent?

Are you saying Antifa is somehow or another wrong and violent?

Because that's a new story to me.

But we haven't even gotten to it yet.

It's time for us to be

given to them at least what they have given us for the four straight years.

It's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw.

It's time to go to war.

That's where it went, dot, dot, dot.

But it's not a period there, and it's not an ellipse.

It's actually a comma,

which generally denotes that there's something else that is important that is following now as a part of that sentence.

Did you just maybe say dot, dot, dot?

And then they were just transcribing you say dot dot dot.

That's what it was.

It's time to go to war.

Comma.

Okay.

As the left went to war four years ago.

Wait, again, that same issue comes up.

It's weird.

Where they would need to be highly critical of Democrats for the last four years to be critical of you now.

What's weird about this is you had to read the line right before it and the line rightly after.

Seems like too much work.

I mean, you can't expect the New York Times to go through that much material.

No.

You know what I mean?

You'd expect them.

I know that they get the facts from Media Matters, and they could not be expected to go and look this up.

I mean, our transcripts are available.

And that's weird.

They were available,

at least some transcripts were available to the New York Times.

Such an odd part of the story, where they go through and they cite Hannity, who said, I guess, things they didn't like about

the election being stolen in 35 of the 45 episodes and Limbaugh in 32 of the 45 episodes as transcribed by MIT.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

Maybe

why would they be doing doing it?

You know what it is?

Is there another MIT?

I'm not thinking about it.

You know what it is?

We're just so dumb.

They need some smart payville to translate what we're saying.

Maybe that's it.

You get some of them fights at people from MIT to transcribe.

What is MIT doing?

Is it the same MIT?

I don't know.

It just says MIT.

Again, if it's not MIT, as we all know, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There's another misleading comment from the New York Times in the story.

Actually, it does say, okay, a system maintained by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which monitors radio broadcasts, transcribed what was said on leading conservative programs between November 22nd and January 5th.

Okay, so then they had the transcript for me, too.

Isn't that interesting that they can give you the list of transcriptions?

Yeah, isn't that interesting?

Isn't that interesting?

Oh, it's so frustrating, especially after how many years, how many shows, how many times, how many major public events you have held with the sole focus of being peaceful at rallies?

Like, it's been, you've talked about it, no offense, a hundred thousand times more than that was necessary.

Like, no offense to you, but you have hit that so

many times.

Yeah, my staff hates me because

I'm really at times.

We got it, Martin Luther King.

We got it.

Okay, all right, okay.

And then to take that,

then to rip you out of context,

to fill the entire show with ellipses.

We haven't even started yet.

We haven't even started yet.

Give me a chance to start.

Let me take one minute and then we'll go back into it.

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It is time for us to give the left exactly the same thing they have been giving us for the last four straight years.

It's time to fight, time to rip and claw, time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago.

Well, even if you condemn the left and you win, because now you have to condemn what the left has been doing,

I'm still uncomfortable with that.

And when I read that, I thought, yeah, okay, well, they'd have to to admit that they've been violent because I'm saying let's do what they've been doing.

But I don't want to do what they're doing.

And that's my first thought before I'm reading all of the transcript.

But I had to read all the way, all the way down to the very next sentence.

Oh, well, you can't expect that.

I mean, they're busy.

Now, that's two sentences away from what they printed.

So, again, you need a team of researchers from MIT to go that far.

Yeah, they do have that.

So, oh,

they did put it.

Oh, this.

Well, that's a victory.

Yeah, we should also point out there were one, two, three, four separate reporters who had the byline on the story.

Oh, okay.

So they had the four reporters plus MIT working on this one.

Could get to the next one.

So

did they write the butt?

Did they write the whole thing?

But our playbook will be different?

No.

No, no, no, okay.

I see that in here.

Because I want to go back to how they actually did print and how they got around those ellipses here in a second.

It's time to to fight Tyner Rip and Rake.

It's time to go to war as the left went to war four years ago, but our playbook will be different.

Now, they don't expect us to actually stand up and stand together.

They believe through their algorithms they can control and convince you to sit down.

They believe they can convince you that you're all alone.

Well, you're not.

They think that you're going to roll over and show them our bellies, but you're not.

Then I went into a little rant about Mitt Romney.

Mitt knows how to lose.

Yes, he does.

He's a loser.

Yes, he didn't lose like Donald Trump lost.

He lost because he was a bad candidate.

Don't tell me, oh, no harm, no fouls.

Let's move on.

Let's come together.

There is no coming together.

I would love to come together, but I can't.

I cannot stand with someone who won't stand for the Bill of Rights.

You see, the left has a very different definition of words.

Come together with Joe Biden means us when he says he wants us to all come together.

What does it mean?

Submit.

That's what it means.

The only thing that they have in mind is uniting the country into going in one direction, theirs.

No, the Constitution forbids me to go there.

I talked to the President over the holiday, and I'll tell you about that coming up.

But after I hung up, I thought there was so much more that I had to say to him.

He has done a ton for this country.

Maybe the most important thing was reminding us that you don't have to play by their rules anymore.

You don't have to cower anymore back to the dot dot dot.

This is how long you've had to go for that dot dot dot.

You don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down when you're ridiculed into oblivion.

You can fight back.

You just saw somebody do it.

No, I'm not going to surrender and I'm not going to shut up.

Now, I have to go two more pages before I get to the next dot, dot, dot.

But they're really important,

really important.

And we wouldn't expect the New York Times to have anything in context.

This is the Glenbach program.

