'Misguided Movements & Witch Hunts'? with Bill O'Reilly - 9/14/18

Glenn back.

Spartacus has had his victory.

Four days.

Yes,

the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have done it.

They have delayed Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation vote until Thursday.

What a victory for Spartacus.

All of the theatrics and utter ridiculousness of the past couple of weeks bought them four days.

In the meantime, I also want to extend my congratulations for what else they've done.

Nice work, Democrats.

You have done an amazing job turning the Senate Judiciary Committee into an absolute joke.

I seriously think everyone involved, well, maybe not Ben Sass and Mike Lee, everyone involved should just now arrive at work in one clown car.

This is

ridiculous.

I mean, are you engaging knowingly into self-satire?

As if we needed any reason to look at big government in utter disgust, but nice work on giving us one more reason.

Just for a quick recap, this confirmation started off with Democrats shouting down the Judiciary Committee chairperson during his opening comments.

Then it rapidly devolved into a showdown between future Democratic presidential hopefuls desperate for camera time, Corey Booker calling himself Spartacus.

I am Spartacus.

Please, somebody pay attention to me.

Somebody call me Spartacus, please.

But they saved what I believe is the worst for what I hope is the last.

What do you do if all of your insane theatrics fail?

Well, you just allege sexual misconduct, obviously.

Diane Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee, recently announced that she had forwarded information to the FBI regarding a possible case, a possible case involving Kavanaugh.

She gave absolutely no details.

I wonder if it's Anita Hill.

But she did mention that there were unnamed sources in New York.

Oh, good, good, good.

New York Times claims it concerns sexual misconduct when Kavanaugh was in high school.

Let me say that again.

When Kavanaugh was in

high school.

High school.

Okay, how many of us,

you know,

weren't exactly adults when we were in high school?

Oh, I don't know.

All of us.

Do we know if there was like a Billy Madison situation where he had to reattend high school as an adult?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't.

Maybe, maybe.

This is her statement i have received information

from an individual concerning the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court now that individual strongly requested confidentiality they've declined to come forward or press the matter even any further than this and i've honored that decision

but I have referred the matter to the federal investigative authorities.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

The individual does not want to be named, does not want to come forward, refuses to press this any further,

but you've turned it over to, you're honoring that request by turning it over to the FBI?

I have

secret information

about Senator Feinstein.

It is bad.

It is really bad.

It concerns golden showers with elephants.

She was humping Putin's leg.

I don't want to say anymore.

I don't want to say anymore.

It's not coming from me.

And this person,

I can't identify, doesn't want to come out, will not testify, doesn't want to press this any further.

But I'm going to whisper this into the ears of the FBI.

And while I'm doing that, I'm going to tell all of the American people about it.

I'm just honoring the, you know, the request of the person who refuses to be named, does not want to press it any further.

Are you kidding me?

The FBI has already commented saying they are not opening an investigation.

Why not with that kind of evidence?

How do you not just throw him in jail?

I'm sure they're probably a little pissed off at being brought into this theater of the absurd.

But I would like to deliver the very hard truth to the Senate Democrats this morning.

You've lost your mind.

You've lost your mind.

Brett Kavanaugh, I mean, Brett Kavanaugh,

when Glenn Beck is like, I don't know about Brett Kavanaugh, I don't think he's strong enough.

Are you kidding me?

There's parts of me that...

Hope you turn him down.

Just hope you turn him down.

Because I would love to see this administration going, oh, okay, that was guy, that guy was too extreme.

Well, let me show you what's behind curtain number two.

He'll be fully confirmed in two weeks.

He will sit on the Supreme Court.

Merritt Garland isn't going to suddenly materialize and conquer a Supreme Court seat by his own hand, like Conan the Barbarian.

Spartacus

has failed.

You have embarrassed yourself, you have embarrassed your party, and you have embarrassed the entire country.

Congratulations.

Here, we'll throw you another match.

It's Friday, September 14th.

This is the Glenbeck program.

Okay, it is Friday, September 14th.

September 11th, 2001.

We looked at each other, all of us, all of us, and said, oh man, doesn't it feel good that the nonsense has stopped?

Doesn't it feel good that we're actually talking about things that matter in life?

I'm never gonna go back.

I'm gonna stay awake.

I said I'm gonna stay wide awake.

Look at us.

Let me ask you this.

We're still fighting a friggin' war that started in 2001.

We're still fighting it.

Can you name where our soldiers are?

Can you name the countries where our soldiers are?

Can you name what we're doing?

Can you tell me what we're doing?

Who we're fighting?

God forbid you say who we're fighting.

You can't say who we're fighting.

Well, how can we possibly win if we don't even know who we're fighting?

September 14th, 2001, we were beginning to see who we were going to fight.

We were going to fight people with a perverted idea of what the world should be like.

People who blew up these beautiful ancient statues carved from a mountain of Buddha.

You remember that?

They were World Heritage sites.

Blown up.

Because, well, that's Sharia law tells us to.

Molesting little girls, marrying them off at eight years old.

Female genital mutilation.

12th century, if that might have even made the 12th century look like barbarians.

Or the other way around.

Now, can we talk about it?

No.

No, we really can't.

Robert Spencer is a guy that we're going to have on the podcast this weekend.

You need to hear him.

Robert Spencer, and by the way, listen while you can.

This is the biggest message I have for you today.

Listen while you can.

Gather as much information

from people that you can.

Print it out.

I read everything on Kindle.

I'm stopping.

I'm buying every physical book I can

because you don't actually own that.

They can take that off your Kindle at any time.

There's nothing better than a library that can be erased, especially if it's politically incorrect.

Now, there's no evidence that that's happening or anybody's even thinking of that happening now, but it can.

And in a few minutes, I'll show you what Google is doing and tell me that it won't happen.

Here's Robert Spencer.

Robert Spencer is a scholar,

and he has been trying to warn the world about

what he says is Islam,

and he's technically correct if you look back to the Quran and you know what it means on how it's written, et cetera, et cetera.

This is the way, the way they're practicing it over in the Middle East is the way Islam is supposed to function.

But there are millions of people,

maybe 90%

of those who are

Muslim, don't agree with the old style.

But you have to know what the old style is because those are the people trying to kill us.

Here's a bit of the interview.

Some things that people would maybe disagree with.

Some things that people should do their own homework and go, wait a minute, he said this.

Let me look that up.

And go to original sources.

Yes.

But I haven't heard anything here that makes me say, well, I don't know anything that would make me say this, that you should be silenced.

Well, obviously, I don't think I should, but I think that anyone who speaks honestly about the nature of this threat and the fact that there are elements of Islam that give rise to violence.

This doesn't mean every Muslim is violent, but that the ones who are are able to justify their actions by recourse to the holy texts.

Anybody Anybody who speaks honestly about that is nowadays systematically targeted and vilified with an attempt to destroy and completely discredit him.

Do you...

Are we in McCarthy times?

Oh, yeah, this is worse than McCarthyism.

Those guys could work.

You know, they may have worked under pseudonyms, but they could work.

I mean, I'm still doing this, but there's no chance I could get any other kind of work, even under a pseudonym, because it would be ultimately discovered, and then that would be that.

And the idea that speaking honestly about the derivations of the jihad threat and its nature and magnitude today renders one a social pariah, I think is ridiculous and evidence of how topsy-turvy the world is, but that's how it is.

Here's a guy who's been deplatformed.

Completely deplatformed.

He is being squashed by all sides.

In fact, in something new that the left has discovered, which I think is absolutely insidious,

MasterCard has come out and said, we won't do any transactions on anything related to him.

This is the latest.

This is what they're doing now with gun control.

New York State has

encouraged those banking facilities to not do any transactions and not provide any financial services to those who manufacture guns or sell guns of a certain type.

You know, the weapon of war, otherwise known as the modern sporting rifle.

Is this the America you want to live in?

