Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Brad Meltzer dissect the Biden administration's alleged border chaos and cognitive decline alongside Andrew Cuomo's nursing home data manipulation. They critique cancel culture through Dr. Seuss book bans and Chris Harrison's apology, while Donnie Wahlberg details New York City's entertainment revival via outdoor comedy despite restrictive mandates. Ultimately, the episode argues that political correctness, media suppression, and bureaucratic overreach are dismantling American institutions and free speech. [Automatically generated summary]
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Dr. Seuss and Asian Cages00:08:41
It's Friday and quite a program we have for you today.
We're going to start with Dr. Seuss.
Now, we all know that Dr. Seuss has been canceled.
Well, because one of the books depicts Asians in cages where they brought lions and a white man is standing on top of this circus cage, and the Asians are in with the lions,
Asian in cages, which made me think yesterday: maybe, um, maybe we should write a Dr. Seuss book ourselves because we're not the ones that put Asians in cages.
I believe that happened in the Great Depression with progressives.
Asians in cages.
Oh my gosh.
It's very politically incorrect.
Which is why we're going to share it with you next.
The Glen Beck Program.
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Oh, so, Stu, yesterday, I said on the air that I thought we should tell the real story.
You know, Dr. Seuss, the reason why one of the Dr. Seuss books is being pulled, and I think it's, I can't believe I saw it on Mulberry Street.
Mulberry Street one, yeah.
And, you know, it's a story about a circus coming to town, and if I remember right, and all of the animals that were coming in and the exotic animals.
And one of the exotic animals, I think, is a tiger.
And it shows to Asian people.
Oh, my gosh.
Yes.
Yes, dare they.
Yes.
My goal is to make sure we have only white people in books and on products.
That's the only way racial justice will finally.
Finally, somebody's clear.
Whites are superior and we all must be white.
I want only white people on rice, white people on pancake boxes, white people in children's books.
Oh my goodness, thank you.
Well, I always confused this.
The Asians in, I saw it on Mulberry Street.
I always confused, I always, I didn't think they were Asian.
I thought they were from Springfield because they all look like Homer Simpson.
They're all that kind of weird yellow.
Okay.
But anyway, anyway.
So I guess we now know that Homer Simpson is Asian.
So they had the book pulled along with others because, yes, it's racist.
But I, it really, you know, I thought about Asians in cages and I thought, you know, that's actually a true story.
But it wasn't really us that put Asians in cages.
It wasn't people who believed in the Constitution.
It's the same people today that are telling us what to say, what's offensive, and what's not.
Nobody has ever been offended by nobody, nobody is in therapy in the entire world after millions and millions and millions of Dr. Seuss books have been purchased and read in libraries, in schools, and in children's rooms every day for decades.
No one has ever said these words in therapy.
I think it all started with the Dr. Seuss book.
It never happened.
Okay.
But I thought that we should write our own Dr. Seuss book.
And I can't read all of it on the air.
But we will post all of it at Glennbeck.com.
In fact, you know what we should do is we should do all of it at the beginning of the Friday special for Blaze subscribers because today's a really big day.
We have the Hippo Awards.
The Hippo Awards?
This is huge.
Yeah, and his pancake or whatever the hell you're George?
George.
Pancake.
I don't remember.
I just remember he looks like a sweet potato.
He looks like a sweet potato.
Right, okay.
So you wanted to call him Pancake as a pig?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
He's a skinny pig, by the way.
We should tell people that he's basically a hairless guinea pig.
He does look like a miniature hippopotamus, though.
Well, he is, he's working for the accounting firm.
Pricewaterhouse Scoopers.
Yes, and he has tallied all of the votes for the nominees in our hippo award, spelled with a Y.
It's for hypocrite.
And we're going to be giving those out today.
5 o'clock this year is on Blaze TV, and Stu's going to be there.
Is your wife showing up?
Yeah.
She's going to be presenting not only the hippopotamus, but also, I guess, some of the awards or something.
Yeah, yeah.
She's also the trainer.
She is the trainer of George the Skinny Pig.
Now, the skinny pig is not in a cage, right?
I mean, it lives in a cage.
However, it doesn't have to be a case.
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
I think it'll be okay if we let it out.
It kind of just stands there.
Okay.
Don't be terrified.
So we're going to read the whole thing today on Blaze TV and then we'll post it all for you.
But just because we have such little time today, I'm going to give you just the edited version of Asians in Cages by the Glenbeck program.
Franklin Delano tugged at his hair and tapped the arms of his big metal chair.
Then he said with a sigh as he polished his glasses in a voice that was low and as smooth as molasses, we must treat these Asians as separate classes and put them where they can't be harming the masses.
Can we put them high?
Can we put them low?
Oh, where is the best place for them all to go?
With a snap of his fingers, both too soft and sluggish, for his polioed nerves were all wiggy and buggish, but still had a ring that was brutal and thuggish.
He smiled and said, I've got the perfect solution, a cultural cleansing from Asian pollution.
And in this nebulous time full of fear and low wages, and with war with each other that rages and rages, and advice both from fools and from Democrat sages, let's put all of these terrible Asians in cages.
Woodrow Wilson's Bad Laugh00:02:54
And so it was done, to our shame and our guilt.
And we damn near lost every good thing that we had built.
But from history we learn and to history we go for a crack at the future so bright it could glow.
And no matter how leftism strikes and enrages, us all in battle of wits that enrages, we still have one thing we can say through the ages.
It sure the hell wasn't us that put Asians in cages.
You know, I haven't had a good laugh in a long time.
You know, I think, I think if, look, I don't care what you thought about the man's policies or you thought he was a bum or whatever, you missed a really good time if you took Donald Trump seriously all the time.
You know what I mean?
Jeda.
Half the time.
I bet you, I bet you almost all of the time he was Jeda.
He was saying that just as a joke and to piss people off.
And I kind of missed that.
But it sure wasn't him that put Asians in cages.
No, it's weird.
It wasn't.
You know, and speaking of cages, it really wasn't him either that did that on the border.
That was Barack Obama.
We need another group of people in cages story from Dr. Seuss.
Maybe there's a whole series of these books.
I think there's a think of any downside.
I'll tell you that.
It sounds like a winner.
Does it?
It does.
Okay, well, let's follow up.
You know, it is, I kind of like the idea of Dr. Seuss style books that actually teach real history.
You just, I mean, that is really the history.
The whole thing tells the debate and it tells with a back and forth.
The Pentagon was against it.
It talks about how the Republicans were against it, but he went on anyway.
Yeah.
FDR.
And by the way, it's not like, you know, we're Woodrow Wilson at some level, they try to, they've tried to disassociate themselves with some of the things that Wilson did.
No, no, no, no.
Just with him.
With him.
Not with the things that he did.
Yeah.
Just with him.
FDR, they're still putting him at like number one or number two in the all-time president list.
Oh, Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Seuss book.
Oh, it must be written.
There may not be enough paper in the whole world.
Not enough trees.
Why is this Dr. Seuss book a thousand pages?
I don't.
And it stops.
Chris Harrison's Antebellum Defense00:10:54
It starts rhyming and just starts to sound like a rant in the second paragraph.
What happened there?
Okay, so we have that going for us.
Let's also talk about something that I think everybody is concerned with, The Bachelor.
Now, let's pretend that I've never watched The Bachelor.
You know what?
Just because, and I like how you're diving into this, you're really doing the character.
I'm also going to dive into this.
You're going to dive into I've never watched The Bachelor as a bit.
I think it's a funny bit.
We both act as if we've never watched The Beuss.
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Yeah.
We've got a whole Bachelor podcast that we do all the time.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, Chris Harrison.
Yes.
Well, I mean, I don't know.
Chris Harrison is the host of this, and he's been the host of it for I think since the beginning.
Yeah, I think since the beginning.
Good acting.
Good acting.
You almost believe me there.
All right.
So he apparently was trying to help out and defend The Bachelorette.
I do know this story.
Okay, go ahead.
So basically, one of the contestants on The Bachelor.
So great.
When he breaks the fourth wall, like he just like talks to the audience.
I love this.
