Trump Deserves An Apology 1/12/17

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The president-elect has now slammed the intel community.

He did it yesterday, and it is important that we figure out if that's true or not.

ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, has scolded President-elect Trump for comparing America and this story to Nazi Germany.

They're demanding an apology.

I have an answer for the ADL.

And an apology is due.

We begin there.

Oh, by the way, not to the ADL.

We begin there right now.

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It's disgraceful.

Disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out.

I think it's a disgrace.

And I say that, and I say that.

And that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do.

Oh my goodness.

How dare Mr.

Trump say that the intelligence community, that he believes the intelligence community, leaked this information to smear and discredit, and the media picked it up.

And that is exactly like Nazi Germany, what Nazi Germany did

and would do.

ADL

wants an apology.

Well, this got me thinking yesterday.

And ADL, I'm coming to you here in a second.

Everything that has happened in the past 48 hours on this story, there are people that deserve an apology.

And somebody who wants to look

at reason,

look at the facts, and wants to be fair,

you will follow.

And you will see that there are two people

that deserve an apology.

Neither one of these people have anything to do with ADL.

First, let me address and recap on what happened to President-elect Trump.

BuzzFeed,

two days ago, released a 35-page dossier, which the editors themselves acknowledged was unverified.

Some of the facts turn out not to be true.

This is what they're saying in the opening paragraph.

And the sources are unknown.

End quote.

For BuzzFeed to release this is beyond irresponsible.

It is dangerous.

If somebody in my organization at the Blaze, if the Blaze would have published this,

I would have fired them on the spot.

Yeah, but we said it was exactly.

You knew what that information was, so why would you publish it?

You're fired.

And quite honestly, that's in a journalistic organization.

On this radio show, where none of us are journalists.

If anyone would have brought that to me, I would have questioned their judgment and quite possibly their future with this program.

Glenn, we got this 35-page.

Of course, look, it's completely unverified.

We wouldn't have done it in this setting.

With the media scouring the internet now for stories they can label fake news and stand against, you'd think that with this story they might discover what Americans have known for a very long time, that they themselves have been often the very sources of the misinformation and quote fake news.

After all of the sanctimonious lectures that we have received about their journalistic integrity and professional ethics,

something like this comes out?

Now, there are people that will say, well, that's BuzzFeed.

It doesn't make it there.

It's just BuzzFeed.

It's not, you know, really?

BuzzFeed?

That shows you haven't been paying attention.

Ben Smith is at BuzzFeed, and he has put together, I think, one of the best political news teams in the business.

Their coverage of the campaign was fearless.

They did the biggest Juanita Broderick

story than anybody else.

Lengthy profile.

Lengthy.

Which took her claims of Bill Clinton raping her seriously.

Seriously.

And tried to really look at it.

I mean, you know, they did a lot.

They exposed both candidates.

They reported facts that their reporters were able to somehow or other verify, and then they had the courage to print them.

I was a fan.

And I say I was a fan because now we have to start all over again, in my mind, with BuzzFeed.

Publishing these vile, unsubstantiated rumors, they have destroyed the credibility that they have worked so hard on.

So the first apology that needs to be issued is an apology from BuzzFeed.

BuzzFeed owes the president-elect an apology for publishing the 35-page dossier without confirming a single allegation.

It isn't fair to Donald Trump.

It isn't fair to the American people.

And let me explain why it's not fair.

First of all,

what if these allegations if somebody could just come up with a dossier on you

and publish them

and everybody just goes along with it.

Is that fair to you?

What happens if Donald Trump is right and this was coming from our intelligence community?

Our intelligence community can just come up with a dossier of reliable sources, but unnamed, and we're not really sure who they are.

And the media can go along and destroy your life.

It's not fair to Donald Trump as a human being,

but it is also not fair to you as a human being and to the American system.

And here's why.

Let me ask you this.

What would happen if in today's world Watergate would happen?

That was scandalous stuff.

And we had a hard time believing.

I remember my dad, Pat remembers his dad.

Our dads didn't believe that Watergate was true.

They didn't believe the press.

But when the Washington Post finally had all of the details, both of our dads went, okay.

What do you think?

It's not hard to imagine.

Imagine this for a second, that Nixon is Trump or Obama, and five of his guys get caught breaking into the DNC.

Now let's just say Nixon in this case is Trump.

Do you really, is it hard to imagine that a pro-Trump news outlet could publish an unsubstantiated article the very next day alleging that the men who were arrested were all actors hired by the Democrats in order to get Trump impeached.

Is that hard to imagine?

Is it hard to imagine it flip the other way?

That the press could take unsubstantiated.

Well, they just did it.

You don't have to imagine it.

It's just happened.

This is why BuzzFeed's actions are so irresponsible.

When everyone is entitled to their own facts, we lose the ability to reason

and decide what's true and how to move forward.

And it's already starting to happen.

Did you see what happened with Kellyanne Conway and Anderson Cooper last night?

It was unbelievable.

So, the second apology now

is owed to CNN's Jim Acosta,

to Anderson Cooper,

to

what was his name, Jake Tapper,

and everybody at CNN.

And here's why.

President-elect owes him an apology for the way, first, he treated Jim Acosta at the press conference.

It was beneath him.

Now, if this would happen to me, I don't think I would have been as polite as Donald Trump was.

You're saying these things about me.

How dare you?

However, although it wasn't CNN.

Yes, what he did was he lumped BuzzFeed together with CNN.

CNN's report and the work of Jake Tapper and others at CNN

were not the actions of BuzzFeed.

The focus of the CNN report was the two-page synopsis appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which was reportedly presented to President Obama and President-elect Trump by the intelligence chiefs.

The CNN reports did not contain any details of the allegations contained in the synopsis because they couldn't be independently verified by the reporters.

CNN was responsible professional journalism, and it was vastly different than the hatchet job done by BuzzFeed.

And for the president-elect to say that the CNN report was fake news without

providing specific denials in this is also incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.

The safeguard of our liberty

is a free and credible press.

I can't help the press with the credibility.

They have to earn that.

But a free press is important,

and this is why this is dangerous.

After January 20th, no one is going to be better equipped to restrain the liberty of the press than Donald Trump.

The friction that we are now seeing is concerning.

So now let me get to the ADL

and their apology.

The arrogance

of any person

or any organization on planet Earth that believes they have the right to police

a specific group of words is beyond me.

Who does the ADL believe that they are, that they represent all of the Jewish perspective and the world's perspective to such a degree that they can say who can and cannot use words associated with World War II and the Holocaust?

It's absolutely incredible.

Yesterday, what President-elect Trump was saying

was

correct.

This is

what state security, releasing disinformation or damaging information that is untrue and having the press lap it up and push it out is exactly what Nazi Germany used to do.

That doesn't mean that it's happening.

It means we must examine it and look at it.

I'm tired of the word police.

I think you are too.

I am tired of the thought police, the word police.

I'm tired of it on both sides.

But I am really offended by a group,

a single group of people that believe they own and represent a global opinion on any given topic.

It would be like me coming out and saying, you know what?

The Tea Party.

Everybody that was in the Tea Party from here on out, we're the official police of the founding.

We're the official police.

We're the only ones.

Anybody else speaks out about the founders?

Get them.

Anybody who says that this is what the Constitution means, get them.

We must remember our founding.

It's offensive.

It's offensive, especially when you are trying to protect.

It truly amazes me

that we cannot bring up facts of today and say warning.

If what Trump is alleging is true, and I'm not saying it is,

I'm saying there's a possibility and it should be examined.

If what he says is alleging is true,

that's what Nazi Germany did do.

And no one should be asked to fall in line and remain silent because it's uncomfortable to point out.

At one point, Nazi Germany was not Nazi Germany.

The question is, how did that country become a country that now we're never supposed to reference as a warning?

The American people should be worried and concerned about false allegations on any American that comes from a government document.

combined with a press that can't seem to find its way to the truth or facts.

That's a dangerous combination for the people on the left and for the people on the right.

I'm reading a book that was written in the 1930s.

It's by Sebastian Hafner.

It's called Defying Hitler.

One of the circumstances that gave rise to Nazi Germany.

He writes, this whole book is a warning written in the 30s.

You're reading this all wrong.

You've got it all wrong.

