Not a Legitimate President 1/16/17

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So, what did President-elect Trump tweet

that is so wrong?

What did he tweet about John Lewis that is so troubling?

Were you troubled by it?

What was so troubling?

What was actually so troubling?

I hear a lot of people out there saying it's troubling.

They bring up some

extra additional information that doesn't necessarily have a bearing in any of this.

What is so troubling?

I would really like to know

if you're...

bothered by Donald Trump's tweet doesn't matter whether you're Republican Democrat conservative liberal progressive, it doesn't matter.

I would like to hear why you're actually bothered by it.

I don't get it.

I think I know what's going on, but I'm going to reserve judgment until we discuss this a little bit.

Hi there, it's Doc Thompson.

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I'm going to lay out the story in case you haven't heard it.

I'm going to give you the details.

We're going to hear from the players that have been involved and and some other people as well.

But I want to know what is so troubling.

Full disclosure, I didn't support Donald Trump.

Based on track record, how I vote, I couldn't support him.

I didn't think he was awful.

I didn't think every idea he had was horrible.

I just didn't know if I could trust him.

I certainly didn't support Hillary Clinton.

Hell no.

And I've said throughout the election and even after he got elected, I expect pretty good things out of him.

I have high hopes.

I call each issue and each situation as I see them.

I'm consistent with my values that way.

So when I say

I don't know what President-elect Trump did that is so troubling, it's not because I'm in the tank for Trump.

Absolutely not.

So maybe if you're bothered by what he tweeted, you could explain it.

Triple-8727-BECK, let me lay out what happened for you.

Representative John Lewis from Georgia's 5th Congressional District, which encompasses, I think, all of Atlanta,

was on MSNBC with Chuck Todd, and they were talking about the president-elect.

Here is what happened during that conversation.

Here's the thing.

John Lewis put Democrats in kind of an awkward position on Friday.

A lot of Democrats are like, oh, no, no, I'm...

No, no, no.

This is Jake Tapper.

Do you have the John Lewis on with Chuck Todd?

This is what started the whole thing.

So Chuck Todd asks John Lewis about his relationship with Donald Trump and whether or not he can support him.

Is he going to work with him and such things?

And John Lewis, not too happy.

We have the audio?

No, I don't think we have the audio there.

Okay, let me lay it out for you.

He called Donald Trump an illegitimate president.

He said it's going to be difficult to work with him.

I believe he's an illegitimate president.

Chuck Todd said, wait a minute, you believe he's an illegitimate president?

Yes.

And he said, why is that?

And he said, because

the Russians influenced the election.

Now, folks, influence the election is still a very broad term, influenced.

You can influence in a lot of ways.

You can also influence to different degrees.

Do I believe the Russians influenced some people?

Sure, absolutely.

On a grand scale that affected the outcome?

Absolutely not.

I just don't.

I believe Hillary's emails, some of those, and John Podesta's emails may have influenced a little bit, but that's not the big point of the election.

The big point of the election is people voted selfishly.

I don't mean that as a bad thing.

I don't mean you're selfish.

I don't mean it like that.

I mean, we looked at ourselves and said, as we're supposed to, by the way, what's right for me?

And a lot of Americans looked around and said, number one, I am pissed off.

I am pissed off that every day the basic values and things I want in America are

told to me by a president, an arrogant president, that I'm wrong and racist for just wanting to raise my children or go down and and get a sandwich or buy a 20-ounce soda or whatever it is.

On every front, they attacked us.

And number two, they looked around at their lives and said, I have not had a good year financially in decades.

20 years.

I haven't had a positive year.

Even if things have been, okay, I made some money and whatever.

It's not been right.

And they said, I don't care what comes next.

I'm burning the system down.

We all know that.

If you haven't figured it out yet, you nutcases on the left, you need to.

It wasn't about white supremacy or any of this.

There were a lot of African Americans, a lot of minorities that voted for Donald Trump.

Huge numbers.

Why?

Because they're tired of being attacked on the things that they value.

And number two, they want a better financial situation for their family that they haven't had in a long time.

That's it.

So, John Lewis calls Donald Trump an illegitimate president because of Russia's involvement.

Donald Trump then

tweets out a couple of things.

He tweets:

Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart.

Then he later tweets: Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime-infested inner cities of the U.S., I can use all the help I can get.

Okay, that's it.

John Lewis called him an illegitimate president.

Donald Trump said, hey, maybe you should spend more time fixing and helping your district or helping me focus on burning and fix the burning and crime-infested inner cities across the U.S.

So, back to my original question.

What did Trump tweet that is so wrong?

Are you troubled that it's not accurate?

The 5th Congressional District of Georgia isn't in that bad of shape?

Well, by some standards, it's actually pretty good.

Atlanta has boomed over the years.

I'm not sure how much of it John Lewis influenced.

I mean, it's a warmer city with a major airport hub.

Fortune 500 companies started settling there.

Coke is there.

It kind of snowballed.

So it's not horrible.

It still has some problems, of course.

It's not the worst inner city district in America.

Is that what bothers you?

It's inaccurate.

Because I seem to see a lot of people that seem troubled that Donald Trump

would dare to tweet a criticism

at John Lewis.

That's what this seems like to me.

Based on all the headlines and the talking heads and the tweets and the Facebook posts, the people who are offended, both Democrats, Republicans, anybody who's bothered by this, seems to be bothered by the fact that John Lewis

fought for civil rights.

That's the long and short of it.

The only other thing that you could possibly be troubled by is that what a president or a president-elect would respond to a congressman?

Well, that's happened forever.

Sure,

it's a newer medium, Twitter.

But John Lewis was on television.

That was a new medium 50 years ago or a newer one.

100 years ago, it didn't exist.

So he criticized the president-elect.

President-elects have criticized congressmen and senators.

Presidents have, by name in general.

So he shouldn't have engaged with John Lewis?

Okay, that doesn't make sense.

Otherwise, you'd also have to criticize John Lewis for engaging in attacking President Trump.

To say he's illegitimate, it's asinine.

If you want to question a president-elect and say your policies, the thing you're working on, that person you appointed, okay, that's real.

To say illegitimate, that's bogus.

So, it doesn't really make sense to say the president-elect should not have tweeted at him.

All right.

What about the content?

Only thing you could say about the content is

maybe it was inaccurate.

Maybe for the 5th Congressional District of Georgia.

Possibly.

That seems like a bit of a stretch.

How about

fixing and helping the burning and crime-infested inner cities of the U.S.?

Are there some crime-infested cities in the U.S.?

Absolutely.

President Obama's crime-infested Chicago.

Yeah, they set a record for murders last year.

Huge number.

There are some crime-infested inner cities.

Some of them burning.

Some have already burnt.

So that's not.

So, again,

what is troubling about what he said?

The only thing people keep going to is that John Lewis fought for civil rights.

That seems to be the extent of it.

If that's the case,

we're not allowed to criticize the actions of somebody

who fought for civil rights.

Is that what you're telling me?

We're not allowed to criticize somebody who did something good once in their life?

Is that the standard?

If that's the case, that means I could save burning children from a building today.

And 30 years from now, I could shoot your mom in the head.

And you'd have to say, don't criticize Doc for shooting my mom in the head.

Don't do that.

You know he saved those burning children 30 years ago.

If somebody does something good,

for the rest of their lives, do they get a pass to do bad things, wrong things, inappropriate things,

mean things?

If you do something, what do I have to do?

What level of good do I have to reach so that for the rest of my life, I can do whatever I want.

John Lewis fought for civil rights.

I respect that.

I would have been marching with him back in the day because I feel that passionately about people being truly equal.

Not for government intervention, not for progressive causes.

But to say a black person can't go in and shop where a white person does, or drink from a fountain, or any of this nonsense, or vote, absolutely, I'd be out there.

I would have been standing next to him.

Now, he took true physical pain.

In 1965, he literally had his head cracked.

His skull was cracked.

He still has the scars.

I respect that.

He's done more.

He suffered more for something he believed in in 1965 than I have.

So I respect that.

But does that give him a pass to do whatever the hell he wants?

Does it make him above criticism that you can never say anything?

Because that's what I'm seeing right now, and you're wrong.

More on that.

We'll get some of your headlines about

different various news organizations are saying about this spat between John Lewis and the president-elect, and also some of your calls, 888-727-BEC.

My question: What did President-elect Trump do or say that was so wrong?

I'm serious.

If you really believe something is wrong, if I have missed something, 888-727-BEC.

Your calls next on the Glenn Beck program.

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You know, I believe in forgiveness.

I believe in trying to work with people.

It's going to be hard.

It's going to be very difficult.

I don't see this

president-elect as a legitimate president.

You do not consider him a legitimate president.

Why is that?

I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected

and they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

I don't plan to attend the inauguration.

It would be the first one that I missed

since I've been in the Congress.

You cannot be at home with something

that you feel that is wrong.

That's going to send a big message to a lot of people in this country that you don't believe he's a legitimate president.