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So I'm just delivering a little missive to Michael Greenbaum and the editors at the New York Times just to compliment them on their journalism is really spectacular, don't you think?

I mean, it's really spectacular.

It's the kind of journalism that was done in the late 1950s and early 1960s,

you know, on

people,

you know,

that were standing up for their rights, but then called violent, you know, like Martin Luther King.

I think it's great.

I've only got 10 years of...

of saying there's going to come a time where you're going to want to physically fight.

Don't do it.

Turn the other way.

Don't do it.

You've got to listen to Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Bonhoeffer.

15 years of saying that relentlessly.

And the New York Times just can't seem to find any transcripts of me talking about that relentlessly.

So I know who my audience is.

I know who they are.

And I know what they're capable of.

And I know they're not morons like apparently the readers of the New York Times that

need to

just,

I guess, be bamboozled by the way you weave stories and use ellipses and don't give the full picture.

I guess your readers, you think, are morons that they won't figure it out.

I don't think my listeners are morons.

I think my listeners know when I'm full of crap and they know when you're full of crap.

But Michael said, one example we cite in your January 4th broadcast in which you said, it's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw and rake.

It's time to go to war.

I already told you, that's not a period there.

That's a comma.

And it says, like the left went to war four years ago, but they just went dot, dot, dot.

Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find patriots fighting.

Dot, dot, dot.

Okay, so wow, time to go to war.

Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find patriots fighting.

Where was that in the monologue?

Well, that was three pages after the last quote.

And here's what I said.

I'm totally good.

I'm good.

I don't need fame.

I don't need fortune.

You know what my need is?

My need is for someone to stand up and say, no, I'm not going there.

It's pathetic to think that they all think we're going to back down and go back to usual.

I have news, gang.

You opened a can of whoop ass, and you're about to get a dose of your own medicine, and it's only fair.

Wow, that's threatening.

Why didn't they include that one?

Get ready for the fights in the courts, the fight in Congress, in the media, in Silicon Valley.

Get ready for special prosecutors, maybe even an impeachment.

Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you will find patriots fighting.

And I'm sorry that they're shocked we're fighting the election, but the attacks on Donald Trump began before he was even inaugurated, and so will ours.

But

ours will be truthful.

Ours will be constitutional.

Ours will be righteous.

And yes, ours will be relentless.

Was the riot at the Capitol constitutional?

No, it really wasn't.

No.

It really wasn't.

Now, you gave a few examples there where there was what?

Impeachment was the last one.

Impeachment, a special prosecution.

Special prosecution.

In the courts, in the media.

In the courts, media.

Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley.

I didn't hear the Capitol.

I didn't hear hitting police officers over the head with flagpoles.

Well, they did say there.

They did say.

And you have the article in front of you?

Yes.

You got to read it because they did say, while I didn't specifically call for riots.

No.

They do this thing where they're like, well, a lot of times Republican talk show host people will say all these things like fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

And then they'll back off and hedge it with,

but fight legally or nicely or peacefully.

Like we're like, it's a dog whistle.

Right.

Again, it's a dog whistle argument.

They are trying to make that point.

However, it's, you know, obviously, again, over a decade of you saying over and over again, be peaceful at rallies in particular.

I know, but the other thing we should also put into context here is this is not just any day.

It's your first day back from vacation after Christmas vacation.

The first monologue.

The first monologue.

And it's the big story of the day is the Georgia elections

where you're talking about fighting to win these seats in the Senate that were really important.

That was the overwhelming topic of the day.

You mean fight at the polls?

No, that couldn't have been it.

It was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Read, just read the article

without the ellipses.

So this is what they actually printed after, you know, after a few talks with our team.

Okay.

This is what they printed.

Now listen.

Two days before a mob of Trump supporters invaded the United States Capitol, upending the nation's peaceful transition of power and leaving at least five people dead, the right-wing radio star Glenn Beck delivered a message to his flock of 10.5 million listeners.

Two days before.

Two days before.

10.5 million listeners.

What was that message?

Quote.

It's time to fight.

End quote.

End quote.

Now read the net.

Read this exactly.

Now notice.

In this, it said, we have one example.

It's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw and rake.

It's time to go to war.

Dot dot dot.

Everywhere you can find a battlefield, you'll find patriots fighting.

Dot dot dot.

You don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down.

Dot dot dot.

The country as we know it is over.

We're going to have to find ways to stop them.

Now, your pushback obviously did something because they did include more than they initially were going to correct.

They say it's time to fight.

It's time to rip and claw and rake, end quote, Mr.

Beck said on his January 4th broadcast.

Start quote, it's time to go to war.

Stop.

So they've replaced the ellipses with their commentary, Mr.

Beck said.

So it looks like it's the same paragraph.

Well, this one.

Come on.

It's time to rip and claw and rake.

Was that in the...

That's the first one.

I thought it ended with

war.

No, no, it's not.

It's time to fight.

It's time to rip, claw, and rake.

It's time to go to war.

Yeah.

That's one sentence.

Right.

So they keep that all together.

Correct.

Instead of the dot, dot, dot, though, they do now add, after it's time to go to war, they say, as the left went to war four years ago.

Yes, which is hard to cut a sentence in half, but you know, so for a former Fox News host, Mr.

Beck, has speculated for weeks about baseless claims of voter fraud in the presidential race.

I have all sorts of problems with that summary of that situation, but we'll leave that because we'll run out of time.

He told listeners that Donald Trump had taught conservatives that you, quote, don't have to cower anymore.

