Glenn Beck reflects on the 2017 inauguration, challenging Obama's scandal-free legacy by citing Fast and Furious arms sales, IRS harassment of Tea Party groups, and DOJ spying on journalists. He contrasts the peaceful power transfer with media whitewashing, noting crowd boos for Pelosi and Clinton versus respect for Trump despite "kitty cat hat" protesters. Beck compares current attendance to Obama's 2009 ceremony, critiques "safe spaces" harming youth, and concludes that while the system functions, historical narratives remain contested. [Automatically generated summary]
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We're just sitting here on the day of the inauguration.
The last eight years, I think, have been the longest eight years of my life.
And Jeffy just said, did you see a picture of you eight years ago?
Yeah, you know, the president isn't the only one who has gone white over the last eight years.
Some of us have also earned our gray hairs during the last eight years.
Where we were eight years ago, where we are now, how we felt about things eight years ago, how we feel about things now.
Think of where you were eight years ago mentally.
What you believed about America.
What you believed about where we were headed.
How strong we were.
How united we were.
Even though we were just recovering eight years ago, we were recovering from Fahrenheit 9-11.
We were recovering from the Michael Moores of the world.
And we're headed right back to that.
We're going to take a look at the last eight years and we're going to fill in some of the blanks of President Obama.
He said he was a scandal-free, I can't believe the press, a scandal-free presidency.
That the one thing he's proud of is that there weren't scandals during the last eight years.
Only because the press was, what did he say, not sycophants?
Syncophants.
Syncophants, which is actually a word.
They just fall in sync with the party.
Well, it's an urban dictionary word.
Yeah, it's not a word.
Probably entered by Michelle Obama about 25 minutes after he said syncophant.
But because the press were syncophants and they were in sync with the party and the inauguration, they didn't notice the scandals.
But we did, and we'll go over them right now.
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Eight years ago, yesterday, yeah.
Eight years ago yesterday, I sat in a chair in the Fox studio for the very first time and said, I have no idea what I've, this is the first quote, this is the first time I've ever done live television.
Eight years ago, this is the first time I've ever done live television and I don't know exactly what I'm doing.
It was eight years ago that I sat in the green room before I said that with Ramos and Campion's wives.
And we had them on because we were going to talk about how, oh my gosh, how we were disappointed that George W. Bush had not released their husbands.
And just then, they got a phone call from the White House, or I'm sorry, from their attorneys, who said, the president has just pardoned or commuted the sentence of your husbands.
Eight years ago, we were at the beginning of finding out who Barack Obama was.
And we didn't know about Van Jones.
We didn't know about Acorn.
We didn't know that Acorn would lead us to New Orleans, which would lead us to SCIU, which would lead us to Andy Stern.
We didn't know that somebody in the cabinet, the manufacturing czar, would say, we all pretty much agree with Mao that power comes from the barrel of a gun.
We didn't know about, what was it, Lizard Tongue Lady.
What was her name?
Do you remember?
Anita Dunn.
Anita Dunn.
Oh my God.
Who said her two favorite philosophers were Mother Teresa and Mao, right?
Yes.
These last eight years, think about what you have done in the last eight years, what you have thought, what you have learned in the last eight years.
I am proud to say that life isn't about what happens to you.
It's about what you do with it.
And I am proud to say that much of the experience of my last eight years, and I think most people in this audience, I think you feel the same way, that if you really sit down and think about it, you're proud of the way, or I shouldn't say this, of what you've done for the most part, how you've handled it.
You went and you turned it into a positive.
You learned.
You studied.
You stretched.
We are better people today because of Barack Obama.
And anybody who didn't like Donald Trump, doesn't want Donald Trump, thinks he's, what was it?
I couldn't believe.
George Soros of all people.
George Soros said this week that Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.
George Soros, whose media matters, did everything they could to destroy me and to destroy the movement because we would say this guy's a dictator in the making.
George Soros, who brought down five sovereign nation economies that we know of.
By the way, eight years ago, we didn't know that.
He says he's a wannabe dictator.
Let me just say this to all the people that would feel this way.
No matter what happens, you're going to be a better person at the end of these four or eight years because Donald Trump was in office.
Should you choose to be.
We can either become the people that the Barack Obama supporters were, or we can rise above it and become the people that we know we really are.
It's going to be hard because they are so blind to the hypocrisy.
And quite honestly, it's going to be hard for them because many of us are very blind to our own hypocrisy.
What wasn't okay for Obama to do is suddenly okay for us to do because it's our guy.
When we would say, how could they possibly be for this when they were against it four years ago?
Where were they then?
We can't have people say that about us.
We have to be consistent.
And like I said, it's going to be hard because in Ohio State today, at Ohio State, they have a safe space for anybody who's afraid of the inauguration.
Oh, good.
How can you possibly think that's preparing these kids for the world?
Are there going to be safe spaces in life?
No.
Where you don't have to hear anything that bothers you?
No.
I mean, that's a safe space.
It is the dumbest thing I think I've heard of in my life.
Greg is on the phone.
There are counselors in public schools now in Connecticut for today.
Greg, are you a teacher?
Yes, I am.
Okay.
Oh, and good morning, by the way, to you and your assembled coworkers.
Thank you very much.
So Greg, tell me what's happening in Connecticut.
Well, you can, if you, if you dig a little bit deeper, and pardon me, my voice, I have a cold.
So, but if you dig a little bit deeper, it's not just my district, it's quite a few districts where not only after the election, but now with the inauguration, they're charging the social workers, psychologists, and counselors in the schools to provide grief counseling for any faculty or students that are not happy with the state of the nation right now.
Greg, was there anything to reach out to those in the last eight years that might have been upset with the direction of the country under Barack Obama?
No, and it was, you know, I was listening to you talk about eight years ago.
Eight years ago, I had left my full-time career of 20 years in business to go back to school to be a history teacher.
And I was in college at the time that Obama won, and it was complete ecstasy amongst the kids that were kids, they were kids compared to me, that I was going to school with.
And I think back to that now, and I think now I'm looking at these young people instead of learning to cope with change, they're being their grief, their feelings are being enabled, and they're never going to learn how to deal with this stuff.
Yeah, yeah, and it's, it's, it's, to me, it also says that you're right and half of the country is wrong.
Correct.
Because what I totally agree.
What about the grief of the people who disagreed with you last time?
What about those people?
I mean, we were just dismissed.
You were called names if you disagreed.
Oh, yeah.
And I live in Connecticut, so you can imagine what it was like.
No, eight years ago, I was living in Connecticut.
Yes, I remember.
I listened to you all the time.
I remember you when you were doing radio in Connecticut.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm so sorry for that.
What were you?
Three?
Yeah, I wish.
Yeah.
How old were you?
If you were eight years ago, if you were in college, then he was older, though.
You were older?
Because I was in Connecticut doing radio in the 90s.
It must have been grade school with you.
No, I was in my 30s.
Okay, I can't work out that.
I'm in my 30s now.
I'm in my 50s now.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
I was in Greg 50.
I listened to you in Connecticut on radio.
Thank you.
Shut up.
Can I tell you something?
My wife was, I believe, in junior high or high school.
So it wasn't, you know.
I remember when I first met her, we first started dating and stuff.
She was like, oh, I used to listen to you when I was a kid.
And I was like, okay, all right, stop.
What is that?
That's creepy.
Thanks, Greg, for your phone call.
This plays a bigger role than I think we realize.
We have to find a way to not dismiss people's feelings or call them names when we hear about the grief counselors.
But we have to find a way to talk to people now and show them that this is not healthy for our society.
If you would have had grief counselors, you know, we're moving into a new studio tomorrow.
Sorry, thinking out loud here.
Monday.
Monday, yeah.
Monday we're moving into a new studio for the radio show.
It's a brand new start, brand new season, brand new president.
And I've painted some paintings for the walls.
And one of them is the mask of George Washington, the life mask of George Washington.
And he's weeping, and you'll see it on Monday.
And I call it the mask of civility.
This is a prime example of what that means.
The mask of civility.
Here we have social workers.
We have the most caring, the most loving, the ones who understand the human psyche, who had no compassion for those who felt their country was being ripped apart.
No compassion.
They were called outsiders.
They were called old thinkers.
They were just trying to block progress.
No compassion to somebody who said, wait, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Let's remember who we are in the first place.
No compassion.
The ones we pay to help teach us to be compassionate.
It's the mask of civility.
Now, how do we get that across to people?
Because we can either whine about it, bitch about it, call people names, say what babies they are, which is not going to, nobody will listen to that.
And we'll miss possibly an opportunity.
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But because my first response is, what a bunch of two-faced hypocritical babies.
Yeah, and that should be your first response.
Because that's what they are.
It is.
I mean, this is, what a bunch of numbskulls.
How could you possibly think this is good for these kids?
How could you possibly think, yeah, let's shelter them from reality?
