James T. Harris fills in for Glenn Beck on December 26, 19, declaring media an enemy that subverts Christianity through shows like "Family Guy" and "The First Temptation of Christ." He argues identity politics and terms like "systemic racism" are Marxist tools failing to address real issues, while dismissing claims of a "white lash" as emotional nonsense given African Americans comprise only 14% of the population. Harris contends the Trump impeachment was a left-wing power grab, citing Nancy Pelosi's alleged quid pro quo, and concludes that racism is often learned behavior, sharing his experience as Wisconsin's first Black teacher where a student called him "Ninja." Ultimately, he asserts true Christmas spirit requires family over media narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
My name is James C. Harris, sitting in for Glenn Beck.
I am a radio talk show host.
My show is called The Conservative Circus.
I am the ringmaster.
And the big top is News Talk 550 KFYI out of Phoenix.
You can listen Monday through Friday, 4 to 7 p.m. AZ time, because our time doesn't change.
Yours does.
And right after my show is the Glenn Beck program.
So this is perfect.
And I am honored to once again be filling in.
And on Christmas, I hope that you had a fantastic Christmas.
I hope that your Christmas was filled with joy.
I hope that your Christmas was filled with family.
And I hope that your Christmas was not filled with media.
I do believe that the media is our enemy.
We're going to talk about that on today's program.
We sing, oh, come all ye faithful.
We sing joy to the world.
And that's because this is the time where Christians celebrate the birth of Christ.
And even as a child, Jesus was king.
From the first breath that he drew, he was worthy to be worshipped.
Jesus is 100% human, and we Christians believe he's also 100% divine.
Jesus' birth was so huge.
It was so huge of a miracle that it had to be accompanied, you know, by a whole host of angels.
What if the shepherds were too busy looking at their social media on their phones to have noticed the heavenly host?
Oh, we do that.
We do that.
I am a night hiker to the chagrin of my smoking hot wife and my friends, my co-workers, my boss.
I hike at night.
Sometimes I even hike at night in my sandals.
Some would say barefoot.
I love it.
Especially when there's that full moon and those stars and it's quiet and the shadows.
And that's pretty much what was going on with those shepherds a couple of thousand years ago.
But see, they weren't out enjoying themselves.
They were working.
And their job was to protect the sheep, protect the flock from wolves.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.
And out of that darkness and out of that environment, boom!
The skies lit up.
I think one of the first things the angel said was, fear not.
Well, yeah, I would have been, yeah.
Oh, Lord!
Running, fall over the, trip over the sheep.
No, fear not.
For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be for all the people.
What a message.
Now, if you're up on your Jewish tradition, if you're up on your Bible study, you know that the Lord had gone silent.
God had gone silent for over 400 years.
They were waiting for a Messiah, but they didn't know how this is going to play out.
This message, I believe, the Christmas message, is so important because those shepherds who were out in the fields, those shepherds who were doing their job, it was probably seen as one of the lowest jobs of that society.
It's not something that you would aspire to.
Sometimes we're in those kind of positions where we're doing jobs and we don't think that it's all that important.
We don't see ourselves as all that special.
And look what happened.
The heavens opened up and the angels visited the shepherds.
They didn't visit the king, they didn't seek out the priest.
The angels visited the shepherds.
Those shepherds probably got lonely and often felt like they were forgotten, felt like they were nothing.
But in the midst of their everyday task, God sent a company of angels to tell them the greatest news mankind has ever heard.
You see, I do believe that God is the great tactician.
And I do believe that this was an invasion.
I think that Jesus the Christ as a baby being born from heaven, sent from heaven to earth was an invasion.
His job was ultimately to take on the sins of the world and be sacrificed for you and me.
And Jesus had enemies.
Even at the rumor of his birth, you had King Herod have all of the boys of that region executed.
Think about that.
The news that a king was going to be born led to a man to have to slaughter innocence to protect his power.
God sees you.
God has not forgotten us.
It may seem like that.
It may seem like heaven is silent.
But God has not ignored us.
And this is the day where we should remember that.
We should rejoice.
We should know that God sees us through our tears.
We should know that God will reward our faithfulness.
We should know that our God is a God of suddenness.
