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Great show today.

Started with a call from a member of Ocasio-Cortez's staff who

was there and could tell us all about the horrible brutality that Ocasio-Cortez had to go through.

That really was

a sad way to start the show.

It was.

It was.

Then we got into another sad tale of how somebody let this one slip onto the back of Nike's shoes.

The real story about the racist Betsy Ross flag and why

Nike should have listened to Colin Kaepernick.

And there might be a little sarcasm in today's show.

I don't know if we actually got to any of that.

Also the latest poll numbers and what they all mean.

And how Antifa is running our cities now.

Oh, and Showtime has a show on Fox, and I guess I'm featured in the next episode.

And I'm guessing it's going to be very, very flattering to me, especially since the guy from The Walking Dead, who played just an obnoxious redneck, is playing me.

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Okay, we are

we have to take these things seriously because women need to be believed.

And here is what Ocasio-Cortez said when she left the border guard yesterday.

Listen carefully.

In that last facility, I was not safe from the officers in that facility.

Do you have any comment about what was posted about you in the alleged Facebook group?

I mean, I think it's just

indicative of the violent culture that we saw on the inside of the world.

Wow, the violent culture that she just saw.

She in that facility that she went to check out with all the cameras and everything else, she was not safe.

I wish there had been somebody around that might have witnessed her feeling unsafe.

And I understand we have somebody who had witnessed that or couldn't explain exactly what happened yesterday because we must take her seriously.

She must be believed

in one minute.

This is the Glimbeck program.

She wasn't safe, Stu.

She was not safe.

I'm glad you're aware of that.

When I heard this, I thought to myself, my gosh, these Border Patrol agents are animals.

They're just animals.

Physically and emotionally, putting Casio-Cortez in an unsafe atmosphere.

And of course, all women must be believed.

And so we're going, we're shooting from the hip on that one.

We're just going to believe her and take her at her word.

And we have somebody who, and what is your name again?

Hello.

Yes.

Hi, my name is Brittany.

Hi, Brittany.

Hi, I'm an aide to Alexandra Acasio-Cortez.

You are what?

I'm an aide to Alexandra Acasio-Cortez.

Okay, so.

So I was on the trip to the border.

You were on the trip.

I was.

And what I witnessed was shocking.

It was shocking.

To the American people.

Okay.

And so you were there when she was unsafe.

She was unsafe.

All right.

Did you feel uncomfortable?

From the officers?

Yeah.

Did you feel unsafe?

I did feel unsafe as well.

Okay.

All right.

I was very disturbed by the way that the officers were

threatening Alexander Akashi-Cortez.

Okay, what?

So, what?

So, how is she being threatened?

She was physically abused.

She was physically abused.

While at the facility.

And you witnessed it.

I did.

Okay.

There was one officer in particular

who physically abused Alexander Acasio-Cortez

with his pupils.

With his pupils?

Yes.

He physically

looked at her

multiple times.

Multiple times.

And

I can't believe I had to witness it.

Well, wait, but wait.

Did I say the officers were doing it?

Yes, you did.

And the officers were looking at her with the pupils?

And

at one point she was molested with a retina.

Okay,

so it was not just the physical abuse, it was also mental abuse that I witnessed.

How was the mental abuse?

One officer was thinking about her repeatedly.

How do you know?

Thinking over and over again.

Thinking about what?

These officers

who had other, they heard the thoughts.

The what?

The thoughts inside of his head were about Alexandria Casio-Cortez.

How do you know that?

There was, I was a social media post about her.

Okay.

This is the Holocaust.

The Holocaust of social media posts occurred to Alexander Casa-Cortez while I was there.

And these Holocaust-like posts,

this was assassination by meme.

Assassination by meme.

By meme.

These are people who are former border agents.

or people who said they were former border agents or people who said they knew someone who was a former border agent or someone who has once seen a former border agent who post memes that were negative about Alexandria Carlos Cortaz.

Okay, and that is the Holocaust.

The Holocaust of memes, yes.

Yeah, okay, so may I one person

who is a prisoner

told Alexandria Caso-Cortez while she was there

that she was recently forced to sleep on a bed of needles.

On a bed of needles.

Infected needles.

Infected bed of needles.

By

the needles were infected by government-created hiv

because they were the ones that did that right i don't think so

this poor prisoner was carved up with a machete by a man wearing a hockey mask who was a former border agent okay i don't i don't think any of this happened they were put in a barrel of acid right and dissolved okay so and only because alexandria casio-cortez was coming did they surgically repair her they surgically repaired her after they dissolved her and to cover what they did at the border Okay.

So, did you see the bed of needles?

I did.

Hello.

What was that?

That was well, that was me rolling my window up.

Just like Alexandria Casio-Cortez does when she gets tough questions.