Why would you do that?
Why?
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Validating Fear and Trauma00:15:25
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What's amazing is in Stu's lifetime, his adult life, since he's been able to vote, there is only two possibilities of an election.
One, a Democratic win, and two, a Republican win that the Democrats claim is illegitimate.
George H.W. Bush was the last legitimate Republican president.
Dole was a GOP win.
2000, selected, none elected.
This Barack Obama.
You skipped 2004.
2004 was Ohio fixed voting machines.
John Kerry saying people said their Democrats should vote on the wrong day.
That's right.
due to some weird waffle head vehicle running through the streets.
I don't know what happened there.
I don't know either.
But yeah, I mean, they complained about that one as well as illegitimate.
Well, I just counted, but he was an illegitimate president.
I forgot that they claimed it twice.
Twice they claimed he won.
They said we're illegitimate.
Then Barack Obama won.
Then Barack Obama won.
And now this president.
And he's illegitimate.
That's insane.
I mean, it's since 1988.
There hasn't been a Republican president elected legitimately in the eyes of Democrats.
Okay, so think of that.
You're born in 1990.
You think that you have been taught your whole life that the Republicans only win when they steal it.
Wow, that's incredible.
What do you?
Of course they need safe spaces.
The Republicans only steal things, and they're going to come and steal everything you have.
Pretty amazing.
We're going to go into the scandals that Obama has forgotten coming up.
Look at me.
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Welcome to the program.
We're Brigham Riaz Patal, who's a good friend of ours, and he's the guy you might remember that right before the election went to Alaska on his own dime.
He is, how would you describe yourself politically?
I would say I was, well, funny, I almost said I was Democrat.
I would say I'm Democrat liberal, but I'm understanding a whole segment of America I didn't understand before.
And you've kind of done what we've done, kind of unchained yourself from the label of liberal or Democrat, and you want to end the hatred and the black and white of everything, right?
It's too black and white.
I think to me, and that's where media plays, and that's where my profession is.
I come from media.
And to me, when you're talking about the safe space, it really is a direct product of what the media has done for two years.
So let's talk about the safe space.
We just heard in Ohio and also in Connecticut, they're bringing grief counselors in today for the teachers and for the children who might be experiencing any kind of discomfort with Donald Trump being the president.
It's less about the discomfort and more about for two years you were taught that there was nothing positive about this man, that it was like electing Hitler.
For two years, there was not one positive thing he said.
Now, I am not a Trump supporter.
That being said, if you are fair and even about news, why are you vilifying?
So the result of him winning created this panic that we'd elected a monster.
And that is the direct product of how the media portrayed him for two years.
Now, I'm not getting into politics.
I'm not interested.
Well, that is a, hang on just a second.
That is a different way of looking at it, isn't it?
I just associated that with the progressive MAMBI Pamby.
I never tied the media and said, it is the way he's been portrayed.
It actually helps me validate their feelings.
We know this because when you talk to families on the Democratic side that I've talked to, the children are unable to get their heads around it because in their homes, through their TVs and through their phones, this monster was running for president against Hillary Clinton.
And then when the monster won, they don't know what to do.
And I remember on the night of the election, every single parent I know said, how do I explain this in the morning to my kids?
And I thought, why don't they think it's a presidential election?
Why do they think that humanity is at stake?
And I remember being on a parenting pencil panel and a woman said to me, my daughter was at a neighbor's house and they were discussing politics and she came home at 2 a.m.
It was a slumber party because she felt unsafe.
And everyone in the room said, congratulations that you taught your daughter to remove herself from unsafe situations.
And I sat on a parenting pencil, as the panel is the only male, awkward, and said, a little bit, shame on you.
How long have you known these neighbors?
And she said, about a decade.
Why would your daughter ever feel unsafe at a house with someone she's known for a decade?
That is the media.
The conflict-driven entertainment of reality seeped in, which obviously Donald Trump came from.
They taught him how to do this, seeped into every aspect for the past two years of election coverage.
It became a reality show.
Didn't know if you saw the CNN ads where they looked like these fighters.
The lights were, it literally looked like a heavyweight fight.
The conflict-driven setup of this whole election made it that Hillary had to win.
Had to win.
It was the only right choice.
It was right and wrong.
And wrong one.
How do you explain to the kids at Ohio State?
That wrong won.
Because you don't understand the other side.
When I went to Alaska, I found the other side.
And it's very hard to hate people when they're looking at you and saying, my life has been miserable for eight years.
Eight long years.
And I really am quite frustrated with liberals.
I'll be honest with you.
I was on Facebook yesterday, people going to the march, and it was downright mean.
A woman that I know who has done amazing work for Muslims specifically wrote this.
By the way, so people know Riaz is a Muslim, Pakistani immigrant.
You've lived here for how long?
Most of my life.
Can you hear the age of two?
Okay.
And a gay man who is married and has an adopted child.
So there is no more boxes you can check for people that we are not supposed to get along with.
I have them all.
You have the whole set with me.
Yeah, we do.
Like, you don't need to collect the cards.
I've got them all.
And we had dinner last night.
Our family joined Riaz last night for dinner.
And what was nice, Riaz, was beforehand, we had a meeting and we had a bunch of people from the office.
And the president of my company is a Jew and obviously, I mean, he wears the yarmulke and everything else.
And here's a Muslim man and a Jewish man.
And we're all joking together.
And we're joking.
He's joking about the Jew building a settlement.
He could come over and he's like, don't build a settlement over here.
And the Jew was like, oh, go ahead, fill a bag with nails and blow me up.
And we were all laughing about it.
You have to.
Because it was this, we were joking about the stereotypes that have kept us apart.
Yes.
Yes.
And to me, the only way to live with these labels is to make them funny.
Because otherwise I walk through the world as a collection of labels.
And I have to say, when I'm around liberals, those labels are hugely important.
I believe honestly too important.
And it's going to be interesting in the days ahead because this Facebook thread was the meanest thing I've seen.
They said they got on a bus in DC with all these Trump supporters and the thread went on about all these white women.
And I thought, you're at a march for women's rights.
And you are literally on a Facebook thread like mean girls attacking a group of white girls who got on the van.
How is this a new era of celebration when even the women, the feminists, are attacking the other women?
And they'll say, well, all the women don't support each other.
Well, you're not supporting the women on that van right now.
I was literally, it was after we had dinner.
I was utterly shocked.
And I think they really need to wake up.
Riaz, I get a lot of mail from people who say, what you're trying to do is not going to work.
Nobody is interested in getting along.
The left will never change.
And I mean, I'm disappointed in my own side, but I will tell you that I get very frustrated and tired at times of going on and talking to people in the press and saying, look, I understand how you feel.
Do you understand how I feel?
And they don't have any care to even think about.
Because they think they know what's best for you.
Correct.
And this is something I'm really trying to get people.
Again, I'm not interested in the politics space, but I'm interested in the humanity space.
When you know people who have lives and situations that are completely different from yours that voted for Trump for very specific reasons for their families' welfare, you tell me how you can hate them once you meet them and see their home that slipped off the foundation 10 years ago, but they can't afford to move.
That is the humanity that's out there if people can get past the labels.
And that's what we have to do.
We have to do.
So how do we talk to somebody, Riaz, that is encouraging their kids to, well, let's put it this way.
Do you know who is the he's ABC, George Stephanopoulos?
I read an article without anybody saying anything like, this is weird, this is dangerous.
George Stephanopoulos's young, like 12-year-old daughter has had to sleep in their bed with them at night for like the week after the election because they were so upset.
Yeah.
And my scared, I believe, is that.
Yeah, scared.
And my thought was, what the hell is being said in that home by a, quote, objective reporter that makes your 12-year-old sleep in bed with you at night because they're afraid.
I would love to know that families and children who didn't live off of a two-year diet of liberal doomsday with Trump, if they are as traumatized and scared, even the ones who lost, Who met my kids last night?
My kids, I mean, everybody, every liberal would say my kids, of course, have had a steady diet of fear-mongering and everything.
Did you think my kids were frightened?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
Because I think there is our discussions about politics in the world, and then there is the humanity that you have at home.
And I think with liberals, the way to go in, I don't think we can say your beliefs are wrong.
That doesn't work for either side.
It just doesn't work.
To me, it's here's what you don't know about me.
Here's what you don't know about my life.
This is the way to start the conversation.
If I go attacking your beliefs, we're not going to end up anywhere.
We're going to dig in like we have for two years, if not longer.
To me, it's just so you know, this is something you don't know about my life.
And that is the way to understand why someone voted differently, why someone believes differently.
It's start from the bottom.
What is your life and why do you make the choices you make?
And then we can discuss beliefs.
The problem is people are going in beliefs.
You're going to have a deadlock.
You're deadlocked.
There's no way around that.
And so to me, it's, here's what you don't know about me.