You don't have to back down when ridiculed into oblivion.

You can fight back, end quote.

How's that bad?

Of course.

How's that bad?

Saying you have to do that.

We've always been like, oh my gosh, okay, I guess we are racist.

No, you're not.

You're not.

There is real racism.

Just because you're white, you're not a racist.

And I'm going to stand up against that.

Exactly what a white racist would say.

Exactly right.

The article goes on.

Mr.

Beck did not lobby for his listeners to invade the Capitol.

Oh, there we go.

I did actually put that in there.

Good job.

And a day and just

tossed it in the fourth paragraph after saying you're so evil.

And a day later, later, he urged marchers in Washington, quote, to really kind of channel your inner Martin Luther King, end quote, adding that violence is, quote, just not who we've ever been.

Now, you notice, I mean, I've been very eloquent on nonviolence.

Yes.

But they take the quote where I say, you know, kind of just channel kind of your, you know, that Martin Luther King thing.

Of course.

I mean,

you get amazing.

The theme of the speech you gave in Washington, D.C., in front of 500,000 people

meandering and they didn't even understand.

It was nothing but eloquent speech about being peaceful and being a peaceful movement and emulating Martin Luther King.

Okay, but they go on.

But the language, so they say, look,

channel your Martin Luther King, adding the violence is

quote, just not who we've ever been, end quote.

But the language he used on his January 4th show was typical of the aggressive rhetoric that permeated conservative talk radio in the weeks before the Washington siege.

So like the fact that you, again, what else is typical about your show?

A decade of blathering on about Martin Luther King and how great the guy is.

God, God, God, he

used to mock you incessantly about how often you talked about that.

They don't put that in.

They act as if it's some throw-in statement the next day.

It's been the theme of the show for a decade.

Because to them, it is a throwaway line.

Because they don't listen.

I cannot program to people who don't listen to the show.

I can't speak to those who don't listen to the show.

I'm not going to write or

formulate thoughts for people who don't listen.

I mean,

the posters of all of these restoring events, we walked through

Birmingham.

We did an event in Birmingham.

We walked through Birmingham.

Does anybody remember any of this?

You did an event called restoring love.

You're a conservative talk show host got a hundred thousand people to go to Cowboys Stadium

AT ⁇ T Stadium so they could restore freaking love and that's how they summarize your career yeah well what you one quote completely out of context with 9,000 ellipses It doesn't

frustrate.

So here, so here.

I thank you for that because Gandhi would, Gandhi wouldn't have said those things, but I'm glad

my, this Gandhi

has you.

All right.

It would have been funny if Gandhi was like, but peace just loots peace.

Yeah, you know what it is, bastards.

So listen, listen, listen, listen.

Here's what I really want you to know.

I want you to picture this.

Two bighorn rams on a hill facing off.

They're about to headbutt each other.

And

the instigating ram charges forward.

Well, usually the other ram will start charging back.

If that ram just steps to one side, the other ram goes off the cliff.

Whoa, you were supposed to stop me!

The New York Times is the first ram.

They're the the instigator.

They picked a fight.

They're barreling towards us.

They expect us to fight back.

You know, take the hit and make it worse.

Yeah.

That just really proves that their ridiculous statement has some validity.

Now.

The New York Times is the one, and we're going to be posting things on Glenbeck.com.

The New York Times is the one that has excused violence and now have people working for them that would say that Martin Luther King's message is wrong.

So

I'm not even, it doesn't bother me.

Gandhi defined his form of civil disobedience as a force of truth in love.

He wrote, and I quote, nonviolence is, in its active form, goodwill towards all life.

It's pure love.

Again, I'm addicted to sweets.

I am having a hard time with that, but I'm trying.

He believed the permanent good can never outcome the untruth, or it can never

be the outcome of untruth and violence.

He made no exceptions.

He said, I reject violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.

Now, at one point, a British politician came up to Gandhi and tried to connect with him and said, look, Mr.

Gandhi, We're both men of God, aren't we?

And Gandhi said, no, you're a politician disguised as a man of God.

I'm a man of God disguised as a politician.

The New York Times is an activist disguised as a truth-teller.

The opening chapter of his book, Power of Non-Violence, Gandhi wrote,

beyond the limited truths, there is one absolute truth in which is total and all-embracing.

But it's indescribable because it's God.

Or say, rather, God is truth.

Other things, therefore, can only be true in a relative sense.

The New York Times will never understand that.

The New York Times looks for relative truth, they look for their own personal truth.

I look for eternal truth, and all things are measured against eternal truth.

That's why violence in the streets

never works.

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You are listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, everybody, it's Black History Month, and next hour, we're going to talk about black history.

In fact, I got up this morning and I was reading on my Apple News, all the important news.

Oprah, the Oprah magazine, has done a really good job at giving you half the story on black history.

And

I just, I thought we would, you know, maybe, I mean, far be it from me to say that Oprah isn't the greatest historian of all time,

but

I think that we need to look at some of the things that she said and

fill in some of the blanks.

Oh, by the way, I'm going to be tweeting out something from the Rand Corporation, you know, the Vietnam papers, CIA front people.

It was great.

The domestic violent extremists will be harder to combat than homegrown jihadists.

So,

you know, the people that were involved in that capital attack,

they have larger consistent,

larger,

larger groups of people.

Domestic extremists are better organized.

The nation has not been galvanized against them because we haven't had a 9-11 yet.

They're far better armed.

They're more white, right-wing experience.

The people that have military and police training.