All right, Brittany, thank you very much for the report.

Appreciate it.

So she has refuses to refuse to respond to claims that she saw people drinking out of toilets.

I wish she would.

Look, here's the thing that should happen.

When I saw this report yesterday, I thought this is the most outrageous.

I mean, remember, this is the woman who compared these to concentration camps.

So we're lucky that she didn't say that the border guard was shoving people into showers and into ovens.

But instead, she said they're forcing people to drink out of toilets.

Now, I cannot imagine this happening,

but stranger things have happened, right?

I guess.

Stranger things have happened.

Stranger things have happened than a prisoner, a supposed prisoner who's saying

things about the people who are watching them, the guards.

Because that never occurs.

Someone who commits commits an offense, like crossing the border illegally, would never say something negative about Border Patrol.

They should just be immediately believed without even a hint of skepticism.

Right, especially that we know that a lot of the organizers are

from

Chicago and are

communists and Marxists.

So when they see their ally, Ocasio-Cortez, come in, I can't imagine anyone

running to the chain link fence and saying, oh, they were forcing me to drink out of toilets.

I can't imagine that happening.

However, let's just take it at face value because when somebody makes a charge like that, we should know.

For instance, let's say,

let me think of something that would just never happen.

You were walking down the street in the middle of the night, let's say in Chicago, and somebody said, this is Trump country, and then put a noose around somebody's neck.

We should take that seriously and then figure out, did that really happen or not?

It's kind of important to investigate.

So when I first saw this yesterday, my first thought was, if I'm Donald Trump, I immediately dispatch the FBI and I go to Ocasio-Cortez

and I

seriously say to them, I don't want to show any, you know, some sort of show investigation.

I want an actual investigation.

We want you to investigate exactly what she said.

Then I want her to identify that woman.

We'll take that woman and we'll put her into protective custody.

So there's not going to be a problem with the border guards.

The FBI can take her if they want and make sure that she's protected and taken care of.

We want to know the description of the border guard.

We want to know his name.

I'm sure she remembered his badge number because if somebody was saying that, I would try to remember at least his name.

And then I want a full investigation on that.

And if those border guards are doing those things, I want them fired.

Now, on the off chance that this didn't happen,

I would like to prosecute

anyone who is making outrageous charges like this

because you just can't go in.

and make charges.

If we're going to take every woman seriously, I think we need to start with a Casio-Cortez.

Let's take her seriously.

Let's send the FBI down.

She felt unsafe.

She felt unsafe in that facility.

My gosh,

let's get it on the record.

What exactly was making her feel unsafe in that facility?

Now,

I can't imagine

that the ProPublica story that coincidentally came out at the same time she was making this charge.

I can't imagine that she had prior notice of that, and this was a great way to hype that story.

But

let's take her at her word.

I'm sure she was asked for comment, considering she was the first person named in the story.

So obviously, she would know, unless ProPublica is a horrible, horrible journalism organization that decided not to get comment from the people mentioned.

It's just an amazing coincidence that she happened to be down at the border and she felt unsafe in that facility

at exactly the same time that that story was coming out.

And again, what's the story exactly?

I want to make sure I understand.

That people post bad things online.

Is that a news story?

Is it?

Because, gosh, I've seen a lot of terrible things posted about you, but yet never one report about how awful it was.

That is a, I mean, I can't believe a public figure would have nasty things posted about them on the internet.

What an incredible scoop by ProPublica.

Wait a minute.

It was not just nasty things.

They were things that made her feel unsafe.

Were they?

I guess they were.

I mean, she was.

I don't know why she thinks that the people that she was standing near were the ones who did it.

They're like, this is, was this, how do we know they were border guards?

Well, this is a Facebook private group.

And?

Like Facebook private groups with 10,000 people?

All you need to know is have an invite from someone.

You could be five steps removed from a border agent and be in that group.

It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Just so you know.

And by the way, border agents are people, right?

Like, so yes, they also have dark humor and do bad things.

There are some agents that obviously make inappropriate jokes.

What world do you think you live in?

This is, we, every conservative that has ever posted anything negative about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in any level of critique has been accused of much worse.

I don't know if you remember Ben Shapiro asking Ocasio-Cortez to debate, and she accused him of cat calling, not some random person 10 steps removed from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but herself.

She said it.

She accused him of doing that because he asked for a debate on the issues.

Well, I just know that Ben Shapiro has never felt unsafe from things that were said about him on the internet.

Oh, no.

I have never felt unsafe ever by things that were said by people on the internet or in Facebook groups or Think Progress or, you know, basically from the floor of Congress.

I've never felt unsafe by anything like that.

We need to take her seriously.

And I mean it.

The president needs to investigate this story.

The FBI should investigate this story.

