Best of The Program | Guest: Salena Zito | 11/9/20

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, No, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's gonna tell you the truth.

How do I present this with a class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Yeah, aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

Hey, it's Monday.

We had a great, great podcast for you.

Unfortunately, we didn't do that one.

So we did this one.

We actually went through all of the lies that you're hearing from

Facebook and Twitter.

If you're getting, you know, people saying, look, they packed vans full of...

No, no, no, no.

We want to clear out all of the easy fake things about voter fraud and talk to you about the real big big things that you'll be seeing coming from the Trump administration in the next couple of days.

That, Selena Zito gives us an update on Pennsylvania.

Also, what

the parties, both Republican and Democrat, have missed every single election.

They keep taking it as a mandate for this or that, and they're just not listening to people.

What this election was really all about.

Right now on the podcast.

You're listening to the best of the Blandbeck program.

I want you to know at the beginning of the hour, I told you that

there's just a few sites that I check that I trust still with confirmation.

And I'll lead with that even saying

theblaze.com.

Theblaze.com, I check every day.

I check multiple times a day, but I don't take even our own word for it.

And I know Leon Wolf is just like,

he is

an editor that is like, he's on it.

Oh, yeah.

He is on it.

Sometimes it pisses me off how on it he is, but he's on it.

The Daily Caller is another one.

A new website, just thenews.com, is really good.

That is

John Solomon's news site.

For opinion, Blaze TV, Daily Wire,

Americangreatness.com

is a great opinion place.

And SpinQuark is kind of like Drudge without selling his soul to the devil.

Without being a leftist.

Yeah.

It's not just Trump hate now.

He's completely left.

I think he is.

Oh, absolutely.

I think he sold it.

No.

He didn't?

I don't think so.

According to Insiders Close to the Source, he has not sold it.

He has not sold it.

There seems to be some.

Well, he moved to Germany, I know, a long time ago, a long time ago, but he's been there since, I think, we were in New York.

Yeah, I know, but that also changes people after a while.

Yeah, I suppose.

Anyway,

that is a completely untrustworthy site now.

It's amazing.

I don't know what happened.

They are all left spin.

Everything looks spun for Biden.

Yeah.

By the way,

we have all these monitors in front of us up on top, and we're looking at the monitors here to my left, and it's four different screens.

It has the three cable networks and then the weather channel.

Two of the networks, MSNBC and CNN, look entirely different today.

Entirely different.

So amazing.

Yeah, what are they doing?

They removed the COVID numbers from the right third.

From the a third of the screen was taken up by COVID numbers.

Forever.

Number of cases, number of deaths, number of infections worldwide and in the U.S.

completely gone all of a sudden.

Yeah, it's gone.

Well, that's extinct.

That's because they're touting that Pfizer has come out with a 90% effective vaccine.

Yeah.

Yay!

Now they're all of a sudden pro-vaccine.

I know, which is amazing.

Wow.

And the stock market has gone crazy.

I mean, Kamala Harris

was up there telling you not to take this.

This vaccine was developed under the Trump administration.

Yeah, I know.

So why would anyone be excited about it?

It's not trustworthy.

They've got to say that.

They have to say that now to be consistent.

They're going to give Biden credit for this campaign for this vaccine, aren't they?

They will.

They will.

They'll come out and say it wasn't working until Biden won, and then everything started clicking.

Wow.

Coronavirus, it's absolutely incredible.

I mean, I would expect nothing different, though.

Yeah, well, we said that this was going to happen, but it's one thing to say it's going to happen and then see it exactly as we said it would play out the day, the first day we come back and he's been declared president.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

And none of them said anything about these rallies where they were out partying in the streets.

Now, I will say, not nobody, not nobody.

There were a couple of people who did.

I know Jake Tapper mentioned it briefly.

He said he didn't want to sound like he was scolding people.

Where he was calling all all the Trump supporters, you know, killers.

I'm not saying it was equal.

I'm just saying

I'm searching here.

And Kamala Harris made one tweet said, hey, by the way, COVID-19 is still here.

Like her shortest, least passionate tweet of the past two years.

I will

at least acknowledge that.

But overall, these are horrible ideas in the middle of a pandemic, guys.

Like, you don't see, they're like, oh, well, they're wearing masks.

A mask does not protect you when you're screaming at the top of your lungs, four feet away from people.

That is not how this works.

And they all have been hammering people who gathered because they were on a motorcycle rally or they had a sports celebration.

Like they were blasting Justin Turner for running out and celebrating the World Series victory on the field.

