10/17/17 - 'Faith, Truth, Love, and Forgiveness' (Dana Loesch joins Glenn)

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Glenn Back a woman driving through a rural area that she was unfamiliar with

She was alone.

She didn't know where she was She had never been to this part of town

She was sure of her destination.

Her destination

had just been changed for her.

Her destination was death.

She could feel her kidnapper's knife dig deeper into her arm as she desperately tried to grip the steering wheel.

He was an unwelcome passenger who had just forced his way into

her car.

Every time she looked at him, she'd look at him in the eye, and she could tell that he was hell-bent hell-bent on causing her pain.

She was terrified.

But at the same time, there was no place she'd rather be at this moment than driving her own vehicle, because she knew her salvation was there,

hidden under the seat.

She reached her destination.

It was a wooded area.

Kidnapper told her to stop stop the car.

She did.

She stepped on the brakes quickly.

In one fell swoop, she turned off the ignition and reached for the gun underneath her seat.

She thrust the barrel of the gun into his face.

That's when the look in his eyes changed.

He realized that he had brought a knife to a gunfight.

He immediately fled into the forest.

The woman thanked God that she had a gun and a concealed carry permit before driving herself to the hospital.

Sixty-one-year-old

Floyd R.

May was arrested shortly after and charged with aggravated kidnapping and assault.

If the woman hadn't have taken the time to purchase and understand her firearm, she would likely be dead.

But because

she was going to be the first responder, she knew that there were times when you couldn't wait for the police.

She had become a responsible gun owner and saved her own life.

This

is the story that should be told every day.

This is the story when we are talking about women who are being assaulted.

And they have no choice but to be assaulted.

This is the story of the Second Amendment: that you have the right to protect yourself.

There are bad people out there who will think nothing of taking your life.

By the way, this

story comes to us

from Fox 5 in San Diego.

How many people in California will watch that story that unfolded

and believe

that everyone there in California has a right to have the chance to defend themselves?

Tuesday, October 17th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

This hour, we are going to share with you some stories of real bravery and cowardice.

Dana Lash is going to be joining us in about 25 minutes.

She's actually had to move out of her house and move her family to an undisclosed location because she is an outspoken proponent of the Second Amendment, and she is receiving death threats, and her family has been targeted.

We'll talk to her in about 25 minutes.

So I can't can't decide whether this is cowardice or courage.

But up on Facebook yesterday, the guy who wrote Con Air and Gone in 60 Seconds,

a new movie is coming out, Beautiful Girls.

His name is Scott Rosenberg.

And on his Facebook page, and I'm going to delete some of the language.

But he wrote one of the most powerful posts I think I've ever read.

He said, so, uh,

yeah,

we need to talk about Harvey.

I was there for a big part of it.

From what, 1994 to the early 2000s?

Something like that.

Certainly the golden age.

The pulp fiction, Shakespeare and Love, Clerks, Swingers, Scream, Goodwill Hunting, English Patient, Life is Beautiful, you know, those years.

Harvey and Bob made my first two movies and they signed me to an overall deal.

Then they bought that horror script of mine about the the 10 plagues for a lot of money.

They also bought that werewolf biker script, the one that nobody else liked, but was my personal favorite.

And they were going to publish my novel.

They anointed me.

They made it so other studios thought I was the real deal.

They gave me my career.

I was barely 30.

I was sure I had struck gold.

They loved me, these two brothers, who had reinvented the cinema, and who were fun and tough and didn't give an East Coast F about all the slick ones out in L.A.

The glory days in Tribeca, the old cramped offices, the wonderful gang of executives and assistants, and the filmmakers who were doing repeat business.

The brothers wanted to create a family of film, and they did just that.

We looked forward to having our meetings there, meetings that would turn into plans, that would turn into

raucous nights out on the town.

Simply put, OG Merrimacks was a blast.

So, yeah, I was there.

And let me tell you one one thing, and let's be perfectly clear about one thing.

Everyone Effing knew.

Not that he was raping.

No, that we never heard.

But we were certainly aware of a certain pattern of overly aggressive behavior that was rather dreadful.

We knew about the man's hunger, his fervor, his appetite.

There was nothing secret about his voracious rapacity.

Like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grim.

All couched in vague promises of potential movie roles, and it should be noted that there were many who actually succumbed to his bulky charms willingly, which surely must have only impelled him to cast his fetid net even wider.

But like I said, everyone effing knew.

And to me, if Harvey's behavior was the most

reprehensible thing that one could imagine, a not so distant second is the current flood of sanctimonious denial and condemnation that now crashes upon those shores in gloppy tides of BS righteousness because everyone effing knew.

And do you know how I know this is true?

Because I was there.

I saw you.

I talked with you about it.

You, the big producers, you, the big directors, you, the big agents, you, the big financiers, you, the big rival studio chiefs, you the big actors, the big actresses, you the big models, you, the big journalists, you, the big screenwriters, you, the big rock stars, the big restaurantiers, and you, the big politicians.

I saw you, all of you.

God help me, I was there with you.

Again, maybe we didn't know to what degree the magnitude of the awfulness, not the rapes, not the shoving against the wall, not the potted plant.

But we knew something.

We knew something was bubbling under, something odious, something rotten.

But,

and this is as pathetic as it is true,

what would you have us do?

Who are we to tell?

The authorities?

What authorities?

The press?

Harvey owned the press.

The internet?

There was no internet or reasonable facsimile thereof.

So we should have called the police and said what?

Should we have reached out to some fantasy attorney general of movie land?

Because that doesn't exist.

Not to mention, most of the victims chose not to speak out, aside from sharing the grimy details with a close girlfriend or confidant.

And if they discussed it with their representatives, agents, managers, who themselves feared the wrath of the big man?

The agents and managers would tell him to keep it to themselves because

who knew the repercussions

that old saw, you'll never work in this town again came crawling back to putrid life like a reanimated cadaver in the late-night zombie flick.

But yes, everyone knew someone who had been on the receiving end of lewd advances of him, or knew someone who knew someone.

A few actress friends of mine told me stories of a ghastly hotel meeting, repugnant bathrobe shucking, of a loathsome massage request.

And though, although they were rattled, they sort of laughed at his arrogance.

How he actually believed that he could the simple sight of his naked body, the doughy, carbuncled flesh, was going to get them in the mood.

So I just believed it to be a grotesque display of power, a dude misreading the room and making a lame, if vile pass.

It was all much easier to believe that.

It was much easier for all of us to believe that.

Because here's where the slither meets the slime.

Harvey was showing us the best of times.

He was making our movies, he was throwing the biggest parties, taking us to the golden globes, introducing us to the most amazing people, meeting with Vice President Gore, clubbing with Quentin and Uma, drinks with Salmon Rushdie and Ray Fiennes, dinners with Mick Jagger and Warren freaking Beatty,

the most epic Oscar weekends.

They seem to last for weeks, Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Telluride, Berlin, Venice, Private Jets.

Stretch limousine, Springsteen shows.

Hell Harvey took me to a St.

Bart's for Christmas for 12 days.

I was a broke-ass kid from Boston who had never even heard of St.

Bart's before he booked my travel.

Once he got me tickets to seven of the hottest Broadway shows in one week so I could take a new girlfriend on a dazzling tour of the theater.

He got me seats on the 40-yard line of the Super Bowl when the Patriots were playing the Packers in New Orleans.

He even got me a hotel room, which was impossible to get that weekend.

He gave and he gave and he gave and he gave.

He had a monarch's volcanic generosity when it came to those within his circle, and a mafia Don's fervent need for abject loyalty.

But never mind us.

What was he doing for the culture?

Making stunningly splendid films at a time when everyone else was cranking out simpering Independence Day rip-offs.

It was glorious, all of it.

So, what if he was coming on a little strong to some of the young models who had moved mountains to get into one of his parties?

So, what if he was exposing himself in a five-star hotel room like a cartoon flasher out of Mad Magazine?

Who are we to call foul?

Golden geese don't come along too often in one's life.

Which goes back to my original point.

Stop it.

Everyone effing knew.

But everybody was just having too good of a time and doing remarkable work, making remarkable movies.

As the old joke goes, we needed the eggs.

Okay, maybe we didn't need them, but we really, really, really, really liked them eggs.

And so we were willing to overlook what the golden goose was up to in the murky shadows behind the barn.