He'll just show up.
You may feel like you're in darkness.
You may feel like all you have out there is the moon, the light, faint light of the moon and the stars, but no, you have more.
And the lesson I do believe today is that God has an army of angels.
God has an infinite supply of divinity, divine support.
He doesn't change.
He's still a God of suddenness.
And when you have need of him, he will be more than happy to show up, to supply.
The reason why I believe the Lord came 2,000 years ago as opposed to today is because that was the perfect strategy in which for a lesson to be taught.
And that lesson is that the word of Christ is not meant for media.
It's meant for the human heart.
It's meant for the human heart.
Oh, it can break through media.
It can shine through.
And this shone through 50 years ago on a little show called Charlie Brown's Christmas.
And Charlie Brown was the director of a play, and it was supposed to be about the meaning of Christmas.
And Charles Schultz wanted this cartoon to be about what Christmas was all about.
And there was an iconic moment where Linus dropped his security blanket and said this.
I guess you were right, Linus.
I shouldn't have picked this little tree.
Everything I do turns into a disaster.
I guess I really don't know what Christmas is all about.
Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
True, Charlie Brown.
I can tell you what Christmas is all about.
Linus, please.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them.
And the glory of the Lord shone round about them.
And they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not.
For behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you.
You shall find the man wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there rose with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men.
That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
Amazing.
Joy to the world.
Our Lord has come.
Amazing.
That cartoon, George Schultz, I believe, the creator, I think Coke was Coca-Cola, was the original sponsor.
And they had to go through hell and high water to get that on the air.
The suits at the time didn't believe that scripture should be shared on network television.
That was one of those breakthroughs.
That was one of those surprising moments.
And it still is power-packed.
Why?
Because it's scripture.
And it announced the arrival of the king.
Now, we got to deal with the media, the rest of the media, which has changed so radically since Charlie Brown's Christmas.
My name is James T. Harris.
This is the Glenn Beck Program.
James T. Harris sitting in for Glenn Beck.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
Charlie Brown Christmas.
It aired on national primetime television over 50 years ago.
And we're talking about something that was simple, something that was straightforward.
If you're a fan of peanuts, you grew up with that.
That was my Christmas lineup.
I watched The Grinch That Stole Christmas, right?
We'd have Frosty the Snowman.
And then we would have a Charlie Brown Christmas.
And even as a child, we know, you know, with all the Santa Claus, we can't wait for Santa Claus to come and the presents and all that kind of stuff.
Charlie Brown Christmas cut right through it.
They had the little shabby Christmas tree.
Remember that?
That's what Charlie Brown got ridiculed for.
Charlie Brown, you can't even do Christmas right.
You can't even buy a beautiful Christmas tree.
What is this?
Everybody's laughing at him.
That was led him into what is Christmas?
Can tell me, can someone please tell me what Christmas is all about?
And that's what Linus dropped the security blanket and talked about fear not.
Fear not.
I think this is something that should be a message for us today.
Fear not.
If you look around the landscape, there's a lot of stuff that we can be fearful about.
I did not turn on the television set this week.
As a matter of fact, the last television program that I watched was the Green Bay Packers handling their business.
That was exciting.
Then I turned TV set off.
And it was just my family.
We were hanging out.
Now, yeah, we did have our cell phones and we did have our social media, but even that was cut down to a minimum.
It's one of these times where I'm in the business and I'm always up on these things and I'm always show prepping.
Life is show prep.
I just wanted to kind of shut things down.
Plus, I wanted to have time to prepare for sitting in for Glenn Back.
I didn't rejoin media until this morning.
I turned on and started doing prep.
And I was like, whoa, holy cow.
Look at this war that is being conducted against Christianity.
Look at how our Savior is being ridiculed.
Look at what the media, I'll just be blunt.
Look at what the left in the media is perfectly willing to exploit, talk about.
There's a new Ras Musin poll showing strong majorities favor saying Merry Christmas.
What?
You got to poll that?
We poll everything.
Hey, let's take a poll.
How many of you out there are comfortable saying Merry Christmas?
Well, you know what?
We haven't been in the past.
Why?
Because, I mean, Christmas has been beat to hell, quite frankly.