If the border guards are doing the things in the facility, remember, she felt unsafe in this facility.

How stupid does a border guard have to be to do that to a member of Congress with witnesses around?

She also claims they're drinking out of toilets.

I want to know, is that true?

If that's true, then those border guards need to be dismissed and fired immediately.

If they were doing something criminal, they should go to jail.

But on the off chance

that they didn't do that,

we must put a stop to people making crazy, crazy statements, and then they're just floating out there in space.

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In news that proves

we're not anywhere close to Kansas anymore, Toto.

49-year-old Roy Larner,

he was defending himself against jihadists who killed eight people, injured 38 others.

Now, do you remember this is the London Bridge attack two years ago?

Remember the Islamists came on London Bridge.

they just started slaughtering people, killing people, and this guy, 49-year-old guy, he defended himself.

The attack left him with more than 80 stitches to his head, ear, arms, and hands after two of the terrorists slashed at his head and neck.

Following the attack, Lerner revealed that the terrorist had shouted, this is for Allah, Islam, Islam, Islam, during the rampage.

So he fights these guys off.

Now, this is not like, you know, they were having a planned thing.

This was a planned attack.

This was not a peaceful gathering of Islamists.

These were people who came on to London Bridge and just started killing people two years ago.

So

he was awarded

the highest

civilian award for gallantry.

He was given the George Cross.

Seems great.

So far, everything seems great, right?

Well,

apparently, he was contacted and interviewed by a far-right wing group.

And the man who says, I am not political at all,

has now been put on the government's terror watch list.

The guy who fought against terrorists

is now on a terrorist watch list for fears that he might become an extremist.

He is now being forced to attend de-radicalization classes and is now being monitored by the police.

Could we maybe see if we can get a hold of this guy?

Because

it's going to make it worse for him.

Now he's really going to be in the terrorist watch.

We're either missing something in this story or

England has gone full-fledged batcrap crazy.

Is it possible this guy was spotted with a Betsy Ross flag?

Because that's a sign of terrorists.

Not in his shoes.

Basically, the number one sign of terrorism in the world is the Betsy Ross flag.

Well, she was.

A horrible human being.

Oh, my gosh.

I don't know anything really about her, except she was a seamstress, and probably the story's not true.

But

I am so offended by the Betsy Ross flag because it shows that you are a crazy kook.

I, for one, am glad that Nike listened to Colin Kaepernick and pulled all those shoes from the market.

Well, I mean, he has a lot of evidence that the Betsy Ross flag is basically the, you know, it's basically white supremacy.

It's basically a white hood is what I see it as.

But BuzzFeed has pointed this out, by the way, and they have nailed it.

Listen to the evidence piling up.

It's so, it's piled so high you can't see the top of the heap of this evidence.

Are you ready?

Number one.

Yes.

A 2018 story by The Outline noted that the Betsy Ross flag was on display in the home of a member of a white nationalist group.

Shut up.

That's number one.

Shut up.

And you think, well, that's more than enough to remove this historical flag.

Well, that's why I have been boycotting Lucky Charms because that white supremacist also was eating Lucky Charms.

And I'm telling you right now, General Mills is a white supremacist symbol.

Everything General Mills makes, I boycott.

I don't want it on the shelves.

I am telling my local grocer, you carry anything made by General Mills.

And I am out.

You are a racist.

Now, some people might say that's one piece of evidence

from 2018.

You don't have anything from this year so far, but the year isn't.

I mean, it's not over yet.

It's still here 2018.

Damn the Duke also eats cereal from

the flag.

Oh.

The Lucky Charms.

There's plenty of evidence.

Oh, I I thought that was enough for me to hate the flag.

There's more evidence.

There's more.

So 2018, one Betsy Ross flag spotted in the home of one guy who belonged to a white supremacist group.

That's evidence piece number one.

Number two.

As if you need more.

As if you need more.

In 2016.

Now, 2016, you might notice I skipped over 2017.

There were no pieces of evidence, apparently, that the Betsy Ross flag had anything to do with white supremacy in 2016.

That's what they want you to think.

Or so far, 2019.

But we have what that is saying.

Let me tell you something.

That's what the racist

right-wing media wants you to believe.

Right-wing media buzzfeed.

Yeah,

CNN.

But in 2016, now listen to this white supremacy.

Are you ready?

Yeah.

At a high school

in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Which is basically

a hood in the form of a city.

Let me just remind you.

That is you, Grand Wizard.

Grand Rapids.

What kind of, let me think.

What kind of rapids?

White water rapids.

Exactly.

Commonly referred to.

Everybody knows it.

So

it's a dog whistle.

Yep.

In 2016, students at a high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan displayed the Betsy Ross flag.

Not on Cinco DeMayo.

Please tell me not on Cinco de Mayo.

No.

Okay.