And for that, I'm eternally sorry.

To all of the women that had to suffer this, I'm eternally sorry.

I worked with Mira and Rosanna and Lysette.

I know Rose and Ashley and Claire.

I've known them for years.

Their courage only hangs a lantern on my shame.

And I'm eternally sorry for those who suffered in silence all this time and have chosen to remain silent today.

I mostly lost touch with the brothers by the early 2000s for no specific reason.

Just there were other jobs, other studios, but a few months ago, Harvey called me out of the blue to talk about the bygone days, to talk about how great it would be if we could get some of the gang back together, to make a movie.

I think he must have known then that the noose was tightening.

There was a wistfulness to him that I'd never heard before, a melancholy.

It most assuredly had a walking to the gallows feel.

When I hung up, I wondered, what the heck was that all about?

In a few short weeks, I would know.

It was the condemned man simply wanting to comb some of the ruins of his old stomping grounds one last time.

So,

yeah.

I'm sorry.

Sorry and ashamed.

because in the end I was complicit.

I didn't say crap.

I didn't do crap.

Harvey was nothing but wonderful to me, so I reaped the rewards and I kept my mouth shut.

And for that, once again, I'm sorry.

But you should be sorry, too, with all these victims speaking up to tell their tales.

Shouldn't those who witnessed it from the sidelines do the same, instead of retreating to the cowardly, canopied

confines of faux outrage?

Doesn't being a bystander bring with it the responsibility of telling the truth, however personally disgraceful it might be?

You know who you are, you know what you knew.

And do you know how I knew what you knew?

Because I was there with you.

I saw you.

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It's strange because I have a lot of respect for what he wrote because he

said, not only am I ashamed that I just took the money and shut my mouth, he said,

you know,

I'm sickened now by this next

violation, and that is of the people who knew and say they don't.

This is the screenwriter who was talking about his experience with the Weinstein company.

Bro, that was one of the most powerful things I've ever read.

And he's a screenwriter.

He's a screenwriter.

He writes beautifully written.

It was really well done.

Beautifully written.

It's interesting because

we've heard this from a lot of people inside Hollywood about Weinstein in that a lot of people knew he was cheating on his wife.

A lot of people knew he was a real dirtbag.

In many ways, in business, he screamed at people, he abused them verbally, and everyone kind of knew about that stuff.

And people, you know, kind of knew that he would put young 22-year-old models in a position in which they'd kind of have to have a choice between their career and a very unpleasant experience with a large fat guy in a robe.

But again, that's different than obviously the really high-end stuff.

We're talking about rape in some of these cases.

I wonder, however, if some of him being a jerk in so many other ways shielded him.

Shielded him.

Because, so I talked to a friend of mine in Hollywood yesterday, and I said, come on, dude.

Come on.

You knew.

And he said, honestly, we didn't.

And I said, come on.

He said, Glenn, I'm telling you the truth.

We thought he was the biggest slimy dirtbag.

He said, we knew he was a serial cheater on his wife.

We knew that he would proposition everybody in anything.

He said, we even knew that he would be with hookers and things like that.

He said, we all knew he was a guy you did not want to be around.

He said, but there's a difference between consensual and not consensual.

He said,

we knew that he was a dirtbag.

He said, but everything that we would ever hear either came out in a settlement and we would go, okay, well, the court system is working this out.

They're working this out.

Or we would hear it thirdhand.

He said, so what are we supposed to do?

Right.

You know, tweet, hey, I've heard thirdhand that this is happening.

That this multi-millionaire is a rapist.

Like, you know, like, you can't do that.

And by the way, you shouldn't do that, right?

I mean, you don't just tweet accusations against some guy you heard thirdhand.

I think the other part of that, too, is that because he was such a bad guy and had so many enemies, it was probably more believable that the worst of it wasn't true, that he had these enemies that would accuse him of things that were false.

And that probably added to it as well.

Glenn, back.

This is the Glenn Beck Program.

So, Dana Lash, who is just one of the most remarkable conservatives that I know,

a strong and fierce woman who

does everything she does because she's a mom.

And, you know, after the World Trade Center came down and things started getting crazy,

she was a mom.

And she decided to start speaking out.

And next thing you know, she's on the radio and now she's syndicated.

She's got her own TV show here at the Blaze.

And she's also a spokesperson for the NRA, which has caused her real problems in the last year.

So much so that Dana tweeted over the weekend that she was moving and had to move to a new house, undisclosed location, because

people on the left had found out where she was living and began to threaten her and her family.

Welcome to the program, Dana.

Hey, Glenn, good to be with you.

First of all,

you safe?

Yeah, I am.

I'm good.

I mean, I'm safe wherever I am.

I wouldn't mess with you, ever.

I just would not mess with you.

It's crazy.

I mean, it's crazy that it's to this point.

It's crazy that in the past year, just by being vocal on a particular issue, and understandably so,

that it has gotten to this point.

And I tweeted, you mentioned the tweet where I just posted, I took it because I just thought this was so crazy.

And

I love where I live.

And

I am staying in Texas and I love where I live.

And nobody wants to move right as the holiday season is gearing up.

I had thought to do this a little bit more planned out, but when you have people that send you emails that say things like, well, I'm going to make it to where you feel like the parents of Newtown and where you get all this crazy stuff and they can't just keep it to you and they can't just keep it to ideas.

They have to start bringing in.

innocents and very young soft targets in.

That's when I'm fine to stay where I am.

But when

your kids are too afraid to ride their bike outside in front of the house, up and down the street, which is one of the reasons why I loved where we moved, because when I left downtown St.

Louis, my kids couldn't do that.

And that was obviously a clear sign, time to leave, and come here to what I think is the safest and one of the best places in the country.

And I had people driving by my house, taking pictures of my home, Glenn.

Not just like Google Maps stuff.

I mean like actual photos of my home and putting it online, putting my address online, putting my private cell phone number, which I know anybody can find anything about anybody, but they put that online.

They started calling my cell phone number.

At one time they they called it when the cops were at my house a little after midnight one evening, but it was when they really started I guess because I wasn't they couldn't get me by going after me, so they decided to target my kids, which is always the most dangerous place in the world for anybody to be is between a mother and her kids, and especially so for me.

I guess that they thought they they were going to send a message.

So I'm just going to get louder, but I'm going to do it from an undisclosed location.

Dina,

what was the conversation with your kids like?

We have had it before.

The first big

conversation that we had was after my oldest son, who's on the internet in a limited way, like he's he's not allowed on Twitter.

He's not allowed on Facebook.

He's not allowed on Snapchat.

And I always go through everything because it's not a democracy.

It's a mammocracy in the house.

And

one of his friends, the day that I was actually doing my program at the Blaze, my TV program at the Blaze, and this was the day that that video came out where this guy had made this death fetish video where I killed myself.

And before I even got home after doing my show at the Blaze, my son's best friend had already sent him a link to the video saying, did you see this?

This is your mom.

And that's how my oldest son found out.

So when I got home, we had to have this, you know, it's not like I sit down every night with my kids over the dinner table and we have Ronald Reagan school.

You know, I mean, they're able to go and live their own lives and do their own thing.

And I, you know, obviously we...

we have a certain set of ideals that they must live by, but we don't pummel them with politics.

And so we had to have that conversation over the dinner table that night.

And that was really one of the the first big conversations that we had.

Then when we had local police here,

and when this one individual found my cell phone number and called it while the police were here, we had to have another conversation.

And then after

there were repeated emails about the boys, that's when we had a big, another, yet another conversation because we had to have law enforcement also go to their school.

and make sure that their school security was safe, which it was, and our school is amazing.

I wish I could just go there myself

and work with the school administrators and make sure that they had a good security plan, and they worked with us, and they were just awesome.

We had a private security firm as well.

And so now they're aware, but we don't want to scare them.

They're just aware.

We want to make them situationally aware, but not freaked out or paranoid because it's no way to live your life.

But my youngest still is like, yeah, I don't want to have anything to do with going outside in front of the house.

I don't want to ride my bike in front of the house.

I don't want to do, I don't want to do any of this stuff.

And I just, that that just,

that's what I can't handle.

So I thought, okay, well, let's just, we're going to, we're going to need to go.

We're going to need to go.

If you don't feel safe in your own home, we got to leave.