And preventing the radicalization may not work this time.

It's an amazing, amazing story

about the right-wing extremists, formerly known as the GOP.

This is the Glenbeck Program.

Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

There is an editorial about one of our guests coming up, Burgess Owens, who misunderstands American athletes who seek a better America.

Well, thank you, Gordon.

I appreciate that, and I'm sure Burgess appreciates being talked down to, being pretty much labeled a white guy, even though he's black.

He misunderstands, but you as a writer, well, you understand him.

We're going to talk about that with Burgess here in just a second.

We're not concentrating on that.

We are concentrating on the point of what Burgess is doing.

We're going to talk a little bit about the importance of black history on Black History Month.

This is going to drive all of the left out of their mind.

But as we have told you for almost 20 years now, black history has been erased and people have been,

the culture was disemboweled.

And they tried to

tell blacks that you don't have any heroes, you don't have any good connection to this country.

It's absolutely untrue.

And it's getting worse.

David Barton is also here to tell us about that and share some really cool historic stuff in 60 seconds.

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Welcome, David.

How are you?

Hey, Glenn.

Hey, Stu.

Hey, not a bad little endorsement there.

Jeez, that's pretty good.

I'll keep that one.

I didn't mean a word of it, Stu.

We have Burgess Owens on with us as well.

Congressman, how are you, sir?

I'm doing good, Glenn.

Good.

Pleasure talking, but you're looking forward to it for sure.

Well, I don't know if we can really, you know, as two white guys,

you know, as I've learned from Salt Lake Tribune, white guys can probably understand the black plight a little bit better than you because you were an athlete, you made a lot of money, you know, white privilege, white privilege, white privilege.

So what do you really understand about the black culture and plight?

Well, I think it's interesting, and this is something I have to keep in mind, is the condescending attitude of these leftists.

And by the way, I want to make a very killed point.

I'm not talking about liberals, I'm talking about the leftists.

These are folks who don't have the same values, the same desire to have the end game that conservatives and liberals have, good people have.

This is probably the only time he's ever thought about the plight of black Americans, particularly our young kids, if we watch them go down the tubes for decades.

And he stands up and puts me down because I say we need to be proud of our country.

Look at the history we've had, look how far we've come.

And if we can do it back in the 60s, we can do it in 2020, 21.

But no, the leftists like this, the Salt Lake Trump, and by the way, can I say this also?

Do not take the lead of leftist papers,

read these headlines.

They don't believe that we have the intelligence to read through the article to find the truth.

So they have these remarkable headlines that people get caught up in.

Just know

that's another tool that the left does.

But you'll find, again, that my message very simply is that Americans, no matter where they come from, what background or color, can make it in this country by working hard and going by the tenets that we've been talking about throughout the last year or so I've been talking with you.

And

that is the thing that we all used to melt in.

We used to have a melting pot, and we melted in.

We brought our own culture, our own things, but we melted into this idea that anybody can make it here.

that all men are created equal when we lived up to our highest values, which is not all the time, but when we live up to those, that's what Martin Luther King was saying.

America.

He wasn't trashing America.

He was saying, live up to your founding words.

It's the same thing that I think Frederick Douglass, you know, at first he didn't like the Constitution.

Then he was asked, did you read it?

And he read it.

And David, what happened?

He completely turned around.

He said there was not a single anti-slavery word in that document.

He'd been taught there was by white abolitionists who were really anti-Constitution.

When he became a full-time speaker for the Massachusetts Abolition Society, he said, I have a responsibility to know what I'm talking about.

So he read the Constitution.

He said he went through an epiphany, completely changed his view of founding fathers.

It's interesting.

Frederick Douglass in his life wrote an autobiography three times.

He wrote an autobiography when he was young, when he's middle-aged, and when he's older.

And you can see the transition he went through.

The love and respect that he comes up with for the country that he did not have at the beginning.

A lot of activists love to quote his speech on the 4th of July where he thinks, we're not included, we're not part of this.

That's earlier in life.

As you see him get later in life, he has a whole different viewpoint, and that inclusion comes from knowing history.

And that's something he did not know as a slave.

Once he studied it out, once he found it, it was a whole different American story than what he knew.

And I will tell you this: I feel the same way on American history: the white aspects of it, the black aspects of it, the

yellow.

And I mean, it just doesn't matter what color you are, but when you see how history has been shaped and written and then rewritten and deleted,

you could spend a long time, especially if you're an African-American, going, what the, who did this?

How come I don't know those stories?

How come I only know these four people and I've never heard of people like Phyllis Wheatley?

Well, there is a reason you don't know it, and it is the progressives that did this.

Yeah, a real change, a visible change you can see in 1902 when Woodrow Wilson came out with his five-volume set, The History of the American People.

And in that five-volume set, and it's a comprehensive history, except it has not a single black person in it, not even Frederick Douglass, who is more photographed than Abraham Lincoln was.

This is a guy that was, Wilson was alive with Frederick Douglass, and he doesn't even put him in the book.

Not a single black person in the book.

The Klan is in that book.

That's the first thing that, though, isn't it?

That's what?

The Klan is in that book, I think.

Yeah, that is the book that the Klan used for the rebirth of the Klan, the second revival of the Klan.

And so, but academics look at it and say, my gosh, he's the president of Princeton University.

He's the president, he's a professor at three universities.

This is such a smart work.

This is such a brilliant guy.

Let's use this.

And that's the basis of Black History Today, which is why on Black History Month, you usually get MLK and Rosa Parks.