There's a strong Merry Christmas and polls show that celebrating Christmas in public schools and religious displays in public areas is fine.
Well, gosh, glad to know that.
But you see, we've let the media set the standard, haven't we?
We've let the media bully us into not saying Merry Christmas because we may offend someone.
Christmas is offensive.
I think we had Justice Gorsuch the other day was on Fox News and he said Merry Christmas.
And we had the left come out and say that, you know, that's cold.
That's cold for white supremacy.
I'm not kidding.
Merry Christmas is now cold.
And then when you turn to Hollywood, Hollywood sees, you know, Merry Christmas.
Hollywood sees Christianity as oppression.
And so they do what they do best and they do it on their vehicle.
They do it on the vehicle that they know is going to resonate across the country.
They go to entertainment television.
I'm not a fan of television.
I think television is an amazing, amazing invention.
I think that has been taken over.
I think that it's been subverted.
I think that some of the things on it are downright evil.
Santa Offers Cocaine Twist00:02:52
On Fox's Family Guy, you got a shopping mall, Santa, with the high school girl on his lap, and he brings her to sexual pleasure.
See, I'm even hesitating saying these things on the Glenbeck show.
My goodness.
After she searches at the local mall until she finds her creepy clauses, Santa Claus instructs her that she has now a new sexual discovery.
And then he tells her, I know what each and every person needs for Christmas.
So we just sexualize Christmas.
On Comedy Central South Park, which is a racy show.
I mean, they purposefully take on all comers.
But this year they had Santa Claus wreaking havoc on a town by banning alcohol to stop drunk driving accidents.
Okay.
And then he bans marijuana that's been laced with cocaine, which leads to more accidents.
And so you got Jolly St. Nick talking about cocaine lace pot selling pure Coke, which leads to Santa Claus sneaking into all the homes at night to steal all of the drugs.
Finally, a drug dealer convinces Santa to try some Coke.
And Santa Claus marveled at how clean how clean it was.
And then Jesus appears, and then Santa offers him some cocaine.
It's a good high.
Jesus agrees.
And he performs a Christmas miracle, making the cocaine fall like snow all over the town so everyone could enjoy the addictive drugs.
Yeah.
Oh, and then there's Netflix.
They have a new Christmas twist out.
The first temptation of Christ about a homosexual Jesus going home for the holidays and introducing the rest of the holy family to his flamboyant new boyfriend.
That's not enough.
They even have the Virgin Mary smoking a joint.
And they have one of the wise men hiring a prostitute.
And they have Jesus getting high off of special tea.
This is what Hollywood is offering up for Christmas.
This is the twist that they put on one of the greatest stories ever told.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
Hollywood Subverts Holy Families00:02:57
My father was from Mississippi, and his best friends in Milwaukee were all from Mississippi, even though they didn't know each other in Mississippi.
They come to know each other in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
They were part of that second migration of Americans of African descent going from the south to the north because of jobs.
That three-letter word, as Joe Biden said, jobs.
Anyway, my father and his friends love to go fishing.
And so they did everything as a community.
They grew vegetables.
They would always share it.
They would come in.
Zach would come into the house with a big burlap bag of peas and we would have to like shell them.
Shuck them.
I hated that stuff.
But yeah, they would always do that.
They would go fishing and they would like split up the mess of fish.
That's what they did.
This time they were like about an hour, 45 minutes north of the big city and a small town.
And they were good fishing there and they were getting out their stuff to go fishing when their little kid on the side of the road, one two ninjas.
Well, my father and his friend heard this and they were kind of stunned by it.
The third friend got angry and he went after the little kid.
And my dad and his friend grabbed him and held on to him like, what are you doing?
It's a child.
What do you think they're going to do?
He said, I'm going to, you know, teach him a lesson.
No, no, you're not.
This is, you know, remember, this is the 1960s.
This is Wisconsin.
They're out of the big city.
The town that they're in is, there's no people of color there.
And it's the 60s.
Then my father said something that I never ever forgot.
And I first heard the story as a teenager.
He said to his friend, Look, that kid doesn't know he's doing anything wrong.
He doesn't even look scared.
He just sees three ninjas getting out of a car.
He only knows what he's been taught.
