'Context Does Matter" - 4/2/18

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Well the left dreams of a world without the Second Amendment we've got to repeal that because we have to do something But I wonder if any of them have actually stopped to consider what that world actually looks like Well, it just so happens that we don't need to have a crystal ball.

We don't have to have Doc Brown's DeLorean.

All we have to do is read.

You want a glimpse of a post-Second Amendment progressive utopia, what it would look like?

Well, let's look across the Atlantic.

If you find yourself somewhere in London anytime soon, just flip on the TV.

You might see a public service announcement discussing the dangerous rise of teen knife attacks.

The government has launched a $1.6 million ad campaign in a Hail Mary

to try to stop 10 to 21 year olds from stabbing each other to death.

Knife attacks apparently are now out of control in England.

The murder rate in London is now higher than that of New York City.

When describing knife attacks and violent crime, the British officials now are using the words virus and epidemic to describe what they're seeing.

Knife attacks.

Maybe they should ban all the knives.

Or perhaps there is something else happening.

The difference between London and New York tell only a small fraction of this story.

While the amount of firearms continue to rise in the United States, violent crime in the United States is actually going down.

Our overall violent crime rate is down nearly 1%.

Rape is down 2%.

Robbery

down 2%.

Aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, theft, and even arson are all down multiple percentage points.

Now the left wants to take firearms away.

even though crime and violent crime is on the escalator heading down.

Now let's go across and look at England and Wales.

Our cousins over there outlawed guns back in the late 90s following a school shooting and cries of we've got to do something.

Violent crime and sex offenses are now hitting catastrophic levels.

Listen to the increase from just the past year.

Robbery is up 29%.

Sex offenses are up 23%.

Knife attacks and violent crime are up over 21%.

Guns are impossible to get in the UK.

They have been banned.

But that didn't stop nearly 7,000 crimes committed last year with a firearm.

But the one thing that is certain, guns are harder to find.

But if that's true, how come come the bad guys are committing violent crimes in record numbers using guns?

Last year, over 37,000 crimes involving knives took place in England and Wales alone.

37,000.

Well,

at least they weren't using a gun?

It makes you wonder, is Piers Morgan lighting up the airwaves, calling for a ban on assault knives all over the UK?

Is he?

What is an assault knife?

You know, one that you would use in an assault.

What is an assault weapon?

I'd like to describe it as one that a person would use when under assault.

Is everyone in the UK blaming knives for the rise in crime?

Or are they now blaming the people wielding the knives?

You can bet one thing for sure that you won't hear a single progressive or anti-Second Amendment crusader make this point or talk about the current newly released numbers of violent crime and knife attacks in England.

If you ban guns, Crime increases.

The wolves are the only ones that benefit.

Thankfully, we live in a country full of sheepdogs.

It's Monday, April 2nd.

You're listening to the Glenbeck program.

Did you look at that

study, Stu?

It's really remarkable to me

how obvious all of this is.

And yet,

you can't use reason.

There's no reason being used in America right now.

No, we go in these media cycles where it becomes the priority to stop a certain type of thing.

Yes.

You know, like, for example, school shootings, which we, of course, want to stop, obviously.

Yes.

But our overall focus should be on lowering the amount of people killed by violence.

Yes.

Right.

And the fact that that keeps being cut in the midst of this is, it shows that the priorities are not protecting lives.

The priorities are taking power away from individual citizens.

If it wasn't, then you'd be focusing on something else where you can actually affect those numbers.

Aaron Powell, Jr.: Well, you would think that seeing that we are having a problem in the United States with kids becoming violent, you would look overseas and you would say, okay, is this happening any place else?

Okay, it's happening over in Europe.

It's happening over over in England.

All right.

What could be causing that?

Well, hmm, it's not guns.

So there must be something else.

I wonder if those two things are connected.

The rise in kids killing kids here using guns and kids killing kids overseas using knives.

Hmm.

Yeah, it seems like there's a deeper issue, and the person who's killed by a knife is no less valuable than the person that's killed by a gun,

unless you're talking about politics, because then that person is less valuable.

Yes.

It actually is.

Yes.

Everyone is like catechetical.

It's almost as if if you're killed by a gun, that it is, it was totally preventable.

But if you were killed by a knife, that's just a statistic.

That's just another person.

Of course, that person, they would have found something else to kill a person.

But they say the same thing when you bring up cars and pools.

More people are killed drowning in pools than are killed by rifles.

More people are killed by clubs and bats than are killed by rifles.

But those don't,

there's a very limited anti-pool contingency out there.

People really like pools.

They're like really pro-pool, most people.

So there's just a very limited amount of people who care about such things.

So they brushed off, just like you said,

of course people are going to, you know, cars, of course people are going to get in car accidents.

Kids are going to fall into the pool or somebody's going to be drunk and they're going to fall into a pool.

Somebody's going to drown.

That's the price of having a pool.

And it's not going to surprise anybody in this audience that

what they're actually fighting about is not really life.

They don't actually care about life.

They care about other things.

They care about power.

Of course, no one wants other people to die, but it's just not their political concern.

It furthers nothing for them to stop someone from falling in a pool.

Right?

It's it furthers nothing if they can lower the I mean look at the way they fight the technology that could help many of these things and you know for example uh

you know uber is a good example uber is here's a thing where uh drunk driving is a big problem real problem kills far more people than than your you know assault rifles right but and uber and lyft are are companies that are have been able to help that when you go out drinking you now have a way to get home a lot easier there's not cabs everywhere you can get ubers in in weird places that'll go anywhere there's a lot of things that could benefit it's not the ultimate solution, but it's helping that problem.

And what did liberals do in every city across America as that was going is they fought the hell out of Uber.

They tried to stop them.

They tried to lump on additional costs to them.

They tried to over-regulate them.

They did everything they could to stop that from happening, despite the fact their voters loved that service.

The politicians still came out.

and tried to stop it because it was about controlling that industry.

They had to make sure they got unions.

They had to make sure they got these regulations involved.

It had nothing to do with actually helping people's lives.

But it also has something to do with irrational fear.

For instance, self-driving cars.

Self-driving cars are to the point, or soon will be, to where they are dependable enough that they will dramatically reduce the number of deaths.

We have had self-driving cars now all over the country.

How many people have died in a self-driving car or died because of one?

One.

One.

One.

And because one has died,

it's a scandal.

We can't let these things on the road.

We have one death.

The reason why self-driving cars are inevitable, soon as people get rid of the irrational fear,

is because the number of deaths that they will prevent from car accidents in a year is staggering.

But we have an irrational fear.

There is one.

So

instead of rejecting the death that we've all grown to accept, just like we grow to accept death with pools and the most dangerous thing in your house, do you know what the most dangerous thing in your house is?

Your dishwasher.

More kids, more people.

It's why you're supposed to put the forks and the knives pointed down in the dishwasher instead of up.

More people fall on an open dish washer and kill themselves than I think any other appliance in your house.

You will never get more clean than if you climb in there, though.

I'll say that.

Yeah.

You'll never get more clean.

No, it's great.

It's great.

But that's true.

Right.

It's actually like, I mean, I don't know that it's the most dangerous.

I think it's the most dangerous appliance in your cleaner.

Appliance.

Okay.

Okay.

So the so you've grown accustomed to that.

You've grown accustomed to that.

We grow accustomed to death.

We grow accustomed to stabbings.

For some reason, we pick out and we say, no,

knife is okay.

Gun is bad.

Just like we're doing,

which is completely irrational.

Self-driving cars, bad.

All of this, all of this death on the highway, from drunk driving to driver error,

that's okay.

But panic when there is one death from self-driving cars.

That's totally true.

I mean, this is a, we talk about this as a U.S.

problem a lot.

And there's like, what, 30,000 people who die in car accidents every year.

I mean, it's a huge number anyway, right?

Far more than Rifles is like 300 people who die a year.

So, I mean, look at the scale of this.

But think of the scale of of this globally.

Again, this technology becomes affordable fairly quickly.

I think we all, the cars, adding these expense to cars with the savings that you'll get when it comes to lives and everything else, it's a pretty easy equation.

And I completely feel it, you know, oh my God, I'm going to be very nervous the first time I'm in the back of one of those cars and it's driving me around.

Like, it's irrational, but it's real, a real fear having no control there.