Worse.

Worse?

Worse than that.

I can't even think of that.

This is becoming the flag holocaust.

And you might think, wow, is there a white supremacy gathering at a high school school in Grand Rapids?

You think it must be that.

Well, no.

In 2016, students at a high school in Grand Rapids displayed the Betsy Ross flag along with a Trump campaign flag.

Oh, my.

It's even worse.

Oh, my.

Uh-huh.

Yosh.

Yep.

Uh-huh.

The student school superintendent later apologized.

How did Nike miss these?

Yeah.

Bombshell.

So let me just review.

Okay.

And I don't know if we have time for me to get through all these again, but let me just review all of them.

Just give me the highlights.

Okay.

I'll give you the highlights.

Okay.

In 2018.

Yeah.

One guy

who was in a white supremacist group had the flag.

Holy cow.

Along with cereal.

It was

probably cereal.

General Mills.

You bought those.

It was an Irish cereal.

Yes, yes.

Lucky Charms.

What do you think they're saying?

And then in 2016, only two years before that.

Only two years before that.

Only two years before

these incidents.

This is showing a pattern.

Yes.

And this one was a flag with the Betsy Ross flag next to a Trump campaign flag.

And there you go.

Hear the dog whistle.

Well, no, you're not supposed to be able to hear dog whistles unless you hear it.

You know who can hear it?

People in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Those people can hear it racistly.

Because they are racists.

As evidenced by this 2016 school that displayed a flag of a candidate that won approximately half the vote.

Now, you might ask yourself, why are you guys talking about the Betsy Ross flag being a symbol of obvious hatred and racism?

Well, that's because Nike has yanked a USA-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag.

Notice, notice, CNN is covering, though, sorry, this is the Wall Street Journal, covering for Nike right now, just saying an early American flag.

No, it's the Betsy Ross flag that has a long history of two incidences of being a racist symbol.

Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive.

Yeah, because he really should have the veto rights over all of America and what they find offensive.

Colin Kaepernick, his head is just screwed on so well that he's the guy that should make the judgments for all of us.

Yeah.

Well, but wait a minute.

I thought it wasn't about the flag.

No, it's not.

Why would you say it's about the flag?

These are people who are patriotic that were kneeling on the field.

No, hey, but hang on.

He said it's

culture patriotism.

Right.

He says

they shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive.

So the symbol was the the flag.

Now, I remember it's not about the flag.

Well, let's listen back to Don Lemon, who can tell us the true origins of this digital.

Here's Don Lemon.

Number one, she is a black woman.

She's a mixed race woman.

When you see her, you see

blacks.

But she is also South Asian.

Her mom is South Asian, and her dad is Asian.

I don't know how many of you are.

I mean, listen.

There he is.

More power to her.

And I think that's great.

That should be enough.

It is enough that she's a black woman.

We are not a modeling.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, they did the same thing.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

I think you're not hearing what people are saying.

The people who are saying, is she black enough, that's bold.

That's BS.

But

to want a distinction to say, is she African-American or is she black or is she

the wrong state?

This is another really good Don Lemon cut, I'm sure.

Can you play the video, please, of Don Lemon?

Taking a knee at an FL game was never never about the flag

or the military.

Never.

That's what the president wants you to believe.

It gives his insulting sons a bitch's comment cover.

Yes, it does.

That not only insults hardworking professional men, but tries to drag their mothers down into this.

Yes, the mothers, because the sons are

a constitutionally protected expression.

It falls within league rules.

Period.

Right.

If anyone actually believes this is about the flag,

then you must believe Rosa Park's protest was about a bus.

That's right.

See?

It wasn't about the flag.

You know what else gave Donald Trump a little cover about it being about the flag?

It being about the flag.

And now it being confirmed.

This is about

the flag.

This is about sneakers.

This is about sneakers.

It wasn't about the flag.

Now he works for a sneaker company, but I'm sure that it was something else about these sneakers, not just the flag being a, quote, symbol that he and others consider offensive.

So here's what Nike did.

Nike took those sneakers and shipped them all over the U.S.

for Independence Day and then

shipped them all back to be destroyed or more likely shipped to a homeless shelter where they will be worn by the homeless, which

good for them.

Disrespectful.

But probably not in America because they probably wouldn't want that to be seen.

So they'll ship them over to Africa or someplace else where people will gladly grab those sneakers and wear them proudly.

I hope they cut the back of the shoe out, though, so that people don't see the Betsy Ross flag, which, by the way, need I remind you, was used in two prominent white supremacist attacks, including the display in one home of one person and next to a Donald Trump flag in 2018 and 2016.

Now,

we are going to do the work that other journalists won't do.

We are going to find out if Don Lemon has ever had any breakfast cereal from General Mills.