And this is nothing because you know what the ultimate cure for COVID-19 is?

Voting blue.

That's the only thing that will cure it.

Everything else.

Well, it has.

And SNBC is curing it in.

It's happening.

They're not worried about it anymore.

Nobody's in the hospital anymore.

Nobody's getting infected anymore.

Incredible sniffing.

Nobody even has a sniffle anymore.

It's really weird.

Well, it's good because then he can't close everything down

and force us to wear masks.

Although, I still believe that is coming.

We're going to look at some of the things that

he's going to do in the next hundred days.

And it's...

Oh my, it's terrifying.

Remember, this is the guy, this is the campaign that proudly said that they had looked at the cabinet to see what levers and dials each cabinet member had.

Because they're not just going to try to pass laws, they're going to use draconian measures that don't have to go through Congress.

So they'll go to

the Department of State and they'll screw up Israel.

They're going to go to the Department of Labor and they will screw up our jobs.

They'll go to the Treasury and they'll screw up our money.

They already have looked.

This was, I think, back in August, maybe.

They said that they had looked at these things and had already developed plans just for the cabinet level.

Yeah.

So and if you were to listen to what Biden has claimed he's going to do in his first day from day one in office,

it is terrifying.

It's terrifying all the things he's proposing.

And among the first will be to put us back into the Paris Climate Accord.

Yeah, he said he's going to do that on day one.

Day one.

Which is good because it will do nothing and just cost us a lot of money.

Yeah, that literally, even by design, accomplishes literally

corporations here.

Weird because I think that's what all of his policies are going to do.

Absolutely nothing.

Just cost a lot of money.

Did you see

Justice by Janine Pirot on Saturday?

Did you see what she claims is happening?

Yeah, there's a disagreement there there about what actually happened.

Now, I will say, I don't trust Fox at all.

And I don't say that because of their recent behavior.

I will tell you, most of the problems that we had at Fox in the press came from Fox.

Yes.

They are very famous in the media industry for leaking bad things about their own employees.

Right.

And something that is very well known within media circles.

Correct.

And

they did things like, remember when I was on vacation?

And all of a sudden, everybody said that I had been

suspended.

Suspended.

That came, that rumor came from inside of Fox.

Allegedly, Glenn.

Allegedly.

Yeah, allegedly.

Yeah.

And

they were the one.

We know because we allegedly had a friend who was working at

another

outlet

that got it firsthand.

Do you remember that?

From Fox.

Yeah, from Fox.

And they called us and they're like, what's the deal?

We're like, okay, didn't happen.

I'm on vacation.

Right.

And we had emails from months earlier showing the dates of the vacation, which is the only reason it didn't blow up into some giant scandal.

Right.

So anyway, I don't trust Fox at all, nor should you.

But I also, you know, Janine Pirow is not exactly a pillar of virtue herself, so I'm not sure.

But she said,

she said that

they had suspended her because of what she had planned in covering on Saturday night.

Now, they say Fox is saying, look, we had the election, I don't know if anyone noticed, ran late.

So we had election coverage running in several days that we did not initially plan it.

So she's back on TV next week.

So that's what they're saying.

So it's hard to know.

I mean, they are saying she's back next week.

So if they were, certainly haven't suspended her for more than a week.

Yeah.

That we at least know.

But she is saying that they did suspend her because of her questioning the election results and such.

Huh.

I just know this.

I just know this.

Do you remember when I said we got to get out of here because this place is going to burn itself to the ground?

Yes.

There you go.

I think they have officially burned themselves to the ground.

The only thing, the only thing on Fox that I don't know how they're going to get around is Tucker because he is so

powerful right now.

He is, I mean, his records on views are crazy.

So much so that they're talking about him as a presidential candidate in 2024.

That's pretty amazing.

And Tucker's a very smart guy, too.

This is not just some media personality.

He's always been a very smart guy.

What does that mean?

Just he's just not someone.

He's not like you, is what I'm saying.

So because people talked about, remember, they did talk about you actually back in the day.

They'd be like, oh, we're looking for anybody.

You know who I would really like to see

more of and

consider

a place

perhaps at the head of the party?

Andrew Corner.

Christy Noam.

Christy Noome.

Oh, yeah.

She's that's a better guess.

Yeah, we'd like to see more of her.

Yes.

Okay.

She's great.

Campaign campaign.

Oh, what a.

Did you hear that?

Was that terrible?

I didn't.

I didn't detect.

What did you detect?

I detected sexism.