So one of the contestants was outed because she attended an antebellum party in 2018, a southern style antebellum party where she was dressed up in all the gear.
That has gone from 2018 from trendy party to you lose your life and career if you went to one three years ago.
In that three years, it's gone from like, I don't even remember it being a trendy party, but apparently at one point it was a trendy party and now it is abhorrent.
Right.
So now we only have Lady A instead of Lady Antebellum.
Right, I got it.
So now they have pictures were released of this girl.
She's like 18 years old at the time at one of these parties.
Oh my God.
So the internet goes crazy.
They start trashing her as terrible and racist.
She comes out with this ridiculously over-the-top apology as if she had committed the Holocaust, as if it was her idea.
She was like, you know, all we should do is throw all the Jews into concentration camps.
It was like, it was as if that's what she did.
Her apology was so ridiculously over the top.
It actually, by the end of reading it, I was like, you know what?
Now I'm rooting for the online mob.
I actually had turned around.
Right.
Okay.
So then he goes on TV, Chris Harrison.
Yeah.
And he has an interview with Extra or one of those types of shows, you know, one of those Hollywood shows.
And the woman who's interviewing him says, like, hey, like, what do you think about this?
And he's like, look, you know, it was several years ago.
It wasn't known as a bad thing then.
She's young.
You know, you have to have some grace for somebody like this.
And I just want to hear her side of the story.
We haven't even heard her side of the story yet.
This is before her ridiculous apology.
Oh, that's wrong.
Right?
So the burned him as a witch, didn't we?
Yeah.
Now, of course.
Yeah.
Okay.
Part of this is because the host was like, I can't believe you.
You're saying that this is okay?
Like, she really leaned into the social justice during the interview.
And Harrison was like, look, I mean, I just, you know, I'm not saying it was a good thing.
I think we all, no one would do that today.
So anyway, long story short, then he gets trashed by the mob and then also releases the single most ridiculous apology of all time.
So now I'm on the side of the mob with him too.
Okay.
Well, the mob has come and he has gone to his indoctrination camp.
He has gone to his betters who taught him the difference of right and wrong.
Remember, only witches and small pebbles float.
So we have that update because he's now politically correct.
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Oh, my gosh.
All right, here we go.
This is the canceled bachelor host discussing his race educator.
Here we go.
I am not a victim here.
I made a mistake and I own that.
No, listen.
Racism, oppression, these are big dynamic problems, and they take serious work.
And I am committed to that work.
Harrison says he's been working closely with a quote race educator and strategist, along with faith leaders and scholars like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
Dr. Dyson often talks to me about counsel, not cancel.
Oh, and that is full accountability.
Oh, yes.
Understanding what you didn't understand, owning that.
Now, hang on just a second.
Stop.
Because as I'm listening to him go on, I'm feeling the sincerity, aren't you?
Oh, yes.
I'm feeling the sincerity.
And I thought to myself, gee, I've seen this somewhere before.
Did we find that videotape?
Just watch and listen.
Tonight, we've received reports of derailed trains, of granaries on fire, and of a savage attack on the hydroelectric dam in District 5.
I'm begging for restraint and decency.
Peter, please continue.
You were telling us about these savage attacks.
The attack on the dam was a callous and inhuman act of destruction.
So I've seen this before.
And where was that?
I saw it in District 12.
Okay.
When I was deep underground in District 12.
You're pretty deep in the Hunger Game references here, for my taste.
But still pretty good.
It does look still pretty good.
Hostage.
Who is getting his statement?
Right.
Which doesn't he, when what's his name?
Chris Harrison, when he was speaking, it didn't feel like PETA at the end after he had been brainwashed.
No.
At all.
Not at all.
No.
No.
I will say this too.
What he asked for, his initial sin here, his racial sin.
And he's right.
There is a real racial problem around antebellum parties when they were like when the antebellum era was going on.
That was a real problem.
The parties in 2018 were not that big of a problem.
Yeah, they don't resemble.
It might be almost like you're insulting the memory of actual slaves by saying, this is just like that time period.
Right.
No, they like the dresses is what they're told.
Just the same thing, by the way, with the Oscars.
No, Great Gatsby parties, right?
Like there was a lot of racism in the 20s, too.
Should we get rid of those?
Yes.
Of course, the answer to that is yes.
I've never had one, so I say yes.
Let's get them.
Exactly.
But it's just funny to watch him do that.
And it's like, what he did was advocate for what, a biblical principle.
Give grace to people.
Okay, whatever.
Aren't you supposed to be more primitive?
Isn't that like a Bible thumper?
Jeez, my gosh.
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Teaching Kids Self-Love Like Frida Kahlo00:12:42
Ah, what fun we'll have in the Gulag together.
Welcome to the program, Mr. Brad Meltzer, one of my favorite people in the whole world.
He loves history almost as much as anyone I know.
Brad, how are you, sir?
I'm good, my friend.
How you been?
I'm good.
I'm good.
You know, every time you have a new book out or whatever, you know, somebody in your office calls and could Brad get.
Yes, Brad can get on.
You're one of my favorite guests because you always bring something interesting to talk about.
And this week, you don't have to bring anything to the table.
With the banning of Dr. Seuss and you, a guy who's writing children's books, what's your take on the Dr. Seuss ban?
Yeah, you know, I'm someone who grew up on Dr. Seuss.
Oh, my God.
I think I'm a writer.
I think it's a good idea.
How much therapy have you had?
We all need it.
But you know me too well.
But, you know, and listen, I think I'm a writer today because of books like Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss, when I did Heroes for My Son, I put him as one of the heroes in the book for helping millions of kids find the love of reading, right?
I mean, that is what Dr. Seuss, of course, stands for for so many.
And, you know, what is so interesting is, and listen, you got to look at the history, right?
You know as well as I know what he did when he was younger versus what he did in the war versus what he did later.
And all those things.
Let's pretend I don't know.
Yeah, so let's talk about it.
Let's talk about it.
So when he's a younger kid, he actually, like any kid, you know, writes some things that aren't the best, right?
They just aren't, right?
And even though he does these amazing things, his early work also has some drawings.
If you look at them, they didn't age well.
I think even Dr. Seuss would admit they didn't age well.
Those two things can be true at the same time.
And I think what is such a, you know, is so sad today is that we reduced the culture and the culture has come to, and I can say this, you know, for our kids' books, as Dr. Seuss, who was a hero in one of them, right?
Every hero that I've done, Glenn, from Amelia Earhart, we did I am Abraham Lincoln.
I am Martin Luther King Jr.
I am Rosa Parks to the new ones.
I am Walt Disney.
Jim Henson, someone has written to me and said, that person's not a hero.
You shouldn't do him.
And that is what is so sad to me.
Because I tell my kids, if you're looking for perfection, the only thing that's perfect is God.
That's it.
All of the rest of us are flawed.
And we have to stop seeing people as all good or all bad, because none of us are all good.
You know, we're good, we're bad.
We're complicated.
We're brave.
We're cowards.
We're amazing.
We're horrible.
We're wonderful.
And especially when it's the trajectory.
You know, when the trajectory of a man's life is he started out great and he turned into Hitler, not a good trajectory.
But if you are, you know, if you were a monster at the beginning because of your beliefs or whatever else, and then you grew and you learned and you were like, oh my gosh, I reject the things that I thought.
I'm not the same man.
That's a hero story.
Well, and listen, the star belly sneaches, according to many, are him making amends for the early things he did.
That's supposed to be an attack against what Hitler's doing, right?
That is, he's he's basically learned from what he did early and said, you know what, this is the wrong thing.
We got to stand up.
Isn't Yertle the Turtle the same thing?
Yertle the Turtle is the same thing.
And the one thing that I do think is important, though, and it is this, is he wasn't banned by Twitter.
He wasn't canceled like that.
It was his own family, his own estate that said, you know what?
These five, these couple we're going to take away.
You get the rest.
And the truth is, you know, listen, the drawings didn't age well.
They just don't.
I mean, the same way that Disneyland and Disney War, when you go now, when you go to the Song of the South, you look at some of them, you're like, this might have been good in the 50s and 60s, but today it doesn't look as good.
And I think I wish that as a culture, we could take a breath and rather, you know, I go back to Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address.