He was taught this.
And my father's friend responded, okay, but then let's go kick his dad's assets.
And then they all laughed about it and they went fishing.
I'm hearing about this story like 20 years down the road.
This took place before I was born.
But what my father said, this was, he was taught.
Child didn't grow up thinking these things.
We could even say that, you know, as far as television, which I loathe, he didn't learn that from television.
This is something that was passed on by the families.
Media Bullying on Identity Politics00:15:13
And the real shame is this is something that is still passed on by the families, but not to the same degree.
If you were to ask me, Is America racist?
Uh-oh, I'm about to say something very controversial.
I'm going to upset a lot of people.
My answer would be: it depends.
Racism does exist primarily on CNN, MSNBC, and the Democrat Party.
That's where you'll find it.
If I'm not looking at television, I don't know about all of this racial so-called angst.
If I'm not looking at television, I don't know about all of this anti-homophobic whatever.
When I look at television, that's when I see it.
And then I'm like, oh my goodness, America, we never got over racism.
When I see the Reverend Al Sharpton running to some new atrocity, it exists on television.
And it exists in the minds and the hearts of the people who still want to foment it.
Our culture is not like it was in the 1960s, the 1950s, the 1940s.
Oprah Winfrey is a very rich woman.
And she's an American of African descent.
And even though we have athletes who are disgruntled and want to take the knee because of the oppression in our country, they're millionaires for the love of God.
Where else can you find that?
They have the means to fight this oppression, but when they go to look for it, guess what?
It's not there.
Can we find an individual who is a bigot?
Oh, of course we can.
But now we've made up new terms like systemic racism, institutional racism.
Why?
Because it's not up in your face anymore.
Because you can pretty much go anywhere you want to.
Because you have full participation in this culture, in this society, if you want to.
The problem is a lot of people do not want to.
The problem is people are afraid.
They're afraid to embrace the opportunity because they may have to leave behind the very familiar angst.
It's a cup of sorrows.
A cup of sorrows that tastes real good.
And so we feed it to each other and we feed it to our children.
If that kid were to say something like that today, that same incident would happen.
Oh my gosh.
I can't even begin to think.
You know what?
We don't have to imagine too much.
Look at what happened to that kid that was wearing the Make America Great Again hat, the little Catholic kid up there in Washington, D.C. When the Native American got all up in his face.
Look at what happened.
Look at how he was treated.
Look at how he was destroyed by the media and he didn't do anything wrong.
It's almost like it's not the content of your character today.
It's the color of your baseball cap.
Look how hatred now is being defined.
It's not based on skin color unless you are an American of European descent.
If that is the case, politically, it is open season on you.
And who's bringing the fire?
MSNBC, CNN, and the Democrat Party.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's actually white folks who should be out there saying, we shall overcome.
But you know what?
They're not wearing it.
They're not wearing it.
They're not victims.
We are not victims.
Even though the media is trying to bully you into it.
I got a great example for that.
We're going to have that for you coming up next year.
But let me leave you with this.
Fear not.
Fear not.
Because we are in the season where we have all the power that we need.
We just need to embrace it and speak truth to the ignorance.
My name is James T. Harris.
Sit again for Glenn Beck.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
My name is James T. Harris.
Sitting in for Glenn Beck.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
We're having a conversation about identity politics.
Identity politics is something that the Democrats have absolutely traded in, but I think now it's coming back to bite them in the assets.
It used to be, you know, if you're a person of color, a black American, they're called African American, and then it was the Hispanic American, and then it was part of the alphabet people, the LGBT community.
And then we, sexual preference, gender identity.
Cross-dresser story time, all of these things are supposed to be.
Oh, the.
They're a special group and they have special needs and they have special recommendations, and they try to put them all together, corral them into one strong political group.
It's not working.
They try to have them under the umbrella of Marxist socialism.
It's really not working.
And yet they don't have another card to play.
All you need to do is look at how the media and how the Democrat Party, how the pundits, how Hollywood has treated president Trump.
He's not a, he's not a moral virtue beacon of virtue here.
No, no one claimed that he is.
But look at how they're trying to destroy him.
Look at how they're going after him.
Look at what they're saying about him.