As much as you want what's best interest for me, this is me.
Why don't I tell you what's in best interest for me?
And I think that's the way you begin the conversation is this is what you don't know about me.
And everyone can do it on both sides.
I think the two-year diet of conflict and rage that came from reality TV, look, we all watch what most of us watch.
If people don't want to watch conflict, it won't be there as much.
So my hope is after this election, we've reached conflict saturation with media and that people, I believe, I believe your viewers, whether right now they're driving a pickup truck or a Tesla, it doesn't matter, they want this to stop.
Like the election, the inauguration day to me is the day we breathe and move on.
So I am hopeful because now this constant yelling about the election is gone.
There'll be constant yelling, but at least we can move on with our lives and we know what the truth is for four years.
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Manchurian Candidate Concerns00:04:55
Talking to Riaz Pital.
He is a friend of ours and a liberal who hates labels.
And I can't put a label on him.
We were just talking about, we're going to talk about these scandals coming up at the top of the hour that nobody in the press wants to admit were scandals under Barack Obama.
And they're saying he was a scandal-fee president.
It couldn't be further from the truth.
And Riaz said, I'll bet you I don't know a lot of those scandals.
True.
And I bet you you don't.
I bet you don't.
You said you had never heard of the feeling that Barack Obama was a Manchurian candidate until when?
Not once.
Until I came here.
What was that, July, August?
Never even came across my desk, my radar.
Never heard the expression.
Never heard the expression until I was here.
What is that, eight years of Obama?
Never heard the expression.
Things don't make, and I watch the news.
Well, we don't think that he was a Manchurian candidate.
So I don't know how that came up.
Not literally, but literally.
Certainly people.
I mean, they made the Manchurian candidate movie during the Bush administration.
Meryl Streep was in it.
And that was a remake.
I mean, the first time that there were people on the right who believed.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We weren't a much better person.
But there were those people.
It was fun as a movie script because it was easy to write that.
Because there were, you know, signs that, I mean, if you wanted to use your imagination, you could get there because as you mentioned during the break, the guy did one speech during a convention and then all of a sudden he's president of the United States.
It seemed that this guy come from.
And again, to me, it was sort of unprecedented.
And for us, we thought, that's amazing.
He wins the Nobel Prize before he's even signed a bill in office.
I mean, again, the Obama presidency had lots of strengths.
For me, as a gay man, it was a bit of a roller coaster.
Remember the first term where he did not support marriage?
Yes.
He supported civil unions, but he felt a marriage should be between a man and a woman.
I remember that.
I'm glad that I was.
I remember thinking, well, that feels like I just got sold out for votes.
And then he gets second term and suddenly we can get married.
And to me, that's a clear-cut example of the politics game.
How can you look at that and not see that as a result of that?
Do you know very many other people in the homosexual community who feel that way?
Or did they just all accept him?
And yeah, he's great because now.
Yeah, now, because now it's the short-term memory thing.
And to me, there were issues.
There were problems.
And I think I sit in my office.
It's funny in LA.
And a couple people have come in over the past few weeks and closed the door and still slightly whispered that they're concerned about women.
Why is this happening?
Why are people so angry?
Personally, I was concerned about Hillary too.
And I'm like, why are we whispering in my office?
They're so afraid to say anything bad about Hillary.
Now, facts are facts.
What was in those emails?
Whether I liked her or not, that was a problem for me.
Why is it not a problem for anyone else?
Why is it that they're saying that this election was because I believe the Russians were involved.
I mean, I think the evidence is very, very clear.
I agree.
But the Russians didn't steal the election.
Why is it that the press can't get their arms around that Hillary was, I mean, I can look at Bob Dole and say he was an awful candidate.
Why can't they get their arms around Hillary was an awful candidate?
Because I believe she's too swept up in the womanhood.
I believe that, you know, the same with Barack Obama.
I think flaws are overlooked because of his ethnicity at times.
I think we wanted him to be a great president.
I think Hillary Clinton, everyone wanted her to be the first female president.
I wanted to see what a first female president would be like.
But was she the right candidate in ideal world?
Not for me, no.
Why does a female's politics have to come alongside her husband's?
People are talking about Michelle Obama running.
I'm like, can we look for great Democratic women outside of the spousal relationship?
Right.
That's a problem.
And so to me, it's sort of a misogyny to say, I hope Michelle Obama runs.
Like, there are millions of qualified women out there.
Why are we looking at the wife?
I couldn't believe how Carly Fiorina was made to look like a misogynist.
Yeah.
She's a woman.
Yeah.
I mean, incredibly successful.
Incredibly successful woman.
You may not agree with her, but she's an incredible, strong woman, a great candidate.
Yet she wouldn't be a good first woman president.
I mean, what?
To me, this march, I do not have a problem with it.
I think it's great.
If the spirit of it is to bring people together, to bring inclusion, to use, unite as women.
They're fighting against each other.
And that was in the Facebook thread, which honestly broke my heart because these are people I know incredibly well who've done unbelievable work.
I literally know this on a social level for all minorities.
Back in just a second with the nine biggest Obama scandals.
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Today, I just kind of want to pack up the last eight years and first of all, say you made it, gang.
You made it.
A lot of people, including me for a long period of time, didn't think we would make it here.
I think there's still a few people suspicious that we still won't.
No, there is.
Like until 11.30 this morning, he's going to sign some executive order that he stays for all time.
Until then, those people will not be happy until that airplane or that helicopter is up and out of sight.
You can see it take off and then come back down and go, you know what?
I was just kidding.
He's not going to be present.
Psych.
We have Riaz Patel who's joining us today, who is a good friend and from, I hate to say this because it's, let's say it this way.
He's from the left and becoming a good friend and ally of Pat, which that doesn't happen.
That doesn't happen.
We want to go through the nine scandals that President Obama has forgotten about when he said he was proud that this was a scandal-free administration and the press just lapped it up.
Here are the big nine.
This is from National Review.
One, let's see if, Riaz, how many of these do you know?
How many of these do you, what's your impression of each of them?
Okay, if you know them.
I feel like it's a game show.
Okay.
Number nine, scandal-ridden Secret Service.
I remember that.
I remember that.
What is the scandal?
I believe it was they were in South America and they engaged in illicit activities with some females there.
Right.
That's the scandal.
Okay, that's part of it.
Okay.
Do you remember the wedding crashers, if you will, of the state dinner of Obama, where some Bravo reality show?
Yes.
Yes.
But a lot of people would say, including Obama, that's not my scandal.
That's not your administration scandal.
I would agree with him.
That's a secret services deal.
Yes, but it is a scandal.
He is over the Secret Service because he's over the Treasury Department.
But I will agree with you.
It's not really.
But the house wasn't cleaned.
I don't remember anything ever happening from that.
It was just the thing was just swept under the rug.
And which is one of the reasons why I have said for so long, pray for the Secret Service and pray for the protection of our president.
Yeah.
Because there's something fundamentally wrong with the Secret Service.
It sure seemed that way for a while.
It's kind of died down.
Yes.
Seemed that way.
Okay.
Number eight, the DOJ spying on journalists.
Interesting.
I don't.
Don't know.
Tell me.
Let me say, but how funny that that seems pretty bad.
Yes.
And I think to me, this is the system of, this is the result of the echo chamber.
This is horrific that I don't think I know what you're referring to.
And I live off a steady diet of news.
Who remembers it the best?
It is Rosenthal, right?
James Rosenthal that from Fox, but there were, he was one of them.
There were three of them.
Yeah, James Rosen.
Sorry.
James Rosen.
And there were, I believe, three of them that the DOJ was suspecting.
They were being leaked information about what was happening inside the government.
But it was not.
Oh, Cheryl Atkisson.
Yes.
Yes.
Thank you.
And it was not, you know, stuff like CIA.
It was not WikiLeaks.
It was just there's corruption in the administration.
The DOJ wiretapped.
The DOJ went and looked into all of his family, went through all of his internal records without Cheryl Atkinson's computer and phone in the middle of the night.
She saw the light go off.
Access information.
And they were deliberately listening to her.
Now, here's what's interesting.
I don't know about this, but I imagine my peers will think this is one of your conspiracy theories.
Correct.
Because that's why you get labeled a conspiracy theory.
Because I don't know this.
Because the media never covered it.
Do you know who Cheryl Atkinson is?
Yes.
Okay.
She's, would you agree that she is credible?
Yes.
Okay.
She said, this is the most disturbing part, and thank you for reminding me of it, that in the middle of the night, she woke up because her computer went on.
And she started seeing things being pulled up on the screen.
Somebody was remotely going through her files and pulling up the documents that she had been given and deleting.
And she couldn't shut the computer down fast enough.
And she actually recorded it.
She took her phone and went, look, what's happening to my computer?
Nobody.
I have no idea.
Not a Fox News radio.