It's like, we need to be friends and not enemies.
And it's so sad to me and heartbreaking that the culture has turned into everyone is the best, everyone's the worst, because those kinds of absolutes, you know, maybe it's because I'm a Star Wars fan, but absolutes, you know, in the Jedi Order, right?
Like they, they just never do anyone any good.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you for that.
You're welcome.
So speaking of things that don't age well, you just wrote a book, I Am Frida Kahlo.
And most people know her by the eyebrows that didn't age well.
Let me tell you, we've never been closer.
I had all these people writing to me, all these kids around the country.
They're like, I want I am Frida Kahlo.
Please do I Am Fritocalo.
And I'm like, all I know about her is she's got the eyebrows and that Selma Hyde played her in the movie.
And I'm keep going, why do all these kids want her?
She's just an artist.
What's the big deal?
And you know, I wrote this kid's book series.
We have a mutual love of history, which has always been, you know, it's one of the great things of our friendship.
But to give the other part of our friendship is I wanted to give my kids better heroes to look up to, heroes of character, heroes of compassion, heroes of kindness.
Okay, so tell me about her because I know I also know she was married to Diego Rivera, which he was a staunch anti-capitalist.
He was an American hater.
Pardon me?
Yeah, on social, right?
A socialist.
An absolute socialist, yeah.
And so tell me about her that's going to make me like her.
Yeah, so here's here.
And again, it's almost the reverse.
It's perfect with the Dr. Seuss, right?
Because to show the other side, right?
Here's her story.
She's a little girl.
She gets polio.
One leg is shorter than the other, and she can't really walk.
She hobbles.
Every kid makes fun of her, calling her peg leg.
Wow.
And they say, they make fun of how she dresses.
They make fun because she wears long skirts to cover up her legs.
She gets, as a young girl, in a horrible bus accident.
And they say she's never going to walk again, craps her back.
And they're like, she's putting a full body cast.
And lying in bed, unable to move, she says, bring me some paintbrushes.
She can't even sit up.
They build a special easel for her and they put a mirror over her bed above her so she can look up and see the thing that she can actually draw because she can't move is herself.
And she starts doing self-portraits.
But what happens is, and what's amazing, is that her whole life, Frida Kahlo is made fun of for how she looks, for the unibrow.
She's made fun of where she's from.
She's made fun of how ugly she is.
And she is never anything but unapologetically herself.
And her whole life she goes.
And I have to tell you, one of the things I'm proudest of in this book is the last page of the book, we actually put a mirror, a plastic mirror on the last page.
And it says there, what do you see here?
And little Frida Kahlo in our children's book holds up the mirror and it says, I see a work of art.
And when your kid looks in that mirror in this selfie culture that we live in, you can see that she says, you know, everyone's, life is messy and life isn't easy and life is hard.
But you got to get back up again and you got to accept yourself for who you are.
And if you do that, as it says in the book, I know the most beautiful thing in the world is you.
We got to stop teaching our kids to take selfies and teach them a little self-love.
They're not perfect.
None of us are perfect.
And that's what I love about Frida Kahlo, is that I want my daughter to have that lesson.
Are you going to have that lesson?
That's a really good story.
And I hate you for it, but it's a really good story.
You know me.
No, no, no, I know.
Don't do her social.
You know we don't do where her politics, because I, as you said, her politics evolve and go up and go down like anyone else's.
Yeah um, to me none of that's important.
The question is, as you said, the hero's journey, and her hero journey is just one of absolute.
I mean, how hard is it to find, especially for young girls today, and it's everyone's told to be beautiful, be perfect, be everything on instagram.
It's disgusting to me.
This is to just love themselves.
This is proof that We don't ban books and we don't judge people on one thing.
I mean, I think it's great that we hear this about her.
And if you're curious about her, then you eventually, as you grow up, you start to look into what she believes and who she married and what he did and everything else.
And you make your own decision.
But we don't ban people and we don't say, oh, Dr. Seuss did this a long time ago and we got to get rid of that, even if you're a family.
All right.
So, Brad, you have one more book out.
Do you not?
I kind of like this one.
Okay.
I do.
You've got about three minutes tops.
I'm going to do it quick.
So you know me a long time.
I've never dreamed a book.
I dreamt an entire book.
I dreamt the premise of this book.
It's called A New Day.
And I woke up and I said, I have an idea that Sunday quits just like that.
And all the other days have to have tryouts for a new day.
And they quickly have a trade.
They say, let's have fun day.
Everyone will have fun.
And like, no, let's have run day.
Everyone runs fast like the flash.
Nope.
Bun day where everyone wears buns like Princess Leia.
And they're like, oh, I thought you were going to do the other buns.
They're like, no, let's not do that.
And then a little girl comes to Sunday.
It gets crazy and crazy.
They want the dogs want Dog's Day.
The cats want Catter Day.
But at the end of the book, a little girl comes in with a pot of plants a Sunday.
And Sunday says, what's this?
You want tree day?
You want to grow Rutabega Day?
What do you want?
And she says, no, I just want to say thank you, Sunday, for all the things you give us.
And I want you to have a nice day.
And Sunday is undone.
And in that moment, Sunday realizes, of course, the moral of our children's book, which is that with a little kindness in it, every day can be a new day.
And my God, where we are as a culture right now, our kids are so anxious.
We as adults are so anxious.
We need to arm our kids with the lessons of that when you say thank you and you show kindness instead of venom in this world, you can change everyone's day and have a new day.
So that's the new children's book.
You're a better man than I am, Brad.
I so respect you, and I love your constant optimism and your ability to tell the truth and have your message heard by all Americans without ever compromising who you are.
And congratulations on that.
And thank you for being my friend.
Listen, thanks for being my friend, whatever the genre, but it's not just optimism.
This is how I fight back, right?
I fight back by helping people teach character to their kids and help them realize this is a venomous moment we're living in.
It's a terrible moment in American history when we're all fighting.
And you have a choice, right?
And my choice is, is try and put a little more kindness in the world.
Well, again, I go back to Abraham Lincoln, one of mine, and your great heroes.
And I think that a new day for me is just my attempt to kind of counter what we're seeing in the culture so our kids get a little something better.
I am free to call, give them a little something better.
And the other book is called A New Day.
Brad Meltzer, the author and friend of the program.
Thank you so much, Brad.
Appreciate it.
Always love talking to you.
Thanks, my friend.
God bless.
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And Bill, I'm kind of upset about it.
That there's something wrong with you.
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What?
Three weeks ago, you told me you received it on this program.
I was lying.
I was counting on you to tell me that I received it.
Three weeks ago, you weren't alive.
I was only lying because I thought you had told me the truth that it was in the mail, and now I don't have it.
Well, I sent it to you as I have sent every single killing.
That's not true.
All 10 of them, and you never get them.
Which tells me, this is what this tells me, Beck.
Okay.
That you are isolated, that you are a man that does not have contact with other people other than stupid.
So are you blaming me or are you blaming my staff?
I'm blaming you.
I'm blaming.
I'm blaming you.
All right.
Well, I'll keep looking for it, Bill.
I'll keep looking for it.
If it comes to my house, I will definitely read it.
If it comes to the business, you know, I'll definitely read it, but I don't have it.
Beck, you live in an underground bunker.
Okay, let's start it.
Let's not bicker here.
Let's talk about what do you think the biggest story of the week is?
You not receiving the mob.
Well, I can't help you on that.
Biggest story.
I think the failure of Joe Biden after six weeks, I just filed a message of the day on billoreilly.com, and I said to my listeners last night, look, you all know that I said I would give Joe Biden a chance because he asked for one.
In our Judeo-Christian tradition, if somebody asks you for a chance and they're not a convicted felon, you give them a chance, which I did.
But after six weeks, we have absolute pandemonian in the country.
And I'm looking around, and I'm a simple man, as you know, Beck.
And I ask very simple questions: your border policy in Mexico, how exactly is that helping the country?
How exactly is it helping the country to allow undocumented people to cross into the United States, request asylum, hand them $1,100 in cash so they can go anywhere they want and not test them for COVID?
No, no, no.
