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Today we talk about Woodrow Wilson.

Glenn hates that guy.

He is going to have his name taken off of the building in Princeton, and it's hard not to just cheer.

We get into that a little bit.

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You know, I'm going to need to get an Amen because, you know, I've been saying now for the last couple of weeks, I've had a distinct feeling that it is going to be the African-American community that is actually going to heal this country.

Can't be healed by the evil white man.

Can I get an amen?

Amen.

It's going to be...

It's going to be healed by the African Americans that stand up and say, we're not with you.

We are on God's side and we know what's going on, and you've lost your minds.

And you're starting to see that happen

a lot of places, but none better than

the gospel church in Houston, where the pastor stood up and just said this.

And then there's the problem of death.

If we're going to argue logically,

the argument got to hold up on both sides

all the killing in our community ain't coming from white people

come on say amen if you can

we are killing one another

Our old people are scared to get out at night in their own community.

They're not scared of white people.

They're scared of young black boys on the street

man

no no no no no all the killing that's going on ain't going on in river oaks

it's going on in south union

in third war on culling and martin luther king

Every street that's named after Martin Luther King across America is riddled with crime and death in the name of a man who stood for nonviolence.

The church has got to accept some responsibility because we in here singing and shouting on Sunday morning.

Let's get out here and go tell that young black boy and that young black girl, we're going to teach you how to love yourself more than somebody taught you how to hate yourself.

Pull your pants up.

Take your nasty pajamas off when you get up in the morning to go outside.

Act like you've got good sense.

Talk like somebody's raising you.

A whole lot of our problems

are self-inflicted.

White people ain't breaking in my house.

I wish I had a witness.

Holy cow.

Now let's see what that man has to do.

And let's see what that man

does in his own community and

whether he lasts in his own community.

It sounded like the church was with him, but it is going to be the Bible-believing people that save this nation.

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Pat Gray joins us now.

Hello, Pat.

Hello, Glenn.

I first heard that.

I just heard that guy on your show this morning, and that's amazing.

Fantastic.

And that's where it has to come from, right?

Because it doesn't mean anything coming from us.

They don't listen to us.

We're racist if we say it.

If we say that to black people, pull your pants up.

Oh, you probably lose your job.

But he can say it and did.

And thank you for saying it, for saying all of that because it has to be said

well i have said it to my daughter i have said it to my daughter not pull your pants up but put your nasty pajamas yes in the hamper and and put some pants on before you go outside so crazy so i have said i have said that it's it's really great it's really great there's some really hopeful signs there are and we need them

we need them because things are really weird right now it's it's like if you are a person driving around town in your car and you pull up to a stoplight and your car gets surrounded by a mob and they start beating on your car and breaking your windows, you're in the wrong if you want to get out of there.

What?

Well, I know the Dallas, I mean, the Detroit police story that they're trying to make this.

And do we have the video and the audio of this?

Yeah, you got to see this.

This is amazing stuff.

Watch this.

If you happen to be watching the latest TV.

So here's a police officer surrounding.

People are surrounding his car.

Big mob.

Then they jump on top of it.

Back window's been broken out.

And he drives forward.

And then they scream like...

Like three-year-old girls because he actually drove through them.

I mean, what do you want to happen there?

The guy's just supposed to wait until you break his window, pull him out of the car, and beat him to death?

No!

Of course, you're going to drive forward and try to get the idiots off of your car.

And to be clear, he tries, he guns it and stops to try to get the people off multiple times

to try to not hit them or hurt them.

And another idiotic point of that video is that they continue to run after him, which means he has to continue to keep going forward.

Right.

Like, it's

just a giant parade of idiots on this particular video.

And this has happened in city after city.

And I love the article that

where the video came from.

They called it a largely peaceful protest

against systemic racism.

We had all peaceful protests as the Tea Party.

Every single one of them was entirely peaceful.

And they were still looking for things that we did that would violate.

Did you see the violence that that man did, that Glenn Beck?

The violence that he, the way he ate that hamburger from McDonald's, it was violent.

And they're not doing this just to police.

There was a mother in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which is, what, 25,000 people?

A terrified mom called 911 about the protesters who were jumping on her car.