I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians and others

to help him get elected.

That's not right.

That's not fair.

That's not right.

So that's Congressman John Lewis from Georgia saying to Chuck Todd that Trump is a illegitimate president.

Now, he believes that conspiracy that Russia deep sixed Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with Hillary being a failed candidate, a horrible person, and a track record that is atrocious.

Nothing to do with that.

It's got to be the Russians.

I'm sure John Lewis is sitting at home talking about the Bavarian Illuminati conspiring with Bigfoot to assassinate JFK.

Does he believe other conspiracies?

Because he certainly doesn't believe facts that came out during the Obama administration about all kinds of actual problems like Benghazi and IRS targeting.

None of that crap mattered to him.

But this bothers him.

All right, moving on.

I'm going to get some calls.

888-727-BEC.

I want to know what Trump said that was so bad.

Please educate me.

We're going to go to New York.

Call 71, line 71, Ed, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, Ed.

I don't so much have an issue with what was said as

opposed to President-elect Trump's insatiable need to constantly get on Twitter and respond to these things.

All he has done is perpetuated the argument.

He gave this more into the news cycle than it if he had just ignored it, like I tell my nine-year-old, if somebody says something that you don't like, ignore it.

Why can't he just ignore it, move on, and focus on the issues that we really have to deal with?

Okay, now, Ed, that's a really good point.

Don't let me

lead you to

misunderstand that I think Trump is nice or this was the best course of action.

I don't think it was nice.

I don't think it was necessarily needed.

I just want to know what's wrong.

So, to your point, why does he have to tweet everything?

That's a good point.

I'll give you that.

But do you think he did anything inappropriate in regards to what he said to John Lewis?

Well, as you pointed out,

you know,

he's blurting things out without a complete factual basis, especially regarding Atlanta.

I mean, had it been a congressman from Detroit or Chicago,

absolutely, free range.

Or significant, right?

Right.

Yeah.

But, you know, all my

point being, it's just he's perpetuated this argument.

It didn't need to happen.

He's given it another week in the news cycle, which would have just been ignored.

There's 11 or 12 congressmen who have decided not to go, including a couple from the People's Republic here of New York.

Yeah, there's 22 at this point, I think, yeah.

Oh, okay.

Well, fine, you know, more better seating for the people that want to be there.

So real quick, do you also say the same thing about John Lewis that he was inappropriate in what he said about Trump being illegitimate?

Absolutely.

It's the typical liberal

standpoint of, you know, forget the facts.

Let's just make how everybody feels.

And I appreciate your consistency.

I really appreciate your consistency, and that's what I'm looking for.

Okay, thanks so much.

Let's go to North Carolina and get Tiffany in real quick.

Tiffany, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

How are you?

Hi, how are you?

I'm doing fine.

What did Trump do that was so wrong?

It's his tweets.

We spend like forever teaching our kids that, you know, don't get on social media, don't have fights on social media.

It's like a little kid war.

It's like a little kid war.

He sat up there for the whole time of hillary's you know and i i i understand and i believe them you know oh she might get too emotional he's emotional he's like a little girl sitting up there tweet tweet tweet everything is a tweet this is our country this is not like his little business his businesses where he can bully people into doing he's tweeting

you know his dislike for

intelligence it was really about that he tweets not what he tweets so you're pretty similar to what Ed said as well.

I appreciate the call, Tiffany.

Thanks so much.

Triple-8727B, a few more, and then I'll explain what people are actually claiming Donald Trump did wrong.

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Hi there, it's Doc Thompson in for Glenn today.

Thanks so much for joining me.

888727BEC, 888-727-B-E-C-K, the phone number.

I'm just asking what Donald Trump has done so wrong by tweeting at Representative John Lewis from Georgia.

I'm going to get to a couple more quick calls, and then I'm going to make some other points on it of what I think is really going on in the media.

Let's go to Pennsylvania now, George, line 21.

Welcome to the program.

George.

Yeah.

How are you, sir?

What do you think Donald Trump did wrong by tweeting?

at Representative Lewis.

Well, I think his...

Do me a favor, if you would, please.

Read back his first tweet.

I'll give you the exact quotes.

First one, Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart.

I think that

tweet is a little bit rough, and

it doesn't sound necessarily all that bad, but he needs to be a little bit more inclusive asking for help rather than just taking a shot at Congressman Lewis.

And I'm not a Lewis defender and I'm not a Trump basher either.

But Trump at this point needs to strike a little bit more of, I hate these words also, inclusive and team building, but he needs to bring people on his team more than he needs to be taking a shot at a Congressman like that.

Be

well in the sec in the second tweet, he did a little bit more of that.

He said, Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime-infested inner cities of the U.S.

I could use all the help I could get.

And that that is absolutely the right tone.

That is absolutely striking to bring him onto the team and that way it makes it makes Congressman Lewis look more like an outsider who wants to be negative and do his own thing as opposed to get on the bus,

no reference intended or at whatsoever and help out and do the right thing for all these communities that are in so much trouble, like Detroit, like St.

Louis, like Chicago.

I mean, there's so much low-hanging fruit here that could be just gone after as opposed to letting Congressman Lewis

make him look more like an outsider by having him say his own thing, and Trump needs to bring him in.

Trump needs to do two things, or he needs to do one thing.

It's a three-step process.

Listen first, think second, tweet last.

If he follows those three steps and not quite so much of a harsh tone shooting from the hip, he will sound much, much better, and he will strike a much more inclusive tone, and he'll work out so much better for everybody.

George, thanks so much for the call.

I appreciate it.

I understand what you're saying, and that all makes sense.

So far, the callers we've had have talked about more of that he is tweeting, and maybe this isn't presidential, and maybe he should be worried about other things or whatever.

Okay, that's fine.

The reason I ask, and the reason I wanted to hear from you, is because that's not what I'm hearing in the rest of the media.

The rest of the media has had a conniption.

Look up conniption.

You will see a picture of Trump's tweet at John Lewis.

They are melting down over this.

But not because Trump dare tweet, not that he's not acting presidential,

that he dares to tweet at John Lewis, a civil rights leader.

This is what bothers them.

Like he is above criticism.

If you're criticizing Donald Trump because maybe he shouldn't be doing that, it wasn't the right thing to do.

He should be worried about other things.

It's not presidential.

You don't have to respond.

You don't have to get into a, you know, a pissing battle with somebody, any of this stuff.

Okay.

I don't disagree with that.

I'm not bothered.

I'm not upset that he's doing this, but...

It's probably not the right thing to do.

Great.

But that's not how the media is reacting.

How dare

Trump, this upstart who managed to get elected president, how dare he

even tweet at the honorable John Lewis who fought for civil rights?

This is their attitude.

If you are exclusively or disproportionately criticizing Trump,

you are wrong on this.

If you are exclusively criticizing Trump, you are wrong.

If you are disproportionately criticizing Trump on this, you're wrong.

Either they're both wrong, Lewis shouldn't have done it, Trump shouldn't have done it, or they're both right.

If you're not criticizing Trump, at least a little bit, you're wrong.

Sure, he's not doing the right things.

It's not the nice thing.

It's not necessarily the appropriate thing to do.

But who is more inappropriate here?

I argue John Lewis was.

Trump didn't start off talking about John Lewis.

He's got 535 members of Congress to pick from that he could be bashing.

He's got all kinds of people across the country and around the world he could be bashing, all kinds of stuff.

He's still got Rosie that he could be bashing.

He was responding to John Lewis.

Again, maybe not nice, maybe not right.

But John Lewis called him illegitimate, trying to cast aspersions already on his presidency.

He's not even sworn in, and John Lewis is doing it to try to take some of the power away.

Like everything in D.C., this is about power and money.

John Lewis's power and money, Trump's power and money, and everybody else's power and money.

Rand Paul, Senator Paul from Kentucky, he said John Lewis isn't in a position where there can be a healthy debate because he's a civil rights icon.

Shouldn't make him immune to criticism.

He said, I have a great deal of respect for him, but he is a partisan, and I disagree with him on the issues.

I should be able to honestly disagree with him and not have it all come back to, I have no appreciation for a civil rights icon because of this and that.

He's right.

They would have you believe that if you criticize John Lewis for anything,

you not only do not appreciate the civil rights movement, but you're also a racist.

That is what the media is trying to peddle today.

This goes back to the same game they always play.

There are a handful of things that are guaranteed wins or have been guaranteed wins over the years.

And one of them

is to call somebody a racist.

Nobody wants to be a racist.

To be labeled a racist,

especially with

any supporting evidence, no matter how gray of an area.

If they can

cite anything that you've said or done or tweeted or it looks like you think or act,

then they call you a racist.

I can't think of too many things worse to be called.

Not to me,

but to public opinion.

Probably

predator, sexual predator, rapist, something like this.

Murderer?

No, I think being called a racist in many people's eyes is worse than being a murderer.

It shouldn't be, but I think this is what they believe.