At least the Border Patrol in Texas has been testing them for COVID.
And it is.
They have released 6% of those who have been released have been tested positively.
Here's how it works.
Here's how it works.
Now get a pen and write it down.
Here's how it works.
Send it to me.
In individual sectors like Brownsville, for example, they do have rapid testing places.
And the one in Brownsville, Texas is in the bus station.
But you are not compelled if you apply for asylum to go to get tested.
Now, if they nail you coming across and you don't apply for asylum, which is nobody now, everybody says I want asylum because then you get the money.
You get cash.
Okay.
So everybody does that now.
All right.
And but they do not compel you.
So the city fathers in Brownsville issued a press release yesterday that said we put just in one day 106 undocumented people on buses who tested positive.
Right.
So what you have from Brownsville all the way to San Diego is just abject chaos.
So how is this helping the United States?
How?
Well, honestly, how is it helping children as well?
I mean, I'd rather have children locked in cages, as they say, that are protected, waiting for someone to claim them that can be clearly tested to be a parent or a relative, rather than this system now of colored wristbands by the mob and the cartels down across the border that are smuggling these children in to America, clearly for the sex trade.
Well, I think there's a component of that, but the ruse is this.
If the child gets here, then the child can bring the entire family under the Biden administration's policy.
So, I had Stephen Miller, you know, Miller, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Chief Immigration Advisor.
Yeah, from he was on the Nosepin News on Tuesday, Wednesday, on Wednesday.
And anybody can go to billorilly.com and watch that interview.
This was one of the most important interviews I've ever done because Miller just documented the difference between what the Trump policy was on the border and what the Biden policy is after six weeks.
It is absolutely astounding.
And the reason it's happening is because the media does not report it.
So people listening to us now who don't live on the border don't know what's happening.
So the cartels basically are charging $6,000 to smuggle children ages 10 to 16 into the country, all right?
Their parents, their uncles, their brothers, whatever, pay the $6,000.
The kids get here, tell the U.S. authorities, I'm so-and-so, I'm here.
And then the authorities under the Biden administration have to find search for the families who are usually waiting in Laredo, right across the border.
As soon as they know where they are, and a lot of times the kids will give them the address and the cell phone number, whatever it may be, they can come in legally here because the child is here.
And people just don't know what the deuce is happening.
Now, this is going to lead in the next two years to hundreds of thousands of undocumented people coming into the United States unsupervised because as soon as they leave Brownsville or Laredo or wherever, Bisbee, Arizona, they vanish.
The Biden administration doesn't know where they are.
Okay, so Bill has been summoned and they don't, they're not going to answer the summons.
How does the Biden administration expect to survive this tsunami of nobody will know this?
No, they no one will know because the media blacks it out.
That's how.
Well, but you will start to feel the impact in your cities.
And with other things that he, with other things that he is doing, you're going to start feeling the impact with.
I agree.
And I said there's three things that are going to dismantle him.
The economy, and you're seeing a shaky stock market now.
Okay, immigration and cancel culture.
Those three things are going to undermine his administration.
But here's the really frightening part about it.
If you and me and Stu were talking to President Biden right now, he could not explain and does not know what is happening on that border.
He does not have the capacity, in my humble opinion, to absorb information and analyze anything.
He sits there and Susan Rice brings in paperwork and tells him to sign it and tells him what to tell Jen Sackey to say.
That's what's happening.
We have a guy there who simply cannot, not will not.
It's not a will not, cannot process information.
And that's who you have as president of the United States right now.
So, Bill, earlier this week, there was some disturbing video that came out that kind of backs up what you were just saying.
The media, of course, said, no, no, no, this is just because he has a stutter.
This is clearly not a stutter.
Look for that audio.
That was the interview, the interview he did with his wife with the, and it was a softball interview.
Yes.
It wasn't a hard interview.
Right.
He just couldn't get it out.
Now, look, it would be wrong and unfair for people to say he has dementia or he has this or he has that.
Don't do that.
What you can and should do as American citizens is say, can the man just ask the question?
Can he process information?
And the answer, in my opinion, is no.
The White House cut off an exchange that he had and a press conference as he said, okay, I'm ready to take questions.
The White House dumped the feed.
Do you have that audio?
Play that here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do.
Taking questions and?
Nothing.
Well, you know what happened there?
No what?
He had to take a nap.
So he ran over into his nap time, and they had to get him out of there.
He now holds the record of the longest time without a press conference.
And I remember hearing all about that with Donald Trump and I think a little bit of that with Barack Obama.
But I don't hear any real pushback from anybody saying, can he answer questions?
Well, why would the media do that?
They don't want him to answer questions.
See, this is what people don't understand.
The corruption of the press and the disintegration of the media in America now has gone way beyond bias and way beyond what we want the Democratic Party to win.
Now it's we're going to basically protect any kind of wrongdoing, any kind of policies that don't work.
Look at Andrew Cuomo in New York.
Now, it wasn't until the far left turned on him that the media began covering the misconduct stories.
All right, so let me let me let me turn to uh Andrew Cuomo.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll turn there, but let me just wrap up this segment with Joe Biden in Houston.
He's getting on a plane.
He told me last, he came in to see me last event.
And representatives Shirley Jackson, Lee, Al Green, Sylvia Garcia, Lizzie Pinelli, excuse me, Pinella, and what am I doing here?
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Andrew Cuomo, America's dumbest mobster.
He has had quite a run.
First of all, there's new news coming out today that his, huge news, that his aide said they altered the numbers of the nursing home deaths.
They altered the numbers to hide them.
The New York Times is reporting it.
But everybody's obsessed with his stupid crassness.
I mean, I think that's bad, but he killed people in nursing homes.
Tell me what's happening here.
Okay.
So the big story is that the Cuomo administration, now I don't know what he knew and when he knew it.
And again, you got to be careful on this stuff.
But the Cuomo administration put out false data about deaths in New York State nursing homes.
That has been established as a fact.
So the FBI now has to get involved because that's a felony.
You can't use an office of any state, right, to put out false data about people dying after a state order was issued.
And as we all know, Governor Cuomo signed an executive order compelling COVID senior citizens back into nursing homes.
So Cuomo is in trouble in the sense that his administration, someone is going to be charged with a crime.
Do you think it'll be him?
Do you think it'll be him?
I don't know.
I mean, it's impossible to say.
I don't know how he manages.
He might have a bunch of incompetent boobs and all that stuff trying to do this kind of stuff for him.
I don't know.
But the bigger story is how all of this started to unravel.
So the press protected Andrew Cuomo all through the COVID situation.
He was the greatest guy.
He won an Emmy.
He put out a book.
He was the warrior.
He was so much better than Trump.
But when he started to get into trouble, the Attorney General of the state of New York, Letitia James, who wants to be governor, swung into action.
Now, she's further left, much further left than Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo will hold up things like the wealth tax and a lot of the socialist stuff that the people, the far left in New York wants.
Once Letitia James signaled that she wanted his job, then all of a sudden, the press started to report stuff.
And James herself came out and said, well, I'm going to investigate Andrew Cuomo.
I'm going to look into it.
And that's when it all went south for him.
So how do I know all this?
Because one of the accusers of Cuomo, a young woman, hired Deborah Katz to represent her.
Do you know Deborah Katz?
Remember that name?
No.
She represented Christine Blasey Ford against Kavanaugh.
Oh, my gosh, yes.
Deborah Katz is the, you can't get any more radical left than she is.
She's based in Washington.
So why would a young woman in New York, and Deborah Katz charges like $750 an hour?
Now, this woman, like Blasey Ford, isn't paying Deborah Katz anything.
Her bills are being paid by a committee, by an operation.
Okay.
Well, when I saw that, when I saw Katz come in, I went, Cuomo's toast.
They want him out.
So now all of the stuff that you see leaking to the New York Times, this is coming from the far left.
It's not coming from people who don't like Cuomo ideologically.
So that was the indicator that the fix is in.
Here's Blasey Ford's lawyer representing this woman.
Why?
The woman hasn't filed anything.
She can't really file anything because it doesn't come close to being, she couldn't win anything based upon what her testimony has been so far.
Right.