They surrounded her car, another mob.

They start jumping on her car and beating on it.

So she calls 911

and she's told, you can't hit people with your car.

Make sure that you don't hit anyone with your car.

And she said, they're all on my car right now.

Well, what am I supposed to do?

We can't do anything, ma'am.

The city told us this is a sanctioned event.

Then she starts yelling at them, get off my car.

You know, this is dangerous.

I've got a kid in here.

Her daughter is just crying hysterically in the background.

And the dispatcher says,

yes, ma'am, we would suggest that you suggest you call City Hall and let them know about your frustrations.

How is this possible that this is going on?

And then the mayor of Fredericksburg apologizes to the protesters because

she drove through them and she was having a fit about them, jumping on her car.

It's the protesters who are apologized to,

not the citizen who is being threatened.

This is just so out of control, which is why we need the pastor to be saying these things.

Because you're right.

I think that's the only way we get any healing is if black people lead the way here.

It is the only way.

But you've got to remember: a lot of these protesters are white.

Oh, yeah.

A lot of these protesters.

And the people who are funding it and running it, I think, are almost all white.

I mean, the Black Lives Matter thing is a global corporation.

They're selling wines, the wine, and teddy bears and and everything else online.

How are the people that are running Chaz,

how are they running a global corporation that has all kinds of

teddy bears and wines and

gifts and t-shirts?

Chaz doesn't have a gift shop.

I don't know if you've noticed that.

They haven't gotten around to the gift shop part of Black Lives Matter.

How is that happening?

This is all very well orchestrated.

Is this some kind of conspiracy theory against George Soros?

Is this your anti-Semitism coming out again?

Is that what you're saying here?

Is it George Soros who's funding these things?

It's my anti-progressiveness and the hatred that I have for true American history.

I blame this on Woodrow Wilson.

So we got that.

So

there's your Woodrow Wilson thing.

Because I had the same, you started the show kind of with this, I don't know, victory lap

on the fact that they're getting.

I wish I would have had Pat to do the happy days are here again.

Because we made this point years ago that when they started taking down these statues, that how do you not take Woodrow Wilson's statue down?

Yeah.

But you also have a special this week about how bad it is to be removing statues and history.

Does Woodrow Wilson just

rise above this sort of logical consistency?

Or is it just that he's so bad that it's different?

Or what's the justification?

Deep personal hatred

inclines me to stick up for him

in any way whatsoever.

You know, it's not my

problem was never that

there was a statue at Princeton of him or anything else.

It was that it was a statue and a building that was glorifying him.

Yeah.

You know, I don't mind.

There are bad people in history that have statues, and it's great.

It gives me a chance to figure out who they were, what they were good or bad, and do my own homework.

And I don't have to glorify them.

But this was the Woodrow Wilson of international relations.

Are you kidding me?

He's the guy who screwed all of this up.

The Wilson doctrine, which we are still operating on, on,

less so with Donald Trump, but the Wilson ideas

were just go in and tell the rest of the world how to live.

That's not us.

That's not who we were supposed to be.

Now, are you going to go to Princeton and start

ripping down the signs and

looking for statues to tear down?

I do believe that the Black Lives Matter people have

a responsibility to send me the letters that were on the side of that building that spelled out Woodrow Wilson.

You have a responsibility to send those to me.

That is the least they could do.

The least.

It's the least, it's the very least you could possibly do.

Can I get an amen?

Amen.

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So, Stu, you have been

the guy who has been watching global warming from the beginning.

Yes, we've been going over these issues for, gosh, so long now.

And

the developments have been really fascinating, and there's a huge one today.

So, this one today comes from the Time magazine Hero of the Environment, a Green Book Award winner.

He is now

the author of the book Apocalypse Never, Why Environmental Alarmism Has Hurt Us All.

He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other publications.

His TED Talks about global warming have been viewed over five million times.

Stu, help me out on this one.

Is he going to be writing for all of those people?

Let's guess.

No, we can tell that from today when he posted an op-ed on Forbes and it just disappeared.

It was pulled down for some reason.

We don't know exactly why yet.

We know that the Daily Wire was smart enough to go pick it up and it is now hosted there.

