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Oh, Jesse.

Oh, Jesse, you're so fine.

You really blow my mind or something like that.

Oh, Jesse.

Oh, Jussie.

You know, I don't know if I'm more shocked at the fact that someone had the balls to do this

or the fact that media still has no idea, no idea, how these things just happen.

There's even an editorial today from the Washington Post where

the individual said,

I so want this to be true.

You want this to be true?

We begin there in one minute.

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This is the way the media works now.

They find a story that confirms their bias, confirms their narrative, and then they run it constantly, relentlessly.

Then, when the real story comes out, they minimize the exposure of the correction and then they repeat.

Look at the major stories that have broken recently that have been so very wrong, that have occupied so much of our time.

Kavanaugh.

Was that true?

Nope.

Turns out, nope.

Then you had the Covington story.

Was that true?

Nope.

Look at how they corrected both of those.

Just barely.

Just barely.

And I say, well, both of them, would you even say barely, Stu?

Because they were still saying they were guilty of something.

Yeah, I mean, certainly haven't

corrected the Kavanaugh thing.

I mean, they just say that it was, I mean, I think they would still say that one's true.

Well,

I mean, do you remember the FBI stories that came out afterwards and what the FBI had uncovered?

That it was bogus?

That the people that were...

You can't, you don't know for sure because, you know, we're still going off of people's memories, but it was her beach friends that kind of helped shape this story.

Yeah, I mean, I think all of these stories are stories that they would still hang on to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

So they're not really corrected.

They're not really corrected.

Let me give you the knee-jerk reactions that the media had on this Jesse

Smollett hoax.

This is from Insider Edition, CNN, E-News, Headline News, CNBC, TMZ, just to name a few.

Listen.

Beaten with with a noose around his neck and hospitalized.

Empire star Jesse Smollett was the victim of a vicious, racist, and homophobic attack.

His attackers hurled racial and homophobic slurs.

Two people yelled racist and homophobic slurs.

Racial and homophobic slurs.

Not only homophobia, we're talking about racism.

We're talking about hate with steroids.

They are looking for two suspects who are apparently wearing Make America Great Again hats.

The offenders uttered, this is MAGA country.

The hate crime went down early this morning in Chicago.

Officials are investigating the alleged assault as a hate crime.

And now police say they're investigating this as a possible hate crime.

Anyone attacked in a hate crime like this is an outrage.

This is stomach-turning, mind-boggling information.

It's out of control.

It is out of control, isn't it?

Isn't it out of control?

Now, these are just the reactions on TV.

Just as bad, if not worse in some cases, in print and online.

I'll give you one example.

You know the situation is bad when TMZ is connecting the dots and seeing through a guy's story.

It's TMZ.

Listen to this, quote, the sources say there were red flags from the get-go.

Cops were extremely suspicious when Jussie took them out to the area where they said he was attacked and pointed to an obscure camera saying how happy that the attack was, that the attack was on video.

Well, it turns out the camera was pointing in the wrong direction.

Cops thought it was weird he knew the location of that camera.

And then there's this.

We're told investigators didn't believe the two alleged attackers screamed, this is MAGA country, because not a single Trump supporter watches Empire.

End quote.

Now, I'm sure there is one

somewhere, maybe,

probably

not.

Here's the man himself in an interview just days after the alleged beating.

I'm sorry, the alleged modern day lynching.

Here he is in an interview with ABC News complaining about people making stuff up.

That I had said that they were wearing MAGA hats.

I never said that.

I didn't need to add anything like that.

They called me a.

They called me a.

There's no which way you cut it.

I don't need some

MAGA hat as the cherry on top of some racist Sunday.

I've heard that

it was a date gone bad,

which I so resent that narrative.

I'm not gonna go out and get a tuna sandwich at a salad to meet somebody.

That's ridiculous.

And it's offensive.

Yes, there's Grinder.

Yes, there's Jacked.

Yes, there's all of these things, which I have not been on in years.

I can admit that I was on that back in the day.

I was single.

You know what I'm saying?

But I have not been on that in years.

But aside from that, it's offensive.

And I absolutely resent that narrative because it's bull.

It's bull.

It's bull.

And he knows bull, apparently.

Now, he starts out.

Play the first 10 seconds of that for me again, please.

That I had said that they were wearing MAGA hats.

I never said that.

I didn't need to add anything like that.

Stop.

Huh.

Here's a story from USA Today.

The headline, Empire star Jussie Smollett, attackers yelled this is MAGA country during the beating.

Chicago police, blah, blah, blah.

You get down to about eight paragraphs down, and it says, Sergeant Cindy Guerra.

Confirmed to USA Today that Smollyette said in a follow-up interview the next day that his alleged attackers yelled, this is MAGA country.

So apparently, there was some confusion on whether or not he said it.

Now, he seems to be confused yet.

And the Chicago police said, no, no, no, he didn't say that.

Then USA Today called and said, could you check on that?

They checked on it, said, oh, yep.

You know what?

The next day, he did say that.

So I guess he does need a little cherry on a racist Sunday.

The problem is,

he's the racist.

Let me give you a

story from, let me give you two

stories from the

press just this weekend.

There is a story from the Washington Post

where

the writer, now this is an editorial writer.

A writer from the Washington Post, an editor, said she really needs this to be true.

She needs this to be true.

What do you mean you need this to be true?

I want this to be true.

I need it to be true.

Does anybody remember after 9-11 when we started having copycats?

Remember when we started getting all kinds of powder sent to us and we were hoping,

hoping, praying that this was not an American copycat that this was somebody that was doing this that we wanted to trust each other do we remember that feeling maybe it was just me who wanted that but I don't think so you want to live in a country where this is true I want to live in a country where this is not true

Now, she went on to say, because just think of the damage that will be done.

Which brings me to the second story, this one from the New York Times.

Republicans are already demonizing Democrats as socialists and baby killers.

Now, this isn't related to the Smollett case, but yet it is.

We don't believe the Smollett case, so apparently we just all group all of it together.

We just we don't believe this guy, so we're not going to believe any racism exists.

Well, that is a danger of crying wolf.

However, I don't think that's who the American people are.

And look at how the New York Times story, this is not an editorial, this is a story.

Republicans are already demonizing Democrats as socialists and baby killers.

Well, I got news for you.

If the baby is born and then you kill it,

what else would you be called?

If you believe capitalism is a thing of the past and you believe that the government can run things better,

that's a socialist.

What else would you be called?

Jussie Smollett

wanted so badly to believe

that Americans were just homophobic racists, That

he had to hire two Kenyans

to perpetrate this hoax on us.

I guess there are jobs that Americans still won't do.

Now,

I don't know how

he could have possibly thought that one of them was named Cletus

because they don't look like a Cletus to me.

he orchestrated this.

I want to take a break and come back with just a list of all of the stories where people have been orchestrating these things.

Because that's exactly what's happening.

And the press doesn't get it.

And it gets worse and worse and worse.

And if the press doesn't wake up, we're screwed.

We're screwed.

How's this going to fix any?

How's this going to be fixed?

How are we going to come together if the press doesn't see their involvement?

But again, they don't want to see their involvement.

Again, it's just confirmation bias.

Others are doing this.

We're not involved at all.

Yes, you are.

I'll give you the list of just the things that are directly

correlated with this.

Donald Trump is to blame because this racist thing happened and it turned out to be a hoax.

We'll do that when we come back.

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Wait till you see the Yale newspaper.

The Yale newspaper has published a guide to, quote, destroying white boys.

Finally.

Finally, it's being done.

And I got a story from

Brian Stelter, who's got a very brilliant thing to say today.

Okay.

Cyber stalking.

Making hoax bomb threats.

Ann Arbor woman reported a hate crime.

She was suffering from

depression.

And she said that she had been prompted.

She had been attacked.

And she told the,

I don't know why

they picked on me.

She said maybe it was a safety pin that she was wearing.

What does a safety pin represent?

Do you have any idea?

Okay, well, somebody out there apparently knew what a safety pin meant and didn't like that.

And so it's a hate crime.

Well, it turns out, no, nope, she was just crazy.

She had made a superficial scratch on her face,

and she was embarrassed about it.

And so she said

a stranger had done it to her while she was walking.

And her friend said, you should report it to the police.

And I made a big mistake by doing that.

Yep.

Kansas State.

Second time in two years, racist slurs at Kansas State was a hoax.