You've got to listen because this is going to happen to your country and the next country and the next country.

Quote, with sheepish submissiveness, the German people accepted that as a result of the Reichstag fire, each one of them lost what little personal freedom and dignity that was guaranteed by our Constitution, as though it followed as a necessary consequence.

More than one of my friends hinted that they had doubts about the official version, but none of them saw anything out of the ordinary in the fact that from now on, one's telephone would be tapped, one's letters would be open, one's desk might be broken into.

Remember, this is happening before Nazi Germany was the Nazi Germany that we all now know it to be.

If we are to never forget,

we must first always remember.

Not like watch a film about it, but analyze what are the seeds, the seeds of hatred, statism, egotism, cult of personality, anti-Semitism, and state-sponsored misinformation spread by a media and filmmakers that are willing to spread half-truths and lies.

And you can't view that history in a vacuum.

We must remember in the proper context so we can better understand the environment that allowed the seeds to take root and create the Germany that was inhuman.

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We have to be able

to discuss things rationally and be able to come to the truth.

Is the media complicit with this deception?

CNN, I don't believe, is.

BuzzFeed is.

Is Kellyanne Conway

complicit with the deception on the other side?

I believe she was last night on CNN.

Look, we can't have two sets of facts.

We have to agree on the facts.

Now, one important thing that Donald Trump is now starting to say, and he's been saying it for a while, and we have to decide if it's true or not,

is the intelligence community doing this to Donald Trump?

Were they the source of this?

Did they release this information and push this out to teach him a lesson?

If that is true, that is wildly dangerous.

But to the ADL, Trump knows that America is not Nazi Germany, just like he knows that President Obama was not Hitler, nor will President Trump be Hitler.

Everybody has the potential of being Hitler.

He has the right, with what has just happened to him, with the release of this dossier of obvious lies and half-drews, to

look at this and say, this does look a lot like what was happening in Nazi Germany if this is what happened.

Now it is up to journalists to report

facts and for us

to discuss and decide.

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Let's go to John John in Florida.

Hello, John.

You're on the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome.

Hello, John.

Are you there?

Yeah, I am, Glenn.

Can you hear me up there?

Yes, I can.

Go ahead.

Okay, I'm just going to pull over.

I don't want to be driving and talking and chewing gum at the same time.

I know, I know.

I agree with most of what you said, but the issue of the apology to CNN,

I just don't agree.

And here's why.

If you watch that video over again, you have Caper there, two other guys, and then Bernstein as well.

And Bernstein carries the weight of Watergate with him.

But that video and the way they presented it was with such gravitas, yet it came with no proof.

And the gravitas gives you an impression of solid information.

Okay, hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, John, hang on just a second.

I want to make sure we agree on the facts here

because you're right, it did come with gravitas.

But what they discussed was the

two-page, and they made it clear this is not

um there's other allegations that are out and they're smarmy um but what this is is what was presented to both president trump president-elect trump and president obama in a briefing and it says these things well the the things that we wait wait the things that we do know as i pointed out on yesterday's show exonerate donald trump they don't they don't claim uh that donald trump was involved he turned down business deals he He was not beholden to them.

If you watch that 11-minute section of when they first threw it on there, they indicate there were salacious details in that, and that all of a sudden gets wrapped up in the entire picture.

And for a casual viewer, just looking at that, it looks like they're about to blow the lid off.

Okay, so wait.

And again, I say perception means everything.

But they were very.

I'm not a Trump fan.

We're not arguing with you, John.

Yeah, I mean, I mean,

if you watch that thing, you're right.

There was a feeling of gravitas to that report.

I would agree with it.

But what it was led with was, I need to be very precise with my words here.

And then they described the story accurately.

If you got the wrong impression by their precise wording because it felt important, that cannot be held.

We can't be thrown on scene.

We can't have a conversation.

You cannot.

I can't do this show for the people who don't listen.

Okay.

There's a ton of people who say, Glenn Beck is this and that.

Well, you don't listen to the show.

I can't do the show for people who don't listen.

I can't also be held responsible for people who half listen.

There are times, and you'll know from this show, that we'll just start talking about that.

And there are other times that I'll say, listen, this is really important.

I want you to listen carefully.

I've now done everything I can.

If you get the wrong impression or misinterpret my words, or if people misinterpreted the words or got the impression from CNN, it's not their fault.

They have to report facts, and they reported the facts.

Well, again,

precise with words.

Look at what Harry Reid did to

Mitt Romney.

I don't have proof.

It's not out there, but let's, you know, you know, you better check into this with Mitt Romney.

Correct.

And so, wait, wait, wait.

And so, CNN had this report, as did everybody else, in August.

They didn't say that.

They didn't report what Harry Reid said.

He's not a judge.

I got it.

Yeah, I got it.

I got a phone call from somebody, and they told me there's proof out there.

You got to deny it.

It's out there now.

That's

slimy.

I have no issue with them reporting that

there was this investigation looking into possible connections with Russia and Trump.

But when you started tying in the salacious aspect to it,

you stepped over, even though, even though they said there's no proof of this, you're throwing it, it's one of those things, you're throwing it out there.

All of a sudden, it's on the table.

Someone better look into it.

They threw out there the idea.

The perception with the viewer is there's something huge here, something wrong with Donald Trump.

And again, I say that.

I'm not a Trump.

I was a cruise guy.

I'm not a Trump guy.

I had to hold my nose when I voted for Trump.

As we said yesterday,

as we said yesterday, I don't even think there's a reason to entertain the possibility that these stories are right.

That's how strongly I said that yesterday.

We said yesterday that Stu firmly believes that the intelligence community

suspected.

Yeah, that the intelligence community is doing this to teach him a lesson.

I think that's a possibility.

I think that I hope to God that's not right because that's dangerous on all fronts.

We stood yesterday and today

in defense of Donald Trump.

So please don't try to give the impression to anyone that we are not standing with Donald Trump on this issue.

But facts are facts and we can't talk about impressions.

I know perception is reality, but at some point, reality must become reality.

We're living in a movie that none of us would believe if we were sitting around a pitch table at Hollywood and somebody said, I know, this is the story.

We wouldn't believe this story.

Reality must become reality.

You, as a citizen, must accept the responsibility to not work on impressions, but work on the facts.

And anyone who says, Well, I got the impression, it's your responsibility to say your feelings here are valid, but not

to the extent to where they trump the facts.

No pun intended.

I won't argue that, but sadly, the reality of the situation is in the world we live in, everything is

sorry, John.

Sorry, I don't, I will not.

What does that get you?

That continues to lower the bar.

I will not play the game of, well, everyone's stupid and everyone does this.

I

perception.

I am, look, do you know how much trouble I'm getting in right now, John, from my own audience for the perception that I am suddenly going liberal?

I haven't changed one damn thing.

Well, it's ridiculous, but wait a minute, John, it's perception.

It's perception.

Right, you've

got this situation correctly, John, so it's annoying to you.

You're right.

So I understand perception, but at some point, facts do matter.

And what I'm calling for when it comes to facts do matter is for better journalism.

And I'll give you the other example.

You remember when that woman in New York, the Muslim woman in New York, claimed she was attacked by three people on the subway?

Yes.

Everyone ran with that story as if it was completely true.

But when you read that story, there were so many holes in it, it should have never been there.

You're exactly right.

And so it's, you know, it's tough

looking at these things and go, let's look at the facts and look where the holes are.

And if there are major holes, stop.

It's not worth running.

So, John, you're exactly right.

What CNN did run with, however, was legitimate.

What BuzzFeed ran with was not legitimate and

a farce of journalism and very dangerous.

I agree.

So there is a difference.

Now, the problem is, is the perception has been built by two things.

One, the press

saying they want to understand fake news, and they don't understand fake news.

They don't understand

the atmosphere they themselves have created.

They are sitting in their ivory tower, and they refuse to look at themselves.

Everybody

in America today,

you've got one choice.

You can either continue to play the same game or you can say, what role have I played in to what is happening now in America everybody wants to say it's you

you cause this why don't we spend a day one day out of 365 one day where we say I'm not going to look at the window today I'm going to look at the mirror and ask myself what role have I played to contribute to where we are in society if we could get journalists if we could get Republicans if we could get Democrats if we could get everybody on planet earth even those who are ruled by perception half-truths and half wits to look at their life and say what have I done in the last eight years that may have contributed to this and then the next day just say I own this part of it now how do we move forward we have to start owning If you want

a free, self-governing society, then damn it, America, you better start self-governance and stop blaming everybody else for everything.