No.

Oh, is there something in your brain that would indicate that he's mad at that?

Oh, you.

Oh, you.

All right.

I I see how we're playing it.

I see how we're playing it.

So is it matter?

This game is always two-on-one.

And usually, usually, you pair with the first person who says it.

U-S-O-B.

You have to understand, I'm sitting next to Ubakos of scrumptiouscookie.com.

Our cat has slid to my side of the table.

These are my cookies.

Dead to me.

You lose.

It's the power of cookies.

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Thank you very much, Pat.

Pat Gray, Pat Gray Unleashed.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Selena Zito, she is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.

She's a columnist for the New York Post and the co-author of The Great Revolt.

Selena, how are you?

Good morning.

I'm great.

How are you?

I'm good.

Now, tell me what you think is really going on in Pennsylvania.

Let's start with the election.

Do you think there is voter fraud there that

could change the result or not?

At this point, I don't think so.

I don't think there's enough evidence.

You know,

there's always shenanigans, right?

But that's the shenanigans, I don't think there's enough shenanigans

to make a difference.

But, you know, I'm not a legal expert.

I'm not a ballot expert.

I'm just going from my years of covering elections.

And so,

you know, that's where, you know, I think this is.

And if you remember, on the day of the election, I came up, I was on the show, and you said, what do you think?

And I said, Well, I think the polls are wrong.

I don't think Joe Biden is going to win this state by five, six, seven, whatever the poll was, right?

But the race is a jump ball.

And I think the results reflect that.

And I think what is the

really important story, I think, that is getting sort of lost in all of this is that while the Democrats are claiming a mandate and while the cultural curators are claiming that they have put pressure on culture and had it go their way, they could not be more wrong.

The country, the down ballot, became redder.

In fact, it went all the way back to center right, which is the opposite of what traditionally happens

with the president

after their administration, right?

Barack Obama pushed the country right.

Bill Clinton put

George

W.

Bush pushed the country left.

So we react to their policies.

What Donald Trump has done is move the country even further right.

But what

also failed miserably is the cultural pressure, right?

Every time we picked up our phone, we wanted to order something from Amazon.

There was a Black Lives Matter

post up there or, you know, we should be better kind of people kind of post.

And all the scolding that was done to us through the NBA,

through the NFL, none of that impacted in particular, the suburban voter.

They showed up for down ballot races in a very robust way.

So tell me, give me an example.

Talk about the open house seat in Pennsylvania with Emily.

What is it?

Skopov?

Skopov and Rick McMc McCurry.

Yeah, Rob.

I mean, yeah, sorry.

I mean, Rob McCurry.

And so that was a race that everyone said she was going to win.

She was ahead in the polls at times.

It was hinted that she was ahead in the polls by double digits.

She raised more money, I think, than any state house race

in the state.

She had all the, you know, sort of progressive groups,

outside groups to help her, Emily's list, Planned Parenthood.

She had teachers unions.

The teachers' unions, and also

in a suburb where there's a lot of affluent C-suite executives that are in the energy industry.

And she had the

the climate change groups behind her as well you know people vote their pocketbook people vote their community and it's and then the the assumption was oh it's affluent college educated suburbs that has an ascending population right it has it has a diverse population this is totally going for for her and she got crushed again by 10 percentage points i mean that is the lesson that that that pressure that was put on you every time you open Facebook or Twitter or YouTube or turn to television or try to watch a football game.

None of that worked.

And I think that is incredibly important.

So this goes really against

what Chuck Schumer said over the weekend, where he said, if we can just win the Georgia Senate seats,

we are going to change America.

No.

Okay, first of all, no,

Just on its face.

Second of all, you didn't look at the statistics.

You didn't look at the numbers.

You barely won a presidential race.

And what happened down ballot is striking.

Let's just take Pennsylvania, for example.

I mean, first of all, it happened across the country, right?

Everyone was telling,

you know, every reporter, there's a blue wave down ballot.

There's a blue wave down ballot.

I mean, I even got to the point where I was like, wait, is there?

Well, I did what I always do.

I went back out and talked to people.

And more importantly, I listened to people.

But the Democrats did not pick up one state House race.

They did not pick up one state Senate race.

And in fact, the Speaker of the State House in Rhode Island lost their seats to a Republican.

Wow.

And it is just absolutely sudden.

But back to Pennsylvania.

Not only did the Republicans hold their majority, but they gained state house seats.

Not only did they hold their Senate, but they gained state Senate seats.