Janet, do you find it odd that here we are talking about, you know, people like Harvey Weinstein and how, you know, these powerful men are abusing women by the thousands and thousands, and people are tweeting about it and telling all their stories.

And at the same time, these same people are asking for the Second Amendment to essentially go away so that women have no way to defend themselves.

That's true.

I think that's a good point.

And I had that observation just, I guess, right after the Weinstein thing broke because he said he was going to go after gun owners and he was going to target the NRA.

And I thought, well, of course, you're a serial predator.

Of course, you want women disarmed.

That makes perfect sense because rapists and pedophiles and predators agree they love soft targets.

They love them.

And so, yeah, I do find that weird because that's one of the big reasons that I advocate for what I I advocate because I want people to be safe.

I want men and women particularly to be able to defend themselves.

Because as much as, as empowered as a woman thinks she is, and as tough as a woman thinks she is, and as many Lara Croft movies as she watches, you are still going to be statistically outweighed by a man.

You're still going to be overpowered by a man's mere muscle mass and more powerful bone density.

You're still going to be overpowered, which is why I carry, because then I can overpower my attacker.

attacker.

Did you have a moment going through any of this, Dana, that you're just, you thought to yourself, you know what?

Why am I doing this?

Why am I bothering?

Oh, no.

No.

Not even a second.

No, no, no.

I haven't.

And I don't know if that's weird or not, but I haven't.

I just, I believe so strongly in what I believe in, and I believe that I'm on the right side and I'm fighting for truth.

I'm not, if I were, If I were pushing propaganda, if I were saying something that I didn't feel in my my soul was true, then yeah, I can see how I would not have a firm foundation on which to stand during difficult times.

But I don't feel that way.

I know that I'm on the right side.

I'm talking about defending people's lives, and I can never, that's a pro-life issue, really.

And I can never and will never feel bad about that ever.

Just so long as I'm on the right side.

Good.

Have you had anybody from the left reach out to you and

all say this is inexcusable?

I've had one reporter at CNN who reached out privately, which I thought was nice.

Publicly, there have been a few progressive men and progressive women.

And I think perhaps the biggest name among those was Chelsea Clinton, which, and she, and I, to her credit, she did not,

and you know,

I wouldn't mince my words, but to her credit, she didn't, she didn't predicate it upon anything.

She just said, this is awful, period.

And it should be, because I've had other people say, well, despite, you know, the politics, I still think that's irrelevant.

Because here's the thing.

We're all citizens first.

And this is where the identity politics stuff has got to stop.

You know, everybody,

we are Democrat and Republican and conservative and progressive.

Everything else comes after.

You know, I list it as your child of God, then you're, you know, you're an American citizen, and then you can be all your other stuff that you want to be.

But people don't have their priorities right in terms of identity.

And that's what's messing everything up.

Everybody wants to focus on all of the places in which they're different.

And I did appreciate that Chelsea Clinton tweeted that because she got right to the point.

She didn't predicate it upon anything.

It was just simply it was wrong.

And that's what people need to do.

Now, I know that everyone says, well, it exists on the right and the left, this stuff.

And it does.

It absolutely does.

And we stand against it when it happens on the right.

That's absolutely right.

And

you have done that and I have done that.

But here's the big difference, though.

There is a difference: it is perceived, it is perceived and treated differently on the public stage.

Yes, when you have a progressive woman and a conservative woman, if they receive the same foul treatment, it is virtuous for the progressive woman and the conservative woman.

It doesn't exist.

And that's what I want to stop.

Dana Lash,

best of luck.

God bless you.

Thank you and your family.

You bet.

Bye-bye.

Find Dana on Twitter at D Lash, and as well as, of course, here on the Blaze, where she does a show every night.

And

also, she's, of course, one of the big spokespeople at the National Rifle Association.

So join up there.

I have a ton to say on this issue.

A ton to say.

I was um

I was just driving down my street

yesterday

and I thought

we don't even really know our neighbors.

We don't even know our neighbors.

But there's a reason I don't know my neighbors.

I live in a double-gated

community

and

I bought that house

for the double gates,

the gates around the community, and the gates around my house, and the, you know,

nine-foot wall around it.

Because

I remember my children

being frightened.

I remember

my wife calling me.

There is someone again taking pictures of our house.

I remember people having access to our garbage and going through our garbage.

I remember my son looking up

saying,

Dad,

do people want to kill you?

I remember my daughter

saying, I don't want to go with Daddy.

I'm afraid.

I want to stay here.

I remember the first time my older children

walked into a room, and I was getting dressed for an event, and I was putting on a bulletproof vest, and I remember the look in their eyes.

For what?

Because we disagree with each other.

This is.

this is

the world has gone insane, and it's not just people like me or Dana.

The world has gone insane, and we're not seeing each other anymore.

And to think that

I wouldn't have the right to protect myself, that I wouldn't have the right to own a gun.

No,

No, I don't think so.

I'm lucky enough to be able to afford the crippling cost

of security, and it is crippling.

Dana doesn't have that.

Twenty-four-hour security?

She has to be secure.

You You know,

towards the end,

towards the end of his life,

this preacher went and he begged to be able to get a concealed carry permit.

Begged!

It was his right to have one.

But the local sheriff said, no, for your own safety,

we'll provide safety, and you shouldn't have one.

That's why Martin Luther King was not allowed to carry a gun.

Even though he had a right,

his local sheriff stopped him.

We have a right to protect ourselves and we need to stand up for it.

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Glenn Back.

Bo Bergdahl, his fate is now in the hands of a judge, and he's awaiting sentencing after entering a guilty plea of charges of endangering his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan.

There's no back and forth between the lawyers, no, you can't handle the truth type of courtroom drama, just a traitor facing the music.

I left, quoting, my fellow platoon mates, that's inexcusable, end quote.

It's harsh, but there's no sugarcoating what Bo Bergdahl did.

He didn't serve with honor and distinction as Susan Rice or President Obama wanted you to believe.

He betrayed the trust of his brothers in arms, and they died because of it.

If I can give him credit for anything, it's that he's owning his actions and accepting his own guilt.

This is such a tragedy on so many levels, but

the focus today shouldn't be on a disgraced soldier or the political maneuvering of a past administration.

They say the greatest love is to lay down one's life for another.

Well, six soldiers did that, just trying to bring him home.

Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen, Private First Class, Morris Walker, died from a roadside bomb while searching for Beau Bergdahl.

Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtis of Murray, Utah died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Second Lieutenant Darren Andrews of Dallas, Texas was killed when an IED and RPG exploded nearby.

Staff Sergeant Michael Murphy, I'm sorry, Murphy of Snyder, Texas, told his family after being taken skydiving on his 17th birthday that he had found his calling.

He wanted to be an Army paratrooper.

He died from an IED.

Private First Class Matthew Martinek.

was in a vehicle searching for Bo Bergdahl when his patrol came under fire.

After initially

surviving an IED and RPG and multiple gunshot wounds, he died a week later.

After eight years

and being paraded in front of the cameras by the president as a hero,

the truth is finally here, and Bo Bergdahl himself pleaded guilty, and he's receiving his punishment.

Today, say a prayer for him.

Say a prayer for his family.

But please say a prayer for those

who died trying to bring him home.

Say a prayer for the families of those brave men

who are trying to move on.

But most of all, today,

let's honor the fallen.

Tuesday, October 17th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

The Heritage Foundation had a talk that

they had a pediatrician there, in fact, the president of the American College of Pediatricians, who has received a lot of heat because she said this about transgenderism.

As to the studies, there are two that I am aware of which claim that affirming your child's gender confusion is good for them.

Number one, it assumes that coaching a child into a fixed false belief is mentally healthy.

Science doesn't allow you to assume your conclusion.

Number two, those studies are extremely small.

Number three, those studies are very short-term.

And number four, the control group of mentally healthy children

are the siblings.

Most of them were siblings of the trans-identifying child.

Oh, and there's a number five, the parents were the ones evaluating the mental health of the children.

This is not science.

I don't think you need to have an MD or a PhD to know

that's not science.

That's ideology masquerading as science.

Chemical castration, which is what you are doing when you put any biologically normal child on puberty blockers.

She went on and had a lot to say, and she joins us now, Dr.

Michelle Cratella.

Doctor, how are you?

Fine, thank you.

I'm happy to be here.

So,

you had to have

quite a weekend.