Now, shouting fake news

is not going to help us.

Actually talking about the issues will.

and actually finding ways to reach out to people who are on both sides of the aisle and I'm not talking about the crazies I'm talking about people who are beginning to wake up on both sides and saying wait a minute people are silencing speech

We cannot even fight a war if we can't identify who we're fighting or what we're fighting.

If we said we were just fighting the Germans and we were told we could not ever talk about Nazism,

let me ask you this.

If we couldn't talk about Nazism, if we weren't allowed to know what that was, would you feel comfortable with Germans today?

Because I wouldn't.

Of course you'd be racist.

Of course you'd be against the Germans and never trust them.

If you were told you can't talk about Nazism because it was the Nazi ideology that actually changed those people, and not all of them.

Hitler came in with 30%.

A lot of people went along with it, but why do they go along with it?

They went along with it for the same reason that there are people here in America that stay silent because their lives are at stake because of the zealots zealots that will kill them.

I'm going to take you to Google next.

And I'm going to show you what's happening in Google right now.

I want you to know

that the voices are being silenced.

I want you to know that I ask

Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin,

Ben Shapiro, Rush Limbaugh, everyone.

I think everyone on the right, we need to have a summit.

We need to have no press.

We need to have a summit

because voices are being silenced.

And someone needs to step to the plate that can provide a platform bigger than anything I can provide or you can provide that will guarantee voices not being silenced.

And it's going to require all of us to come out of our competitive nature.

It's going to require all of us to set aside our differences.

If I agree with you 80%,

or if you agree with me 80%,

it doesn't make you my enemy.

You're not 20% my enemy.

We agree on 80%.

We have to put our differences aside and the American people have got to start understanding what is happening in this country because it's not happening in Washington.

It's happening in Silicon Valley and in the banking sector.

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This week, it's Robert Spencer.

He has written the book History of Jihad.

I thought it was appropriate for September 11th.

He goes into the history of Jihad, where we've been, what we can say, what we can't say now.

This guy is under attack.

He comes with massive credentials, and

he's being shut out, and he's being deplatformed.

He is being silenced.

He is now under attack by MasterCard.

By the way, MasterCard has done this to someone else as well.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

We have so much to discuss and literally so little time.

I can't believe that three hours.

We can't get it all done, but we can't.

World is very, very complex, and there are many stories that are coming together.

Let me go back to Robert Spencer.

He is a guy who is

being deplatformed.

He is being deplatformed with financial services as well.

MasterCard will not do business with anyone who does business with him.

It's really, truly frightening.

This is worse than the McCarthy era.

This is a guy who is a scholar who wrote the history of jihad.

He is somebody who is very buttoned up.

You may not agree with him, but you have to know history before you start to make claims.

Have you read his work?

Or are you just knee-jerk reaction?

Here he is on

the the treatment he receives at universities.

The last chapter is called the West Loses the Will to Live.

And it is all about how our response to 9-11 and

all the two.

Can I take cut four, please?

Cut four.

I was speaking last year at the University at Buffalo, but I really didn't speak.

I just got yelled at for an hour and a half.

And I was standing there, and every now and then I would say something, but most of the time they were just yelling too loud.

I couldn't say anything.

But there was a young man in the audience.

He had a sign that said, queers against Islamophobia.

And so I had a manual of Islamic law with me, certified by Al-Azhar, the foremost institution in Sunni Islam, where Barack Obama went to give his outreach speech to the Muslim world in 2009.

And I opened it up and I started to read about how the homosexual should be killed, should be put to death, both him who gives and him who receives, the whole thing, very set out.

The whole place started to boo and boo and boo.

And I held up the book.

I said, you think I wrote this?

You think this comes from me?

And a young man came over in a kufi and a kaftan with the beard and he hugged the queers against Islamophobia guy and said, this is my best friend.

And I said, look, I didn't originate these laws.

Gays are being killed, put to death in Iran, in Saudi Arabia, in the ISIS domains, elsewhere, anywhere where Sharia is implemented.

Listen, here's a guy.

You can hear that whole interview.

It's fascinating, and I highly recommend it.

In fact, I would, I don't even know if you can do this, but I would burn it to DVD.

I highly recommend that you listen to this guy and make your own mind up, but do your own homework.

Find out why you disagree with him.

It will make you stronger either way.

So he's being silenced.

Now, we know that

Google, through some smuggled video, these guys think that, I mean, they just are terrified of America.

In fact, please play the Google executive on the move to Canada.

This is Eileen Notton.

She is the vice president of people operations at Google.

The second question is around internal mobility.

Can I move to Canada?

Now listen how she treats this.

This is after the election.

Now one could guesstimate that at least 50% of Americans are interested in moving to Canada right now

and that might mean maybe at least 50% of Googlers might be interested in moving to Canada.

Toronto and Waterloo can't handle us all, I'm afraid.

But she goes on to say, but we will move people.

I mean,

are you that unaware of what America is, what we represent, how important it is that we retain our Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

You want to move to Canada because you're afraid, what?

Your voice will be silenced?

What?

You'll be rounded up?

Did you see the story from England with the LBGPTBQIS LMNLP groups that are now talking about humane gulags for those people who are homophobic or transphobic because they have to be removed from society.

We are not a people that burn books.

We are not a people that silence people.

We cannot ever become those people.

Right now, Google is in bed with China.

They are developing Android devices, a Chinese search app for Android devices.

Now, they've turned this down before, but suddenly, for some reason, they want to get in bed with Google.

Or Google wants to get into bed with China.

So, this is, we've talked about this before.

This is extraordinarily dangerous if you know what's happening, China 2020, what their goal is, what they will unleash, because it's already in operation in three of the cities of China.

This is their stated goal of complete control of people, their communications, their thoughts, their actions, their spending, total control by 2020.

Now, you would think that an organization like Google wouldn't want to have anything to do with that.

But instead,

they are doing

development on an app code named Dragonfly.

It was designed to remove content that China's authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protests.

Google is in bed with China.

If they will help remove speech in China, what makes us think they will not do the same to us or are not doing the same to us now?

I'm going to read something

in a book that I find

frightening

on multiple levels.

And I really, really want to, I really want to sit down and talk to this guy.

I don't know if he will.

We've had him on the show before.

His name is Yaval Noah Harari.

And he's just written 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

I just want you to listen listen

to

what he has just

said

is coming.

The 21st century,

what is it really going to look like?

He says, even more important, the twin revolutions of infotech and biotech could restructure not just economies and societies, but our own bodies and minds.

In the past, we humans learned to control the world outside of us.

We had very little control of the world on the inside of us.

We knew how to build a dam and stop a river from flowing, but we didn't know how to stop the body from aging.

We knew how to design an irrigation system, but we had no idea how to design a brain.

If a mosquito buzzed in our ear and disturbed our sleep, we knew how to kill the mosquito.

But if a thought buzzed in our mind and kept us awake at night, most of us did not know how to kill the thought.

The revolutions in biotech and infotech will give us control of the world inside of us and will enable us to engineer and manufacture life.

We will learn how to design brains, extend lives, and kill thoughts at our discretion.

Still quoting, Nobody knows what the consequences will be.

Humans, after all, were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.

It is easier to manipulate a river by building a dam than it is to predict all of the complex consequences that this will have for the wider ecological system.

Similarly, it will be easier to redirect the flow of our minds.

Similarly, similarly, I can't even say that word, it will be easier to redirect the flow of our minds.

Then to divine what that will do to our personal psychology and our social systems.

In the past, we gained the power to manipulate the world around us and reshape the entire planet.

Because we didn't understand the complexity of the global ecology, the changes we made has inadvertently disrupted the entire ecological system.

And now we face an ecological collapse.

You can agree or disagree.

In the coming century, biotech and infotech will give us the power to manipulate the world inside us and reshape ourselves.