We all run from that label.

We're all so afraid.

And by we, I mean white people are so afraid of being called a racist.

They've completely stifled any form of expression, humor,

because nobody wants to be called it.

They've eradicated in just a couple of decades the use of the N-word, which used to be used liberally all over the place.

People used it as a statement of fact, like saying white or black.

And people say that's offensive.

You're using it in a derogatory way.

It only means derogatory things.

Okay, okay, no problem, no problem.

I won't say it.

I won't say it.

We've eradicated.

It's worse than using the F-word.

Use the F-word.

You may get away with it.

You're inappropriate in a corporate meeting on the air here.

You drop an F-bomb.

People are going to be upset.

It's not going to be great, but you can move on.

You drop an N-word?

It's over.

It's done.

You're labeled a racist.

So the reason they're claiming this about Donald Trump, the reason that they're all so offended, Nancy Pelosi and everybody, Chuck Schumer and everybody melting down, how dare Donald Trump even address the honorable John Lewis?

Don't you know he he was a civil rights leader?

He marched.

It's because they want to call him and you a racist.

Because it sells, it's power, it's money.

They can have influence with Donald Trump, his administration, getting legislation passed.

They can make him look bad.

They can control me and you and everything else if they can use the word racist

and have people believe it.

That's That's what's really going on here.

Let me give you an example.

Nina Turner is a former, I think, a state of Ohio or Ohio state senator.

And now she contributes to MSNBC and some of the other programs.

Well, she was on CNN with Jake Tapper.

And Jake Tapper asked her about this.

And there were some other panelists that chimed in as well.

But he starts off with this Nina Turner, who happens to be black, and listen to

her comments on this exchange between Trump and John Lewis.

Here's the thing.

John Lewis put Democrats in kind of an awkward position on Friday.

A lot of Democrats are like, oh, no, now I'm going to have to be forced to defend

President-elect Trump.

Now,

I think that President-elect Trump changed the dynamic by engaging with him.

Yes.

But that was

a lot of Democrats had raised their eyebrows at John Lewis doing that.

Well, he's Congressman, John Lewis.

I just want to say that to

make sure that we give him the requisite respect that he deserves.

And 50 years ago, everything that he did is still important today now i as

hold it hold it before we move on

she just chastised tapper for not giving him his due by calling him congressman well he's actually representative nina we use the term congressman and it's not inappropriate but he's actually a representative but

she chastised him because He didn't get the respect he deserves.

We say it all the time.

We say Obama, we say Trump, we say Bush, we say Clinton, we say Reagan.

That's the highest office in the land, and we refer to them by just their last name.

We say Donald Trump, we say Barack Obama.

What's wrong with that?

Well,

because she wants John Lewis to be at that special level.

That's where she's going with this.

He's special.

Can't criticize him, civil rights leader.

It's like a whole separate class.

How do I know this?

Do we have the other clips of Nina Turner over the past few years discussing other people that are in office, like Bill de Blasio, for example.

Here she is discussing Mayor de Blasio.

Led by leader Stacey Abram.

Oh,

that's a congressperson.

Here you go.

Another one, Edo.

And, you know, even Mayor de Blasio, when he talked about how crime.

Okay, that was Mayor de Blasio.

She also, where he just says de Blasio and Bill de Blasio.

Interesting.

Not always giving them their due, not always mentioning their title along with their name.

Which is on record.

All right, a little bit more with Jake Tapper, Nina Turner on Jake Tapper.

You'll hear another woman chime in and another panelist listen.

Now, I, as a Democrat, we know that the Russians have some impact, but they didn't go vote on Election Day.

They didn't mess with the electronic data.

So there are some Democrats that get that, and they didn't write the emails.

Democrats are going to have to wear that.

But at the same time, what the president-elect needs to do, this is not the apprentice, the White House edition.

His tweets were insensitive.

For him to categorize.

Hold it, hold it, hold it.

Why were they insensitive?

John Lewis's comments weren't insensitive?

Okay, a little more.

For him to categorize Congressman Trump, excuse me, Congressman Lewis's district as

in bad shape.

Crime infested.

Crime infested.

It's not, by the way.

Fortune 500 companies.

It's about 58% African American, right?

Institutions of higher learning.

It is diverse ethnically and it is diverse economically.

So my memo to my...

Hold it a second.

Let's assume that the district, the 5th district of Georgia, is in great shape.

Okay.

Then why is John Lewis constantly fighting for more tax dollars?

Why is he saying we need more money for welfare and schools and government programs?

His district's in great shape.

You can't have it both ways, guys.

Either it's in bad shape, which makes sense to your argument, even though I disagree with it, or it's in great shape and he shouldn't be doing it.

He's not actually representing the district well.

A little bit more from Nina Turner.

So, my memo to

my white elected officials, not just President-elect Trump, but a lot of white elected officials make this mistake in making the African-American community a very

homogeneous.

They read us the wrong way.

They think everybody's poor, everybody's broken down.

That is not the truth.

So, they need to come and visit some African-Americans.

Hang on a second.

Hang on a second.

Hold on a second.

She said it's a diverse district.

It's about 60% African-American, American, as she said.

Well, that's not diverse then.

Blacks represent far less than that in society.

It's disproportionately black.

So what is the level of the diverse level would be if the district is about 20, 25%, whatever the current national standard is for percentage of blacks in America, and the same percentage of whites across the country and whatever.

That would be truly diverse, wouldn't it?

What do you mean by diverse?

If there's one minority living in an all-white district, then it's diverse.

See, they deploy that word, employ that word, when it benefits them.

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Man, that's like therapy.

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Yeah, sometimes that's good times.

Sometimes.

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Diversity equals not white.

Hashtag progressive logic.

I can't disagree with that.

You're right.

And that seems to be what the media has done here with the back and forth between Donald Trump and John Lewis.

Because they all wrote similar headlines that really didn't tell you what the problem is.

Why is it newsworthy?

And yet the headline was written in

such a way

to make you upset, to offend you about certain things.

They basically filled in the blanks.

There was the same template

and they just kind of filled in the blanks.

Media writing today is apparently like mad libs.

No, no, I just figured this out.

It's media mad libs.

They all have the basic format and structure of what they're going to say.

Donald Trump is bad in this case.

John Lewis is a hero.

And then they just fill in the blanks.

That's it.

It's all done.

It's media mad.

Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.

So Cal is spinning the dials for us radio style in Dallas, Texas today at Mercury Studios.

And Chris Cruz is helping out on the phones.

888727 back.

Gentlemen, I'm going to need your help with this.

So first of all, Cal, give me

an adjective that means like arrogant or insensitive.

Unfeeling.

How about unfeeling?

Okay, unfeeling.

All right, now give me a verb meaning like to attack or something like that.

Let's go with,

let's do punish.

Punish, unfeeling, punish.

Okay, now give me a noun meaning like important, like a person, you know, is an important.

Important

groundbreaker.

Okay, good.

All right, now, Chris, Chris Cruz is on the phone,

give me an adjective meaning arrogant or insensitive, insensitive, something like that.

Okay, let's see.

Supercilious?

Wow.

What's a big word?

The ACT words there.

$25 words today, guys.

Give me a verb that means like to attack somebody.

To attack someone.

How about carpet bomb?

Oh, okay, good.

Now, give me something that means like an important person.

Oh, that's easy.

VIP.

Oh, very important.

Okay.

So here's what the media does.

I'm going to plug your words in here.

Cal, unfeeling Donald Trump punishes civil rights groundbreaker John Lewis.

That came out.

Right.

And then

Chris,

same thing.

You just plug him in.

Supercilious Donald Trump.

Carpet bomb civil rights VIP John Lewis.

Hey,

right, that's essentially what they did because NBC wrote, Trump decries civil rights icon, John Lewis, sparking backlash.

And then the AP wrote, Trump unleashes Twitter attack against civil rights legend.

And Bloomberg had, Trump slams John Lewis, civil rights champion.

And then NPR tweeted, or I had a headline, Trump attacks civil rights hero as all talk after he questioned his legitimacy.

AL.com, which is,

but they're just plugging in.

So we went, civil rights icon, legend, champion, hero

that's all

it's it's media mad lives here al.com is alabama the state

al.com their headline is in feud with john lewis trump attacks one of the most respected people in america

did you guys know that John Lewis is one of the most respected people in America.

That's news to me.

I got to tell you, he doesn't make my top 100 list.

Nothing wrong with him, but he just doesn't make that list.

So let's try this again, guys.

Now that you got the template down here, so Cal, give me another word,

an adjective meaning arrogant or insensitive.

An adjective.

How about hardened?

Hardened.

Okay, now give me a verb meaning to attack or something like that.

Trying to get creative here.

How about

body slam?

All right, now give me something that means like important.

A noun means you're important.

Like you're important, you know what you're talking about?

Yeah.

Let's do

that.

Let's do guru.

Hardened Donald Trump slams civil rights guru, John Lewis.