And 20th Century folks, you get Malcolm X and W.B.

Du Bois.

But you get very little of the Jack Sissons or the James Armisteads or all the heroes from the American Revolution that were genuine heroes.

Well, you know, it's funny because Oprah magazine just did something on Apple, and I was looking at the Apple News app today, and Oprah teaches black history, and the first one she taught was Phyllis Wheatley.

However, she's leaving out an awful lot, and what's amazing is she's like, hey, these are people you've never heard of.

And I thought, no, people in my audience, They know them.

We've talked about Phyllis Wheatley forever.

But in this, she says, Phyllis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry, poems on various subjects, religious and moral in 1773.

Born in Gambia, sold to the Wheatley family in Boston when she was seven.

Wheatley was emancipated shortly after her book was released.

Wow, is that the Phyllis Wheatley story?

I think they missed some major points.

Some major points.

Yeah.

First of all, she was the first African-American to publish a book as a slave?

Yeah, she did not.

How did that publish a book?

She did not publish a book.

Her book was published, but she did not publish a book.

Who published that?

It was published by Selena, Selena, Countess of Huntington,

English sponsor.

She was in England, and the book was published in England, not in America.

And so she was actually taken to England for her health.

Her health was not good while she was there.

This great lady, she's called Lady Bountiful.

I mean, she put her money into really good industry.

She's a woman who really changed

her.

Nobody knows who she is.

We should talk about her sometime.

She's a white woman.

Nobody knows who she is, but she actually changed the course of the country and religion.

You know, it's interesting that in the founding era, the concept of separating whites and blacks is not nearly as prominent as it was of the Civil War.

And so in so many places, even where there was slavery, there was not the segregation.

Let me just give you an example.

Something we found just in the last few months was in the American Revolution, we cannot find a single battle that had segregated units and fighting.

All blacks, all whites fought together throughout the American Revolution.

It was a total volunteer army, which means you had to re-enlist if you wanted to fight more than six months.

You sign up for six months.

That's it.

The average black soldier served nine times longer than the average white soldier did, and that's on voluntary re-enlistments.

They averaged nine enlistments.

The average black soldier did.

The average white soldier was white,

was one.

So nine times longer with black guys in a volunteer army serving side by side, no segregated units.

The narrative, you said earlier, we were a melting pot even back then.

We looked at George Washington's generals.

Out of 76 generals he had, 28 of them came from foreign nations.

So just over one-third of his generals from foreign nations.

You look at all the ladies involved.

You look at all the black heroes involved.

We used to know that.

Thank you, Woodrow Wilson.

We know none of that now.

Phyllis Wheatley, I just want to go back to her real quick.

Emancipated shortly after her book was released.

What she leaves out is the important part that Ben Franklin, if I'm not mistaken, used to take her from town to town and had, and would bring her in front of white audiences to read her poetry, basically in a way of saying,

anybody who says black people are stupid, I like you to meet somebody.

George Washington did the same thing.

George Washington had her kind of as the first USO for American troops.

George Washington had Phyllis Wheatley read her poetry to the officers at Cambridge when they had the siege of Boston going on.

He brought Phyllis Wheatley in to rediscover.

Why would you do that if you hated all black people?

Why would you do that if you thought they were animals?

You wouldn't do that.

You wouldn't do that.

You don't hear this because it goes against the narrative they're trying to create today.

They're cutting out major portions of black history in order to create a new narrative that goes in the wrong direction.

And I want to talk about that.

Let me give you one minute.

I'm going to go to you, Burgess,

on what we were just talking about.

And I want to change it a little bit to what's happening right now.

Because Burgess, you've been doing a great thing on Twitter.

You've been tweeting out black history and you're getting hammered.

You're getting hammered.

And I want to talk to you about that coming up in a second because something else is happening around the country

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Okay.

You wanted to comment on what we were just talking about?

Yes, I do.

And this is why history is so important.

And by the way, I'm blessed.

When I was raised in my segregated community of the 60s, we were taught history.

We were taught pride in our country.

Matter of fact, what we had in common with all the other different cultures around our country, Jewish, German, Polish, we were not assimilating at that time.

But what we had in common is love for our country.

We had love for our history.

And the fact that we were called Americans, our goal very simply was to gain respect, command respect from our fellow Americans by beating them out.

It's called meritocracy.

And that's where we're going.

So understand that this has been an attack on our country for a long, long time.

It was Karl Marx, the Marxist Karl Marx, that said the first battleground rewriting of history.

Because in our history, we find pride.

We find pride in our past, we find appreciation for what we are today, and a vision for our future.

And our vision for Americans has always been to look at each other better from inside out versus outside in and understand what we have in common is what makes us so unique and so great as a nation.

I tell you,

I can tell you something right now that I never thought when I was in the 60s growing up that I'm not this part of my family.

My family is black, white, Hispanic, American Indian, Trinidadian, and if I did some more genealogy, probably find some more.

That is the way our country has always been defined.

And what we have to understand is there are people out there who do not want us to come together.

The we the people, the most powerful three words in the history of mankind, says that we see ourselves as a unit, as a team, and we get past our difference because we have the same endgame.

This leftist group, the cowards and the bullies, the people who hide behind liberalism, they hide behind

the media, they hide behind a computer screen.

You can't see them, but they're empowered by it, destroying people's lives.

And that's what we're up against right now.

And understand that the more we know about our history, the more those guys lose because we become proud of who we are.