But because we don't understand the complexity of our own minds, the changes we will make will

we do not know the changes we will make that if they will upset our mental system to such an extent that we too may break down.

What are we doing talking

about tweets?

What are we doing

fighting about, you know, Norm McDonald said something, and so he's been kicked off the tonight show.

If we're kicking people off the freaking tonight show for having an opinion,

what do you think is coming our way?

If we have someone as powerful as Google getting in bed with a country as evil as China is

and helping them silence voices and information.

What makes you think they're not already willing to do this here?

This week, I've presented evidence from Media Matters.

They are already receiving raw data

on

all of the interactions online with Twitter and Facebook and YouTube.

they have access to the raw data?

Who else has access to our raw data?

I certainly don't.

Boy, I'd love to see that.

I bet Google, Facebook, YouTube wouldn't let me see it.

They are also now advising Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter

on

what's offensive and what's not, what's hate speech and what's not?

Are you comfortable with this?

Did you know they passed a big law in Europe?

Was it the UK?

Yes.

No, it was Europe.

Was it Europe overall, European Union law?

That said that now all of these big tech companies have to, if you ask for it, prepare all of this information and show you exactly what they have and give it to you.

So it's the idea being transparency, you own your data, all of that.

Of course, then you're giving all of this really important data to someone who's much less prepared and able to protect it from god only knows who's trying to find it from you know from hackers and things like that but it's interesting to see because now they have i think it's facebook has weekly standard and they've put them on the fact-checking team good right and it's a good thing right that it's you know you have a conservative uh organization that can actually look at these things well they fact-checked a think progress piece And now the left is making all the same arguments.

Now, this has happened to them one time, and it's happened to the right a zillion times, but they're making all the same arguments.

What?

We're just going to have a weekly standard come in here and say that our article is wrong?

Now they're saying they're going to cut the access for this think progress piece, which by the way, weekly standard was completely right on it.

It is a complete lie, but they're going to cut the reach of that article by 80%

because it's not true.

Now, they are right.

It isn't true.

It's typical think progress, and they lie all the time.

Are you comfortable with anyone

silencing anyone?

Because I am not.

I am not comfortable with the weekly standard telling anyone,

don't run that story or reduce its penetration.

And I'm not comfortable with anyone,

you know,

Media Matters, PolitiFactor, or anything telling anyone on the other side, don't run that.

I believe in the American people.

Treat us like adults, And more importantly,

respect the freedom of dissent, the freedom of speech, no matter how ugly it is.

It is the only way that people can remain free.

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By now, thanks to the incessant fear-mongering by Democrats, you're probably aware that American women are going to lose all of their rights.

We're going to keep them in cages as soon as Kavanaugh becomes Supreme Court Justice.

In fact, we're not even going to wait for him to be sworn in.

We're just, we're starting to, yeah, FEMA's, FEMA's already starting to acquire all the cages for women.

Now, of course, that's not true, but that hasn't stopped anyone from believing those kinds of

hysterics.

The anti-Kavanaugh hysteria now has inspired Democrats in Maine to get creative because one of their senators, sort of Republican Susan Collins, is considered a potential deciding vote in Kavanaugh's confirmation.

And they are threatening to donate a million dollars to her 2020 Democratic opponent unless Collins votes no on Kavanaugh.

Using a crowdfunding site called CrowdPack, two groups called Maine People's Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership posted a listing that says, people of Maine

are asking you to be a hero, Senator Collins.

If you fail to stand up for the people of Maine and for Americans across the country, every dollar donated to this campaign will go to your eventual Democratic opponent in 2020.

And we will get you out of office.

The The project has already received pledges from 37,000 people totaling over a million dollars.

And in a weird way, they're basically attempting to buy her vote.

In some circles, this would be known as bribery.

But the founding fathers couldn't have seen it, you know, on a crowdsourcing.

Senator Collins released a statement calling it extortion, and one of the groups behind the effort called her response politics at its worst.

Really?

The main group's twist is that if Collin votes no on Kavanaugh, they supposedly won't collect the pledges from their 37,000 donors, but they're still

using the pledged money to try to induce Collins to vote the way they want.

They're just not offering the money directly to Collins like your typical old-fashioned kind of bribe.

Like many poorly conceived schemes in our social media age,

Maine Democrats, I don't think you've thought this one through because bribery is a federal crime.

And just because, you know, this is kind of a hipster, an inverse bribe, several legal experts think this is technically still a bribe.

And could these groups be shooting themselves in the foot with this strategy?

What if, by trying to force Collins to vote no on Kavanaugh, they inadvertently cause her to vote yes, simply to avoid looking like she was influenced by their scare tactics?

And just when you thought politics couldn't get any more bizarre.

It's Friday, September 14th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

We go to Bill O'Reilly now,

who I know wants to lead with an apology because he said last week that he didn't think the

Bob Woodward book would sell, and now that it's

the biggest selling book of all time, including, I think, the Bible.

I'm sure he's going to lead with that.

Hello, Bill.

Well, let's be accurate.

I said I didn't think it would have legs.

The book would have legs in the sense that it will be a bestseller,

you know, for months.

Okay.

Can I ask you wrong on that?

I mean, look.

No, no, no.

I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

Have you read the book?

I have not.

Okay.

Stu has because I haven't had a chance to read it yet either.

I do the work that America doesn't want to do.

Correct.

And he brought up a really good point this morning.

Yeah, there's an interesting section, Bill.

I'd at least like to get your take on this part of it because the last chapter is actually, I took it as really favorable to Trump.

It's about the Russian collusion investigation with Mueller.

And Trump comes off as incredibly cooperative with Mueller.

The entire White House very cooperative with him, giving him everything he could possibly want, largely based on the idea that they were totally convinced they've done absolutely nothing wrong and they had nothing to hide.

They gave him much more than they even asked for.

And

this, you know,

a lot of the reporting has revolved around this comment that one of Trump's lawyers made to Trump when he said, you know, you'll be in an orange jumpsuit.

But

that's from that section.

And the section is very positive on Trump.

And it's not about collusion.

It's about the idea that Trump wanted to testify.

And Dowd, his lawyer, was like, look, it's a perjury trap.

They're going to find any way they can to trap you.

Yeah, this isn't even about Russia anymore.

They're going to trap you.

You can't do it no matter what.

no matter what, you just can't do it or you'll be in an orange jumpsuit.

That's a totally different story than what the press is reporting.

Well, I think Woodward himself is selling the book as,

excuse me,

a cautionary tale that if you put an inexperienced,

egotistical person in the White House, you're going to have chaos.

That's how Woodward himself is selling the book.

So I'm glad Stu read it.

I didn't know the last chapter was about that.

I had Ken Starr on the No Spin News on billorilly.com this week, and he said flat out that

what has been put forth so far,

there's no crime at all.

Right.

That's what Starr said.

Right.

Okay.

So

you get a position where if Woodward himself is going to say, look, I need to sell this book, and this is exactly what he did, to people who don't like Trump, because nobody who likes it is going to read the book, then I'm going to have to go negative and spin it that way.

And that's what you're seeing.

So, while you know how I feel about the media in general, I don't think it's a media play here.

I think it's a Woodward play.

Let me change topics here on Dianne Feinstein.

Oh, geez.

This is phenomenal.

Unbelievable.

Can you recap for anybody who doesn't know?

Yeah, I can give you an update, too.

Okay, give me the first.

Let's go for the recap, and then you can give the update.

All right.

I just want to re-emphasize how lucky you are to have me every Friday.

Oh, my gosh.

Bill, I get up every morning and I fall to my knees and I say thank you.

I mean, I'm on it and all that.

Right, I know.

So there's a letter that was given to a Democratic congressperson in California.

Pass it along to Dianne Feinstein this summer.

The letter was written by someone we have no idea who, that details something that happened to Brett Kavanaugh when he was in high school.

High school.

Yeah.

We don't know what.