There's nothing controversial in it.

There's no attacks in it.

It's just

here's what I learned writing what I look at as

a lifetime-defining work

where he's talking about.

I mean, this is a guy who's been an environmentalist and still is, but has been for a very long time, a climate activist for multiple decades.

A guy who we first came across, at least my first remembrance of him, was

he helped create a documentary that aired on CNN,

which was about the environment and very took global warming very, very seriously, but indicated that nuclear power might be part of a solution to make,

I know, and which I guess was so hateful.

It wasn't hateful enough for CNN to take it off the air because his credentials were so good.

And they

decided to air it, and it was very, very good.

He is now this book, though, takes it to another level.

I mean, he is, again, still a guy who wants to protect the environment, wants the world to be a cleaner place, and all of that.

However, he's recognized the alarmism of the media, of the AOCs of the world, of the Gretas of the world does not help.

Let me actually build that.

Let me give you what he wrote that was taken down immediately.

Forbes published it, and then apparently they got heat from someplace, took it down.

On behalf of the environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.

Just that is amazing.

Climate change is happening, but it's not the end of the world.

It's not even our most serious environmental problem.

I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this.

I've been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30.

But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, to serve as an expert reviewer of its next assessment report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.

Glenn, if I could.

Holy cow.

Just to highlight what you just said, this is not a guy who in 1979 worked on climate issues, who was on a previous IPCC report.

This is a guy who was invited to be a reviewer of the next report.

That's how high in regard this guy is.

And the fact that he's coming out and apologizing for the climate scare that, as you point out, he says we created.

He's not saying that, you know,

this is totally

a shocking development when it comes to this world.

It's hard to overstate what a big deal this is.

He is a, he would be called a climate denier now at this point.

Oh, and he will be.

I've already seen posts on social media where they've abandoned him and says that he just no longer

speaks for us and all of the typical attacks that you'd expect are already raging online.

If his credentials for the IPCC are revoked, you'll know.

You'll know.

They're not honest.

This guy, listen, I just let me finish this.

He said, some facts that few people know.

Humans are not causing a sixth mass extinction.

The Amazon is not the lungs of the world.

Climate change is not making natural disasters worse.

Fires have declined 25%

around the world since 2003.

Declined.

The amount of land that we use for meat, mankind's biggest use of land, has declined by an area of as nearly as large as Alaska.

The buildup of wood, fuel, and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more more and more dangerous fires in Australia and California.

Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations, including Britain, Germany, and France, since the mid-70s.

Aren't we part of that too?

Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich, not poor.

We produce 25% more food than we need, and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter.

Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change.

Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels.

Preventing future pandemics requires not less industrial agriculture.

It requires more, not less.

I know that the facts will sound like climate denialism to many people, but that just shows the power of climate

alarmism.

He says, I'm not some right-wing anti-environmentalist.

At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution.

Holy cow.

At 23, I raised money for Guatemalan's women's cooperatives.

In my early 20s, I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions.

At 26, I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia.

I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for the Rainforest Action Network.

At 27, I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California.

In my 30s, I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them.

Well, that was money well spent.

Over the last few years, I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions.

Think of that.

Until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare.

Partly that's because I was embarrassed.

After all, I'm guilty of alarmism as many other environmentalists.

For years I refu refu I referred to climate change as an existential threat to human civilization, and I called it a crisis.

But mostly I didn't speak out because I was scared.

Listen to this.

I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding.

The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresented it, I suffered harsh consequences.

And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.

I even stood by as people in the White House and many people in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger, is it Pelkey?

Pilke Jr.

Yeah.

Pilkey,

a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations.

Why would they do that?

Because his research proves natural disasters are not getting worse.

But then last year, things spiraled out of control.

AOC said the world's going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.

Britain's most high-profile environmental group claimed climate change kills children.

The world's most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the greatest challenge humans have ever faced and would wipe out civilizations.

Main Street journalists reported repeatedly that the Amazon was the lungs of the world and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.

As a result, half of the people surveyed around the world last year they thought climate change would make humanity extinct.

And in January, one of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.

Wow, whether or not you have children, you must see how wrong this is.