There are nuances here.

Everything's not black and white.

Nothing can be presented exactly the way you want it to be.

So it has perfect consumption.

Life is messy.

So look at the facts.

We can talk about our feelings because I know you're hurt.

I know you're scared.

I know you're angry.

I know you want vengeance.

I know you want peace.

Your feelings are

valued, important,

and valid.

But they do not trump the facts.

Thank you for your phone call.

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One

important point, because people keep asking this.

If the intelligence community has basically admitted, Clapper admitted it in a memo yesterday, that they don't think that this is true.

They have no determination of whether any of these crazy things about Donald Trump are actually true.

And the report from CNN was clear about that.

And people keep asking, well, then why would it be in the briefing?

Right?

So take yourself back a couple days.

Let's say Glenn, the debate is Glenn and I disagree.

Glenn says,

Jeffy is not trashing him behind his back.

And I say, Jeffy is trashing you behind your back.

He is doing it.

Trust me.

And you keep saying publicly, Jeffy's a good guy.

He's got the heart of gold.

He would never do something like that to me.

So now I am tasked with proving to you, Glenn, that Jeffy is trashing you behind his back.

So what I do is I bring you a document that sourced from Jeffy, things that Jeffy is saying.

like Glenn Beck is hooking up with prostitutes all over the world.

And I hand it to you.

Is that a valid thing for the intelligence community to do, for me to do in that case?

Yes.

I'm not saying I believe you were with prostitutes.

I'm saying this is evidence that Jeffy is trashing you.

That's why it was important to report.

Because Jeffy, in your analogy, is Russia.

Is Russia.

Russia is doing these things.

This is what our conversation was about yesterday.

It had nothing.

We defended Donald Trump and still do defend Donald Trump on what was presented in those documents, the real documents.

There's no reason to believe anything that BuzzFeed did.

That's a separate story.

What was presented to the president and Donald Trump does not indicate that Donald Trump did anything

wrong.

It was that Russia is trying to use him, trying to entrap him, trying to find something to blackmail him with.

So far,

according to the documents that were presented to the President Donald Trump, he has not done it.

Donald Trump actually should celebrate

what the intelligence agency brought to him, but he's conflating it with the BuzzFeed report.

That's easy because BuzzFeed, for most people, has the credibility of BuzzFeed.

So it's easy to say, this is ridiculous.

What BuzzFeed did is ridiculous.

But I want to point out to all of you in the press that what was presented to the president and myself was that I am clean, they have tried to entrap me, I'm smarter than that, and I understand.

Now, this implies that Russia is doing these things.

Okay?

They can't verify the sources on these.

So that's where we need to work together with the intelligence community to find out if these things are true about Russia.

We know the things that they allege to the president are true about me because there's no allegations about me doing anything in those documents.

The BuzzFeed stuff is nonsense, and it belongs on a place called BuzzFeed.

That's the way he should have handled it.

And then this whole story would be over.

Yep.

Because

that's what the truth is.

There are two, there are actually three stories going on.

There's the BuzzFeed story.

There is the

Russia is our friend story.

And now there is also, because Donald Trump is saying it, there is the is the intelligence community.

Are they like Nazi Germany?

Are they manufacturing things and

putting them out about private citizens or even our president-elect trying to destroy him and put him in his place.

Those are the three stories.

You have to keep the three stories in three separate buckets.

No matter what people tell you the story is about, it is about those three buckets, period.

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the Glen Beck Program.

So glad you're here.

There's a new,

I want to,

I want to take the show in a different direction, or a new philosophy, if you will.

And it's all pinned on one phrase that I read recently, and it came from Eleanor Roosevelt of all Godforsaken people.

And she said,

great minds...

talk about ideas.

Average minds talk about events.

And small minds talk about people.

I want to show you how we can come together by talking about

this

buzzfeed

scandal in a different way.

By instead of making about people or even events, talk about the ideas.

Maybe we can make some progress as a nation and as people by doing that.

We begin there right now.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

I want to take you through.

I said last hour that there are three buckets of this story.

There are three separate things, and they're all being thrown together as one story.

And

that's not true.

And it's causing confusion and contention and arguments because

everyone is looking at this as one story.

It's not.

It's many.

But they come down to three basic buckets.

The first one is the 35-page report and BuzzFeed.

And that 35-page report, that has stories in it of John McCain having the report, turning it over to the FBI.

People are split on that.

Is that right?

Is that wrong?

That report includes BuzzFeed.

They printed it.

Should they or shouldn't they have?

It includes the people that allegedly are part of the Trump team that were doing things that are absolutely, I believe we can state, false, but they are at least unproven, and the charges are given by Russian operatives to a source that we don't know.

Let's call those untrue.

It also goes back to

this 35-page report was put together, hired by the Republicans trying to discredit Donald Trump.

They didn't use it, and so they sold it to the Democrats, who also didn't use it, but it's been circulating since August.

There's all kinds of places to go on that bucket.

And we're right now going there.

But we're also conflating that bucket with this bucket.

And that is the bucket of the two-page report that went to the president and the

president-elect.

And that one was

to answer the question:

Are the Russians involved in trying to destroy our republic, or are they involved in trying to make America great again?

That bucket involves the two-page report, the Putin stuff, Trump, Clinton, all of the things that they have done, and he said, she said, and spies, and, well, it's the war and that we're just trying to

further a war with globalist blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

and the third bucket

is the charge that Donald Trump made yesterday that

should

at least get serious consideration

and that is that the CIA the FBI or the DHS somebody in the spy community that doesn't like Donald Trump took this opportunity to teach Donald Trump a lesson by

releasing this information

You can spend the day arguing

in circular, meaningless arguments because people will jump from bucket to bucket.

You'll make a good point for or against on the fake news thing, and then they'll jump over to, well, but the Russians aren't really doing this, or the Russians are really doing this.

And all of a sudden, you're in a second bucket.

And when you make a good point in the second bucket, they'll, but it's the CIA.

You know what they're like.

That's the third bucket.

You can't argue

when the facts are about so many different stories and they really truly are not connected.

They're just connected because the events

happened on the same day.

That's the problem.

We make this about people and he did, she did, what he did, what they did.

We can make this about people,

and that's what small minds do.

We can make this about events.

The release of the report,

the briefing with the president.

We could make that about events.

Or we could make this argument on this program about ideas.

What is the idea behind each of these buckets?

Fake news.

That's not the idea.

We're not searching for fake news because that becomes events or people.

We're searching for a way

to agree on facts.

We're searching for the truth.

Everybody's making this about, see, they caused it.

Instead of saying, what is our goal here?

Our goal is the truth.

Now, if I have a perception that I am

a conservative hack,

what do I have to do to lessen that feeling among people so we can have a conversation and get to a place to where we can disagree on facts

and we can agree on facts.

I'm sorry, we can disagree on policies, but we can agree on facts and we can continue a conversation.

Well, in my world, I figured the best thing I can do is stop worrying about everyone else and say, this part of our society, this part of our problems, I own.

I take responsibility for these things that I did.

I won't take responsibility for all of it, but this is what I did and I own it in hopes that someone else will finally.

Come on our side or on their side and say, you know what?

I'm going to join him.

I'm not going to worry about anybody else right now.

I'm just going to look at what I did.

Here's what I did.

And I own this part.

And

I'm not going to make anybody go on an apology tour.

Good, great.

Let's talk.

How can we get to the truth now?

How can we get more people to use actual critical thinking so we're not screaming over each other and at each other and getting nowhere, and in fact, making things worse.

That's what the fake news idea is.

But the fake news stories are now

just

the people versus the press.

That's all that is.

People versus the press.

No,

the idea is truth.

Let's do the two-page report.

People are making this about Putin, Trump, or Clinton.

Those are the small minds.

The average minds are making it about the two-page report.

Here's what it is.

Now,

you have to report, you have to have, you have to talk about what the average, what the event is.

But that's just to set the table.

Here's the event.

Now, we can waste our time talking about the event, or we can dive down into small minds talking about the people.