But once that passes, and it will, it'll take time, but it will.

Listen to these stats: 1.3 million people people per year die in road crashes globally.

1.3 million and an additional 20 to 50 million are injured or disabled.

50 million on the upper end of that number?

I mean, this is something that it would, you could, you could give every toddler an AR-15 and have absolutely no problem that would even approach the scale of what we're talking about here.

And they will go and they will make sure that this comes in incredibly incredibly slowly.

They will stop the technology everywhere they can.

They will over-regulate it so these companies can't make money doing it.

And here's the reason why.

They will do that.

Not for the reason that the gun lobby is lobbying.

The gun lobby is not lobbying because of money, because of jobs.

Nobody's talking about the number of jobs that would be lost if, you know, Cabela's shut down or, you know, Remington just went out.

Nobody's talking about the job loss there.

Nobody cares.

Nobody cares.

What we're saying is we should defend the right of guns so you can defend yourself because statistics show

that it is more safe, not less safe, it is more safe.

You will save more lives when people have guns.

Leave it at that.

We don't even have to go down the road of it's to make sure that we remain free but think of that what we're saying there is we believe that if you lose your right to defend yourself in significant and meaningful ways the government will do what all governments always do and that is steamroll over people So that's our debate.

That's our reason for standing up for the Second Amendment.

For cars, you will save millions of people, millions of lives

by saying we're going to go with self-driving cars.

They will do everything they can to stop it and fight it only

because

of money.

Who has blood on their hands?

All right, here we go again.

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Perfect.

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Oh.

Alright, okay, that's good.

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Glenn Back.

You know, I would like to

go through a little exercise of common sense and consistency, critical thinking, if you will.

The Sinclair promos that are going around.

Now, I'm not a fan of Sinclair broadcasting at all.

I haven't been for many, many years.

But

they're being accused of doing something that seems insidious.

Do we have the audio of the Sinclair promos?

They are sending out a script, and they're having all of their stations.

They're the largest,

there's the largest owner of local TV stations in the nation.

And so they're sending a script out and they want everybody to do it.

And somebody has edited together all of the Sinclair promos.

Listen.

I am Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley.

And I'm Ryan Wolfe.

Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities, the El Paso, Las Cruces communities, Eastern Iowa communities, Mid-Michigan communities.

We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces.

But we are concerned about trouble running the irresponsible one.

The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

More alarming, some media outlets publish the same fake stories without checking facts first.

The sharing of biased and false stories.

False news has become all too common on social media.

More alarming than some media outlets publish and publish fake stories that simply aren't true without checking facts

Unfortunately, for some of our members of the community, there's a platform to push their own personalized and agenda control

thing, and this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

I think we get the point.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Now, this is where this promo ends.

What does the rest of the promo say?

What is the point of this?

Let me give you the first half here.

Hi, I'm so-and-so, and I'm so-and-so.

You should do this like a news team.

This is the news.

Hi, I'm Glenn Beck.

And I'm Stu.

And our greatest responsibility.

No, I'm B.

I'm B.

Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Northwest communities.

We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that Como News produces if we're filling your local station.

But we're concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible one-sided news stories plaguing our country.

The sharing of bias and false news has become all too common in our media.

More alarming.

We'll pick this up in just a moment.

That's more alarming.

Back in a minute.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Hi, I'm Glenn Beck, and I'm Stu Bergeer.

Your turn.

Oh, our greatest responsibility is to serve our local communities.

We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that this station produces.

But we're concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news plaguing our country.

The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories, stories that just aren't true without checking facts first.

Boy, isn't that true, Stu.

That's out of the script.

Unfortunately, some members of the media use their own platforms to push their own own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think.

This is very dangerous to our democracy.

Cut!

Now that's what the media has played.

And they have compiled it in such a way to make it seem insidious that there is some overlord that is now hypnotizing you to this message.

Now,

let me ask you a question.

Is any of this untrue?

Is there any of this that is untrue?

Do you think the people in newsrooms and the people in those local, local communities aren't concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country?

Of course they are.

Even read that as a left-wing source.

Let's just say this was MSNBC writing this promo.

We're concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our our country.

You're telling me they don't make that point on the air every day?

Every day, they say that there's conservative media, the Breitbarts of the World, the Blazes, the talk radios, Fox News, there's one-sided reports.

Tell me they would not air that exact thought.

Tell me that they wouldn't say that they run stories that some aren't even true.

They run them without checking the facts first.

You can watch every single night on cable news.

You can see that exact opinion about conservative media stated.

Okay, let me let me ask: do we happen to have the CNN apples and oranges commercial?

Apples and bananas.

Apples and bananas.

Sorry, that was a completely different analogy.

Play this, please.

Let's see what this message is.

This is an apple.

It's an apple.

Some people might try to tell you that it's a banana.

They might scream banana, banana, banana over and over and over again.

They might put banana in all caps.

You might even start to believe that this is a banana

but it's not

this

is an apple

okay what is that saying

that is saying that some people are telling you a lie some people might even put it in in big font they might scream it over and over again And some people, if you don't know, some people will then say,

I believe that that's a banana.

You mean like some media outlets are publishing fake stories, stories that just aren't true, without checking facts first?

The sharing and bias of false news has become too common on social media.

We're concerned about the trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.

And that some media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what some people think.

Exactly.

Banana, banana, banana.

Right.

Now, would you say that CNN would say it was extremely dangerous to our democracy?

I bet they would.

And I bet they'd say democracy, too.

Yes, they would.

Now, here's the thing.

CNN then says, basically,

we're going to tell you the truth.

It's an apple.

And we're going to tell you over and over and over again, it's an apple.

It's an apple.

It's an apple.

You can trust us.

It's an apple.

Trust us.

It's an apple.

Trust us.

It's an apple.

Trust us.

It's an apple.

Trust us, it's an apple over and over and over again until you go, I can trust them.

That's an apple.

That's the point of that ad.

Now,

let me finish reading the rest of the promo that Trust Us, it's an apple, has a problem with.

At our local affiliate here, it's our responsibility to pursue and report the truth.

We understand truth is neither politically left nor right.

Our commitment to factual reporting is the foundation of our credibility now more than ever.

Okay, you could say all they're saying here is, trust us, it's an apple, right?

Right.

So if you ended it there, it would be equal, not worse.

Yeah, it would be exactly equal.

Right.

Okay.

But they don't end it there.

But

we are human.

And sometimes our reporting might fall short.

If you believe our coverage is unfair, please reach out to us by going to localnews.com and clicking on content concerns.

We value your comments and we will respond back to you.

Is CNN responding back to the people who have problems with their coverage?

Nope.

Is MSNBC?

Nope.

I don't think so.

Okay, but if you ended it there, you would be like, okay, well, they're just throwing throwing this in, you know, and they're saying, okay, yeah, we're human, but they're not really going to listen.

They don't really mean it.

We work very hard to seek the truth and to strive to be fair, balanced, and factual.

We consider it our honor, our privilege, and our responsibility to deliver the news every day.

Thank you for watching, and we appreciate your feedback.

There you go.

So, what is the point of this story?

You see, context matters.

Media, they say, matters.

Well, no, not really.

Context matters.

The way the left looks at the media, they know that context doesn't matter.

They just know if you say banana enough, people will believe it's a banana because we control the media.

And if we control the media because media matters,

then we can convince everyone it's a Chiquita banana.

But if context matters, if facts matter,

then

you have to read all of it.

What is the context where they're saying, hey, there's a problem.

There's a problem in our country, and we think it's really dangerous.

The context is, and you may think we are like that.

And we are human, and so we may not even catch it.

So tell us if we are like that.

Okay,

this is absolutely incredible to me.

Incredible when you put the context in.

But let me ask you this question.

First,

people on the media will say, well, they have these must-run things.

They have these things where they put in opinions and you must run that opinion because the company is making a point and saying, we've got to get this point across to all of our viewers.

Okay.

Well, let me look at this two ways.

A.

But even though they're doing that, they're then running a promo and they're saying,

you know, we want to respond to you.

So if you think we're wrong, please let us know.

We will respond.

All right, so they're saying, if you don't like what we're saying,

you have a voice.

Unlike what the left says on college campuses and everywhere else, you have a voice.

Your different opinion matters to us.