Cal, you could write for the New York Times.

Seriously, I forget about that.

All right, Chris,

give me an adjective meaning arrogant or insensitive.

Okay, let's do another $5

word.

Callous?

That's only like $250, but okay.

Give me a verb meaning attack.

Attack.

Well, let's put some triggers out there.

Gun down.

Right.

How about a noun meaning important?

Well, it is Donald Trump.

So let's put kingpin in there.

Okay.

Callous Donald Trump, guns down, civil rights kingpin John Lewis.

Wow.

We could all read

the Times.

I think that's more like a Vox one.

You got the gun down in there.

All right, Cal.

Here we go.

Give me that first word again, that adjective.

Give me the adjective.

Adjective,

what were we trying to describe?

It was insensitive.

Okay, it's a

dark soul.

Oh, okay.

He's a dark soul.

Give me a verb when it attacks.

We're using all the ones that I know here.

I gotta try to dig deep.

Okay, just think about it.

Attack, fight,

slice and dice.

Ooh, and something that means, the noun that means like important.

Important

knows what he's talking about.

Let's go

Zen Master.

Zen Master.

Dark soul Donald Trump slices and dices civil rights Zen Master, John Lewis.

Absolutely, it works.

Absolutely.

All right, Chris, one more time for you.

Give me an adjective.

All right, so we're talking about Donald Trump, right?

Right, right, something it says.

All right, how about douche?

All right, now give me the verb.

What did he do?

Oh, I like this one.

Wedgie.

Give him a wedge.

All right.

And I'll give you now.

And John Lewis, you know, I like the guy.

So let's put him on virtuous.

Oh, virtuoso.

Yeah.

There you go.

Douche.

Donald Trump gives a wedgie to civil rights virtuoso John Lewis.

Perfect.

That's all they did here.

Just put

a piece of paper up on the wall with different adjectives and throw darts at it.

Throw the darts at it.

That's it.

So Time magazine had the headline: Donald Trump slams civil rights rep John Lewis for critical comments.

I mainly included Time because I can't believe they're still around.

CBS, their headline was, Trump blasts civil rights icon John Lewis in Twitter attack.

I mainly included CBS because I can't believe they're still around.

I mean,

who would have funk it?

So you had a lot of the different headlines.

that roll out that way.

Now, what is their point in all of that?

They're just plugging in the the words.

The first part, something negative about Trump.

Then he did something horrible.

He slammed, he attacked, he went after, sliced and diced.

And then finally, what

wonderful word can we use to describe John Lewis, forgetting anything bad that he may have ever done?

Civil rights, icon, hero, legend, champion.

So you had a bunch of people that were just tweeting that out.

And then

some other news outlets.

And when I say news in this case, I want you to picture me making little air quotes because I'm not really sure it's news.

The L.A.

Times had a headline about this that says, Trump kicks off Martin Luther King weekend with a disparaging tweet against civil rights icon John Lewis.

Oh,

they amped it up there a little bit.

He didn't just attack the civil rights icon, John Lewis.

He kicked off Martin Luther King weekend with a disparaging tweet against that icon.

The funny thing is, when they wrote a story about John Lewis, who started the little feud,

they wrote, Rep John Lewis speaks out against Trump's divisive rhetoric during L.A.

visit.

See, he was doing something good.

He was standing up to Trump.

When he spoke his mind, that was a positive thing.

But when Trump did, well, that's bad.

The Guardian, which is out of the UK, their headline: Donald Trump starts MLK weekend by attacking civil rights hero John Lewis.

Guardian has hero, okay.

But they also got an MLK weekend.

They made sure to get that in.

The New York Times had Donald Trump criticizes John Lewis, one of the original freedom riders, on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.

Day.

So they got in

the original Freedom Rider, not enough to be a hero or a champion of civil rights.

Mind you a reminder, he was a freedom rider.

And also on MLK weekend.

Wasn't it just a day?

When did it become a weekend?

The New York Daily News has Donald Trump cancels Martin Luther King Day visit to National African American History Museum.

Ah, he's gone above and beyond attacking John Lewis.

He's actually canceling trips to black museums.

See what a horrible person he is.

Then you had some creativity on the parts of some of the other news outlets, but they start taking it slightly different ways.

For example, the Washington Post, they wrote,

Trump's feud with John Lewis echoes a long, difficult relationship with African Americans.

Oh, it goes beyond the Freedom Riders and MLK weekend.

This goes back forever.

A long,

difficult relationship.

The Washington Post opinion page

had a headline.

Trump's attack on Lewis is the essence of narcissism.

They didn't put in Lewis being an icon or a hero or a guru or a Zen master.

Nope, just

Trump

is the essence of narcissism.

Speaking of essence, Essence Magazine had a headline about this.

Civil rights icon John Lewis attacked by Donald Trump during MLK weekend.

I mean,

they really took it up.

This icon, John Lewis, was attacked by Donald Trump during MLK weekend.

I mean,

I don't think our first reaction is physically attacked, violence, but the way it's written, civil rights icon John Lewis attacked by Donald Trump.

All right, so you're probably thinking, well, yeah, Doc, these are a bunch of liberal organizations, right?

A bunch of liberal progressive outlets.

Of course, they're going to be biased.

Well, let's see what Fox News carried.

At least one of their headlines, Fox News politics page online, had this.

Democrats, celebrities, and Republicans defend Democratic Rep Lewis after Trump's tweets.

That was Fox News to show you that the Democrats, the celebrities, and Republicans are all standing with John Lewis against that scumbag Donald Trump.

That was Fox News.

You had some other outlets out there that wanted to make sure that people knew that there are people standing with John Lewis, and some of them are even Republicans.

Like The Hill had a headline:

GOP Senator slams Trump.

John Lewis's talk changed the the world.

He slammed Trump because John Lewis's talk changed the world.

Who is that Republican senator?

Ben Sasse.

Now, I didn't see all of Ben Sasse's comments, but if he left it right there, then he's wrong.

If that's all he said, he's wrong.

If he just slammed Trump in this and only defended John Lewis, he's wrong.

I know he doesn't like Donald Trump, because I told you, I didn't support Donald Trump.

But John Lewis is also wrong here.

Let's see, from Raw Story, whatever that is, their headline: ex-RNC head Michael Steele slams Trump for Lewis tweets.

Quote, Trump has never walked the walk.

What?

What walk are you?

What are you doing?

Walk the Selma?

What do you?

What do you mean by that?

The Tampa Tribune had Trump's feud with civil rights icon John Lewis could be harbinger of new hyper-partisanship.

Okay.

So we have not been hyper-partisan until now.

This is it.

All of that stuff with Obama, everybody like

that nut that used to be on MSNBC.

The Keith guy, Olbermann, not him melting down every night for eight years against George W.

Bush.

We weren't hyper-partisan then.

We all treated each other with great respect, and we certainly were not partisan.

It's just now with Donald Trump, this is the harbinger of new partisan hyper-partisan.

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Hey there, it's Doc Talk Durham running down some of the headlines of various news outlets and organizations and how they handled the feud between Representative John Lewis and President-elect Trump.

Vox had, John Lewis is the last person Donald Trump should be picking a fight with right now.

Okay, can you think of anybody else that would be a worse person to pick a fight with?

Cal, anybody on the planet that we shouldn't pick a fight with?

Who shouldn't we fight with?

Who would be really bad?

Like, is there anybody that you could think of whatsoever beyond John Lewis?

To pick a Trump to pick a fight with?

That he shouldn't.

Who shouldn't he pick a fight?

Because they're saying John Lewis is the last person Trump should pick a fight with.

I can think of a couple of other people like

Vladimir Putin.

He doesn't seem to want to fight him.

The head of China?

Iran?

I don't think we want to pick a fight with him.

I'm not sure we want to pick a fight with any of them.

But according to Vox, we can pick fights with any of them as long as it's not John Lewis.

That would be bad.

Does John Lewis have nukes in his basement?

Is that what it is?

He's like, he'll drop him.

He will absolutely light those nukes up.

Ninja Assassin?

Maybe that's what it is.

They're like, hey, you can go ahead and pick a fight with a former KGB agent, but not John Lewis.

Ninja Assassin with nukes in his basement.

The Hollywood Reporter,

whatever that is, they had a headline: Trump tweets ends John Lewis book sales soaring.

They should really be thanking him.

He really should.

And this is your angle on all of that.

They're like, you know, his book sales are doing great.

You know, that's kind of a slam at Trump.

You're helping him out here.

That's kind of rubbing his nose in it.

But yeah, you're right.

Trump can call me anything.

He can call me absolutely anything as long as I make money off of it.

He can call me the worst things you can imagine as long as I'm making money.

I don't have a book.

Oh, I have the website, Cal, DNC Trophies, DNC Trophy.com.

Maybe I could get Trump to talk about that.

You should tweet at him and maybe, I don't know, anger him in some way so he can.

I don't care what.

Yeah, anger, whatever it takes, just get.