I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter.

After we talked about the science, she was reassured, but her friends are deeply misinformed and thus understandably frightened.

I thus decided I had to speak out.

I knew that writing a few articles would not be enough.

I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence.

And so, my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of a book that I just released called Apocalypse Never.

It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism.

At 400 pages, with 100 of those pages being endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.

Some highlights from the book.

Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress.

The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land.

The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to

coal to petroleum to natural gas, finally to uranium.

100% renewables would require

increasing the land use for energy from today's 0.5%

to 50%.

These are all the things that we have said for years, Stu.

For years.

We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities.

Vegetarianism reduces one's emission by less than 4%.

Greenpeace didn't save the whales.

Switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did.

Free-range beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions.

Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon.

The colonialist approach to guerrilla

conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants.

So why were we all so misled?

In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never, I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations.

Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.

Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs force the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty sustainable.

And status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism.

Once you realize how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it's hard not to feel duped.

The ideology behind environmental alarmism,

Malthusiism,

has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever.

But there are also reasons to believe the environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power.

The coronavirus is an actual crisis that puts the climate crisis into perspective.

If you think we've overreacted, COVID-19 has killed nearly half a million people in shattered economies all around the globe.

Scientific institutions like the WHO and the IPC have undermined their credibility through the repeated polarization of science.

Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform because facts still matter.

He goes on and on

and

on.

This is absolutely fantastic.

Stu has him as a guest on the Stu show tonight.

Stu does Environmental Alarmism.

Yes, Stu does the Environmental Apocalypse based on his book title.

It's called Apocalypse and Ever.

And

it's one of those books you'll go back to a hundred times.

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I read an article of yours the other day.

America's Jews and Christians are failing the test of their lives.

And I could, I didn't, I mean, this is the biggest truth that is unspoken in America every single day.

This should be be rung like a bell.

Explain

what we're failing here.

You can now go for a smoke

or make a call

because I could spend the rest of my time with you answering this question.

I'll just give you a little bit of a question.

Back away and

quite all right.

I'll make a sousle.

Go ahead.

Yeah, exactly.

Religion is tested.

Look, everybody is tested in time of crisis.

But if religion, people who have to theoretically, allegedly, presumably,

have as their first question, how do I answer to God,

but are fearful of man,

They fear, as I write in there, the left more than they fear God, then religion is worthless.

It's worse than worthless because it's a facade.

It's a masquerade.

And I'll just give a couple of examples.

If there is any priest, minister, or rabbi who cannot say that it is God's will or the Bible's will

to have us race-blind, colorblind,

then the person should retire from the clergy.

That's one of the greatest messages.

We are all created in God's image.

God has no race.

Man's race is irrelevant.

Hair color is as relevant as skin color.

If a rabbi, priest, or minister cannot say that, cannot say what Martin Luther King is so well known for, that it's the content of the character, not the color of one's skin that should matter, then

they are useless in their role as clergy.

If they cannot get up and say, guess what?

The eighth commandment says do not steal.

We are watching rampant looting, aka stealing.

This is a violation of the most basic law ever given to human beings.

Moses, God, a committee, whatever you believe.

It's the basis.

Do not steal.

I mean, just those two examples, and they can't even say that.

So,

why are they so silent i mean some of them are adopting all of this social justice stuff they are they're in with black lives matter i mean is it is it really just fear or do they actually believe some of this marxist nonsense

well first of all you can talk yourself into believing anything if it's in your self-interest to believe it It takes no courage whatsoever, none, for anybody to get up and go Black Lives Matter.

You might as well well say oxygen is important to black people.

Of course, black lives matter.

So it doesn't

tell you anything.

But they don't even, but just on that phrase, it's a lie.

They don't believe all black lives matter, and I'm not even talking abortion.

They don't believe all born live black lives matter because they don't give a hoot about the number of murdered blacks by blacks.

Only the number of blacks killed by white policemen.

That's what they're talking about, which happens to be disproportionately low.

According to the Harvard study, University of Maryland, Michigan State, it is widespread.

Read anything Heather McDonald wrote.

She cites the data, and she got it from some of it from the Washington Post.