I'm not hearing that anywhere else.

I'm not hearing that from CNN.

Okay.

I've not once seen a promo that says, hey, and by the way, if we call something a banana and it's really an apple, will you let us know?

Yeah, call us out on it.

Yeah.

And we'll respond.

Yeah.

No.

No.

They won't do that.

The second thing is,

what's more insidious?

A A group of local broadcasters that are saying, hey, there's trouble because some people are using their power to hypnotize.

And we care about your opinion, so please call us and let us know.

And having a must-run campaign.

Now, so you know, every company,

every media source has must-run campaigns.

Every radio station that you've ever listened to, have you ever noticed?

And check us out on iHeart.com.

That is a must-run promo.

Let me give you another one that you might be aware of.

It's Green Week on NBC.

That is a political position.

That we have to stop greenhouse gases because the planet is warming.

Remember, that's when the planet was warming.

Global warming has to be stopped because we are so sure of it that we are making an edict that every show that runs on NBC must run an episode that revolves around global warming in this week.

That sounds like propaganda.

That sounds like control.

That sounds like hypnotize,

doesn't it?

Why is it the left didn't have a problem with NBC running Green Week?

Right.

I mean, look at this promo.

It's the same thing they would say, well, Green, well, of course, we care about the Earth.

It's okay to care about the Earth.

First of all, that's not what they're pushing.

We all know it.

No.

Second of all,

you could say you think Sinclair is only criticizing places like CNN for fake news, right?

You could say that because you think Sinclair has a conservative lean.

Nothing in the promo says that.

Like,

the stuff that was on Green Week was much more blatantly advocating a political position than this is.

This is legitimately just saying, hey, there's some bad coverage out there.

If we are one of the examples of it, please call us out.

Please let us know.

Please let us know.

And the Apple and the banana of this story here is they make it seem like because

20 different news anchors across the country did the same promo, as opposed to a widely distributed single source, that it's supposedly worse.

It's worse because 20 different people said it to smaller audiences than one giant anchor, and hour after hour after hour after hour said it over multiple times, over multiple days on one singular voice on a giant network that's in a hundred million homes.

Right.

Or, you know, I would just say, you know, that you have all of these wonderful people that we've grown to love and we're laughing and we're completely not expecting propaganda that

is political in nature to just wash over us show after show after show for an entire week.

Yeah, like for let me give you an example.

Because Green Week, as you remember, every show on NBC had this.

Every.

Every show.

However, also CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, The Sci-Fi channel, the Sundance channel, Bravo, USA Network, Telemundo, plus Universal Studios and its related theme parks,

and the company's website, including female-focused iVillage, which I guess existed at the time.

I don't know if it still does.

Dozens of shows will have environmental themes or messaging.

From Sammy and Lucas' green wedding on Days of Our Lives

to MSNBC's examination of green issues in the 2008 presidential campaign, To the office

considering recycled paper.

The office considering recycled paper.

That's how far they went on this.

Okay,

so here's the thing.

Yes, Sinclair's got some problems.

I think Sinclair has done some really, you know, bad things and different things.

They've done some good things.

Whatever.

I'm aware of it.

It's a hell of an endorsement.

GE,

they've gone from theme parks to everything that you watch in the movie theater to television, promoting a political agenda.

Didn't seem to me to have anybody, didn't they have any problem?

Well, this affects 50 million people with Sinclair.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the other affects 350 million people.

That's, by the way, just inside inside the borders of the U.S.

Let's just assume that Universal and NBC produces nothing that is affecting people in other countries.

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Glenn back

Welcome back to the program.

Glad you're here.

Thank you for listening to your local affiliate today.

The must-run, sorry.

Crazy.

You know, I mean, look,

here's the thing.

The ends don't justify the means.

They don't.

You have to base things on facts.

You don't like Sinclair.

Okay, left.

Fine.

You don't like Sinclair.

A, be consistent.

And then expose them for what you don't like.

Or do you even know what you don't like?

Is it just that they have a different opinion than you?

Because that seems to be your MO lately, and we get into that when we return.

Glenn Beck.

Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn Beck.

Well, surely a major news organization is not going to publish an article associating God with white supremacists and, you know, white nationalism on Easter, right?

I mean, that's not going to.

Oh, they did?

The cover photo is from a rally, a KKK rally held in 1963, NBC, published, the op-ed, by Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, who describes himself as an evangelical Christian who connects with the broad spiritual tradition and its monastic witnesses.

The title says it all.

On Easter Sunday, Christians must remember how easily and often our faith is used to defend white supremacy.

Okay,

that's a good safety tip.

Sure.

All right.

In the article, he suggests that we should associate Easter Sunday, the celebration of the resurrection, with an Easter Sunday in 1873.

Quote, 145 years ago, when hundreds of white men in Colfax County, Louisiana, took up arms after Sunday morning worship surfaces and marched on their county courthouse to reclaim control of the local government from representatives who had been democratically elected by black and white people voting together, standing their ground in the hopes that federal reinforcements would arrive in time.

Every defender of democracy at Colfax County Courthouse was murdered.

Okay.

The last line reads like a book report on the Communist Manifesto.

Quote, Every defender of democracy at the Colfax County Courthouse was murdered.

Okay.

The entire thing is just a, you know, a screed.

Why don't you just take out the whips and just start just whipping yourself?

I saw that in Angels and Demons.

I think that's what it was.

Just start whipping yourself.

Wilson Hartgrove writes, quote, as a white evangelical in this land, I cannot celebrate Easter in 2018 without working to reclaim the concept of redemption from the forces that attempt to use faith and its founding stories to defend white supremacy.

Okay.

In the South, you know, in the 1800s, that may have been true.

May have been true.

And should we recognize the things that we have done wrong?

Yes, we should.

Should we ask forgiveness?

Yes, we should.

Is that why NBC published this on Easter morning and NBC News tweeted a link to it later in the day?

Is this why

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for terrorism

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It's Monday, April 2nd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Did you see, Stu, what the

what the university professor, where was it, up in Maine, I think.

You saw the headline, transgender, people say that Jesus was a cross-dressing

man.

Yeah, I did see that.

Did you actually read the story?

You know,

I didn't give the theory the real academic interest it deserved.

Correct.

I didn't either.

I didn't either.

I read it this weekend.

And I was like, because I was just like, okay, whatever.

Okay.

But I have to,

I need to bring this up in context of a broader issue.

So

what the professor is actually teaching is that Jesus was a cross-dresser,

and

he also had a dad complex.

Okay?

Now, I don't know if they buy in fully to who his father was.

But he had a dad complex.

And the professor went as far to say that as Jesus was being crucified

Jesus was focusing on his father

which shows that he not only had a father complex but he had a a strange relationship that that went in obviously into some sort of bondage and S and M with his father in childhood.

I'm glad you threw an obviously there because that was so

such a standard belief of everyone.

Of course.

Okay.

So that

is fine.

That's fine.

Whatever.

No.

It's not really even worth in the mainstream media even covering.

Why?

I mean, you know, hey, free thought.

Free thought.

Okay.

Laura Ingram is being

boycotted now.

And she's being boycotted because she said to,

you know, one of the Parkland students, Hogg, David Hogg,

who has said all kinds of things about people,

horrendous things about people, horrendous things about people I know and like,

Dana Lash, that she's not what David Hogg describes.

He said all kinds of things.

about people like Marco Rubio being splattered in blood and likes it.

That's okay.

But Laura Ingram, after he started talking about, you know, he couldn't get into college,

or at least he was being rejected by four of the colleges that he had applied to, he started talking about that.

Why?

I don't know.

He must think that the colleges don't want a lefty activist?

Colleges hate leftist activists.

They are really again, especially ones that are outspoken in the media.

They just do not want anything to do with them.

It's unbelievable the unfair treatment and leftist activists at college.

I know.

So he started talking about it.

And Laura Ingram responds, you know, stop whining.

It's not unusual, even with grades like yours.

Okay.

That sent David Hogg off.

Now, I don't think David Hogg even cared.

I really don't.

And if he does.

He's got an issue.

He has very thin skin, and it's an issue.

Because in all honesty, I keep thinking I've missed, like, did she have a 40-minute monologue and she just wrecked this guy?

There was a tweet.

The tweet, literally, the only problem you could possibly have with the tweet is that she said the word whine.