I've rather I've been at this fighting for

the truth on behalf of all children, not

only the gender-confused children who are being put on toxic medications, but also for all of our children

in public and private schools who are now being taught that from preschool forward, they are being taught that you you could be trapped in the wrong body.

This is outrageous.

It is outrageous.

It is terrifying for these young children.

It's a lie.

So

tell me what your thought is on

those people who feel that they are trapped in the wrong body.

Well,

it's a grave injustice to them.

I mean,

let's even back up.

Look, when we're talking about mental health,

we should all agree that A, there is an objective physical reality that we live in.

Okay, that's what science is all about.

Science is about the physical reality we live in.

And

to be mentally healthy at a bare minimum, your thinking and perceptions should be in line with that physical reality.

And here,

it's transgenderism transgenderism alone that psychology and medicine say you can have a fixed false belief.

You can believe something that's contrary to

genetics, physiology.

You can believe something that's contrary to hard science and still be mentally well.

I mean, that's insanity.

If I go to my doctor and say, hi, I'm Margaret Thatcher, and you hold a gun gun to my head, and I still insist that I am Margaret Thatcher.

Well, I'm crazy.

I'm delusional.

And my doctor will recognize that and put me on an antipsychotic.

But if I go in and say, I'm a man, and I insist it persistently, insistently,

consistently,

okay, yeah, congratulations, you're transgender.

This is who you are.

It's cooperating, and my colleague and friend, Dr.

Paul McHugh, said it best.

He said, it's cooperating with mental illness.

And in the case of children,

I refer to it as coaching them into a mental illness.

As far as I'm concerned, when children

say,

I'm not my biological sex, or a little boy says, I want to cut off my penis.

A young woman says, I'm binding my breath.

I want a mastectomy.

That's a cry for help, not a cry for hormones.

They're confused this is a symptom they're they are emotionally troubled and it's a cry for help not a cry for hormones Michelle I I

you know I am I am of the mindset that you know geez what you want to do with your body I don't I don't I mean people

you know, do horrible things to their body, and

I think that it's a cry for help,

just when I see people who have put rings through their face over and over and over again.

And it's their choice.

There's a difference,

however,

when it comes to children.

And

what we are now advocating, what our doctors are now advocating, is sterilization and to

actually take really detrimental hormones and

and

change you forever.

And you made a great point over the weekend.

The American Society of Pediatrics says, you know, we shouldn't doctors should discourage kids from having a tattoo because it's permanent and it's scarring.

And yet they'll give a child without parental permission a double masectomy.

Right.

And I so you raise you raise several excellent points.

Number one,

yes,

adults have a maturity, both experiential maturity and cognitive maturity, that children and teenagers do not have.

This isn't just known through common sense.

And I mean,

any mother, school teacher, father, grandparent knows this.

Shakespeare knew it.

Children are not little adults, and teenagers and adolescents do crazy things.

Neuroscience has now proven it.

We know this through functional brain imaging, that

the risk center and the control,

the

frontal lobes are the portions of the brain that control judgment, risk assessment, and self-control.

Those don't mature until the early 20s.

So, as you said, if we're talking about an adult who is convinced that they are thoroughly unhappy, they believe they're the opposite sex, I still consider that a tragedy.

But if they go forth and they're going to pay out of their own pocket for these surgeries and these hormones because they

and the physicians they've consulted think this is all that's left for them,

As a society, okay, okay, I can see that.

And what the College of Pediatricians and I are arguing is specifically what you said.

These are children.

These are children who need protection and guidance and authentic mental health.

And what's even more important,

we know already that the vast majority of young children, up to 95%,

who are

through natural puberty, up to 95%,

certainly well over 75%,

will accept their biological sex by young adulthood.

So

as you said, to put them on puberty blockers plus the cross-sex hormones together, if you've never allowed them to mature enough through puberty, you are permanently sterilizing them.

A child at age 11,

even a child who's a teenager, cannot possibly comprehend

what it means to be permanently sterile.

And the same thing with getting a double mastectomy, the same thing, when you go on these cross-sex hormones, your risk, it elevates risks for heart disease, hypertension, or high blood pressure, strokes, cancers.

This is crazy.

It is absolutely crazy to put children at risk on these high-risk medications when the vast majority would simply outgrow it with support through natural puberty.

I want to come back.

We have to take a break.

But I want to come back and talk to you because there's a real crisis of suicide and I believe it's a loss of meaning in our culture.

And what is being pushed in the schools, I think, is extraordinarily dangerous.

And I want to further that conversation with you when we continue.

Back with more with Dr.

Michelle Cortella here in just a moment.

She's president of the American College of Pediatricians.

You can follow them on Twitter at ACPEDS.

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Glenn back.

Glenn back.

Dr.

Michelle Crotella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, joins us.

She was speaking at the Heritage Foundation.

She gave quite a stirring talk and caused a lot of controversy online.

I can't imagine

the hell that your life is, quite honestly.

Can you tell us first, Michelle, the difference between sex and gender?

What's the difference between sex and gender?

Sure.

Sex, quite simply, is biologically determined at fertilization by genetics.

Any unborn child who has a functioning Y chromosome is going to develop into a male.

And if that unborn child is missing a functional Y chromosome, the child develops into a female.

There's nothing in between.

The body

declares our sex.

It's there in our body.

Right.

Now, gender has essentially become a political,

just a political term.

Right.

When I was growing up, there was

gender and sex was the same.

The same.

Yes, okay.

All right.

So I just wanted to make sure that I hadn't missed something along the way that somebody was taking terms and changing them.

Okay.

Well, this is what happened.

Prior to the 1950s, gender was not anywhere to be found in the medical literature.

But in the 1950s, that's when sexologists like John Money and Harry Benjamin were wanting to justify sex reassignment surgery, so-called.

And they needed, they knew they couldn't,

that you can't change sex.

Surgery and chemicals cannot change sex.

They knew this.

So they had to invent a term to justify their profiting from this surgery.

And so they grabbed onto gender and said, oh, gender for us means

the social expression of an internal sex identity.

And that is what is being put forth now without any it's it's made up it there's no such thing as an innate sex identity

okay so so so so

here's here's the real problem at seven years old at seven years old I mean you know in in my faith you choose to be a member of our faith at what we call the age of accountability is eight years old.

However, there's a lot of people that make a choice early on that I'm a Catholic, I'm a Baptist, I'm an atheist, I'm whatever, and they change.

No decision that is permanent should be made by a seven-year-old under any circumstance, or quite honestly, there'd be a lot of us that were walking around that were, you know, that wanted at seven to be a kitty cat or Batman.

Right, right, exactly.

And I, and that's why I try to make, you know,

in this debate,

we're debating physical reality, the physical reality of sex versus identity.

And identity refers to thinking and perceiving which is in the mind, and that is changeable.

Okay?

So that's the,

as far as gender identity, meaning recognizing your own sex,

the gender experts, so-called, are correct that most children correctly identify themselves as boys or girls by age three.

But what the experts are not saying is that many children, ages seven and below, do not understand that sex is constant and permanent and stable.

In other words, some seven-year-olds actually believe if they watch a man put on a dress and makeup, will actually think, oh, he just became a woman.

So, cognitively speaking, it is a process of development.

And

because of, that's why it's so damaging to have three-year-olds being read to by drag queens, and particularly when the drag queens are reading these ridiculous gender-bending picture books to them, it is confusing and will derail the normal psychological and cognitive development of those preschool children.

Well, lifelong decisions should not be made while viewing Peppa Pig, is kind of what you're saying.

Lifelong decisions should not be made by children.

Even teenagers.

I mean, adolescence is full of changeability.

Okay,

hold on for just a second.

I want to continue our conversation in just a second with Dr.

Michelle Crotella.

She is the president of American College of Pediatricians.

We're going to talk a little bit about what your children are being taught in school and how to talk to them about it coming up.

Glenn Beck.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

We're spending some time with Dr.

Michelle Critella.

She is a, she's the president of American College of Pediatricians.

Just full disclosure, you should know that what is that group?

The Southern Poverty Law Center

deems her group as, hate-filled or whatever it is.

So she's not liked, but I could imagine you already know that

because of the things that she is saying.

She has had a published paper in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons just last year on gender dysphoria in children and suppression of debate.

And we wanted to give her some airtime to tell us what your children are facing in school and how do we deal with it.

Sure.