The race card that's being played, my goodness, president Trump being a Hollywood figure, being a tv, being a tv star.
He's hung out with all kinds of people they got pictures with with president Trump and Snoop Dog for god's sake Snoop, Doggy Dog.
But the moment he put that r behind his name and ran for for presidency, he's reviled.
You used to have rappers sing songs about how they wanted to be like Trump.
He's racist now and they'll drum up like hoaxes, like Charlotteville.
I'm not.
I'm not diminishing the fact that someone was killed in that conflict, but the way the media has spun it is just a lie.
Oh, there's good people on both sides.
It's a lie and anybody can go back and look at the transcripts.
Whether we're talking about impeachment, a whistleblower why do you need a whistleblower?
He released the transcripts.
It's based on lies and the only Identity really right now that the left's putting all their energy into is just being a liberal, a leftist, to be a part of the resistance, opposed to this president and his policies.
That's why we're seeing all of this craziness when it comes down to the impeachment and all other kind of stuff.
And I'm going to talk about that a little bit, but not too much.
Why?
Because American people are tired of it.
I got news for you, too.
The American people are tired of identity politics.
They're tired of being attacked over something they have absolutely nothing to do with.
You know what?
Right after the president was elected, you had Van Jones on CNN.
I'll never forget it.
That's because I looked at MSNBC and CNN next night after the after President Trump became the 45th president of the United States.
I watched the meltdown in Schadenfreude.
I know.
I was getting, I was gleeful.
I know that's not right.
That's not right.
I have not repented of that yet.
I still go back and I look at election night.
It's so good.
But in that, we get a glimpse at what the left is really concerned about, where they have all of their, you know, their energy.
And Van Jones gave us a snapshot.
Yeah.
This was the first real outburst of Trump derangement syndrome.
Van Jones said that Trump's win was a white lash against the first black president.
A white lash.
Well, you know, Americans of African descent only make up 14% of the population, which means in order for Barack Obama to be elected, white folks had to vote for him.
Okay.
So it was nonsensical.
It was an emotional moment.
It was an emotional outburst, but it was very, very instructive of what the left was headed towards in this nation.
And now we've gone from the media attacking President Trump proper to attacking you and me, Trump supporters.
Now, just so you know, I've been lumped in with most of you.
I am no longer an American of African descent.
No, I am, as a matter of fact, I, in my great state of Arizona, I was dubbed by the left a black white supremacist early on.
I think I may have been one of the first.
Black white supremacists.
Why?
Because I support the president, but how does that make me a white supremacist that's black?
Well, what do you mean?
It doesn't have to make sense.
It's emotional.
It's about the resistance.
But it is real.
And if you watch these television shows, you'll see that they are now attacking you.
It's a wonderful progression.
Got an example of this.
I believe this was on MSNBC.
They're going to roundtable.
This is on the Joy Reed show.
And they're just talking to these pundits.
And what's crazy, well, actually, I'll let you hear it first.
Here we go.
Every news cycle in D.C. starts with a simple premise.
What are Republicans angry about?
Like, 30 years, every day, that's what it starts.
And so if they're angry about impeachment, then that's a big deal.
Then they're on the offensive.
Democrats are always on their heels.
Republicans worship, the press worships Republican hardball, and they always see Dems as being outmaneuvered.
The demographics of the media, that the relatability of Republicans, that they seem more relatable or they seem like middle America.
And so the media gravitates toward the Republican base.
First of all, it's dangerous to even present this through the lens of politics, right?
This is not Republicans versus Democrats.
This is truth versus lies.
This is patriotism versus traitors.
This obsession with how did Trump, you know, interviewing people at Trump rallies to ask how they thought about impeachment, this obsession, and it goes back to the day after he was inaugurated, this obsession with interviewing white Midwestern Trump voters and asking them what they think about Trump, it is a dangerous, it is a racist message because the message is white Republicans are who matter in this country.
That's crazy.
They're now pointing their media guns at you.
You are the problem.
And white conservatism is the problem.
Notice how they have to, you know, put that, racialize it.
White conservatism, not conservatism.
You see, because if you're a conservative, I'm a conservative.
We share ideas, but the left can't get over their identity politics.