Stop whining.

Like, if she said, stop complaining, probably there, because they keep saying she mocked him.

Now, maybe she did in another thing that I'm missing.

But in this tweet, all she said was he was whining about his grades.

It's actually understandable given acceptance levels.

I mean, in a lot of ways, it's just a really boring tweet, right?

Like, she's just saying that, hey, you shouldn't be complaining about this because it's very standard of the way your grades would be treated at this university, right?

Now, you could say the word whine instead of complain.

I guess if you're going to parse those two approaches, I guess, is the entire genesis of this.

I have to tell you, I don't know.

I've been so focused on this that I haven't had a chance to really ponder how Jesus, when he was cross-dressing and being nailed to the cross,

was really fantasizing about the sex fetish that he had with his dad.

So I've been, you know, I've been really studying that.

I haven't even had a chance to take on the bigger issue of complain versus whine, you know?

But that's it, though, right?

Uh-huh.

I mean, I.

Well, now it's not.

Now it's not.

Now he says

he won't stop until she apologizes for all of the people

that she has offended.

All of the people throughout her career.

Because she did apologize for it, which again, here's the exact tweet.

David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied and whines about it.

Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA, totally predictable given acceptance rates.

That is the entire tweet.

And then it links to a story,

and the story has much of what she tweeted in the headline.

So she basically quoted the headline for about half the tweet.

It's just the word whines.

Now, again, I don't know.

Is that mocking?

Is that they keep saying attacked and mocked?

Okay, no.

No.

No.

So here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

This is only being furthered because of people like Media Matters.

We've seen this movie over and over and over again.

And I have to tell you i am not for um

i'm not for boycotts but i have to tell you

if

i'm not for nuking cities

why

because it's immoral now was it immoral in world war ii no based on the number of people that were going to die If we didn't nuke those two cities, the death rate would have been much, much, much higher.

So was it a good thing?

No.

Could you justify it?

Yes.

Did we warn people?

Yes.

We dropped millions of flyers on those cities saying, please leave and take food with you.

That's what we did.

What stopped us from nuking other cities?

One, we knew it was immoral, but more importantly,

we knew that the other side had a nuke as well.

And so we had mutually assured destruction.

If I nuke them, they're going to nuke me.

If I take Moscow, they'll take New York or Washington.

And then it will just increase and we'll all be dead.

Mutually assured destruction.

Mad.

It's mad to use nukes because of mutually assured destruction.

Would it be immoral to use nukes in response to nukes?

Or is it more immoral to let one side just

kill everybody in

one country and you don't respond at all?

i think that's just as immoral

because in the case of the soviet union we believed that they were wrong

i i think that would be just as just as immoral to do nothing

right now the left is using nukes on our media they're using nukes on on laura ingram now laura ingram is a big girl and she can fight for herself but they've just nuked her for no reason.

Imagine someone dropping a nuke on Los Angeles because they thought people were too tan or they didn't like the latest hairstyle or they were pissed off that Steven Spielberg changed too much of the book for Ready Player One.

And so they decided to vaporize all of New York.

That is what is happening with Laura Ingram.

They are vaporizing her for using the word wine.

It's immoral for us to stand around.

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So, more than a dozen companies now have that were sponsoring Laura Ingram's show have bailed on her in a boycott initiated by a high school student David Hogg

it's been orchestrated by the far left I mean we've seen this over and over and over again so the companies that are boycotting Office Depot Depot

Gerber

Hulu

Honda Johnson and Johnson

The the as of yesterday afternoon, the list is swelled to 17 companies.

Can you get all 17 for me, Stu?

Do we know if these are the real boycotts or are these Glenbeck-style boycotts?

I've never, ever aired my commercial on this guy's show, but I'm not going to in the future.

Is it that sort of nonsense again?

I don't know.

Have you seen Johnson and Johnson?

Johnson and Johnson doesn't do usually controversial things.

Right.

Maybe they do.

They advertise on Laura Ingram.

I don't watch the show, but I mean, it's possible.

Gerber.

I haven't seen a Gerber spot on Fox.

Have you?

I don't remember seeing one yeah I mean Gerber it wouldn't make sense that Gerber would even with the demographics of Fox who are you going after

you're going after 20 30 and maybe 40 year olds with Gerber

you're going after young families that's generally not who the target audience is at Fox it's 55 plus

so I bet Gerber hasn't even I bet Gerber's never run a spot on Fox News at night.

This is what they did with me is they said, you know,

we got all these companies.

I was like, Mercedes-Benz never ran a commercial, ever.

They never ran a commercial.

Mercedes-Benz has said, ya vo, we stand in line.

We'll never do that.

You never did.

And none of those, you know, those German companies have such a clean record that they can totally judge others on.

Yeah.

We are crops.

Okay, yeah, we made you know, lots of we made the fixtures in the gas chambers, but this guy,

this is too much for us.

It's over our line, guys.

We draw the line there, sure, yes, we're a German company, sure, yes, but no more.

Uh-uh.

He compared him to Hitler.

Hitler was much better,

right, Mercedes?

Okay, so

I don't know how much of this is even real,

but

in talking to a friend of mine last night, Ben Shapiro,

in talking to Ben, you know,

he's made this mutually assured destruction case

quite a bit, and I think he's right.

If we don't push back on the companies and do what they're doing and say, you know what, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, you know what?

Who are these companies again?

Gerber?

Oh, look, Gerber, I have no problem with you.

I like what you've done recently.

I like that you took stands

for kids that have Down syndrome.

I think that's fantastic.

And don't just belittle them and yell at them.

Let's

tweet to them.

Put their name out there on Facebook.

Go to their Facebook page, tweet their name they don't like that and just say Gerber please stop getting involved in politics advertise on every side we're all people we disagree advertise on all sides

otherwise I got to stop using your product I'll go find another baby food because in today's world I can go find another baby food Oh, Home Depot.

I can go.

Or that's actually Home Depot.

I'm sorry, I said Home Depot.

Office Depot.

Office Depot.

Who is even going to Office Depot anymore?

You got to question your life if you're going to Office Depot.

Really?

Have you heard of Amazon?

Really?

You know what?

I got to go get some toner.

Okay, you could do that, or I could just use Amazon Prime and have it here in an hour, and we don't have to drive.

We could play cards,

you know, instead of you getting in the car.

Anyway, Office Depot.

That was just an

anti-concept of office store monologues.

Come on.

What are you going to Office Depot for?

I got to get some more paper.

Okay.

Or I could use Amazon Prime.

I'm just saying.

Hulu, Honda, Johnson and Johnson.

We'll give you the rest of the list.

But you got to take a stand.

If they're going to nuke a city, it's immoral not

to put the fear of God in the other side.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So we're talking about the

companies that are supposedly boycotting

the Laura Ingram show.

Has anybody seen an Office Depot commercial on Laura Ingram?

I mean, I guess they might run them.

I don't know if that's true or not.

You know the whole list.

Office Depot, Liberty Mutual Insurance, TripAdvisor, Nestle, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, Joseph A.

Bank.

Which is like, that's a troubling one because who else are they going to give their 95 suits to when the purchase of one suit?

Yeah,

you buy one suit, you'll never need another suit ever.

We send one to you every three days.

It's a suit subscription.

Every three days, you'll get a brand new suit for Joseph A.

Bank that costs $8.

Buy our suits.

Now they've had all the commercials they need.

Hulu, Expedia, is it Nutrish or

What's Nutrition?

I think it's, isn't that the one that's What's Her Face's

Rachel Ray's dog company?

Is it right?

My dogs are going to be really bummed.

They were really loving Rachel Ray's recipes.

They're like, is this Rachel Ray?

And I'm like,

and they were like,

yeah.

Like, I know, like, there's, you know, we've had this boycott conversation a thousand times.

And, you know, we, we don't, there's no need to rehash it.

But I would say, one thing I can't get myself motivated to do is chase a dog food company around for who they're advertising to.

I don't freaking care what they're doing.

I don't care what they're doing.

I understand there's a bigger issue than that, but I'm not going to spend my life chasing around Rachel Ray's dog food.

That is not going to be how, that's not going to be on my tombstone.

What is that a sign of her career?

I mean, what chef is also saying,

I also make a pretty good dog food.

Here's the recipes that didn't work out.