Because you would see my mouthpiece.
She was at CBS when it happened.
I was.
And the CBS isn't CBS.
The head of CBS News was the brother of somebody in the administration.
Seems like it, yeah.
There was some wife connection or brother family connection to the administration, to the head of CBS News, which gave it that conspiratorial feeling because CBS just brushed it away.
They should have stood up and said, what's going on here?
Yeah, the Cheryl Atkinson one, I would say a lot of people on the left do dismiss.
But the James Rosen one is hard.
I mean, that is, I mean, the left media even embraced that one.
Let me give you a quote.
This is from the editorial board of the New York Times.
With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible co-conspirator in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.
Never heard of this.
Never heard.
This sounds like the kind of thing that I will hear under Trump.
They're already saying it.
Oh my gosh, you would.
They're already saying it.
And this is why when President Obama yesterday or two days ago in his last press conference said, you can't be a sycophant to this next president.
You have to stand up.
And then he also pardoned the people who were giving information to WikiLeaks.
You were going after the press.
He's used the, what is the Woodrow Wilson espionage?
The Espionage Act from Woodrow Wilson.
He has charged reporters with the Espionage Act more than all other presidents.
Is that part of this or is that a separate?
No, that's separate.
That's a separate one on the list.
No, that's not because it's not on this list.
Oh, it's not even on this list.
It's not even on this list.
So you got to add this.
You got to add the espionage because he's done that more times than all other presidents combined.
Combined.
Combined.
I feel embarrassed with it just as a really straight A student.
I feel like I didn't do my homework because I don't know this.
Which is disturbing to me.
But it's not your fault.
It's the press because it was being done by their side.
They just thought, okay, well, I don't really understand.
There's got to be a reason for it or whatever.
Where Donald Trump, I begged the press.
You have to pay attention.
You can't stand silently while this is going on because the next guy, you don't know.
If you allow it to happen now, you don't know what's going to happen.
And the difference is they'll say it's okay for Obama because he's morally and ethically sound.
And I think that's what they'll say.
And that's why it's different because Trump is obviously not morally and ethically sound.
Now, I'm not saying that's the reason.
I think it's just, I'm shocked that I don't know this.
I'm shocked and saddened that I've lived in this country for eight years and I do not know your experiences.
Eight years, I've been in traffic jams with people that I don't know what was going on inside their car.
And that makes me very sad.
And to me, this is the opportunity of our lifetime to say, oh, gosh, we cannot be more conflict-ridden than we are now.
Who are you?
What is important to you?
That is what the opportunity is right in front of us.
And we can either get more angry, which I don't know how we possibly can, or we can choose differently.
Oh, we can get more angry.
And we're only up to, what, eight?
Yeah, that's number eight.
Nine and eight.
Money squandered on Solyndra.
Do you know that?
No.
Stu, I know you're all over this.
That was an early one.
$500 million.
Over.
Yeah, you're right.
A few million dollars here and there.
$500 million to do government tax dollars.
And that was just one of many.
One of many.
That was kind of the abbreviation of that.
I don't think Solyndra was even the biggest.
But they dumped money into a specialized new technology solar company to try to get the green stuff, energy off the ground.
And sadly, our money went to waste as the company disintegrated just a few months after they gave them the money.
The other part of that is they actually had, before they lent the money, had reports from the people investigating it saying we don't think the company's going to make it.
It's not going to work.
They did it anyway.
Don't eat it.
You know, there were connections between the White House and this company.
They tried to save it with this gigantic infusion of cash and it did not succeed.
So it was just a waste of our money.
Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress.
Did you know that our attorney general was held in contempt of Congress?
No.
I don't even know if I remember that one.
No, that got almost no coverage.
Because people have saw it as a part of the city.
I barely remember that.
That was over him not going to testify, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
On Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious.
Which is another Fast and Furious?
Not the movie.
I mean, because it is.
It's a great situation.
I like 30%.
Do you know what Fast and Furious refers to?
No.
Okay.
Oh, wow.
Do you know that if I say it this way, illegal arms sales to Mexican drug traffickers.
That sounds really bad.
This is getting really embarrassing.
I honestly.
And this is why everyone has changed their profile photos to Barack Obama's family on my Facebook because they're devastated they're leaving and it has a perfect legacy because it was kept perfect.
Yes.
Thank you for saying that.
And to me, look, I'm not trying.
I'm not here to diminish Obama.
I'm here to say that he wasn't the ideal you thought he was and Trump isn't the villain you think he is.
Yes.
And maybe somewhere we can all get along and I don't have to feel like my president determines my love and affection.
This is why I'm convinced.
Good gully.
Riazi, if you weren't already married, I'd propose to you right now.
Oh my gosh.
This is serious.
If my skin wasn't so dark, you'd see me turn red.
Gosh, this is most likely.
Here's what it is.
If they would have taken, for instance, Eric Holder on record saying we need to find a way to show how dangerous these guns are and how easy they are to get into bad hands.
So they took and the government agents sold illegal guns, thousands of them, at the border.
They got into the hands of the illegal drug lords.
Of course, that's where they're going.
In fact, many of them were sold directly to them.
Sold directly to the drug lords.
One of them actually ended up in the hands of a terrorist in the Paris shooting.
A gun never heard this.
Yes, an automatic weapon used in the shooting in Paris.
One of them was sold by Eric Holder.
A border agent?
The frustration now is I'm hearing everyone hearing this and saying, oh, Glenn and his friends, conspiracy.
Here comes another conspiracy.
And it's because it's discounted.
And I know you now and I know when you speak truth because I'm looking you in the eyes and I don't know how I convince other people of that.
Correct.
And so if I'm convinced that if we would have had a situation to where these things would have been taken seriously and people would have, if the press would have done their job even-handedly and said, yeah, he's not scandal-free.
That's a huge scandal.
I think it's a very, we wouldn't have ratcheted things up.
But nobody was listening.
And we're like, the country is accepting this.
The press is in bed and accepting corruption at the highest levels.
It freaked people out.
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I will tell you, in just looking at the screens today and watching the television coverage of the Obamas and the Trumps are about to leave the White House, this is always a day whenever there's a change in power that makes me so proud.
It makes me proud to be an American, that we have this peaceful transfer of power.
Every single time.
Every time.
Without exception.
Every time.
And there is something to be said for that.
That is, it is unlike we do not, and this is one reason why, and I know this pisses a lot of people off, why I am so torn is I don't believe there should be special classes of people.
You do wrong, you go to jail.
However, because politics, and we know how politicians will use the levers of power to destroy their enemies, it's one reason why I'm glad that Trump is saying we're not going after Hillary.
Just leave it alone.
Walk away in the sunset because every other country puts their opponents in jail.
We don't.
And I will tell you, I got this argument from the most surprising of places, Mike Lee.
I asked Mike Lee, please tell me, Mike, somebody is going to go after the scandals with Hillary Clinton, and we're going to correct this.
And he made the best cautioned case of be careful because that sets up a precedent of you're going to go after your opponents and put them in jail.
And then you get a bad guy who says, oh, yeah, really?
You stood against me?
I'll get you.
We don't do that.
And to be able to show that to the rest of the world is great.
This is a truly proud day for America to be able to see Barack Obama, who couldn't be more different than Donald Trump, and Donald Trump, who couldn't be more different than Barack Obama, get together in the White House, and Obama reaches into his pants, so to speak, and takes out the key to the White House and hands it to him and says, it's yours.
And here's the important thing that I learned.
Don't do this.
I think that is great.
I agree.
So we're going over these scandals, and this is really unfair to do to you, Riaz.
It's really unfair because honestly, some of these, I can't remember all of the details vividly, but everybody in our audience knows these scandals, but you may not be able to recall them.
I don't think it's unfair.
I'm sitting here shocked that I've never heard of them.
You've never heard ever.
Fast and Furious at all?
Fast and Furious never crossed your screen.
No.
Wow, that's something.
And that is a huge one.
That's one of the bigger.
Okay, we've got about four scandals left.
The nine scandals Obama has forgotten about and apparently liberals never learned about from the National Review.
We continue next.
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This is the Glenn Beck program.
We're with Riaz Vital, who is a friend of ours, and we thought it would be good to have him on the day of the inauguration because today's a day to start all over again.
Today is a day of real hope.
Today is a day that if we choose and if we choose to learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others, we can move forward.
If what was the worst thing, we're learning this from Riaz.
He's not aware of the scandals.
He's from the left, lives in Hollywood, is a Hollywood producer, not aware of the scandals that we're talking about from the National Review.
All very well documented.
None of them are conspiracy theories.
All of them were pretty much erased by the administration and by the press.
He's not aware of most of them.
So now, are we going to do the same thing?
Will our media outlets on the right erase the scandals or excuse the scandals which will come under this or any other administration that we happen to like?
The answer to that should be clearly no.