No, DNC Trophy.com.

It's my site.

We sell trophies and I make money off of it.

But this is the one we told you about a couple of weeks ago when I was in for Glenn, where you got the little snowflakes that can't deal with the election.

Well, that's because they're the participation trophy generation, and they're not used to winning and losing like we are.

We play the game.

You win, you lose,

you deal with it, right?

They're not used to it.

So you go to dnctrophy.com and you buy them a little participation trophy that says, hey, participated in the 2016 election, and then they're going to be okay with it.

No, because if you had fun, you won.

That's the mantra we told them over the years.

So you buy that little snowflake, a trophy.

It's like 12 bucks or something like that, 12 and a half.

And make them feel a little bit better just in time for the inauguration, DNCTrophy.com.

But yeah, if I can get Trump to do it, maybe send it to Trump.

I would love for him to say, buy a snowflake, a trophy.

Man, that would be great.

And call Doc a dirtbag.

Fine, Donnie.

Do it.

Just make me some money.

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I want to hear what you have to say.

The number 888727-BEC, 888-727-B-E-C-K.

It's Doc Thompson in for Glenn today.

Let's go to the phone calls now.

How about the Buckeye State, line 17?

Kathy, how are you?

Oh, Kathy's gone.

All right, let's go to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

And Jared, thanks for holding.

How are you?

Hey, Jared.

Hey.

How are you doing, sir?

I'm good.

Yeah, thanks for taking my call.

My

call-in basically was just

your original question was what was so wrong with Trump's tweet?

And

I think it really goes back to the second part of Trump's tweet, which said

it was John Congressman John Lewis should spend more time fixing up, and he's kind of criticized this district.

But then at the end, he said, all talk, talk, no action or results, sad.

And I think that that was the main thing that a lot of progressives have latched on and have taken out of context to then criticize the legacy and the

civil rights legacy of John Lewis.

And it's kind of an unfortunate series of events where John Lewis is absolutely in the wrong for questioning the legitimacy as a sitting congressman of the president just, what, five days before the inauguration?

And then,

but then you got Trump, who's saying some somewhat incorrect things about his district.

It would make a lot more sense if John Lewis, like we some other people have commented, was from Chicago or Detroit.

It would make total sense.

I think everybody would understand, hey, this guy's talking, talking, but his district is you know and it would be more clear what Trump's intention was.

But here with him saying talk, talk, talk, no actions or results, I mean this guy, he is an icon, I mean, with the civil rights.

And no disrespect to our Congressman John Lewis, but

he has

done a lot with his actions.

But again, this is all being taken out of context to the original dispute that was between Trump and John Lewis on this particular issue of legitimacy of the presidency.

Do you think the talk, talk part, that he's no action?

Do you think

the people that are really bothered by this, all those headlines I shared, are they bothered because Trump is saying

John Lewis is no, there's no action, he's all talk, and they think he's talking about the civil rights movement?

They're like, oh, he did, he did all kinds of stuff.

Yeah, I mean,

I think like they are putting it back to the civil rights.

You know, in this statement, John Lewis is saying, you know,

the president is illegitimate, that because Russia, you know, interfered is what he calls calls it, which we can, that's a whole kind of a whole different discussion, but that he's illegitimate.

And then Trump's basically just saying, you know, oh, he's just talking, you know, his district's in terrible shape.

You should spend more time focusing on his district rather than criticizing me, you know, falsely.

But unfortunately, his district isn't terrible, as Trump kind of tweeted.

So it is kind of unfortunate for Trump in this situation.

All right.

Thanks so much for the call, Jared.

I really appreciate you sharing today from Virginia.

You might be right.

Maybe they're hearing it and they hear or see the tweet and they hear and think Trump is saying John Lewis has never done anything.

But he's talking about his district.

If Trump says your district's in bad shape, blah, blah, blah, whether it is or not, he's clearly talking about the district.

To say you're all talk, no action, that type of thing,

he's talking about the district.

Civil rights is not a part of this at all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Day weekend or day today

is not a part of this at all.

Did it happen on that day?

Yeah.

I mean,

if he had put it out there on September 17th, would it be Donald Trump attacks John Lewis, civil rights icon, on Constitution Day?

No.

They're trying to make the narrative about race.

They're desperately trying to make it that way.

If you tweet your district is in bad shape, whether it is or not,

and then say you're all talk and no action, it clearly means about the district.

Now, if they want to take it back

and say he's all talk and no action and Trump doesn't understand, he's a civil rights icon and he's done all this stuff,

I would say you're right.

John Lewis did do some good.

However, there's something being lost.

Anybody who's criticizing Trump for this and trying to make it about race,

that was a long time ago.

Not that it wasn't good, not that he didn't do good.

It was the 60s.

You're talking 50 years ago.

Not only do I think

people are right to criticize you when you do wrong, even after you've done great good,

at some point, you got to stop playing that card and living on past glory.

John Lewis wants to play that card, the civil rights freedom rider card.

I'm not taking anything away from him.

He did do those things.

I told you, I would have marched with him.

I believe in the things that he was fighting for, at least in name, equality, not what he ended up doing as a member of Congress.

That was just a progressive agenda, really.

It's not about equality, it's not about that.

The civil rights movement and equality, absolutely.

I would have been an abolitionist back in the day.

I would have been working on the Underground Railroad.

That's how passionately I feel about that.

Everything I am and do and believe gets funneled through a couple of filters.

When everything gets muddy and crazy and nuts and confusing and too many variables,

I always take it through a couple of filters.

For me personally, and the way I want to operate, through the filter of my faith.

The way the world ought to operate,

through the filter of one word.

Freedom.

That we all have the God-granted right of free will

and should be able to make the choices and decisions for our lives.

And anybody

standing against anybody else doing that, anybody infringing their rights and others' rights,

is an abomination to me.

I can't stress enough

how much I despise that.

It makes my blood boil.

When I think of that fat little butterball in North Korea, Kim Jong-un.

and his father and grandfather, and the way they treat people and oppress them and keep their freedoms, I go through the roof

because they're oppressing people, their freedoms.

That's what I believe.

But I don't think John Lewis believes that.

I think at some point along the way, he liked the attention.

Not that he didn't do something good, of course he did.

Amazing.

He put himself out there.

Good for you.

But somewhere along the way, it became about his power.

He became the honorable John Lewis.

And who doesn't like to be adored, especially when they say you're fighting for civil rights, what some people believe

is the greatest fight you could fight today.

For forty years, John Lewis has worked for government, got paid well, and lived off of tax dollars.

For 40 years, he made double, triple, quadruple what the average American makes.

For 40 years of his 77 years, more than half of his life

has been spent in a cushy job.

Did he earn that?

Maybe.

Maybe,

that's fine.

But don't tell me you're still fighting that fight today.

John Lewis didn't get clubbed yesterday.

It was 50 years ago.

And then after that, in the 70s, he went into office.

He started running for office.

At one point, he ran for Congress and lost.

He then got appointed by the Carter administration to work in some cushy government jobs.

Kind of a little payback there, helping the peanut farmer from Georgia, your fellow statesman, get elected president.

1981, then, John Lewis got elected to Atlanta City Council

before eventually running for Congress in 1987

and winning.

For 30 years,

John Lewis has been the honorable representative, John Lewis.

30 years,

currently making just shy of $180,000 a year.

And the average American makes about $40,000.

Over four times what the average American makes.

I tried to find out what his net worth is.

Can't find it.

You can look up online, you just can't find it like you can find other people's.

I saw one that said his net worth was $10,000.

He has books that he's written.

He sits on boards.

He does all of this stuff.

And there's a base salary in Congress, $180,000 a year.

Is that somebody who's still truly fighting for the average person?

He's in touch with what the average person goes through?

No.

It's just easy to be the progressive.

It's easy to be the progressive out there that just says, oh, everybody's suffering and the solution is take it from somebody else and give it to them.

Which is exactly what dictators do.

They dictate that somebody has too much and therefore must give it to somebody else.

And that's morally wrong.

They want to live in a world where it's morally right, and it is not.

John Lewis is still living in 1965.

He's fighting a war

that's been over for years.

He's fighting a war that he won.

But he's still living there

because it benefits him.

It gets him elected, it gets him in, gets him admiration,

and it gets him money and power.

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Phil tweeting,

that caller was wrong.

I live in Atlanta.

I live in an Atlanta burb and know the 5th Congressional District has really bad neighborhoods.

Yeah, Phil, it does.

I mean, I don't live there.

I've been to Atlanta many, many times.

I'll be flying through Atlanta on my way to D.C.

this week because I'm going to head to the inauguration to do some coverage.

But I've driven through, spent time there, stayed there, interviewed there, all kinds of things.

I am vaguely familiar.

I've done some research.

It has some really good parts.

In general, the Atlanta area is booming.

It also has some really bad neighborhoods.

You're right.

I mean, it's not free from criticism of crime.

Absolutely not.