And by the way, that's why they've been trying these leftists in the NFL and NBA trying to get rid of our flag, our national anthem,

our worshiping God.

Those are the things that keep us as a unit focused on something we have in common.

It allows us to go to a game.

And whether we are conservative or liberal, we can root for our team and high-fire because we're on the same team.

So, understand that's what they're trying to do, divide us, and they do that by taking away our history that shows what we've done together is remarkable.

By the way, Jeremiah Hamilton, in 1821, before the Civil War,

was a stockbroker in New York.

He died in 1874, worth over $240 million today.

That's the kind of things that happened.

You have Betsy Coleman.

Wait, wait, wait.

He was black.

Black.

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.

In 1821, he's a stockbroker.

How's that possible?

Worth $200 and some million dollars in today's dollars.

At his death, how is that possible?

We don't know that man.

Yeah.

And it's possible because here's the deal that we have to understand in our country.

It doesn't matter how we get here, how long we've been here with language of speech, if we focus on four things, our faith,

the free market,

education, and our family, we can become part of the middle class or beyond.

Everyone who succeeds this country does it through meritocracy.

They do it to the fact of commanding respect.

And people like Jeremiah or Betsy Coleman, the first black pilot, international and national pilot.

She passed away in 1960 and 1934 and an accident.

But those are the kind of folks we don't know about.

Dr.

Drew, I'm sure you know, Dr.

Charles Drew,

the founder of the blood bank.

There's so many of, there's so much of our history that goes on.

And if we were to know that, guess what happens to black Americans, black youth?

They said, if they can do it back in those days, I can do it today.

I'm so proud to have this lineage that shows

what great Americans can do.

I'm just thankful I grew up in a time where I saw them first time.

I'm so blessed.

It's not hypothetical to me.

And, David, it is becoming more and more difficult to find that.

You saw something happen this week that you've never seen before.

Yeah, we have seen, we've really encouraged legislators to really get into black history as a way to expand the names.

The names names you just got from Burgess, you know, that.

You add a Biddy Mason, you add a Clara Brown, you add a Stephen Smith, a Charles Patterson.

To guarantee, I don't know any of those.

We have legislators now standing on the floor of the legislatures in the mornings with a three to five minute reading on a black hero that they've never heard before, the kind of people we're talking about right now, just expanding the field.

And so two black history resolutions were voted down just in the past week, and the argument was that you're presenting blacks in a way that make them look like they're victors and overcoming, not like they're victims, and that hurts the movement.

So we're voting this down because we don't want that image out there.

Right.

It does hurt the movement, but by doing the reverse, it hurts the people.

That's right.

Well, it hurts truth.

And truth is our objective.

You always tell the truth, the good, the bad, the ugly, and there's plenty of bad and ugly with racism, discrimination.

But what I'm saying is, if you're only telling the downside, you're not only just ignoring the truth of the full picture,

you are hurting people because all they hear is you can't make it.

And that is destructive.

That's battery acid to the soul.

That's right.

That's battery acid to the country as well.

You will not survive that.

So go ahead.

Can I add this to that point?

Because it really is all about stereotyping.

And what I knew growing up is that there was a mentality, particularly by the Democratic Party, that blacks were not capable, we were not intelligent, we were not disciplined, we're not all those negative stereotypes.

And when you look back and you see Martin Luther King marching during the summer months down south, understand, see, remember this.

They're walking in white shirts and dark ties.

They're walking dressed.

They're walking in a way that's very disciplined.

Because they were not only beating out the Jim Crow laws, they were beating out the democratic stereotypes that black people were not capable.

When I came to the NFL in 1973, there were no black quarterbacks, no black middle linebackers, no black

free safeties, because those were, quote, white men leadership positions.

We don't think that way anymore.

Any position that a person is able to win out, they earn it and they get millions of dollars to do it.

So we've grown in that area, but only in athletics.

Why is it that the leftists do not want, have us, they have us in affirmative action when it comes down to thinking, but does not have us in affirmative action when it comes down to sports.

That's one of the stereotypes that we have to understand that's against us.

We do more than sports and singing and dancing.

We can compete in any area that we go up against.

If we study, study, we work, and we feel good that we can achieve those opportunities.

That's what they're taking away when we have Snoopy Dogg as our hero instead of Ben Carson.

All right, I'm going to come back in just a minute.

We're going to continue our conversation and tell you some stories that you've never heard before

as we celebrate Black History Month and do it really in spite of all of the haters and the cancel culture that will come after the three of us for doing this hour when all we're we're trying to say is blacks have a rich, rich American history that they should know.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to it.

We are talking Black History Month in

a way that will make

the cancel culture scream with glee because...

Oh my gosh, I can't believe they're talking about it.

Yeah, we're talking about it in an accurate way, and we're giving the balance.

There's a lot of really bad

in American history, and there's also a lot of really good in American history, and we cover the bad and the good.

Let's start with an early war hero, David.

Let's go to the American Revolution, to a guy named Jack Sisson.

In 1778, America's second-in-command militarily had been captured, Charles Lee.

He's right behind George Washington.

We are a volunteer citizen army.

We need our military commanders.

So we've just lost a second in command.

Only way you get him back is to have a prisoner exchange with someone of like value.

That means Richard Prescott, who is the second in command for the British under Cornwallis.

So Colonel William Barton in Rhode Island says, I think I've got a plan to capture the second in command.

He said it's going to be really hard.

It's a suicide mission.

And he laid out his plan.

He asked for volunteers because he said, you're not, this mission, you're not allowed to take any guns because if you shoot a gun, the British will know we're coming and we'll all be dead.