From the early elementary levels

that I've been sent school curricula to evaluate from concerned parents.

I hear from concerned parents and even teachers

across America or particularly over the last couple years.

So preschool to the elementary years it's

primarily introduced by books, anything from picture books to story books, normalizing gender confusion.

One that is particularly, I consider particularly dangerous for preschoolers is Introducing Teddy.

And it's about a teddy bear who starts out wearing a bow tie, and his name is Teddy.

And by the end of the story, he has moved his bow tie to

his head as a barrette.

changed his name to a, you know, and has become a girl teddy bear,

the children are taught.

And again, because of their development, they they will, many of these young children will come to believe, oh yes, I can change my sex just by changing my appearance.

The other thing that is very disturbing is that biology has been deemed transphobic.

As incredible as it may be

to believe,

There are, I've been handed curricula for biology lessons and health lessons that specifically tell the teachers do not refer to boys and girls, refer to students, and do not say that girls make eggs and boys make sperm.

Refer to

people with ovaries make eggs and people with testicles make sperm because we want to be

But again,

I mean

we're called science deniers if you're on the right, but this is a denial of

the

X and Y chromosome.

Yeah, it's the

and you know, and what is not helpful is that the other side is using

true biological disorders known as disorders of sex development.

And these are people

who have genuine genetic disorders and therefore are oftentimes infertile because they don't have

they may have been born with a non-functioning Y chromosome, for example.

They are extremely rare, but the body declares these extremely rare disorders.

They are not part of the transgender phenomenon.

They are separate and distinct,

but the transgender activists have unjustly pulled them into their cause.

We know these are disorders of sex development precisely because the norm is to have male and female to continue the species, right?

That's basic biology 101.

Have you heard about the doctors up, I read about them in Vancouver, Canada, that are now dealing with

handicap dysphoria, where people are coming in and saying, I was born handicapped.

I was born with only one arm, and they are asking the doctors to remove an arm.

Yes, and this is actually not new.

There's a name for it.

It's called Body Identity Integrity Disorder.

And one of the more common, I mean it's rare, but one of the more common predisposing events is for soldiers who've come back from war and witnessed their friends dying.

And

so they have post-traumatic stress, they have survivor guilt, and they come back from war convinced that they are actually amputees themselves, trapped in a normal body, and they will ask to have their legs removed.

And

so there's no one.

So, what is the difference?

What do doctors on the other side say is the difference between that and I need to have my breast removed?

Oh, well, when you want

a healthy body part other than your breast or your penis removed, that's a mental disorder.

Oh, that's a conversion disorder.

That's post-traumatic stress.

The bottom line is when you are talking psychology or psychiatry,

the diagnosis is made by listening to the person's words and thoughts, and you have to ask yourself, does this match reality or not?

That's the bottom line.

There's no blood test.

There's no genetic test.

It's we are contrasting the person's thoughts and perceptions and feelings against reality.

And that's ultimately what mental health, the field of mental health and medicine does in every case except sex.

Do you believe this is going to get much worse before we return to sanity?

I have hope that

we will return to sanity.

I mean it it's going to be very difficult, but the reason I have hope is because

I am hearing from physicians, therapists on the left, and they're thanking me for speaking out.

I have far more people thanking me than coming after me with ad hominem attacks.

I even have, I have some members of the transgender community thanking me.

because they are deeply concerned about what is happening to innocent children.

And even,

I mean, radical feminists, lesbians,

and

gay men have not been speaking out as much on this as the radical feminists and some lesbians, but they are there in the background.

And

essentially, they're saying, you know,

what the experts are not bringing out is that when you do support gender-confused children through natural puberty,

not only do the vast majority identify with their biological sex, but a large percentage also identify

as gay adults.

So from within the LGB

communities,

many of them look at this as, this is eugenics.

You're sterilizing children.

Yes.

You see what I mean?

I do.

They see it as

a tremendous homophobic movement.

So there are many layers to this that cross political boundaries.

And that's why I have, and like you said earlier, it's so clearly anti-science.

It's contrary to biology and physical reality.

I mean,

if we lose on this,

you know,

holy cow, it's, you know, it's far, forget about it.

Thank you, Doctor.

Dr.

Michelle Critella, thank you.

Website is factsaboutyouth.com, the American College of Pediatrics, and Dr.

Michelle Critella, who is

more optimistic than many on the victory in that particular battle.

I will tell you, though, that I hear the same thing.

I hear the same thing from people on the left.

They say it quietly, but they are saying it, and that is, I'm beginning to be more afraid of my own side than yours.

My side has given in to the crazies, and they're going

over the edge.

You probably

will regret not saying that out loud, just as so many are regretting now not saying anything about Harvey Weinstein.

We all hear the stories in the news.

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Thanks to our court system, that happens a lot, and what can happen to you unless you're fully prepared.

Now, I want you to get a concealed carry permit, but I also want you to join the USCCA.

Gave a story this morning out of San Diego of a woman who had a concealed carry permit.

She had a gun in her car.

How did she do that in California?

I mean, that's a remarkable thing thing just in and of itself.

Yeah, not easy.

But she had a gun underneath the car seat,

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She is still driving, so she stops the car, and she knows her gun is underneath the seat.

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He's been arrested.

She was unharmed.

I'd like to see what happened to her as the police arrived in California and she defended herself with a gun.

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Glenn back.

Glenn back.

We're just counting the number of Peppa pig references that Stu has to make

in

every broadcast.

I'm contractually obligated, obviously, to at least mention Peppa once, but this is the second of the day.

No, this would be the third.

Well, I had one yesterday.

So it's three in the last two days now.

I'd like to go back to the transcripts because I believe this would be the third time.

Really?

Yes,

I believe it was the third time.

Look, it is my favorite kid's show.

Probably the fifth time off-air.

Do I like Blaze and the Monster Machines?

Sure, I do.

Sure.

And maybe that would make more sense being that we're on the Blaze attention.

Sure.

However, Peppa Pig, Mama Pig, Daddy Pig, George, Zoe Zebra, there's a lot of great characters on there.

So I do like to hit the Peppa Pig every once in a while.

Okay.

Again,

this is not necessarily the time

for my children to be making life-altering decisions that are permanent.

For example, even something as fundamental as belief in God can theoretically be reversed if they wish later on in life.

I hope that doesn't happen.

And it's one of the most important things, probably the most important thing we're trying to

teach our children about.

But if one of my kids decides later on he wants to reverse that, that will be reversible for them.

The idea that while my kid is begging me to watch peppa pig or blaze in the monster machines uh you know i i don't think i'm trying to think of any decision any

decision that should be made uh by a kid that lasts more than a normal kid decision

i mean even short-term decisions they want to eat jelly beans for breakfast yes right i mean

they want to eat paste half the time which is not as bad as people say but oh your kids want to eat paste paste?

No, and then they don't have to say because there's something wrong with them.

Yeah, sure.

It's not, it's ill-advised, I would say.

Yes, uh, but you know, my daughter Ainsley, uh, she likes to cut things out of the paper.

You know what else she likes to do?

She likes to cut her hair while she's at it.

Right.

Is that a good decision?

No, but the hair grows back.

Right.

You know, these you don't want to make permanent decisions when you're entertained by,

you know, maybe a family of small pigs that live on a large hill

and

occasionally sing songs about balloons.

You would say that adults have, you know,

maybe it's, I mean, look, I'm also entertained by Peppa Pigs, so I'm not making my point very well.

But yes, I think adults have more perspective, maybe a more ability to make decisions like that.

So have you heard of Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera?

I have not.

All right.

She's a congressional candidate from Miami.

And

she, she, she's running for Congress, and she said said that three blonde, big-bodied beings, two females, one male, visited her when she was seven.

Okay, see?

Okay.

And communicated telepathically to her several times in her life.

Rodriguez Aguileri, 59, a Republican who is running to replace a retiring Republican,

recounted her experience with extraterrestrials during a 2009 interview.

She said she went up inside the spaceship.

I went in, and there were some round seats that were there and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship.

It wasn't like an airplane.

Quartz rocks controlled the ship?

Come on, man.

I just want to make sure I'm understanding.

Does it outline the emissions?

She said it wasn't like an air.

She said it wasn't like an airplane, okay?

Well, I mean, I did gather that, but I mean,

I hope it wasn't an adult for a second.

I hope it was carbon neutral.

That's all.