Buy them in a bag.

Jenny Craig, Wayfair, Miracle Ear, Stitch Fix, Principal, Honda, Progressive.

What a surprise.

And Bear.

I mean, outside of Bear.

Huh.

Did Bear have anything in their past that they want to from the people who brought you heroin.

Bear.

This is my favorite.

Most people don't know that that heroin was invented and packaged by Bear.

Do you know why?

You know what it was for?

Do you even know this too?

Have I told you this?

This is one of my favorite facts.

Bear originally packaged heroin

because they found that it was a miracle drug for alcoholics.

You take this for a couple of weeks and you're never going to want to drink alcohol ever again.

Yes,

but now I'm addicted to heroin.

It didn't work out well for them.

So they took that product off of the off of the market.

I mean, sure, it cured a few alcoholics.

They didn't, they indeed didn't drink again.

So they met their promise.

You know, it's interesting, too, that Laurie Ingram apologized for that tweet of hers.

Yeah.

And Bear didn't accept it.

Bear

didn't accept the apology.

Let me just give you, let me give you a little, here's another apology you might be interested from history.

Okay.

This is from

the Bear Aspirin Company has apologized for its inhumane acts of its parent firm, including using Jewish slave laborers during the Holocaust.

I have sorrow and regret, and I apologize for the inhumanity in my country for what I.G.

Farben did to your people.

Oh, my gosh.

Bear is I.G.

I.

Yeah, because you might remember I.G.

Farben, who was the guy who had a significant investment quote in a company that made Zyklon B gas, which was used to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews at Auschwitz.

Are you kidding me?

Oh my gosh.

You get no moral authority for the rest of your corporation, bear.

Come on.

You won't accept Lori.

She tweeted the word wine, and you're not going to accept that.

And we're supposed to accept hey sorry about the cyclone b

oopsie doopsie

that is insanity wow i mean maybe the dog food company you could take this from i'm not accepting from fan i'm not either

that's insanity yeah so we did a little more than a tweet

you know

the little pellets that killed six million people that was us Seriously, that was.

We had a bad day

or a few years, half a decade, but it was bad.

And we weren't thinking at the time.

I just rattled it off the formula for Cyclon B,

and it just got out of control.

Oopsie.

Oopsie doopsie.

By the way, this apology, timely by Bear,

December 21st, 1995.

Wow.

It took them 50 years to come up with an I'm sorry over Zyklon B.

And we're supposed to be.

Oh, look at the moral stand they're taking against Laura Ingram's tweet.

That is,

it's just unbelievable.

I mean, it's not, you know what?

It is absolutely not unbelievable.

It is completely believable.

That's why you just have to just,

let's just, I mean, I think we should all tweet to bear Aspirin today.

You're the inventor of Zyklon B.

You,

hey, Bear,

we forgave you

for the gas that killed the Jews.

And we're letting you medicate us.

We're saying, you know what, give us things to ingest.

That's our response to you.

Oh my God.

Oh, if this wasn't our life, it would be so enjoyable.

If we were aliens and we were just hovering above the planet, wouldn't this be a scream?

This would be like, what are they going to do next?

What are they going to do?

I bet you they'll forgive the Zyklon B people.

And then the Cyclon B will get all haughty about a tweet.

No way.

You've written a crappy sitcom, sir.

That is not believable, and people will not accept it.

Wow.

I, you know,

you just think that they can't get more bizarre.

And every day it hits that news standard.

The hurdle is cleared on a daily basis.

Just,

I mean, when you have, this is New York Daily News, 1995.

The headline, this is a half a century after it occurred.

Bears sorry for Nazi role.

They're sorry for their Nazi role.

A half century after it occurred.

They're not even going as far as the Zeitlin B.

You don't have to.

It's just hysterical that we're okay with that.

Yeah.

Hey, sorry about the Nazi thing.

Oopsie.

Oh no.

We accept that from Volkswagen.

Volkswagen puts a flower right by the ashtray.

Volkswagen.

Yeah.

It was Hitler's car.

We're all like, ah, yeah, that's totally fine.

Yeah, but it's totally about peace.

I love that.

But seriously,

shame on you, Laura Ingram, for using the word wine.

Man.

If you're a bear, you have to accept every apology, no matter how sincere about anything.

All

the acceptance.

Somebody should just be in the boardroom when they're like, this is an outrage.

And somebody just stand there like a clock every 15 minutes, just go, Zyklon B.

Yep.

You're right.

Okay, you're right.

You're right.

Say the word Zyklon every 15 minutes in all meetings.

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You know, I also

just can't get past the fact that Office Depot is even advertising.

I'm sorry.

I know maybe this is a personal thing, but I just don't know.

Why does anybody go to Office Depot anymore?

Really?

Why?

I have to avoid stores like that.

Office Depot is one.

The container store is even a bigger offense.

Those are deadly.

Because it's half my salary when I go into them.

I don't know what it is.

When I see organizational products, I must purchase all of them for no reason.

I don't use them.

I don't know.

I'm not organized.

I don't use them.

I just buy them.

I am horribly organized.

But I go into a place like the container store and I do.

I want to buy everything in there.

Everything.

Yeah.

And for no reason, because there's no way I'm ever going to organize any of my crap in there.

Wouldn't it be great if my towels were organized alphabetically by color?

No, no, it wouldn't, and you're not going to do it, but right then, but when you think about it, you're like, God,

how have I lived my entire life having purple towels before blue towels?

I don't, you know, I'm really bad at stuff like this because I go into stores like that and I really get motivated.

I'm like, I'm going to do that.

And then I never do it.

It's like,

do you remember, you know, Tony Robbins?

Yes.

So Tony Robbins is

a

motivational guy and he's really good at it.

And this is like 20 years ago.

I was sitting, I don't know, eating Doritos on the couch, just feeling like a loser.

And I'm watching one of his infomercials, and I'm like, yeah, I should get that because I could do something with my life.

Right.

And so I order it.

And it took a lot for me to order it, but I ordered it.

And then it came and then it just sat there and I never unwrapped it.

And it was like, oh, in that box, that's the Tony Robbins stuff.

But I never had the motivation to actually, you know, I needed Tony to come over and go, hey, you got to unwrap that.

I mean, think about what you can do.

You're strong enough to do it.

You got the power.

You should unwrap that.

And then.

Because

there's a certain line of laziness you've crossed there, which is like not even putting the first one in and ignoring it.

Yeah.

You actually didn't even take it out of the box.

I didn't even take it out of the box.

I eventually gave it away, you know, to somebody else that had the energy to unwrap it.

Okay.

But I carried it around in like two different moves.

Okay.

I still had it.

I was like, I'm not getting rid of this because one of these days I'm going to unwrap it.

Okay.

So, like two weeks ago, three weeks ago, I called Tony Robbins and I'm like, Tony, and he didn't pick up.

He was, I don't know where.

And so I leave a message on him.

You just randomly called Tony Robbins.

Yeah.

And so I call him up and I'm like, Tony, hey, listen, I really need, I need to, you know, I need to talk to you, get some motivation because I don't know, I'm just turning into a big fat blob.

And

so he calls me back.

Now I'm not there this time.

And he leaves a message.

Hey, Glenn, anytime, love to see you.

You know what?

I'm going to be out, so-and-so.

Why don't you just, why don't you call me?

And then we'll get together.

I didn't call him back.

I didn't call him back.

You know, I heard it and I was like, oh, geez, I'm going to have to get on the phone with him.

I'm going to have to talk to him.

And then

you called him.

I know.

You wanted to talk to him.

I know.

So a week later, he calls me back.

Bud,

did you get my message?

Are these getting through?

Because I'd love to see you.

In fact, I'm going to be in San Diego.

We're doing a thing.

Why don't you come on down?

You really love it.

I don't know.

No, I mean, he's too positive that everything is going to work out and you're going to be successful.

And then if he shows me how to do it, then I actually have to do it because he would come over to my house and go, hey, you got to open the box.

Well, people don't know this about Tony Robbins, but he's like super involved in a lot of charity stuff, including Operation Underground Rescue, right?

Yeah, he's really,

really involved in the saving of Operation Underground Railroad and

the Nazarene Fund.

He's been remarkable.

He'll just go out.

First time he heard about it,

he was on stage and somebody stood up and said, hey, I want to tell you about this group.