I would say, in general, it's in better shape than some of the others we've mentioned, like Detroit, where I've also lived.

Detroit's rough right now.

It's, you know, a long history, but it's not doing great.

Brian Noll tweeting, Dia Alexey here at the At Doc Thompson shows one of the most principled men you'll ever hear on the radio, hands down.

Wow.

I didn't even pay him to say that.

What's going on there?

Is he wanting to say something from me?

Is he lying there?

I mean, is he a.

I don't know.

Does he owe you money?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe that's like

a pen name.

Not that I know of.

I mean, I stopped taking hostages.

I think of the ones I still have.

No, Brian Noel, that's not a name I know.

Not as far as hostages go.

Wow, that's interesting.

Well, it's nice.

I appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

Maybe it means another Doc Thompson.

Oh, you know what it is?

Sometimes you type in a name and you get the wrong one on Twitter.

I mean, mine's a

verified account at Doc Thompson Show.

Maybe he just assumed that was like some other Doc Thompson, like some guy that's handed out money on the street in his neighborhood helping poor people.

Delivering babies and stuff.

Yeah, maybe that's it.

Chris Cruz tweeting hashtag what I learned today: Georgia's fifth congressional district has been represented by a Democrat in all but 11 of the last 170 years.

That's right.

This is one of the most Democratic districts in the history of America.

Since 1845,

every year they have been represented by a Democrat, except 11 years.

Out of 170 years,

Democrat rule, except for 11 of them.

Those 11 years, two of them, it wasn't even a Republican.

It goes so far back.

I think it was,

what was the party, Unionists, one of the lesser-known parties during the Civil War?

So only

nine of the last 170 years were

represented by a Republican.

It's incredible.

And it's broken up.

It's not even like one one guy had a pretty good run for, you know, like six, seven years.

I think the longest a Republican has held it, maybe for four.

It's amazing.

30 of those 170 years, it was John Lewis.

So, yeah.

Democrats know this is theirs.

It's an automatic win.

Let's not forget, also, you have down in that area, you have

Hank Johnson.

Hank Johnson also represents part of the area, too.

That's right.

That's right.

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While you slept, President Obama released another 10 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Gitmo.

Another 10 released.

Now, we have not gotten confirmation from the feds, the State Department, the Pentagon, anybody, the White House, nobody has confirmed this yet.

But we are hearing reports that he did release another 10 prisoners.

We don't know who the prisoners are.

We haven't confirmed any of it.

We don't know if 10 is an accurate number.

We're just hearing reports.

But you know what's really shocking about it is that so many media outlets, like even the progressive ones, seem to be outraged by this or at least stunned.

They're like, oh, man, reports that 10 prisoners are released from Gitmo.

I mean, I see all these tweets.

Oh, man, reports that

that's Oman,

the country of Oman.

Oh, well, that makes more sense then.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, Oman.

That makes more sense.

Oman reports that 10 prisoners have been released from Gitmo.

Okay.

Thank you, Cal.

That makes much more sense.

Okay.

Happen out.

Omani, foreign minister,

said that the men released from Gitmo would, quote, temporarily reside in the country.

He didn't say which country, though.

He said the country.

It could be like,

well, you live out in the country.

You know, no, no, no.

You don't live in Kansas City.

That's not where they're living.

They're living out in the country somewhere out in the plains.

That's where it is.

Out in the country, like a rural area.

Or maybe he means like a country, but he's the country, the country of, we're led to believe it's Oman.

Temporarily reside.

How temporary?

I mean, if it's like some of the other prisoners he's released, they're not going to be there very long.

They probably just left a little bit of it out.

Okay, they will temporarily reside in the country until they can join ISIS and ring death upon the great infidel.

That's what I'm taking it to mean.

Certainly seems that way.

According to the foreign ministry of Oman, the move was in response to a request by the U.S.

government and, quote, out of consideration for their humanitarian situation.

So Oman is saying that we gave them 10 prisoners, that we released them from Gitmo and flew them there.

Nothing from the White House, the State Department, anybody to confirm this yet.

But it was out of consideration for their humanitarian situation.

What humanitarian situation?

Likely, some of these, maybe not all, but likely some of these guys are truly bad dudes that have done horrible things.

What's their humanitarian situation?

They didn't know, they didn't identify who the prisoners were.

We know that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is still, or was still, as of a couple days ago, a prisoner in Gitmo.

He was the mastermind behind 9-11.

3,000 Americans died.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned it.

Did they release him

last night?

I'd like some answers from the White House, wouldn't you?

Don't you think they should be telling us, at very least,

we have to find this news out

from Oman?

We have to find this news out.

We are supposed to be the freest country on the planet.

A representative republic built on the foundation that the people are part of the government.

And if not, it will fail.

We, the people, one of our most trusted documents starts off: we, the people.

And we have to find out from another country

that prisoners were released.

Prisoners that, in some cases, killed Americans.

And we have to find out from Oman.

All of us were affected by 9-11.

All of us had to deal with it on that horrible day

and for years afterwards.

But there are people who

paid a greater price on 9-11.

The people who lost brothers, and sisters, and fathers, and daughters, and mothers, and uncles, and aunts, and best friends.

There were people who had friends and family members on the planes that flew into those buildings, that flew into the Pentagon,

that landed in rural Pennsylvania.

How would you like to be

those people today?

As outrageous as this is,

how would you like to be

the parent, the sibling, the spouse

of one of the people that died on 9-11 at the hands of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

And this morning, you don't know

if your government just

released him to a Muman.

You don't even know.

These people are living that each and every time prisoners are released.

And today, they get the news and they don't have answers from their government.

How dare you?

Damn it.

Even if you're going to do this, how dare you not tell people?

How dare you not release the information before you release the prisoners?

But you know why they didn't release the information before they released the prisoners?

Because they didn't want us to know.

They did it in the middle of the night because they didn't want us to know.

It's all the optics of it.

Hide it from the American people, which is the cornerstone of the Obama administration.

And he's going to take it right down to the wire.

How dare you?

One of the most offensive things this guy has done in eight years filled with outrageous constitutional violations.

And this is one of the worst.

One of the worst days in American history that we all still live

that has caused us so much heartache.

The deaths, the struggles, the economic troubles, the security, the fear, the arguments, the the divide, all of that.

And you continue to just shove that wedge between us.

Just take your finger, Obama, and shove it into the eyeball of each and every American today, because that's what you did by releasing those prisoners and not at least having the balls to stand up and say, this is what I did or am going to do.

I wasn't a fan of Gitmo.

I thought it was a bit of a cop-out.

Even though those people are not American citizens, I still believe in the basic values of America.

Not that the

Constitution applies to them,

but I still would like, with other people,

to practice some of those same values when possible.

I didn't like the way we set up Gitmo.

But this is wrong.

This is absolutely wrong.

Gitmo

has some serious failures.

From its inception, there were some failures.

What was your long-term plan with this?

It's going to open it up and start throwing people in there and then just throw away the key and oh well.

It costs us gobs of money and we have to pay policeman for the world.

How come the UN isn't paying for it?

At least we'd get a little bit of a break.

The UN should be paying for it.

We went out there and captured the dirtbags.

At least the world could do is say we're going to lock all these people up because it affects the world, not just America.

We're one of their chief targets, but so are other countries.

Israel, Turkey at times, anybody who's a

partner of America in the war on terror, any ally of America,

look at the attacks on places like Paris,

Brussels.

Don't these people endanger the entire world?

So where was the UN paying for it back then?

And where was the plan from all these other countries?

All they do is sit around and criticize.

Oh, you got the bleeding heart progressives all around the globe.

They're like, how dare you open Gitmo?

What are you going to do with those people?

And I'm admitting.

It was a bit of failure in concept.

We were desperate after 9-11.

I get why it happened.

Sure, I understand it.

But there was no long-term plan.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world criticizes us.

And then what do we do?

Fold like a house of cards and release them.

What does that mean?

What has transpired since 9-11?

This will be what ultimately ended up happening.

We spent,

after

having 3,000 Americans killed, After that, after it crashed our economy and everything else on 9-11, after that, we launched launched two wars, Afghanistan and Iraq.

We spent trillions of dollars, hundreds of billions of it just vanishing into thin air.

We paid people off.

We set up regimes.

We tore other ones down.

We spent thousands more American lives and

tens of thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and other parts of the world.

We rounded a bunch of people up, paying for it with American lives and dollars, built a prison and put them in there, paying for that with American lives and dollars, had it open

since this entire time.

And then, after we had these people in there sitting for over a decade, just getting more and more pissed off at America, we say,

go ahead.

No, no, go ahead.

You can get out.

How is that a plan?

Obama took something that was not a great idea and made it infinitely worse.

On his watch, Obama has released, if these 10 prisoners turn out to be accurate, that there's 10 that he released last night.

He released 189 prisoners as president.

Many of them going back to their terrorist organizations.

You think they were pissed before?

You're locked up for 10 years.