She said she found several things out from the aliens.

One, there are 30,000 skulls different from humans in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Yeah, well, we should go look for that.

I mean, she should go look for it if she's running for Congress.

Right, that's what you're doing.

That can be who they are.

30,000 non-human skulls.

Introduce a bill, perhaps.

She said the world's energy center is in Africa.

Okay.

All right.

She says the Coral Castle, which is a limestone tourist attraction in South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid in Miami.

How long have we been talking about that?

I mean, up to seconds.

She also said that aliens mentioned to her Isis.

Now, she didn't clarify whether she meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess.

But she did hear talk about ISIS.

Well, it was 2009.

It would have to be the goddess, right?

Or they were telling her what was coming.

Oh, okay.

So it was a matter of time.

What did she know and when did she know it?

That's kind of the question.

She should have warned us back then.

So the reason why I'm sharing this is because I just want to show you that

even some adults should not be trusted to make their own decisions.

Like,

I want to run for Congress.

Or better yet, I think I know who I want to vote for Congress.

Or, you know, I'm going to take that interview request.

That sounds like a good idea for my future.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Glenn back.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn back.

All right, we have a choice.

We could talk about the latest with Colin Kaepernick and his lawsuit against the NFL, or we could talk about a very different story with the NFL, a story that I think is much more important, one that probably is not going to gain an awful lot of coverage.

While the national anthem protests continue to dominate the headlines and

create division, one NFL team is quietly taking a different path.

Oh, I hate to say this because Stu is such a fan of the Eagles, but the night before the Philadelphia Eagles game in Charlotte, several players gathered at the hotel's indoor swimming pool.

They held hands, they prayed, while one of their teammates, wide receiver Marcus Johnson, was baptized by a fellow player in the pool.

Now, apparently, this is becoming the new norm for the Eagles.

A year ago, five other Eagle players were baptized in the recovery pool at the team's practice facility.

Several players

on the team are outspoken about their Christian faith.

They say they have found strength and encouragement from fellow believers on the team.

More and more now in the Eagles, teammates are attending weekly Bible studies at players' homes and prayer sessions night before the games.

The quarterback, Carson Wentz, openly discusses his faith.

Some players have said they're not interested, yet no one on the team is excluded or pressured.

Colin Kaepernick seems to be allowing the anthem protest to define the narrative of his life.

The anger that he felt about racial injustice that fueled his protest to begin with is now boiling over into more anger and more blame.

However, maybe we should take note of the several Philadelphia Eagles players that are more interested in the message that you don't have to let your past, your mistakes, your bitterness, what you've done, what others have done to you, define

your life, your story, and your narrative.

The Eagles seem to be doing something refreshing during this divisive NFL season.

They have a different kind of bond and a different kind of peace that will serve them well beyond the football field.

It is the bond of faith that teaches radical love and forgiveness, the only things that can truly reach across the racial and political divide.

Faith, truth, truth, love, forgiveness.

Protests have their place,

but they don't have the power to heal a nation.

Tuesday, October 17th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

No matter what they do,

God is not going to to allow the Eagles to win.

I want you to know that.

They will choke in the end.

Even I know this.

Just once before I die, Glenn, is all I ask.

Yeah, well, really, it's all I ask about my life, my time on this planet, is to see this happen one time.

Just one time before I die.

If it happens this year, can you die?

Yeah, pretty much.

I can die happy.

I don't know if I should die.

It's probably not the best thing.

Maybe for the family.

I don't know.

Maybe it is.

But

look, at least that year.

You're at that point.

I don't know.

You're like, I don't know.

I have no idea if I'm

screwing the kids up.

I might be doing great service.

I don't know.

I have no idea.

It is an amazing story, though, because I obviously am a huge fan of the 5-1 Philadelphia Eagles.

However, what's going on with Carson Wentz is really interesting and the team as a whole.

Wentz is this, you know, their star quarterback.

He's in his second year.

And it's interesting to see the difference between

him and, you know, for example, Tim Tebow, who was, I mean, became

really a media firestorm around him with everything, and people were saying he shouldn't be praying on the field and all these things.

The same thing with Carson Wentz, I mean, he is really out there talking about this stuff really regularly.

You look at his social media feeds, they, I mean, it's as much Bible verse as it is

football talk.

And he doesn't seem to be getting any of that criticism, which obviously is the right thing.

I mean,

you should be getting criticism because of your faith.

But he talks about it.

He says, I always tell people, for example, if you love your job, you love your wife, you love what you do, you're going to talk about it.

Well, I love Jesus.

That's what I love.

So I'm going to talk about it.

So what is the difference between him?

But I'm not going to force it down your throat.

What's the difference between him and Thebow?

Why is this so under the radar where Tebow was, I mean, he was crucified.

Yeah.

And, you know, Thibault, I think, you know, Wentz is a much higher profile player as far as his abilities are.

You know, like Thibault was, you know, a very high profile in college, but was never a great NFL quarterback.

I mean, Carson Wentz is looking at, you know, he's in the conversation for MVP this year so far.

So it's, I don't know if it's partially because Thibault was also a divisive player and that a lot of people hated him.

A lot of people loved him as a player.

So they maybe they took that and pushed it over into the religious sort of sphere, where Wentz is, you know, pretty much so far universally adored.

I mean, these things can change at any time.

Tiger Woods was once universally adored.

But, I mean, you know, he's pretty much universally adored right now.

So if he starts sucking really badly, maybe people will start bringing this up more often.

I don't know.

Have you ever heard this happen in a, I mean,

where players are being baptized in a pool?

I had never heard of it before.

And this is not the first time, apparently.

I mean, they are, you know.

That's amazing.

It is amazing.

And they're sharing pictures of it on social media.

Johnson's short.

That's where that picture came from, if you haven't seen it.

I think it was on The Blaze.

I know it was on Faithwire, a couple of other sites that had the actual picture of

them,

15 people around it.

I think it was like six or seven players, a bunch of coaches, as a guy's getting baptized in the pool before a game in a hotel.

I mean, it's that's nuts.

It's cool, though.

It's really cool.

It's really cool.

It's just

crazy in this flashback.

I mean, it's just like, you know, that

just you don't see that, and you don't see that with celebrities, and you don't see that

with sports figures.

You just, you know, you'll hear people, I want to thank Harvey Weinstein and God.

Yeah, because I mean, they did an analysis of the Oscars speeches, and legitimately, Harvey Weinstein was thanked more than God in the speeches.

Well, I believe that.

It's incredible, though.

I mean, you look at this.

I mean, Wentz is

talking about how, he's talking about how he's going to share this stuff more publicly.

And he has this whole charity, which is Audience of One, it's called.

And it's about, he went to Haiti and did these, he, you know, did a sermon in Haiti to people there.

And he's like, wait a minute, if I can go to, if I can fly across the world or, you know, a long flight to Haiti and do a, you know, a sermon there, why am I not doing this here with people that I know?

And so it's a really cool thing.

And at the other side, you have the Colin Kaepernick thing.

He's suing the NFL.

And, you know, I realized this yesterday.

People forget that Colin Kaepernick, he was the first one to do this in the NFL.

However, he wasn't the only one who did it on his own team.

Even that first week, Eric Reed is another player who was on the 49ers and knelt next to him.

And all the pictures, every picture of Kaepernick from that time shows him kneeling next to Eric Reid.

Eric Reed was also on the field.

Eric Reed was also kneeling right next to Colin Kaepernick.

Eric Reed was protesting the same way at the same time with the same skin color.

Yet Eric Reed is still on the San Francisco 49ers because he is an average player.

He's not even a good player.

He's an average player.

What are you saying there?

Colin Kaepernick sucks.

I just wanted to make sure.

Earlier today, I read something from Facebook from a Hollywood writer that said, shame on all of us.

We all knew.

That was the name of it.

Everyone effing knew.

And

he said, I hang my head in shame today because I didn't say anything.

And it's because Harvey treated me well, but I knew it.

He said, I didn't know about the rapes or any of that.

He He said, but I knew the guy was a disgusting pig, but we never said anything about it.

And he said, nobody did, but we all knew.

So let's stop this pretense that we didn't know.

I found something

that is going around that is also viral.

This is from Joe Biden.

And

here's Joe Biden giving a speech.

at an anti-violence

organization, and he's using teleprompter.

And at first, it feels pretty legitimate.