And he said, wow, that sounds great.

I'll give you $100,000.

And then he said, anybody else?

Anybody else?

He raised $500,000 from his audience that day.

And so now he just will go around and he'll have these things and he'll be like, hey, you know,

you want to feel good?

You want to change the world?

Let me tell you about this organization.

And he does.

And so every once in a while, just get like a check of $500,000 from Tony Robbins.

And he's like, he'll get a call.

He just did it again.

And he's just doing it because he believes in it.

He's gone on operations fully disguised.

I mean, he's enormous.

And he was wearing this full beard and in total disguise.

So he was going to be, you know, going for one of the busts.

You don't realize how big he is.

I don't think I really realized how big of a guy he was until Shallow How.

Remember that movie Shallow How with Jack Black?

And at one point, Jack Black says that his fingers are the size of bananas.

That's like the greatest description of a large person I've ever heard.

At least you picked a good guru.

I picked Don Lapri

right I was out of high school because I had a lot of big opportunities chasing me around, you know, in this world.

But this guy kept coming on TV at like 3 a.m.

in front of like a really cheesy Ferrari testerosa from the mid-80s saying, you got my one-bedroom apartment.

I place

thousands of tiny classified ads.

And I was like, that sounds like a great idea.

And I ordered the National Reminder Service

bundle because you could sell them.

And what would happen is they would send you a postcard to remind you of a birthday coming up.

It sounded like the greatest idea of all time.

If, you know, the internet wasn't on the verge of being created.

Right.

Right.

I did sell one.

You did?

I did sell one to my mom.

So thanks, mom.

Hopefully that's working out.

I mean, at least you opened the box.

I did open the box.

Or returned a phone call.

I'm like,

he's going to want to talk.

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Hey, Stu, there's more to worry about today.

Sure, we could talk about Stormy Daniels, David Hogg.

I love that.

We could go on and on and but the uh the um israeli palestinian conflict it's getting worse oh good yeah good to hear i'm glad to hear that there's more to worry about there's more to worry about last week 30 000 palestinians still irked by president trump's decision to acknowledge that jerusalem is the capital of israel you know where they have the actual capital and this and the knesset you know the senate and the house where they have that

Donald Trump had the audacity to say,

yep,

that's the capital.

Crazy.

Anyway, of course, people started to riot, and they started to riot along Gaza's border with Israel, stopping occasionally just to, you know, say a quick prayer, and then back to rioting.

The coordinated six-week sit-in was a peaceful protest.

Okay, sure, they had cocktail hour, Molotov cocktail hour.

You know, and they and they would roll gas-soaked tires, you know, into the fence.

It was a fiery riot, but it was a peaceful, fiery riot, which I think only the Palestinians can get away with.

Two Palestinian gunmen fired at Israeli guards peacefully.

By the end of it, Israeli forces had killed 15 rioters.

Damn them.

When they reported on all of it, the mainstream media took the opportunity to portray the events as another part of the Palestinian struggle.

An underdog group of jilted Muslims devout to the religion of peace.

Uh-huh.

The New York Times, for example, described the riot with a vaguely anti-Israel sentiment.

Quote, Palestinians, supported by human rights group, view the events as a legitimate protest that was met with disproportionate force by trigger happy Israeli soldiers.

End quote.

No.

Diplomatic venom spits from one side to the next.

Israel's defense minister

commended the Israeli soldiers.

He said,

I think personally that all of our troops that were there deserve a medal.

How dare he?

How dare he?

For protecting his country.

Like it's his country.

It's Monday, April 2nd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Everybody's country.

What next?

I'm going to let all countries name their own capitals.

I'm just going to let that happen anytime they want.

The United States, hey, it just gets to be Washington, D.C.

If they want it to be Washington, D.C., if they wanted it to be Philly before that, it was Philly.

Yeah, we're going to let that happen.

That's so stupid.

We got to call the UN.

We got to get this under control.

All right.

I want to

tell you about a guy who just died at 107 years old.

Greedy bastard who just 90 wasn't enough for him.

95, 100.

No, no, 105.

No, I need all 107.

While there are people

that don't even get 55 years, he had to hoard all of them.

The reason why we're bringing this up is not because he was

years old.

This guy was a true, remarkable hero.

His name was Johann von Holst,

and he lived in Amsterdam in 1943.

He came up with this idea to be able to smuggle infants out of

Amsterdam before they were sent to the gas chambers.

He he took infants all the way up to 12 years of age.

The children had been taken mostly from their parents at a deportation center and brought by nursery workers to a nursery next to a teacher's college.

And he was the principal at this teacher's college.

It was a school that was doing really well until the Nazis came in, and then they cut all the funding.

And so he convinced the parents, hey, why don't you pitch in for the school?

He became the principal.

They kept the doors open, but it was right next to this nursery.

And so

he had this crazy idea.

Hey, maybe we shouldn't send children to gas chambers.

I know.

I know.

Bear was doing

the right thing.

They'd later go on to develop aspirin.

Did you know that, Stu?

I accept their apology.

Right.

Sorry, it's a joke from the previous hour.

So, what he did was he said, hand the children over the hedge in the back,

and I'm going to hide them in

a classroom until they could be smuggled out to the countryside and to the Dutch Resistance.

And the Dutch Resistance would save these kids.

So, no parents went with their kids.

He was credited in

helping rescue 600 children.

But all the way up to his death, he was haunted by the hundreds that were still in the nursery.

He said the last day that he was there,

he was asked, How many can you take?

He said, 12.

He said, At that point, I realized I couldn't take everyone with me.

He said, you know, you know for a fact that children you leave behind are going to die.

And they asked, How many can you take?

And he said, I just quickly responded, twelve.

Why didn't I say thirteen?

Does it sound familiar if you watch Schindler's list?

It's the same thing.

there were a hundred and forty thousand Jews in the Netherlands when Germany

invaded.

By September of 1944,

a hundred thousand of them were dead.

It's really strange to think

that somebody who saves children

is a hero in Amsterdam, in Amsterdam.

That

saving 600 children is heroic because you would think that everyone would do that.

You have infants and small children that are being sent to a gas chamber.

If I ask you that, you know, in the middle of the night, hey,

should we get up?

I heard there's a gas chamber around the corner.

You want to get up because we can save 100 children, 600 children, 1,000 children.

All we just have to do is just get up, go outside, grab them through a fence.

All of us would say,

Are you serious?

Yes.

Okay, let me get my shoes.

We would all do that.

There are only 5,000, what is the number here?

5,595

people who were Dutch

that did that.

It's so easy to think that we would be

somebody that

would stand up.

I'm not sure we would.

If our own life was at stake, I'm not sure we would.

Look at the things that are at stake now that people people aren't willing to lose.

They're not willing to lose their good standing with their friends.

They're not willing to

speak out because they might lose their job.

I wonder

if we don't exercise that muscle from time to time.

If we don't exercise the

standing up,

standing up against the bullies.

I mean, that's what David Hogg says he's doing with

Laurie Ingram.

He's standing up against the bullies, but isn't he becoming a bully himself?

And when we stand against the bullies,

do we ever even look at ourselves and say, gee, am I becoming everything that I despise?

I mean,

how is it that those people who are standing up and saying, I don't want that person to speak at my university, how is it they don't notice that they're becoming fascists themselves?

Oh, well, it's because we all know that that's wrong.

No.

No, there's a lot of people that don't believe that.

Yeah, I know.

Well, they have to be stopped.

That makes you a fascist.

You have a difference of opinion, and so you want to stop everyone else.

That makes you a fascist.

Is it that the people at the schools, the universities, they're not thinking?

Or do they not really care anymore?

Do they really, truly believe that the world will be a better place if we just silence all those people who disagree with us?

And

how is that different?

Because remember, it wasn't just the Jews,

it was anyone who had a different opinion than the Nazis.

Seattle Police police have begun to seize guns under a mental health law in Seattle.

Teachers are holding massive walkouts in Oklahoma and Kentucky.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn Beck.

So you remember when Iceland

put their new constitution together and they said, hey, tweet us your constitutional amendments.

I thought that was very progressive.

Hey, let's listen to the people.

You know,

Hothead 508's got a great amendment.

I think we should consider that.

I think we should consider that.