Right.

And we don't know who.

And the person.

We don't know who the writer is, and we don't know what is in the letter.

Right.

And the person who gave it to Feinstein said, I don't want to press charges.

I don't want to get involved.

Don't want to get involved.

But here's the letter.

Yes.

So Feinstein sits on the letter.

Okay, instead of immediately turning it over to the FBI, he does background checks, and that's why the FBI is involved.

The FBI does background checks on all Supreme Court justice nominees.

Instead of immediately saying, you know, look, I don't know what this is, it could be totally bogus.

Here, FBI is a letter.

I'm going to wash my hands of it, and I'm not going to say anything about it.

No.

Feinstein sits on the letter and then allows someone in her staff, I believe,

I could be wrong, could be the congressperson, staff member, to leak it.

to leak that that this is, oh, this is some misconduct.

Don't I love that word, misconduct, on the part of Brett Kavanaugh when he was in high school.

Okay, so nobody knows whether it's true or not.

It's leak.

So it gets out.

Okay, so now, today, just about an hour ago,

The Guardian, not a reliable source, it's a far-left newspaper out of Britain.

Wait,

wait, wait, before you say anything.

Yes.

Stu, is there anything that happened in high school other than murder

or something like that?

Something that you did when you were 16 years old.

I mean, obviously a major crime.

A major crime.

Like, people do really dumb things that are awkward, but if there's a huge crime, obviously that would still happen.

You're raping people, you're killing animals.

Okay, we need to talk about that.

All right.

What did they say?

But it's misconduct.

Yes.

So you know what the flag is there.

You absolutely know what it is.

Everybody who the far left wants to destroy is guilty of misconduct.

So me too can get involved.

I mean, it's the biggest witch hunt in this country's history.

But I digress.

The Guardian reports, and again, unreliable newspaper, that Brett Kavanaugh and another kid were at a party, a high school party, whereupon they locked some girl in a room and ran away.

And the girl got out.

That's what they're reporting is in the letter.

Well, they locked her in the room and then they raped

No, they ran away.

They they locked her in the room and they fondled her?

No, they ran away.

They locked her in the room and

got very gender-specific with her?

I don't know.

We don't know what we're talking about because this is the Guardian.

I want to just make sure that everybody knows.

But even if it is The Guardian, if that's what you got.

They say that it's in the letter.

So even the New York Post, which is one of the top drivers of misconduct, even their editorial board said today,

this is a new low for the Democratic Party.

Now, I don't know whether I've seen lower things.

I think the Susan Collins stuff is lower.

The FBI

came out and said

they're not considering this.

They're not going to do anything on this in pursuit of it.

Of course not.

I mean, this is, and, you know, it's not been front and center on the cable news programs because of the category one now rainstorm in the Carolinas, which they hyped to death, and so they can't wedge this Kavanaugh thing in yet.

So that Kavanaugh got a break on that.

Okay, let me ask you this, Bill.

I got up this morning and I was listening to

The Daily.

It's the New York Times, you know, 20-minute update, and they do an interview with somebody, and it's fascinating to listen to.

And they had Bob Woodward on a couple of days ago, and

they were talking to him, and they started talking about

sources and hidden sources and unnamed sources and the importance of those.

And Bob was talking about the importance of those in the Nixon era.

And I kind of understand.

I mean, I think there is a place for unnamed sources, but you better trust the journalists and the organizations above them, which nobody does now.

But what I was concerned about is if we are really just going to start to accept unnamed sources, things like she just did,

no one's going to survive.

Only the person with the loudest megaphone and the biggest number of mob members behind them will be able to survive.

Look, it's reached critical mass and everybody knows it.

And by the way, Beck, did you listen to that podcast before or after you were on your knees thinking that I was on your program today?

During.

During.

Yeah, I'm like, dear baby Jesus, help me with one ear

listen to the podcast from the New York Times

and the other side of my mouth.

Thank you for Bill O'Reilly.

Okay.

So I think that everybody in America who's fair-minded, which I would put it about 50% of the population,

understands now that if you are in politics, if you have any political

sway or influence, that you are going to be accused.

It's a matter of when, not if.

And you're going to be accused most likely of misconduct.

Okay?

Now, it doesn't matter whether there's any truth to it.

It doesn't matter

what it is.

It's going to hit you and hurt you.

The extent of the harm, I think, is going to decline because now people are going every blanken day.

We see another headline about another person, usually a man in power, who's accused of misconduct.

In the long run, this hurts anybody who is actually being hurt by somebody powerful.

This whole movement is so misguided and such a witch hunt and

empowered for political purposes.

The whole movement is not a witch hunt, but there are elements of it that have been.

I think the movement,

the idea of the.

Wait a minute, Stu.

Hold on.

Yeah.

Have you seen any call from the quote-unquote movement for due process?

Yeah, I haven't.

I mean, certainly there's been calls for Harvey Weinstein to be prosecuted for his crime.

Yeah, but I don't think that's

the situation.

That's regular people, I think.

That might say

law enforcement.

Okay, that's a different situation.

That's That's not an anonymous letter handed to a politician

who leaks it to the press.

Right.

I guess if you're saying that people who might hashtag me too

because they want this to stop and they think that the bad guys should go to jail or pay a price for it, if that's what you would consider the movement, but I look at the movement like the people who are at the very top of Black Lives Matter, they are not the same people necessarily that are marching in the streets.

Their goals and the goals of the people who are marching in the streets are a lot different.

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Mr.

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Bill, let me play a piece of audio from

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

She's being interviewed on stage, and she's asked about the process that we're going through with Kavanaugh.

Listen to this.

How would you compare the process that you went through with what's going on today in that process?

The way it was

was

right.

the way it is is

wrong.

The atmosphere in

93

was truly bipartisan partisan.

The vote on my confirmation was 96

to 3.

Even though I had spent about 10 years of my life

litigating cases under the auspices of the ACLU board, ACLU, and I was on the ACLU board and one of their general counsel.

But that's the way it should be.

Okay, stop.

Bill, here she is saying, you know, the Republicans let me pass, even though I was on the ACLU board and I was litigating things for the ACLU.

They would never,

the Democrats would go crazy now if

any candidate had done anything for even the Heritage Foundation.

What does this tell you about what she just said?

Well,

you know, I'm of two minds on this.

I think the justice is being honest and describing what happened to her and then what's happening now.

I think the three

people who voted against her in the Senate were probably right.

I mean, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has done a lot of damage to the country.

And she admits that she is not

looking to uphold the Constitution that she believes the Constitution is evolving.

Correct.

So therefore, she can vote on whatever her politics are.

So

here's the problem, isn't it?

That everyone is, they want somebody on their side.

A judge should be selected because the Constitution or the rule of law is the side that they're on.

I mean, if we had people that were deciding things on the Constitution, based on the Constitution,

the world would be a much different place, and we could advise and consent.

But nobody's looking to the Constitution as its basis.

They're looking at policies.

But that's never going to happen again in America.

So what's the cliche?

The genies left the bottle, the horses out of the barn.

Then shouldn't we have

it's not going to happen?

Okay, then shouldn't we have a entirely shouldn't we have an entirely different conversation then about

what we want going forward?

But there's no we anymore.

It's them versus us.

Look,

look at the sanctuary cities policy, okay?

So these people get elected and they're sworn to uphold the Constitution, correct the mayors and the governors and all these people i'm gonna they raise their hand i'm gonna okay

all right well let's pick this up let's pick this up when we come back we have just a couple of seconds when we come back pick it up there

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

So we started this conversation with Bill O'Reilly a few minutes ago where, you know, he said that it's just not going to happen to where we're going to advise and consent anymore.

We're not not going to find those people

who are

just wanting to read the Constitution as it was written

because we're too highly divided now and we've politicized all this.

Do I have that right, Bill?

Yes.

And the best example is sanctuary cities.