He's a pig, but it's he hasn't, so far, it hasn't been anything that was criminal.
Or even civil.
You know, there are statutes.
You can read them.
There are very strict worker protections in New York.
This is a media play.
This is totally media.
And so Cuomo's sitting up there, and he's not going to survive this.
I don't think they're going to knock him out like Newsom.
Newsome's going to get booted.
But we don't have recall in New York.
Right.
Do you think he serves the rest of his term?
Wow.
Wow.
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Bill O'Reilly is joining us from BillO'Reilly.com and his new book, Killing the Mob, comes out soon.
Pre-order it now wherever you get your books, unless you're shopping at that place where they still sell Dr. Seuss books.
By the way, eBay just dropped the resale of any Dr. Seuss books.
eBay did.
Not any, just the ones that were banned.
The ones that were banned.
Yeah, which again, everyone's like, well, this is just the company, the family's company.
We just talked to Brad about Brad Meltzer about that last hour, and he said, you know, at least it's the family's company, which is better than a mob coming to come after them.
But now they're taking them down off of eBay.
That's not the family's company.
Yeah.
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Bill O'Reilly, any quick comment on the Dr. Seuss stuff?
Why don't they just edit out the offending portions in the volumes?
Yeah.
I understand that you don't want kids reading racist stuff.
Okay, I'm fine with that.
But the book, it's not all racist.
It's just portions in there that Dr. Seuss was not enlightened and just take them out.
That's called the editing process.
And then when you publish the books, they're not there.
But do you believe this is cancel culture or not?
Of course it is.
Of course it's cancel culture.
And you can go back with any writer except me in the world and find, you know, objectionable stuff.
Any classic writer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Plato, you can find it because it was a different world bit.
And the view of society and people was different.
So you could, the Bible has all kinds of crazy stuff that is racist in it.
But what the cancel culture wants is power.
This is all about power, the power to limit expression.
That's what this is across the board.
Talking to Bill O'Reilly, the Daily Color has the headline, we were repeatedly warned of March 4th violence.
Troops were met with mild weather and joggers.
We have razor wire fences around the Capitol.
We have military trucks and the military out because of something that they say was going to happen on March 4th.
On March 6th is also another date, but March 6th is still being organized on Twitter by the far left.
They say they're going to burn it all down.
Yet it is only the right and QAnon people that are being blamed.
I have no affection for QAnon, and I think that's total nonsense, and I think it's dangerous.
But that's not what's going on.
And people will say now, Bill, if you don't see it now, you're not awake.
Well, what's going on?
What is happening that people should be seeing with the Capitol and the Renewal Now by Nancy Pelosi saying those fences and those guards are going to be there as long as we need them?
What's going on?
But they don't need them because there's nothing happening.
So when the inauguration happened, we had to have 25,000 National Guard sleeping in garages in D.C. There was not one right-wing incident.
The only incident on Inauguration Day was Antifa burning down another part of Portland, Oregon.
So really, what's happening?
So George Floyd trial starts Monday.
Supposed to last two months.
By the end of April, all right, if the police officer who's been fired in Minneapolis is acquitted of second-degree murder, there's a very good chance there will be violent riots in America.
Okay?
Everyone knows that.
So the progressive left is basically building a straw man that says, look, don't worry about that.
Don't worry about what happened last summer.
The real threat is QAnon and white supremacy, even though nobody knows anybody who's QAnon.
And I don't know any white supremacists.
They don't live near me.
So that's what it is.
It's setting a fire to obscure the real conflagration that absolutely could happen shortly.
Bill, there was a Daily Beast article that was out on March 3rd.
Let me give you just a bit of it.
As Trump supporters gathered Sunday outside Conservative Political Action Conference Center in Orlando to greet the former president's motorcade, a correspondent for the popular pro-Trump YouTube channel went into the crowd to interview them, risking the fate of his entire company in the process.
This company was the right side broadcasting network.
Daily Beast goes on to say this is a dangerous, dangerous group, and so is Donald Trump.
They're promoting election fraud and cutting their mics as soon as they say something they get the channel banned, but that's their dog whistle stuff.
RSBN and Google, which owns YouTube, didn't respond to the request for comment.
So they ask YouTube, why are you still carrying this?
And why are you still having Donald Trump and his speeches from CPAC on YouTube?
That's March 3rd, March 4th.
YouTube deletes videos of Trump's CPAC speech and suspends the channel that posted it.
Is this just a pack of wolves now that are just calling each other and saying, hey, you got to do this?
Oh, thanks.
Yeah, we forgot.
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We will delete that.
Well, the two most dangerous internet sites, in my opinion, are the Daily Beast and the Huffington Post.
They both have big money behind them, and they're picked up by a lot of other internet sites.
And they are deeply involved in the totalitarian movement to stop free speech and expression.
Both of those organizations, that's what they use their resources to do.
They don't like you.
They'll smear you.
They'll attack you.
They'll try to harm you as best they can.
And they have the resources to fight the lawsuits.
They can do it.
And they have the power and the power to frighten the social media companies.
So a guy named Barry Diller, you may have heard that name.
He oversees the Daily Beast.
He's a very wealthy man.
So these are dangerous, dangerous people.
And at this point, they have some momentum.
Bill, coming up in a little while, I have a journalist from Arizona.
She was a 20-year anchor on the local news there, and she just recently posted this on Facebook.
I want you to listen and give your thoughts on this.
You have it?
Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom.
And I'll be honest, I don't like the direction it's going.
The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider range of viewpoints represented in every newsroom at every level and in each position.
In the past few years, I haven't felt proud to be a member of the media.
I'm sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.
I found myself reading news copy that I didn't believe was fully truthful or only told part of the story.
And I began to feel that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession.
It's been a serious struggle for me, and I no longer want to do this job anymore.
So I've decided the time is right to do something else, and I'm leaving Fox 10.
There will probably be some hit pieces written about me.
Not everyone is dedicated to telling the truth, but thankfully, many of you have figured that out.
I promise you, if you hear it from my lips, it will be truthful.
It is scary walking away from a good job and a successful career, especially in difficult times.
I know God has my back and will guide me to work that aligns with my values.
So local news has been the one place where people feel like they can still trust it.
They can still trust their local news.
Now it's down to local news where there is no diversity of thought at all in local news.
Are we seeing the rebirth of journalism with these people leaving and most likely starting their own thing?
Or are we seeing a more disturbing sign that the trend is continuing with really bad journalism?
Well, it's not a profit center anymore.
The local news, and I came up under local news, it's not a profit center the way it used to be.
So the people who work it are not nearly as smart and as honest as they used to be.
And that's what this woman, and I read the story, and she was absolutely right.
The guy in the Arizona Republic, Goody Koontz is his name.
He's a TV critic.
Goody Koontz.
All right.
Smashed her.
And this guy has been a radical leftist forever.
That's the newspaper industry.
Yeah.
But, you know, you have to admire her.
I always write my own material.
Nobody writes for me.
So I've never had that problem.
How rare is that?
No one does that.
Yeah.
I didn't think so.
No.
Anchors, you know, if I am on television or the radio, what I say comes from me.
Right.
But again, now we're hiring, you know, ex-beauty queens sometimes, ex-football players, you know, and it's, I don't know, I don't watch local news.
Do you watch local news, Beck?
No, I don't.
Okay.
I don't watch any really TV anymore.
Yeah, I don't either.
And neither do my kids.
But when I worked at Channel 2 in New York, WCBS, that was one of the best local news agencies in the country.
I mean, it was really well run, very high standards, and you had to back everything up.
Same thing with WCBB in Boston when I worked there.
Really good.
But now that's all deteriorated.
And these people, a lot of them don't know anything.
So if the national news is dominated by liberals, which it is, the local news watches that and incorporates it into their presentation.
It's the trickle-down effect.
And that's what you're getting.
Is there a better chance for local news, at least in smaller cities, because they have to answer directly to the public?
And if you are living, if I wanted to, I could go to Phoenix or Dallas or any red state.
I could set up a newsroom that's fair and tough, and I would win within six months.
Right.
It would be faster than that.
Just blow it out.
But you'd have to have management backing you.
You'd have to have management that wanted that kind of presentation.