Officers received a report of a note using a racial slur posted on a door in an apartment complex.

Upon questioning, the person who reported the incident admitted to creating and posting the note to their own door.

The matter will be addressed, they said.

But this was the one that had the note, beware, and words, live here.

Remember that story?

Yeah, that was

a hoax.

How about this one?

Villanova.

Villanova had a report of a black female student allegedly knocked down by young white males, yelling, Trump, Trump, Trump.

But the student doesn't want to pursue the matter, but wanted to make sure that it's hard to move forward.

It's hard to move forward.

Well,

yeah, and it was hard for the university to move forward because

it was fake.

So they couldn't find anybody that had done that.

New Jersey man arrested, 58 years old.

He was arrested in connection with racist and politically charged messages that appeared spray-painted on a property in South Philadelphia on the day after the Trump election.

He was arrested because he wrote Trump rules and Trump rules black

B words and the letter T.

I guess that's just, I have

no idea.

Could have been a T party.

Could have been.

There's a lot of things that could be done.

Low T?

Yeah.

Low testosterone issue?

A report of a racist note on a black student's windshield.

This happened in Minnesota.

A racist threat against a St.

Olaf student that touched off campus-wide protest and forced the college to cancel classes earlier this month was a fake.

According to this story, a threat, an anonymous typewritten note, was fabricated.

It was a strategy to draw attention to concerns about

the campus climate.

It was not a genuine threat.

The note was tucked into the windshield of a black student's car.

And

it apparently, you know, well, they were just trying to show that, you know, this is something something good has got to come out of such a bad thing.

But it was full of racial epitets.

And,

of course, Trump.

Woman told police she was driving home when four teens confronted her, yelled, Trump 2016, and told her she didn't belong here to go home.

The woman who told the police she had a hateful note on her car after a group of teens did this to her said,

Yeah, okay, I made the entire story up.

Muslim woman,

she reported a hate crime on the subway.

18-year-old Muslim woman claimed that three men attacked her on a Manhattan subway.

They tried to pull off her hijab and

turned out to be completely fake.

She was making that up long island man

nassau community college

said he couldn't sleep at night because somebody had drawn swastikas several different times at various different locations on the campus three swastikas were found inside of a man's bathroom and he couldn't sleep at night

I don't know how people sleep at night when they're the ones who do it.

Police found out he was the perpetrator.

I'm not even a third of the way through these stories that have come out in the last year.

And the Washington Post has the guts to say that we're going to use this one to say that people are making things up?

No.

No.

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Arrests made after anti-gramma Semitic graffiti cancels a

political event at a Brooklyn synagogue.

Classes were even canceled for that.

It was totally made up.

Black church fire, hate crime.

Yeah, it was a black parishioner that started it.

UL student

said somebody stole my hijab.

Well, they were probably short of theirs.

They were like, ah, mine's in the laundry.

What do I do?

Made up.

Made up.

This is fake news.

This is fake news.

And let me give you, before we bring Pat in, let me give you this from Brian Stelter.

He said, oh, Friday, I went to see the

show Network on Broadway.

Of course they're playing Network now.

Of course they're doing that.

Well, one of the monologues by Brian Cranson's character Howard Beale rang in my ears all weekend long.

He said, and I quote, here is the truth, the real truth, the thing we must be most afraid of.

It's the destructive power of absolute beliefs that we can know anything conclusively, absolutely, whether we're compelled to it by anger, fear, righteousness, injustice, indignation.

As soon as you have ossified in that belief, as soon as you start believing in the absolute, you stop believing in human beings, as mad and tragic as they are, in all of their complexity, their otherness, their intractable reality.

The only commitment any of us can have is to other people.

Wow.

And it's not like you or anybody.

It's beautiful.

Anyone at CNN.

have an ossified belief of what Trump is, what Trump supporters are, what white men are, what America is.

No, none of that.

None of that.

Welcome to the program, Mr.

Pat Gray.

Thank you.

This is about a white

country around her.

Man, that's Chicago.

That is Chicago.

That sums up Chicago.

And these two

white,

very white.

Black Nigerian guys.

They were very white for black men.

Yeah.

And let me tell you something.

I think Nigeria, isn't that the country where deliverance took place?

So it doesn't surprise me at all that they would act this way.

Don't come around these parts, son.

There has to be a spittoon.

I believe that corner in Chicago is where all the spittoons are.

They call it Spittoon Alley.

Yeah, they do.

Yeah, they do.

We took time out from our moonshine running to beat the crap out of you, Mr.

Homo Sexuale.

Bing, bing!

And are we ever going to hear?

Are we ever going to hear the apologies from, I don't know, the Nancy Pelosis and Corey Bookers in the world who jumped to their conclusions?

You know what?

I don't want an apology.

I don't want an apology.

I really don't.

An acknowledgement?

An acknowledgement.

Yes.

And what I really want is the press to learn from their mistakes, but they're not mistakes.

That's the problem.

We can't get

so wound up that I want an apology for their mistake.

It isn't a mistake.

This is what they've been ossified in their belief.

You played the reaction, the media reaction from all the reporters from MSNBC and CNN.

And I think to me the worst is Al Sharpton because you talk about not learning a lesson.

He doesn't learn that.

I mean, Tajana Brawley,

Mike La Crosse team.

You're making my point.

He is not interested in the truth.

They don't care.

He is looking for power, manipulation, any story that helps him further his voice, he does.

Anything that helps further his point of view, even if it turns out to be false, it doesn't matter.

So he's not making a mistake.

And I contend the press is not making a mistake.

Yeah.

I mean, look, a mistake is

doing what

maybe we did.

I didn't tweet about this story, but I did come out and say, I think I said, if this story is true, this is horrible.

Yes.

And that's the way you deal with it.

If this story is true, it's horrible.

And then you wait to see if the story is true.

But what they do is they drop all allegeds and they just, even if they say the word, they don't really mean it.

Because then they'll go on and on and on and on about what a horrible racist white culture this is and how bad Donald Trump is.

To the the point to where they are now saying, well, this isn't true, but this is going on.

That's essentially what Corey Booker said.

I'm going to withhold my judgment until the facts come out.

Why did you do that in the first place?

And then he proceeded to say, but we do know in America that these kinds of crimes are on the rise.

The fake ones?

Yeah.

Yeah, they still are.

They are on the rise.

Because the real ones are not.

No, that's true.

And this is what you would expect, right?

Out of a country and and a society that's been crafted to give gold medals to whoever is the most victimized.

Right.

That is what we are now doing, this like intersectionality Olympics thing all the time.

And so of course people are incentivized to get there.

We are praising people who have been victims more than really any other part of our culture.

Success now is something that's bad.

If you achieve personal success,

you need to get taxed at 90% and you're an evil millionaire or billionaire.

On the other side of that, if you're a victim, there's nothing but praise for you everywhere.

So

there's no surprise that all these people are chasing that feeling.

This is a summary of moral sentiments by Adam Smith.

Adam Smith said, here's how capitalism works in Wealth of Nations.

This is what the free market is.

But in the preceding book, book one

in this study of capitalism is the moral sentiment.

And it says, the free market will give you whatever the people want.

So the people really have to guard themselves.

They have to be rulers of themselves and of their passions and their desires.

Well, our passion and desire right now, apparently, is, well,

we just want to hate white people.

We just want to hate white people.

We want to hate Donald Trump.

And so that's what the market is buying.

There is no market for, hey, let's be good to each other.

Let's not do this.

We're better than this.

There is no real market for that.

Great example, BBC.

BBC did a documentary and it was on the rise of hate crimes in Poland, if I'm not mistake.

Now it's a documentary.

Came out completely bogus.

They just made it all up.

These documentary workers sold the BBC a documentary completely made up.

Wow.

Okay.

Wow.

Why is that?

Because people want to work and unscrupulous people who are like, okay, well, what what are they buying?

Because I've sat in these meetings before.

I've been in meetings with Netflix and Amazon and everybody else.

And I know that the agents will say prior to that you have, you know, you have specific agents just for Amazon, just for Netflix.

And their job is to tell the agency, this is what they're buying right now.

This is what's hot for them.

They want stories like this.

They want shows like this.

And so you don't get a meeting with them unless you're pitching something that they're buying.

So if you're out there and you're like, okay, what will Netflix buy?

What will Amazon buy?

This group, I'm sure.

What will the BBC buy?