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Stu, how excited are you?

The political glass ceiling may be shattered.

Oh, thank goodness.

Well, actually, it was already shattered, well, by

what was her name?

Geraldine Ferraro.

Ferraro.

And then it was shattered again by Hillary Clinton.

But this time...

Don't forget about Sarah Palin as well.

Oh, yeah, Sarah Palin.

Sorry, Sarah Palin.

But

this time it might be shattered.

It might be.

Yeah, for the fourth time.

We've been told over and over again it was only white men that were getting any votes in this primary.

Well, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

It was obvious that

the people that vote Democrat were racist.

Yeah.

Because they...

This is the craziest thing I've ever seen.

They're calling their own people racist.

But apparently not so.

No, not now.

It's almost like they were looking to hear the voices in a debate and then compare instead of just jumping on a bandwagon because of what's in your pants.

Yeah, and this has been kind of a different.

These polls look a lot different than they did just a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah.

Joe Biden, again, we said this over and over again.

It's Joe Biden's to lose, right?

But Joe Biden is good at losing.

Yes, he is.

He's lost many presidential runs.

Yeah, I mean, again, he was, you know, handed the vice presidency with Barack Obama.

But other than that, I mean, he's run, this would be his third time running, and the first two did not turn out well, 1988 and 2008.

So here he is again back in 2020, which is incredible.

Joe Biden running for president.

Now, two months ago, he led Kamala Harris 39-5,

which is a pretty significant lead.

Then...

It's high score wins, right?

Yes, high score wins.

I just want to make sure that Joe and his team understand that.

High score wins.

Keep that in mind.

So that was in late April, late May, he led 32 to 8, so a 24-point lead.

After this debate, he now leads 22-17 over Harris, a five-point lead.

Which is a smaller number than 39.

That's a great point, Claire.

Thank you.

I just thought I'd throw that out.

I didn't know you were a poll.

I'm a mathematician.

I'm not a mathematician, but I play one on TV and radio.

Yeah, basically, the latest poll after the debate, all taken after the debate, has a four-person sort of top tier now with biden at 22 percent kamala harris at 17 percent elizabeth warren at 15 percent and bernie sanders at 14 so what do you think

the two the the two most important things that i take from this is the kamala harris surge she's basically doubled her her level of support in one fell swoop one question really is the is the difference between the poll numbers.

Joe Biden, if she hadn't have done that, I'm not sure Joe Biden would have come down, and I'm not sure she would have come so far up.

But she handled that like a prosecutor.

She's a great

prosecutor and a great actress.

And I'm not saying that anything

she said she didn't believe or whatever.

I'm just saying that she knows how to package it.

She's a good storyteller.

Joe Biden was not.

He's an old school kind of storyteller, and

everybody just feels like that just rings totally false.

And he seems old and outdated, and she made him look that way immediately.

Also,

you look at Joe Biden's numbers, and you look at Joe Biden's performance, and

if you couldn't answer Kamala Harris when you knew that question was going to come up, you knew you were going to be cornered on that.

If that's the way you handle it, how are you ever going to handle somebody on stage that is a,

I mean, he's an IED waiting to go out.

You step one place and Donald Trump's going to blow you up.

Right.

It's very difficult to prepare for Trump because you don't know where he's coming from.

No idea where those, where those IEDs are buried.

Much less predictable than this situation, which was totally predictable.

Again, you're talking about the biggest story.

in Biden's previous two weeks leading up to this debate, whether he had said these things about segregationists and busing and stuff.

And

you're next to the top-tier candidate who happens to also be African-American.

How did you not see this coming?

The other thing that I find very interesting is,

and I would like to see, where did those people go who were with Bernie Sanders?

It appears as though they went to either Warren or Harris.

Yeah, you know, yeah, I would say Harris.

I mean, excuse me, Warren, mostly.

I mean, because Warren had been making a move before the debate.

I I don't think anyone says that Warren had an amazing debate.

They did a poll.

Part of this poll was who do you think won the debates?

So that was

Kamala Harris, 41, Elizabeth Warren, 13,

and then Biden, 10, Castro, 4, Sanders, 4, Buddha Judge, 3.

So, I mean, basically.

Well, that's not counting Betto, right?

Betto has the other.

Betto actually showed up as a negative number.

I don't know.

Maybe you misprint.

I don't understand.

You know, so this is a situation where Harris had a breakout performance, right?

But I mean, again, one breakout performance a year and a half before an election does not win you a nomination.

She's got to do a lot more than this.

What she did here was get herself into that top tier.

Yeah, now she's got to, and it's really hard to hold.

It's easier to gain than it is to hold it.

Yeah.

So she's got to,

you know, if you're on her campaign, you're hoping that she doesn't peak too early here

because she's got to hold this thing.