The mayors and the governors take an oath upon their swearing in.

I'll uphold the Constitution.

The Constitution says that you follow federal, state, and local law.

If you're a citizen, this is your duty as a citizen.

And all of a sudden the governors and mayors say, no, we're not going to follow federal law on immigration.

We're going to do what we want.

Correct.

So when you reach a point, and that is an extreme point, people should understand it.

It's been mainstreamed by the media, but it isn't mainstream.

Okay, this is basically repudiating the law of the land and embracing anarchy.

Once you reach that point where it's acceptable for public servants, whether they're judges or elected officials, to discard the Constitution at will, then you have what you have now, where nothing matters other than my politics.

Okay, so you said we're not going back there.

We're not going back to a point.

No, it's not going to happen.

So then

this is an honest question.

This is an honest question.

Right now, we're in a world where if we're all being honest with each other, The left, the Democrats, they were not voting for Hillary.

Most of them were voting against Trump.

And most of the people that voted for Trump were voting against Hillary.

It's not what they were for.

It was what they were against.

And we are now entering a time where we are so afraid of my side being silenced that I will vote for someone that will silence them instead.

That's not good.

Am I wasting my breath and my...

You know, I think there are Americans who are genuinely enthusiastic about liberal causes in the Democratic Party and vice versa, traditional causes and the Republican Party.

I think there are.

But the fear that we're going to be a socialist country does drive a lot of people to vote for Donald Trump and Republicans.

There's no doubt about it.

Right.

And

it's...

It's not an unbased fear when you have candidates who last night in New York, and I'd love to touch base with you on this,

you know, are socialists.

They're declared socialists.

And there's a difference between somebody who who wants a welfare state and somebody who wants socialism.

I mean, even the president of, what was it, Denmark, I think, came over to the United States and said, I just want you to know, Bernie Sanders keeps saying we're a socialist country.

We're not.

We're a capitalist country that has a lot of welfare.

That's different.

So I get that.

But I just want to ask you, again, this one last question.

Because I feel like you're saying to me, Glenn, it's not coming back.

Well, if it's not coming back, then I'm wasting my time fighting for something that means nothing to anyone.

I believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I believe once we are somehow or another reminded that that's what stops all of this nonsense, we'll return.

But if we're not returning, then we should have a different discussion, and that is, okay, socialism or what?

Well, there are politicians and there are people in the judiciary, i.e., judges, who will uphold the Constitution back.

I was told by someone

whose name you would know in Congress just in the last few weeks, and they said to me, Glenn, I can count the number of people in Washington in power that actually believe in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

I'm not that cynical.

I think there are people who do believe it, and those are the people that you have to vote for.

And and you have to promote what their policies are if you believe the person sincere.

But when you see how Cynthia Nixon,

and I'll remind everybody that she played Nancy Reagan in my movie Killing Reagan,

I know the woman for a little bit,

how insane,

insane, her policies are.

They're not misguided.

They're not wrong.

They're insane.

They would destroy the state of New York.

Okay.

35% of the Democratic Party voted for her.

Because, A, they don't know anything.

And B, they like to destroy the state.

They want to destroy the country.

Wait, wait, wait.

May I translate and see if this is a fair translation?

They don't.

Let me rephrase it.

And if it's not fair, tell me so.

When you say something like that, if I'm a Democrat, I'm like, you know what?

They don't want to destroy New York.

They live in New York.

So, rephrasing,

they are looking at her policies and they think that these are going to work.

And in my opinion, they're completely uninformed because we have a long list of history that shows they don't work.

And

they don't think that what's happening now is working.

Wrong, Beck.

Okay, why?

The money Democrats voted for Cuomo, 65%.

The people with assets, the people who have very expensive apartments in Manhattan and cars and jobs, did not vote for Nixon.

But 35% of people who live in New York City don't have anything.

They live in rent control.

They live in public housing.

They They barely get by.

Right, and they don't think that this is going to blow it all because they don't think that this system is working.

Right.

Because no one is telling them and showing them that it is, but they just think it's not working.

So it's not that they,

I don't think the average Trump voter, when he says, I want to burn the system down, he doesn't mean I don't want to live in America anymore.

He means this, what's happening in Washington, D.C., is not working.

Now, I'd like like to...

But it's not the same thing.

I mean, one is real life and trying to get by and support your family and put food on the table.

And the other is theoretical.

We don't want a PC nation.

We don't want these politicians who lie to us.

We want a much more in-your-face situation where we know if Trump says he's going to do something, he'll do it.

So it's different.

But what I'm trying to get across to you is that the gulf is so huge

between Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Stu, people who have actually worked hard, got an education, tried very hard in the marketplace to succeed, and

have

actually gotten some success in a system

of capitalism.

No, but wait a minute.

But

in a system of capitalism where, quite honestly, it was stacked against us.

I mean, I would be much more.

I don't want to have anybody feeling sorry for me.

I can't.

No, no, no.

I'm not asking for that.

I'm not asking for that.

I'm just saying we do know what it's like to be in.

We had to overcome.

We had to.

Yeah, I mean, not, I don't even use that phrase, but yes.

But there's a cadre, and it comes out of the university system in the high schools, and embraced by the media of victimization.

The mob, okay, that and they tell you you can't make it, white privilege, okay?

You're never going to succeed no matter what you do.

This is the victimization movement.

And that's what you're seeing with Cynthia Nixon and Bernie Sanders.

They're trying to whip up this victimization that

we'll give stuff to you because you can earn it.

no matter what you do.

It's an unfair system.

So that's the gulf.

That's what we're seeing.

You wrote an op-ed today about evil.

And I want to talk to you about this because it does revolve around your book a bit.

And you're saying that

it's,

you know, people historically don't stand up against evil.

And

I think there is a chance that people stand up against evil,

but we have to be very, very careful on encouraging them to do so because we can push them into the arms of evil really easily.

And I think that's happening right now.

There are two aspects of my vantage point on evil.

And you were right.

It comes off writing killing the SS.

And one of the shocking things about that book is that the concentration camp guards of Nazi Germany were merchants and farmers and bankers.

They're the average person.

Yeah, they were just people before the war who was walking down the street and all of a sudden they're killing babies and walking away having dinner.

You need to read that.

You need to absorb it because there's evil in every human being.

Every single human being has a capacity for evil, and you have to recognize it and you have to fight against it.

Now, externally, we're living in a country now where we have mass killings in high schools, we have thousands of poor black people being shot in the streets in Chicago, we have clergy molesting children.

What do you think that is?

Evil.

That's evil.

All right.

And on a much lesser basis, but something visible, we have betrayal of human beings by their spouses.

We have the media trying to tear people apart for ideological reasons.

We have a justice system that doesn't render justice many times.

All of this is evil.

And we're not seeing politicians say, you know what?

We've got to really get the Chicago situation under control.

Have you seen anybody do that?

No.

No.

No.

And I'm I'm sitting there going, how much evil do you have to see before you mobilize against it?

And that's why I wrote this killing the SS.

Because Germany before World War II

is not different than the United States in 2018.

No, it's really not.

It's the same people

doing the same things to try to struggle to make a living.

in an atmosphere that was increasingly difficult.

And what did they do?

They surrendered en masse to evil.

And you need to know what happened there because it could certainly happen here and is happening to some extent.

This Holocaust that we're seeing in Chicago, this bothers me to the core of my being.

We're letting in poor blacks who are un who are defenseless, okay, and we don't do anything about it.

Where's the National Guard?

Why aren't they on the streets of Chicago stopping the 150 shootings every weekend?

Why?

They could be there, but they're not there.

Who gives a damn about them?

No one.

That's evil.

Bill O'Reilly, it is always good to talk to you.

We'll talk to you again next week.

You can find Bill O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.

BillO'Reilly.com.

His new book comes out the 18th,

Killing the Nazis.

The 9th of October.