Well, they're really high on documentaries about hate crime right now.

Great.

We'll do one on Poland and how hate crimes, because you got to know Polish hate crimes.

Then you get in there, you find out that that's not the truth.

Well, you've sold it.

You're working on their dime.

Make it up.

That's the way this happens.

It's the free market.

And we are people that don't have moral sentiments anymore.

We want that that story in the Washington Post where the editor wrote today, I want to believe this story.

Why?

Why?

She's honest.

Why?

Yeah, I know.

She's honesty there.

She wants to believe this story.

And you know, CNN did, and that's NBC did.

NBC did.

They all wanted to believe the story.

They wanted it to be true.

Because it proves to them some moral, larger truth.

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, do you see that?

And they know that it does exist.

It just doesn't exist in the amount that they say it is.

They know that it exists.

So they justify it as this is why they downplay it when they find out.

Because they're right now.

Look at the editorials.

They're all like, do you know what this is going to do?

This is going to hurt the real racism.

Of course, we know that.

We know that.

That's why we've been bitching about Al Sharpton forever.

You put him on as

an MSC and the NBC host.

We bitch about him because he hurts real racism.

I mean, did you hear Ellen Page, the actress?

Ellen Page, now, if you don't know who she is, she is in a sort of a progressive quantum leap episode for the rest of her life because at some point she unintentionally made a really good movie that happened to be pro-life or have a pro-life message, Juno, which became a big movie and kind of the movie she's known for.

So for the rest of her life, she has to say the most crazy, liberal things

until eventually she says enough of them and she can leap back to the right future or something.

She's in that mode of like playing penance, paying penance for all of her previous sins of saying something pro-life.

So she goes on all these shows and she's always saying the most liberal, crazy thing.

Listen to her on Colbert about this attack back when it was going on.

He believes in conversion therapy.

Blaming it on Mike Pence.

He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the government of Indiana.

And I think the thing we need to know, and I hope my show Gaycation did this, in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jesse.

I don't know him personally.

I sent all of my love.

Connect the dots.

This is what happens.

If you are in a position of power and you hate people

and you want to to cause suffering to them,

you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering.

Thank you.

What do you think is going to happen?

We're going to weep.

We're going to kids are going to be abused and they're going to kill themselves.

And people are going to be beaten on the street.

Yeah.

Listen to the passion in her voice.

Yeah.

She's crying.

But also listen to what she's saying.

If this is what you do, you hate people so much

that you dedicate your life to that.

That's Jesse Smollett.

Yeah.

He hates

people who are different than him so much, he has come into a place to where he believes that's who these people are.

To the point where he concocts and

perpetrates this hoax and pays people $4,000 to do it with him.

That's amazing.

That's amazing.

Just real quick before we take a break, Pat,

how do you, do you believe, and this comes from, what's his name?

We have him on John Ziegler coming up in a minute.

He said last week, he said,

I think what happened, what I've heard, is that the police and everybody were just going to move past this.

And then he had the balls to double down and go on GMA.

Wow.

And

they were like, okay, dude.

And they already suspected.

Yeah, they already suspected.

They put...

And they were just going to let it go.

Remember, they put that

the two gray lumps, that picture of the two gray lumps.

Yeah.

They put that out.

And he believes it was his bait.

Because as soon as he went on GMA and said,

that's them.

That's them.

They knew who those guys were.

Wow.

They rounded them up that day.

Remember?

They knew exactly who they were.

So they put it out going, okay, let's see.

Let's see.

That's them.

And if you look back at the ABC interview, he's like, and I want them arrested.

That's them.

I know it's them.

How do you know it's them?

I know it's them.

Well, you did know.

I paid him good money to beat them.

So I know that's the name Kleitish.

He's from Kenya.

All right.

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Okay, the Yale Daily News, which I'm not sure when the Castro brothers started to run it, and I mean the Fidel Castro brothers.

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Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions.

He could be in the great

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Maybe he's the editor-in-chief of the news.

He takes his classes, he networks, and when it comes time for graduation, he wins all the awards.

One day, though, I'll turn on television.

Who knows?

Maybe televisions will be obsolete by this point, and I'll see him sitting down for his Senate confirmation hearing.

But he'll be a little older, maybe tiny wrinkles, but that smile, that characteristic sacrine smile, will remain the same.

Yeah,

when I'm watching the white boy, who's now a white man at this point on CNN, I'll remember the racist remarks that he said.

This can't happen anymore.

We can't let things slip by.

She goes on to say that we should follow white boys

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John Ziegler is with us.

He is an independent voice and writes for Mediite, and he is one one of the guys, and I think the first to really take this Jesse Smollett case on

and say, wait a minute, something's not right here.

We talked to him on Friday as this was starting to fall apart, and he laid the case out.

John, I'd like you just to lay the case out again real quick, just in case somebody isn't familiar with the case.

Sure.

A couple weeks ago, Empire actor Jesse Smollett claimed that at 2 a.m.

in Chicago, in the middle of a polar vortex, that he had been attacked by two Trump-loving goons

who yelled, among other things, at him racial epitaphs,

insulted his sexuality, and declared Chicago to be MAGA country, sprayed him with bleach, tied a rope around his neck, I guess which was supposed to be a noose.

He was the victim of a horrible hate crime.

And the media, of course, shockingly lapped this up

as if this was obviously true and that there was no other scenario that could possibly be the case.

Because after all, in their minds, no one ever lies or exaggerates about any of this kind of thing.

Even though the end result, as you well know, Glenn, and many of your listeners know, is that many of these stories end up being false.

And this one never made any sense.

And the way that it fell apart over a couple of weeks period of time to me is fascinating.

And, you know, I appreciate you giving me the credit because I don't get credit for any of these types of stories.

I have made literally hundreds of dollars over the years

going after these stories.

No, let's not stretch it.

It's not fun because, by the way, even when you're right, you still end up taking more grief than you get credit in most cases.

But I feel like all I was was the kid in the emperor with no clothes.

It was just going, wait a minute,

the emperor has no clothes here.

This is an obvious story.

And what was fascinating about, just real quick, what was fascinating to me was I did a series of interviews in Chicago very early on in this story where, you know, I'm being used by Chicago radio hosts, radio hosts, who are not supposed to be afraid of anything, right?

Because they don't want to be the ones to say this is false.

So they bring me on, because I've written for Medeite and

tell them what they already are thinking, but no one wants to say.

And that's really what happened here.

It's really frightening.

So, John, I think one of the reasons why the average person may have been caught up on this and just accepted it is because um

uh at first he had gone to the hospital and you got the impression that he had to stay there for a day or two and so he was really hurt that all that's all bogus too Well, yeah, I mean, you look now

who it was, these two Nigerian brothers who are bodybuilders who were the ones that were involved in this,

if they were going to beat Jesse Smollett up, he would have had more than a scratch underneath his eye, and he would not have been able to go to Los Angeles almost immediately to

do, I guess we would call it a concert where he was dancing

within a couple of days.

I mean, that part didn't make a lot of sense.

There were a lot of things that didn't make a lot of sense.

Well, the fact that he held on to his subway.

Well, I mean,

that's a love of a sandwich, man.

You're like, I'm fighting off two guys who are trying to beat me up, pour bleach on me, but I am not letting go of this sandwich.

Well, I have to say, and

I was, and by the way, the police were, both of us were essentially wrong in our original theory about what happened because I'm told from my sources, which have been very good on this story from the beginning, that originally the police, and I thought this made sense because I'm not a conspiracy guy.

I despise conspiracies.

I believe in incompetence.

But even the police were convinced that this couldn't have been a total hoax at first because it was so poorly done, so incompetently done.

Apparently,

they even rehearsed it.

And so I presumed, and again, the police thought this too, that this was some sort of a domestic dispute, a relationship he had had with one of these two actors that went wrong, and then he created the hate crime allegation after.

I am told that

police still believe that there was a relationship between Smollett and one of the two of them, but they now believe that what happened here was that Smollett paid them to be part of this.

One of the more interesting things I'm looking forward to as this goes along, which I'm sure is not going to happen, is Smollett going to get the Me Too treatment?

Because if the police are right that he had a relationship with one of these two guys, he forced them, right, using his power as an actor in a romantic relationship to engage in a crime.

Now, that's a Me Too violation, is it not?

This thing is absolutely fascinating.

