The Glenn Beck Program - 'Alternative Facts' 1/23/17
Aired: 2017-01-23
Duration: 01:55:07


=== Media Astroturfing and Trust (15:24) ===

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[00:00:18]  Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:00:21]  My.
[00:00:27]  I'm not at a loss for words for what happened this weekend.
[00:00:32]  And we begin with a couple of celebrities and how the media reported on those celebrities.
[00:00:38]  We begin with Madonna and Ashley Judd right now.
[00:00:43]  I will make a stand.
[00:00:45]  I will raise my voice.
[00:00:47]  I will hold your hand.
[00:00:50]  Cause we have won.
[00:00:52]  I will beat my drum.
[00:00:54]  I have made my choice.
[00:00:56]  We will overcome.
[00:00:58]  Cause we are one.
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[00:01:04]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:01:10]  Hello, America.
[00:01:11]  Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:01:13]  We're so glad that you're here.
[00:01:15]  I'm just reading the front page of the Blaze, and I think this story is wrong.
[00:01:19]  Madonna's mouth gets the attention of the Secret Service.
[00:01:22]  Can somebody check with the Blaze?
[00:01:24]  Because I've been reading this weekend the liberal side, the Huffington Post side of these rallies.
[00:01:33]  And quite honestly, I think my head's going to pop.
[00:01:36]  I cannot believe the way these rallies have been treated by the press.
[00:01:43]  You want to know, press, why you have no trust in the center of the country.
[00:01:49]  This is it.
[00:01:51]  This is it.
[00:01:54]  This is AstroTurf at its best.
[00:01:57]  Remember when you tried to make the moms and the kids that just felt like they just wanted their voice to be heard felt like they were a tool of the GOP?
[00:02:07]  Which, I will have you know, after 2012 or leading up to 2012, it had become a tool of the GOP.
[00:02:15]  And that's why the Tea Party fell apart.
[00:02:18]  Because it was no longer, it was AstroTurf.
[00:02:23]  It had been hijacked.
[00:02:27]  But for the first three or four years, that was absolutely moms and dads sitting next to each other, teaching their kids, paying their own way.
[00:02:39]  So you have an AstroTurf and an impressive AstroTurf anti-Trump rally.
[00:02:49]  But you don't mention that it's AstroTurf.
[00:02:52]  And the things that you Okayed through your reporting.
[00:03:00]  The things that you dismissed when you were on week-long hunts for someone with a gun, someone with a sign that said National Socialism, that Obamacare is national socialism, and how you would twist that and make that into, see, you're calling him Hitler.
[00:03:22]  How you would search, how you would bypass every cute child in the crowd.
[00:03:29]  I saw a headline today of all of the cute children that were out holding signs.
[00:03:38]  You made sure you, every single story, had a picture of the guy who dressed up as Ben Franklin.
[00:03:46]  You would miss all the cute children.
[00:03:48]  You would miss all the real people.
[00:03:50]  And you would go to the one guy in the crowd that was dressed as Ben Franklin.
[00:03:54]  But I noticed you didn't concentrate on the women who are dressed as vaginas.
[00:04:02]  You want to know why the American people don't trust you?
[00:04:06]  There it is.
[00:04:08]  You have asked me into your own boardrooms, what is it we're doing?
[00:04:15]  There it is.
[00:04:16]  Right there.
[00:04:17]  There it is.
[00:04:20]  You have two ways to go.
[00:04:24]  You can either heal and learn from the mistakes of the past and start to be neutral observers.
[00:04:35]  Or you can continue with your agenda and pretend you're neutral observers.
[00:04:39]  But you have to over-correct.
[00:04:42]  Do you understand that?
[00:04:44]  You have to over-correct to gain any trust.
[00:04:51]  And I don't mean over-correct by making them look bad.
[00:04:55]  I mean over-correct by saying to us out loud on the front page, we get it.
[00:05:03]  We made huge mistakes.
[00:05:05]  And we have changes in our policies.
[00:05:08]  We've done it here.
[00:05:11]  We've done it here.
[00:05:13]  You called me a conspiracy theorist for talking about Russia and how Russia is involved, that they are not a friend of the United States.
[00:05:28]  When you were playing footsies with Russia, you called me a conspiracy theorist.
[00:05:34]  When I said that the unions were involved with AstroTurf against the Tea Party, you called me a conspiracy theorist.
[00:05:48]  You're going to call us a conspiracy theorist again, but you're going to have to call yourself.
[00:05:52]  Congratulations to the New York Times, and everyone should go and click on this story for the New York Times.
[00:05:58]  I'll give you the headline here in a second.
[00:06:01]  Everyone should be aware of what the New York Times ran this weekend.
[00:06:05]  They ran a story.
[00:06:07]  They looked at the 50 groups, the main groups that were involved in this women's march, and they found the ties to George Soros.
[00:06:20]  All of them are tied to George Soros.
[00:06:24]  And they exposed that this is not a spontaneous rally.
[00:06:30]  Now, that was one story out of many, but at least it was one.
[00:06:40]  Everything that we said, every word that was scrutinized, how we had to watch every single word.
[00:06:51]  And if we got one word misplaced, it would be in the headlines and it would be nonstop coverage for days.
[00:07:06]  How we would say you took that out of context.
[00:07:10]  You have to play the whole thing.
[00:07:13]  You took it out of context.
[00:07:15]  And I don't mean the whole thing.
[00:07:16]  I mean three lines before it.
[00:07:19]  Or just to say that was a comedy bit.
[00:07:23]  You would never give us the benefit of the doubt.
[00:07:26]  Yet Madonna comes out on Saturday.
[00:07:30]  And let's start with what she had to say.
[00:07:33]  Yes, I'm angry.
[00:07:37]  Yes, I am outraged.
[00:07:41]  Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
[00:07:52]  Now that's where she would have left it.
[00:07:54]  But she goes on to say, but go ahead, play the rest.
[00:07:58]  But I know that this won't change anything.
[00:08:02]  Okay, stop.
[00:08:04]  Okay.
[00:08:05]  All right, good.
[00:08:07]  So what happens?
[00:08:09]  What happens?
[00:08:10]  The Huffington Post writes a story today that Madonna says she was taking out of context because her whole thing was about love, blah, blah, Forgiven.
[00:08:24]  Excuse me?
[00:08:26]  I am willing to say, yes, she was taken out of context.
[00:08:30]  Does she actually, has she actually been plotting for the Secret Service?
[00:08:36]  Should they investigate her?
[00:08:37]  No, they shouldn't.
[00:08:39]  They said they were going to.
[00:08:41]  What?
[00:08:41]  They said they were going to.
[00:08:45]  That was it.
[00:08:45]  Did they say that?
[00:08:46]  Because, I mean, if you read the Blaze story, it pretty clearly says that that evidence came from a conspiracy site.
[00:08:53]  Yes.
[00:08:54]  The source for the supposed investigation came from a conspiracy site.
[00:08:58]  And, you know, they're essentially reporting on site that started this nonsense.
[00:09:11]  There's no reason the Secret Service should investigate Madonna on this.
[00:09:14]  No.
[00:09:15]  And there is no reason, there is no reason that anyone should think that Madonna was actually saying we should be violent or that that would cause someone to be violent.
[00:09:28]  But that wasn't what you said about us.
[00:09:31]  And we never said anything like that.
[00:09:34]  Right.
[00:09:34]  Even when, even when all Sarah Palin said was that we should target districts.
[00:09:39]  Correct.
[00:09:40]  She meant for electing someone else.
[00:09:43]  Right.
[00:09:43]  For defeating the incumbent.
[00:09:46]  How dare you, the press, how dare you lecture us about anything?
[00:09:55]  Honestly, how dare you act rational about Madonna?
[00:09:59]  How dare you take it and apply logic to what she said?
[00:10:05]  How dare you?
[00:10:06]  Thank you.
[00:10:07]  Thank you.
[00:10:08]  You did exactly the right thing, but you never did it to us.
[00:10:14]  Never gave us the benefit of the doubt.
[00:10:18]  And I will tell you that you're going to sit around and go, that was completely logical.
[00:10:23]  There's nothing wrong with that story.
[00:10:24]  We reported it as it was.
[00:10:26]  Yes, you did.
[00:10:28]  But that's why I say you have to overcorrect.
[00:10:31]  You have to at least say, maybe in the past, we should have given the Tea Party credit when they didn't say things like this.
[00:10:44]  We still went after Sarah Palin for the word targeting as if it was going to incite violence.
[00:10:52]  If we would have said anything like this, the whole weekend would have been non-stop coverage on how we were violent extremists who were, you never know who's listening to you.
[00:11:04]  You never know who's out there listening.
[00:11:07]  You don't know.
[00:11:08]  Remember those lectures?
[00:11:09]  Oh, yeah.
[00:11:12]  We can't, we have to vent this anger, honestly.
[00:11:17]  We have to be able to say, I'm really angry about this.
[00:11:20]  I'm really angry about this.
[00:11:24]  But I don't want to yell and scream at the press.
[00:11:30]  I want to beg the press, please, for the love of our country, for the love of stability, please, please listen to us.
[00:11:46]  Please listen to us.
[00:11:49]  Soon the door is going to close, I fear.
[00:11:53]  And anyone interested in actually having a real conversation and the media having a chance of bringing this back from the brink, it's going to be over.
[00:12:04]  It's going to be over.
[00:12:09]  And let me tell you something.
[00:12:12]  These guys will win.
[00:12:16]  This, as Van Jones tweeted, it took us eight years to get a crowd half this size under George W. Bush.
[00:12:24]  This is day number one.
[00:12:26]  Why?
[00:12:27]  Because A, the left knows, I believe Obama said this when he was leaving, that the left should do the Tea Party, should learn from the Tea Party.
[00:12:36]  They did.
[00:12:37]  They did.
[00:12:38]  What are they good at?
[00:12:40]  What are we bad at?
[00:12:41]  What are they good at?
[00:12:42]  We're bad at protest.
[00:12:44]  They're great at protests.
[00:12:46]  They are going to master what the Tea Party did.
[00:12:50]  Remember how unwieldy our first rallies were?
[00:12:55]  Do you remember how after modeling they got better and better and better?
[00:13:01]  They've used us as the model.
[00:13:05]  This one was unwieldy.
[00:13:08]  But they're going to learn.
[00:13:10]  And they have the organizing tools and all of the money in the world.
[00:13:17]  I'm afraid tomorrow I have to go back to my chalkboard.
[00:13:21]  We've been working on it this weekend.
[00:13:22]  We're going to give you some of the connections.
[00:13:23]  We're going to talk to the woman who wrote that article for the New York Times about the connections to George Soros and to radical Islam and have a talk with her.
[00:13:36]  Tomorrow I'm bringing the chalkboard in because the connections are there.
[00:13:41]  And if you want to call me a conspiracy theorist again, you can.
[00:13:45]  I'm not going to accuse anybody of anything.
[00:13:49]  I'm just going to point out the facts because somebody has to.
[00:13:56]  And perhaps, perhaps someone in the media will listen.
[00:14:03]  I don't know if they will.
[00:14:06]  But there's no such thing.
[00:14:07]  And I'm sorry.
[00:14:08]  Donald Trump, you made a mistake by mocking them.
[00:14:13]  Please don't mock them.
[00:14:16]  You were on their side while we were going through this.
[00:14:19]  You were helped funding the anti-Tea party stuff with Harry Reid.
[00:14:24]  So you don't know how we felt.
[00:14:26]  But we felt horrible when they mocked us and they didn't listen to us.
[00:14:32]  Please don't do that.
[00:14:34]  It will only ratchet it up more.
[00:14:37]  And I know that there are people.
[00:14:40]  Steve Bannon calls himself a Leninist.
[00:14:44]  Not that he's a National Socialist.
[00:14:47]  He is a nationalist.
[00:14:50]  But what he believes in is that Lenin was right.
[00:14:53]  Burn the entire thing down.
[00:14:56]  They want a war.
[00:14:58]  I'm not saying Trump does, but Bannon definitely does.
[00:15:01]  He's on record saying it.
[00:15:03]  He wants an internal war between the press and the people.
[00:15:08]  I don't.
[00:15:10]  I don't.
[00:15:11]  I want reason to rule again.
[00:15:15]  Unfortunately, reason has become treason.
[00:15:22]  That has to change.