And with the television news media being dominated now by leftists, that kind of management is hard to find.
The guy in Chicago, sports guy, just got thrown over by the Disney station, WLS, because he was feuding with the woman anchor, and he said something demeaning.
He shouldn't have said it.
But this guy's at LS for like 40 years over the side.
So, you know, we all know what's happening now.
And that's why the Blaze, Beck, O'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com, we become more important for people to get honest information.
At least we tell them why we believe what we believe.
Right.
And we correct our mistakes when we're wrong, which I still haven't seen anybody do about the CPAC stage debacle.
Still haven't seen any.
Oh, sorry, we got that one wrong.
Pardon me?
Nazi thing, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This was the greatest story of all time.
Okay, you're going to tell me.
30 seconds.
You're going to tell me that people running that operation were going to take the chance to become a Nazi thing on the stage.
I know.
This is what you're going to tell me.
We talked to the people who built the stage and they admitted that they built it, they designed it, and CPAC had very little to do other than to approve the design of it.
But no one apologized.
No one apologized, and they didn't come out until they were forced to on Tuesday.
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But it's really amazing.
I mean, after they hid this report on the deaths at the nursing homes, they admitted the reason they did it was because, oh, well, we didn't want to face any Trump tweets or get an investigation.
But the New York Times report goes further.
Mr. Cuomo and his aides actually began concealing the numbers months earlier, and his aides were battling their own top health officials and well before requests for data arrived from federal authorities.
Cuomo's been pushing everything back to the Trump administration.
And of course, the media is generally speaking eaten that up because they want to just bash Trump on anything, anything they can throw on the former president.
Not true.
The aides who were involved in changing the report, Melissa DeRosa, none of them had health experience.
And he, Cuomo, this is four days before Cuomo started writing his book.
So I am now thinking about writing a book about what we went through, Mr. Cuomo said four days after the reports release his first public comments on it.
It's unbelievable.
We're going to get into that on Stu Does America tonight, maybe a little bit more here on the radio show as well.
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So earlier this week, I saw a viral video from a former Arizona news anchor named Kerry Lake.
Here's what she said.
Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom.
And I'll be honest, I don't like the direction it's going.
The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider range of viewpoints represented in every newsroom at every level and in each position.
In the past few years, I haven't felt proud to be a member of the media.
I'm sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.
I found myself reading news copy that I didn't believe was fully truthful or only told part of the story.
And I began to feel that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession.
It's been a serious struggle for me, and I no longer want to do this job anymore.
So I've decided the time is right to do something else, and I'm leaving Fox 10.
There will probably be some hit pieces written about me.
Not everyone is dedicated to telling the truth.
Thankfully.
So this is Carrie Lake.
We have her on the phone now, and so we're going to get the story from her firsthand.
Hi, Carrie.
How are you?
Hi, Glenn.
I'm doing great.
Thanks for inviting me on.
I just can't believe that I'm talking to you about this video that I put out.
I just wanted to send a message to the viewers.
Yeah.
Well, let them know where I was going.
I think this went viral because I think people are feeling kind of what you're feeling.
They don't trust news.
And quite honestly, local news has been more trustworthy in the last few years than it has been the national news.
And we need good journalists now more than ever.
And I saw this and I can relate to your pain and wanted to talk to you about it.
And I don't want to bash the station or anybody else.
I just want to talk generally what is happening.
What is happening?
Wow.
Well, I mean, I think we have very biased news.
I think we have a lot of one viewpoint represented in newsrooms around the country, whether it be national or local, and very little of another viewpoint.
And I guess you could say, you know, right versus left, but I'm even talking, I don't know how to say it.
When I first got into a newsroom, I remember it just seems like there were a lot of different age groups.
You know, it's become a very young profession.
It's a hard job to run around and be a reporter.
But I think we're kind of missing different perspectives.
Even when it comes to age, we're losing a lot of the older people in journalism.
I mean, think about, I don't know how old you are, Glenn.
You're a young guy.
No.
I'm in my 50s.
I'm in my 50s as well.
Okay.
I feel like I have a little more wisdom than maybe I did even in my 30s or 20s.
Yes.
And I think it's great to have those viewpoints.
People who may be our grandparents or people who grew up in small towns and have rural experience.
It's all becoming kind of the same, the same viewpoints.
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And I just decided that I couldn't fix it, one person, but I also didn't want to be part of it.
And I didn't feel proud about what I was doing.
And I'm one of those people that I like to work and I like to feel good about it.
And I just hadn't been feeling good about it for a long time.
So let me say this, Carrie, and ask your opinion on it.
Not sure that it is um.
You know, when you were talking about age uh, and wisdom and experience, I know I want to surround myself with young people, not to the expense of others, but because they have a different viewpoint and they see the world uh, for what in in with fresh eyes and what it can be, um.
But I also want to work with people who understand and respect the world that was and the world that we have lived through and the experience we have.
If we work together, we create something amazing.
But I don't think that exists anymore, that you're just dismissed yeah, or not even dismissed.
You don't even feel you can put your ideas out there to be dismissed.
I've had so many people reach out to me and you're right Glenn, I I love the young reporters i've worked with.
You know I I absolutely love the perspective they bring.
I just I was thinking when I got into my first newsroom how I was kind of the young reporter and I looked up to so many of these veteran reporters who've been there forever.
Right, and a lot of them have gotten out of the business.
So i'm not trying to bash the young people, I adore them.
There we have some of the hardest working great young people in town and i've been lucky to work with them um, but yeah, you don't even feel comfortable putting out an idea because your people are afraid to talk right now.
I just was at an appointment the other day and it was somebody.
It's somebody i've i've gone to uh for a while and I thought he was um liberal.
I didn't know what his you know perspective was.
We didn't really talk about the news because it's kind of dangerous.
And when he found out that I left my job, only then did he reveal, oh my gosh, i'm actually conservative and i'm scared to death.
I, I see clients all day.
I'm so afraid to even speak that I might offend somebody and I thought wow, this is not just in journalism, this is in, this is everywhere, in every industry.
People are afraid and i'm hearing this from the response i've gotten from the video, which has been thousands upon thousands of emails and comments, people telling me they work in you name, the industry.
They're feeling this as well.
Well, I can't tell you.
We did a deal on the great reset and what the banks and the accounting firms are now going through uh, on This ESG reporting, environmental, social justice and governance score, which is basically Chinese social score, their social credit score.
It's really, truly terrifying.
I am getting so many emails and so many calls from people who are CPAs or work in the banking industry that are all saying the same thing.
This is coming and we don't know what to say.
We don't know what to do because I'm not for this, but I'm out.
You don't stand against this.
Yeah, it's frightening.
And so what do we do?
You know, that's the question.
How do we come together?
I think the majority of people feel like what you just described.
They're afraid of what's coming.
They want to speak out, but they don't know how to do it.
You know, do you lose a job?
You have to put food on the table, right?
Somehow.
Yeah.
And I had to come to grips with that because I was walking away from a nice paycheck.
I'm going to be honest.
I've worked in the business for a long time.
And the courageous part wasn't putting the video out.
The courageous part was coming to grips with, okay, I'm leaving, I have to leave this all behind.
Yeah, when you have 20 years at number one at a local station, that's a big thing to walk away from.
And also, I bet you also thought, but I'm also losing my voice.
I'm losing the ability, you know, to have this kind of impact.
Maybe I can make a difference.
Did you go through that as well?
I did.
For a while, I felt like, well, it's better to be in the media, even though I'm not totally proud of it, at least trying to, you know, I always say it's not my sandbox.
I'm just playing in it.
And every once in a while, I try to throw a handful of sand out.
Right.
But, you know, I hate to have voices leave the media that we need, and maybe more common sense voices.
But also, when you just feel like you can't make a difference, then you have to move on.
That's where I kind of came to.
I thought, well, I just don't feel like I can, it's not worth putting my voice on things I don't, I personally don't believe in.
Now, other people, Glenn, they might jump into these roles in newsrooms around the country and feel fine reading the stuff that I had a hard time reading and feeling good about.
Did the election play a role in this?
I think two things happened, COVID and the election.