If he breaks the law, if he breaks with the Constitution, if he does things that are not right or not the right way, we need to be the most vocal.
Otherwise, the conspiracy theories start.
And everything that the right says he's doing, those on the left who only read the Drudge Report, Breitbart or whatever, will say to the people on the left who are actually watching what's going on.
And they'll say, well, that's just a conspiracy.
And I know that to be true because for about a month during the election, I only read the Huffington Post.
doing a little bit of research on my own.
I only read the Huffington Post and any links that would take me to stories from the left.
Let me see.
And it's not that they had a different version of the story.
They would just not have the story.
So it was a conspiracy theory because it was never reported on their side.
So let's go through the rest of the scandals.
The Veterans Administration scandal, you know that one, right?
Hillary Clinton's email scandals.
Yes.
Do you know how much of that, do you know that she went in, what are those safe rooms called?
What is the designation?
Anybody remember those safe rooms?
They're safe rooms that are electronic proof, that nothing comes in or out, no signals, nothing.
And you have to have a safe room to be able to read the classified documents.
And you are not allowed to take a classified document out.
You're not allowed to take pictures of it.
You're not allowed to do anything with it.
Do you remember when she says they were never marked top secret?
Do you know that in her emails, it says, in so many words, remove the header?
And so people had to go in to those top secret rooms, cut off the header of top secret, bring them out of that room, then send them, either scan them or retype them and send them to her.
Breaking our top secret laws.
It's not like these documents are just being passed on from computer to computer.
A lot of these documents were only able to be seen in that room.
Did you know that?
No, I didn't.
No, I didn't.
Does it change that scandal?
I mean, I think to me the whole scandal has laid there in a way that it sort of is mentioned a lot, but never really dealt with.
To me, I find it, it was always a problem.
It was always sort of what was in those emails that they were eradicated.
And so I think when we selectively morally choose what is okay and not with a candidate, we're putting our own bias.
And the news is doing that too.
A guy went in a submarine.
He was a submariner.
He took a picture of where he worked in the submarine and had it on his phone and sent it to his kids.
Illegal.
Can't do that.
Submarines are top secret.
He's in jail today.
At the same time that Hillary was going in, it wasn't just to many of us on the right.
It was not about what was in them.
It was about how did you get them?
You had to knowingly break the law to remove them from that room.
Doesn't matter if it just says, I love Cheerios.
You went in and instructed other people to go break the law so you could read that.
You know this one, I'm sure, ransom payments to Iranians.
Yes.
What is that story?
Oh, gosh, really?
Do you remember?
Just try to do it.
I'm not saying, no, no, I don't mean to do it that way.
Let's say, I just want to see, I just want to see what your recollection is.
Do you remember that there was a cash payment that we don't ever make cash payments?
Yes.
Okay.
And it went in the middle of the night in the airport.
Okay.
And I think the last one here is the IRS.
Do you remember the serial numbers on the camera?
I literally started to feel like you see my palms are sweating.
And I'm always sorry.
I don't mean it that way.
Yes, you do.
I'm seeing that.
No, I really don't.
The IRS harassment of conservative groups.
No.
That's a big one, too.
I mean, that is the number one on the national review list.
I thought that was always one of the worst.
Give me an example of the conservative groups, because maybe if it's specific, like which were the ones that we're talking about.
The Tea Party groups generally.
Yes, the Tea Party.
But again, a blip and then gone.
Yes.
Anything you're saying, yes.
I mean, some of them we obviously.
If we told you that there are witnesses that are not conservative in the IRS that were told that said, we can't go in and do these things to these people.
And the woman, Lois Lerner, who ran the IRS directly reached out and said, do it.
And then they were told, erase these emails.
And the email on one side wasn't erased, but then the servers started to be wiped at the IRS.
I don't know if you can hear the sound of glass shattering.
That's me breaking my own echo chamber.
That's what this is.
And to me, on inauguration day, I love the fact that I'm sitting here with you learning things I don't know.
And to me, it has to be that way moving forward.
All of your friends will say conspiracy.
But, well, my friends also know how tenacious I am.
And I think they know my integrity.
And they know who I am and that I'm not easily duped.
And I think that reputation will serve me well as I go forward and say to people, listen to this other side.
Okay, so how do we, because I think the way to do this is for me to come to people that I don't know, like you did with me, and say, look, let me just tell you my role in all of this.
Let me just tell you the things that I've done or that I see, the way I see the world or see you, and I don't want to see it that way anymore.
So help me fill in the gaps.
Is that, do you think there will be enough people on the left that will reciprocate or just pontificate?
I think they will reciprocate if they are faced with the humanity of another person.
It is very hard for any of us to dig in emotionally when we are bombarded with so much information.
But if you see, if you were sitting next to that fisherman I met in Kachikan, Alaska, who can explain to you very clearly why he's sitting there drinking coffee all day because he has no money, explain to him why the environmental policies specifically for him have hurt him.
Now, it's not that he's against the environment.
He lives off of fish.
But if you talk to him, then you understand.
To me, it's a bottom-up approach.
I think we've reached tipping point of the top defining who we are.
So I think breaking your own echo chamber to me is the mandate from Inauguration Day forward.
I have to introduce you to somebody that we haven't even talked about on the air yet.
So I don't want to say all the details.
I'm already engaged to Pat.
I know.
I'm married and Pat and I have this thing.
I'm being introduced.
No, you're going to like this guy because he describes himself as a progressive.
And he was in my office two weeks ago.
And I said, don't know why you're in my office because do you know I'm like the number one progressive hunter and I know who progressives are.
And he said, yes, I do.
He said, but I don't think I have the same definition that you do.
And I said, well, that's fine, but we have to start on the understanding of what progressives, the root of progressivism is.
He knew it inside and out and rejected all of it.
And he's like, the progressivism that I'm looking at, he's from Seattle.
The progressivism that I feel is kind of my thing is that it is all about the community.
It's not about government.
It's all about letting the individuals in the community decide.
And we didn't leave with comfort necessarily that we were on the same page by any stretch of the imagination.
But to me, that's classic liberalism, not progressivism.
So I haven't gotten to with him how he's making that work.
But I like that we're all defining it in our own way now because the labels of this past election don't really apply.
A conservative, is that conservative?
Is Republican?
Is Democrat?
lines are all blurring, which is a great opportunity to say, I'm going to define myself differently.
I agree with you because I don't know what it means to be a Republican.
I don't know what it means to be a conservative.
If a conservative is good with a trillion dollar stimulus package, then I don't know what a conservative is because that's not traditionally us.
So getting rid of the labels is going to be really, really hard.
But fantastic.
The blurring of the lines will be a fantastic thing for all of us.
You're going to Washington, D.C. now?
Yes.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to go, part of the march, I'm going to go.
I have meetings on Monday with the head of the Islamic Society of North America to talk a bit about what I think as a Muslim they can do differently.
I work in media.
I think it's obviously a very dark time for Muslims and because they're being, I mean, it's the same thing here.
You know, a few people are becoming the reputation of everyone.
So we're going to have to have a talk on Isna.
And we had a talk last night on the Muslim Brotherhood, and you feel the same way about the Muslim Brotherhood, I think, as I do.
And care.
It seems to be that we seem to have the same view you concerned about isna and some of their I don't know enough to sit down Again, my whole world is politics adjacent, and my whole relationship with Islam and the Islamic community is different because I was gay.
So to me, it's now more born of there's a problem here in terms of the perception, in terms of fear.
I think we need to be more open.
Let people into our homes.
Show them who we are.
There's nothing to hide.
You should probably explain what Isna is.
It's Islamic Society of North America.
That's what I thought.
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And so I don't know much about them.
I'm very intrigued to me.
To me, sitting with you, sitting with this, sitting in Saudi Arabia, in Kachikan, I'm breaking my own echo chamber to say, what do I not know?
And then I'll decide.
And then what I don't know, I'm going to share.
Hey, guys, do you know this?
I read your book, and there's a lot of points in it that I'm like, oh, I didn't see it that way.
You mean the truth about Islam?
Yeah.
No, no, no, that one too.
I've read three of your books now.
And I know.
I haven't even read three of them.
I know.
And then I get quizzed on these scandals.
And I'm like, wait, I did my homework.
I read the books.
So you read, it is about Islam.
Was it offensive to you?
No.
No, because I know the intention of what you're writing.
things are not offended defensive to me like when someone asked me a question about did you disagree with things I would like to discuss the framework because to me, what you set up in the introduction is the framework with which people read the whole thing.
You've definitely heard us out.
We should have you back to hear you out on that.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
We should do that.
We should do that.
Absolutely.
So next time, let's have you back, and let's just talk about that.
Yeah, and I'll bring a friend, too, because there's a couple of people I'd like you guys to meet that I think would be very interesting for you to meet to hear their perspectives.
Oh, we can bring more people.