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=== Walking the Middle Path (15:44) ===

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[00:18:19]  Glenn Beck Program.
[00:18:20]  No, it's not.
[00:18:21]  Hey, Tay Tay, 727 Beck.
[00:18:24]  New season of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:18:25]  Welcome to it.
[00:18:26]  Glad you're here.
[00:18:27]  We thought we'd start this season.
[00:18:28]  Usually we start on January 3rd, but we thought we'd start the new season this year with a new season with the president.
[00:18:35]  Fresh start for everything.
[00:18:37]  And I even, I went the extra mile for a stew and got him a fireplace and got it early and built a roaring fire.
[00:18:44]  And you're still cold.
[00:18:45]  I mean, I'll switch places with you.
[00:18:47]  I'm a little bit closer.
[00:18:47]  I'm not throwing off as much heat as you might think.
[00:18:50]  Really?
[00:18:51]  Yeah.
[00:18:51]  It's, I mean, you put a fan in it or something and bring out some of the heat from.
[00:18:57]  Not effective.
[00:18:57]  Not effective.
[00:18:58]  It was good to see that the left wanted a fresh start, too.
[00:19:01]  And that's, they were, they were great over the weekend in fresh starts, weren't they?
[00:19:06]  They were wonderful.
[00:19:08]  They were wonderful.
[00:19:09]  It's such a weird strategy.
[00:19:11]  It's so weird that the tea party just didn't catch on, except for any place except the old iron, behind the iron curtain and Italy.
[00:19:24]  But all of a sudden, on inauguration weekend, the entire world spontaneously got together.
[00:19:33]  Amazing.
[00:19:34]  That is amazing.
[00:19:35]  Such a weird approach.
[00:19:36]  I mean, they really have, it just shows that this is just naked partisanship.
[00:19:42]  Yes.
[00:19:42]  Because, I mean, if you look at Donald Trump objectively, the man has offered a $680 billion paid maternity leave program funded by the federal government for women.
[00:19:53]  There has never been a more opportunity for the left to get things out of a Republican president than this guy.
[00:19:59]  I mean, he's so heavily influenced by his daughter, who is with the Women's March people on all of these issues, and yet they still act like it's the apocalypse.
[00:20:09]  I mean, you'd think.
[00:20:10]  Play Ashley Judd.
[00:20:11]  Play Ashley Judd.
[00:20:12]  Do we have time?
[00:20:13]  By the way, we have the woman who wrote the...
[00:20:15]  Don't.
[00:20:16]  We don't have time.
[00:20:17]  We have the woman coming up next, Azra Nomani.
[00:20:22]  She is the woman who wrote the story for the New York Times about the connections to George Soros and the radical left.
[00:20:28]  It was 15 years ago today that Danny Pearl was kidnapped and executed.
[00:20:37]  He left to go to the Middle East from her house.
[00:20:43]  We're going to talk to her.
[00:20:45]  We might talk a little bit about Daniel Pearl as well, but she wrote a very brave article on who's actually behind this big march.
[00:20:56]  And if the press wants to have any credibility, they have to report this and start being neutral.
[00:21:09]  And if the press on the right wants to have any credibility, we also have to report the things that are not necessarily good for our side.
[00:21:19]  There has to be someone with credibility.
[00:21:22]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:21:24]  Mercury.
[00:21:26]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:21:29]  Here is Ashley Judd from this weekend.
[00:21:33]  Nasty as Confederate flags being tattooed across my city.
[00:21:39]  Maybe the South actually is going to rise again.
[00:21:44]  Maybe for some.
[00:21:45]  It never really fell.
[00:21:49]  Blacks are still in shackles and graves just for being black.
[00:21:54]  Slavery has been reinterpreted as the prison system in front of people who see melanin as animal skin.
[00:22:02]  I am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag.
[00:22:09]  And I didn't know devils could be resurrected, but I feel Hitler in these streets.
[00:22:17]  She's not as nasty.
[00:22:19]  Keep in mind, she's comparing him to devils and Hitler, but she's not as nasty as he is.
[00:22:26]  And when she said, I feel Hitler in the streets, I thought, well, you're kind of the one in the street right now.
[00:22:31]  Right.
[00:22:32]  Reciting awful poetry that I think the Nazis wouldn't have even done.
[00:22:37]  I saw in the New York Times.
[00:22:40]  Congratulations to the New York Times for running this story.
[00:22:43]  It is by Azra Nomani.
[00:22:45]  She is a former Wall Street Journal reporter.
[00:22:48]  Here's the headline: Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 partners of the women's march on Washington.
[00:22:55]  What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton's largest donors and the women's march?
[00:22:59]  Turns out it's quite significant.
[00:23:01]  That's the headline.
[00:23:03]  Ozra is with us now to tell us a little bit about the connections.
[00:23:06]  Ozra, thank you for writing this story.
[00:23:09]  Oh my gosh, Glenn, you must be thinking, see, I'm not crazy.
[00:23:14]  Somebody else has figured it out.
[00:23:16]  I know.
[00:23:16]  You felt lonely, right?
[00:23:20]  Yes, I did.
[00:23:22]  Now it's your turn to feel lonely.
[00:23:24]  Yeah, I got to tell you, it is a machine out there that wants to shut down this conversation.
[00:23:31]  I just got done telling one of my fellow journalists, a woman who supports the march, you know, there are supposed to be no sacred cows in journalism, and that includes the women's march, and that includes George Soros.
[00:23:44]  And what's she saying?
[00:23:46]  They tell me that I am biased.
[00:23:49]  And, you know, and I say to them, but this is the point.
[00:23:53]  The women's march was a biased march.
[00:23:56]  I mean, Ashley Judd, when I was looking back at another spreadsheet I'm doing on the speakers, was a clear Hillary Clinton supporter.
[00:24:06]  So she said, she has a famous quote during the campaign, are there any other qualified candidates?
[00:24:13]  Absolutely, but I think Hillary Clinton is the most overqualified candidate we've had since Thomas Jefferson or George Washington.
[00:24:20]  So they put forward this march as a women's march, but really it was just for women who are anti-Trump.
[00:24:28]  And that's what I was noticing because I had come out of the closet right after the election and wrote a piece for the Washington Post that I, as a Muslim, a woman, an immigrant, had voted for Trump.
[00:24:40]  And I did so largely influenced by eight years of burying our heads in the sand on the issue of Islamic extremism.
[00:24:49]  Many other Muslims have also voted the same way because we're fed up of the Saudis and Qatar and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, you know, shoving this extremist interpretation of Islam down our throats.
[00:25:04]  And so then when this women's march emerged, I thought, you know what, I'm a feminist.
[00:25:08]  I'm for women's rights.
[00:25:09]  But I noticed that there wasn't any room for people who didn't agree with the platform of Hillary Clinton and the very strong identity politics of the left.
[00:25:22]  And there are many of us who are liberal who refuse that politics.
[00:25:27]  And so I started doing my investigating, and that's how I've got this spreadsheet that folks can view.
[00:25:33]  You know, I've got it open on Google Docs, that amazing technology that we can use today.
[00:25:42]  And I saw the numbers, and I saw that there is a real bias in this march, and we should be honest about it.
[00:25:49]  So what was the reaction first from the New York Times?
[00:25:53]  Was it hard to get the Times to write this?
[00:25:56]  Well, the wonderful thing is that Tina Brown, a former publisher and editor at the Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, has created this platform with the New York Times called Women in the World.
[00:26:10]  And it is a unique place where voices of, you know, I believe the spectrum of analysis is allowed in a way that it's not even allowed on the pages of the opinion pages of the New York Times anymore.
[00:26:27]  And so fortunately, we've got these outlets where we can still have, you know, the kind of straight, you know, clear reporting and analysis that I tried to present with this piece.
[00:26:44]  So where are you going from here with this?
[00:26:47]  Because one of the co-chairs, and I think you point this out in your article, is someone that most people would not look to as somebody who is looking at a favorable view of Islam from the Western point of view.
[00:27:05]  Yeah, the person you're speaking about, one of the co-chairs is Linda Sarsour, and she has been a really polarizing and controversial figure in our Muslim community, as well as in the country.
[00:27:23]  There is a photo in which she has a young boy with rocks in his hand aimed toward Israeli soldiers, and her message on this photo is that this is an image of courage.
[00:27:39]  And so I have been aware of the way that you, for example, and many other people have been targeted by individuals like Linda Sarsour, including myself.
[00:27:53]  I have also been a target, you know, from the left to the right.
[00:27:56]  We've been targets when we have a serious conversation about Islamic extremism.
[00:28:02]  Glenn, I know you're a very understated person, right?
[00:28:06]  Yeah, that's me.
[00:28:08]  You know, and so you have your flourishes, right, in how you present information.
[00:28:13]  But I know that I've read your work, I've followed your work, and I know that at the heart of it is, you know, a very sincere effort to try to educate people about an extremist ideology inside of Islam.
[00:28:25]  And we need to have that conversation.
[00:28:28]  But you have been targeted.
[00:28:29]  Bill Maher has been targeted, you know, from the left to the right.
[00:28:33]  And I call these individuals the honor brigade.
[00:28:37]  They silence anybody who defames the supposed honor of Islam.
[00:28:44]  And so Linda Sarsour has been a character in this network.
[00:28:49]  And my effort now is to try to really expose the workings of this network that has existed for the last 15 years since the 9-11 attacks and brings us to this place where we're still debating whether there's an Islam in Islamic extremism, and whether we're still debating whether there's an Islam in the Islamic State.
[00:29:13]  And to me, all these issues come together because, you know, 15 years ago, my colleague and friend Danny Pearl was kidnapped off the streets of Pakistan.
[00:29:25]  I was pregnant by a boyfriend there in Pakistan.
[00:29:30]  I didn't even know it as I waved goodbye to Danny.
[00:29:34]  My boyfriend bailed on me that day, and so I was left single.
[00:29:38]  I was a criminal as a woman, according to the interpretations of Islam that are put forward by the government of Pakistan.
[00:29:46]  And then Danny was murdered because he was Jewish.
[00:29:50]  And so there is a casualty for women, for others, if we don't deal with this issue of Islamic extremism.
[00:29:57]  And my hope and intention as a journalist is to try to show the propaganda that silences this conversation, you know, including you, Glenn.
[00:30:08]  So Azra, where do you go from here?
[00:30:09]  Because I am trying to change my tone, not my principles, but change my tone and to admit my mistakes and to really try to listen.
[00:30:22]  But it's going to take people on the other side to do the same thing.
[00:30:28]  And I saw this march this weekend, and I thought Donald Trump is going to go to war with the press, and the press is going to go to war with him, and the left, the activists, will stir it up on the streets, and we're in trouble.
[00:30:44]  The hate is just going to grow more and more out of control.
[00:30:48]  Are you seeing any movement at all from the liberal circles in the press that are starting to say, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
[00:30:57]  Maybe we have some of this wrong.
[00:31:01]  Well, you know, first I want to say, you know, thank you for your own personal journey to coming to this place because, you know, we all do that.
[00:31:08]  Like, you know, we have, we're passionate about issues.
[00:31:12]  Our voices express it.
[00:31:15]  And I appreciate, you know, the soul searching that you've done and sharing it with people.
[00:31:19]  I think that takes a lot of moral courage.
[00:31:21]  And I just want to thank you for that.
[00:31:24]  You know, and the fact that we're even having this conversation, you know, Glenn, you and me, we're both of completely different identities.
[00:31:31]  But I really do believe that we both stand on this middle path where we don't want to be pulled and stretched by the extremes.
[00:31:42]  We all grow in our lives.
[00:31:45]  You evolve.
[00:31:46]  I evolve.
[00:31:46]  We all evolve.
[00:31:48]  I think it's on us.
[00:31:50]  I don't know if we can have much hope in a lot of our media outlets, but I do know that I hear personally secretly from fellow journalists who thank me for the work that I'm doing because they're sick and tired of the bias also.
[00:32:07]  I couldn't even watch CNN's coverage of the women's march.
[00:32:11]  I can barely watch anything but C-SPAN nowadays, right?
[00:32:15]  Because it's just the raw fact.
[00:32:18]  Yeah.
[00:32:19]  And Glenn, it's on us.
[00:32:21]  You know, I really believe that we have to be the civility we want to see in the world to use the Mahatma Gandhi quote, but continue to have very clear analysis, like not pull our punches, you know, when it comes to clear reporting.
[00:32:40]  And I want to invite everyone to also walk on that middle path with us and not engage in name-calling or vitriol, but really be the civility we want to see.
[00:32:54]  Ezra, I hope we get a chance to meet someday.
[00:32:58]  I'm a huge fan of your courage, and I truly believe courage is contagious.
[00:33:07]  We just have to see more examples around us, and people will join in.
[00:33:12]  And I'm so grateful that the New York Times gave you the space to run this article and that you took the time to do the research on it and spoke the truth.
[00:33:22]  Thank you so much.
[00:33:23]  No, and thank you, Glenn, for your courage, because it takes a lot to grow in this world, and you're always doing it as we all are.
[00:33:30]  Thank you.
[00:33:30]  Asra Nomani, she is a former writer with the Wall Street Journal and now with the New York Times, who wrote a fantastic article that everyone should look up, comment on, like, share so the New York Times sees that there is hunger for this.
[00:33:45]  Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 partners of the women's march in Washington.
[00:33:51]  What is the link between Hillary's largest donor and the women's march?
[00:33:55]  Turns out it's quite significant.
[00:33:57]  A huge story for the New York Times to run.