I saw it this morning that the police said

one of the things that immediately said, wait a minute, this may not be right, is he took him to the scene where it happened and he immediately pointed out the video camera and said, I am so glad that that camera is up there because you caught all of it on the video.

And it was so obviously pointed in the wrong direction.

And they were like, hey, we've never heard that from a victim who's like, and I saw right away that there's a video camera right here.

And it was so obvious that it was not going to pick this up.

They went, uh-oh, something's wrong.

Well, Glenn, you make a really great point, which

I underestimated the police at the beginning of this.

You know, I think the police played possum here.

I do too.

I think that they made it seem as if they had no idea what was going on.

They released the photograph of those two blurbs, those blobs that were the persons of interest.

And at that time, I perceived, and I think Smollette perceived, that was a sign of weakness, that the police had nothing.

They had no idea what was happening here.

It is now very clear they knew immediately what was going on.

They had been able to chart those two blobs, which turned out to be the Nigerians, all the way from the scene of the alleged hate crime into an Uber.

They identified them.

Apparently, they have video of them buying the rope.

So they knew their identity from very early on.

And, of course, course, they immediately know they're Nigerian, they're black, one of the works on Empire.

This story is clearly false.

And, you know, to use what I'm sure the left will think is a bad metaphor, they essentially gave Smollett enough real rope to hang himself because he identified, ends up identifying them on Good Morning America, which, of course, was ridiculous.

You couldn't identify the people when you were being attacked, but you're identifying two blobs

in a grainy photograph.

And that's the incredible thing, is he went on Good Morning America to say he doesn't appreciate how this is just, you know, how he's being treated and called a liar by some.

It's just like those Trump people.

And they put up the two blobs, and it's really like the back of two guys, isn't it?

I can't even tell.

I don't know.

I just, because

the faces were so dark, I just thought that they were, I don't know, wearing a hoodie or something and walking the other direction.

There's no way you can tell anything about these two guys except it's two big people walking or standing up.

And

he gets on and says, I know these are the guys.

Well, how do you know?

I was there.

I saw it.

I know these are the guys.

Right, which to me felt like desperation.

Like he's just latching on to anything that will substantiate his story.

Also, under the belief that the police will never be able to identify these guys when they already had.

And of course, it's a couple hours after the Good Morning America interview finally airs when they apprehend them, they question them, they get them to flip on Smollett.

They don't charge them, and now, of course, we're waiting for Smollett.

I'm told the police are hoping that Smollett will turn himself in.

I'm still very skeptical, Glenn, whether Smollett is going to suffer any severe legal consequences over this.

The state's attorney in Cook County, I'm told, is very corrupt.

They're going to be under a lot of political pressure to give him a sweetheart deal and let this just go under the rug.

I told you on Friday, which I think was a key part of this, that Rahm Emmanuel, the mayor of Chicago, was pissed off and he may have unleashed the dogs on Smollett when he went on Good Morning America, but he's not in charge of this anymore.

This is a state's attorney's issue.

And so I'm still skeptical whether the left will ever really be forced to eat the crow that they should on this.

And I also think, and this is important for your audience, I hope that we don't just look at this as the left wants us to, as an isolated institution.

Oh, no, exactly.

This is somehow unique.

This is an epidemic.

This is an epidemic, especially in in the realm of hate crime situations.

And it's also, I think, and maybe I'm sure people, I know I've already driven people on the left crazy for raising this issue.

But let's go back to Kavanaugh for a second, Brett Kavanaugh.

Because we were told, we remember, we were told that even though Christine Ford's story had no corroboration, by the way, Jesse Smollett's story at least had a time and a place.

And a picture of two blobs.

Right, two blobs and a contemporaneous report.

But in comparison, Jesse Smollett's story was fantastically corroborated in comparison to Christine Ford.

But we were told, the reason we believe Christine Ford is that a prominent person would never tell an untruth about an allegation like this.

That would never happen.

What do they possibly have to gain?

No one would ever do this and put themselves through this.

Well, now we know that's bull crap because Jesse Smollett has done that for whatever reason he did.

I don't fully understand why he did it.

We may never know, but people do very strange things.

And the other thing that's related to this is the number one misconception, especially the left has, is we now live in a world where being the right kind of victim is the American dream.

That's the biggest false premise of the whole thing.

People presume we're still living in 19, whatever it was, when being a victim was somehow

an item of shame.

It's not an item of shame anymore.

And by the way, maybe it never should have been, but the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction, people want to be a victim.

You get adulation.

You get attention.

You get money in certain situations.

I believe Colin Kaepernick figured this out and did it more beautifully than anyone has ever done in creating himself into being a victim.

And now, you know, he's made millions and millions of dollars out of it when his football career should have been over by now.

So, I mean, that's the number one premise.

Being the right kind of victim is the American dream today.

When I come back, I want you, because you work for Mediight, I would like to talk about the media and what the media should pull from all of these stories that they've done.

What's the real problem here?

Part of it is us.

The free market is like, who's buying stories about victims?

Everybody.

I've got a victim story.

That's part one.

But the other part is journalism and

media today.

And quite honestly, you touched on the beginning, fear.

We'll get to that in one minute.

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John Ziegler, so what does the what is the media

going to pull out of this or should pull out of this?

And what role do they play in all of this?

Great question, Glenn.

Those are two very different things, what they should and likely will.

First of all, I think that they're an unindicted co-conspirator in the Jussie Jussie Smollett story.

And I mean, without them, I don't think Smollett would have ever thought, one, that he could get away with this or that he would get adulation for it.

That's number one.

Number two, what they should take away from this is let's not be so damn gullible.

Let's not take everything at face value.

And

I mentioned on Friday I have an equation.

It's really pretty simple.

You just take

how implausible a story is, how little corroboration it has, and then you divide it by uh how hesitant the media or the authorities would be to this to debunk it because of political correctness concerns.

And if you get a number less than one, the story is probably not true.

And that formula has worked for me on many, many occasions.

And on this on this occasion, it was as clear as day that the story is probably not true.

But the problem here is the business model of the media is broken.

It is badly broken.

Every single element of the media is broken, which means the two things.

Everyone has to lunge after every story that looks like it might get clicks or traffic or trend on Twitter immediately, which means that, of course, there's no time for introspection.

There's no time for research or investigation.

And then, of course, the other part of the broken business model is that the people within the business have no job security.

And when you have no job security, you can't do real journalism because real journalism requires saying things often that are unpopular or or dangerous.

Well, in this day and age, if you say something that's unpopular or dangerous when you have no job security, guess what's going to happen to you?

Especially if you happen to be a white male, you're in a story like this, you're done.

It's over, and there's no place to get another job.

So that's where the fear comes in that you already referenced.

So there's way too much fear.

And by the way, no one ever gets fired for jumping on these types of stories.

You only get in trouble

if you contradict them and don't get vindicated immediately because you pissed off the wrong people.

So, John,

here's the thing about this is as we're looking at this story, nobody's buying a story.

Nobody wants to run a story that the narrative is counter to this one.

And

so

you're not incentivized in any way.

Everybody wants to be first or wants to be in the stream.

Nobody is actually

trying to be right over first.

And the last thing is, there isn't anybody in the media that really doesn't want to believe this story.

This is what they believe anyway.

So it's

massive

confirmation bias.

100%, especially that's, and that's why the liberal media gets these things wrong so often.

But I think your point about incentivization is so incredibly important because there's still a lot of people who believe that truth is the coin of the realm of the media and journalism.

I don't know if that was ever the case, but it's definitely not the case now.

It's popularity that

it is what matters.

And oftentimes, the popular narrative is inherently faulty because of what you mentioned about confirmation bias.

And of course, you and I have talked many times about the Penn State, Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky case.

To me, this is the patron saint of all of these cases.

What the truth is, and I've investigated for six years, I know with every fiber of my being to be 180 degrees different than what the popular narrative was.

But the narrative that was popular was so overwhelming that it was a tidal wave over the truth.

And the truth is never going to win in that case.

And it's not close.

And this is not an isolated situation.

That's just the most dramatic one I've seen.

Okay, John Ziegler, you can find him at Zygmunt Freud, Zygmunt Freud, and also with Media.

Thank you so much, John Ziegler, for bringing this story anyone else would.

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There is an interesting look at the media from the media

and also something else that we all need to learn about our actions matching what we believe.

I think that's a fallacy that we're all, well, I want my action.

Really?