Oh, yeah, we bring more people.
I mean, if you're going to start bringing people, we would bring more people.
Well, there are four of you.
You senior people and raise some others.
You are a remarkably courageous man, and I salute you and really respect you.
And I will say, being here, you are four exceptionally nice human beings.
Person in this building, which by the way, the meeting we had yesterday, there's Afghani, there's a Jew, like people, and there's me in there.
Like, I don't understand the perception of people here.
You are incredibly good human beings who I believe want what is best for Americans and America.
Now, we don't have to agree about that, but your intention is quite clear, and I feel that.
So, mutual.
Thank you.
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There is a new one coming with eight-inch thick bulletproof layer glass.
It's wow.
So chemical and biological attacks.
Good?
You're good at it?
Yeah, no problem.
Except you eventually have to get out.
Can you imagine how heavy those doors are?
Oh, no.
Wow.
It's got the in the front, it's got a tear gas cannon and a shotgun.
I mean, don't mess with it.
Does it lay down nails behind it so that you pop tires oil slicks like spy lunch?
I bet it does.
I bet it does.
I think they're putting in adjustable suspension too, so it doesn't get caught.
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There's a couple things that are disturbing.
Pat is having a love affair with the Muslim Pakistani liberal, and he can't let it go.
He was just right before I went on the air.
He's like, I have to tell you, as Riaz Patel walks up.
I mean, when you meet your soulmate, what are you going to do?
Yeah, he's like, I'm going to be a little bit more sad.
It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.
I think England Dan and John Ford Cole.
We'll get to that.
Also, audio from journalist mocking Donald Trump.
Is this really what we want?
And a prediction that has come true.
Unfortunately, not one of mine.
It was one of Stu's.
But a prediction come true.
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Welcome to the program.
The Trump children just were introduced and are walking now to be seated for the inauguration.
Good.
Yay.
This is such a proud day.
It really is.
And I felt the same way with Barack Obama: that it is a proud day.
I do remember fearing his speech.
I have less fear of Donald Trump's speech, but I still do have fear of the speech.
But what a great day.
A peaceful transfer of power.
No country does it like this.
No country does it like this.
Welcome to the program.
We do have to get to a couple of predictions that happened on this program.
Both right.
Well, if they're right.
I mean, yeah, maybe Judy need me to take the wheel here because I didn't make them.
Stu did.
And so did Lawrence Jones.
Yeah, Lawrence Jones really nailed his.
And mine is, you know, these happened, what, in August?
We spent a lot of time talking about all the stuff we've got wrong over the past year and a half, which has been everything.
It's almost impossible to count the examples.
Yes.
But this one is, I think, interesting.
This was election night, wasn't it?
No, this is always August.
It was August.
I did say it on election.
I said it a bunch of times.
Okay.
But this one was really a clear cry for help.
Please pay attention to me.
Please pay attention to me.
Well, yes.
But this one is really negative, far beyond the way that I think people will look at it.
And then also, Lawrence's is really prescient.
Let's play him.
This is back in August.
How's he going to be remembered?
He's going to be remembered as the first black president.
Okay.
Tell me that Lawrence didn't nail it.
Oh, come on.
He's going to be remembered as the first black president.
I mean, someone nailed it.
Can I tell you something?
He nailed it.
That is new because Bill Clinton was the first black president.
That is true.
That is true.
So we were busting on Lawrence on that yesterday when he came on the Pat and Stew show.
However, the rest of this is actually me blabbing about my prediction.
That's going to be a great president.
Is he going to be remembered as a great president?
I'm telling you, he's going to walk out of here with a 60% approval rating.
He is.
He is.
And that was really close because he's 63.
I think, no, he's 60.
60, exactly.
But Stu said 60.
I said 60.
And I kind of go out.
I asked the question.
That's true.
So you were part of the prediction.
I was part of the.
I was probably the catalyst, the water for your flower.
Right.
You exercised the genius out of Lawrence and Stu.
Right.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
So it was really me that was right.
And the reason why we talked about that is because you might say now, well, yeah, he's walking out of there as a popular president.
I mean, 60% approval rating.
The man had between 42 and 45 for almost his entire term.
He was not a popular president when he was president.
As low as either 38 or 39 at one point.
Well, he's a guy who is, there are no scandals.
Right.
I mean, but when you erase him, that's why I've said he is going to be remembered as the likes of FDR.
He is going to be somebody who is studied as almost the perfect president.
I think you're right.
And here's first of all, he was completely an unpopular president until this election started.
And when this election started, number one, people stopped focusing on what he was doing.
And number two, the people that we focused on were largely unpopular to the general population.
And yes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both included in that, but many of the other candidates were as well, including like Ted Cruz, for example, other candidates that ran in that early primary were not overwhelmingly popular to the general society of America.
Then obviously Trump and Hillary Clinton are number one and number two with the worst approval ratings ever by major party nominees.
So now what society has done has forgotten his presidency and just compared him in a point when he was not being focused on against these other two people who they don't like and constantly focused on for a year and a half.
So his approval rating has risen not because of things that he's done, but because every people are contrasting him against these other two candidates who they don't like.
So now he's risen up to 60%.
That is going to, I would not be surprised at all if that goes up and up and up and up from here.
And what is most important about this is not whether Barack Obama is seen as popular.
The issue is he, think about this in context of how historians will look at the Barack Obama presidency.
He takes a country in economic crisis.
George W. Bush leaves with an approval rating in the low to mid-30s.
Okay.
He takes office.
He leaves with a 60% approval rating.
And then Trump takes office with a 40% approval rating.
Now, Trump may be able to do, if he makes America great again, maybe he'll be able to get rid of this narrative.
And obviously we're all rooting for that.
However, I don't think anyone could because of what I believe is going to come, and maybe it doesn't come in the next four years, but what I believe is going to come, the great instability that is on the horizon and the fact that he doesn't have the press that will help him.
He doesn't have, more importantly, he doesn't have EDU.
If you don't have the educational system behind you, you don't win in the end.
Barack Obama, remember, it was a year in pictures.
Time Magazine did a year in pictures.
They never put the Tea Party rally of 9-12 up in the year in pictures.
How did you miss that?
They didn't miss that.
They didn't want that in there as the history that you would look back on and see.
It was the whitewashing of the times.
So you will see the role that we played because the winners write the history books.
And the winners since 1920 have been the progressives.
And so they will write the history books that will make him even more legendary than what we remembered.
It's why I've been saying for the last eight years, you've got to write a journal and keep a journal on what is happening in today's world so you can teach it to your children and grandchildren because it won't be in books.
It just will, it will be a different version in books and a lot of it will be glossed over.
And, you know.
And the same to be said for Donald Trump.
Yeah.
And hopefully, you know, look, if Trump's presidency goes really well and he wins over America, I think a lot of this narrative can be destroyed.
And hopefully that's the case.
But if he does not, I mean, because Trump comes into this with certain advantages and disadvantages.
One of the reasons he was able to become president of the United States is because he came in as a very well-known figure that people had been inviting into their homes for a long time.
The other part of that is people really know him and have made up their minds about him.
It's not like Barack Obama.
When he came into office, people had this open book of possibilities of who this guy could become.
And that's not the way people look at Donald Trump because they just know him really well.
I mean, he's been around for a long time.
He's got a public record of almost 40 years.
So for him to turn that around will be difficult.
I hope he does it.
But if he doesn't do it, they're going to look at the Obama administration as the high watermark of the years of 2000 to 2020.
And they're going to look at the policies as the hero there, even though that's not true.
People are saying, well, you know what?
Look, Trump got elected and the stock market has gone through the roof.
He is going to leave this.
He hasn't left office yet.
Barack Obama is going to leave office with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the highest point it's ever been at.
They're going to look back and see the, yes, there are lots of problems with the unemployment rate and the things that it measures.
They're going to see it in 4.8.
4.8.
They're going to see it down under 5%.
They're going to see all of these things.
They're going to have a lot of stuff, and they're going to compare it to only when he took office, which was an economic crisis that was at its lowest, which is, of course, a big reason why he won so easily.
And, you know, they're going to compare these things together.
If you're playing for 2020 or 2024, this is perfectly played.
Yeah.
I mean, look, Trump might be, he's certainly pulled off many miracles.
May I go into a movie writing script here for a second?
Sure.
If I were at a pitch table and I said, okay, let's write a movie.
And I said, you've got this group of people, let's call them progressives, that control the media, control education, and we have this guy.
We're going to give him, first thing we're going to do is we're going to give him a Nobel Peace Prize.
He's got to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
And somebody stupidly says, yeah, right out of the beginning of the movie, he wins a Nobel Peace Prize.
And nobody realizes that the guy hasn't even done anything yet.
He's given one speech.
He ran for president.
What qualified him for a Nobel Peace Prize?
Whitewashing Historical Policies00:05:01
and dreams.