=== Koch Brothers Influence Exposed (04:13) ===

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[00:35:44]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:35:47]  Mercury.
[00:35:50]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[00:35:55]  This is, I find it amazing that this woman was allowed to write this in the New York Times.
[00:36:04]  Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 partners of the Women's March on Washington.
[00:36:08]  She lays them out.
[00:36:12]  The executive director of the American Humanist Association, a March partner, told me his organization was nonpartisan, but has, quote, many concerns about the incoming Trump administration that include what they see as a misogynist approach to women.
[00:36:27]  Nick Fish, National Program Director of American Atheists, another March partner, told me this is not partisan.
[00:36:33]  Dennis Wiley, pastor of the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, another partner, returned my call and said it's not a partisan march.
[00:36:41]  Really?
[00:36:42]  Unitewomen.org, another partner, features videos with hashtags, quote, I'm with, I mean, hashtag I'm with her, hashtag Dems in Philly, and hashtag thanks Obama.
[00:36:52]  Following the money, I poured through the documents of billionaire George Soros and his open society philanthropy because I wondered what's the link between one of Hillary's largest donors and the women's march.
[00:37:02]  I found out plenty.
[00:37:05]  But a draft of my research, which I'm opening up for crowdsourcing on Google Docs, Soros has funded or has relationships with at least 56 of the march's partners, including key partners.
[00:37:16]  Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump's anti-abortion policy, the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump's environmental policies and other Soros ties with women's march organizations.
[00:37:27]  See, this is the deal.
[00:37:29]  You couldn't write this about the Tea Party.
[00:37:32]  When the Tea Party first started, and really all the way through until the GOP started co-opting some of them, you couldn't write this.
[00:37:43]  They didn't have groups behind them.
[00:37:47]  We didn't have the Soros groups or any connection to any groups.
[00:37:51]  It was Steve and Bill and Mary.
[00:37:56]  They were just regular people.
[00:37:58]  And the Koch brothers.
[00:37:59]  They were about the Koch brothers.
[00:38:01]  Koch brothers, to my knowledge, at least.
[00:38:04]  Tell me about the Koch brothers.
[00:38:05]  The 912 project didn't ever give a dime.
[00:38:09]  Except for the Koch brothers.
[00:38:11]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.

=== Defending Alternate Facts (13:58) ===

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[00:38:44]  Hello, and welcome to the program.
[00:38:46]  A lot to cover today.
[00:38:48]  We want to talk a little bit about alternate facts.
[00:38:53]  Do alternate facts exist, or in a world where reason is not treason, they are just lies.
[00:39:04]  We'll decide.
[00:39:06]  And then, Chuck Todd, you wanted to know why the president would send somebody out with a lie, and you wanted, as the press, wanted to get to that right away.
[00:39:20]  But did you notice all the other lies that have been told in the last eight years?
[00:39:26]  They don't make these lies right, understand.
[00:39:29]  But it also makes you look like a total hypocrite.
[00:39:33]  And that's where I want to begin right now.
[00:39:37]  I will make a stand.
[00:39:39]  I will raise my voice.
[00:39:42]  I will hold your hand.
[00:39:44]  Cause we have won.
[00:39:46]  I will beat my drum.
[00:39:48]  I have made my choice.
[00:39:50]  We will overcome.
[00:39:53]  Cause we are one.
[00:39:55]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:39:58]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:40:04]  If you're watching the program on Dish or any of the other cable networks that carry us or you're watching online, you just saw Chuck Schumer and Mike Lee singing our theme song together, which took a lot to get them to do, but that's a different story.
[00:40:19]  Welcome to the program.
[00:40:20]  Glad you're here.
[00:40:23]  Let's start with alternative facts.
[00:40:27]  Now, Chuck Todd and the rest of the media, there are, I'm trying to, I don't want to critique you.
[00:40:41]  What I want to do is see if you will look at things from a different point of view.
[00:40:49]  How am I doing, Pat?
[00:40:51]  It's pretty good so far.
[00:40:52]  Better than I could have done.
[00:40:53]  Yes.
[00:40:54]  So I want you to look at it from a different point of view.
[00:40:59]  I need you to look at the way half of the country, if you're trying to figure out why don't we have any credibility, then it requires you to do some actual soul searching and not talk to the people in your office because as Einstein said, the people who created the problem cannot solve the problem.
[00:41:24]  So come out of that echo chamber and let's have a discussion.
[00:41:29]  This is a good example.
[00:41:33]  When you said to Kellyanne Conway this weekend, this.
[00:41:38]  And you did not answer the question.
[00:41:40]  I did answer the question.
[00:41:41]  No, you did not.
[00:41:42]  You did not answer the question of why the president asked the White House press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood.
[00:41:54]  Why did he do that?
[00:41:55]  It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office on day 20.
[00:42:01]  Stop.
[00:42:01]  When you said that, about 40% of your available audience did this.
[00:42:10]  You have got to be kidding me.
[00:42:13]  And here's why.
[00:42:15]  Lie after lie after lie came out of the White House press room during the Obama administration.
[00:42:24]  And you all sat there like bumps on the log and you either reported it or you just let it slide.
[00:42:32]  And some of us were saying, guys, you cannot do this because the next guy, if you let this go, the next guy will be even worse.
[00:42:45]  Now, here's how Kellyanne Conway answered that, proving my point.
[00:42:50]  So don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck.
[00:42:54]  you're saying it's a falsehood and they're giving sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that but the point What?
[00:43:04]  Alternative facts?
[00:43:07]  So good.
[00:43:08]  Those are lies.
[00:43:09]  Wow.
[00:43:09]  And what they're talking about is, and this is the most ridiculous lie.
[00:43:14]  Why, Donald?
[00:43:16]  Why would you do this?
[00:43:18]  Donald Trump set the press secretary out to say this was the largest crowd of any inauguration ever.
[00:43:26]  No, it wasn't.
[00:43:27]  The pictures clearly show it wasn't.
[00:43:30]  But it doesn't matter.
[00:43:32]  First of all, it was the first black president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
[00:43:41]  It was historic for African Americans alone.
[00:43:46]  People who wanted to bring their kids there to see history the first time it had ever happened.
[00:43:54]  I got news for you.
[00:43:55]  Except for the last one, every single one of them was a white guy.
[00:44:00]  Almost every single one of them was a rich white guy.
[00:44:03]  There was no first tier.
[00:44:05]  Yes, it was, you could say that it was historic in different ways, but not the way it was with Obama.
[00:44:13]  Plus, it was in the District of Columbia.
[00:44:17]  A, very heavy black population.
[00:44:22]  B, the surrounding area is flamethrowing liberal.
[00:44:27]  It leans liberal, definitely progressive.
[00:44:32]  Of course he had a bigger crowd.
[00:44:35]  If you would have done the inauguration in Texas, you would have had a bigger crowd.
[00:44:42]  Yeah, Trump earned 4% of the vote in Washington, D.C. Four.
[00:44:47]  Yeah.
[00:44:47]  So he's not going to have a bigger crowd.
[00:44:49]  It's meaningless.
[00:44:50]  It doesn't mean anything about his presidency.
[00:44:52]  It doesn't mean anything about the, it doesn't mean that people aren't inspired by him.
[00:44:56]  It means absolutely nothing.
[00:44:59]  And here's a flexing lie.
[00:45:00]  Here's something else.
[00:45:01]  Everybody who voted for you, Donald, everybody, I shouldn't say everybody, a lot of people, they despise Washington, D.C. now.
[00:45:09]  They don't like the Capitol.
[00:45:10]  They don't like the people in the Capitol.
[00:45:13]  They're sick of it.
[00:45:14]  They think the whole thing is corrupt.
[00:45:16]  Why would they be going to Washington?
[00:45:19]  They want to see you as the outsider, not as the grand insider.
[00:45:24]  So they're not connected to it.
[00:45:27]  It's different than it was with Ronald Reagan.
[00:45:30]  And it's meaningless, Donald Trump.
[00:45:32]  It's meaningless.
[00:45:34]  I should start calling him Mr. President.
[00:45:36]  It's meaningless.
[00:45:38]  It says nothing about you.
[00:45:40]  It says nothing about your administration.
[00:45:44]  But to send somebody out to lie does say something about you and not good things.
[00:45:52]  Why would you do that?
[00:45:53]  Why?
[00:45:55]  Stop it.
[00:45:56]  Please, for the sake of the Republic, for the sake of your administration, stop with the easy lies.
[00:46:05]  You're not going to get away with them.
[00:46:06]  I mean, I know Barack Obama, you can keep your doctor.
[00:46:10]  If you like your doctor, you can keep it.
[00:46:12]  That was a lie, but it wasn't even an easy lie.
[00:46:20]  You've got to stop, and you've got to be president.
[00:46:25]  Now, back to Chuck Todd.
[00:46:27]  Chuck, are you out of your mind?
[00:46:31]  Really?
[00:46:32]  I like you.
[00:46:33]  I like Meet the Press.
[00:46:34]  I think you guys have credibility.
[00:46:36]  Whatever's left of credibility in Washington, you have some.
[00:46:40]  Please know that when you say things like that, you need to say, look, I know the press let a lot of stuff slip with Barack Obama, but we've talked about it here.
[00:46:56]  And there's a new era.
[00:46:57]  If we had Obama to do over again, there are some things that we wouldn't do.
[00:47:02]  Do you notice that the press asks me every single time?
[00:47:06]  You say you're sorry.
[00:47:07]  Can you be specific about what?
[00:47:10]  What was it that you said that you didn't like?
[00:47:12]  Every single time for five years, they've been doing that to me.
[00:47:16]  I finally said, I'm not saying it anymore.
[00:47:19]  You go look up.
[00:47:20]  I've done plenty of interviews everywhere.
[00:47:22]  Look those things up.
[00:47:23]  I'm done.
[00:47:24]  You've never said it, Chuck.
[00:47:27]  Nobody in the media has said these are the mistakes we made.
[00:47:32]  That would go so far.
[00:47:35]  The thing is, being critical of Chuck Todd on this particular clip we just played is a little weird because he didn't do anything wrong on that clip.
[00:47:42]  Nope.
[00:47:42]  He did.
[00:47:43]  He handled that the correct way.
[00:47:45]  Kelly Ann Conway is doing something she should not be doing.
[00:47:49]  Correct.
[00:47:49]  Which, I mean, I understand it's your job to president.
[00:47:52]  Kelly Ann.
[00:47:54]  She's a very nice person behind the circle.
[00:47:56]  I don't necessarily agree with what she's doing now publicly, but I like her behind the city.
[00:48:01]  You probably met her on the cruise campaign.
[00:48:02]  She worked for a superpower.
[00:48:04]  Yeah.
[00:48:04]  And so, but I mean, the idea here is that I understand it's your job to defend the president, but to come out and with alternative facts, it's bizarre.
[00:48:15]  And it should be wrong.
[00:48:16]  And I guarantee you, everyone here, there would be 100% agreement if Barack Obama or Josh Ernest came out and said, by the way, yeah, I know every piece of evidence points to A, but we're giving you B as an alternative fact.
[00:48:31]  I mean, they did it constantly.
[00:48:33]  We didn't accept it, even when they didn't define it as an alternative fact.
[00:48:37]  They just said it was the truth.
[00:48:38]  It was wrong then.
[00:48:39]  It's wrong now.
[00:48:40]  And Chuck Todd is right to call her out on this, but he should have been doing it more and should, I think, take the extra step and say, look, we did let that stuff slide.
[00:48:47]  That would go so far for people on the right to say, look, okay, well, at least they're acknowledging that they did these things wrong before as well.
[00:48:56]  You can't just stop and say, oh, I'm this.
[00:49:02]  No, what got you there?
[00:49:04]  Where was your pivot point?
[00:49:06]  Now you've said you have a logical pivot point.
[00:49:10]  Your pivot point is we just got our ass handed to us and it's because nobody trusts us.
[00:49:18]  Okay, why don't people trust us?
[00:49:21]  Well, it's Russia.
[00:49:22]  It's not Russia.
[00:49:24]  It's you.
[00:49:27]  You know, when somebody used to break up, or you'd break up with somebody, and you would always say, Look, it's not you, it's me.
[00:49:36]  I want you to know that you can't say that with this breakup.
[00:49:40]  It is you.
[00:49:41]  It's not us, it's you.
[00:49:44]  And all you have to do is come, if you want to start the relationship again, say, here are the mistakes that I made.
[00:49:52]  And you're going to have to do that almost all the time for a while.
[00:49:55]  Trust me, it's taken me five years.
[00:50:00]  You're going to have to say that for a while before people go, oh, okay.
[00:50:04]  I still yesterday tweeted so much stuff about the press.
[00:50:10]  And I still said, look, I recognize the problems I've made.
[00:50:18]  Is there anyone in the press that will recognize the problems they are currently making?
[00:50:24]  It's out of control.
[00:50:27]  And what people will say is, well, what lies?
[00:50:32]  What lies exactly?
[00:50:33]  Well, we've compiled a few.
[00:50:37]  Literally, just a few.
[00:50:39]  Very few.
[00:50:40]  Very few.
[00:50:40]  So would you do me a favor?
[00:50:45]  Could we post them someplace?
[00:50:49]  Could we maybe do a tweet storm on just the lies from one of you guys?
[00:50:55]  Yeah.
[00:50:55]  It's happened before.
[00:50:57]  You know, where were you then?
[00:50:59]  We'll accept you now if you will accept that you made the mistake in the past by not pointing out these.
[00:51:08]  We'll give you some of them coming up in a second.
[00:51:11]  We have a new president.
[00:51:12]  Early signs point to some potential positive outcomes of the new administration.
[00:51:17]  Some of the things he did right after he was sworn in, that was kind of exciting, wasn't it?
[00:51:23]  To see him go right to work, sit down right in the Capitol and sign some things.
[00:51:31]  No, Stu?
[00:51:32]  What?
[00:51:32]  Did you see what he was saying?
[00:51:33]  I didn't say no.
[00:51:34]  Executive orders, did you?
[00:51:35]  Yes, he did.
[00:51:36]  There you go.
[00:51:36]  Day one.
[00:51:37]  Yeah.
[00:51:38]  But he was repealing executive orders, was he not?
[00:51:41]  Yeah, one of the repeals that he made was like a tax cut for middle-income people trying to buy homes, which was weird.
[00:51:51]  That was a good thing to start with.
[00:51:54]  Today is day one.
[00:51:56]  Today's the official day one.
[00:51:57]  And if they do the things they have promised, it's going to be good for the economy.
[00:52:02]  However, I want you to know globalism, while it's done a lot of good things, like, you know, help lift 2 billion people out of poverty around the world, capitalism by us sharing globally, that's good.