Or we can say, what's the idea behind the report?

Why did this event even happen?

Because we're trying to decide whether or not Russia is a friend

or a foe.

Is that the idea?

No.

We're trying to establish, oh my gosh, almost like the first bucket, the truth.

We're trying to find a way to discover truth.

And the third bucket.

Donald Trump charged, and this must be seriously investigated.

I hope this isn't true,

but it is a movie way things happen.

Whether it's happening now, I don't know, but we have to dismiss it it in a credible way.

And if we don't dismiss it in a credible way, then the conspiracy theories will grow.

Why don't we want conspiracy theories?

Because

they put fog all over the truth.

It has to be a credible search for the truth.

And come what may, if we find that Clapper or anybody else was involved in trying to discredit the president-elect, that's important information.

They need to be fired.

If they broke the law, they need to be tried and go to jail.

Period.

So we can talk about Donald Trump's charge.

And it's important because if the CIA or Department of Homeland Security could do this to

Donald Trump, what the hell chance do you have?

And I won't hear that, oh, well, the government would never do that.

That's exactly what was said in the last administration about the FBI.

I'm sorry, about the IRS.

Yes.

Yes, the government will do that.

What is the argument about the CIA and FBI really all about?

Can we trust them to tell us the truth?

You see, the left and the right

actually

are striving

in this particular case

for exactly the same idea.

We are not going to make it unless we can restore

trust, integrity, truth.

Remember when I said to you, everything you thought you could trust would be liquid or would be solid is liquid and vice versa.

Is that not true today?

Do you fully trust our government apparatus, even our military intelligence, our CIA,

our NSA?

Do you trust that they're on the right side?

I don't know.

I think so.

I hope so.

But I don't know.

Do you remember when I said that would happen and it's here?

There was something else that I connected to that almost every time.

That is why your integrity must be impeachable.

Now, I don't know if you can be a person

in the media and have that happen to you.

I don't know if that can happen, especially if you're as flawed as I am and you continue to make mistakes.

But I know we have to strive for it.

Your integrity must be impeachable because I said there will come a time when nobody will know what to believe or where to go and you have to be able to look them in the eye and say, have I ever lied to you?

Have I ever been grossly wrong on direction?

Please, don't go there.

Don't go there.

You need to tell your friends, please, don't make this about Trump or Clapper

or the sex romps or the Democrats and the Republicans or John McCain or Putin or Clinton or anybody else.

Don't even make this about the 35-page report, the two-page report, or Donald Trump's charge.

Let's start with the idea.

And the idea is integrity.

What can we do to restore integrity to our leaders and to our media?

But that's an interesting exercise for all of us to have.

Perhaps it's more important for us to debate the idea: what is it that I can do to restore integrity to my own life?

With my own circle of influence, what have I done that I need to repair?

Who have I alienated

that perhaps,

perhaps, can be of aid, not in my cause, but in our cause

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All right, let's talk a little bit about Obamacare and what the future of Obamacare is.

They're making noise like they're actually going to repeal it.

And like, that is going to be an agenda item on day one.

I have heard.

I have heard from people who have access to the inner circle that this decision is being made

this week.

It will happen before.

They will know before the

swearing-in ceremony, and the same with the Supreme Court justice.

That is being decided right now.

There's a couple of Supreme Court justices on that list that are not good.

One of them, and I can't remember it, I got to

get the paperwork on it.

I'll give it to you tomorrow.

One of them is the

judge that...

Remember the story about the person who had the post-it note with the Bible phrase on it in their cubicle?

Yeah.

And then they were fired, and then they sued, sued and they said, I have a right to have that.

And the judge said, no, you don't.

Yeah.

One of the judges on that list and apparently one of the now top three finalists is that judge.

How did that judge get the Ted Cruz stamp of approval then?

And Mike Lee?

I don't know.

I mean, because he loved that list.

There's two.

There's

most of them are really good.

The ones that it has come down to, I guess it's come down to the final four.

And there's two of them that are really bad and two of them that are really good is mike lee one of them uh no okay no uh but we will um his brother is his brother one of them no no no is mike too good for the job did they say he's too good well too good you know that's the case yes the answer to that is yes i mean there are a lot of people who are just too good for the job who just won't be considered because nobody wants to fight for them nobody wants to put that kind of political capital on the line to seriously fight for an excellent supreme court candidate now they'll do that on the right they'll do that on the left.

They'll do that all day on the left.

They'll bring in a communist and say, I'm going to fight to the death for this guy.

They don't care.

You don't know.

I mean,

you don't know that

Mike Lee, I think, would be the best, but

yeah, his brother would be great.

But there are others.

There are others too.

And some of them I don't even know anything about.

So tomorrow, we'll give you some information on that.

But

do you believe Obamacare is going away?

I believe it is.

What I'm slightly nervous about is what it's going to be replaced with.

Is it going to be something just as bad or worse?

Or are you going to go with a free market replacement?

Are you going to just simply erase the lines of competition?

Donald Trump has said that he would do that, but he also said that you have to keep pre-existing conditions.

Right.

So

everyone must be covered, and he didn't care if it cost him votes, and the government would pay for that.

So that's a a concern as well.

Tomorrow, we should spend some time looking at the actual replacements that have been proposed that will probably be the basis of what they go with.

You know, the guy has some of the details.

The guy he went with with the HHS

has

a really good solution

to the repeal and replace of Obamacare.

Does he?

Nobody's paying attention to it, but

he's got it.

Patton Oswald

made some news yesterday.

If you don't know who Patton Waswald was, he was in King of Queens.

He's a comedian.

He was in the middle of the day.

Yeah, lots of voice worked.

Yeah, just lots of voice work.

We played one of the things he did because he was talking about political correctness.

And it was...

He was even.

I demand we play this.

We never played it on radio.

We only played it on.

Oh, have we only done that on?

Yes, I've tried to.

This has been like well we don't I don't think we have it handy

we had it in tomorrow we'll play it

because we it's so good and he's so good on it and it is about he's a crazy liberal but him talking about how political correctness is changing not only the world but his world

even as a crazy progressive it's ruining his world and he goes into this great rant about it it's so good it's something worth uh doing

we'll do that tomorrow so anyway anyway he tweeted out after the trump uh press conference and just like that Trump isn't funny anymore that press conference was terrifying we're effed go be with your families hoard food okay so now people are people are coming after him uh um because you know the the first response to that tweet was uh

what was it thanks a lot wife killer or something

his wife his wife just passed away had nothing to do with him yeah I mean it was a terrible tragedy.

The guy was completely devastated by it.

And, of course, I mean, why would anyone even go on the internet?

It's like moments like that.

It's like, why even bother with that nonsense?

So anyway,

but it's interesting, and it goes back to

what I said.

Instead of saying, okay, wife killer,

would it perhaps been better to say,

I understand.

Yeah, it would.

I understand.

Hey, by the way, Patton, we've been talking not about hoarding food, but about being prepared for emergencies for a really long time.

Because

maybe things could go unstable.

What if things go sideways?

Right.

And this is, we could either look at this time as

a way to get even or of a great blessing.

Because reasonable people now, now on both sides, unfortunately, Too many of those people who see this connect it directly to who's in power, and that has nothing to do with it.

And like you've said so many times, that shouldn't even be a concern.

Not even a concern.

One person

in this republic should not be that big a concern.

Correct.

Shouldn't be able to change things that much to make you worry like that.

Correct.

But we know that things are unstable.

We know that the world is unstable.

So for the last eight years,

the Democrats have dismissed all of that concern and said, you are a conspiracy theorist or you're a nut job fear monger yeah any of those things and

we

I didn't make a good case to the left that

no we're not no we're not we're none of those things we we just have fears that you don't see right now And if you continue down this road of executive orders and jamming things down people's throats and not reporting actual facts to balance your coverage, we will be in even worse shape in eight years when we survive this president.

Now we can say to them, okay, I know how you feel and how you felt is how we felt.

And right now you're tying it to the president just like we tied it to the president.

But the president actually doesn't have as much to do with it as we all know we're fundamentally off the reservation with our economics, with our banking,

with our understanding of the truth, with the way the media behaves, with the way our court system is behaving under the Constitution, with the way Congress is behaving and the president is behaving.