You're going to be even more ticked off.

189 of them.

So where does that leave us?

If those numbers are accurate, my count is 40.

40 prisoners remain.

Prior to these 10 being released, specifically Obama was working on a plan to release 19.

Now, you know, he promised to close down Gitmo by the end of his presidency.

So, likely, there are nine right now that were part of that 10 that they were specifically working on.

I mean, yeah, they're working on all of them, but that was one of the plans because he just released a group of them about a week and a half ago, right after the first of the year.

I guess about two weeks ago.

So, that would mean that there's about 40 left.

Nine of those 40 we know he's actively, likely has a plan for any moment, which would leave 31.

If he can pull that trigger in the next couple of days, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, he would still have two full days to find a home for 31.

That's not that many.

My point is,

he could likely do that.

I'll bet you the remaining 40 go free before Donald Trump takes the oath of office.

That's my prediction.

Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the last one that they release?

Where is he on the list?

And my question is: what did these other countries get for taking these prisoners?

Do you think Oman just said, sure, America, we love you.

We'll clean up your mess.

Let us take these potentially bad guys.

Is that what Saudi Arabia has done when they've taken most of these?

Of course not.

Nothing is done without somebody benefiting somehow.

If they're going to take our trash out of Gitmo Bay and help Obama look good, you don't think he gave them something?

Bull crap.

So, what did he give them?

What did President Obama give somebody else in order to take dangerous people out of Gitmo to make his presidency look better and endanger the entire world?

That's the question.

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All right, the tweets are coming in.

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All right, let's see what we got here.

We got,

okay, DM and DM.

Ooh, hashtag angry doc.

Go.

Go get him.

Yeah, you're getting rowdy there.

You know what it is?

In fact, it's DM's fault, by the way, because I've had like 16 cups of American Pride Roasters coffee today.

I'm just using it more often.

I like when Angry Doc shows up.

Let the fireworks fly, right?

Like three or four of those a day.

Yeah, American Pride Roaster is the official coffee, the morning blaze, where I broadcast on the Blaze Radio Network each and every morning, weekday morning, that is, it's 6 to 9 p.m., no, a.m.

Eastern Time, 6 to 9 a.m.

Eastern Time, the morning blaze.

Oh, by the way, Cal, have you seen the...

You're not a big coffee drinker, though, are you?

No, not really big on coffee.

I love the coffee and I love the American Pride Roasters, but they have a new

blend.

So get this.

So he gets this really rare coffee beam.

We do a lot with entrepreneurs in the morning Blaze.

We offer free commercials and different things because we do our Building America segments, which we have one tomorrow morning, by the way.

If you would tune in, it's justtheblaze.com slash radio.

Anyway, and you can listen to the podcast throughout the day.

We feature a business.

We have a great story tomorrow of a woman who built her own home with her kids with no knowledge of how to build a home.

She just watched tutorials online.

That is so darn cool.

That's amazing.

Yeah, it is.

And I'm like, I can't even put together an Ikea dresser.

This one built a house with YouTube videos.

Yeah.

I'm actually handy at doing some home construction.

And I still, when I watch the tutorials, I'm like, well, wait a minute.

Do you have to do this?

I have all these questions.

So I can't believe they got it done.

But yeah, we're going to talk to her tomorrow.

And she has a book out about it, so we'll give her some free promotion.

But you can, too.

Just use the hashtag BuildingAmerica on Twitter, and we'll try to retweet and get you on for some interviews at some point.

But American Pride Roasters is one of those that we helped out back in the day, and now they're the official coffee of the Morning Blaze.

But he has a coffee that is a really rare coffee bean and uber expensive, and he got it for a discount.

Now, the coffee is still expensive, but if you are a true coffee lover, you got to check it out.

Just go to AmericanPrideRoasters.com.

It's not for the average.

It's not, you know, you slop out to the guests when they come over.

No, no, this is one for you.

If you like coffee, you get a cup and you go over and you sit down by yourself and you enjoy a good cup of coffee.

Where did he get his themes from?

All over the world.

All over the world.

He gets them from some guy named Tony out of the back of a car in Chicago.

That's where he gets them.

All over the globe.

But this, Cal, he themed this because they're all themed.

This is really cool.

If you're an entrepreneur, you'll love this.

He themed it after the Cloud Club.

You know the story of the Cloud Club?

No, it was a Cloud Club.

Oh, 1920s America, Industrial Revolution, robber barons.

Oh, the roaring 20s.

And there was a very elite club located in the Chrysler building.

Only 300 of the richest people in America.

They had two floors of this just for this private club.

Read for yourself.

Just go to AmericanPride Roasters.com and you can check it out and try the coffee.

I'm warning you, it's pricey.

Rest of their coffee is, you know, reasonable.

It's awesome, but it's pricey as it should be for this quality of bean we're talking about.

Along with a little bit of a price tag for something worth it and valuable.

Right.

Well, and this is Cal, you and I,

we're modest means.

We got family.

We help other people out or whatever.

But you got to have your thing that you spend a little bit on now and then, right?

For me, it's usually technology, phones and gadgets.

Yeah, you do that now and then.

For me, it's food.

I like the food.

Stinky tweeting at Doc Thompson Show, more cargo planes full of cash.

Yeah, that's what it looks like.

Absolutely.

Mike O'Palka's at StuntBrain on Twitter.

He's from, of course, the Blazer Adio Network.

He said, the most transparent administration ever.

And by transparent, I mean opaque.

Yeah, if they're so transparent, how come we didn't know about these 10 getmo prisoners?

Until now, from Oman.

Apparently, Oman's more transparent.

You're listening to the Glen Beck program.

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All right, I'm going to be heading to D.C.

for the inauguration.

Don't look for me on stage or nearby or anything like that because it's my job to

hang out with the freaks.

No, I don't mean the Trump support, I mean the protesters.

That's what I do.

In my coverage of the

conventions over the summer, that's what it was, showing you all the freaks out there.

And there are

countless freaks descending upon Washington, D.C., adding to the already great number of freaks in D.C.

There are so many protests and groups of people that are protesting, I can't even keep them straight.

No, I can't.

It is

possibly going to be one of the greatest spectacles in American history.

I really think that.

We had stories that there are poets,

the best-known American poets, are protesting.

They've already been protesting.

Yeah, apparently there are poets, and they're going to be protesting.

There's a million women's women's march on Saturday after the inauguration on Friday.

And countless little stations set up all over the district

to protest.

If you're going to D.C., it's going to be horrible.

I'm going for work, so I'm going to do some coverage with Conservative Review and my buddy Dan Bongino and Michelle Mulkin, who is that they're both very good, and it's going to be fun to work with them.

And I'll also do some coverage at theblaze.com, the Blaze Facebook page.

So, both Conservative Review and the Blaze, I'll be doing some stuff for.

I'll be doing coverage all day, Thursday, Friday, and possibly part of Saturday as well.

So, make sure to check that out.

But

here's one of the protests, and this isn't even in D.C.

I'm pretty sure this is in Los Angeles.

There's an artist known as In Decline,

not in Decline, multiple, one word, in decline.

Cal, I mean, you know, in decline.

I mean, the great artist that does work all over.

I mean, you're familiar with his work, right?

Of course.

Can you help me out?

Because I have no idea.

That's the one with the thing, the one with the thing.

The naked Trump statues.

Yes, that's the one.

Yes, exactly.

In Decline is currently creating a mural on a wall of a building, it looks like, outside of I think this is in Los Angeles, outside a building in Los Angeles, that he says represents the presidency of President-elect Donald Trump.

Now,

Donald Trump's still not president yet, but prior to him being president, before we know what his presidency is going to be or do or look like, we don't we can speculate, but until it's minute one into his presidency, we really do not know.

But he knows, and he's drawing a mural to show what will represent the presidency of President-elect Donald Trump.

Not what he believes, just what is.

He wouldn't say what the

mural will look like.

You can kind of see pieces of it.

There's a story at the Blaze.

You can find it.

But we do know the medium.

Blood.

He's making it out of blood.

He's painting the mural out of blood.

Any specific type?

I don't know.

I don't know if there's a blood type that works better for such things.

I mean, it's blood on brick.

So,

you know, I don't know what's going to stick.

I mean, that's the official, you know, like ink on paper.

It's blood on brick.

A lot of blood.

It's Los Angeles, so I imagine you can just get blood anywhere, right?

I mean,

you can go to East L.A.

and.

I mean, you just don't have to order that.

You just look around.

You're like, oh, there's a puddle.

Let me dab my paintbrush and get to it.

I mean, for a while, that's a lot of blood.

That's a good amount.

I think he got 20 pints, is what he said.

Doesn't that just wash off?

That's not

like oil paste.

I mean, it stains, but.

You ever cut yourself and get blood on your shirt and try to get that off?

Not coming off.

Yeah, but he's not doing it on a white cotton shirt.

On a brick, I can't imagine that would.

Maybe he's going to add to it.