I mean, we can can run through the names and you'll remember a lot of them.

I mean, you know, Herman Kane and Fred Thompson and

Carly Fiorina had a run like this in 2016.

She had a great debate performance, came up to that top tier, was not able to hold it.

Now, Harris was kind of bubbling under that top tier anyway.

So this one I think she's a real deal.

Yeah, it seems like it's real.

But

another thing they show in this poll is who do you think could handle particular issues best?

And Harris doesn't particularly perform well when it comes to things like the economy, for example, or health care.

She performs really well when it comes to race relations, which is one of the four categories they tested.

But again, race relations, while it's going to be a big issue, certainly in the Democratic primary, as it always is, obviously identity politics are huge.

It's not necessarily, you got to do more than that to be able to get elected by the American people as a whole.

I mean, that's one issue and it's an important issue, but it's like they're also going to want you to be good with the economy economy and health care and all these other things.

So she can't close the gap on health care and the economy.

She doesn't win.

Because if the economy is good, people are going to be much more reluctant to switch horses midstream when things are good.

If things are bad, that's going to be the top priority.

Also, something else you should look into is

how do they fare on foreign affairs?

Because between

Iran and their ally, Russia, I wouldn't count out real problems

internationally sprouting up right before this election.

No, I mean, obviously, it could be a potentially huge issue.

I don't think they tested that.

They tested the economy, healthcare, the climate crisis, and race relations.

And the climate crisis.

Who's best to handle that?

The climate crisis, Bernie Sanders, apparently.

He's number one, then Biden two, Warren three, Harris four.

Excuse me, that was healthcare.

I read that incorrectly.

I'm sorry.

For the climate crisis, it's a tie between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden at 19%, Warren at 14%, and Harris at 6%.

Listen to the economy, though.

This is a legitimate problem, I think, for Kamala Harris.

And why, if you want to make an argument that this is a fleeting moment.

Because she has to do more than this.

That's the most important takeaway.

She can't just have one moment about race with Joe Biden.

She's got to continue this.

She can't do, I mean, we've seen this in the past.

You know, Mitt Romney was a great example of this.

Beats up on Barack Obama in debate number one, but then basically turns the campaign off for the rest of the time and loses.

Like, literally, like, it seemed intentional.

Yeah, it almost did.

It seemed like, how could I lose this race?

Yeah.

Listen to this for the economy.

Tell me, Harris does not need to improve these numbers.

Who's the best for the economy?

Number one, Joe Biden, 28%.

Number two, Elizabeth Warren, 20%.

Number three, Bernie Sanders, 16%.

Kamala Harris, 6%.

I mean, her issues are 6% for the economy, 10% healthcare, 6% climate crisis, 29% racial relations.

It's not enough.

Right now, it's just a moment for her.

Here's the thing.

She is a prosecutor.

She's very, very smart.

She's accomplished.

She can do this.

This will be hers to lose.

She could do this.

And

to me, she would make the most fierce opponent.

If I were advising the president, which I'm not,

but if I were advising the president, I would be

most fearful of her.

I would be doing more work, if this holds, to make sure that you know how to

go toe-to-toe with her because she's going to be a different

Hillary.

She's not Hillary.

You have to look at that and realize that Hillary was a uniquely terrible candidate.

Joe Biden, I think he's going to, I think he'll crush Joe Biden.

I think he'll do a great job on Joe Biden.

I think he'll do a great job on Elizabeth Warren.

I think he'd do a great job against

Corey Booker.

I can't think of anybody that

I don't think he could crush.

Kamala Harris is different.

She'll be able to

make him look like a bully easily.

And if that happens, I think he would lose.

And I think, you know, we talked about this from the very beginning with Harris and that, you know, we've been pretty bullish on her chances to win this primary because of her kind of unique skill set.

That being said, she has not been tested in this sort of spotlight before.

She had a great first debate, but that doesn't mean that she's going to be able to perform like that every time.

She won a Senate race in 2016.

Remember, she's not been around that long.

No, and nor should we, but she has the experience of being in front of a jury.

And

she's used to winning regular people over, right?

And your job as a prosecutor is not just to come up and be prepared for every line of argument, which

is a big deal in a debate, but also be able to communicate to regular people with emotion to move them.

And to be likable.

That's right.

And look, I don't think a lot of people will tell you that she's not likable, but she was able to do it for a pretty long time successfully.

That does not mean this translates to a win in the election by any means, but we're talking about danger and percentages and what's her chances.

And I think her chances are, you know, of all these candidates, she has this sort of skill set that is dangerous in an election, which is why, of course, Democrats are throwing money at her like crazy.

The other one they keep talking about is Budigej, who looks really bad in these polls, did not seem to do very well.

Budajej isn't going to do it.