You're like, wow, he's got a lot of fire on this.

And then you start watching his eyes, and you realize he's reading a teleprompter.

And I want you to hear this.

Maybe he really does mean this, but let's have a discussion about Joe Biden after you hear what he said about Weinstein.

It takes courage

to speak out.

With these women in Hollywood speaking out now,

did it to save other women from from similar abuse.

This disgusting behavior,

at least

on the part of Harvey Weinstein, has been brought to an abrupt and justifiable end.

But it's long past time

for the powerful men in Hollywood to speak up,

to be strong enough

to say something,

because silence is complicity.

Now,

Joe,

aren't you the one that we have

video of

all the time

saying,

why don't you come on over here?

Give me a little hug.

Give me a little sugar.

I mean, pulling women onto his lap.

Right.

Being

wildly inappropriate.

Yes.

Very awkward.

People seem to be put off by good old Joe pretty often.

Yeah.

I'm wondering how that one's going to work.

And he gave such a passionate speech there that I wonder if there is anything about Joe Biden because we've heard the rumors before.

And if there is anything, I'm wondering if anyone has the courage to say, you unbelievable hypocrite.

Because it was quite a message of when men have power, they should never wield it over a younger woman and make her feel uncomfortable.

I mean, not only is Biden,

you know, historically, eternally creepy

with people as he interacts with them.

I mean, he also was a huge, obviously, supporter of Bill Clinton,

of Ted Kennedy, of all sorts of

sordid characters over the years,

and not to mention took tons of cash, right?

I mean, you know, from people like Weinstein.

I mean, Weinstein, the report I saw today was that he actually donated to

the Clinton Legal Defense Fund back in the day

for

the sexual harassment

litigation that was going on against Bill.

You know,

this is something that has been, you know, there.

It's been present within this party.

And I mean, it's in all society, but you can't sit here and act like,

you know, you're this, you're standing up for women when they've acted the way they have.

I mean,

all they can do is

confess.

There are Democrats now that are starting to come out

against the Clintons.

Can you please play the cut Democrat rips Clintons for keeping Harvey money?

I worked for Bill Clinton.

I'm still fond of Bill Clinton and certainly have been supportive of the goals of the foundation.

But this is dumb.

This is just dumb.

Give the money back.

Weinstein is totally discredited as he should be.

This isn't an issue of politics.

The man's a predator.

You took money from him.

Give it back.

Period.

I don't know if, I mean,

if they try to play this game of, we had no idea.

I have a feeling there is a

new sense of righteousness of people coming out and saying, you know what, I'm going to be completely transparent.

Yeah, I did know and I knew nothing and I didn't say anything about it.

I didn't know about the rape, but I did know.

I mean, I don't know what I would have done,

but I did know.

There's no way the Secret Service.

As they're sending the president's daughter to Harvey Weinstein, nobody on the Secret Service said, hey, we want you to know there are threats of predator behavior.

That's the Secret Service's job.

They didn't get any kind of briefing?

Come on.

That's weird.

That's the first time I.

Of course.

I've never heard anybody bring that up.

Of course.

But I mean, how do they miss that?

If everyone in Hollywood knows, how can they possibly allow Malia to go work for this guy?

I mean, that is, that's a real oversight there.

Because mom and dad knew that he was really, really really powerful.

And mom and dad knew he's not going to do anything with my daughter.

I mean, it's probably true, right?

I mean, I'm sure Harvey Weinstein wouldn't think he could get away with that, but still, I mean, it's not something I would risk as a dad.

I don't care how powerful I am.

Do you risk that?

No.

I wouldn't?

No, not at all.

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Those of us at the Glenn Beck program, Mercury Studios, and the Blaze would ask that you would pray for Dana Lash and her family.

They have had to move out of their home and

move to a new place because of security threats.

And we

ask for

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The security threats are

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And

they have now come after her children as well.

So please say a prayer for Dana Lash, and she will be hopefully

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Canadian man who was recently freed after being held in Afghanistan by Taliban-tied kidnappers.

He was held for five years.

He said that

when his captors

came in to talk to him, he thought that they were trying to screw with his mind.

Maybe it was a joke, but he couldn't figure out why they would tell him such crazy things.

He had been in captivity and held by them for five years.

They at one point came in and said, said, Donald Trump is president.

And he didn't believe it.

He thought that stuff.

What is the game they're playing?

Can you imagine?

Why would they tell me that?

What do they want me to believe?

Who really is the president?

Because it's not Donald Trump.

Who do they want me?

Why would they tell me that?

What information are they?

I don't know who won the season in The Apprentice.

I don't know.

He didn't really, he didn't realize it until he was actually freed.

Until he was freed.

And he was like, holy cow, really?

Yeah.

Pretty amazing.

Yeah.

Pretty amazing.

Also, another story comes out about Carrie Fisher.

Heather Ross, who works in the film industry, told Carrie Fisher about how an unnamed producer sexually assaulted her in his car.

She reacted.

She stopped and got a box from Tiffany, one of those little blue boxes with the white bow on it.

Then she went to the grocery store,

and then she wrapped it in a little blue box and delivered it to his house.

He apparently had forced himself on her in a car, making an excuse to pull over, then reached over and climbed on top of her.

He said, You'll never make a movie in my town when she said, I don't want you to do this.

And he said, Get the F out of my car, kicked her out.

Two weeks later,

Carrie went to his office and personally delivered a Tiffany box wrapped in the white bow with a cow tongue in it.

She said, If you ever touch my darling Heather or any of any other woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box.

We miss Carrie Fisher.

Glenn back.

Pat is here.

He joins us.

His show Unleashed immediately follows this program on the Blaze Radio Network.

You can find that at theblaze.com or Glenn Beck.com.

And Pat is here, is dressed up as I think a sexy hot nurse for Halloween.

I'm not really sure.

You would probably believe that, but no, this is just my natural.

Really?

Yeah.

That's unbelievable.

I can't help myself.

The cleavage is

low and plunging.

It is.

Anyway, I'm worried in this Weinstein era that we should be talking like that about Pat.

That's for sure.

You're right.

Sorry, Pat.

I didn't want any flashbacks.

Yeah.

I didn't mean to.

Man, oh, man.

Have you guys been

boning up on your cultural appropriation rules for Halloween?

No, I have not.

No.

Because university students are all over the country.

You know, gone are the days when college students can dress up without fear of being reported to a bias response team.

A bias response team.

Now, when they respond, I guess it's all like SWAT and they break into your party and start shooting.

Do they have the sirens that go, me?

Yes.

Yeah, okay.

Yes.

So you can tell them a difference between the police and the European police.

Yes.

Unacceptable costumes listed on a University of St.

Thomas diversity flyer are,

quote, wearing Native American headdresses, dressing up as a Mexican by wearing a sombrero, dressing as a geisha, or any form of blackface, obviously.

Cultural appropriation is defined as the act of taking intellectual and cultural expressions from a culture that's not your own.

It's not okay.

Wait.

Say that again.

I'm just getting ready for St.

Patrick's Day, so I just want to make sure.

How dare you?

Wear green?

No.

No.

No.

Cultural appropriation is defined as the act of taking intellectual and cultural expressions from a culture that is not your own.

So

I can go to a beer fest, but you guys can't.

Right.

This would really limit a lot of restaurants' ability to sell their products.

It would be the cure for alcoholism the rest of the year, though, because if you're appropriating Irish culture by drinking yourself into a coma, Irish already have that down.

That's part of their culture.

And you can say that because you're Irish.

And I can say that because I'm Irish.

But quickly.

Thank goodness somebody said it.

Yes.

It had to be said.

If Halloween, if I remember correctly,

is a holiday in which you dress up as something you are not.

That's the fundamental principle

of the holiday.

Okay, no, no, no,

anything you would dress up as,

by definition, would be something you are not, whether it's a football player or a superhero or a vampire.

It's always a huge thing.

Do you hear the hate in this?

Do you hear the hate dripping out of it?

The point is, it's an appropriation-based holiday.

You're like a fountain of hate.

If that was true,

then

the only person that would be allowed to dress as a witch would be.

No, now, see, I don't think I can finish that job.

You cannot.

You definitely should not.

A guide put out by Northern Arizona's University Housing and Residence Life warns against African-inspired get-ups, a Pocahontas costume, Asian rice hats, and more.

What's an Asian rice hat?