In order for them to make something bad, they say it's white.
You remember the whole Trayvon Martin case?
Remember Zimmerman, who happened to be Hispanic?
No, he was a white Hispanic.
Now it's white conservatism.
Now it's the white Republican Party.
White is the bad here.
And what's really crazy is a white person saying this about white people.
What would happen if it's reversed?
If black liberalism, boy, I got to say, I'm really, black liberalism is the bane of this society.
Well, I become, If black liberals will just stay home, then white conservatives could we don't talk like this.
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My name is James T. Harris.
Sitting in for Glenn Beck.
I am a radio talker out of Phoenix, Arizona at News Talk 550K FYI.
My show is called The Conservative Circus.
I am the ringmaster and we've been talking impeachment up the wazoo forever.
The question is, did you get what you wanted for Christmas?
Did Nancy Pelosi get what she wanted for Christmas?
You know, even though this is what I do, I have to tell you, when it came to impeachment, I was naive.
It was my son, who was in China at the time, who said, Dad, yeah, the Democrats impeached President Trump, but why?
Then I tried to explain to him, well, for no reason.
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They just don't like him.
Well, what are they going to do with this?
I'm like, well, now it goes over to the Senate.
And then they have a trial.
And then they call witnesses.
And he goes, he said, Dad, they're not going to send us over to the Senate.
He's in China.
Dad, they're not going to send us over to the Senate.
Why?
Because he'll get, you know, he won't get impeached.
He's going to get acquitted.
And I'm like, look, son, this is the way things are done.
We have a process here.
Once a president gets impeached, the articles of impeachment go over to the Senate.
He's like, Dad, why would they do that?
Because then it's all lost.
Now it's all, there's nothing.
I actually was starting to get upset with my number two.
Yeah, my number two.
I said, all right, son, I'll look into it.
He was right.
Nancy Pelosi is sitting on the articles.
I am not going to do her Sindh's over until I get guarantees that the Senate's going to do X, Y, and Z. You mean to tell me Nancy Pelosi was looking for a quid pro quo?
Wow.
Well, where does it go from here?
I don't know because the Democrats are busy breaking the rules.
But what I do know is this.
Well, hey, wait, I guess they're trying to pressure some senators to cross over.
And I think Makowski over there from Alaska, I think she's talking crazy overnight.
I don't know if I like the way Mitch McConnell.
Shut it, lady.
Stop it.
So we'll see what happens with the Senate or what comes next or what if Nessie Pelosi has any leverage.
She doesn't, but we'll have to watch this.
The telephone number is 888-727-BECK.
Let's go to, is this Joseph?
Joseph in Texas, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
Good morning, Mr. Harris.
How are you?
Fantastic.
Hey, I can tell by, I've been listening to you for a couple hours.
I usually, I haven't listened to Beck for a couple weeks because I've been traveling, but my point is this.
I could tell you're a man of faith from the way you articulate yourself with some of the phrases you use.
I look at it like this.
We all know, us common folk, and I'm just a middle-class type of guy working in the oil field, et cetera, et cetera.
I mean, it reminds me of Psalm 1 and Psalm 2.
They're trying to set a trap for Donald Trump and all us deplorables, et cetera, that are conservatives and believe in fiscal responsibilities, et cetera.
They're going to fall into their own trap and fall on their own sword.
It just reminds me of those that think evil is good and good is evil.
They're destroying themselves.
I believe that they're so confused because they don't practice civility.
They're absolute hypocrites, in my opinion.
I know I'm not the only one in Texas that thinks this way.
I appreciate everything you guys do.
I just thought that I just pray for the administration.
I don't care what Donald Trump did 10 years ago or anything of that nature.
Yes, go ahead, sir.
We pray for on the conservative circus, the last segment on Fridays.
We pray to Jesus on behalf of the President of the United States, his administration, his family, who have been under withering attack.
And I'm like you and many others, people will try to look at morality or virtues or character and all this kind of stuff.
I don't know about all that.
All I know is this.
I think that President Trump is not necessarily a man after God, but he's God's man.
And he's been doing things that have been absolutely tremendous for this country.
And there have been millions of people who have been lifted out of poverty because of his common sense initiatives.