=== Press Secretary Lies Revealed (16:36) ===

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[00:54:15]  We're going to get to them here in just a second.
[00:54:17]  I just want to show the press some of the things that were said by Barack Obama that you were silent on.
[00:54:24]  And this is what we heard.
[00:54:26]  And we wondered why you didn't stop and say, hey, that wasn't true.
[00:54:29]  Here's just a couple of things.
[00:54:31]  You can keep your plan if you are satisfied with it.
[00:54:33]  If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.
[00:54:35]  If you like your plan.
[00:54:36]  We knew that that wasn't true from the very beginning.
[00:54:39]  We knew that.
[00:54:41]  Right.
[00:54:41]  You didn't get there until it was too late.
[00:54:44]  You could have done the homework that we did and said, read the bill.
[00:54:50]  There's no way you'll be able to keep your doctor.
[00:54:54]  There's no way.
[00:54:55]  But you didn't.
[00:54:56]  You called us conspiracy theorists until it was too late.
[00:55:00]  But once you got there and it was too late, it no longer mattered.
[00:55:04]  It had already passed.
[00:55:06]  I'm in this race to take, tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over.
[00:55:14]  They have not funded my campaign.
[00:55:18]  Will not work in my White House.
[00:55:20]  Okay, they won't work in his life, other than the 64 he hired to work in his White House.
[00:55:27]  And the number one person that went to visit him was Richard Trump, and number two, I think, was SEIU Andy Stern.
[00:55:35]  I mean, and where were you on the Trumpka saying I talked to the White House every single day?
[00:55:45]  Where were you on that when we were debating health care?
[00:55:49]  Who was pushing it?
[00:55:51]  SEIU and the AFL-CIO, and they were in touch with the White House every single day, but you didn't report on that.
[00:55:59]  And when you did report on the, the fact that he was not going to put any of these lobbyists in the White House.
[00:56:06]  It was very small and almost angelic.
[00:56:09]  Well, no president can really do that.
[00:56:11]  At the very beginning, at least that's the way I remember it.
[00:56:15]  Now here's the next one.
[00:56:17]  As a society, we choose to underinvest in decent schools.
[00:56:22]  We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment, not true?
[00:56:30]  We refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs.
[00:56:37]  And here it comes.
[00:56:38]  No, we flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.
[00:56:48]  I mean that would be absolutely ridiculous.
[00:56:50]  Where were you?
[00:56:51]  That was recently ludicrous.
[00:56:52]  Where were you on that?
[00:56:54]  That is the most outrageous thing you could say.
[00:56:58]  At a time when the country was trying to get our arms around school shootings.
[00:57:05]  The president comes out and says it's easier to get a glock than a book or a computer.
[00:57:13]  Now here's what you're thinking, what he didn't take that.
[00:57:17]  He didn't mean that literally.
[00:57:21]  You just listen to the, the overall message.
[00:57:24]  He didn't mean that literally.
[00:57:25]  Well, wait a minute.
[00:57:27]  Isn't that the argument that Trump people are saying?
[00:57:30]  He doesn't mean that literally.
[00:57:32]  It's the overall direction.
[00:57:35]  Why is it okay for your side to say i've been thinking a lot about bombing the White House and them not being marked as a terrorist?
[00:57:43]  But if somebody on the right would have said i'm thinking about blowing up the White House, they would have forever been marked as a terrorist.
[00:57:50]  And if you don't think that's true, Sarah Palin, we're targeting these districts.
[00:57:57]  That's the problem, press it's.
[00:57:59]  It's not that complex.
[00:58:00]  You don't need a focus group.
[00:58:02]  It's not that complex.
[00:58:07]  And if you, if there isn't someone, if there isn't someone with the authority, I warn you, either this president or the next president will start to say we need to license reporters and journalists.
[00:58:24]  We need to shut down those outlets that are telling alternative facts.
[00:58:32]  Now, those alternative facts are only get to be designated by the person in power.
[00:58:42]  Press.
[00:58:44]  You think you have the handle on the truth, but someday there will be someone in that office who says, that's not the truth.
[00:58:52]  What I say is the truth.
[00:58:54]  And I will deem what you can report and what you can't.
[00:58:58]  Now, you will believe this now, but I've been saying the same thing and warning you of this under Barack Obama.
[00:59:07]  Not about Obama.
[00:59:10]  That it will be him or the next guy or the next guy after.
[00:59:15]  I don't know who it will be.
[00:59:17]  It will be this president, the next one, or the next one after if we don't fix A, the civility and plant reason firmly in her seat.
[00:59:31]  Back in a minute.
[00:59:52]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:59:57]  I'm going to go to Bill in North Carolina.
[01:00:00]  Hello, Bill.
[01:00:00]  You're on the Glenn Beck program.
[01:00:02]  Thank you so much for taking my call, Glenn.
[01:00:04]  I enjoy the show very much.
[01:00:05]  Thank you.
[01:00:07]  And I'd like to offer just a little bit different perspective.
[01:00:10]  And just you can take it for what it is.
[01:00:12]  All right.
[01:00:13]  When I listen to your show, and your show is based on alternative facts.
[01:00:20]  I get a lot of quote-unquote facts from the news.
[01:00:22]  I get quote, I get facts from my liberal and progressive friends here in good old Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which is floating with them.
[01:00:31]  And I use the information that I gather from your show, my own research, other shows on talk radio here in Raleigh that as an alternate, as alternate facts.
[01:00:42]  That's what I say they are.
[01:00:43]  You have facts.
[01:00:44]  I have alternate facts.
[01:00:45]  No, it's an interpretation.
[01:00:47]  No, you can know there's a different analysis in the existing facts.
[01:00:52]  There might be additional facts.
[01:00:54]  Is that what you mean?
[01:00:55]  Additional facts?
[01:00:57]  There's additional facts and they're just absolute alternatives to the facts that are given in other places.
[01:01:01]  And you've done it, Rush, that other people do it.
[01:01:03]  That's what I'm saying.
[01:01:04]  You'll have to give me an example.
[01:01:06]  Well, I went back and listened to the videos in the wee hours this morning.
[01:01:10]  I watched the press secretary come out and do a thing.
[01:01:13]  And then I also watched it, but it was after I watched this ridiculous exchange.
[01:01:16]  And I used the term ridiculous carefully with Chuck Todd and Kellyn Carlson.
[01:01:21]  Conway.
[01:01:22]  So when I went back and tried to listen carefully, some of the things he said was it was the most viewed inauguration worldwide is what I heard him say.
[01:01:32]  And that also the alternative facts were the number of people that had traveled to the area.
[01:01:36]  We know here in North Carolina, we had thousands of people that they witnessed thousands of people that couldn't even get on the mall, which is fine.
[01:01:43]  But the alternative facts were we had a lot of people who couldn't even get in.
[01:01:46]  And you're presenting the fact that it wasn't real represented was the fact there's a picture that was taken that had less people in it.
[01:01:53]  He was given an alternative set of facts saying, we know the number of people that had traveled to the area.
[01:01:58]  We know the number of people.
[01:01:59]  He got that wrong too.
[01:02:00]  But I mean, those weren't factual either.
[01:02:03]  The numbers he quoted on the DC Metro were not accurate.
[01:02:07]  I've known since the Million Man March that the National Park Service doesn't give numbers.
[01:02:12]  We don't know.
[01:02:13]  No, I know.
[01:02:13]  I didn't say that.
[01:02:13]  So look, look, we're on your side on this.
[01:02:18]  I think it's a stupid argument to have because it doesn't matter.
[01:02:22]  It says nothing about President Trump or his support.
[01:02:25]  Nothing.
[01:02:26]  Even if 15 people were there, it wouldn't say anything.
[01:02:29]  But that's not what he was talking about.
[01:02:31]  He did mention that there were people that couldn't get in.
[01:02:34]  He did mention all of that.
[01:02:35]  Which we mentioned, by the way, also not backed up by facts.
[01:02:39]  But that is what he is saying.
[01:02:41]  But Bill, he said it was the most, it was the largest inauguration in attendance ever.
[01:02:50]  Now, what I heard was, and can you correct me if you go back and play it again and correct me?
[01:02:58]  Yeah, that he said that this was the most viewed.
[01:03:01]  No.
[01:03:02]  He did say that.
[01:03:03]  He said that was an additional view.
[01:03:05]  He said that too, but then you would be selecting facts and playing the game.
[01:03:10]  We have to deal with the fact of, is this the largest attended inaugural address ever?
[01:03:17]  The answer is no.
[01:03:19]  The additional fact is it doesn't matter.
[01:03:21]  And it shouldn't be.
[01:03:22]  It doesn't be bizarre if it was.
[01:03:24]  Right.
[01:03:25]  It would be bizarre if it was.
[01:03:26]  But here's what the press secretary said.
[01:03:29]  So the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize enormous support that had gathered on the national mall in one particular tweet.
[01:03:43]  Now, it probably was wrongly cited in one particular tweet.
[01:03:48]  One particular tweet.
[01:03:49]  He didn't even cite whose.
[01:03:50]  We really need to have our president take a step back and look at a bigger picture than one particular tweet.
[01:03:59]  Go ahead.
[01:04:00]  It was the most propagated.
[01:04:01]  It doesn't matter.
[01:04:02]  It's one particular tweet.
[01:04:04]  And there's more.
[01:04:05]  Of course.
[01:04:05]  This was the first time in our nation's maintenance.
[01:04:08]  In history, that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass in the mall.
[01:04:11]  Stop.
[01:04:12]  Not true.
[01:04:12]  Not true.
[01:04:13]  In 2013, they used them.
[01:04:14]  I mean, again, there's pictures all over the internet from the time that they used the same floor coverings in 2013.
[01:04:21]  So multiple inaccuracies here.
[01:04:23]  That had the effect of highlighting any areas where people were not standing on years past, but the grass eliminated this visual.
[01:04:29]  That's not beautiful.
[01:04:30]  This was also the first time that fencing and magnetometers went as far back on the wall, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to access the mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past.
[01:04:42]  That's true.
[01:04:42]  Secret Service says they did not use them.
[01:04:44]  Wow.
[01:04:45]  They did not use them.
[01:04:47]  Also, yeah, I mean, they did not use them.
[01:04:50]  Secret Service denies the use of magnetometers to reporters.
[01:04:54]  I mean, a caller from North Carolina today did say that they had checkpoints that were manned by MPs, that they only had two people on each side letting people in individual, and that they were using different devices to check people coming in.
[01:05:07]  And that's why they stood there for four hours before they went back out.
[01:05:10]  And it does seem like they did have some security checkpoints.
[01:05:13]  However, they've had security checkpoints in the past.
[01:05:15]  So I would imagine they owe it to what they are.
[01:05:17]  Okay, go ahead.
[01:05:18]  Next one.
[01:05:19]  Inaccurate numbers involving crowd size were also tweeted.
[01:05:22]  No one had numbers because the National Park Service, which controls the National Mall, does not put any out of it.
[01:05:30]  This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.
[01:05:35]  The largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period.
[01:05:40]  Untrue.
[01:05:41]  And that's why we went back and said later that he talks about the online presence.
[01:05:45]  It says witnesses.
[01:05:47]  There's no number to measure the online viewers.
[01:05:50]  Right.
[01:05:51]  And there's, you can't measure that.
[01:05:53]  And I will tell you that I would have a hard time.
[01:05:56]  I mean, look, Bill, you seem like a reasonable guy.
[01:05:59]  It is very reasonable.
[01:06:01]  I'm a numbers guy.
[01:06:02]  Right.
[01:06:02]  It's very reasonable to say that Barack Obama was a historic first, left, right?
[01:06:10]  It doesn't matter.
[01:06:11]  There were people that there were people in Africa that wanted to see the first African-American elected president.
[01:06:21]  Like huge swaths of people all around the world that will never watch another inauguration, just watched it because it was almost like the man on the moon.
[01:06:31]  Will you agree with me?
[01:06:33]  Of course, absolutely.
[01:06:35]  So it doesn't even stand to reason to say that it was the most watched ever.
[01:06:43]  I'll give you an alternative theory to that, too, because this is an alternative theory.
[01:06:49]  Alternative theory, I'll get.
[01:06:51]  Honestly, people were watching this thing on their phones, people watching on their computers.
[01:06:56]  Trust me, where I work, they were everywhere on the computers watching this thing all day long because they were waiting for something to blow up.
[01:07:04]  They were waiting for the protests to do something ridiculous.
[01:07:06]  They were waiting for somebody to take a shot.
[01:07:08]  They were watching this thing in numbers that I definitely did not see with the last two, even at the same job, even for something that historic.
[01:07:16]  It had nothing to do with the history as much as it had to do with theatrics.
[01:07:20]  It had to do with the fact that they wanted to see something blow up.
[01:07:23]  But again, but that's your experience.
[01:07:26]  That's your experience.
[01:07:26]  Those are not national numbers.
[01:07:27]  Those are not quickly.
[01:07:30]  My experience was, I will tell you that my experience was just the exact opposite.
[01:07:35]  Nobody around here watched it.
[01:07:36]  Nobody watched it.
[01:07:37]  Nobody watched it.
[01:07:39]  But that's my experience.
[01:07:40]  I mean, I understand.
[01:07:41]  That's my experience.
[01:07:42]  Even in liberal Chapel Hill, it was loaded with people watching this guy.
[01:07:46]  Some people cussing at their screen.
[01:07:48]  Yeah.
[01:07:48]  Some people just, I mean, talking about it for the rest of the day, that's all they talk about.
[01:07:54]  But again, that is your experience.
[01:07:57]  If you're an numbers guy, you're not going to fall for that.
[01:08:00]  I mean, that's anecdotal evidence, which is not, you know, again, like we know from TV ratings that it was, I believe, the fifth most watched, which is still good, right?
[01:08:09]  I mean, there's nothing.
[01:08:11]  Nobody around here watches TV anymore.
[01:08:13]  Nobody does.
[01:08:14]  Bill, Can I ask you?
[01:08:19]  I thought you were a numbers guy, not an emotion guy.
[01:08:21]  Yeah, I mean, it seems like everything, every time I bring up a number, we get something that's not a number from the numbers guy.
[01:08:25]  I have another number.
[01:08:26]  Wait, wait, wait.
[01:08:27]  Bill, it's numbers.
[01:08:28]  Bill, can I ask a question?
[01:08:31]  Yes.
[01:08:32]  Why does this matter so much?
[01:08:36]  I think for those of us who watch this thing go up, and you give a different perspective on the Trump presidency than some of the other people, obviously, on Talk Red Hit.
[01:08:45]  And the gauntlet that was thrown down, yes, it wasn't pretty.