It doesn't, you know, the thing about Budajeg is, man, this guy cannot get an African-American to like him.

It's amazing.

I mean, it's a big part of this primary.

And he'll, he can, every other group, he's okay with.

And then it gets to black voters and they're like 0%.

Has he tried to use the joe biden trick of using the word man a lot not enough yeah not enough hey i'm pete booted judge man man and man i gotta tell you man it's gonna be great man

this

is the best of the glenn beck program

Just an interesting side note, I guess.

The

Showtime is doing a Fox News series,

and I'm sure it's absolutely accurate.

It's called The Loudest

Voice,

and Russell Crowe is playing Roger Ailes, started this last weekend,

and it showed

the beginning of the Hannity show

when Roger Ailes hired.

I'd love to talk to Sean to see if he even saw it.

I didn't see it.

I'm sure he didn't either, but

how accurate he thinks this is.

Because

you have some interesting episodes coming up as well.

I do.

I do.

Well, I mean, I'm looking at the cast here and

a Josh McDermott,

who was in Walking Dead, Twin Peaks, among other shows, playing you in this particular series.

We do need to, of course, have clips of this

ready.

I'm sure it's going to be very flattering.

You know, how could they portray you in a way that isn't flattering?

That's what I'm

saying.

I can't think of a way to make it negative.

I can't.

I can't.

No, I'm sure.

Or at least more negative than it's already been.

You know what I mean?

What's weird is looking at Russell Crowe in Roger Ale's office, were you ever in his office?

Maybe, maybe once.

Hiding under his desk.

I have a Me Too story coming out soon, so I don't want to

break down.

I'm going to ruin it for everybody.

But you look at him in the office and stuff,

and at least the pictures.

I haven't seen the movie.

The picture looks like his office.

And it looks like

Roger from a distance.

Yeah, I mean, this is, I mean, this is going to be interesting.

It's been interesting.

It's interesting, too.

They waited until Ailes died before doing all of these things.

There's a big documentary that came out.

Was it Netflix, I think, a documentary?

You were in that, too.

About Roger Ailes.

And now that he's gone and no longer can defend himself, there's well, but it's not.

I mean, Winman.

I will be fair.

This book came out while he was alive.

The book this series is based on.

Yeah, and the documentary

I thought was reasonably fair.

They definitely took, they went to great pains to not just show the bad side of Roger Ailes, which was usually they will not do that in these things.

They showed that he was really a genius and did do a lot of amazing things in the industry, not just related to Fox News.

I mean, his whole life was basically.

He was an Emmy Award winner.

Yeah.

I mean, he won, or not an Emmy, a Tony.

Right, right.

He won a Tony.

I mean, that's crazy.

He was a Broadway guy.

His first play that he ever did on Broadway was called Hot L Baltimore.

And Norman Lear bought it from him.

And he's the guy who found it.

And Norman Lear bought it from him, bought the rights, did a TV show based on it, and it won a Tony.

I mean, the guy was no dummy when it came to entertainment.

This has a pretty big cast, too.

Russell Crowe, Sienna Miller, Seth McFarlane, Naomi Watts is in it, all on Showtime.

I was thinking, though, about this, you've had an interest.

We need to go back through these at some point because this stuff comes and goes so fast that you forget about it.

But there's been a lot of portrayals of our own Glenn Beck

over the years.

I mean, you had two, I think, two episodes of The Simpsons.

At least one of South Park.

You had Jason.

I don't know if I ever saw the South Park one.

Really?

Yeah, it was Cartman.

When that was the most accurate portrayal, I thought.

I mean,

it's basic.

It's almost like you've based your persona on Cartman.

Yeah, I believe about it.

Yeah, I believe that.

Yeah, I can see that.

Yeah.

You're growing into the role.

Let's put it that way.

You also have Jason Sudakis, who did, who played you, I think it was him on Saturday Night Live, right?

A bunch of times.

Yeah.

And now you have this series, which is about Roger Ailes.

There's something else I saw recently.

There was a there's a Boston legal.

Remember Boston Legal?

You were on that?

Sometimes they do it and they just portray a Glenn Beck-esque character, which they don't actually call Glenn Beck, but it's blatantly based on you.

You're writing on a chalkboard saying crazy things.

That was the Homer series.

The one where he became a TV show host.

And he was crying all the time and writing at a chalkboard and using crazy things.

like I think he had a bacon cake or something like that and he was like this is the United States

Was it Family Guy too on that?

I don't know.

I feel like there was a family guy where maybe Peter portrayed you as well.

We should find them all because I don't know if I've that would be a good webpage just have all those in the same place.

Yeah, because remember when remember when this was all happening, we were you know, people would say, hey, you know, you see Saturday Night Live?

We're like, no.

Oh, they did a big sketch on you.

Huh.