He's going to well we're going to use that as foreshadowing on how this is going to play out.
We're going to show that he's kind of in the bag with the system, that the group of global elites are all behind him.
And so they've just engineered this global peace prize for him.
So they give him the peace prize.
Then all these scandals happen, but he turns the tables and concentrates and makes everybody look like conspiracy theorists.
And they whitewash.
Then what they're really doing is they want to change the global system because the global system doesn't work.
And we're going to, the bad guys are these big shadowy figures.
And so the shadowy figures are all part of the big banks and everything else.
And they're doing this.
They're going to whitewash.
Then this capitalist, who's not really a capitalist, he's kind of been in with these guys the whole time.
He goes in and he's just doing a show.
But what he doesn't know is we've got the world positioned into a place to where everything's going to collapse in his first four or eight years.
And everyone will remember, oh, it was so good with this other guy.
We got to go back to those policies and it will be done for all time.
You want to hijack a world in a movie?
That's the script I would write.
And it's set up.
I mean, hopefully Trump can change a narrative like that.
But I mean, they're going to go back and say, look, these are the policies that work.
These are the policies that people want.
Look at Barack Obama was a great president.
I mean, even Bush, who left office with the approval rating in the low to mid-30s, has, we've seen lots of approval ratings past his administration in the area of 50 and above.
And, you know, that's because they're comparing it to what they have now.
He's out of their minds.
If Barack Obama leaves office at 60, I mean, if he has anything, if it's anything similar to what happened to most of our past presidents, that approval rating as they go away increases.
People are going to be looking back.
He might hit 70.
He might hit 75.
These are unheard of.
He is going to be FDR.
He's got the.
Yeah, exactly.
He's going to be FDR.
Look what that did to our country.
The fact that FDR had a high approval rating and is looked at as one of the greatest presidents of all time by historians.
What has that done to our country?
It basically gave you the $19 trillion of debt.
Yes, it did.
It's basically responsible.
It's something that he knew at the time and said, this won't work.
We're going to have to deal with this debt at some time.
And that's immoral.
But they did it.
I mean, this legacy is dangerous.
And it's one of those things that if you were there and lived through it, you remember for the vast majority of this guy's presidency, he was in the low 40s.
He was fighting with unpopular policies, policies that people didn't like.
He was constantly seen as a person who really didn't connect with the American people with the exception of election time.
It's why people say that we don't have to, Glenn, you don't connect with the left.
Basically, I want to rub it in their face.
Rubbing it in their face will ensure a loss for all time because our kids are going to be educated in the way Stu has said.
This is the greatest president of all time.
And unless we correct some of those things like we did with Riaz, Riaz is, Riaz is intellectually curious.
He's going to go look up those scandals.
I know.
He's going to look them up.
And he's going to decide because he is going to now have to decide which world do I live in?
Do I take the red pill or the blue pill?
And he's taken the pill, and I don't remember which one's which, to wake up, man.
Wake up.
And he'll see that they're not conspiracy theories.
And he will then stand in his group of people and say, guys, you're wrong about this.
And it may not be as bad as maybe these guys think, but this is pretty bad.
This is pretty bad.
And by the way, the Benghazi scandal isn't even on the National Review's list.
And they covered it extensively.
Nine scandals.
Benghazi is one of the worst scandals of all time.
Maybe it's because it's seen as a Hillary scandal rather than an Obama scandal.
But I mean, they list the email scandal on there.
I mean, he was president of the United States and retired at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, wasn't heard from again.
There was a deal on it.
There was a deal on a HuffPo or one of those today that I saw the 50 most iconic pictures of the president.
I was like, oh, I want to see these.
You know what one of them was?
The night they went in for Osama where the president was not sitting at the lead of the table.
And I thought to myself, that is an iconic photo, but not for the reasons you think.
You don't even notice that he wasn't the man in charge.
He went up most of the night.
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Remember this?
And played cards.
He was cards.
Yeah, he was playing cards with me.
He didn't even want to be in the room.
He didn't want to be a part of that.
What's his face said that?
His basketball buddy.
Yeah, I can't think of his name.
Reggie.
Yeah, Reggie Leff.
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So George W. Bush, Trump's family, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama just walked out.
Now, you know, I've talked about yesterday, I talked about what is Donald Trump's night going to be like tonight, the night before you become president of the United States.
Do you sleep?
Do you sleep?
I mean, what is that like?
Well, he didn't look like he slept very well coming out of the Blair House because he didn't want to sleep there to begin with.
Oh, yeah, what was the story with that?
He didn't, is that true?
Yeah, he wanted to stay at the hotel, which is probably much gaudier than the Blair House.
Why did he have to stay at the Blair House?
Well, because that's what they do.
That's what you do.
And he had to really be convinced of that, that all presidents do this the night before the inauguration.
They stay at the Blair House.
It's tradition.
It's important.
It's easier to defend.
Just do it.
And I think they finally convinced him to do it because he didn't want to.
So he's, would somebody teach him how to tie a tie, man?
It doesn't go past your belt line.
No, that's the way he works.
I know that's why he always loves him lay down like that.
But anyway, so everybody's up there.
Now, imagine Barack Obama.
Imagine being the president of the United States, where you're responsible for everything.
And more than that, when you move, almost the entire country moves.
You know, when you move, when you go someplace, they shut down all the streets.
You're getting on a plane.
You're getting in an hour.
You will be getting on a plane and you'll be flying away.
Well, he'll probably get in a car and drive away.
No, no, no.
Aren't they living in D.C.?
No, I thought they were going to Palm Springs.
They have a house in Palm Springs now.
They are also doing it in Palm Springs.
They're also living in D.C., but I think they have the same thing.
They've got a house in Palm Springs too.
They're going to vacuum.
I thought so.
They were going to take off to California, right?
Really?
I thought they bought a house in Palm Springs.
I think they did.
So anyway, in an hour from now, as soon as he says, you know, I take the oath, Barack Obama's life is over.
I mean, it's weird.
Well, his life is over.
His presidential life is over.
Nobody is.
It's a transition.
But I'm saying to you, as a man, that's got to be like coming off a heroin.
It really, I mean, it's got to be weird.
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Does anybody have butterflies in their stomach?
No.
Nope.
No, really?
I mean, we're watching history here.
I mean, they're ready to administer the oath of office in about 35, 40 minutes.
And Donald Trump now is in front of the crowd.
The crowd, you say, looks small on people who are posting.
Who is taking these pictures?
Average people or the news media?
As far as the crowd.
They're the overhead camera shot of the mall.
Now, I mean, look, Donald Trump has never had problems bringing crowds anywhere.
So, I mean, I can't imagine that they're accurate.
My guess is people are taking older photos from earlier this morning and reposting them.
However, it does seem to be major news organizations, some places, our own listeners are sending me screenshots of television broadcasts that are shooting them from right now.
I saw the shot, it looked jam-packed.
Yeah, I just saw the one I saw.
Oh, this, again, this is Fox.
Look jam-packed.
It looked like an 800,000-person crowd.
Good.
Let me go to Michael Pelka because he is actually in the crowd.
How far away are you from the podium?
I'm about 200 yards, 300 yards away.
Michael, you were at the Obama inauguration, were you not?
No, I was not.
That was my very first.
Okay.
But it's packed, Glenn.
I can tell you guys, it is jammed and there's overflow.
I had tickets in the orange section, which was about 100 yards away.
And by the time I got here, they had overflowed the place.
It was like the old People's Express Airlines, people rushing in.
So I'm a little farther away, but it is packed and passionate.
I'll tell you that.
Was there any booze when the Nancy Pelosi's or anybody walked out?
There were two things happened that you could see.
Nancy Pelosi was announced, and there was a resounding boo that rippled through the crowd.
And every time they put the camera on Hillary Clinton, the crowd started chanting, lock her up, lock her up.
Oh, man.
Oh, my God.
And what did happen?
And how when the president walked out and was introduced, were there booze or did they handle that right?
It was respectful.
There was nobody booed, but there were a couple of the kitty cat hat people here who were screaming and cheering.
He's still my president.
What the hell is a kitty cat hat?
That's shot at Donald Trump's words about what he grabbed.
They use a different word, Glenn.
I said it too many times on the radio.
Yeah, probably say it.
Let's not expand that usage here.
Okay.
I get it.
I get it.
Everybody gets it now.
I get it.
I just was a little behind.
So what are your thoughts, Michael?
What have you seen?
I've seen a ton of people who look very hopeful today, and I've seen small groups of angry people who have been here with bullhorns and signs, and they're out in the streets outside screaming.
They always are in D.C. They're always out there.
And during Obama, there were people that did that on our side.
And you still have Vietnam protesters, I think, on the mall.
You do.
Like, okay, it's been over for 40 years.
Let's move past.
Michael, we're seeing that.