=== Numbers vs Emotions Debate (05:48) ===

[01:08:51]  It wasn't smart to a certain extent.
[01:08:53]  It wasn't perfect by a long shot.
[01:08:55]  But to come out of the gate and say, we're just not going to lay down and take a whip and let you just roll over us when you didn't do anything for the last eight years with what you just played right before I came on.
[01:09:07]  That's good.
[01:09:09]  You know, it's just, there are a lot of people out here that are just obviously fed up with you.
[01:09:14]  You're right.
[01:09:14]  It's not the best way to go about it, especially when you're thrown out of the press.
[01:09:16]  So I think, okay, you can't be fed up with facts.
[01:09:19]  I mean, facts are facts.
[01:09:19]  Facts are facts.
[01:09:20]  So, Bill, I think I understand what you're saying, and I think it plays into what Matt is about to say.
[01:09:25]  Matt in Florida, go ahead.
[01:09:26]  You're on the Glenbeck program.
[01:09:30]  Matt, are you there?
[01:09:33]  Okay, Matt's not there.
[01:09:35]  What Trump, what he was going to say was, Trump exaggerates because the press exaggerates.
[01:09:41]  Well, my mother used to say, two wrongs don't make it right.
[01:09:44]  And so we can't, if you want to have credibility, you can't exaggerate and you can't be emotional about it.
[01:09:52]  Now, I know I'm an emotional guy.
[01:09:55]  I get it.
[01:09:56]  But this times are too serious now.
[01:10:01]  If we're going to come together ever, then we have to agree that there is such a thing as measurements, as facts, as math.
[01:10:13]  There wasn't such a thing as math to Barack Obama.
[01:10:17]  Right.
[01:10:18]  I mean, it was immoral and un-American to raise the deficit, and he doubled it in eight years.
[01:10:26]  Math is math.
[01:10:28]  First of all, fact check, you're an emotional guy, zero Pinocchios.
[01:10:32]  You nailed that one.
[01:10:33]  Secondly, okay, because we could talk about every radio station you've heard when the internet started coming on used to say things like, we broadcast worldwide on the internet because theoretically someone in Uganda could, I guess, turn on the radio station in your local town.
[01:10:48]  It was a sort of a BS claim and wanted to make you sound bigger.
[01:10:52]  And that's sort of what Spicer's doing here, right?
[01:10:54]  Like, okay, because he said after he said period in the clip we played, he said both in person and worldwide.
[01:11:00]  So he said in person as the biggest ever.
[01:11:03]  Period.
[01:11:03]  Period.
[01:11:04]  However, those are claims, the worldwide claim, yes, we don't know the exact amount of people who streamed it on God only knows how many sites were out there with technology that wasn't available previously.
[01:11:15]  You know, you can make claims like that.
[01:11:16]  But here's one you can't make, okay?
[01:11:19]  This is a quote from Sean Spicer.
[01:11:21]  We know that 420,000 people used the DC Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama's last inaugural, okay?
[01:11:33]  The actual numbers for President Obama's last inaugural was 783,000, not 317.
[01:11:41]  So 783,000, he lied completely on that number.
[01:11:46]  And for Trump, it wasn't 420,000, it was 571,000.
[01:11:51]  So Obama 2013, 783,000.
[01:11:54]  Trump this year, 571,000.
[01:11:58]  Then 1.1 million for Obama in 2009.
[01:12:02]  So 1.1 million is double Trump's number from this past week.
[01:12:08]  The actual number for an average day on the DC Metro is 639,000 trips, which is more than Trump's from the inauguration day.
[01:12:18]  Does that mean anything about Trump's presidency?
[01:12:21]  No, it means nothing.
[01:12:22]  He might be the greatest president of all time.
[01:12:25]  Who cares if local people in that area where he got 4% of the vote showed up to his inauguration?
[01:12:31]  Who cares?
[01:12:32]  The point is why lie about it when you have actual people in organizations that report the numbers all the time.
[01:12:39]  He's trying to do something different.
[01:12:42]  There's another goal here.
[01:12:44]  And remember, all of that that you heard was in a prepared statement.
[01:12:49]  It wasn't like he was caught off guard with some random question where he tried to fudge his way through it.
[01:12:54]  That was a prepared statement to start the press conference.
[01:12:56]  All right, so look.
[01:12:57]  It's insanity.
[01:12:58]  So here's what's happened.
[01:12:59]  Here's what's happened.
[01:13:01]  What were we planning on talking about this hour?
[01:13:03]  Do you remember?
[01:13:06]  I don't listen to you in the break, so no.
[01:13:09]  Do you remember?
[01:13:09]  This hour.
[01:13:12]  Chuck Todd and the press.
[01:13:14]  Yeah.
[01:13:14]  And the way the press has turned this around.
[01:13:18]  I made one comment at the top, and we talked about it before we went on the air.
[01:13:24]  Should we mention what Spicer said?
[01:13:28]  Yes, because we have to be fair.
[01:13:31]  We have to say he did that.
[01:13:33]  Now, let's concentrate on Chuck Todd.
[01:13:37]  The calls are all coming in about Spicer and defending the alternative fact.
[01:13:44]  Do you see what you've just done?
[01:13:47]  Donald Trump has taken the argument away.
[01:13:51]  You are defending an alternative fact instead of saying, look at how the press has reported this.
[01:14:03]  It's foolish.
[01:14:05]  You're giving them ammunition.
[01:14:09]  Just be happy with the facts as they are.
[01:14:12]  It was strong enough.
[01:14:14]  It was good.
[01:14:15]  It doesn't have to be God.
[01:14:17]  Just let it be.
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[01:17:14]  Welcome to the Glen Ben program.
[01:17:15]  So glad that you're here.
[01:17:16]  Gonna take some phone calls today.
[01:17:17]  We have Tim Ballard who's gonna stop by and talk about Operation Rescue Our Children.
[01:17:22]  It's Operation Underground Railroad.
[01:17:25]  Some really fascinating things going on with that.
[01:17:27]  Also, Facebook, Facebook Live broadcast a gang rape of a woman in Sweden this weekend.
[01:17:36]  Gwyneth Paltrow, she loves women.
[01:17:39]  She suggests that women go out and buy a jade egg and put it someplace and leave it there all day.
[01:17:53]  Really?
[01:17:54]  Yeah, it's a bizarre story.
[01:17:55]  Gwyneth Paltrow, what happened?
[01:17:58]  Was she always this weird?
[01:18:00]  And by the way, did you see the video of What's-His-Name?
[01:18:03]  Shia LaBeouf or LaBiff or whatever?
[01:18:06]  Yeah, Shia LaBeouf.
[01:18:07]  Yeah.
[01:18:07]  Or Biff or Ben.
[01:18:08]  Did you see like he was a rabid dog?
[01:18:13]  Did you see that video?
[01:18:15]  I just saw the headline.
[01:18:17]  I didn't have anything.
[01:18:18]  I didn't see that.
[01:18:19]  Like a rabid dog.
[01:18:21]  Just full frontal crazy.
[01:18:26]  Also, an investigation into Tesla and their autopilot.
[01:18:32]  Tesla said that they were going to bring out, you know, fully self-driving cars.
[01:18:39]  They were under investigation by the government to see if they were safe.
[01:18:45]  What do you suppose the government said?
[01:18:48]  Everything's perfect?
[01:18:50]  Not a problem.
[01:18:52]  Some interesting data from the government on Tesla and their auto-drive cars coming up in a second.
[01:18:59]  Also, Rand Paul's SmackDown of Bernie Sanders.
[01:19:02]  Are we a compassionate society?
[01:19:05]  He makes a great case.
[01:19:06]  We begin there right now.
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[01:19:11]  I will raise my voice.
[01:19:13]  I will hold your hand.
[01:19:15]  Cause we are one.
[01:19:17]  I will be my drum.
[01:19:20]  I have made my choice.
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[01:19:34]  Yeah, there's a couple of stories.
[01:19:36]  Jeffy just read the Gwyneth Paltrow story.
[01:19:38]  It's fantastic, isn't it, Jeffy?
[01:19:40]  It is great.
[01:19:42]  It's fantastic.
[01:19:43]  It is.
[01:19:45]  We are living on an alternate universe.
[01:19:47]  Do not look it up, Pat.
[01:19:48]  Do not have to.
[01:19:49]  Then I have to start there.
[01:19:51]  Then I have to start right there.
[01:19:52]  You won't get to it.
[01:19:52]  Yeah, I'm going to start right here.
[01:19:54]  I'm going to start with it.
[01:19:55]  I'm going to start with it.
[01:19:55]  I'll get to the Rand Paul thing.
[01:19:57]  It wasn't long ago when Gwyneth Paltrow raved about the benefits of.
[01:20:03]  I'm going to be very technical here.
[01:20:06]  Probably not a good idea.
[01:20:07]  Not a good idea.
[01:20:08]  I have no idea what it is.
[01:20:09]  With a steaming of your private parts.
[01:20:12]  How's that?
[01:20:13]  Okay.
[01:20:13]  For women.
[01:20:14]  Wait, steam?
[01:20:15]  Steaming.
[01:20:16]  Non-scientifically proven process of sitting over a hot pot of boiling water filled with herbs for up to 45 minutes.
[01:20:27]  I told you, man.
[01:20:29]  I told you.
[01:20:29]  She really women should do that.
[01:20:32]  Sit over a hot pot of boiling water with herbs for 45 minutes to cleanse your uterus.
[01:20:40]  That's awesome.
[01:20:40]  And to balance your female hormone levels.
[01:20:44]  Oh, my God.
[01:20:45]  People do anything.
[01:20:46]  Oh, my gosh.
[01:20:47]  She is.
[01:20:47]  She's crazy.
[01:20:48]  I can't tell you the number of times I came home and found my wife standing on top of our stove.
[01:20:57]  Boiling water.
[01:20:57]  I said, honey, why doesn't even.
[01:21:00]  Well, I said, honey, why don't you come down off the stove?
[01:21:03]  Oh, no, I've got another five minutes.
[01:21:06]  Is it cleansing time again?
[01:21:09]  I have to tell you the third time this week.
[01:21:11]  That doesn't sound safe or sanitary.
[01:21:14]  No, does it?
[01:21:14]  No, neither one of those two things.
[01:21:16]  No.
[01:21:17]  I mean, the burns that one might get.
[01:21:21]  What a dumb.
[01:21:22]  I mean, boiling water, too.
[01:21:23]  I mean, pops off.
[01:21:25]  Oh, no, it's bad.
[01:21:26]  That's a bad.
[01:21:27]  I mean, above the water level, like, there's bubbles.
[01:21:31]  Okay, she really says hot water.
[01:21:33]  She doesn't say, you know, she doesn't say boiling.
[01:21:35]  Okay.
[01:21:36]  So, most recently, her lifestyle website, Goop, which is a little bit more.
[01:21:45]  She has a lifestyle website called the Goop.
[01:21:47]  Oh, don't pretend like who does it?
[01:21:50]  You're on Goop.
[01:21:51]  Come on.
[01:21:52]  That's your homepage.
[01:21:53]  G-O-O-P.
[01:21:54]  Goop is your homepage, Stu.
[01:21:56]  Come on.
[01:21:57]  This is the one that had the website that promoted the steaming.
[01:22:04]  The steaming.
[01:22:05]  Okay.
[01:22:07]  Anyway, she's out again on Goop with some new advice for women.
[01:22:12]  And the new advice is that you need to go out and buy a jade egg.
[01:22:19]  Okay.
[01:22:19]  Okay.
[01:22:20]  It's a solid, made of solid jade, at least the size of a golf ball.
[01:22:31]  What's that?
[01:22:32]  I'm just afraid of what's coming.
[01:22:34]  All right.
[01:22:34]  You're supposed to.
[01:22:35]  What a jade egg.
[01:22:37]  I don't know, but if you're Gwyneth Paltrow.
[01:22:39]  Yeah, you don't care.
[01:22:40]  You don't care.
[01:22:41]  Why doesn't everybody have a jade egg?
[01:22:44]  That's true.
[01:22:44]  Come on.
[01:22:45]  That's like a.
[01:22:46]  Looks like you can go anywhere from $40 to $140 sort of dollars in that general.
[01:22:51]  Is that a real jade egg?
[01:22:53]  I don't know.
[01:22:54]  I don't know what to do.
[01:22:55]  I think you have to have a real jade egg.
[01:22:57]  I mean, there are a bunch of jade eggs advertised.
[01:23:01]  Okay.
[01:23:02]  Goop is probably selling them.
[01:23:04]  You know what?
[01:23:05]  I bet they are.
[01:23:06]  I bet they are.
[01:23:06]  Anyway, she suggests that you put that, you insert that inside of yourself and keep it there all day or while you're sleeping.
[01:23:19]  Oh, yeah, yep, yep, yep.
[01:23:21]  For $66 a piece, the jade eggs, once the strictly guarded secret of Chinese queens and concubines to please their emperors, will help you boost things and increase muscle tone and hormone balance and feminine energy in general.
[01:23:40]  So they're only like 50 bucks you said, Stu?
[01:23:42]  I will say right now you're thinking to yourself, I should Google that.
[01:23:46]  I should Google the Goop thing and see if they talk about jade eggs, which of course they do.
[01:23:52]  However, you may, if you're at work, you may want to avoid the diagrams they have created to show you exactly what they're doing.
[01:23:58]  They got to know what to do with it.
[01:24:00]  I have to tell you, I wish I could insert a jade egg in me, just so I just so at some point I could laugh so hard I would lay a jade egg.
[01:24:15]  Imagine walking down.
[01:24:17]  You're wearing a skirt, walking down the run and just an egg falls out of you know that's gonna happen.
[01:24:26]  Oh my gosh.
[01:24:27]  Oh, that would be signal for golf.
[01:24:30]  Why are you walking so weird?
[01:24:31]  Oh, I've got a jade egg egg.
[01:24:33]  It's jade egg day.
[01:24:34]  Yeah, oh no, this answers it.
[01:24:36]  It can cause toxic shocks.
[01:24:37]  Oh yeah no, they say it's really bad to do this.
[01:24:41]  What I am happy to say, I don't believe anyone in our audience would ever do this.
[01:24:48]  It causes that even after steaming?
[01:24:51]  I'm not sure.
[01:24:52]  Now, the combination of the two, I don't know.
[01:24:54]  Okay.
[01:24:54]  No, that's not covered.
[01:24:55]  So steaming would make bacteria grow even more, would it not?
[01:25:00]  Not with the special herbs and spices you put in the water.
[01:25:03]  It's not like there's 11 of them, just like Kentucky Fried Chicken.
[01:25:07]  You know, just get a bucket of chicken, pour some hot water over it.
[01:25:10]  It's a chicken in the boiling water.
[01:25:13]  And then just stand over it.
[01:25:14]  You got a reggae.
[01:25:16]  Now you're talking parsley.
[01:25:17]  Now you're tottering.
[01:25:18]  You just have to crouch down close to the chicken and then serve it to the kids.
[01:25:26]  All right, go ahead.
[01:25:27]  So you might be worried about certain safety features.
[01:25:31]  Jade A.
[01:25:32]  Yeah, they might be a little strange.
[01:25:33]  Right.
[01:25:34]  They have a QA to help you go through this process.
[01:25:39]  Can the egg get stuck or lost?
[01:25:41]  No, is this in the article called Jade Eggs for Your Yanni?
[01:25:48]  Yes, Yoni.
[01:25:50]  Yoni?
[01:25:51]  I don't know.
[01:25:51]  Yanni was the musician.
[01:25:56]  I think it's Yoni.
[01:25:58]  I'm going to go Yoni.
[01:25:59]  This is the most common question.
[01:26:01]  No, it can't get lost.
[01:26:04]  But these ones have a hole drilled in them, which you can then thread with unwaxed floss to make it easier to take out and to generally ease any anxiety about it.
[01:26:17]  So you just got to put the floss in there.
[01:26:20]  So it's like the other thing.
[01:26:21]  And thread that women have to use.
[01:26:23]  Wow.
[01:26:24]  I wish she was marching this weekend.
[01:26:26]  That's a weird freaking thing.
[01:26:28]  And yes, by the way, every doctor in America is saying don't do this.
[01:26:33]  Whatever you do.
[01:26:34]  But again, we're in that point where I mean, we are in a post-factory.
[01:26:38]  They buy alternate facts.
[01:26:39]  And they talk about this all the time.
[01:26:41]  They're going to sit here and bash Kelly Ann Conway for saying alternative facts all day.
[01:26:45]  But I mean, this is the sort of stuff the left does all the time, particularly with medicine and the environment.
[01:26:50]  No, no, no.
[01:26:51]  These things.
[01:26:51]  No, no, no.
[01:26:53]  Look, you are such a science denier.
[01:26:56]  I am.
[01:26:57]  Because the scientists are saying no, you don't do it.
[01:27:01]  Chinese medicine trumps all.
[01:27:03]  Chinese medicine is such a weird thing.
[01:27:05]  It's like, maybe this made sense in like 1800, like an ancient Chinese secret.
[01:27:10]  If it was good, we would have been doing it a long time ago.
[01:27:11]  Correct.
[01:27:12]  It wouldn't have been kept a secret.
[01:27:13]  Right.
[01:27:14]  Here's the thing.
[01:27:15]  I saw an article this weekend, and I didn't even click on it.
[01:27:18]  I read the headline, and all I said was no.
[01:27:21]  And I moved on with my life.
[01:27:23]  I couldn't believe somebody actually took the time, I think it was on HuffPo, to actually write the article, Is it Time We Begin to Eat Crickets?
[01:27:33]  I saw that too.
[01:27:33]  Oh, well, that's no.
[01:27:34]  And I had the same response.
[01:27:36]  No, it's not.
[01:27:37]  No, I don't need to read your stupid article.
[01:27:39]  It's not.
[01:27:39]  But for the past five years or so, maybe longer, but for sure the past five or six years, the United Nations has been a strong proponent of eating bugs around the world and wanting the United States to come along that road.
[01:27:53]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:27:54]  I don't think so.
[01:27:56]  Insect insect eating because it's a food source and food is high in protein.
[01:28:01]  Oh, yeah, no, high in protein.
[01:28:03]  You can't find food in America.
[01:28:05]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:28:06]  There are other animals that eat bugs.
[01:28:09]  Man is not one of them.
[01:28:11]  So, all right.
[01:28:13]  Now, this may sound like we're not compassionate to those who want jade eggs and to eat crickets, but that's only if you listen to Bernie Sanders.
[01:28:25]  Here's Bernie Sanders talking about how not compassionate Americans are.
[01:28:33]  The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right.
[01:28:41]  Dang proud of that.
[01:28:41]  Canada does it.
[01:28:42]  Every major country in Europe does it.
[01:28:44]  No, they don't.
[01:28:45]  First of all, Canada is not a major country.
[01:28:47]  Can we get that straight?
[01:28:48]  Okay, Canada is a major country.
[01:28:51]  Stu is I'm very upset about that.
[01:28:54]  Stu's feeling.
[01:28:54]  However, too, you have to remember: notice the words he uses, guarantees health care.
[01:28:59]  No, they don't.
[01:29:00]  They absolutely don't care health care.
[01:29:01]  They guarantee you to believe you have insurance.
[01:29:04]  Whether you can get in care or not is a completely different issue.
[01:29:08]  If healthcare around the world, like the Chinese, ancient Chinese secret, if it was so good, capitalism would embrace it.
[01:29:16]  The market would run towards it.
[01:29:18]  If it was so great, we would all run towards it.
[01:29:21]  It's not good.
[01:29:23]  Here's who it's good for.
[01:29:25]  It's good for the very lowest of poverty levels because they get something.
[01:29:31]  Well, they already got something.
[01:29:34]  They already could go to the hospital.
[01:29:35]  Now, that's breaking the hospital system.
[01:29:37]  But let's fix that problem.
[01:29:39]  Okay?
[01:29:40]  So it's good for the very most important thing.
[01:29:42]  They also have Medicaid, by the way.
[01:29:44]  Yes, which is a giant government system specifically designed to help those people to get insurance.
[01:29:48]  So there you go.
[01:29:49]  You already have the bottom of the ladder.
[01:29:51]  The top of the ladder, they don't care.
[01:29:53]  They'll get health care.
[01:29:54]  They'll just pay for it.
[01:29:56]  They'll just go out and I need to go see a doctor.
[01:29:59]  Okay, I'll write a check.
[01:30:01]  So the top of the health care, they don't care.