Oh, the 9th.

The 9th of October.

You're going to be first in line, even though I sent you a free copy.

I read it, too.

I'll buy another one.

I read it, too.

I don't know about that, but I read it.

It's excellent.

It's excellent.

Thank you.

The 9th of October.

Bill O'Reilly, thank you so much.

BillO'Reilly.com.

Interesting.

You're talking about the Supreme Court and how Bill was saying it will never go back.

And it certainly feels that way.

We should also, though, recognize how recent a phenomenon this is.

I mean, as Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out, she was confirmed 97, or what was it, 96?

96-3.

Then Breyer was 87-9.

Then John Roberts, 78-22.

Sam Alito, 58-42.

Soda Mayor.

Now, this is under Obama.

Soda Mayor, 68-31.

Elena Kagan, 63-37.

And then finally, Gorsuch at 54 and Kavanaugh question mark.

He'll be lucky to get to 50 or 51.

Amazing.

It's not a recent thing.

It's a Trump thing.

It does.

It's a Trump thing and it's a Garland thing.

I think they think

they got so ripped off by the Garland thing, which we've covered before,

is not true.

But still, that's part of it, I think.

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Somewhere in a dark newsroom, an age-old editor is levitating.

Eyes glowing like radioactive soil.

Because an unprecedented event has taken place right in front of our eyes.

A puzzling miracle.

Something not seen in journalism in years.

The Associated Press has criticized

Obama.

I whisper his name because

out of

out of reverence.

The AP Guard has turned against their wizard leader.

The Army has mutinied against their commander.

The AP has always loved Obama.

They had a crush on him, more of an obsession, really.

They've always stored up their animus and directed it at one person,

anybody on the right, but now Donald Trump.

Well, Trump and everyone around him, you know,

they go as so far to even mock.

you know, First Lady Melania's hat on one occasion, insulted her fashion, her appearance, while all, you know, joining in on the championing of social justice, immigration, and women's rights, but that's another conversation for another day.

The article's title,

quote,

AP Fact Check.

Obama doesn't always tell the straight story, end quote.

Wait, what?

I mean, I've gotten used to reading the headlines: you know, AP Fact Check, Trump Ruins America, or AP Fact Check, Reality Star Embarrasses Country, or AP Fact Check, Orange Man, bad.

But here's the opening line of the article: former President Barack Obama's recent denunciation of President Donald Trump's treatment of the press overlooks the aggressive steps the Justice Department took to keep information from the public during his administration.

What is happening?

I feel like a wormhole is opened up, and all of us we've

appeared in yet another parallel universe.

Obama quoting, Obama also made a problematic claim that Republicans sabotage

and that has cost 3 million people their health insurance, end quote.

Then they break down all the lies that Obama committed.

Again,

quick,

check the AP story before it's sucked back into another vortex or another universe.

Quote, Obama.

It shouldn't be Democrat or Republican to say that we don't threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or publish stories we don't like.

I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down or call them enemies of the people, end quote, Rally Friday, University of Illinois.

The facts, according to the AP, the facts, Trump may have used extraordinary rhetoric to undermine trust in the press, but Obama

arguably went farther using extraordinary actions to block the flow of public information to the public.

Wait, hold it.

Wait.

Again,

Stu.

Are you reading that right?

Are you reading that ACT?

You're reading it with me, are you not?

But maybe

I don't understand.

This can't be happening.

Are you married to Lisa in this universe?

Oh, yeah, still.

Wow, okay.

That one is.

Well, then you traveled with me.

So I don't know what universe this is.

They just said Obama went farther than Trump in undermining the press.

Overall.

Dare I say great thing?

A sign the AP might even be trying to regain some of its ability to do actual journalism, but I'm, I mean,

I don't like to throw the word trauma around, but I think I might have some sort of shock that I'm in.

I mean,

they actually said that Obama's rhetoric to the press was worse than Trump's is because he took action.

Oh, crap.

Is this the last day on earth?

Is Jesus coming today?

Because I think...

I think the AP turning on Obama and saying, no, no, no, Trump is bad, but did you you see what this guy did?

I think I hear the hoofbeats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

It's Friday, September 14th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Can we have an adult conversation here for a second?

And that means that we're going to have one that is going to be filled with some puzzlement and some conjecture and some

worries that are not provable and not even.

They're just

human beings meeting together, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

Did you see what happened in Andover,

Massachusetts yesterday?

The fire, the explosions?

Yeah, that was very strange.

Why?

What is that?

There were 70 fires and explosions yesterday.

70.

They were all part, apparently, we still don't know, but apparently they were all something to do with the gas lines.

So if your house was on this gas line,

it just blew up.

And over a thousand people in this area had to get out.

And there's, it was,

it was Merrimack Valley, which has, I think, three towns in it, Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover.

One person died in a chimney from a house explosion,

and

he wasn't in the chimney.

The chimney

blew out and fell on his car, and he was in the car.

There are 20 people in the hospital.

One is in critical condition.

I'm just looking here.

One is in serious condition.

10 people

are being treated for

shock and trauma because of the explosion, but they don't know what caused it.

They had to depressurize all of the lines and clear all the lines of gas, and that's what stopped it.

But they're still working on the fires today.

70.

Now, that, I mean, we have to find out what happened there,

and obviously they will.

But this is the kind of thing I am not saying this is what happened

but this is the kind of thing that should wake us up to the kind of attacks that I think can be done in cyber warfare

I don't know if these gas lines were connected to the internet

But this is the kind of thing that can happen when somebody hijacks

You know a utility.

they can make these things happen.

I am not saying that's what did.

No, but you're, yeah, right.

I mean, they've talked about attacks on infrastructure through cyber means for a long time.

Correct.

And this is the way it would manifest itself.

This could just have been some, I don't know what, and they don't know what, and I'm sure they will find out.

But this is the kind of thing that you have to mentally

understand.

This is the kind of thing, if we go into

war, God God forbid, war has always been fought someplace else.

But Vladimir Putin said the next war, World War III, and he has claimed we are already in it,

he said the next war will be fought with ones and zeros.

And that's the way it manifests itself.

Now, imagine that happening all over the country.

I mean, how do you, how do you survive?

I mean, that's,

if you could do that

in places all over the country, holy cow.

I will say to Vladimir that it can't be the next war if we're already in it.

Well, I can't.

Then it's the next war after this.

You tell Vlad to Taylor that.

Got it, Vlad.

I will transmit that to Vladimir

when I have the opportunity after the election.

That's very good.

Yeah, it's scary.

And it's,

you know, there's been a lot of talk about this recently.

They actually go through some of this in the Woodward book as well on

cyber attacks and how that's manifested itself and whether

the U.S.

has flirted with the idea over the past few years to

use cyber attacks against

North Korea and other regimes,

Iran was another, to try to show that we have those capabilities without starting a massive new war.

Correct.

And it's a tough line because

those things, they are real,

that's real warfare.

And they're trying to now kind of come up with a policy, and this has happened through the end of Obama and the beginning of Trump's administration, as to how to treat those things.

Because do we treat

a cyber attack from North Korea as if they bombed us?

And you might think off the top of your head, well, no.

I mean, it's a cyber attack.

I mean, you know, maybe we respond in kind.

But as you point out here, these cyber attacks can lead to real people dying.

This isn't always a problem.

If a massive cyber attack,

if a massive cyber attack happened on the United States of America,

massive, more people would die than from the bombs that we dropped.

I mean,

you could shut down power

for a very long time.

You use an EMP.

You could shut it down for a year plus, but you could shut down power.

You could shut down

any kind of power or communication in areas in a snowstorm or a heat wave.

I mean, you could shut down

medical centers.

What happens if you could shut down the eastern seaboard?

How many people would die?

What kind of chaos would happen?

We saw a little example of this with Puerto Rico, right?

I mean, they lost power.

They just got it back

over the full island last month, I believe it was.