And like you, I agree.
I used to have Psalms 1 memorized, but it was a, blessed is the one who does not walk in the step with the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or take a seat in the company of mockers, but who delight, whose delight is in the law of the Lord and they meditate on it day and night.
Well, yeah.
And people who do that, Joseph, they look at all of the buffoonery and the silliness and the straight out evil that's pouring out of that TV set from our so-called news media.
And we move closer to President Trump.
Yes, exactly.
Thank you very much for the call.
Yeah.
What else are we going to do?
I mean, I'm not going to be fearful because, I mean, we just celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ, Jesus the Christ, the King.
And the angels told the shepherds that fear not.
I bring you great tidings of joy.
So we have the wonderful opportunity to fight on behalf of our liberties, but we can count on a higher power.
We don't have to pull out our guns and start shooting.
Yet.
I'm just kidding.
Do we have another caller?
We have Joseph in Utah.
Joseph, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Harris, for taking my call.
I just wanted to let you know how refreshing it is to hear you and to hear your expressions, your compassion.
The story about Charlie Brown in the beginning that really touched my heart.
It really did, man.
I just, I want to tell you how much I appreciate you and that I love you.
I love you, man.
You're the greatest.
Joseph, thank you very much.
That is a very, very kind call.
That was very, you know, don't make me cry on national on rational radio.
This is my second time in here, and you're getting all emotional now.
Thank you very much for the call.
I appreciate it.
If you want to weigh in on the Glenn Beck program, it is 888-727-BECK.
And what Joseph was talking about is on the first segment we opened up, we talked about the Christmas.
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We talked about how network television, you know, the media, it's all aligned against us.
It's all aligned against Christianity.
Is there a war?
But a little over 50 years ago on the Charlie Brown special, we had Charles Schultz, who was the creator of the artist, said, we have to make this about something.
We have to make this mean something.
So they made it about Christmas and they talked about Luke.
They quoted Luke, the announcement.
And it still has an impact to this day.
Roger.
Roger in Pennsylvania is waiting to get on the Glenn Beck program.
Hey, James, how are you doing?
Fantastic.
Hey, when you were talking about liberals grouping people together, it brought to mind a story that I experienced back in 2016 during the safety pin era.
And what happened was, yeah, you remember after Trump was elected, all these liberal people were walking around with safety pins on their lapel so that people would know, so that people of color and of different faiths would know that they were safe to be around.
You know what?
I had forgotten about that.
They were human safe spaces.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, wow.
And what wound up happening was at the time, I was taking an online master's course.
And what it was, is one of these courses that they actually had a physical class going, and you could zoom into it.
And so what happened was after the election, it was the first session after the election, all these white liberal folks were coming in with safety pins on.
Well, the actual class was in Philadelphia.
So there was a lot of African Americans who were attending as well.
And what wound up happening is somebody asked these people, what's this with the safety pins?
And they explained to them that because of Trump's election, that these were to let people of color know that they were safe people to be around.
And the African Americans in the class just were totally incensed because they felt that they were being so talked down to that we need to seek out a person with a safety pin to feel safe.
This is how liberals think of Americans of African descent.
This is what that story right there, and thank you very much for sharing it, speaks volumes about the left and how they think of Americans of African descent, of people of color in general.
It's indicative of a wider issue.
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It even goes back to, and thank you very much for the call, I appreciate you.
It goes back to an experience that I had.
Another story, story time.
As a high school teacher, my students demanded that I tell them stories.
They were trying to divert me away from giving the lesson.
I was a high school teacher for 10 years, and then I was a speaker before I got into radio.
But I would weave the lessons into the stories that I was telling so that the children, you know, I fooled them into learning.
And to be able to get into that position, though, I had to swallow a big fat pill.
And that pill was the concept that I was an affirmative action hire because I was the first American of African descent school teacher in that school.
And the conversation that I had with the superintendent of the schools who hired me was pretty amazing.
And I want to share that with you up next.
My name is James T. Harris, sitting in for Mr. Beck.
This is the Glenn Beck Program.
My name is James C. Harris, sitting in for Glenn Beck.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
When I was a young man, I wanted to travel.
Just loved traveling.