=== Socialized Medicine Compassion Gap (03:38) ===

[01:30:04]  Who does it hurt?
[01:30:06]  Everyone in between.
[01:30:08]  That's what socialized medicine does.
[01:30:11]  Hurts everyone in between.
[01:30:13]  It's bad.
[01:30:16]  All right, anyway.
[01:30:16]  I believe that health care is a right of all Americans, whether they're rich or poor.
[01:30:24]  This is why it's important.
[01:30:26]  This is why it is important to understand that we are based on the Declaration of Independence.
[01:30:33]  Our rights come from our Creator.
[01:30:37]  Now, how do we get a right of health care from our creator?
[01:30:46]  Huh, we don't.
[01:30:48]  Huh.
[01:30:48]  There's no way.
[01:30:49]  I'm trying to think of any way you could interpret anything in nature to tell you that you have a right to health care.
[01:30:56]  May I also ask how it's compassionate for any country forced to provide health care for anyone else?
[01:31:03]  How is that compassion?
[01:31:05]  It's not.
[01:31:06]  I've been forced.
[01:31:07]  I didn't volunteer that money.
[01:31:09]  And it makes you less compact.
[01:31:10]  It's a compassionate act.
[01:31:11]  It makes you less compassionate.
[01:31:13]  Our nurses and doctors here in America, I believe, are the most compassionate, some of them in the world.
[01:31:19]  They're great.
[01:31:19]  They're really great.
[01:31:20]  They're great.
[01:31:21]  And why?
[01:31:22]  Because they have a desire to do it.
[01:31:25]  And the things they do are remarkable.
[01:31:27]  Remarkable.
[01:31:29]  And at least in our recent experience, they all did it with such professionalism and compassion.
[01:31:35]  Now, you could go over to the Netherlands and say, well, the Netherlands, they have better health care.
[01:31:39]  Well, in some ways, they might.
[01:31:42]  In some ways, they might.
[01:31:44]  But could we just look at the Netherlands here for a second?
[01:31:47]  If you look at Sweden, up until recently, it was the most homogenized group of people of all time.
[01:31:56]  Let's see.
[01:31:57]  They're all white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, with the same background and culture.
[01:32:04]  It's not hard to move one group of people who are all exactly alike and fit them into this little package.
[01:32:13]  Now that they have to serve two cultures, it's completely falling apart.
[01:32:18]  America is the entire world coming together.
[01:32:23]  It doesn't work.
[01:32:24]  It's harder to do things in America.
[01:32:27]  There is no one who is as diverse as this country is in thought and in lifestyle.
[01:32:35]  And that's good.
[01:32:36]  Why should I celebrate diversity in everything except when it really counts?
[01:32:44]  Celebrate diverse answers in math with Common Core?
[01:32:48]  No.
[01:32:49]  No.
[01:32:52]  There's more.
[01:32:53]  Should people, because they are Americans, be able to go to the doctor when they need to, be able to go into a hospital because they are Americans?
[01:33:01]  Yes, we're a compassionate society.
[01:33:03]  No, we are not a compassionate society.
[01:33:05]  In terms of our relationship to poor and working people, our record is worse than virtually any other country on earth.
[01:33:11]  I mean, shouldn't that?
[01:33:12]  Should they be able to go to the doctors when they want to?
[01:33:14]  That's the exact thing socialized medicine can't accomplish.
[01:33:18]  You die.
[01:33:18]  There's long-term.
[01:33:19]  If you want socialized medicine, we have it.
[01:33:22]  Are we compassionate to our veterans?
[01:33:25]  No.
[01:33:26]  That's socialized medicine.
[01:33:28]  There it is.
[01:33:29]  That's what, when they finally kill the free market and we only have a single payer healthcare system, that's what it is.
[01:33:39]  That is the least compassionate.
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=== Travel Savings and Healthcare (14:11) ===