And then we'd move on.

Right.

And so there there was like so many shows that did stuff that we never even saw.

Yeah, you got mentioned on Saturday Night Live during the election,

during 2016.

And I remember, you know,

they do like four new episodes a year, I think, at Saturday Night Live at this point.

It's very difficult for them to come up with those three terrible sketches that they come up with.

But it was a sketch about the election, and you were talked about in it.

Yeah, at a decent, like 30 or 45 seconds of one of these monologues is about yours, you know, whatever you were doing at the time.

And I didn't see it until the rerun.

And I was just like, this is amazing.

Like, here, I work with this guy every day.

And Saturday Night Live, remember, this is Saturday Night Live, the one that said, you know, Russia, I can see it from my house.

It like changes the course of elections.

Now is so invisible that they're talking about a guy I sit across from every day and I didn't even know about it.

Like that is bizarre.

Everything has changed.

Like in 60 Minutes.

60 Minutes.

Remember when 60 Minutes would set the news?

There were two things that set the news for a week, and that was the New York Times and 60 Minutes.

The New York Times still kind of sets the, you know, the pace for most of the media news.

But 60 Minutes, you never hear anybody talking about that anymore.

And sometimes they do really interesting things.

I mean, 60 Minutes has a lot of liberal bias, but some of the reporting has nothing to do with politics.

And some of it's really interesting.

You know, the

I can't remember the last time I watched a 60 Minutes.

I just watched something on there recently, and it was pretty interesting.

I can't remember.

On actually TV?

No, it was on the website.

When's the last time you actually sat down and watched a network TV show?

Like a major network TV show?

Yeah, like ABC, NBC, Fox.

And I assume you're not going to allow me to include like the NBA Finals.

No.

Or

Sunday Night Football.

Yeah.

Because if that's the case, I think mine would be the Super Bowl.

Right.

And before that would be the Super Bowl.

Previous year's Super Bowl.

Jeez.

I'm trying to think of one that I've won.

I honestly

having trouble even naming them.

You know, Saturday Night Live,

maybe there was...

Name the Thursday night lineup

in the 80s or 90s of NBC.

All right, your friends and Seinfeld.

Name it in order.

Can you do it?

I don't know.

In order.

But I mean, in the 80s, it was like Cosby and all those.

Cosby, Family Ties.

Family Ties.

Then it was

Cosby Family Ties.

Then it was, oh, shoot.

Cheers.

Right.

Right.

What a freaking

night court.

Oh, my God.

Then LA Law.

I couldn't tell you two shows back to back on network television any day of the week, any network.

I can't either.

I mean, I know like a Sunday, like Fox has Family Guy still on and The Simpsons still on.

That's probably the only one.

That in 60 minutes because they've been running ever since.

Right.

But those are like obviously, I mean, I think Family Guy's in its 20th season or something.

I mean, Simpsons is what, 30th?

Yeah.

Think about how culture has changed since that day.

It's incredible.

But I mean, we could all sit here and rattle off Netflix shows.

Right?

I mean, like, that is, look at the

change.

That is amazing.

Remember, Netflix, the thing I love about Netflix is, first of all, they're just a DVD company, right?

They're mailing DVDs to people's houses.

That's how they started.

And all of a sudden, they make that announcement and they switched over to streaming.

And at the time, this is when we were kind of first getting into this with the Blaze, people thought it was insane.

You'd have to go and like, everything would buffer and it wouldn't work and no one wanted to deal with it.

And then they had that time that they, I think, I want to say they raised prices.

And there was story after story after story about how they were over, they've let down all their subscribers, this is going away, and then here they are.

Now, you know, I mean, really, the enforce of entertainment is, I mean, there's no one even close to matching it.

I mean, Amazon has a place there in Hulu, I guess, but it's really just Netflix.

Amazon is pretty good.

It's secondary, but it's secondary, but it's there.

But the selection for

more,

I I think the selection on Amazon is better than Netflix, but the Netflix, you know, special movies, you know, Netflix only,

those are probably better than the Amazon things.

And the crazy part about that is Netflix at one point, in a moment of desperation, their founder went in and almost sold Netflix to Blockbuster.

for what I want to say it was like $75 million.

It was like, I mean, on the scale of what it is today, nothing.

And they were in a point where it was like things were not going well and they were wondering whether they were going to make it.

They met, had several meetings, and Blockbuster was the one that said no.

It didn't think.

Blockbuster said no.

Yeah.

That's

not the one.

Do you know there's still one Blockbuster left in the US?

Is there still one?

Yeah.

There's one.

It's in Oregon.

It's the last one left.

I mean, I don't know how.

I mean,

do they own the entire light?

Did the entire company just end up in that one

franchisee?

It's like, yeah, I'm the president of Blockbuster.

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