It's been a year.

And, you know, the estimates are about 3,000 people died.

And by the way, Trump took a lot of heat for his tweeting about

the amount of people who died.

And of course, I don't know exactly what he thinks happened.

But it is a very strange process that gets us to that number.

This is not a number of, like, hey, here's a bunch of people who got crushed by trees.

Here are their births, their death certificates.

That's how many people we have.

That's how, if it happened in Iowa, right, that is exactly how we would have to go.

We would know the names of people.

We would know all their names.

We would be able to count them.

When people die, you individually count how many there are.

Right.

And

you might say there's, you know, missing.

Right.

You might say missing for a while.

But like in the Liberian Civil War, we might estimate how many people have died because it's almost, you know, in Darfur, we might have to estimate.

Nobody has paperwork.

In Iowa, you don't do that.

Right.

Like, these are American citizens.

The way they found out the number of people who died is the government came up with an

got an independent study done to calculate the estimated excess deaths that occurred on the island in the time period following the hurricane so they didn't get a bunch of like here's a bunch of death certificates they instead have a estimate i mean this is the last line of the new york times story about how they came up with this number the actual number of excess deaths again not deaths caused by the hurricane but they're just estimating how many people should have died in puerto rico from other causes and then adding they're saying the number went over that by 3,000 and saying, well, they must have died from the hurricane.

And it goes like this.

The actual number of excess deaths was statistically estimated to be in the range of 2,658 to 3,290.

So they can't come, they can't get it narrowed down to 600 or 700 different people.

These are U.S.

citizens we're talking about.

At best, you could say, look, they're just getting their power back, et cetera, et cetera.

And it could be these numbers.

It could be a lot less.

I mean, imagine if we said, you know, how many people died in the World Trade Center?

Initially, we thought it was going to be, could be 20 or 30,000.

Right.

Right.

I mean, and then we instead we just said, how many people in New York over this time period

should have died?

Yeah, should have died, and how many did die?

Right.

And it's a little higher, so we'll assume all those people died in the World Trade Center.

That's insane.

Yeah.

That's insane.

It might be a good way to start if you have nothing else, but you should follow that up with, but the number is truly unknown.

And until they get back on their feet, and people are like, whatever happened to Uncle Bill,

then

you can count them.

That's incredible that that's

possible in the United States.

It's really nuts.

And people don't think of Puerto Rico as the United States.

They vote.

They pay taxes.

They are part of the United States.

It's obscene that

this has been going on this long.

We have 7,000 troops ready to go in North Carolina and South Carolina right now.

7,000 troops have been ready to go in.

Puerto Rico?

How many troops were there for how long?

And would any of us have accepted that North Carolina just didn't have power for a year?

No way.

No way.

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Okay.

Look, can we talk a little bit about the latest scandal?

Finally.

Finally.

Yeah, we've been trying to hide it.

Yep, we've been trying to hide it all day, but we can't do it anymore.

Nikki Haley, big Trump administration scandal.

New York Times nailed her.

Nikki Haley's view of New York is priceless.

Her curtains?

$52,701

for curtains.

Do we know how

big the windows were?

Does it even matter?

Well,

kind of matter.

Well, A, if they were, you know, three-block long curtains, probably that's a good deal.

If they were in her house or her office,

it's in her inner residence.

It's in the residence for the U.S.

ambassador.

So it's in the ambassador's residence.

Yes.

So in other words, the place where the leaders from all around the world come.

Oh, I see where you're going.

You're trying to justify this.

You know what?

Yeah,

I didn't justify

Ben Carson's, you know, I don't remember what it was, $20,000 dining table.

He's a government official working in a government building.

You're not bringing in the world.

You're not bringing, you've got a bunch of government people working around a table.

You can have a card table as far as I'm concerned.

Stop.

However,

the ambassador is like, the ambassador's residence is a little like the Oval Office.

I don't care if you go a little crazy on decorating that.

You're projecting something.

You can't get $5,000 curtains, though, Nikki.

You can't get $1,000 on curtains.

That's not enough for you.

$52,000.

You purchased a thousand New York.

You ever purchased anything in New York?

Well, sandwiches are about $52,000.

But yes, I have.

I know it's expensive.

Right.

But let's be honest, that's ridiculous.

And thank God the New York Times is there to step in and say, hey, Nikki, that's too much money.

We're calling Nikki Haley out on that $52,000 expenditure.

Good job, New York Times.

And I see that some other people are getting on this now, too.

Jake Tapper has tweeted about this.

Oh, boy.

And he notes in the sixth paragraph of that New York Times story,

a spokesman for Miss Haley,

now having to answer for this, you know, said plans to buy the curtains were made

in

2016 during the Obama administration.

Miss Haley had no say in the purchase.

Elaborating, a source said, tells CNN, it was decided well before the election in 2016 that the U.S.

ambassador's residence would move from the Waldorf to its new location.

The new location was unfurnished and unfinished.

In June of 2016, it was decided that the State Department's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations would outfit the new residence.

This is standard operating procedure for ambassadors' residences across the globe.

In July of 2016, the first site visit was complete, and they chose those curtains in the summer of 2016.

You might notice that being before the election of Donald Trump.

Also,

standard

operating procedure: they do not personalize residences to individual ambassadors' tastes.

This isn't about blaming Obama and Power, who was the

ambassador at the time.

It's standard operating procedure for outfitting ambassadors' residences.

The outfitting of this residence happened to start in 2016, but Ambassador Haley had no choice in the location of the residence or what curtains were picked out.

Okay, so you know what's really interesting is Jake Tapper just

says, wait a minute, hang on just a second, read the sixth paragraph.

In the sixth paragraph, it says all of that, and yet the headline of the New York Times, this is the only thing people read usually, is look at how bad Nikki Haley is.

Awful.

Unbelievable.

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Welcome to Pat Gray.

Hi, Pat.

Glenn.

Good to see you.

Good to see you.

I can see it.

I can see it in your eyes.

Seething.

Seething outrage on something today.

You know what?

I thought I was the only one who was confused about this Puerto Rican death toll number that Trump said is not accurate.

It's not true.

It very well may not be.

And so I was glad to hear you guys saying that it was confusing and not conclusive, too.

They came up with a number of 3,000 from a George Washington University study.

They're guessing, really.

They just found death tolls or the number of people who died before in Puerto Rico in non-disaster years.

And it was about 3,000 more this time.

So they just attributed them all to the storm.

And that's

a good first start.

Right.

But that's not something that you say that's how many people and die on your sword over.

And they're acting like he is denying science or something.

That's not a scientific number.

Right.

It's a guess.

It's a guess.

Yeah.

Now,

it might be hard.

It might be higher.

It might be higher.

But it it might be lower.

Considerably lower.

Could be.

We don't know, but CNN is attacking him as if it were hardcore fact.

Like they found a pile of 3,000 bodies.

They didn't.

That's not how it worked.

Yeah, I mean, it seems like this study is our current best guess, is probably the best way to put it.

And look,

they did do what they did in a scientist.

Listen to the process here.

Our excess mortality study analyzed past mortality patterns in order to predict the expected expected mortality if Hurricane Maria had not occurred.

And compare this figure to the actual deaths that occurred.

They were guessing at

the new number?

They didn't even use last year.

That's a matter of fact.

They were predicting

predicting what it would have been this year.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh, that makes it even worse.

I didn't know it was a predicted number.

Yeah, the difference between those two numbers is the estimate of excess mortality.

Okay, which would be fine if you say, and this is our best guess estimate at this time.

And this happened a couple of months ago.

A different study came out with a relatively similar number.

It was over 2,000, I believe.

And that one was not treated like this one is.

That one was like, okay, here's our first kind of the first kind of look at it.

This one's just like absolute fact.

And we know I can with 100% certainty tell you it is not the is not absolute fact because as the actual as the New York Times story points out, the actual actual number of excess deaths was statistically estimated to be in the range of 2,658 to

3,290.