They won two row offices, state treasurer and auditor general, with two Republican candidates who didn't spend a dime running,

and they got defeated.

Also, the state house

minority leader in Pennsylvania, Democrat, gone.

Beaten by a suburban mom who worked her butt off, knocked on every door, and asked asked every voter to consider her to earn their vote.

So if they come in, the Democrats come in, because let me just give you a couple of things from California.

California is going the same way.

Californians rejected a property tax increase that would generate as much as $12.5 billion a year, 84% of the precincts reporting.

It's narrow,

but

it's trailing.

Californians said no to repealing anti-discrimination law and reinstating affirmative action goals.

That's by 56% in California.

They rejected a proposal to expand rent control ordinances.

They rejected a bid to abolish cash bail in the state.

They also rejected lowering the voting age.

I mean, those are things Republicans are for.

So

the left gets in charge and they start to do things that are radical, like for instance, on day one,

Biden has said he's going to

reinstate critical race theories back into the government.

So he's going to take

critical race and he's going to

put those classes back in at the federal level.

See, here's the thing.

I said this in a column a couple weeks ago.

We keep sending Washington a message with our vote, and they keep misreading it.

The vote for Joe Biden was not to

overreach.

It was because it was for a different tone.

Because that's what he ran on.

He didn't run for an overreach, right?

He ran on, we're going to be nicer, we're going to be kinder.

Fine.

That's why people gave you their vote.

And what's the first thing he does?

He is what you just said.

He thinks that it's a mandate for progressivism.

You know, one of the things I found really fascinating, and this isn't like to toot my own horn, but this is to show how important it is to

report on the most granular level.

You know, the people that we outlined in our book, The Great Revolt, the coalition that we outlined in The Great Revolt, the Conservative Populist Coalition, not only is it now not a black swan, it stayed together.

And not only did it stay together, it expanded.

And not only did it expand, it isn't, it has gotten more diverse.

That is something that the Democrats should be.

In fact, I got a lot of emails from Democrats that I know that are strategists, and they said, we should be reading that book because you have it there and the people at the top, the people that make the most noise, completely don't understand that we lost.

We only won the top.

Uh, thank you, Selena.

Appreciate it.

Thank you so much for having me.

You bet.

Keep your eye on Pennsylvania for us.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

So, I want to talk to you about something that I find

disturbing.

And honestly,

in my 40-some years of broadcast, I've never felt what I felt this weekend.

I feel

watched,

monitored,

and

in jeopardy.

And I know that sounds paranoid, but it is what they have told us they're going to do.

The media and the

left and their allies are calling for some sort of reparation, some sort of tribunal for anyone who speaks out.

Anyone who has donated, this is the latest, anyone who even donated any money to Donald Trump, you allowed this to happen and they have to stop it to make sure it never, ever happens again.

They are so convinced that they are right.

That they believe that you are some sort of a virus.

You've been infected with this.

Jake Tapper called you spawn.

Donald Trump and his spawn online.

I didn't know where to go to find

real news.

I didn't trust anyone this weekend.

I gave you a list earlier of the ones I do trust.

But I wondered how much of what I'm even seeing online has been suppressed.

That's not a good thing for a country that believes in speech,

believes in freedom.

When you have a press that is in line with

either party, and they are not neutral,

You can't trust anything you see or read.

And this only makes things worse.

The voice and the will of the American people has been

misunderstood since at least 2008.

In 2008, Barack Obama won on,

I don't see a red and blue America.

I see the United States of America.

Joe Biden has been using that line a lot, but that was the line

that got

Barack Obama first noticed.

And then he campaigned on hope and change.

And he campaigned on, look, these are the things I'm going to do.

I'm going to bring hope and I'm going to bring transparency and I'm going to be bringing the change you want.

But the change

he was really standing for,

and he and his elitist friends think America wants, is the Marxist change.

When Donald Trump was elected in 2016,

the press and the left immediately, because they had to destroy him, they immediately said, If you vote for him, if you want him, you're a racist.

No,

no.

Well, then you're just out of control.

You're crazy.

Don't you see his tweets?

Don't you see how he talks about people?

Yeah, we do.

But in 2016, there were enough people that said, I've had enough of electing people and then having them do whatever the hell they want.

I've had enough of that.

Nobody seems to pay in Washington for their crimes.

Nobody seems to tell the truth in Washington.

And now, in 2016, we thought we had seen it all from the press.

And so people voted for Donald Trump to kick the walls down,

to kick butt and take names and say, you,

you are doing things that are against the law.