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[01:36:09]  So at pattonstew.com today, the Douche Hall of Fame?
[01:36:12]  Biggest moment, I mean, I would say in the history of the show.
[01:36:15]  Yeah.
[01:36:16]  And this is a big moment.
[01:36:17]  This is a big moment.
[01:36:18]  It's a top five moment in the history of the country.
[01:36:20]  It's historic.
[01:36:21]  It's not just big.
[01:36:22]  It's historic.
[01:36:23]  This will be the biggest crowd ever assembled on planet Earth for anything.
[01:36:30]  For anything.
[01:36:31]  Period.
[01:36:32]  Yeah.
[01:36:32]  Period.
[01:36:32]  Period.
[01:36:33]  We've assembled everybody for this.
[01:36:35]  We assembled them all in their respective places.
[01:36:37]  Or worldwide because it's on the internet.
[01:36:39]  Okay.
[01:36:39]  So anyway, it's the Douche Hall of Fame induction of the vote to see if he will be inducted into the Douche Hall of Fame, Barack Obama.
[01:36:48]  Now, you might say to yourself, well, how the heck did Barack Obama get through his entire presidency without getting into the Douche Hall of Fame?
[01:36:53]  No sitting president.
[01:36:54]  No sitting president can be inducted into the Douche Hall of Fame.
[01:36:57]  We had to wait until he's finally out of office.
[01:36:59]  We've been talking about this for years.
[01:37:01]  It's an exciting day.
[01:37:03]  Remember, there are two things that are interesting.
[01:37:05]  Number one, you need to get 95% to get into the Douche Hall of Fame, 95% of the votes.
[01:37:09]  So this is much more difficult than getting into the crappy baseball hall of fame or whatever that is.
[01:37:13]  That's really hard, actually.
[01:37:14]  It's very difficult to do.
[01:37:16]  And there has never been anyone who has received 100% of the vote.
[01:37:21]  It won't happen this time.
[01:37:22]  We've had 99% of the vote.
[01:37:24]  Don't you?
[01:37:25]  No, there'll always be somebody who's just like, I'm not, I'm just, I want him in the Douche Hall of Fame, but I am not going to let it be unanimous.
[01:37:31]  Well, there are purists like that.
[01:37:33]  You'll notice there's never been a unanimous vote for the baseball hall of fame either, which there obviously should have been.
[01:37:38]  Now, we have people who Anthony Weiner got 99%, for example.
[01:37:41]  No one's ever had 100%.
[01:37:42]  Barack Obama has that chance today in one of the most momentous moments in probably our nation's history.
[01:37:48]  I don't want to go to stating.
[01:37:50]  That might be an alternate fact.
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[01:37:53]  Patentstew.com.
[01:37:54]  Back in a minute.
[01:38:11]  Mercury.
[01:38:13]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[01:38:16]  Pat is trying to figure out the catch.
[01:38:19]  I really am because I just, it took you up on your offer to go to upside.com and check it out.
[01:38:28]  And I haven't even coupled, I haven't even paired the flight with the hotel yet for even extra savings and found a flight from Dallas to Salt Lake City, which you have to go to this week, or somebody in your family has to.
[01:38:42]  Yeah.
[01:38:42]  Yeah.
[01:38:43]  For $480 first class.
[01:38:45]  $480 first class?
[01:38:47]  How much is it usually?
[01:38:49]  $1,000?
[01:38:49]  $1,000?
[01:38:50]  $1,100, $1,200?
[01:38:51]  Holy cow.
[01:38:52]  That's huge.
[01:38:52]  Yeah, that's huge.
[01:38:53]  And you haven't coupled it with the hotel yet.
[01:38:55]  Haven't even done that yet.
[01:38:55]  When you couple it with a hotel, the interesting thing about this is you couple it with a hotel, and then they'll give you options.
[01:39:03]  You know, if you're willing to go an extra 10 minutes and maybe just take an Uber because you're not staying in the hotel that your convention's at or whatever, you couple it with another hotel.
[01:39:13]  It gives you options to say you want to save more money.
[01:39:17]  The lower you drive the price, which your company is going to like, the more incentive they give you by giving you money in Amazon gift cards.
[01:39:26]  I mean, this is such a, this is such an amazing thing to make, to make money, to save money for the company and to make money for you.
[01:39:34]  It's the greatest thing.
[01:39:35]  Everybody in this scenario wins.
[01:39:37]  The hotel wins, the airlines win.
[01:39:39]  You win, your company wins.
[01:39:41]  Amazon wins.
[01:39:43]  How is this bad?
[01:39:44]  I think it's great.
[01:39:45]  I mean, I've never, it is one of those things that you sit there and you're like, what exactly is, what's happening here?
[01:39:51]  Right.
[01:39:52]  It's too good.
[01:39:53]  Right?
[01:39:54]  Yeah.
[01:39:54]  Yeah.
[01:39:54]  So I asked.
[01:39:55]  So the guy who started this is the guy who started Priceline.
[01:39:59]  And I asked him, I said, okay, if I'm my listener and I know I'm going to ask you the same thing because this is all I'm thinking.
[01:40:09]  And I know my listeners have to think, what's the catch here?
[01:40:13]  And he's like, no catch.
[01:40:15]  We use the major airlines because we know that we're trying to appeal to business travelers.
[01:40:19]  So we're not going to put you on a crappy airline.
[01:40:20]  So they'll use the major airlines and great hotels.
[01:40:23]  And I'm like, yeah, right.
[01:40:25]  So how is it?
[01:40:26]  Because he started Priceline.
[01:40:27]  How is it Priceline to this?
[01:40:29]  And you are clobbering them in prices.
[01:40:33]  And he says, it's the combination of the two.
[01:40:36]  He said, if you combine the hotel and the airfare, both of them will give a lower rate.
[01:40:43]  And the airline isn't having to say, I cut the rate X number of dollars.
[01:40:50]  So nobody knows who's cutting the rate.
[01:40:53]  Is it the airline or is it the hotel?
[01:40:57]  You know what I mean?
[01:40:58]  I know, too.
[01:40:59]  Business travelers love the, because you get obsessed with points when you do a lot of business travel.
[01:41:05]  And so everyone wants to book the travel on their card so they can get the points and then spend the points on their own, even though it's the company paying for all the trips.
[01:41:13]  But here, I mean, if you could start racking up $200 Amazon gift cards, that's better than points.
[01:41:20]  Oh, it's way better than points.
[01:41:22]  You can get actual dollars.
[01:41:23]  Points are fake dollars.
[01:41:26]  They get you excited.
[01:41:27]  You have 975,000 points, which is $9.75 of actual money.
[01:41:32]  So I have, I haven't, I've never spent my points.
[01:41:35]  I've been a member since like 1996.
[01:41:38]  I've never spent my Amex points.
[01:41:40]  Oh, my.
[01:41:41]  Oh, holy crap.
[01:41:43]  I can't even imagine.
[01:41:45]  Don't tell us, but I can't even imagine how many points everything, almost.
[01:41:49]  All the business stuff.
[01:41:50]  All the business stuff.
[01:41:52]  When I had to buy studio stuff, I just put it on the Amex.
[01:41:55]  I mean, it was all on my personal Amex.
[01:41:58]  You travel free for the rest of your life.
[01:42:00]  No.
[01:42:01]  No.
[01:42:02]  What?
[01:42:02]  No.
[01:42:03]  No.
[01:42:03]  I started spending some of it and I'm like, all right, well, we could buy a really nice patio set and we could go here and we could do this, but it's not, I mean, the points are not for all of those years?
[01:42:19]  Yeah.
[01:42:19]  Oh my gosh.
[01:42:20]  That's unbelievable.
[01:42:21]  It's pretty amazing.
[01:42:22]  You've had some stolen.
[01:42:22]  Pretty amazing, huh?
[01:42:24]  You've had some stolen.
[01:42:25]  I don't know if you have to use them.
[01:42:27]  Tanya's been using them.
[01:42:28]  Not telling you.
[01:42:30]  Thank you for planting that seed.
[01:42:32]  What is it?
[01:42:33]  No man shall put asunder?
[01:42:34]  What was that part of that?
[01:42:35]  I don't remember.
[01:42:36]  Yeah, because I think, I mean, honestly, with just the amount of dollars you spent putting into this particular room we now sit in, which is now all redecorated.
[01:42:46]  I will tell you, thank youoverstock.com.
[01:42:49]  Everything in this room, with the exception of the art, overstock.
[01:42:52]  Everything.
[01:42:53]  Wow.
[01:42:53]  I noticed that.
[01:42:55]  Where's the plaques for the Douche Hall of Fame?
[01:42:57]  There's no place for the plaque, darn it.
[01:43:00]  No place for the plaque.
[01:43:02]  It's when all of this furniture came in and it sat in the hallway and everybody was, I think everybody thought I was insane.
[01:43:07]  They were like, none of this works.
[01:43:10]  I don't see this coming together.
[01:43:12]  And I'm like, no, no, no.
[01:43:13]  Trust me, it'll work.
[01:43:15]  Well, this is your game right now.
[01:43:17]  I mean, you know, you might know this by listening to the show, but Glenn cares much more about how the set looks than the actual show.
[01:43:25]  So this is your passion, I would say.
[01:43:28]  You love this.
[01:43:29]  Yeah, I do.
[01:43:30]  You do.
[01:43:30]  And I'd love to go decorate somebody's house.
[01:43:32]  I was thinking, it is what you want to do.
[01:43:34]  So bad.
[01:43:34]  Maybe we could get Overstock just to do a show where I go to some listener's house and let me fix.
[01:43:40]  Let me let me let me change your house.
[01:43:41]  That would be great.
[01:43:42]  Because we've done, I've done all of the sets for the Blaze.
[01:43:46]  Yeah.
[01:43:47]  All of the sets have been.
[01:43:48]  And as long as you have a blank check, it'd be great.
[01:43:50]  Right.
[01:43:51]  That's the secret.
[01:43:52]  That's the key, isn't it?
[01:43:53]  That's the secret.
[01:43:53]  Yeah.
[01:43:54]  Being able to go, yeah.
[01:43:55]  I mean, sure, you get those guys.
[01:43:57]  If you're on a $2,000 budget, you're going to have to get one of those guys from HGTV.
[01:44:01]  Right.
[01:44:01]  But if we have an unlimited budget, oh, I can make your house look sweet.
[01:44:06]  Because that is exactly it.
[01:44:07]  All of us would say we've imagined our entire life playing in the major leagues, being the person who catches the ball in the end zone to go to the Super Bowl.
[01:44:18]  I would love to go to a listener's house and decorate their family rooms.