And all we would do is go back and forth to Mississippi, but I would use my imagination.
I was like Speed Racer in the Mach 5.
And we were driving all over the world.
That's how I used my imagination.
Well, we didn't have games.
We didn't have the TV set in the back of the headrest.
I'm still bitter about that, but still.
So as I grew older, I had the opportunity to travel.
And I did.
I studied overseas.
I studied in England for a year.
I went across Europe, Eastern Europe.
When it was still Eastern Europe, I just dated myself.
I remember when the wall came down.
It was a year after one of my trips.
I had the opportunity to travel through India and the Middle East.
By the time I got to the Middle East, I took my sons along.
I was really into traveling.
It's just an amazing thing because you learn by seeing, you learn by doing it, and then you can go back and read about it.
Or you can read about it first and go back and do it.
My son has carried on a tradition.
He's a traveler in the family, right?
My baby girl wants to, but she's baby girl.
We're not going to let her go.
Why?
No.
Baby girl, no.
My son's married, so he doesn't have to worry about that.
He's not going anywhere.
Actually, they do travel.
Traveling really, really opened up a whole new world to me.
And when I was a high school teacher, I had done a decent amount of traveling.
So that opened the door for me to be a world history teacher.
I heard about this job when I was in Chicago, but the job was in Wisconsin, Brown Deer, Milwaukee.
And so I overheard these administrators talking about an open position.
So I strategically went to the place, walked in, and dropped an application.
It didn't take very long.
As an American of African descent, as a high school teacher, we're a commodity.
There's not too many of us.
So you're going to try to scoop.
My transcripts were fantastic.
They had the travel experience on it.
They put me through a test called the Perceiver, the Perceiver test.
It's a long test.
And apparently, I did very, very well on it.
So the superintendent, he didn't screw around at all.
He offered me a contract on the second meeting.
I don't even think I filled out an application.
Don't know if I should have shared that, but yeah.
So he hired me.
I was excited.
And then he closed his office door.
He said, I want to talk to you about something.
Sit down.
And he said, You're going to be up against something because people are going to think that you got this job solely because you're black.
I said, Why am I going to think that?
Why would they think that?
Well, because you're the only black teacher in the school now.
Welcome aboard.
And I'm like, Well, why are you telling me this?
He said, I'm telling you this because you did not get this job because you're black.
You got this job because you're qualified, immensely qualified, surprisingly qualified.
So, whenever you get that vibe, or somebody is stupid enough to say that to your face, I just want you to understand that this is the culture.
Well, I thanked him for his candor, and it didn't take very long before that was exactly what I experienced.
But that's not something I was new at because when I was student teaching, I taught in a little town called West Bend, and I was the first black person in the school.
Period.
It was two schools put together, thousands of kids.
And they were not shy.
While I was interviewing, and you know, the bell rang and they were passing classes.
One kid yelled out, Hey, Ninja!
You know, the N-word.
And the guy I was interviewing with, I know he heard it.
I knew he heard it, but he didn't say anything.
We continued to tour, then we sat down for the formal interview part.
Then he said, You know what?
I got to tell you something.
I just want you to know I heard that.
And if you would have told me before this that I would ever hear anything like that here, I wouldn't believe it.
Now I have to face the fact that we got a culture issue here.
I just want you to know that I heard it.
He didn't apologize.
He didn't grovel.
He just acknowledged that it existed.
And in that moment, I knew this is where I want to work.
And I want that kid in my class because that's learned behavior.
That half a year I was in that school was profound.
And I still hear from some of those students today.
And that was a little while ago.
That was a little while ago.
What I'm trying to tell you good people is this.
We live in a fantastic country.
And yes, we have our warts, we have our isms, but it's only racist if you want it to be.
And even when it is racist, you have more control over the situation than you think.
Just a little bit of a diversion there because of a wonderful telephone call into the Glenn Beck program.
When we return, I just want to give you a reason why I think that we are not experiencing a coup with this impeachment drive.
And now they're talking about doing more impeachment.
The resistance movement, not only among the left and the media, and half of the establishment Republican Party.
What we're watching here is a cold civil war.
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And things are not going to improve until we recognize what we are up against and we engage it on that level.
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