Is that what you want?

Is that what you want?

I'll get into that here in just a second.

A lot of people are saying there's no consequences for Smallat.

He's not going to face any.

He's not going to.

There won't be any consequence.

You really think so?

I think there's going to be consequences on this one.

What do you think is going to happen to Smolyette?

A giant

fat

DLS spokesperson for Subway.

Here's a guy who waded through a band of marauders

named Cletus, attacking him when he had his tuna sandwich in his hand.

And what did he do?

He made it through.

He got that tuna sandwich all the way to his belly.

Can I tell you something?

Kaepernick wants to go back in.

I think Smollyette should be, and I don't know anything about sports, but I think a running back.

Isn't that the guy who grabs the ball and runs?

There you go.

That guy is not letting go of that Subway.

That's right.

Make that football, paint it like it's wrapped in a Subway wrapper.

That guy's never going to let it go.

And the good thing with Subway is, even if he is charged with a crime, it's still better than previous spokespeople.

So

this is a good way for them to go.

And I think it works.

I like that.

Yeah, that's very good.

That's very good.

Let me take you back to the media here.

The media is saying, and

I want to quote, there are two competing definitions of media.

There is one view promoted by professional anti-media messengers like Donald Trump Jr., who portray the media as just one big blob.

He tweeted Media Hollywood desperately wanted Smollett's claims to be true to push their hate of conservatives.

Then there's the other view, which I know to be true, that the media is made up of thousands of outlets and hundreds of thousands of people, with great journalists and lazy aggregators, with no single mission or belief system.

There are mistakes and built-in biases?

Sure, definitely.

But most journalists are trying their best to report what is true.

This competitive, chaotic world of media contradicts Don Jr.'s imagined world.

Okay, so let me ask you this.

Is that a warning against collectivism?

Essentially, it's interesting.

They want to see people, they want people to be seen as individuals.

Yes.

It's an interesting concept.

Unless by the government.

Right, unless it's the government.

Or if it's evil white Trump supporters, right?

Yes.

Those people are all seen as with a broad brush.

Tea parties, conservatives.

God, yes.

Any group of them.

Christians?

Oh, my gosh.

Group.

Yes.

Group, group, group, group, group.

And we keep saying you.

Yeah.

Everyone's basically the Westboro Baptist Church.

Correct.

And we keep saying, actually, those are a few really bad people, but generally speaking, Christians aren't anything like that.

Do we here?

Here's something for the media.

Media, this at least is one show.

Now, I know you like to take all talk radio and make us all alike, but it's crazy.

We're all made up of thousands of individuals.

But this is one individual who I will not dismiss

cases of racism because I know that there are racists and I know that racism exists.

However, I am skeptical when everything seems to fit perfectly this narrative that you guys love to eat and shovel out.

So I am skeptical, but isn't that what you're supposed to be?

You should be able to do that.

Now,

here's also one guy who will report that it is a lie that black people, brown people, yellow people, red people, any people

couldn't be racist.

No, no.

Race is a human trait.

Just like our biases, those are human traits.

It's how we are raised,

how we're educated, who we're around, what influences us.

Those things are called bias.

Some of us can say, yeah, I'm a conservative.

I'm absolutely a conservative.

But I am not blind

to

loyalty.

I am not just, oh my gosh, I've got to be loyal to this because I'm a conservative.

No, if it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense.

You know, there's something that's happening in Brexit right now with the Brexit thing.

People, seven people have left the

Labor Party.

Because of their Brexit strategy and the ongoing anti-Semitism and racism in the, what a surprise, leftist party.

When's that going to start happening here?

When are we going to have journalists that go, you know what, I got to tell you, I was on the bandwagon, but you know, these guys have gone too far.

These guys have gone too far.

They will do anything.

When's that going to happen?

Because I know it happened on the right.

A lot of us said, you know what?

No, I don't have anything to do with the Republican Party anymore.

I don't abandon my values, but it's really strange.

I was painting a painting this weekend, and it was,

it's behind me now if you happen to be watching.

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It's here to help.

Trust us, we're just here to help.

No, it's not.

When you close that loop of those three,

it should scare the hell out of you.

And as I was painting it, I realized this is, this is, this is rebellion stuff.

This is stuff that the left

should be doing right now.

But they're not doing it.

They don't even realize how out of step they are with their own values that they just are so hell-bent on destroying what they think is the problem that they haven't realized, oh, good God, I'm in bed with the devil.

I'm in bed with everything I've always stood against.

I'm not an art critic,

but I did want to point out to the audience who's listening on radio, I believe it's an accurate painting because the super scary guy is white.

Right.

It did make him white, and that makes it powerful.

If you made him any other bluish green bud.

Well, when the light's on his hands, though, they're pretty white.

Yeah.

So I think that's accurate because this is the exact type of guy that can beat you up while you're carrying your Subway sandwich.

Exactly.

And that, by the way, is on sale for one foot long for $5 this week.

That's growing at you.

You have to catch it and then run.

Okay, so let me...

Let me go into this.

So we've talked about the free market.

The free market

has to have a virtuous people

because the free market will provide whatever you want.

Well, right now, the free market on the left wants these stories of victims and oppression and

white MAGA hat wearing racists.

That's what the system wants.

That's the market is saying, I got a call for it over here.

Who's got one?

Who's got one?

Who's got one?

And so it's calling these out.

And as we have shown you, and we will show you tonight at five, over and over and over and over and over again.

People are delivering it.

They're fake.

Doesn't mean that racism doesn't happen.

It just means the media is getting trapped by all of these fakes because they want it so desperately.

And why do they want it?

They want it to destroy.

See, the search for truth is not about destroying something.

The search for truth is the search for truth.

Let the chips fall where they may.

But we've gone so far away from the truth.

We just have our belief.

We just know this is what, no, this is what I believe.

And then we, we don't even really care about living it.

Because if we really did care about living what we believe,

we wouldn't have so much hypocrisy.

Look at the hypocrisy.

Both sides of the aisle.

Look at the hypocrisy.

You say one thing, you go in and do it.

The debt is so un-American.

Really?

Look at the debt.

Hear anybody crying about it?

Nope.

Why?

Because nobody really cares.

No, the debt is just something that's used when the other party's in power.

Correct.

I care about the debt.

I'm talking about the spending now, and I was talking about the spending then.

Doesn't matter who's in.

This is a problem.

Okay?

But we want a virtue signal.

And our virtue signaling

causes people to say, well, look at the hypocrisy.

His action doesn't meet his belief.

But But we're so far beyond that as the problem.

Are actions matching our belief system?

We're so far beyond that.

Don't ask that question.

Well, I want to make sure that my actions line up with my belief.

Yeah, you might want to go back a step.

Because what really matters today, if you want to fix the country, you want to fix yourself, you want to fix your community, you want to fix your country, you want to fix journalism, stop asking if your action matches what you believe.

And start asking whether your belief matches the truth.

All right, I have a pitch for you.

Okay.

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And

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It wasn't about race.

It wasn't about Trump.

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You're telling me, you're telling me that's not effective?

I mean, that's selling a lot.

In today's world?

In today's world?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it does.

I think it works.

They should do it.

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This is the Glen Beck Program.

Welcome to Monday.

Hi, I'm Jussie Smollett.

In a moment, I'm going to tell you about the all-new Ultimate Cheesy Garlic bread and the new ultimate meatball marinara or the new ultimate spicy Italian.

But first, I want to address some reports about me and the media.

It is true I filed a false hoax against the police and against white people and Trump supporters in general.

However, as a Subway spokesperson, I can guarantee you I have never touched a child in an inappropriate fashion.

I have no photos of naked kids on my laptop.

I've never been fat before, so I didn't.

I don't.

Look, the bottom line here is: yes, I'm a criminal, but we're going in the right direction.

Okay.

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I think it works.

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What do you think, honestly, about

him looking at Colin Kaepernick and seeing, you know, I could, look, I'm like the ninth character on this show that I don't even know.

I'm in the show.

I don't even know if it's still on the air.

So he's like the ninth character.

He sees Colin Kaepernick.

All you have to do is stand up against the power.

Stand up for something that everybody, you know,

on the left is for, all of your friends, and and you know it's true anyway.

America and the national anthem, that's a racist song.

We all know it's true.

We all know that lynching is happening.

So I just go the extra mile.

I'm an actor.

I can pull this off.