But really, it happened back with the election in 2016.
I started seeing about how people were covering Donald Trump.
And I thought, why are they so, why do they hate this man so much?
Can't we just be fair in how we cover him?
Didn't seem that way.
And it only grew worse after 2016.
I wasn't thrilled with how the election was handled by the media at all.
And I remember on election night, actually, when it was called Arizona Was Called, I remember thinking, whoa, we still have people voting.
And I even spoke out and said a few times election night, wait a minute, I don't think Arizona should have been called because we still have hundreds of thousands, maybe a million votes to count.
I remember saying that several times on election night.
And yeah, that kind of bothered me.
Obviously, when the votes were counted, it didn't turn out.
And it turned out that Joe Biden took the state, but I didn't feel that calling it that early was the right thing to do.
And I voiced that opinion on the air.
So I want to ask you about it also.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Okay.
I was going to say COVID also really, I think, was where it hit me.
I felt that what I was reading was kind of fear-mongering.
This was my opinion.
And we were able to put out, the media was able to put out soundbites and all kinds of information from certain doctors, but not other doctors.
Correct.
You know, even if they were doctors who weren't treating COVID patients.
And then we have doctors who are treating COVID patients, and we can't talk about that.
We can't talk about what's working.
It almost felt like there was no desire to put out stories that would make people feel better, alleviate some of their fear, or give them options for treatment or things that might help.
It felt very much like fear-mongering.
I don't want to be a part of that because I live in a neighborhood with elderly people who are afraid to come out of their homes.
And I just, I didn't feel good about it.
So when we get into this kind of fear to speak, where are we headed?
I mean, there's a story in the New York Times today about how the Germans have just banned the speech and put on a watch list one of their political parties.
It's a right-wing, they say extremist.
I know nothing about this party.
It might be a bunch of Nazis.
I don't know.
But that's the way they're treating them and banning their speech.
And putting them on a watch list.
And you read the New York Times story today, and it is, it's almost giddy about the idea that you could put a political party on a terror watch list.
It's a little frightening that it seems as though we're going in that direction.
Well, we may be.
I mean, people are being banned from Twitter and Facebook, and we've seen posts banned.
I don't know anything about the story that you just talked about.
Maybe this is a modern Nazi group.
Who knows?
Right.
I don't know either.
Yeah.
I'm actually, you bring up a point, though.
The censorship is at a level I never expected to see in this country.
And I'm really stunned when I post something or I talk about censorship on social media to see other journalists pop into my feed and make comments supporting censorship.
As a journalist, I just don't know how you are okay with that.
How do you reason with yourself and say, yeah, censorship is okay?
I just was, I guess I was doing that differently.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, you know, in Germany when they banned Mein Kampf, I kind of, you know, I get it.
They were Nazis, and there were a lot of Nazis that didn't go to jail in Germany and didn't pay for things, and you wanted to stop that ideology.
But we always sold Mein Kampf here in America.
I've read it.
It is crazy.
It is the rantings of a madman.
And to me, it makes me question how did people dismiss this?
They knew what he was going to do.
How did they dismiss it?
And I fear we're just repeating a lot of these things.
I can still get Mein Kampf at Amazon.
I can still get it at eBay.
But I can't get six Dr. Seuss books from either of those places today.
I'm still trying to figure the Dr. Seuss thing out.
I don't get the problem with it, but, you know, I think when you see Dr. Seuss being banned, it's really starting to wake people up.
And we're led to believe that we have to remain quiet.
Our opinions are wrong.
You know, we've been called racist, Nazis, you name it.
And I think that we might be in the majority and we're just being told to be quiet and don't speak up.
Even if you think it's common sense, don't speak up or you're in trouble.
I think there's a shift happening, actually, based on what I've been reading from the comments I've gotten where people are saying, that's it.
I'm done.
The next time this happens at work, I'm going to say something.
I have to.
So I don't know.
Are you sensing it?
And you talk to people all the time, Glenn.
I feel like there might be a tiny shift happening where people are fed up enough with being told their traditional values are wrong, their ideas are wrong, their beliefs are wrong, and they're ready to stand up.
Well, I will tell you, this is almost like the last call at a bar.
If you don't stand up now, if you remain silent, this is the last probably easy time for you to do it.
And I know doing it now seems like a lot.
If we would have spoken out earlier, maybe things would have been different.
But it's not going to get easier from here.
And if people don't stand up in those meetings in those companies and say, I'm not doing it, you're not teaching me.
I'm hoping that, you know, if we had 20% of the teachers stand up and say, we got to go back to school, this is ridiculous.
20% of the teachers, it would make all the difference in the world, but nobody's doing it.
Well, people are afraid of being ostracized.
The cancel culture, you know, you want to fit in.
You want people to like you.
That's natural.
But being ostracized won't kill you.
And it might save the country.
It will save the country.
Yeah, and I've been canceled several times because people don't like what I tweet.
I don't think I tweet anything wrong.
That's bad.
It might not be what other people, you know, I try to put stories out there and get people to react to them and say, hey, what do you think about this?
The president did this today or this happened.
What are your thoughts?
And because I'm not actively, wasn't actively bashing the president or pushing COVID fear, the media, some people in the media would attack me and write stories about me in the newspaper.
But the first time I was canceled, it was really painful.
I was distraught.
It did feel like my world was ending.
But the good news is you get over it.
And the second time you're canceled, it's easier.
The third time, you just finally start to almost laugh at it.
You go, okay, here you go again.
I'm being canceled again.
And you get to a point to where you can almost wear it as a badge of honor because you start to see who's canceling you and you're like, okay, well, I'm glad they're canceling me because I'm not with them.
Carrie, we hope that you are going to continue your reporting in whatever way.
When you decide how you're going to do it, know that you have an ally in me and I'll help you any way I can.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, Glenn.
Appreciate it.
You bet.
God bless.
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So Stand Up New York has sued Governor Cuomo to lift COVID-19, the shutdown order.
And I guess it kind of won a little bit because he has lifted a bit of the shutdown order.
It's killing New York City.
Donnie Zoldan is going to be joining me here in a second.
And I just want to read this tweet that he tweeted yesterday.
I'll be going back tomorrow morning, 11:30, talking New York City politics, business shutdowns, and mandates.
Hopefully some comedy too.
Wait until he finds out I'm an Upper West Side liberal?
I'm trying to get my arms around that.
Donnie, you live in New York.
You co-own a comedy club.
You live in the Upper West Side, and you're liberal?
Hey, Glenn.
Hey, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
I'm glad that you're on.
You co-owned the comedy club, if I'm not mistaken, with James Altichure, right?
That is correct.
And Gabe Waldman, my best friend since high school.
Yeah.
New York, as James and I have talked about, is dying.
It is the saddest thing I've ever seen.
I mean, the greatest city in the world.
I don't want to say dying.
We're coming back.
It's being revised right now.
We're really coming back.
Asked me a month ago, even, I would have said dying, but I really feel like we're on the upswing right now.
And by the way, the Upper West Side Liberal thing, I challenge you to take a walk with me on Broadway, on the Upper West Side, and get a bagel at Zay Bars.
I should be challenging you to do that.
I've done that many times.
I don't think you know what it's like to walk down the street as me.
So I would be surprised.
About two years ago, I was walking down Broadway with Ann Coulter, and someone yelled out, we love you, Ann.
So we should go.
Anytime, brother, anytime.
Listen, I saw you have Stand Up New York in the park, and you guys started doing social distancing stand-up under the trees in New York City.
Tell me about that.
Yeah, I mean, it was actually phenomenal.
March, April, May.
Really, I was in the bar, in the club, by myself.
Like everyone in New York City was really just hunkering down and being in their apartments.
So there was really nothing going on March, April, May in Manhattan.
But come June, when the weather was nice, I started city biking to Central Park.
And I bought a lawn chair and I would work on my laptop.
And I just saw hundreds of people on the lawn in Cheap Meadow in Central Park just enjoying themselves and playing frisbee and lying on the grass.
And I text my booker, John, and I'm like, dude, we should do a comedy show here.
Like it feels alive here in the park.
If you go to Broadway, it's a disaster.