We've spent some time with the bikers.
You know, the bikers who are here.
Yeah, sure.
And?
There are several of them and several groups of them.
And they are gathered, and they are going to make their presence known tomorrow.
They said, we're here today, and some of them will ride in the parade, but they said, we're really here for tomorrow.
So pay attention to that.
Yeah, Michael, we're seeing lots of reports from around DC of broken windows by, I'm certainly not going to call them protesters, of vandals, criminals, breaking windows of restaurants and all over the place.
Have you seen anything like that in the localized location?
Not where I've been.
Doc Thompson sent me a text saying that he heard about that.
I was a couple blocks away from the deplorable last night when the riot police came rushing in, and they seemed to get that under control pretty quickly.
But you have anarchists here yelling F the police and break down the government, etc.
But there's such a police presence here.
I don't see how anything could really happen.
That's positive.
Michael, thank you very much.
And you're covering it for the Blaze.
And the one thing I really want is, I really just want to see the shot of the president on the step of the helicopter waving goodbye.
That's the memory I want seared in my mind of him of flying away.
So thank you so much, Michael.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Michael Opelka from the Blaze reporting there at the scene.
Let me share a couple of things with you.
From the Mercury Vault, got a couple of things.
Now, today, what's happening is there are counselors in many schools, at least in Connecticut, and I can't believe this is only a Connecticut thing.
There are social workers and counselors that are working with the children who are upset by Barack Obama leaving and Donald Trump coming in.
So these things probably won't happen.
Let me give you a couple of letters from the vault.
This one is from Ronald Reagan.
This one was, Ronald wrote, Reagan wrote to kids in school who had questions about the administration and what was going to happen.
Now, imagine, is this happening?
Do the teachers now say, hey, this is good.
And here's how the transfer of power.
And let's write the president and say congratulations.
Is that happening today?
He writes, dear boys and girls, thank you for your support that you expressed in your letters.
I encourage you to watch news on how policy develops in those areas of special interest to you.
In this way, you'll best learn answers to the many questions you raised about the direction of my new administration.
Your views are always a welcome message that you care about the welfare of America.
I hope that you will always involve yourself as concerned citizens dedicated to the progress of our country.
With best wishes always, sincerely, Ronald Reagan.
He's not the only president to do this.
This has been a theme.
This one was written by a boy in Miss Jones' class, October 29th, 1915.
This was written by Theodore Roosevelt.
My dear young friend, the question was, what do we do?
What's the best way I can be a good American?
The thing for you to do is to go on and work hard as a schoolboy.
I'm sure you're a first-class young American of just the right type.
Then, when you're a little older, it'll be time enough for you to decide what occupation you'll take up.
I wish, listen to this.
Imagine a president writing this to a class.
But he wasn't president in 1950.
No, but he was still, he remember he ran for president and lost.
Right.
I wish you to learn to bear arms so that you, if your country needs you, you can be a soldier and fight for your country.
But you also must learn how to work and how to be a good citizen in times of peace.
Show this letter to your principal, Mr. Jones, and your teacher, Ms. Jones.
Hmm.
Something going on with nepotism there.
Imagine the president writing to a class today, I wish that you would learn to bear arms.
Theodore Roosevelt thought that it was so important that every kid should learn to bear arms that he wanted every elementary school to have a shooting range in it.
And the only reason why we don't have shooting ranges in our elementary schools is because the people didn't reject shooting ranges.
They said, how dare you, the federal government, tell us what we should do in our schools.
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We'll decide, not you.
That's the only reason why we don't have shooting ranges in all of our elementary schools.
How the world has changed in just 100 years.
Now this, Goldline.
Just now minutes away from a new president being sworn in.
I was thinking about it driving in today.
The most amazing swearing-in ceremony of my life was the swearing-in of Ronald Reagan.
Because if you watched it, it was at about this time that the news anchor broke in and said, we've just received word, what?
Yeah, the hostages.
Iran hostages.
That Iran has released the hostages.
And we got a similar with El Chapo being extradited to the United States as a supposed message from Mexico to the outgoing administration and to the incoming administration.
It's amazing when you're not a softy what the bad guys will do.
What's going to happen over the next few days?
I don't know.
Donald Trump could bring about some very much positive change.
But I also know that with change comes strife.
Even if we start to, we were just talking about this off the air.
If we start to have great job growth and great growth of our economy, this administration has prepared us for deflation by printing $4 trillion.
If we start to have a healthy economy and the businesses start, the company, corporations start taking their money and using it, first they're going to take it out of the stock market, stock market will go down, and they'll start investing it in building new factories, et cetera, et cetera, which will then circulate all that money.
And there is too much money in the system.
It is why the Dow Jones is at record highs right now, because that's an inflated price, because the people and corporations were the ones that got those $4 trillion, and they just parked it in the stock market.
This is exactly what happened before hyperinflation or during hyperinflation with Germany.
The stock market went through the roof.
It was the only place, and then it came crashing down.
May I recommend Goldline?
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Not exactly, but it rhymes.
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Even if we're fixing them, we're going to have to pay for it.
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Well, the comparisons of the crowds has now begun, of course.
It has.
And look, I don't care about Obama's crowd being very big in 2009.
We all know first black president.
It was quite a moment.
That was huge.
I really don't think you can compare American was there in 2008.
Every single American.
If you look at the pictures from 2009 when he was sworn in, it is a street crowd.
Come on, it was a monster.
Well, they estimated it at 1.2 million, right?
Yeah, it was a monster.
It was big.
It says a giant zilch about what his presidency was and what it was going to become.
Right.
It said everything about America not being the home of racists.
That's true.
I will say, I mean, I've been able to track down now multiple pictures and live cameras of this event, and it is, for an inauguration, a small crowd.
Quite a small crowd.
Which is surprising.
It's not to me 100,000?
No, you're looking.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't, you know, it's hard to measure these things, but you're looking at, you know, you can see the overheads.
And I was initially concerned, and I didn't want to bring this up because it looked like they might have been posting old photos.
But I mean, look, it's definitely sparse, certainly compared to 2009, which is almost unfair.
How many people went to the 912 Tea Party rally?
What was that estimated?
About 700,000, something like that.
Between 400 or 500,000.
Okay.
So this crowd is, I think, about maybe three times the size.
Up to the first monument, the main bulk where it's really full is about three times the size of the Tea Party, maybe four, wouldn't you say?
Because that's the same basic area the Tea Party was in.
They just didn't take care of that lawn.
And we've spoken on that lawn several times.
I'm not sure how to, honestly.
I don't know how to count the crowds.
I don't know.
I don't want to get into number camps.
It's hard to do with any other comparison.
I can compare it to other events in the same place.
And you look at, I mean, look, this doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't mean he's going to be a bad president.
It doesn't mean anything.
I mean, certainly he's talked about how inspired people are.
I am surprised because Donald Trump is so good at bringing crowds.
But this isn't surprising.
This is pomp and circumstance.
It is.
This is not him, you know, this is not him, you know, leaning up against, well, I haven't heard his speech yet, but it's not him leaning up against the podium and going, you know what, let me tell you something about the Kardashians.
You know what I mean?
No, yeah.
It's a different vibe, obviously.
So this is not his, that's not why he draws a class.
Also, they're expecting rain.
Maybe that chase is a good thing.
And security, they talked about weather.
They talked about heavy security.
It's a hassle to get around it.
It is.
But I mean, you know, this is the same story every single year.
It was nine degrees or something when Obama did his.
I mean, there's always something in Washington, D.C., see in the middle of the winter.
Yeah, I don't think you can't play games with the crowd.
But it has nothing to say except like last night, Barack Obama said no president has ever had a ceremony like this before at the Lincoln Memorial the night before.
Yes, they do.
George Bush did, Barack Obama did.
We do that.
And then he said, you know, that there's never going to be a crowd like this.
It'll be on, you know, you won't be able to compare.
If we're truthful about these things, maybe he'll stop making these grandiose statements that just are not, they're meaningless.
Stop it.
They're meaningless.
I'm going to take the rest of the day off on that comment.
We just have to tell the truth no matter where it falls because, for instance, this is meaningless.
So it doesn't mean a small crowd.
It doesn't matter at all.
It doesn't mean the presidency doesn't affect anything.
If he does a good job, people will like him.
If he doesn't, they won't.
So this has nothing to do with anything else.
It's not a popularity contest.
I'm only surprised because he usually wins popularity contests.
I mean, Donald Trump is able to bring crowds.
People are enthusiastic.
And because certainly the way he describes it is this is a movement.
And here is you've a guy who had no chance to win the presidency wouldn't just show up if you were supporters.
He also has made the point that he is bringing in the people who haven't voted ever, who haven't been a part of the system, who don't like the system.
Why would they go to Washington, D.C. and watch this?
Because their heroes are about to be president of the United States in a couple of minutes.