Life, all the world is butterstays.

Yeah.

And he's doing it because he saw Colin Kaepernick making a fortune.

I mean, really, it's interesting that this actor is getting in trouble because of his poor acting.

I mean, if he just had better plot development, this may have actually worked.

But honestly, it's like a murderer going, nobody followed the episode of Columbo to the latter.

No, yeah, it doesn't, it's not good.

I will say that, too, I think with the Kaepernick thing is an interesting example because I think he probably has a motivation in that this is how he sees the world and everything else.

But if you look back at...

the last 20 years, we've seen many examples of people leaking their own sex tapes, things that normally you would think.

I mean, there was a time where people, when they got got attacked, and if someone came to them and said, hey, did you get attacked?

Are you the victim?

No, no, no, no, no.

You would downplay your own attack.

That's what he said.

That's what he said.

I didn't go to the police right away because I'm gay and I don't want gay people to, you know, people are always saying, oh, you gay people are weak.

Who is saying?

Who says that?

And by the way, we all saw how tightly you held on to that subway.

That's a strong man.

I got it.

Someone trying to lynch you, throw bleach on you, and you're still holding on to that sandwich.

I respect that.

And I saw the perpetrators of this.

There were some photos that went around of them.

They are in much better shape than I am.

They are not weak.

No.

I don't think I maybe there was a time where people thought gay people were weak.

They seem to be in really good shape these days.

When did they say that they were gay?

They said one of them was in a relationship.

That's one of the accusation the whole time.

That doesn't make both of them gay now, does it, Hater?

I don't know.

And why do you call them both?

There's three people.

Two of them.

If they were in a relationship, it would mean multiple people were gay in the relationship.

I would think.

But multiple people.

Well, it's not all, is it?

Well, I didn't say all.

I just said.

I said the tape back.

That's what I heard.

That's what America heard.

But yeah, but that doesn't matter if that's what you heard or what America heard.

Oh,

sorry, Mr.

Oh, I got country time lemonade where the truth mattered.

I got it.

Now we're onto Subway.

We don't touch kids.

That's our new slogan.

Sure, we still have criminals representing us.

But they're not doing creepy things with kids.

Come on, have a sandwich.

We hope in five to six years to have a person who's only convicted of a misdemeanor as our spokesperson.

We're going the right way.

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It's Wiener Out Day.

People may not know that.

It's Wiener Out Day.

Wiener is Wiener's Out Day.

It's a...

Well, I'll explain that here in just a second.

In fact, one minute, 60 seconds.

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Wiener's out.

Now that's not a command, that's a statement.

Wiener's out.

Disgraced former congressman, convicted sexual offender, Anthony Weiner

is out.

I mean, how much time should you spend in prison for sexting a 14-year-old?

I mean, that's certainly not more than what?

15 months.

15 months is 15 weeks, Max.

That's too much.

They only went against him because this country is against high-powered politicians and particularly Democrats.

Well, he's also has to pay a $10,000 fine,

which, you know, shouldn't be hard for him, seeing that he had a lot of money in the first place.

But he also has to register as a sex offender, and he does have three years probation where he is closely monitored.

So when they say probation, how much sexting with 14-year-olds does that allow for?

I don't think any.

Well, he's a Democrat, so maybe some.

Maybe some.

I mean, you should at least give him a couple of weeks.

Perhaps when you really think about it, he can do as much as he wants.

He just can't get caught again.

Exactly.

It's got to be a little bit more.

His crime was, I mean, who are you to judge?

Love is love.

And who are you to judge?

Right.

Love finds a way.

You know, if a man named Carlos Danger wants to interact with a, you know, a fan of Justin Bieber,

it's actually too old of a reference now.

They're probably all over 14 now.

Whoever is popular enough.

Cardi Bie.

Is Cardi B, would Cardi Bie be a good player?

No, no, no, no, no.

Whoever that is,

how can you stop a man from doing such a thing?

By the way, there's somebody else that is in prison for similar things.

It's Bill Cosby.

And Bill Cosby is, quote, having an amazing experience.

Good for him.

Right.

In an interview,

his press spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, said he used the term amazing experience.

Now, he was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting women.

He's living off by himself

for a while.

He's just

been put into general population.

His wife still has not come to meet him

in prison.

No, no, no.

He talks to her three times a day for three minutes on the phone.

He says he doesn't want her to come see him in prison, but he's having an amazing experience.

He said

it's not what he expected.

That's great news.

Yeah.

You know, things change, Glenn.

Things changed quickly.

You know, there's a time where Bill Cosby was so beloved

in our society.

Can I give you a little flashback here for a moment?

This is, I think, an interesting study in how the media operates.

So the governor of Virginia,

he wore blackface in the early 1980s, as you know.

I know.

Well, remember, first of all, let's remember where this started.

It started with a complete racist Megan Kelly, who just asked a question.

I don't understand.

If you're wearing blackface, you know, but you want to glorify that person, she was terminated immediately for asking the question, can you wear blackface if you're...

doing a tribute and you're trying to look like this individual.

She was terminated immediately.

That's amazing.

I had totally forgotten that was the reason.

Oh, what $100 million or

it was like $20 million a year or whatever her contract was.

She got a full $67 million payout.

$67 million.

That's how much they wanted to get rid of her.

And they did it with the excuse that she was a racist because she asked that question.

But tell me about the governor who's still in office.

In office.

And also that the third guy in line for being a governor also had worn blackface.

Yeah, but the second guy in line, he was only sexually assaulting people.

Well, yeah, sure.

Allegedly.

Allegedly.

Now, the blackface is not alleged.

Yes.

Because that would actually.

So

remember, this is the early 1980s.

He admits to having Michael Jackson and Blackface on.

And the reporting on it from the New York Times was, I think the headline was, the governor parties like it's 1884.

That was their headline.

And I thought to myself, like, here's a,

yes, obviously we all know that blackface is a really bad idea and you should not, you should not wear it.

However,

there has been a time in the past where that was not the way people thought about it.

I mean, certainly some did, right?

Like we know that there have been really bad examples of this over the past.

But I thought myself, Soulman was a movie released by a major studio in which the plot of the movie is a white guy goes into blackface to get into Harvard.

And it's a hilarious comedy about a white guy who puts on blackface to go into Harvard.

Now, we would all say now that would not be something that would be released, and no one would act in it if offered.

However, in this period, was it that crazy?

Again, it was before Soulman came out, like what, six years previous to this, he supposedly wore blackface.

Okay,

and in 1986, the movie Soul Man came out.

And I thought to myself, self,

what was the New York Times saying about Soul Man in 1986?

Because were they out there saying, like, this is a relic from 1884?

They said, because now they're saying it's party-like in 1884.

Here is their review of Soul Man in the New York Times from 1986.

I love you, Stu.

I just love you.

There's nothing, and I want you to understand this, Glenn.

There's nothing automatically funny about the story of a rich white college boy who masquerades as a black.

There's nothing.

It's not automatically.

Automatically.

It's not automatically.

You got work into this little laugh.

We're gonna make you work for that laugh.

More than just putting the black face on, which, of course, funny, but not automatically.

Not automatically.

That's not automatically a hit comedy.

You guys gotta go deeper.

There's nothing automatically funny about the story of a rich white college boy who masquerades as black in order to collect a scholarship to Harvard Law School.

That's putting it mildly.

But Soul Man, which opens today at Lowe's State and other theaters, has a breezy, unapologetic manner.

And it also happens to be funny, which goes a long way towards making up for any of the underlying obtuseness or insensitivity.

The director has arrived at this cheerful frat house version of Tootsie.

A cheerful frat house version of Tootsie.

Yo, hang on just a second.

Hang on just a second.

Could Tootsie even be made today?

I don't think.

Probably not.

Probably not.

Because wouldn't that be a...

Because it was a guy, it was cross-dresser, cross-dresser, and he was pretending to be a woman to be near his children.

No, that you're confusing that with Mrs.

Doubtfire.

Oh, yeah, I am.

That's right, I am.

Another one you could have.

I don't think you can make that one.

Right, so wait, what's Tootsie about?

Tootsie is the actor that couldn't get a job.

He was a great actor, couldn't get a job.

He needed to be a, you know, a strong woman, is what they were looking for.

So, and everybody's saying he was a bad actor, and he's like, okay, I'll show you.

It's a brilliant, funny, funny movie.

Funny movie.