So you can't take any any weapons with you.

It's a complete suicide mission.

I need only volunteers.

20 blacks and 20 whites volunteered for that mission.

This is essentially kind of the first Special Forces or SEAL team mission.

And what happened was Richard Prescott is sitting on an island in the middle of the harbor in Rhode Island.

They're outside of Providence.

The British fleet is surrounding the island.

They're all parked there.

There is a fortress in the middle of the island, and General Prescott is barricaded inside the fortress.

Jeez.

It's going to be a piece of cake.

Yeah, yeah.

Easy.

Don't worry about it.

So what happens is they take out about two in the morning with several boats, and they put these 40 guys to the boats.

Jack Sisson's in the first boat right up front, and they put what they call mufflers on their oars.

They have to row under the British Navy.

And they just like towels around the forearms.

That's right, oars.

They wrap the end of the oars with cloth, so as you go through the water, you're not splashing.

So they row right under the British fleet.

to the island.

The British guards aren't expecting anyone.

They quickly knock out all the British sentries and British guards around the fortress.

They look to find out where the general is, General Prescott is.

He's barricaded inside a room, wrought iron hinges.

It's an oak door.

It's an oak bar on the inside of the door.

And they say, oh my gosh, to beat that down with hammers, everybody's going to know we're here.

And that's when Jack Sisson said, get out of my way.

And he backed up down the hall.

He charged the door with his head and shoulder, popped the hinges, broke the oak, broke the inside bar of the door, kept going right inside the room.

General Prescott sat up in bed to see what was happening.

He knocked him out cold with one hit.

He picked him up, put him under his arm, and walked down the hall with the general under his arm, got back in the boat, rode across the harbor, and they had the prisoner exchange.

We got our second in command back.

It was a black patriot, Jack Sisson, who essentially is the first SEAL team member.

You would say that is, and I know SEAL team members like that.

I mean, I've got a guy who works on my staff, Craig, who was a Royal Marine, who would be just like that.

But you'd hear that story and you'd say, that's just a fake.

That's, you know, oh, and, you know,

what was his name?

Big John Henry.

Yeah.

You know, oh, yeah, and he was a big man and he, you know, pounded his way through a mountain.

But this is true.

This is true.

This is all documented.

This is documented in a number of early books, and there's just so much fun.

As a matter of fact, if you go to the first of the American Revolution, John Adams said it began at the Boston Massacre.

The first man shot in the Boston Massacre, Chris Posadox, a black man.

You go to the last battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Yorktown, George Washington and Alexander and Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, two white guys, say the reason we won that battle was a black man, James Armistead.

The American Revolution starts with the black man and ends with the black man.

You don't get that in history today, but the founding fathers who were there pointed those black people as being the reason that we started, the reason we ended, all the way through in their stories like Jack Sisson.

This is this book from William Nell, 1851, called Colored Patriots of the American Revolution.

It's not a skinny book, and it's nothing but the black heroes of the American Revolution we no longer study today.

Burgess, you brought up the stockbroker on Wall Street from 1821, dies in the 1880s,

a multi, multi, multi-millionaire.

And I know you've tweeted out somebody that

I didn't know.

I don't know if most people knew at the time, Madam C.J.

Walker.

Oh, gosh, yes.

Why is it that it seems that every single, I mean, you ask the average American, who's the first really successful black woman?

And I bet you most will say, outside of music, Oprah.

It couldn't be further from the truth.

The first,

and that.

Go ahead.

I'm sorry.

And that's actually

when you steal people's history, tell

this distilled a pride in their past and who they are.

And I think that's so unfortunate.

And we can go through a litany of success, but let me just kind of of summarize it in this one way.

And it's something that we understand how bad things were in terms of our country.

We were not assimilating.

Segregation was going strong.

But yet, in the 40s, because of

this one thing that we all,

as black Americans, agreed in, we loved our country, God, family, respected women and authority.

Bottom line, and we had a dad in home that made sure you understood what that meant.

What does that come down to?

Well, in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, because black Americans coming back, particularly from the war, understood that they can achieve anything in their segregated community.

So, what did that look like in terms of competing with the rest of our nation?

We led the country in the growth of the middle class.

We led the country in men matriculating from college because college was our doorway.

I have a grandfather who had 12 kids.

Every single one of them graduated from college.

He was a farmer.

We led the country in terms of men matriculating from college, men committed to marriage over 70%, and percentage of entrepreneurs.

40% of entrepreneurs across our country equated to 50 to 60% of black Americans living the American dream.

In 1960, I had an uncle who had a business.

He was an entrepreneur, but he also loved flying, so he bought a plane so he could take mail from one base in Texas to Chicago, his part-time job.

He flew to Tallahassee at the age of 10 years old, had a chance to experience my first flight.

Now, we were not rich, we were middle class, but the bottom line is we believed that anything was possible because it's all around us.

That's what we have to keep in mind.

And today, particularly, we have to understand what's going on.

Just think about this, Glenn.

I'm a black American, the third black to go to the University of Miami.

I graduated in biology because I had a dad who taught education, a mom and dad taught education, was a Super Bowl champion.

The most important chapter of my life was failing after that.

So for a few months, I was a chimney sweep and a security guard because we were taught to man up.

If you had to do whatever you had to do to do it honestly for your family.

And out of that, I hadn't achieved my dreams.

And we talked about this for years when I started a foundation for Second Chance for Youth.

But here's where we are today.