[01:44:22]  Be an engineer decorator.
[01:44:24]  That has not been a dream of mine.
[01:44:26]  Yes.
[01:44:27]  Oh, my God.
[01:44:28]  Well, it's what you would leave and do, right?
[01:44:30]  If I was going to leave this life and I could go throw knuckleballs for the Toronto Blue Jays, I'd be thrilled with the world.
[01:44:35]  I can't do those things.
[01:44:37]  If you could leave this life and not worry about money and not worry about doing anything and just disappear into the middle and just be a middle America where you don't have to deal with annoying coastal elites and go to middle America and decorate people's family rooms, you'd be thrilled with that life.
[01:44:54]  At least in theory.
[01:44:55]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:44:56]  No, it would be too much like Frank Lloyd Wright.
[01:44:58]  Would be like, you ever heard the story of Frank Lloyd Wright?
[01:45:01]  When, when he, um, you didn't tell him what you wanted, he let the earth speak to him.
[01:45:08]  Okay, so he would go on the ground and he would be like, This is what the ground is saying this building needs to be.
[01:45:13]  And so he'd make beautiful places, but you know, you want to sit in them or live in them.
[01:45:18]  It's not so easy.
[01:45:19]  Right.
[01:45:20]  So this woman went to him and said, Look, I only have one request.
[01:45:26]  I have a lot of art and I just want space to hang my art.
[01:45:31]  Someplace, there has to be space to hang my art.
[01:45:35]  Fine.
[01:45:37]  So she's not allowed to see the house until it's finished.
[01:45:40]  Okay.
[01:45:41]  Frank Lloyd Wright, fine.
[01:45:42]  Not a good answer.
[01:45:44]  So she comes.
[01:45:46]  There is not one place, no wall.
[01:45:51]  He's built it so every single wall cannot have art on it.
[01:45:56]  And she's walking through and she's like, you know, I have a lot of art.
[01:46:01]  He said, yes.
[01:46:02]  I fixed that for you.
[01:46:03]  It's over here.
[01:46:05]  You walk through this area and you go into this separate room all by itself.
[01:46:11]  And he's built easels in the center and a staircase with a second floor balcony.
[01:46:20]  So if you want to see the art, go upstairs, stand on the balcony, and look down at the art.
[01:46:26]  Crazy.
[01:46:28]  Crazy.
[01:46:28]  I think I'd be too much like that.
[01:46:30]  Oh, man.
[01:46:31]  Oh, I doubt that.
[01:46:32]  Please, we look at Facebook pictures of families and go, oh, that's a nice looking family.
[01:46:37]  And you go, man, they could use new curtains.
[01:46:40]  Shut up.
[01:46:40]  Okay.
[01:46:41]  It's very true.
[01:46:42]  It's true.
[01:46:43]  Well, I'm proud to be different.
[01:46:49]  It's called diversity.
[01:46:50]  Yeah.
[01:46:51]  By the way, if you're watching us on TV, all of the art I've done, and I think I'm going to sell them for the new museum that David Barton and I are going to be building.
[01:47:05]  We'll give you more details on that.
[01:47:07]  But so you see anything you like, just let us know.
[01:47:12]  Give us a ring.
[01:47:13]  Because if it helps us buy new pieces of American history, we'll take it.
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[01:48:49]  Mercury.
[01:48:52]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:48:54]  Now, on the Douche Hall of Fame, do you make the case?
[01:48:58]  Have you already made the case?
[01:48:59]  We've been making it over the past week.
[01:49:01]  And of course, over the past eight years, we've been making the case strongly, but we've been making the reminded people.
[01:49:07]  We have more of that today on Patton Stew.
[01:49:09]  PatentStew.com, by the way, is where you can vote on the Douche Hall of Fame induction of Barack Obama.
[01:49:14]  Very important day in our nation's history.
[01:49:17]  I think an important day for world history.
[01:49:19]  For the first time a president's name will appear on the Douche Hall of Fame plaque.
[01:49:25]  There's some technicalities we shouldn't get into here on that particular thing.
[01:49:29]  But yes, I mean, the question is, then Joe Biden would become eligible as well.
[01:49:32]  It's another thing we can discuss.
[01:49:34]  Hillary Clinton is in the Douche Hall of Fame.
[01:49:38]  We inducted her the day before the election, just in case she was in.
[01:49:41]  Just in case.
[01:49:43]  She was kind of.
[01:49:45]  She only got in on 96%.
[01:49:47]  96% of the vote.
[01:49:49]  We thought she might be the first 100% vote, but obviously she fell short.
[01:49:54]  Now, will Barack Obama get in with 100% of the vote?
[01:49:57]  I don't know.
[01:49:57]  It's an exciting show.
[01:49:59]  Do you give the stats right away?
[01:50:02]  Oh, yeah.
[01:50:02]  Wow.
[01:50:03]  As they're coming in?
[01:50:04]  Yes.
[01:50:04]  Or do you wait until all polls?
[01:50:05]  Well, we wait until the poll is closed.
[01:50:07]  There's a one-minute voting period.
[01:50:09]  One minute.
[01:50:10]  One minute.
[01:50:11]  How many calls do you take?
[01:50:13]  Or how many people are in the future?
[01:50:13]  Oh, it's all on the feed.
[01:50:15]  How many on the feed?
[01:50:17]  Many.
[01:50:18]  Many thousands, really.
[01:50:19]  For this particular vote, there'll probably be millions.
[01:50:21]  Probably millions.
[01:50:22]  Probably the biggest vote of all time.
[01:50:25]  Yeah, there was about 130 million votes cast in the U.S. election.
[01:50:28]  We do expect to exceed that on the Douche Hall of Fame post.
[01:50:31]  That might not be true.
[01:50:32]  Period.
[01:50:33]  Let's go to Chris in Alabama.
[01:50:34]  Hello, Chris.
[01:50:36]  Hi, guys.
[01:50:37]  Hi.
[01:50:37]  Thank you.
[01:50:38]  You're welcome.
[01:50:39]  Yeah, I just want to say, I figured out now why my husband gave me a jade necklace for Christmas.
[01:50:47]  He also gave me a pot of hot water and some herbs.
[01:50:50]  I went in the kitchen, put on my necklace, and made him soup.
[01:50:54]  What can I say?
[01:50:56]  Thanks.
[01:50:57]  Thank you, Chris.
[01:50:57]  I appreciate it.
[01:50:59]  Not kind of icky in its context.
[01:51:01]  Yes, if you know the context, and I don't think we need to.
[01:51:04]  I don't think we need here.
[01:51:05]  If you missed it, you can go back to the third hour of the podcast today.
[01:51:10]  And just say it involves Gwyneth Paltrow and some things that she is suggesting people do now.
[01:51:19]  Let me go to Kendra.
[01:51:20]  Hello, Kendra.
[01:51:20]  You're on the Glen Beck program.
[01:51:22]  Hi, Glenn.
[01:51:23]  Hi.
[01:51:24]  I am a true feminist who voted for Trump.
[01:51:28]  And I was kind of irritated with the press conference because with the inaugural numbers, because I just feel like the press is going to lie about him.
[01:51:39]  And he needs to save his protestations for the big things.
[01:51:45]  Because he can't give them any more ammunition.
[01:51:48]  They're already going to be after him.
[01:51:50]  And I like that he's not PC, but I feel in this case, he kind of needs to show a little more restraint with some of his knee-jerk reactions.
[01:51:58]  What you're saying maybe is pick your battles.
[01:52:02]  Yes, absolutely.
[01:52:03]  I have to do it as a mother all the time.
[01:52:05]  Yes, we all do.
[01:52:06]  We all do.
[01:52:07]  So you're a feminist.
[01:52:09]  What did you think about the march this weekend?
[01:52:12]  Well, I believe that those are fake feminists.
[01:52:17]  By true feminists, I mean I believe in the God-given rights of all women, including the unborn ones.
[01:52:23]  And I believe in, you know, women being held in high esteem as we have differences from men, and that's what makes it beautiful.
[01:52:36]  You know, we, if we're equal to men, then it doesn't, God made us to be different to complement each other.
[01:52:45]  And so that's why I call myself a true feminist.
[01:52:48]  Those women yesterday, I have never seen so much hate and confusion and all the trash they left afterwards.
[01:52:57]  And, you know, I feel very strongly about, you know, why would they march to kill babies?
[01:53:06]  That's essentially what they were doing.
[01:53:08]  And if we took all those babies and killed them on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., there would be public outcry.
[01:53:15]  I would hope so.
[01:53:16]  I would hope so.
[01:53:17]  I don't even know anymore.
[01:53:19]  Behind closed doors, we can just close our eyes.
[01:53:22]  Quick, one more question for you, Kendra, before you leave.
[01:53:25]  As a feminist, how do you feel about Jade Eggs?
[01:53:31]  I think that you should keep that between you and your spouse.
[01:53:35]  Okay.
[01:53:36]  Okay.
[01:53:37]  You don't have to go any further.
[01:53:38]  Probably you should listen to your doctor.
[01:53:40]  Yeah.

=== Rafe's Male Perspective on Dreams (01:25) ===

[01:53:41]  Okay.
[01:53:41]  I think we're on the same page.
[01:53:43]  Yeah, we don't need to go any further.
[01:53:44]  Kendra, thank you so much.
[01:53:45]  I have a good answer.
[01:53:46]  You know, to make her point on the differences, yesterday we got up.
[01:53:53]  Cheyenne came to the breakfast table and she said, Mom and I, mom went upstairs and she said, Mom and I laid in bed and we just talked about our dreams this morning.
[01:54:04]  And Rafe and I had gotten up and we were sitting around and we were talking about guy stuff.
[01:54:10]  We were, you know, talking about some serious stuff, but the way two guys would talk about it.
[01:54:15]  Did you have a translator so you could understand what Rafe was saying?
[01:54:22]  And I looked at my wife came down and I said, This is why a male and female are important.
[01:54:31]  There are things that Rafe and I talk about and ways we talk about it that are just different than with any of my girls.
[01:54:39]  And, you know, I've never sat in the bed with my daughter, talked about our dreams.
[01:54:45]  You know, maybe I should, but it just hasn't happened.
[01:54:49]  And there's just a difference in approach, and they're both so important, not minimizing either of them.
[01:54:58]  Why is it we can't get people to see that?
[01:55:02]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:55:06]  Mercury.