I mean, probably not automatically funny, sure,

but funny.

It's a good point.

It's not automatically funny.

It's important to point out.

Just a guy in a dress isn't automatically funny.

Now, I will say, I will ask this question, Glenn.

Is it, as the New York Times called Soul Man in 1986, a blithe, silly, good-natured movie?

And of its kind, quite an enjoyable one.

Now, hang on, just a second.

The governor of Virginia is in trouble.

Now, if he was the one,

well, if he's either one in the picture with the clan, okay, he's in trouble.

But he denies that that's him, either the clan or the blackface guy.

Right.

And I, well, you know, again,

this is not something you want to push back on, but I mean, if the, what's the point of the clan black guy photo?

Like, the only thing I could think of of is why this photo would exist is the odd pairing, right?

Like, it's an odd couple, like, two people going to a party.

One's a clan member and one's a black guy, right?

That's probably the quote-unquote joke.

Again, not that I'm defending it,

but I don't know.

Is that any more or less offensive than being

Michael Jackson in blackface previously?

I don't know.

Yeah, I think it actually is.

It may be.

It's kind of like, you know, a Jew in, you know, prison garb going with a

brand new one.

That's not a good look.

It's not a good look.

Not funny.

However, Michael Jackson, I bet that was a breezy performance.

It goes back to what Megan Kelly was saying.

Yeah.

Is this so bad?

Yeah, I think the, you know, I'm not going to shun anybody, you know, from business 30 years after their life because they did that.

However,

when you are doing a tribute to someone, like he was doing with Michael Jackson, is that so bad?

Right.

The theory being that if you're trying to compliment someone as dressing up with them, like, you know, it's the same controversy you see every Halloween now, where if you dress up as a Native American, right,

you're taking their culture and it's offensive.

But if the person is saying, well, I'm not doing it to be offensive, I'm doing it because I like that culture.

Is that a problem?

And today, absolutely it is.

In 1980, was it?

I don't know.

In 1986, the New York Times was praising a major studio release about blackface.

You had, for the first time in American history, you had a bunch of white kids wanting to be black like Michael Jackson, and your star, who was black, changing his face to try to be white.

Or a woman.

Or had a very rare disease.

I'm sure what that was about.

The New York Times goes on to talk about his phony-looking Afro in the movie.

And And this is what actually reminded me of this when you said Cosby.

This is one of the quotes from the movie.

This is from the white guy in blackface saying,

these are the 80s.

This is the Cosby decade.

America loves black people.

This is the hilarious joke.

They quote in the movie they're praising.

Mark's manner remains unchanged after his physical transformation.

His attitudes cannot help but be affected.

In the end, a Tootsie-like learning experience emerges from this adventure.

He finds, for example, that he can no longer stand listening to the Beach Boys.

That's your learning experience.

This is your learning experience.

If this seems speedy and superficial course in conscious raising, and it comes relatively late in the film, it's better than nothing.

And the pretty actress named Meloda Hardin does what little she can with the role of a white girl who wants to sleep with Mark simply because he's black.

Can you quote something about 400 years of oppression and anger, as she explains it?

This isn't a positive review.

So is that still available, Do you know?

What?

Is that is that?

Can you still rent that?

Can you still find that?

Because you can't get Song of the South,

which is one of the most endearing stories of all time.

You cannot get Song of the South.

It's not available on YouTube.

No, no.

Cannot get it.

But you can get this one?

I don't know.

It's a good question.

It's a good question.

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I just want you to know the National Weather Service has issued an unofficial small dog warning

as in it's raining.

No catson.

Nope.

No.

Due to strong winds in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania,

they have decided to issue the small dog warning that if you have a dog and you're taking him outside and he's small,

make sure you put a leash on him because

he may blow away.

Really?

This is

National Weather Service Pennsylvania

now through Wednesday.

Yeah, National Weather Service.

This came from Cleveland.

Wind gusts, 45 to 50 miles an hour.

Few trees may be blown.

Scattered power outages is possible.

And hold on to your pooch, a small dog warning wind advisory for northern Ohio

and Northwest Pennsylvania have been initiated.

I'm glad we're getting this safe space created for us.

We know now the truth that we cannot bring our little dogs outside because they might blow away if we don't have a leash.

But then it does turn into a pretty cool kite.

How did we survive?

I don't know.

How did we make it through?

How did we make it through all these years without people being told

your dog might blow away?

Now, I've had little dogs before,

I've had had dachshunds.

It's never even occurred to me that my little dog.

Now, dachshunds are low to the ground, so maybe it's different for them.

Right.

They're like the sports car of little dogs.

I would think, like, an Afghan would be much more inclined to blow away because that's more, it's so skinny

and thin, and

it's like a sail.

You know, it's like,

it would be like a kite.

Put the leash at the center of the Afghan, go for a walk, and it'll just blow up, and it'll just start like a kite.

That one.

But little dogs would just roll down.

Yeah.

Would just roll down the street

like a tumbleweed.

Yeah, I think that's true.

I think you have the science correct.

I mean, there are tumbleweeds here?

No.

They're just little Scottish terriers.

Well, how small does a dog have to be?

Because a 40 or 50 mile an hour, you know, I mean, that has to be like one of those really mini, the mini like legitimate in Paris Hilton's purse targets.

Can I tell you something?

I've never seen a dog blow down the street.

I mean, I've, you know,

I'm not like, you know, I'm a weather chaser, but I've lived 55 years.

It's really windy here all the time.

It's really windy.

I've never seen, you know, I've never seen like a tumbleweed blown down the street going, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe.

I've never, I've never seen that before.

I never have either.

But it's happened so many times.

There's an actual small dog warning, which makes you think, I mean, that's got to be a tough experience.

Do you get an ebs alert

beep beep it'd have to be little barks wouldn't it like little yips

i don't know that's interesting because i think you'd have to have a really small dog maybe the idea is like you're walking him on the street and the wind blows and it blows him into the street and then gets hit by a car so it can't be really taking off like a kite right I mean, that's tornado territory, isn't it?

No, because really small dogs are about the size of a cat.

Yeah, but a cat is not going to be lifted up and thrown.

Cats are not stupid enough.

Cats aren't dumb enough.

And I don't know if they know this, but

dogs are pets, yes.

However, there's lots of other animals that are smaller than dogs all over the place.

I've never seen any of them

thrown up in the air either.

We found on Friday a cat-sized rat.

Not to be confused with a dog-sized or a cat-sized dog.

A dog-sized or cat-sized rat.

Cat-sized rat.

That's terrifying.

Back here, it went into one of the rat traps we found.

We were like, oh, wow, that's a big one.

In this building?

Yeah.

Good God.

It might still be there because I'm not picking it up.

It might still be there.

You want to go look at it?

I thought you were going to say it like your ranch or something.

Oh, you mean in here?

Yeah.

It was in the back cages.

We were going through the property cages, and it was like,

and somebody was with me.

One guy said, good Lord, look at that.

That's a big rat.

And we looked down and then, you know, Tim, he looked at it and he said, oh, I'll get that.

And he reached down with his hands.

None of us said anything.

He was like, no, No, I'm just kidding.

I'm not gonna do that.

So it still might be there.

But anyway, you don't see rats blowing down the street.

Right.

If, like, if every time it got windy, like leaves, they blow around in circles.

If you saw animals in like a tight, and I lived in Baltimore, man, there should have been rats like leaves blowing down the street all the time.

This is a hoax.

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If you are sick and tired of hearing all of the bad stuff about America and, you know, just how bad we are, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Look, America's story is just like your story.

Are you a good person or a bad person?

Now hopefully you say a good person.

Now actually,

most likely you will say a good person.

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And that's what America is.

We're both bad and good.

It's what we choose to make out of ourselves every single day.

And we choose that collectively.

And right now, we're just choosing to be victims and crybabies.

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There's a couple of other things

that I want to talk about.

If you missed the

podcast this weekend, every Saturday we do a podcast, and they're usually about 90 minutes, anywhere from an hour to 90 minutes,

and they are just

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We had Gad Sadd on.

Gad is a guy who is a university professor from Canada.

He is a guy who just loves the truth and is very concerned about what's happening to the truth in universities and all throughout society.

And we talked about everything.

One of the first people, Jordan Peterson, reached out to when he was having his troubles initially.

Yeah, because he's like the godfather of telling truth, you know, and always getting in trouble for it.