Make his own cotton.

Ah, these crazy artists.

I don't know.

He said, we weren't planning anything until he was actually elected and decided to make a statement.

Cal, does this make a statement?

An artist painting a mural in blood, does it make a statement?

A little bit.

I think it does, too.

And the statement it's making to me is the artist is off his rocker.

He's out of his ever-loving mind.

I mean, artist's objective, you know,

everybody's got their opinion on it.

Yeah, this isn't art, just so you know.

This is not art.

Your opinion just guy's out of his mind.

Yeah, it's not art.

I can tell you that.

You're right.

It is subjective.

Everyone has a different opinion.

We're all going to say different things are art, but this is not art.

I'm going to stick to that.

He said,

he wanted to make a statement, a protest against his inauguration.

As the leaders of this piece, speaking on behalf of the arts community,

I'm letting this administration know we're not going anywhere.

And this is what he's going to be up against for the next four years, Cal.

There it is.

He's not messing around.

So, what is he going to be up against for the next four years?

You making stupid murals out of blood?

Exactly.

Next one's going to be out of

some other bodily fluid.

Right?

Let me quote again.

As a leader of this piece, speaking on behalf of the the arts community, I'm letting this administration know we're not going anywhere.

And this is what he's going to be up against for the next four years.

Wow.

You might be giving yourself too much credit there, buddy.

I'm sure Donald Trump is up at night going, oh, darn,

what does the art community think of me?

What does the art community of Los Angeles think of me?

I wonder if they think I'm tremendous.

I'm sure they think I'm tremendous.

It's not like the art community in Chicago.

They're all losers.

Nobody goes there and enjoys their art anymore.

It's all about Los Angeles.

Wait, what?

It's a mural out of blood protesting me?

Okay, they're all losers in Los Angeles as well.

That's not real art.

I know what real art is.

I have dogs playing poker in my living room.

That's art.

I have a Velvis Elvis, a Velvet Elvis.

We call them Velvises from back in the day.

They're tremendous.

You should get one.

They're amazing.

Fantastic.

Yeah, I'm sure he's worried about the art community of Los Angeles.

I don't think

that's how it's rolling out there.

But nevertheless, that's what he's working on.

Oh, let's see what other craziness they have going on as people descend upon Washington, D.C.

in the next couple of weeks or so.

They've got additional security measures.

Now, this is additional security measures above and beyond an inauguration in today's day and age.

They say that they've taken additional security measures to protect against

vehicle attacks.

We've told you, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when someone is going to pull off a more effective than Ohio State vehicle attack where you just drive over people.

Not that that didn't do some damage.

Of course it did.

It wasn't good.

But it wasn't to the level of of nice.

I mean, that's incredible.

They're also protecting, they say they're specifically looking for lone wolf shooters, trucks, and trucks.

Some weaponized drones.

You know, that's going to be a thing eventually.

Well, why wouldn't somebody?

I don't know.

I'm guessing,

guess you could go about it a lot of different ways.

But yeah, weaponized drones, lone wolf shooters and trucks.

That's specifically what

they're looking for in addition to the normal security around an event like this.

It's going to be amazing.

An amazing spectacle.

All right, let me get a break in.

We'll come back and

wrap things up.

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All right, some really good tweets coming in at Doc Thompson Show.

Donald Norman tweeting,

in decline, the artist, must be an elector for Nobel Prize committee because Obama got one before he did anything.

No, no, no.

Obama got one for getting elected.

That's what it was.

The guy who has killed countless people with drones.

I mean, he's waged war.

He's done the whole thing, but Nobel Prize, the guy who's divided America, all of this, yeah.

Scott tweeting at Doc Thompson Show, both your Trump impressions sound more like Alec Baldwin.

I don't know what you mean, Scott.

Mine's tremendous.

You're obviously a loser.

Nobody likes you anymore.

Okay, I'm gonna admit, Scott, it sucks.

You're right.

Let's see here.

Jackie, 1028, tweeting at Doc Thompson Show.

Why release

Gitmo prisoners and not announce it in the middle of the night?

To blame Trump's policies when they return an attack.

Jackie, as crazy as that is,

there are going to be people out there that argue

that this is Donald Trump's fault.

Somebody, somehow, in the next couple of years, if one of these prisoners, even if it was one that was released three years ago,

comes back and attacks America in an obvious way, and you're like, oh, this is the guy we had in Gitmo four years ago or whatever,

they're going to find a way to blame it on Donald Trump.

And I know you're saying that, Doc, how can they do that?

That's crazy.

What excuse?

I don't know.

But they do this all the time.

Right?

I mean,

it's spin.

It's fake news.

Somehow they're going to do it.

And I said, I'm not even the Donald Trump fan.

I'm not the guy that went out and supported and got crazy for him.

Again, I think he's likely going to do some good things.

I understand why people supported him.

I just vote on track record.

Fine, great, good.

But yeah, they're going to do everything they can.

I think Glenn said the other day

that

Russia's influence,

the allegations that they influenced the election, is his birther moment.

And he's right.

They've got to find a way to always delegitimize a president.

That's their motivation in this.

It's all that power back and forth.

By the way, Cal, I'm a little disappointed here.

My tweet at Donald Trump didn't get retweeted by Donald Trump.

Not even commented.

He didn't attack me or anything.

You have to make a little more noise.

I mean, I got a couple of retweets and a couple likes and a couple comments.

What did you say exactly?

I put at real Donald Trump, please tweet that people can buy a snowflake, an official participation trophy at DNCTrophy.com.

That's your problem right there.

You can't ask him to tweet or retweet.

You have to be a jerk.

Thousands and millions of people every day asking him to help them.

This is on a Wayne Time Radio Show, though.

What do I have to do?

I don't know if you did.

You didn't mention where you work, did you?

Well, I think it says on the top of it there, if you go to Doc Thompson's show, yeah.

I was thinking of that.

He hasn't been the biggest fan.

You've heard of this past.

I don't have to spell it.

Sure.

Sure, I know, but,

you know, I mean, that's good.

He doesn't like John Lewis.

John Lewis's books are flying off the shelves now.

I'm saying he doesn't like the Blaze.

I mean, hey, says he.

Hey,

you got to insult him to get his attention.

Yeah, but I mean,

what am I going to insult him about?

I don't know.

Something, you're really going to have to get creative there.

I would have to do everything for you.

I mean, come on, you know, you know how to insult people.

No, I do, but I'm just saying this: stuff I insult people about or get snarky about or stuff that they're doing wrong.

And I mean, although there are things wrong, there's

a little bit

before there's some serious glaring errors.

What's his name?

Most of the errors he has, like appointments, are like, okay, I don't agree with that.

It's not horrible.

It's, you know, it's kind of a gray area.

There's nothing like the obvious crap going wrong.

I mean, like releasing 10 prisoners in the middle of the night from Gitmo.

Okay, that's,

you know, he screws something about the VA or something after he's president six months or so.

I got some problem.

But until then,

I'm looking for some

you got to say something that's going to get his attention and make it because it's also got to get attention from the outside as well.

Because, you know, that whole, he's ineffective

president was on national TV.

Do I do something embarrassing like the naked Trump statues?

If I did something like that, I think that could get something.

I think that'll get his attention.

Or get an SNL skit going.

Okay, here's my next question.

How do I get enough attention by pissing him off that he'll retweet my little trophies that I'm selling,

but not enough that he sicks the IRS on me?

That's the

needle.

That's a fine line.

That's the needle I need to thread down.

That's a fine needle.

That's the one right there, that meaty little part that says, hey, Doc, let me help you make a whole lot of money, but hey, you didn't tick me off to the point that I'm going to sick the IRS on you or the NSA or anything else.

Oh, sorry, Doc.

Some trouble when you travel through TSA.

Very fine line.

Right.

I mean,

I don't need to go through what you go through when I travel.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, you don't want to do that.

It's not.

I don't want that or whatever.

So,

all right.

Well, I'm going to work on this.

So if you think of anything, let me know, Cal.

Maybe you retweeted out there.

Maybe he consulted his wife or his kids or something.

I don't know.

His kids are kind of okay, though.

I mean, his sons look a little goofy.

They seem like

a little slimy.

I don't know enough about them to say huge problem.

I don't like the daughter.

Ivanka.

Yeah, I don't like her crap with the green stuff.

I could do that.

She's got that.

And then also the free child care.

Yeah, that's nuts.

Yeah, that's horrible.

Okay, maybe that's the direction I go.

Something like, hey, at Donald Trump, get your girl in check or something.

Get your daughter in check.

That's a good one.

Yeah, because his wife.

I got no beef with her.

She's, you know, whatever.

She doesn't say anything.

All right.

I'm going to keep working on it.

If you would, please join us tomorrow morning on the Blaze Radio Network, 6 to 9 a.m.

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Have a great day.

Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck.

Good night, Steve Cannon.

Wherever you are.

This is the Glen Beck Program.

Mercury.