We're living a gigantic lie.

But why?

You ask why they go along with it?

Because they pay no price, and that is why I say religion has failed.

And it is worse than that,

because Christianity was dealt a bad blow

in Europe.

That's why one of the reasons, not the only by any means, but one reason so many Europeans are secular is that Christianity failed during World War II.

Excuse me.

where people are simply,

where clergy, Catholic or Protestant, in Europe, very rarely spoke up

even in tepid ways against the Nazism.

But those people took a risk speaking against Nazism.

We're failing speaking against the New York Times.

So, Dennis, it's interesting you would say the failure of

the churches because

they not only didn't speak out,

within a year,

by 1934, many of them were actually considering taking the Old Testament out of the church because it was too Jewish.

I mean, they not only failed, they jumped on the bandwagon.

But I think the failure, I'd be interested in hearing because there was another failure in 1914 through 1919, and that was the churches became political, and the churches said, this is God's will that this be fought,

and everything's going to be fine.

And in Germany, that led to the just decimation of the church's credibility because they were fighting for one side.

So

which is this failure like?

Saying that we have to fight against the American ideals and principles?

Or

just going along with it like they did in the 1930s?

Well, first of all, the United States is founded.

It has three mottos.

Liberty, it's on every coin.

Liberty e pluribus unum in God we trust.

In God we trust is chiseled right above the the speaker's podium in the

house of representatives.

In God we trust means that God is central.

It doesn't mean in God we God in God we trust doesn't mean God will protect me from COVID-19.

In God we trust means that God is central to the American experiment.

The left has destroyed all three.

Do you know that Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist, wrote a column just a few weeks ago, said we should change it from many one to from many we.

So it's a perfect acknowledgement.

They got rid of God.

They're getting rid of liberty, obviously, and they're getting rid of E pluribus unim.

The left is the antithesis of everything America stands for.

Not liberals.

Liberals are just cowards,

but they're not the evil that the left is, which is the antithesis of everything we believe.

If a clergyman cannot see that, I don't care if he's a Democrat, stay a Democrat.

I don't give a damn.

But if you can't see the left as a mortal threat to everything you're supposed to hold as a Jew or a Christian, then your seminary education was a waste.

So what comes out of this, Dennis?

I have the feeling that it's the black community, the black churches,

that are going to make the difference here.

Because some of them are the only places behind a pulpit that you're actually hearing this is wrong.

And I think there's an awakening in the African-American community.

What do you think happens?

Do our churches wake up?

Our synagogues wake up?

Does the African American church wake up?

What happens from here, Dennis?

Well, that's why you're having me on this subject.

This is a call to wake up.

This is the challenge of their lifetime.

If you can't pass this test,

then

your church or synagogue is worthless.

It's worse than worthless.

I'll tell you what it is.

I'm writing a five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible.

Two are out.

It's called the Rational Bible.

I explain, because I know Biblical Hebrew well, and I explain virtually every verse.

And,

well, thank you.

And in it, I explain in the Ten Commandments, which is both at Exodus and Deuteronomy,

that people misunderstand,

totally understandably, but they misunderstand

and mistranslate the third commandment, do not take God's name in vain.

So most people think, especially

Christians, that if you say, oh my God,

what a hot day, that you have violated the third commandment.

But God is not an idiot.

It's the only commandment God says he won't forgive.

So God will forgive murder, but he won't forgive your saying, oh my God, what a hot day.

I mean,

my most blasphemous statement is God has common sense.

Anyway, it doesn't mean that.

It means do not lift, do not carry God's name in vain.

The word in Hebrew, Tisa, for those who might be interested, is clearly what it means, is do not carry.

Who carries God's name in vain?

Those who speak in God's name and do bad.

What we're having now is the violation of the third commandment, the only one God doesn't forgive, because you make God look ludicrous.

That is what these cowardly or even leftist priests, rabbis, and ministers are doing to the name of God.

That's how serious this moment is.

Dennis Prager, it's always good to have you on.

Thank you for everything you do, Dennis, and thank you for

your kindness and your friendship over the years.

I'm honored to know you and honored to call you, friend.

Thank you so much.

Well, thank you for everything you do.