Those underpinnings of universal truth have all been violated.

And that's what's causing us to say, boy, maybe we should hoard food because the world could go into a giant sinkhole.

There's the hoarding of food.

There's the shelters that are being built that we're hearing about that are in Hollywood.

That are huge.

Huge and expensive, like in some cases, multi-million dollar shelters.

Right.

And they're doing all of those things, and nobody's calling them crazy.

Nobody calls them nuts.

But nobody is also standing in between the gap and saying,

I get it.

Yeah, I understand what you're feeling.

I understand what you're feeling.

Finally.

And you're right, that's the right word to use.

It is finally.

Because that's the one they respond to.

Finally, you're here.

Finally.

Or finally we can see each other.

I understand your fear.

Now

it's pushed into extreme because you're afraid of the president.

Like you will say, I was extreme because I said the president, you know, he could take us there.

And I said.

And I've said this, people have said that to me.

And I've said, yes, but I was wrong.

We made it, didn't we however

now you feel we won't make it through this guy

I want to tell you we will make it through this guy if we don't repeat the last eight years and treat each other the way we were treating each other or when we make it through this guy

God Almighty help us

what will we have in the Oval Office What will we have?

And which side is going to be the one that reigned victorious?

Your side or my side?

We both, we have this great opportunity right now.

Yeah, because especially since they shouldn't be so cocky this time about the next guy who could be much worse.

Right.

But I feel.

We don't know.

They didn't believe that during the Obama administration.

They thought the next one was going to be Hillary.

But we have a very short period of time because soon the Democratic machine, as soon as he takes office, the Democratic machine kicks in to get the next guy elected.

And so they're going to divide us on politics and on party lines again.

And

remember, I mean,

that happens every time on both sides.

And so we're going to be divided again, and it's going to get harder to talk to.

Right now is the time to talk to each other and find who's going to stand fast.

Because as this becomes that let's just put it this way

they repeal funding for Planned Parenthood

our side will celebrate

their side is going to make this into an assault on women how are we going to talk to each other

and as they do We're going to be screaming liars and they're going to be screaming misogynists.

How How do we talk to each other?

We have to tie our lines together now.

And quite honestly,

if we can't speak reasonably right now in this blessed break from hating each other until January 20th,

if we can't take a break now and try to develop some good habits,

we won't.

This is a time to develop habits.

How do we talk to each other?

How do we talk?

How do we view stories?

How do we talk about the news?

You know, what's fascinating to me is that story that book I've been telling you about defying Hitler.

I don't know if I, stop me if I've already said this, but the fact that they looked at a time period right before Hitler came in as glorious because there was two years where they didn't argue politics.

Nobody argued politics because everything went sane for about two years.

And they thought it was, they thought they were past the trouble.

But the writer says, the problem was

I couldn't tell you if I was on the left or the right at the time.

I couldn't tell you if I was a Christian or not because none of the names or the labels meant anything.

Because everybody had just changed positions over the last 15 years so many times that nobody knew what anything meant anymore.

Sound familiar?

Sounds wildly familiar.

So when they did start to argue politics again, there wasn't any foundation.

There were just too many accusations of you're going to be a bad guy.

Well, you said the last guy was going to be a bad guy.

And then your guy got in and then everything was fine.

And he was doing worse than this guy.

That's what happened in Germany.

And so when they finally got rest, instead of of taking the time and saying, okay, let's find truth.

Let's tie ourselves to some rocks here.

Let's find a foundation of what is it we believe.

They just said, ah, well, everything's going to be okay.

We dodged that bullet.

And then Hitler came in and redefined everything.

I appreciate it if you wouldn't say the name Hitler.

I'm sorry.

Someone else owns that name

and you

can't use it.

I know.

You also said the word Germany.

I'm sorry.

Also cannot be said.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to bring up that there are seeds.

By the way, it's incredible because the left didn't like it when I talked about seeds of Nazi Germany.

And they said I was immediately talking about Barack Obama.

No, I'm talking about the system and the culture and the Constitution and everything else and the political apparatus that gets us there.

Now I bring up Nazi Germany and now people on the right don't like like it because they immediately say, I'm talking about Donald Trump.

No,

no.

We actually would prefer European meanies instead of Nazi Germany.

Right.

We could be like the European meanies.

Yes.

May not carry the same weight.

It's really hard to

never forget if we're told not to remember.

Maybe you could just say the other hemisphereian

unnice people.

Right, okay.

Maybe because

Europe is too small.

Other hemispherean,

not nice people.

Not nice people.

Okay.

From now on, we'll know that's for the N-word, but not the other N-word we can't say.

No.

The N-word.

The new A-word we can't say.

Exactly.

Very confusing.

I don't know what the proposed solution is to this.

And we're talking about

these groups that come after you.

ADL is the one you mentioned today that say when you're not supposed to mention...

And didn't come after me, came after Donald Trump.

Trump, sorry, yes.

And

you're not supposed to talk about these things.

And I guess they're, if you look at it from their perspective, they're trying to say, okay, don't minimize what Nazi Germany was.

Every time you have a political disagreement, of course you don't.

But

every time you have a political disagreement, people will say Nazis, and that demeans the memory and the seriousness of what actually happened in Nazi Germany.

Yes.

However,

seemingly the other part, the other way to do this is just to wait until we get to Holocaust level points to start the comparisons.

And then

at that point,

we're already past the point where you can stop it.

Can I tell you something?

That's not true.

Because Stalin, wait a minute.

Stalin was not Hitler.

Pol Pot was not Hitler.

Mao was not Hitler.

Che wasn't Hitler.

They all had some of the seeds, but they were their own thing.

So it'll never be that.

It will never be that.

But we have to be able to look at what got them there.

And each of those societies, it's the same thing and if you can't mention any of the warning signals you can't prevent any of this stuff you can't right the problem is is that people do throw it out without thinking yeah donald trump used it twice yesterday once in a tweet and it was it was i thought meaningless there

when he said it in the press conference it was an accurate usage Do you have it?

Yeah, quickly.

I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful, that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out.

I think it's a disgrace.

And I say that, and I say that.

And that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do.

So, if is, I believe his premise is flawed

because this has been floating around.

Now, if we can find, and somebody will do an investigation to find out if the intelligence agencies had anything to do with it, if that premise is true, then his charge of Nazi Germany is true.

And you say that.

And you say that.

Thank you.

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All right.

So

do I have this right that

the

tweet storm

continued from the left yesterday about

preparedness?

Yes.

Pat and Oswald, we were just talking about his tweets about hoarding food.

He also tweeted about purchasing a gas generator and a seed vault.

These are the kinds of things that made you a crazy person only

a year ago.

May I suggest that perhaps

the Trump administration

is really God's way of keeping us in business.

I'm just saying.

Buy a little golden.

May I just say?

Are you you saying that you were anointed by God to stay in business?

May I just say,

for all of the liberals who might be freaking out, I'd like to introduce you to Gold Line and my Patriot Supply.

Yes.

And a gas generator.

Bad for the environment.

Really bad for the environment.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Needs to be a solar generator.

Solar generator.

We've already been down this road.

We've had eight years to research these products and everything else.

Come to us.

We know which products are good and which products are bad.

We were there.

We bought in panic.

We did it.

It goes back to the principle you talked about many times, though.

As funny as it is to laugh at liberals for

all of a sudden being

scared

and feeling the same way.

And feeling the same way that we probably would have in another situation.

The point is that this one job in this country should not be able to interfere into people like this.

The government is too big if this one guy or girl can do this to people.

And that should be the thing we change.

And the other point is, being prepared for emergencies is a good idea.

Yes, that's true too.

Go ahead and get prepared.

That's smart, frankly.

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But there's a fake news story that the media fails to call fake news because media, I would imagine, would be for the soda tax.

And that is the mayor of Philadelphia blaming the high price of soda not on the tax, instead on price gouging.

Uh-huh.

We'll give you the facts.

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If you ever want to know anything about global warming or soda tax or really bizarre

fascist dictators that you've never heard of in countries you didn't even know existed pat or stu is your guy stew is absolutely the guy favorite dictator stu

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I just want to get your bona fides out there that I don't just say that higgledy-piggledy.

When it comes to weird dictators that you've never heard of,

anything on global warming, or soda tax, stew's the guy to go to.