But storefronts closed and homeless people are around.
And it was actually like dangerous in the streets.
But the park, we didn't get that sense.
And we did a comedy show and 50 people showed up and we had six comics and we paid them.
And it was an amazing experience.
Comics walked over to me and they said they haven't been outside in months and they obviously haven't performed and it was such like a relief.
And then people that came out to watch, it felt so good to be outdoors in the sun, watching live entertainment.
The city really fell alive.
So after that show, I'm like, we got to yell this up.
Let's do like 40 to 50 shows a week.
Let's do shows in parks across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens.
Everyone thought I was crazy, but we did that.
We were doing 40 to 50 shows a week during the pandemic in the summer and fall.
And I've owned the club for 12 years.
It's been really the best experience since I've owned the club.
So what is the state of business in New York?
I mean, you were just talking about Broadway.
I don't know how those people survive.
You still have to pay for the theater rent.
I mean, somebody's paying for all of that.
There's a lot of overhead.
All these actors and actresses and stagehands, they haven't worked in a year.
How is this going to survive?
I mean, it's financially, it's been difficult.
You know, before I was talking about just non-financials, you know, like we, you know, we were willing to invest some money and put on these park shows and we made a lot of people happy and made comics happy.
But yeah, the numbers don't really add up right now.
We've been shuttered a year, a year we were closed down.
It's crazy.
Even while crazy, even while other industries around us have opened, you can go bowling and you look like a bowler, by the way.
No, you know, the I did I can make fun of you.
I did more bowling in New York City than I've done in my life.
That was funny.
Look like a bowler.
Too much fun.
Yeah, no, they're fine to make fun of me, but don't make fun of bowlers, man.
They carry big, really big suitcases.
Walk down Broadway.
No, it's been really frustrating.
A year.
I can't believe it's been a year.
We were closed down.
And I got really frustrated over the past few weeks when Cuomo announced that weddings are allowed and restaurants can increase their capacity.
And you can go bowling and play pool and do all of these things.
But comedy clubs can operate and music venues can operate.
And I just, I think they really acted on social media, like open the clubs.
you know, screaming and yelling.
And we decided Monday to file a lawsuit.
You know, we were fighting for the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment, the First Amendment, you know, freedom of express, which I didn't know like last week.
And 14, which is equal protection under the law.
We should be able to operate under the same guidelines as other businesses.
And the media has been covering the lawsuit.
And Andrew Yang, I had a call with him a few days ago and he tweeted support and he didn't understand why we can't operate under the same guidelines.
And Cuomo caved and he allowed us to reopen at 33% capacity now, which again, the numbers don't work, but it's better than zero.
You know, Saturday Night Live, as you pointed out in your lawsuits, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon show, jazz dinner theaters, weddings, restaurants.
Why not you?
They didn't tell us, which is really unfortunate because entertainment in New York is everything.
I mean, that's why people from all around the world, young people move here, right, to be an actor, to be a comic, to be on Broadway, musicians, there's great music clubs and comedy clubs and there's off-Broadway.
And not to give one explanation, not to mention it at a press conference in the past year when he wrote his book, right?
Yeah.
Not to address why we can't be open, why he can't arrange a conference call with venue operators, just explaining the logic to them, I find is really unacceptable.
He really dropped the ball there.
And for the life of me, I don't get it.
Well, the good news is he's provided you guys with a lot of material when you get back to work.
Can I ask you a question on this cancel culture and the, you know, the Dr. Seuss thing?
And, you know, if the family wants to pull a Dr. Seuss thing, fine.
But now eBay is saying they're not going to, they'll sell mine comp, but they won't sell an old Dr. Seuss book.
Are people in the arts, especially comedy?
Lenny Bruce would you this, I think he would be apoplectic over what's going on.
Are people starting to see in your business this isn't a good trend?
You know, it's interesting.
Most comics in the country, especially New York, are to the left and they're very liberal, but they're very pro speech and they're very against this woke mob, I'll call them.
And they hate cancel culture, which is cool.
You know, like again, a lot of comics are liberal, but they hate it, you know, they which is refreshing to see.
Yeah, it is.
They hate what's going on.
And I'm happy that, you know, we book the sort of comics where they can say whatever they want and we don't censor them.
And like we, again, like I'm liberal.
I live on the Upper West Side.
We hosted Roseanne Barr a couple of years ago after that whole Twitter thing.
Somehow I'm happy to give comics a platform to say whatever they want and we've never censored them.
And it's funny, I was having drinks with my friend Dan last night and I was telling him like, there's words that we used to say like in the 90s or 2000s that you can't say now, which I want, and I want to bring it back.
It was a funny saying.
I don't want to say now in the air.
Like, aren't there some words like we used to grow up?
I mean, you're a little older than me.
I'm 40.
There are some words where it sucks that we can't say them anymore because we're afraid someone on Twitter is going to bat it.
George Carlin.
I mean, George Carlin made a good living.
And one of the things that really propelled him were the seven dirty words that you just can't say.
I want to say that.
You got to bring it back.
Yeah.
Before we bring that back.
But can I mention one thing, like how far it's become?
Sure.
So about a month ago, we were approached by Common Health.
They run urgent cares here in New York.
And they saw what we're doing trying to keep comedy going in New York and try to support comics and keep people laughing.
And they approached me and they're like, you know, we want to offer your comic free healthcare visit and free COVID testing through August 31st, right?
Which is like a really cool thing to do.
And a comic, I don't want to say, I don't want to call him a comic, a wannabe comic, the guy really sucks, tweeted, now comedy club owners get to decide who gets health care or not, which comics are good enough to help.
Like, we're giving free health to comics.
And he says, why should comedy owners get to decide who has health care or not?
That's how far things have become.
And it's unbelievable.
Free Health for Comics00:04:25
Well, I want you to know I supported Roseanne Barr when she was saying chop off the heads of Capitalist.
And I supported Bill Maher after 9-11.
I'm a free speech absolutist.
I don't have to agree with you.
I don't even have to like you.
But we must protect free speech.
And I'm also, New York's not a fan of me, but I'm a fan of New York.
And anything we can do to help you, the comedians or the comedy club, you reach out at any time.
Thank you so much.
I'm a fan of you.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you.
You bet.
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Oh. Gally.
Hello, and welcome to the program.
Just looking at our desk and the things that we haven't done yet, the things that we might have missed today.
We did hit the thing that everybody that I know, all the people in my, you know, my group, my Hangout group, because we're all big fans of The Bachelor.
I think this one is a big story, though.
I do too.
Of the strangest and most ridiculous cancel culture stories we've seen so far.
So the host was canceled.
I'm not going to go into the whole thing, but he was actually just trying to be nice and say, hey, let's cut this person some slack.
He goes on TV yesterday on Good Morning America, and this is what he said.
It's like a hostage video.
I am not a victim here.
I made a mistake.
Neither.
And I own that.
Neither.
Racism.
Oppression, these are big dynamic problems, and they take serious work.
And I am committed.
He's the host of The Bachelor.
The person says he's been working closely with a, quote, race educator and strategist, along with faith leaders and scholars like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
But Dr. Dyson often talks to me about counsel, not cancel.
Hang on just a second.
Hang on.
There's a couple of things.
First of all, this guy is the host of The Bachelor.
Who cares?
Who cares?
He does because he's trying to get his job back.
Yeah, that's the only thing this is.
Also, is he behind it?
Is that a real room behind him?
No, that's not a real room.
You don't do something where you're trying to be very sincere and true and authentic with a fake room behind you.
Right.
Wait a minute.
He should have done the same thing that lawyer did and put on the cat filter.
And then he could have done the apologies of cat.
That would have worked way better.
I want that for Monday.
I want that for Monday.
I want the video with him in a cat filter because then I'll pay attention to it a little bit more.
The really sad eyes.
By the way, if you missed our ode to Dr. Seuss, you know, the problem with the Mulberry Street book was some Asians were in cages, and we just decided it would be right to tell the truth about who in America has put Asians in cages.
See Tonight at Five on Blaze00:00:12
You'll be able to hear that on the podcast, or you could check out the whole Dr. Seuss ode that we wrote at Glennbeck.com.