You're out.

Well, they bogged him down with phony charges and everything else.

And he didn't clean out the deep state.

We still don't have a Justice Department and FBI that I trust, do you?

And it's going back into the hands of the people that corrupted it in the first place.

It wasn't about race.

It wasn't about white supremacy.

It wasn't about owning the libs.

Donald Trump was elected for a couple of reasons.

One,

kick down the doors and find out what's going on.

And I believe he did.

Two, tell us that you're going to do things and then actually do them.

He did.

And the third thing that he never promised, but he did, he exposed the media.

And we see now

nothing, they say, can be believed.

So we've come into two teams now.

We're no longer Americans, I guess.

We're either red or we're blue.

And if you were ever red and you voted for Donald Trump, then you're in trouble.

Michelle Obama came out this weekend

and she said, Trump voters, let's remember that tens of millions of people voted for the status quo.

That's not true.

We did not vote for the status quo.

We voted for somebody who was kicking the doors down.

He was the furthest thing from the status quo.

They voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.

Oh, man, I just can't take it we have a lot of work to do to reach out to these folks in the years ahead and connect with them on what unites us boy I would love that I would love that

but I don't think that's what you really mean

because you're the person that said Barack knows we have to change our traditions we have to change our history That's what you actually believe.

And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices.

We are going to have to change our conversation.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

We're going to have to move into a different place.

This was the prototypical radical in power.

AOC now says she's going to do everything to win Georgia for Democrats so we don't have to negotiate with Republicans.

All right.

Okay.

Elections have consequences.

But they don't care about your voice.

See, that's the other thing the Democrats are missing.

They've misread election after election.

Both parties have.

Donald Trump did not.

But both parties misread every election, including this one.

They think now that we voted

as country for Marxism.

No.

No, I think what we voted for was

a guy we didn't always roll our eyes and go, geez, he did what?

That was it.

That was the tipping point.

If Donald Trump wouldn't have been that guy, he A, wouldn't have gotten all that stuff done.

And so a lot of people just went, look, he's got to get it done.

If that's what it takes, that's what it takes.

Because I, for one, am really sick and tired of the Republicans just sitting back and going, you know what, we can't do anything about it.

Yes, you can.

Fight for what you believe in.

Fight for the Constitution.

Protect and defend the Constitution.

That's what you do, Republicans.

That's what you do.

But you don't seem to want to do that because quite honestly, far too many of you are in the swamp.

You are the swamp.

And you have your God.

The creature from the Black Lagoon is Joe Biden.

So the problem is, is that

the press said they wanted to understand us in

2016.

They didn't.

They didn't want to.

They were just saying that.

And then because they live in a vacuum where everybody thinks the way they do, and everybody, everybody, I could never live anyplace else but here.

Everybody has the same exact kind of education.

Oh my gosh, these people are animals.

They decided we were animals.

That hasn't changed.

But you better look out from the left.

Democrats, you better look out because did you notice what BLM was chanting this weekend?

This weekend, they were chanting F Trump, F Biden, burn the whole thing down.

Oh, geez, are you going to get serious about them now?

Now will they be something you should look at?

Now that you're going to be in power?

Because you better get control of them.

Or do you think you can get control of them now?

They're now on the streets chanting against Biden.

In fact, like all fascistic groups do, they made everybody raise their fists in the air

and pledge to them.

And I want you to listen.

These are people who are standing in the crowd supporting BLM.

Listen to what they said this weekend.

Just because fighting is an offense, just because fighting is an office, does not mean that our struggle is over.

Does not mean that our struggle is over.

We challenge you

to raise your fists in solidarity.

To raise your fists in solidarity.

And look at those around you

who have not raised their fists.

They are ignorant.

They are ignorant.

They are complacent.

They are complacent.

They do not believe.

They do not believe.

In a future where black people can prosper.

Where black people can prosper.

They are just as racist

as police officers that are killing black people.

As police officers that are killing black people.

So you got it?

The people in the BLM crowd, if you don't do and say exactly what they say, you're as bad as the people they call pigs that should be slaughtered.

Jake Tapper said this over the weekend.

Listen.

But now the Trump presidency is coming.

to an end.

To an end.

With so many squandered opportunities and ruined potential, but also an era of just plain meanness.

It must be said to paraphrase President Ford: for tens of millions of our fellow Americans, their long national nightmare is over.

And Jake,

I would add,

for 300-plus million Americans, our long national nightmare is about to begin.

But keep sucking up and you'll be fine.

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