Stunningly, not a good combination to pick up the ladies throughout the lecture.

Stunningly, not really

a collection of anything that does you any good at all.

No, except for right now,

while Philadelphia is putting

the most ridiculous soda tax of all time, and they're applying it to all sorts of different things.

If you remember, a lot of cities have tried to pass these things,

which were supposedly designed not for them to get money, of course, but

to protect us from ourselves and our bad choices.

Of course.

We're all getting too fat.

And I realize that this show is not the one to point out.

We're not the one to point that at you.

We got it.

We are too fat.

However, we're fat by our own decision-making.

And the government is going to be a little bit more.

We go in eyes wide open.

Absolutely.

And mouth wide open, to be perfectly honest about it.

So they decided to try to pass this in Philadelphia by saying,

well, you know, sure, it will have some health benefits, but really what we need are new money for, you know, pre-K and all sorts of other programs that everyone wants.

This is going to be good for you.

It's going to be good for you.

Help the children.

So it got through.

They were successful to push it through.

Started this month for the first time.

The tax is 1.5 cents per ounce.

So, you know, obviously a 20-ounce bottle of soda is going to add 30 cents.

You might say, ah, it's not that big.

If you're paying two bucks, now it's $2.30.

It might not necessarily hit you that hard.

However,

it gets worse, of course.

For example,

Carbonator Rental Services in Philadelphia

sells the syrup for sodas.

So this is when you go into, you know, if you're lucky enough to have a fountain in your house or you go into a restaurant and they're just pulling it out, there's nothing better than direct out of the fountain.

Right.

McDonald's makes the best Cokes on the planet.

Their straws are great too.

Yeah, I just want to throw that out.

But so that's a, so normally they sell a five-gallon box of syrup.

We don't get into straw talk, Jeffy.

He's seems interested.

A five-gallon box of syrup, usually 60 bucks.

60 bucks.

So this is the, they come with the, with the, with the fizz.

and the syrup and they mix it together.

Right.

So you can have a glass of carbonated water or they can add this syrup, a little bit of that syrup.

So

how much is the syrup?

Normally it costs $60.

$60 for the syrup.

In December, $60.

$60.

It's a lot of soda for $60.

Sure.

The new city tax applies to this beverage because it's sugary and it's a beverage.

It applies $57.60 of additional costs.

Wait, the syrup is $60.

$60 for the syrup.

Okay, so the

$57 for the tax.

And $0.60 for the tax.

That's price gouging right there.

That's price gouging.

Because, again, we're going from $60 to $117.60 for the same product.

In order to service their customers, they need to lower the price of that syrup to $3.

And that is.

Well, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no.

So

if they could stop price gouging,

they might be able to

pay the $15 of a working wage that they should be paying for those minimum jobs of making that syrup.

Well, yes, that too.

I know, I know, because they're supposed to do both of those things.

So it's gone up to $17.60 for the same syrup.

Reason has a story on this.

In the real world,

sandwich shops and grocery stores, of course, are adjusting.

It's actually doubled the price.

Right.

Because they were trying to make the case, it's not going to be that big of a deal.

In the real world, sandwich shops, grocery stores, of course, are adjusting the retail price of sugary drinks to make up for the added cost imposed by the tax.

And by the way, the tax, you know when you go to a store and

you buy something and then you get the receipt and there's like a sales tax at the bottom, right?

That's how everything opts.

The way they structured this tax is that it hit before the retail side.

Oh, my God.

So they put it in there.

So it's not separately listed on any of the receipts.

It's just all the prices are jacked up through the ceiling.

You know what?

Everybody should have on their menus and on their receipts.

Yeah.

Soda is this price because of this price of tax.

Absolutely.

And that's starting to happen around the city.

This is why this is happening.

you'd have to the mayor who went and passed the test says says the efforts of people of alerting people why their soda costs so much are wrong and misleading and suggested that it could be an extension of the expensive fight put up by soda companies big big soda is is at fault here this is so crazy it is so crazy especially when now coca-cola is sending in the mob to

to break some legs and and get every dime out of their soda.

That's crazy.

Every company over 200 employees is evil now.

and and they just they only act in their own best interest and they don't care what they destroy right in their way the the cities don't so ridiculous the cities don't the city council the mayors they don't they've they they're always asking acting in your best interest even though the bills that they pass the regulations that they put in on cities drive the jobs out make your cities less safe, make your cities more expensive, drive businesses to other cities or other states, and they're just fine.

There's nothing bad about them.

If a company decides to leave the state,

the state will say, look at the evil company.

But nobody, who's on the bandwagon saying, wait, it's the state's income tax that is killing us right now.

It's their regulations on my business that makes it unaffordable for me to go here.

Right.

And in Philly, what they did is do everything they could to hide it from people and then deny the reality that that's the reason why these prices are going up.

And sadly, it works.

Yeah, it does.

It works.

But will it work here?

In this article, they're interviewing the owner of a really small convenience store who was doing really well before this tax.

Now he says he can count on one finger in the last week the number of people who have come in and bought soda, tea, or energy drinks in any quantity bigger than a can.

Because you think about that, a 12-ounce can of soda is going to cost you, what, 60 cents, 75?

I mean, I hardly ever buy soda.

So

more than that?

Yeah, I mean, a dollar?

Yeah.

Yeah, more.

So then

a dollar would be $1.18 then,

let's say it's a dollar.

But when you're talking about the bigger quantities, like you mentioned, it can double the price.

I hold in my hand a Diet Arizona Blueberry Green Tea, which is for some reason I purchased.

I bought two of these.

These are gallon containers for $6, which I thought was a really good value.

Two gallons for $6.

I thought that was solid.

Okay.

If I was in Philly buying it, it would not be $6.

It would be over, with all the taxes, over $10.

Now, you talk about trying to do this with a family

to get when you're buying in large quantities.

No, no.

You are absolutely bilking the family that buys in bulk.

No, no, you're not.

No, you're not.

You're not.

Families should not be buying high-sugary foods.

This is, and that's the point.

This isn't even a sugary beverage.

This is not a beverage.

There is no sugar whatsoever in it.

It's green tea, and it's not even green.

There's something wrong with that.

It's blueberry.

If there's no sugar in it, why are you getting taxed?

I know.

Isn't that interesting?

Well, they've applied the tax to non-sugary drinks because remember, this isn't about health.

This is about getting more money.

It's about the children.

Yeah.

So for the cheat because

we let it cheat.

Again, $6 for iced tea.

It's your moment.

I thought it was my moment to shine about taxes.

Look, you have very few times you can talk about sugary taxes, and even fewer times you can bring up Myra Jackson.

So this is his moment to shout out.

I stole your moment.

No, it's both.

These are good moments.

Soda and Michael Jackson.

But I mean, so $6 turns into $10.

That's a 67%

tax.

That's madness.

Think about that.

That's madness.

It's incredible.

And they expect people to

swallow this.

It's like it's going to.

They literally need a tea party revolt

in Philadelphia.

They literally tea.

And it's funny because they have,

I think.

They may have, even in Philadelphia, overreached so badly.

Hope it's been coming for years.

Because, I mean, a lot of these cities have tried to do this with small taxes and saying it's about health.

They've tried so hard and they've gone so overboard that perhaps, maybe we have a chance here to push back against this movement and say this is insane.

Because people really are pissed off about this, even in Philadelphia.

Well, they have to be.

You have to be.

It's

killing you.

One and a half cents an ounce?

That's a massive ounce.

If I were Pepsi or Coke, I would be buying massive, massive ads.

on anything that anybody in Philadelphia is watching.

I would be buying massive ads and saying, Look, here's what your mayor said.

We want you to know

Coca-Cola is the same price.

Go to New Jersey.

You'll buy it for the price you bought it

last week.

It's even easier than that.

Go to Balakinwood.

Yeah.

You know, that's all you have to do.

Go across city line and go to the suburb, and you'll pay a lot less.

The only ones that are being hurt by this are the ones who are trapped in their food deserts,

having to go buy their, because they can't afford to go to Ballachinwood and drive out of the city.

Anybody who uses a bus, anybody who walks to the supermarket, anybody who does that, you're the one being hurt.

It's so easy to do, too, because you've got Wawa in the city limits, right?