I have no idea.

Is it made out of rice?

I don't know.

Does it shield you from rice?

What does it

know?

Could you look that up, please?

I would like a picture.

Asian rice hat.

I may have one.

Members of the University of Utah's Student Affairs Diversity Council state: as you get ready for Halloween, here are some tips you can put into practice.

Think to yourself, does the actual name on the the costume packaging say tribal or traditional?

Does the costume include race-related hair or accessories like dreadlocks, afros, cornrows, or a headdress?

Does the costume play into racial stereotypes?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, rethink your costume and try again.

So I couldn't go as Dracula because the Transylvanians, which

will be pissed.

And they will be hurt and they will be offended.

Correct.

You can't can't dress as a witch because there are real witches.

Wiccans will be

dramatically very offended.

You can't dress up as dead people because you're not dead.

This is kind of my thing, though, to all of these rulemaking university students.

I say, ask yourself two questions.

One,

who died and made you cultural czar of Halloween?

And two, is this still America?

If the answer to these questions is no one and yes, shove these rules up your rectal cavity and shut your pie holes.

But I'd really like to have a discussion about that, Pat.

Maybe you wouldn't be the one to discuss it.

Maybe not.

Yeah.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

I don't think there's any discussing to be had.

Yeah, I don't think so.

I think it was pretty clear.

Plenty more discussion on this coming up on Pat Gray Unleashed on the Blaze Radio and Television Networks.

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Glenn back.

So let's take some audio clips that are unrelated and see if we can make sense of them.

Here is Bibi Netanyahu on the focus of the media.

I think that how a country treats religious minorities is a very good indicator of how it will treat its other citizens and its neighbors.

So today I have a simple request for the media outlets in this room.

Dedicate this week to highlighting the plight of the countless Christians suffering under Iran.

Profile the brave Christian leaders jailed for practicing their faith.

Sit with the families of the school teachers jailed for years merely for converting to Christianity.

Call out the lie and the lies of President Boukhani, who promised in 2013 that all religions would, quote, feel justice in Iran while so many Christians live there in constant terror.

this is something that we're going to be getting into

shortly.

We're trying to

see how things settle down.

And unfortunately, I don't think it's going to go in the right way.

You're going to see in the news in the next few weeks

that ISIS is over, that Raqqa was the last real stronghold of ISIS.

Well, what they're not telling you is that Iran is plowing over all of it.

Iran and the Iraqi army have joined forces, and they are now going up to the Kurds, and there are

reports now that the Peshmerga being beheaded by the Iranian soldiers.

We have, in effect, I believe, given the Middle East over to Iran.

And they are going to be on the doorstep of Benjamin Netanyahu in a short period of time.

But I find it remarkable that it takes a Jewish leader to stand up and say, can someone please cover the plight of the Christians in the Middle East?

Here's Lady Gaga on our government.

So when you say something happened to you, that, oh, we'll let the government decide

if it happened or not.

I don't want to live in a country like that.

I mean, I want to be somewhere where when a child says, I was raped, that every adult in the room says, are you okay?

What happened?

Who was it?

We want to help you.

Right.

What were you wearing?

Not like you wearing and what were you doing?

And did you do anything wrong?

And were you on drugs and were you drinking?

Wait, I don't even understand this.

First of all, what do you mean you don't want the government to decide?

You mean you don't want a jury to decide?

You don't want the legal system?

I mean, that's a really scary place to where if somebody can just make an accusation, we all bow down to it.

I mean, have you ever read The Crucible?

That's what that's about.

And it's not those, the two things she wants are not mutually exclusive.

The government can decide legal matters as well as we can all say, what happened?

Are you okay?

Can we help?

That's not really the government.

That's a jury of your peers.

I don't want the government to decide that either.

I do want a jury of my peers.

Yes, it's within the government system, the legal system, which I mean has a structure and is one of the few things that's actually supposed to be a government power, at least at some level.

But you're right, it's still a jury of your peers that makes the final decision within that framework.

Hasn't she been arguing for the government to decide who can get married and who can't?

Yeah, absolutely.

And

who should be paying for birth control and all of that is all government business.

But I mean,

this is the thing, this is a weird thing we're at right now, which is it goes back to the Hillary Clinton,

every woman should be believed when she makes an accusation, except for obviously the women who are accusing her husband.

You know, look, you should be able to be taken seriously.

You should not be dismissed if you make a claim.

But are we in that place?

I mean, I don't know.

Certainly right now, it seems like that is what everyone's saying

online, and everyone's saying they've all been through these things, and

no one believes them.

And I mean, I hope that's not true.

You know, Gretchen Carlson has her book out this week, Fierce.

And she's the one who first really started this bowl rolling.

I mean, if it wasn't.

Was it Roger Ailes?

Yeah.

I mean, if it wasn't for her on Roger Ailes, I don't think any of this stuff would have been wind going.

But she's got a new book out.

I'd like to talk to her this week

and

see what she says.

How do we find that place where a woman has a right not to be believed, but has a right to be taken seriously.

And is there a difference?

I can't imagine Gretchen Carlson thinks that every woman who makes an accusation automatically is believed.

That's a ridiculous standard.

It's not an American standard.

No.

You know, the only place that that standard exists is for guys in like Iran.

Right?

Like, you know, if there's some that is that's the standard there.

The guy just gets believed.

And the woman is.

It takes three witnesses of women.

It takes three women

witnesses to dispute

the accused or one guy.

So if one guy says, he didn't do it, he was with me,

three women have to say, I witnessed it firsthand for it to be believed.

Let's go to some more unbelievable.

Here is Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell yesterday.

Same agenda.

We are probably not going to

win elections in November.

My goal is the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate is to keep us in the majority.

The way you do that is not complicated.

You have to nominate people who can actually win because winners make policy and losers go home.

We changed the business model in 2014.

We nominated people who could win everywhere.

We took the majority in the Senate.

We had one skirmish in 2016.

We kept the majority in the Senate.

So our operating approach will be to support our incumbents

and in open seats to to seek to help nominate people who can actually win in November.

That's my approach.

That's the way you keep a governing majority.

For what point?

Yeah, to do what?

To do what?

Who cares if you have a majority if you do nothing with them all the time?

Give me the Trump cut, please.

Do you have it, Sarah?

Trump McConnell, same agenda in the press conference.

It's 4 MBA.

We are probably now, despite what we read, we are probably now, I think, at least as far as I'm concerned, closer than ever before.

And the relationship is very good.

We're fighting for

the same thing.

We're fighting for lower taxes, big tax cuts, the biggest tax cuts in the history of our nation.

My relationship with this gentleman is outstanding.

has been outstanding.

I want to underscore what the President said.

We have the same agenda

it's just laughable i mean nobody including those two believe that i mean i they've been you know at each other's throats the entire time and then they just go i mean it's just it's politics though right they're trying to convince people that these things can happen mcconnell went on when he was talking about his the senate races he was like well you know christine o'donnell's not in the senate and you know and neither is uh todd aiken It's like, well,

and his point is, like, don't

nominate these people who are, you know,

I guess

his point was don't nominate people who can't win that are too conservative or whatever.

Of course, he leaves out that Mike Lee's in the Senate and Rand Paul's in the Senate.

And

Ted Cruz is in the Senate.

And

Ben Sasse is in the Senate.

And Pat Toomey's in the Senate.

And, you know, Marco Rubio is in the Senate.

All these people came into that idea that remember, Marco Rubio ran against Charlie Crist, and the establishment wanted Charlie Crist to win.

I mean,

you might not think Rubio is the the perfect conservative now, but I mean, think of the definition, the difference.

Christ then went on to go as an independent and then a Democrat.

I mean,

this guy stood up against all of the good senators that are in the Senate and tried to stop them.

And now they're incumbents.

He's going to support them.

Well, if they suck, you should support the other one.

I'm no fan of Steve Bannon.

I'm no fan of Breitbart.

I'm not going to love the candidates that he tries to primary some of these these people with.

But that is what primaries are for.

Stopped acting like it's your birthright to be in the Senate for your entire life.

If somebody is going to do a job that is better than you and the people want it, it's not some inconvenience that they primary you.

It's what the system is.

They're supposed to do it.

And I'm glad they do.

Beyond that,

it's not just if they will do a better job.

It's will they do their job?

Period.

Will they do it?

Glenn, back.