So

they only have an estimate of 700 or so.

They think it's somewhere in the middle of it, and they're highlighting this 2,975 number.

Now, look, I do think it's likely to be, and we've kind of all said this since the beginning, it's likely to be higher than whatever it was 60 or 60, 000.

You have to,

you know.

Think of of the people who

didn't have electricity.

Think of the number of people who just died because they couldn't get insulin.

Yeah.

I mean, they didn't have the numbers

and you know,

contamination and diseases people may have picked up.

And I mean, all this is.

The number is going to be huge.

But can we, can we just stop with this

I know the answer and anyone who says, I mean, it's crazy.

You know what it reminds me of is Hitler.

I wasn't going to go quite there.

Inquisition.

Something slightly more recent.

McCarthyism?

No.

It's more recent than that, even.

The nine-year-old who came up with the statistic on straws.

Yeah.

Oh, gosh, that was really good.

He called a couple of companies, and they threw out numbers to him, and that became hardcore fact.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's true.

Or like the giant.

500 million or billion or whatever it was.

Or the giant garbage pile in the middle of the garbage pile that does not exist.

Right?

It's not a real thing.

Listen to this, though.

This is amazing.

The proposed next phase of the George Washington Washington study will examine the death certificates.

That's the next phase.

They haven't done this yet.

The next phase will examine the death certificates recorded in the months after the hurricane.

Can you believe they didn't do that yet?

I can't believe that.

You haven't done that.

How could you release the information?

Well, until you've done that.

And again,

I tend to place less blame on George Washington here than the media because the media is the one saying this is a hardcore fact.

You know,

listen to this.

They will look at the death certificates, and then they will, quote, try to determine through interviews with family members and others whether individual deaths should be attributed to the storm.

And the thing is, they haven't done that yet.

Everybody assumes that's how they came to the number.

You know, they either found them or these people were missing and they went to the families and they died.

This right-wing site, nytimes.com.

Okay, that's what I thought.

You know what's interesting?

Listen to this.

Last two paragraphs, by the way, to point out in the sense.

See, it is.

Last two.

It's crazy.

It's amazing the new york times gets a bad rap as they don't report anything they don't report the news no

they do now

they always put it at the bottom all of the facts that change the the whole narrative are at the bottom they miss they they they lead people astray with their headlines but All of the facts are there.

Whose fault is that?

It's our fault because we don't don't read the damn story.

And then we say, New York Times didn't report the facts.

They got the facts wrong.

And the New York Times can actually say, we're not fake news.

We reported that.

And they did.

They buried it.

They buried it.

They give you a misleading headline.

And then they stay silent

when it is in their favor to bash Trump.

But they still did report the facts.

Yeah.

And they do.

I mean, look, they do some, you know, New York Times does some amazing work.

Some of it is because they have resources that nobody else has.

I mean, their reporting on the Vegas shooting, some of the stuff they did for that was incredible.

I mean, like, they pieced together hundreds of cameras and pieces of audio to walk through that timeline.

It's incredible reporting.

They do, they just blow it a lot, like the Nikki Haley thing we just talked about, where, you know, $52,000 curtains, but it was actually in the Obama administration.

And actually, even the Obama administration had no specific control over the current.

But it was in there.

But it was in there.

It was in paragraph six.

Right, but it was in there

but the headline said nikki haley's got fifty three thousand dollar curtains look at her nice view right and it's like all right that's just a terrible so that gets shared the headline gets shared wow and they get what they want out of it but they did actually report it in there so it's not fake news the reporter can say i'm not lying

even though they buried it it's the headline that is misleading but they can honestly say i'm not lying to you i'm telling you and i did and i had those facts in the story and And when those facts are in the story, it becomes a non-story.

That's not even a story anymore.

No, it's not.

So the whole thing is ridiculous.

No.

That they even put that in the paper.

Here it is.

Here's the headline.

Government out of control, $52,000 curtains in new ambassadors' residence.

Right.

Okay.

That's the story.

Because it's really not.

I mean, $52,000 for the ambassador where you're bringing people in and heads of state and everything else.

And it's not for, it was done by one administration.

It'll be done again by the next administration.

That's not really a story.

I think the argument is,

should we be spending that to project power for our ambassador in New York City or not?

That's the

fair.

That's a fair question.

That's a fair question.

But you don't pin that on Nikki Haley.

No, no.

That's incredible.

But again,

you see where the split is by us claiming fake news for two stories that cover the facts, albeit, again, I grant you,

buried the story, you know, buried the actual facts that exonerate.

They were still in there

by saying this is fake news.

They never report the facts.

The people who actually do read the stories all the way, and when you subscribe to the New York Times many times, at least I do, you read the whole story.

And when you're reading the whole story you're like no it they've they've got all of that in there which discredits us instead of discrediting them because we're arguing something that isn't true we should be arguing the skewing of the news not the reporting of falsehoods and you know look the the times is the bigger uh problem here than us right like they they have made that this is a the a legitimate mistake uh at the very least and i think uh worse than that with that headline about nikki haley i mean it's deliberately

to make her look bad when she did nothing wrong.

Yep.

Deliberately skewed.

That's really, really bad.

Yep.

But you're right.

It's different than saying, it's like when people say climate change is a hoax, right?

I don't like that terminology at all because, and you know, I'm one of the biggest climate

skeptics you're going to find.

Yes.

But what I really don't like about that is it's so easy for them to say,

it's not a hoax.

Well, what they've done with it is the hoax.

You're right.

Like what they want to do, the policies they want to do, those are bad policies.

And the approach

is wrong.

The catastrophism.

Yeah, the scaremongering is bad.

But just saying climate change is a hoax is such an easily defeatable thing to so many people.

Because look, there are scientific measures that show some of these things are going on.

What's the best way for us to handle it, right?

Like, do we go in and say that we should adapt to these things as we go or spend trillions of dollars now when there's there's hungry people all over the place.

Just got a friend who's a kind of a lefty Democrat, not really a lefty.

I sent him my book, and he said,

best position I think I've ever heard on climate change.

Oh, really?

And that's the position I took.

Look,

it's what you want to do that's wrong.

That doesn't work.

That doesn't work.

And I showed how people are using climate change to be able to call each other liars when get out of that conversation.

Stop that argument.

That's not the argument.

And once we know what the argument is and we know

where you can actually open people's minds and find the common ground with the not the zealots, but the average person, all of a sudden it's a game changer.

Because all of a sudden you go, oh, wait a minute.

Okay, you are kind of reasonable.

They say that to you.

You are kind of reasonable.

Shields go down, and you can actually have a conversation.

By the way, if I could just tease the fact that we're going to take a break from Insanity Hour 2 of Pac Ray Unleashed today with Moron Trivia.

What was it last?

It was right.

It was right last week.

More on Trivia.

It didn't look right, though, right?

It was 100%.

Right.

Yeah.

It was 20 to nothing at halftime, and people came back and won.

Moron Trivia is not going to be right this week.

I don't know how this game does this, but it's always right.

It's cannally correct.

It is.

Thank you very much.

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So the Bob Woodward book is worth reading for the last chapter alone because it speaks volumes about how the media is handling this with Russia.

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It just changes the narrative entirely in Trump's favor.

Yeah, Trump looks really good in many parts of that last chapter.

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He doesn't have a principled belief system when it comes to politics and policy.

The book makes it very clear, if you believe it, that he absolutely does when it comes to trade.

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Tariffs?

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Is it look at all that he is just using this as a tool?

I do not.

Look, I mean, I don't ever believe this, but I mean, I don't think it's a negotiation.

I think it's what he wants to do.

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He should be able to try to push it through.

That's right.

Congress gave him the power.

So, I mean, you know, that's what happens.

But that's pretty clear throughout the book.

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Mercury.