And then you'd have Wawa just outside the city limits, and you could just show them the price.

Here's the price in Philadelphia.

Here's the price in Balakinwood.

Yeah.

I mean, think about this.

There's three groups that agree about this policy.

The consumer, totally screwed.

The business owner, totally screwed.

The government helped.

How often is this the direction and goal of policy in this freaking country?

The government doesn't really help because they're selling less product.

Yeah, but they're getting a huge income stream for the people who, like me, who would still go and buy it because I'm an idiot.

But I mean, you need to fight this stuff.

This needs to be overturned.

I agree.

And I think, like, you look at this and like, they get money for whatever stupid policy they say they're achieving, which, of course, will wind up in 10 years realizing they didn't achieve it and they'll ask for more money and more taxes.

Well, what they'll do is, if this hangs on long enough, they'll say, now we have to replace this money, and they'll just find a group that they can pin that on that everybody that they can make everybody hate.

Need to kill it fast.

So they'll, yeah, because if it holds on, then they'll have the money and they'll say, we need to raise this much money because we have to replace it.

And they'll just find a group that is in a minority or can be, you know, sold to the people, gas, you know, companies oil companies big business whoever and they'll drive the jobs out even more

because it's for the children and we love the children

Let them have that moment right

I mean when you go for it talk about the overreach

You know

you can talk you can get people to pay an extra little bit here and there to go from $60 to 117 is completely ridiculous.

But I mean look at the guy.

This is the guy who owns the company whose price product is now from $60 to $117.60.

He says, we're not talking about a couple of bucks on a $60 item.

If it was,

probably people wouldn't be bitching and there wouldn't be an opportunity to overturn this and push back against this.

Progressives, that's how they play their hand every single time.

Which is weird because progressive, it's designed not to overplay your hand.

Yes.

Progressivism is let's take the very little bit that we can't advance.

They always think that they're at the finish line.

And only once did the Americans choose a non-progressive to reverse it all.

And that's in the 1920s.

Usually

they grab somebody who is offering those progressive ideas just in a different package.

Richard Nixon is a good example.

80s, I would say they did not choose a progressive.

I don't consider him a progressive as much, just a flat-out bad Marxist.

I mean, he was just bad.

Jimmy Carter?

Oh, no, in the 80s.

Ronald Reagan would be the guy I'm referring to.

He wasn't a progressive.

Why did they overapproximately?

You said only one time that they've chosen.

Or you're saying you're

considering

the big progressives.

Right.

Okay, I see what you're saying.

You know, Woodrow Wilson.

Not an ideological, necessarily, progressive that was reversed by conservatism.

Correct.

That's only happened.

They're tired of waiting, and they've gotten so close lately.

I think they're just tired of waiting, and now they're trying to push it the rest of the way.

Don't you think?

They've gotten a little impatient lately because Obama.

Let's Let's just push it through.

Because they know what I have been saying is true.

The pendulum.

Pendulum.

Yes.

And this doesn't last.

It doesn't last long.

It's on the verge of collapse.

The question is, who's going to be the one holding the reins when it collapses?

Is it going to be the left or is it going to be the right?

I don't know, but it's horfang.

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if this tax if this sort of tax in philadelphia was a small one not one and a half cents per ounce which on just 12 ounces is going to raise the price 18 cents.

Let's just say,

you know, the price of the, we were talking about the gallons of syrup that goes into mixing the drink.

If that went from $60

to $63,

nobody's going to notice.

Nobody's going to care.

Even the guy who owns the company says it's not like a big deal if it was only a couple dollars.

It is a big deal.

When it goes from $60, it is, you're right.

It is.

But when it goes from $60 to $117,

That's outrageous.

You can't expect the owner to just eat that cost of his price of business doubling.

That can't happen.

He'll go out of business.

And that's what happens with foundation.

It's why you need a foundation.

It's why you need a principal.

The tax is wrong from the beginning.

Yeah, right.

Whether it's 1% or 0.5%,

because over time, it will start affecting you.

They'll start raising it.

I mean, we've talked about before the Johnstown flood of 1936 also in Pennsylvania,

which, you know, they had this flood, 30,000 people were homeless.

And what year was that?

36?

36.

Yeah.

They needed money.

Yeah.

They passed this tax.

Small, tiny tax for people in Pennsylvania.

It takes a while.

It takes a while.

It takes a while to pay for that flood they had.

1936.

Yeah.

And they kept, well, then they raised it.

They had to raise it because they needed a little bit more.

And

a little bit more.

Today, in 2017, there is an 18% tax to pay for the Johnstown flood of 1936.

Still on the books.

They're still collecting.

And guess what?

It's been paid.

They're not paid it off yet.

No, they have.

Many times over.

Like just barely, like last year.

Now they're using the money for everything else.

This is what happens and why you have to fight.

Taxes don't go away.

No, they do not.

That's why you don't want them in the first place.

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I'll see you in the show prep.

I'm just looking for the Blaze has just put out a

list of family-friendly movies from the last year, the best family-friendly movies of the last year.

And what is the list?

It comes from the Christian Film and Television Commission.

And the list of nominees

provided exclusively to the Blaze is Captain America Civil War.

Love that.

So these are apparently movies with

positive American values.

I cannot believe the Marvel series and the values that it teaches.

They're completely out of touch with what popular culture is teaching.

Completely out of touch.

And certainly with Hollywood.

Oh, yeah.

I mean,

it's really not in a good way, right?

Yeah, in a good way.

It's great.

Did you watch Civil War?

Did you see the movie?

No.

Yeah.

This is the one where they were doing the spy, right?

No, is that the one before?

That was Winter.

Winter Soldier.

Winter Soldier.

Right.

But every time I watch them, I'm like,

I mean, is it just me?

I know.

How is this being made in Hollywood?

I know.

I like it.

So, Captain America, Civil War.

God's Not Dead 2, which I haven't seen.

Hacksaw Ridge, which you really liked.

Rave.

Rave review.

Everybody should watch it.

It's rated R for the accurate depiction of war.

It makes Braveheart look like a nice picnic at times.

It's very accurate.

There's no swearing in it.

There's no nudity.

There's no lewd behavior.

There's nothing.

It's only an accurate depiction of war.

I brought my

12-year-old son, and we watched it together.

We don't go to rated R movies.

We saw this because he's, you know, he likes violence and everything.

He likes action.

This took his breath away.

And not in a good way.

Took his breath away.

I saw him.

I watched him because I had seen the movie in preview.

And

so when we went with him, I knew what was coming.

And I watched him, and he actually sat back in the seat.

It pushed him back in the seat.

And he looked at the screen and then he looked at me.

And I said, This is war.

He said,

Wow.

It's not a glorification of war, but

in that is one of the greatest stories of faith I have ever seen.

It is a tremendous story of faith

and just so well done and absolutely true.

And it's not preachy or anything.

I'm going to say something unpopular with a lot of Christians and I'm sorry, but I don't like God's Not Dead.

I actually walked out of God's Not Dead because I brought my daughter who is not real

religious.

She is spiritual.

She believes in God and everything else.

She doesn't go to church and she doesn't like the hard-handed edge of many Christians.

And

so we went, and I said, hey, you want to come to God Sent.

And she's not, you know.

Well, you know, she's burning in the fires of hell.

Oh, I know.

Yeah.

No, she's already there.

And so

she went with me.

And it was uncomfortable for me because it's everything that,

you know,

she

believes Christians.

And I hate to say this because she goes to church now, and she's not against Christians or anything.

I don't, so I don't mean to say it that way.

That's a better way of saying this.

I think the better way when you're talking about an issue like this is to not bring it up.

Yeah,

probably the best.

I'm trying to cast it accurately, and I'm not doing a great job.

It's hard

for her because she's not,

she doesn't have a problem with this.

Let me retain it this way.

I don't like the preachiness of some Christians.

Even in my own church, I don't like it when people are like, and we've got to go save that person.

Stop it.

How about we go over there?

That's your example of too preachy.

We need to save the person.

I don't mean, I mean...

This is why you don't bring these things.

I'm only bustling.

I totally understand what you mean.

We've got to go get those people in the waters of baptism.

You just don't want it to be so heavy-handed.

We don't want to love them.

Why don't we just love them?

That's, of course, more effective as well.