And he doesn't care.

And I just, I love this guy.

You're going to fall in love with him when you listen to him.

But check it out.

Here he is talking about,

you know, we say it's Trump derangement syndrome.

He calls it something else.

Listen to this.

So Munchausen syndrome is where someone feigns a medical condition so that they can garner empathy and sympathy.

Oh, poor me, look at me.

I'm sick.

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is where you take someone who's under your care, your biological child, your pet, your elderly parent, and you harm them so that you can get and garner the sympathy and empathy by proxy because they're damaged, right?

So this is called Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

And And by the way, the ones who suffer most from that are usually women who harm their biological children to garner the sympathy.

So I had written a paper

talking about the psychiatric disorder.

And then when I started seeing the faux victimhood, the screaming, the fake hysteria associated with Trump, that's when I coined the term collective Bunchhausen because it was a way for people to seek attention in grotesque ways, in truly, what seemed to me in false sounding ways, right?

I mean, I would see on my Facebook page people sort of testifying to their looming victimhood.

I am a woman of color.

I attend the University of Maine.

Will it still be safe for me to go to college now that Trump, well, what do you think?

There's going to be roadblocks and the Trump storm

patrols are going to be ushering you to gang rape centers.

I mean, what can justify this level of idiotic hysteria?

And so that's why I called it collective Munchausen, because it truly was a confabulation of faux hysteria.

What upsets me is that it's one thing for this idiot on my Facebook page to write this stuff.

It's another thing when many of my supposedly sophisticated intellectual friends were succumbing to the same hysteria.

That's what upsets me.

So I won't mention any names, but one of my good friends, whom you probably know, is one of the type who will say things like, you know, there's going to be food shortages now that Trump.

There's going to be to be a nuclear holocaust.

He's the worst thing since Hitler.

And this is a guy who otherwise you would have thought is a terribly sophisticated and dispassionate thinker.

And so it's a real mystery to me why they are.

What causes that?

What caused that in him?

I think I know who you're talking about.

Very smart guy, very reasoned.

Very.

I mean, he's sort of the model of the very dispassionate, right?

So I

pitched an idea on the Rubin report as to why I think this is happening.

I think that the intellectual class views Trump as what I call an aesthetic injury, right?

He lived, I mean, you know how this beautiful place that you're in, I mean, it's gorgeous aesthetics, right?

You have a nice aesthetic sense.

Well, academics and intellectual types have a sense of the types of aesthetics that they seek in their leader.

Barack Obama, exemplar, fit that.

He's tall.

He's got a beautiful smile.

He speaks with a certain cadence of a Southern Baptist preacher.

He seems noble and majestic.

So it doesn't matter what he says, that most of it is complete.

But he, my God, he sounds noble and intellectual.

Donald Trump is an ogre.

He speaks in an ugly way.

He's grotesque.

He's a brawler.

He's a New Yorker.

He's swearing.

He's grabbed this, right?

So on every possible aesthetic metric, he offends my sense of aesthetics.

And so I think they are disgusted by him.

They are repulsed.

It's visceral.

He is a remarkable man.

His name is Gad Sad.

And

he's just remarkable the way he thinks.

We cover all kinds of topics, really almost everything.

And

at one point, we started talking about freedom of speech.

Listen to this.

So Munchausen syndrome is where someone feigns a medical condition.

Free speech absolutist.

I believe that anything short of a direct exhortation to violence, libel and defamation, everything goes.

And the way that I demonstrate my commitment to those principles is I pick the most grotesque possible instance, which is Holocaust deniers to a Jewish person, right?

What could be more offensive than taking the historical event that is probably the most documented in history, where people were systematically

exterminated, and allow someone to say, no, it never happened.

But if you are a free speech absolutist in a free society then you have to tolerate the most grotesque so i tell people i am a jewish person and i support the right of holocaust deniers to reject that the holocaust ever happened so i walk the walk talk the talk so your hurt feelings frankly i don't give a blank about

life is anti-fragile to use the term of nasim talib right you you grow by being

That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger, correct?

Therefore.

Post-modernists say that which doesn't,

how is this the turn of the phrase on this?

This part out of this, for the love of me.

I've never heard the postmodernist.

They've twisted it and

turned it around.

I've said that.

So it really, I find it very frustrating because it is a perfect way to stifle discussions, right?

Don't criticize Islam because that's my religious faith.

That hurts me.

What do you mean?

In a free society, you can go on Twitter and say what a bunch of crock Judaism is.

If I'm strong in my beliefs, I shouldn't worry about what Glenn Beck thinks.

It's amazing how we have turned that upside down.

We've really turned that upside down.

I mean, I really think that's why people like Ocasio-Cortez

are just

not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

For instance,

putting out the Green New Deal,

I think that's a pretty stupid, rookie, rookie, fourth grader kind of move.

Why didn't she fear?

Because she's living at large.

No matter what she says, no matter what she does, no one's going to say anything to her because it's a success right now.

You're not doing anybody any good if you keep the truth from them.

They don't have to defend it.

When you believe in something and you know it to be true, you just know it to be true,

that's when you should do a little more listening to the other side.

Just because it'll sharpen the edge.

You'll learn more about what people are saying, why it's not true, and you'll be able to defend it.

But if you don't have anybody sharpening that steel, I mean,

you can't last.

You can't last.

It's like if you're a band that has all these hit songs and then you want to do like a rock opera and then they push back against you and they're like,

hey, maybe the rock opera is not the way to go.

Some bands did the rock opera.

Some bands went for it.

And then, you know, they were no longer bands like six months after that.

That's weird that you say that because I was thinking queen.

Yeah, queen is a, is a

queen, queen.

A lot of people try to do queen after queen.

I don't know if you know that.

You don't remember any of their names because they tried it.

Right.

But queen, queen did it for the same thing.

They didn't want to just do what they were good at.

They wanted to push themselves so they would get stronger.

They went out of their comfort zone a little bit.

Yes, yes.

And that's something, unfortunately, we don't do because there's no such thing as a comfort zone anymore.

It's a safe zone.

And everything that makes you uncomfortable is out of the safe zone.

So nobody says, hey, you should make yourself uncomfortable from time to time.

Reach out.

Push the edges of that.

Why?

Into the unsafe zone?

No, no.

Bad things happen there.

It's dark.

Why are you saying it's dark, racist?

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to the program.

A couple of things.

First of all,

do you think Nancy Pelosi may have CTE?

Is there a possibility?

She does seem like every question she's asked is asked as if she is waking up from a 12-hour sleep.

I want to play a little Nancy Pelosi on Valentine's Day last week.

Listen.

So thank all of you.

Happy Valentine's Day.

We saluted our victory, or the victory for the American people, earlier with the chocolate.

Chocolate for California, I call it the Chispano Chalet.

And so again, I wish you all happy Thanksgiving.

So again, happy Thanksgiving.

No,

it's Happy Valentine's Day.

Which you correctly stated just a few seconds earlier.

And I mean,

I do have the chocolate turkeys

on my plate for Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day.

But I also, we also, on those two meals, we also serve heart.

So I can see the confusion, you know.

I think there's seriously, something is not right with Nancy Pelosi.

She really does feel like, you know, you know how you feel when you get up, you're sound asleep and like your alarm goes off in your house, and you just wake up and you have no, you don't even know what you're doing.

What is that sound?

The phone ringing sometimes.

You're like, what does, I don't, what is going on?

That is how she seems in every, like, she's unaware.

Everything's taking her by surprise.

She doesn't seem to know the.

Well, the surprise is probably just the Botox and the eye surgery.

Because I think when she sits down, her eyes open wider.

Oh, okay.

Her scared a little bit.

Well, because the skin is tied to the spine.

Yes.

So when she bends her back, the eyes do open just a little bit.

She's an interesting individual to lead a party.

I mean, that's.

I don't know if that's ideal.

I don't know.

If you could map it out, you probably pick some of this.

It's just, I mean, it is.

These guys just stay in too long.

Yeah.

They stay in too long.

And for her, one day was too long.

Yes, my point, exactly.

Happy Thanksgiving, Stu.

Happy Thanksgiving

and Columbus Day.

And Flag Day.

Yes.

It's not Flag Day yet.

It's not yet.

No.

Oh, it's only Groundhog Day, isn't it?

Yeah, it's tomorrow's Flag Day, I'm pretty sure.

For Christmas.

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