Well, kind of like that,

we've decided to take a poll on the Ten Commandments.

You know, are they still really even relevant?

Are they important principles to live by or no longer an important principle to live by?

Yeah, now I'm going to go out on a limb and say, yep.

I'm just going to give a wow.

I'm going to give a blanket, yep, to all 10.

No, that's because you're a hate monger.

Well, of course.

So I want to get get your guesses on the American percentages who say it's still an important principle to live by.

I'm going to bounce around here.

Let's see if you can get them within five points on these.

Let's say,

you shall not commit adultery.

Is that still an important principle to live by, or no longer an important principle?

What percentage said it is still important?

It's still important?

Yeah.

70%.

Okay.

Should we just go through them as we do them?

In the actual answer?

You shall not covet or desire other people's possessions.

Oof.

I'm guessing what people are thinking now?

Yes, you're guessing what people are thinking, not what you think.

I don't know.

What percentage said is an important principle of life?

I don't know.

It could go, I don't know, because people don't make sense anymore.

Nothing Nothing is consistent.

I could see the people who are saying redistribution of wealth.

I could see those saying, that's 100%.

I'm for that one, 100%.

So I mean,

70%.

70%.

80%.

80%.

Give me 80% on that one.

Okay.

You shall not steal.

They didn't even go with the vows on this one.

I would hope 100%.

100%.

You shall not use the Lord's name in vain.

Oh, 5%.

Honor and obey your mother and father.

60?

Is it more positive or less positive?

I'm not going to reveal that at this time.

Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy.

Oh, 5%.

I am the Lord your God.

You shall have no other God before me.

Because it's misunderstood,

I think it was zero.

You shall not commit murder.

I would say 100%.

Would say it's still an important principle to live by.

Yeah, yeah.

Last one, you shall not bear false witness against or tell lies about other people.

Should be 100%.

I'm not saying what it should be.

What are you saying it is?

I'm saying it's going to be 90.

Okay.

Okay.

How do you justify lies?

Glenn Beck trying to get within 5% of these.

Oh.

Okay.

Did I get to within five of any of them?

Let's see.

All right.

First off, we'll start with you shall not commit murder.

Glenn Beck said 100% would say that's still an important principle to live by.

Survey says 94.

Apparently.

So you did.

There's 6%.

There's 6% of us that are like, nah.

Well, the breakdown is 3% of people

say it is not an important principle to live by, and then a few that said they didn't know.

Okay, so

here's what should happen.

Okay.

How many said it's not?

3%.

3%.

Those 3% should be on the watch list.

The other percentage, what is it?

The other 2%?

3%.

3%.

3%.

The other 3%

you should just move away from, right?

Okay.

If they don't know, I don't know.

Stay away.

Avoid them.

Avoid them.

You shall not steal.

Is that an important principle to live by still to Americans?

Yes.

You guess 100%.

Survey says 94%.

94%.

Still.

So he missed again, so he should get

a buzzer, not a ding.

So how many...

You missed by six points again, though.

I mean, how many say, I don't know.

It was 4% on that one said no.

And then the rest said, I don't know.

That you shouldn't steal.

Yep.

4% were like, like, yeah, you should steal.

Okay, so

we have 3% of our population are murderers.

4% are thieves.

Yes.

Because those are the only ones that would say that.

I mean, like, if you're not murdering people, I guess you could just be lazy morally and be like, I don't know.

Sure, you can murder people.

Live and let die.

It's a good usage of that one, actually.

Okay.

Next one.

You shall not bear false witness or tell lies about other people.

Is that an important principle to live by?

90%.

Glenn Beck guessed 90%.

90.

Survey says 91%.

Ah, you're right on the mark on that one.

Only missed by one point.

So you get the point there.

Honor or obey your father and mother.

Okay.

Glenn Beck guessed 60% believe that's still an important principle to live by.

Survey says

we've given up with the sound effects.

85.

85.

85.

That's 85.

You missed by 25 points in a good direction.

Oh, but I was being very pessimistic.

You were being very pessimistic.

It should be higher than that.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not commit adultery.

Is that an important principle to live by?

You said 70% would say that.

Actual answer, 83%.

83.

83%.

How is that possible?

10% say not an important principle.

And then there's a few conflicted there.

9% said, I don't know.

I'm not sure.

You shall not covet other people's possessions.

You guessed 80%.

Americans actually answered 78%.

So you were on the mark on that one.

Good feel for the American people there.

Well, we got a few more, but we'll have to get to them on the other side of the break.

I can't wait to see where I said 0%.

How close.

Back in a minute.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

So I,

you know,

there's a new poll out.

The Ten Commandments are even important anymore.

We found out some exciting things, like,

what is it, 7% of people think that murder either isn't wrong or, I don't know.

I'm a little undecided on that.

Yeah, they said, dunno.

They don't know.

Well, what if you live next to a guy who leaves his lawn clippings laying around?

I mean, you either beat him severely or you kill him, right?

One of the two.

Yeah.

I mean, what if you've told him a bunch of times, I don't like your lawn clippings there?

Yeah.

Now, you're going to do it.

You might say, kill him, but I'm still, the jury's out.

Well, you got to at least break six or seven of his ribs.

Right.

Don't you?

Only makes sense.

Yeah.

It only makes sense.

That's all you can do.

So let's review here real quick.

These are the answers.

Again, they polled the United States, you know, not Christians, just every citizen.

Is it an important principle to live by that you shall not commit murder?

94% said yes, which is somewhat encouraging to me.

It shows the state of affairs.

You shall not steal.

Also, 94% said yes.

You shall not bear false witness or tell lies about other people.

91%

said yes.

Honor or obey your father and mother.

85% said yes.

It's like 15%, man.

don't really have to do that.

I don't know.

They don't deserve it.

Does a school or Planned Parenthood count as a parent?

I mean, it takes a village, I'll tell you that.

Yeah, because if the school counts as a parent, then yes, definitely they should obey.

Right.

You shall not commit adultery.

Is that an important principle to live by to Americans?

83% say yes.

I'll bet you that 17% of Americans are having an affair.

You think that number is right around 17?

I do.

It's probably.

And you don't want to condemn yourself.

You don't want to condemn yourself.

And so you also don't want to say, well, I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, you know, it depends on the circumstances because

you're either angling for one or you're excusing yourself.

I'm trying to get myself into an affair.

How do I get you into that affair to be there?

Let me ask my manager.

You shall not covet, desire other people's possessions.

78% say that's an important principle to live by.

You guessed 80 on that one, Glenn.

Very close.

Yeah.

Okay.

So we're on to these, these are the, and we were trying to get, Glenn was trying to get within five points, and so far you've hit two of six, which is not, not terrible, actually.

And no, typically you've been more pessimistic.

How about this one?

You shall not worship idols.

You guessed 50%.

Pat, you want to put a guess in on that?

Idol worship.

Well, I mean, because you're not.

I bet most people aren't thinking of the idols we have today.

They're thinking of the graven images.

Yeah.

So I'd say it's 75.

75.

You're right around it here.

63%.

63.

Because that's only because they don't know that idols are like your car, your job, your money, your house.

A little more expansive than the gold.

We are all into idol worship right now, all of us.

How about this one?

I am the Lord your God.

You shall have no other God before me.

I think I said zero.

You said zero percent.

Pat, any more optimism?

65%.

65%.

Good guess.

59% said that was still an important principle to live by.

59 still.

It's pretty low.

That's terrible.

How terrible.

Why?

He's a fictitious.

Now think of that.

59%.

59%.

Read the commandment again.

I am the Lord your God.

You shall have no other God before me.

59% say that that is really important.

Okay.

In a country that is 75% Christian.

Yeah.

Shows you kind of what that means.

And what, 3% Jewish?

Yeah.

And Muslim.

And I mean, there's a lot of religions here that would say, that would agree generally.

No, no, no.

I know that.

I know that.

But I'm saying that's a Judeo-Christian.

That's a 10 commandment.

So Judeo-Christians,

we don't even have all of us.

That's amazing.

That's close.

That is amazing.

Yeah.

30% of people say it's not an important principle to live by.

Now, some of those would be atheists, right?

So you'd expect that to be not 100%.

And then 11% don't know.

Okay, how about this one?

You shall not use the Lord's name in vain.

Glenn, you guessed 5%.