Yes.

But anyway, so I don't like the over-the-top preachiness kind of stuff.

And

Hannah was sitting through it and she was fine.

And about a third of the way in, I was just, I was, I couldn't take it.

And I said, you want to go?

And she said, oh, I was.

praying you would say that and she was praying so there we go so i got her to prayer

she had to work anyway but i know what you mean it's it's that it's that issue of uh just being a little bit it's almost like too much red meat.

And you know what it is?

God's Not Dead, for me, what it was.

And a lot of people really love this movie.

But for me, what it was, it was preaching to the choir.

It was a movie where you would feel good.

If you are finally waiting for a movie where, you know,

the bad guy's not the Christian, that's the movie.

Unfortunately, what I felt about it was...

The bad guy now was the

atheist, and all people who don't believe in God were painted with the same evil.

One-dimensional, one-dimensional.

It's like the Christmas cookie.

Yes.

You know, it's like all those Hallmark movies on Christmas.

The person who is a businessman is always the evil, heartless businessman.

Stop it.

Well, in our culture, there are Christian movies that

just aren't well done, I think.

And I think most Christians would admit that.

Yeah,

for one, because you don't have necessarily the access to

the best talent, the best writers, the best everything else.

That's right.

Right.

And there are LDS movies in our culture, too.

They're just not great.

They're just not good.

No, no, no.

There's songs, there's music,

there's movies that just suck.

Horrible.

And we don't like those either.

Yes.

So it's not, it's just a bad movie.

It's hard to make movies in that genre because it's the same reason why you've got a smaller pool to deal with.

It's the same reason why you go to

a movie, and I'm trying to think of one,

and I'm going to, you're going to jump on a thousand of them, where it is just a movie with the agenda of getting you to believe that President Obama or the anti-war movement or George Bush or whatever is exactly right.

Those movies that you, you know, like Wag the Dog or

Lions for Lambs with starry Meryl Streep.

Right.

Where the agenda was an anti-war agenda.

And so it's so heavy-handed, heavy-handed.

You're like, come on, this is a propaganda.

It's not a movie.

Okay.

So, anyways.

Okay.

So, Captain America, Civil War, God's Not Dead 2, Hacks Odd Ridge, these were all nominated for their positive American values.

Hail Caesar, which I don't know that nominated.

Yeah, I saw that.

That's with

George Clooney.

Oh, that's it.

And it's about the 1950s and the communists kidnapping and holding

the studio ransom.

yeah interesting i do i did george clooney isn't something like that yeah huh yeah uh queen of cutway or i guess i don't know

sing

i did which i didn't see i mean that's an animated like yeah pixar-ish type of thing

i really want to see it is it good yeah i mean you know it's i mean with the fun it's one of those movies you know it's it's it was uh it was you know had its funny moments and uh you know it's in that realm of you know, whatever, finding Dory or Monsters, Monsters Inc.

or one of those.

Those are fun.

Those are great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, That was great.

I wouldn't say Monsters

was great.

In that category, Monsters

was tremendous in that category.

And I thought Finding Dory, personally, I didn't see that.

I didn't love it, but it was fun.

Finding Dory, I thought, had the best,

let me be heavy-handed, the best gospel message I have ever seen.

I must have missed.

You sure did.

Fish gospel.

A lost parent who tried to teach them, this is the way to come home.

This is the way to come home.

And we'll leave breadcrumbs.

We'll put shells out.

Just follow what I'm telling.

Just remember this.

Just remember this.

And she finally found her way home.

It's like.

Yeah, I missed the.

Oh, I think it's great.

It's

not necessarily the religious undertone of it.

No, it's not the intended.

But I thought it was a good thing.

You could make that out of it, though.

Absolutely.

That's good that you did.

That's as easy to make into a religious film as

the two towers,

the Hobbit series.

I mean, Lord of the Rings.

If you didn't know that was a Jesus-centered film,

I have a hard time finding the Jesus message in there.

But that was Tolkien's thing.

He wanted to be really subtle with it because he thought that C.S.

Lewis was way too overt.

It goes to your other point.

I mean, those are the more effective versions.

I mean,

even though it was not the intent of the movie, Juno is still the most effective pro-life movie maybe ever made.

I happened to watch it recently, and it's like, it's so well done, and you like them so much.

And in the end, she makes a choice, and it winds up being a positive choice.

She doesn't kill the baby.

It's great, and it's well done.

And it ends up, she doesn't kill the baby.

Isn't that great?

You just wrecked the movie for her.

Wow.

I'm sorry.

Oh, yeah.

Spoiler alert.

Thank you.

Spoiler alert.

That's another movie that I never saw.

Everybody said, you got to see it.

You got to see it.

You got to see it.

But it struck me, and it sounds like it's not.

It struck me as a message movie, even though I'm pro-life.

Oh, it's not a message movie.

I don't want to be sitting through.

Oh, you've got to see.

If you've never seen the movie, you've never seen it.

Because it is, I would say, probably the opposite.

They probably went into this thinking, you know what would be a great choice is abortion, but, you know, let's this, this, this, we'll throw a little twist at them, and they won't kill the kid this time.

Like, you know, I mean, the actresses, you know, the people involved in the movie have gone on to do other things, many other things.

It was not a, it was definitely not designed as a program.

Does it bother you?

I mean, I'm not talking about Juno.

Does it bother you when you hear, for instance, Kiss of Death to me now, and I've changed.

Kiss of Death to me is,

oh, you're going to love it.

Oh, everybody who's seen it said they cried their eyes out.

I don't want to do that.

I'm not paying money to cry.

Yeah, yeah.

No, thank you.

Yeah, I don't usually want to see those movies.

Right.

I don't want to see those movies anymore.

I don't want to see, I don't want to see, oh, no, this one will make you reevaluate exactly where you stand on X issue.

I don't want to see an issues movie either.

I really don't.

I find those things to be,

I like to be challenged at a movie.

So I like when

the best possible case of something that I disagree with is made and it stirs my emotions to go the other way.

And I like to be able to think about it and say, in that situation, I still believe this way, or maybe I would be.

But here's what I'm saying.

Maybe you're hearing me wrong.

The kiss of death for getting me to a movie is, oh no, you have to see this.

It'll make you think of it.

Either agree or disagree.

No.

I'm going to go to a movie.

The way to get me into a movie is you will not believe this is the greatest movie.

This is, it's got whatever it is, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's a great movie.

And honestly, you'll find yourself going, is this not real life?

Is this not whatever?

That's an extra bonus.

This is how I would describe Juno then.

It is a great movie.

It is well done, incredibly well written.

It's great acting.

It's funny.

And by the way, you'll be like, is this a freaking pro-life movie?

At the end of it, it, you'll think, wait a minute, did I just watch a podcast?

Now I go to it.

Nice.

Now I go to it.

The way Juno was always sold to me is this is the best pro-life movie.

That's totally secondary.

Totally secondary.

I want to go spend my Friday.

Afterwards, you want to come over to my house.

We're going to watch Schindler's List.

I mean, it doesn't sound like a good night out.

No, no, it's completely unintended.

That is not the message of the movie, but if you analyze it from our perspective, you really can easily take that out of it.

And I bet it was influential to a lot of people who were on the borderline of that issue.

And this is why we always talk about Hollywood and they say, well, what are you talking about?

We're not influencing culture, except that we're always influencing culture.

And we're so important.

And look at all the awards we're giving ourselves for influencing culture.

That's the only reason why Meryl Streep is the legend that she is because she's always, quote, influencing culture.

All right.

And Sully was the last one mentioned.

Oh, yeah.

And Sully was good too.

I liked it.

Sully was good.

Except they wrecked the story because now we don't know what's true and what's not true.

That's what I'd like to know.

I'm going to

research on that and find out.

Because I don't know that he had any trouble

while that was going on.

It just looked like he was a hero, and everybody thought that.

They dramatized, I think.

Yeah, they did.

All of it?

Was it all dramatized?

That's what I want to know.

That's what I want to know.

My guess is he had his critics.

People did go through those investigations, but even the people

involved in them were saying, you know, they're like, yeah, you shouldn't have done that.

You shouldn't have imperiled those people.

They all lived.

What are you talking about?

I don't think it was as, I don't think he was in danger as much as they portrayed

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