Today I'm a ranking member as a freshman for a subcommittee in the education of labor.

Where else can that happen in America?

By the way, that's not going to happen in the Democratic Party.

They will not allow a man like me, a person like me, to take be a ranking member as a freshman because they're all about seniority.

They're all about making sure that the right people keep in order and then those who want to rise, they have to totaline.

They can turn against their race.

They can become leaders.

They can do anything.

They can vote against choice and school.

They can vote for abortion, for our babies.

They can vote for anything that hurts our country and our race as long as they know they're going for power and they have these white leaders that they are going to make sure they

keep charge.

So we have the American dream all across our country.

Ben Carson, Condi Rice, Justice Thompson, all came from that same generation of Americans who love God, country, family, respect for women, and authority.

And we have to get back to that.

And that's what the left does not want us to happen.

They do not want us to talk about our past so our kids can grow up and say, you know what?

If he can do that, I can do it.

What do I need to do?

How about this?

Love your God, country, family, respect for women, and authority.

Bottom line, you do that, this country will reward you in a big, big way.

I don't care what color you are.

Um, David, uh, we're gonna run out of time, and I know you're sitting here with tons of stories.

Um,

uh, maybe we'll do something next week if we can have you back.

Maybe I'll do a podcast with you guys.

Um,

uh, but I wanted to bring this to the 1619 project because that is a lie.

It is a literal reimagining, keyword imagining, a reimagining of American history.

They themselves have had to admit at the New York Times, it's not based on fact.

It's a dreamt-up idea for us to think about what the world would be like if that were the way America was founded.

But it is being taught in schools.

There's one school district or state that I saw yesterday said no to the 1619 project, but it's sweeping.

We have an opportunity, and we took it

based on faith and maybe a little bit of insanity.

We took an opportunity to buy the largest collection of

pilgrim and pre-1700

American history in the world.

That's right.

It is a gigantic collection.

It is.

Tell me what's in it and why it's important.

Let me tell you what's important first, because when you look at American history, the 1619 project is one stream of American history.

Slavery did enter into the South.

It did enter through Jamestown.

It did enter through Virginia.

And this collection has

documents from 1619, from Jamestown.

It's got all of that.

Except it shows that slavery came into America prior to 1619, came in with the Spanish.

So it blows the 1619 project up.

By the way, 1619 is not even when slavery got started in Virginia.

It was 1651 when a black man sued to own another black man and the courts in Virginia said, yep, you can do that.

So Anthony Johnson, a black man, becomes the first slave owner in Virginia, and that's 1651.

So 1619 is not even right on their narrative.

Well, they would say their narrative is 1619 because it was a black indentured student,

or a black indentured family that had

about 20 of them.

There were about 20 that came to Victoria.

Right, right.

But indentured servants were not always black.

Well, most of those who came to Virginia early on were indentured.

They were just whites.

It just means they took out a loan and they became collateral for that.

All of those 20 blacks that came as slaves off a slave ship where the British took them off of a slave ship, they all became landowners in Virginia.

They all became free and became landowners.

They did not remain slaves.

Yeah, that indenture was over after seven years, after which time the state gave them land.

They became landowners and they had their own land.

Until 1651.

Until 1651.

So

why is this so important that this remains?

Because I know the guy who was selling it, who was collected, very, very

well-established, credible historian.

And

he's selling it.

He was selling it's getting old.

He wants it to go.

He wants it to go to us and not be broken up.

Why did he give us such an amazing deal on this?

Because he likes the view that we have, which is a historical view that while there was a Jamestown, there was also a Plymouth.

And Plymouth is the second colony in America.

And in Plymouth, they outlawed slavery from the start.

Slavery was illegal.

They called it man stealing, quoted the Bible, capital offense.

The first slave ship that came to Plymouth, they freed all the slaves, imprisoned all the slave owners.

There was not a time in Massachusetts history when you could not vote as a black person.

So all this stuff is a different story.

If you want to focus on 1619, that's part of America.

That's not accurate, but this is part of America.

We focus on the other side because the pilgrim side is really what America became.

And what

we strive to be.

That's right.

That's what we should be.

We can dwell on, you know, this guy or that guy, but that which you gaze upon, you become.

Why aren't we gazing upon a higher standard?

Yeah.

And that's what this collection is.

It is the greatest collection of authentic documents of that strain of America that nobody's talking about, or at least that the left is not talking about today.

And it documents authoritatively without any question with the original documents what happened in America and the side of the story the 1619 Project is trying to erase.

And by the way, this may be to me the most,

I don't know the adjective to describe, but part of the The 1619 Project is currently being used in all 50 states.

Even if a state legislature bans it, it will be used because it's a voluntary curriculum without charge.

Teachers take it and use it.

Part of that, they have what's called an erasure point, where they give you actual authentic American documents.

They redact the documents, leave six or eight words in them.

They say, we want you to erase history and rewrite it the way you think it should have been.

And that is a classroom exercise to take authentic documents, trash them out, redact the content, leave you six or eight words, and just rewrite it the way you think it should be.

That is dangerous for America's future.

Holy cow.

If you would like to help us preserve history, especially this,

we need a team of people that are going to pony up.

And we can do it $5 at a time.

And I know a lot of people that want to do that.

But we also are looking for some people with some real wealth that will also step with us and secure this for future generations.

You can make a donation now at mercury1.org.

That's mercuryone.org.

Thank you, David.

Thank you, Burgess.

We'll talk to to you again.

God bless.

Real pleasure.

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