Pat,

be a little more optimistic than that?

Can't be very high because everybody does.

Not everybody, but many.

Many people do.

Yes.

I'll say 52%.

52%.

Again, you're right in the neighborhood.

59%

said that's important, which is surprising to me.

But again, like even people who use it, right, would still, I think, I mean, you know, say it's not a good idea, right?

Many Christians would still do that.

We all fall down on occasion.

How about this one?

Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy.

I think I said zero.

You said 5% on that one.

Oh, that's right, because I was counting Chick-fil-A.

That is true.

About 5% of this country is Chick-fil-A.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a good statistical measure there, Clint.

Yeah,

that's what I was counting on.

Pat, any guesses on that one?

Well, it's a little higher than that because,

you know, you got Chick-fil-A and

Hobby Lobby.

Hobby Lobby.

So 80%.

53%.

Actual answer, 49%.

You're going to get this past.

Okay, so hang on just a second.

So, but, you know, you are saying what people actually believe.

That's what we're playing here, right?

No, no, no, no, no.

No, I'm sorry.

What they actually are saying.

I'm playing to what they actually believe.

There is no more than five to eight percent within five points, there's no more than 10 percent of this population that says every Sunday or Saturday or Friday, I'm going to keep this holy.

Well, and

we can't agree on what that means.

What does it mean to keep the Sabbath day holy?

Is it going to

an NFL game?

Is it

going to a movie?

Is it

eating out?

What is it?

What is

keeping the Sabbath day?

I mean, you shouldn't.

We're told in the Bible, you shouldn't work or let any of your manservants or maidservants work on that day either.

I've eliminated all manservants from my life completely, to be sure.

Have you?

Yeah.

Well,

I give my man servants Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off just so I'm covered because I don't know.

I actually don't think that's true.

I don't think you do give them the whole weekend.

We know.

He's lying right on the air.

He's lying on a Ten Commandments survey.

He said that lying was 100%.

Oh, man.

I got to tell my girlfriend.

Oh,

no.

By the way, interesting split between the U.S.

and U.K.

They pulled both.

And listen to these splits.

Some of them are not known.

Murder, 94% U.S., 93% U.K.

Again, we're told that we're horrible people here in the United States with all these violent tendencies.

Apparently, not as much as you'd think.

See, by the way, along those lines, London just passed New York in their murder rate.

And here we go.

Yeah, well, I mean,

the knives talk to people over there.

That's true.

The knives fly out.

They do.

They should ban those knives.

Right.

Because they fly out of the kitchen cupboard and they just like

boom right into somebody's chest.

Yeah.

I hate when that happens.

You shall not steal.

U.S., 94% say it's important, 93% in the U.K.

Bear False Witness is 91 to 87.

All of them, by the way, the U.S.

is higher, which is interesting.

Honor, obey your mother and father, 85%

U.S., 69% U.K.

That's a big split.

Yeah, that is

the nanny state.

Yeah.

The nanny state.

You shall not commit adultery.

83% U.S., 73% U.K.

You shall not covet or desire other people's possessions.

78% in the U.S.

think that's an important principle to live by.

61%

in the U.K., 17% split.

We're just better than other people.

We are.

I know.

We're just better than other people.

We're also more humble.

Yeah, exactly.

So much better at being humble.

You shall not worship idols.

63%

in the U.S.

say that's an important principle to live by.

Only 31 in the U.K.

So more than double.

Wow.

In the United States.

I am the Lord your God.

You shall not worship.

Wait, wait, wait.

Do you think that's because they don't,

because they're thinking old, you know, like...

Hey, I watched the episode with the Brady Bunch where he had the tiki idol around his, you know, he wore it as a necklace for a while, and look at the trouble it caused.

Or that they

that they know that we're worshiping idols through our cars and our jobs and our houses and they don't care.

Which is it?

They're only seeing idols as the old-time

graven image, probably, maybe.

It's interesting they're a lot less religious than we are, yeah.

You know, it seems a lot less important, although we're headed that direction too.

But Europe is way ahead of us in

secularism, And so it's going to work out well.

Yeah,

it is working out really well.

Shown in the last few of these, too, your point, Pat.

You shall have no other God before me.

59 to 20.

Wow.

The U.S.

believes is an important word.

Wow.

You shall not use the Lord's name in vain.

59, 23.

And remember to keep the Sabbath day holy.

49, 19.

That's the split between on the Ten Commandments.

I mean, it's a pretty interesting idea.

29 is pretty low as it is.

Yeah.

19.

Now, think of this.

This is the problem that is happening in our society.

Right there, in a nutshell, is what has happened to us.

We built

this city on rock and roll.

No, we built, we built.

The first thing that jumped in my mind too.

No, I know.

So bad.

We built this country, and I'm sorry, civilization, Western civilization on those principles.

The Constitution is based on those principles.

So if you lose them, what happens to the Constitution?

You've got nothing.

You have nothing.

So the reason why the West is falling apart is because 19% say, well, you know, it's not necessary to keep the Sabbath holy.

Well, now, what is the point of that?

Rest

one day.

Rest,

even when God was creating the world 500 years ago, I hate these people who say 5,000.

500 years ago,

when the world was created,

you know, the story is, and he rested.

You're supposed to rest to be able to put yourself back and reorder things and make sure your priorities are right.

That's just a good safety tip.

It's an amazing one, too, because usually, like, you know, the joke about the church for a long time is they're guilting you into doing X, Y, and Z, right?

Like you always feel like the Catholic guilt or there's always guilt associated with religion.

That is one that I actually feel guilty keeping.

I am terrible at that one.

And the reason why is because I feel like if you're just resting,

you're resting.

I mean, keeping it holy, of course, is part of it.

You're going to church.

You're doing things that are like that.

You're spending time with your family.

But like, if I don't, if you don't do work on a day, I just feel like, oh, you you know, I'm just being lazy.

I'm just being a, you know, even if I'm doing stuff with my family, if I'm doing things,

that has saved my life, I think.

If I was in New York and I was like, that I'm working for you on Sundays?

Yes, you're right.

It has saved your life many times.

Me not working.

I mean, I have my man servant work, but me not working on Sunday has hell.

Thanks, Pat.

Here, Pat, you want this poll?

I'm going to talk about this today?

Here.

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Glenn Beck.

There's a couple of stories that we have to get to.

One,

the headline is: Man with red sauce on his face charged with stealing meatballs.

Get to that if we have time.

There's also an interesting story about a lottery ticket winner who's set for life.

Washington Post headline: she bought her first lottery ticket on her 18th birthday, and now she's set for life.

Don't tell her that.

Listen to the actual details of that.

First of all, she's in Canada.

Oh, my.

So, as you may know, they have some tax rates that are slightly high.

So, she's 18 years old.

She has a choice to win one

million dollars.

Not one

million dollars.

One million dollars.

Now, this may not

when you're 18 years old, I'm sure you think this is true, but in reality, reality, you get a million dollars at 18 years old.

You absolutely are not set for life.

No.

You've got another 70, 80 years to live on that money.

Now, she can choose the alternate, which is $1,000 per week Canadian or $773 per week for the rest of her life if she wanted to space it out like that.

Now, $773 per week now is okay, good living, not extravagant, but a good living, right?

By the time you're 40, that's like 15 cents.

Right.

It's like, hey, I can buy a hamburger.

Thank you.

So not at all set for life.

Now, let me add on top of this.

She won this in Quebec.

The top income tax rate in Canada, federal, is 33%.

In Quebec, the territorial tax, now, again, this will be equivalent to your state tax.

Your state tax rate where she won this money is 26%.

Oh, my gosh.

So she's paying basically 60% of the million dollars away immediately.

So now she's 18 years old with $400,000.

That's a great start.

It's ahead of where most people would be, but you are absolutely not set for life.

You can pay half of your college bill.

It's amazing.

I mean, that is a really now in the article, they say, you know, she bought the ticket at a convenience store in Quebec, and just like that, her future was off to a very nice start.

Yes, this is one of those things that media people, writers, complain about all the time that they don't write the headlines.

Like, that's a yes, her future is off to a very nice start with 400 grand in the bank, sure,

but the idea that

she is set for life at 18 with about 400 grand in the bank.

And if she's like most lottery winners, she'll have 400 grand spent by next Thursday.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.