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Frantic caller complains about Newt bashing

January 27, 2012
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One caller took issue with the amount of time Glenn is spending bashing Newt Gingrich -- the call spirals out of control because the caller just couldn't come to grips with the fact that Newt is a progressive. She refused to listen to anything Glenn had to say - how did that strategy work out for the caller?

Read the transcript of the call below:

GLENN: Hang on. We have Trish on the phone on Line 11 from San Antonio saying pretty much ‑‑

PAT: See?

GLENN: She's very upset at me. Go ahead, Trish.

CALLER: Oh, no, Glenn, I'm not upset at you. I have been, I have been the last week or so.

GLENN: Okay, but you're not?

PAT: Me, too.

GLENN: Go ahead.

CALLER: No, no, no. Well, my first question really, Glenn, is, you know, if you are going to promote Santorum, why have you spent 2/3 of the program going after Newt and giving Romney a pass on his progressivism?

PAT: We haven't given him ‑‑ we played ‑‑ we played the audio of it.

GLENN: We played the audio of it.

CALLER: Yes, Pat, yes, Pat, and then you made executions, oh, it was in 1994.

PAT: No, no. All of these Newt things were in the past, too. I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew this wasn't yesterday.

CALLER: Right, right. But we've heard two weeks worth of how progressive Newt is and we've heard nothing ‑‑

GLENN: Okay. Hang on just a second.

CALLER: Hold on. Hold on.

GLENN: No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

CALLER: Nothing about the gun control, nothing about the liberal (inaudible) in Massachusetts.

PAT: The gun control? Of what?

STU: Talking about Mitt.

PAT: Oh, Mitt. Okay.

CALLER: Listen. Listen.

PAT: This is a Mitt thing? Okay, well, let me ask you something real quick. Can I ask you something real quick?

CALLER: Okay. Sure, sure.

PAT: Why do you excuse everything from Gingrich, why are you doing the Gingrich thing to ‑‑

GLENN: You don't even know ‑‑ wait, wait, wait. You don't even know. Are you for Newt Gingrich?

PAT: Of course she is. Of course she is.

GLENN: We don't know.

CALLER: Actually, no. I don't have a horse in the race. Hold on. I was a Herman Cain supporter. When he got, I donated to Michele Bachmann. When they got out, I don't have anybody that represents me.

GLENN: Okay.

CALLER: I think Santorum did a great job last night.

GLENN: I think he did, too. We said that several times over the broadcast.

CALLER: ‑‑ promoting Santorum. Where are the clips of that?

GLENN: We're not ‑‑ we didn't ‑‑ hang on just a second. Hang on just a second. Hang on just a second. We're not ‑‑ we're not here to be anyone's PR person. I've said that to Rick Santorum, I've said that to the audience. I'm not here to ‑‑ I'm not here to get people to vote for Rick Santorum. I've told you who I'm for.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Who I'm for. I'm for Rick Santorum. That's my guy. If I had to vote today, I'd vote for Rick Santorum. I wouldn't vote for Newt, I wouldn't vote for Romney. I in the end ‑‑

CALLER: I got it. I got it.

GLENN: In the end if it's Newt Gingrich action I'm going to have a really hard time voting for him but it will probably be the Middle East that would make me vote for him over Newt ‑‑ over Barack Obama. If that's the choice, I... I really would want to vote for my shoe or my shoehorn or my phone or a lamp, but I'd probably do it for Newt.

CALLER: You know ‑‑

STU: Never vote for Obama, that ‑‑

GLENN: I would never vote for Obama.

CALLER: I'll say this, and I have spent more time defending Newt.

GLENN: Why?

CALLER: And I don't even agree with him.

GLENN: Why?

PAT: Why are you defending him?

CALLER: People are unfairly attacking him.

PAT: We are not unfairly.

GLENN: How are we unfair ‑‑ wait a minute. How are we unfair? Because let's get this out.

PAT: We're playing his own words!

GLENN: Yeah. Let's get this out because if it's unfair, we'll admit it right now and we'll correct it.

CALLER: Look, I had gone ‑‑ you know, when you started first playing things, because I don't, I don't really have a candidate that I feel represents me, I have been doing research. And I went straight to their voting records and to their policy records. And when I went and looked at that, I found that Mitt Romney is basically ‑‑

GLENN: Wait, wait.

CALLER: ‑‑ a clone.

GLENN: Wait a minute.

CALLER: No, no, no.

GLENN: Hang on. We were talking ‑‑

CALLER: ‑‑ to Mitt Romney, okay?

GLENN: I am not a Mitt Romney fan! I'm not a Mitt Romney fan!

PAT: I don't know how many times we have to say that.

GLENN: I don't know how many times I have to say that. I don't know what it is that you make ‑‑

STU: Amazing.

GLENN: You know some of the callers that come in ‑‑ hang on just a second. I've let you talk. Some of these callers that call in and continually insist that we're Mitt Romney fans really just piss me off.

PAT: The guy won't even come on the show!

GLENN: Yeah. I haven't talk to the guy! The guy won't come on the show! The guy didn't ‑‑ the guy didn't come to Israel, was one of the only ones that said he wouldn't come to Israel. I mean, what do you want me to say? I'm against his healthcare policy. I don't buy into his healthcare excuse. I do buy into his excuse on his flip‑flop of abortion. I don't think that one's a flip‑flop. I do think the guy is a big government progressive. I don't think he's a Theodore Roosevelt or Wilson ‑‑ what was it?

PAT: Realpolitik Wilsonian.

GLENN: Realpolitik Wilsonian. I don't think he even thinks of it that way. I think he's right on Israel. I think Newt is right on Israel and the Middle East. I think Mitt gets the Middle East. I think Newt gets the Middle East. I think Newt is an absolute progressive to the core, knows exactly what it means, knows progressivism exactly the same way I do. He has studied the history. He is a historian for Freddie and Fannie. He knows. He is also not a small businessman. He is not a bus‑ ‑‑ he's not ‑‑ he doesn't do business! Hang on. You didn't even listen to a word, damn word I said. I'm hanging up on you you Trish. You didn't even listen. You were talking .

CALLER: No. Listen to me, Glenn.

GLENN: You were talking.

CALLER: I'm trying to explain to you why people keep calling on Mitt Romney.

GLENN: I'm not going to listen. Hang up the phone, please. I'm not going to listen to you, Trish. If you won't listen to me, why should I listen to you? This is the problem with our country. This is the problem.

STU: I don't understand it. I mean, we have covered Mitt Romney's bad policies for not ‑‑

GLENN: How many, for not ‑‑

STU: Years.

GLENN: ‑‑ this time.

STU: Since 2007.

GLENN: Last time, too.

STU: Yeah. And 2007 we talked about it.

PAT: And that's the thing. We haven't talked about Romney as much because everybody knows where Romney is.

STU: Right. That's the simple formula.

PAT: You've already made up your mind on Romney.

GLENN: 24%, 24%, give or take, depending on where you are in the country, that like Mitt Romney. I have not met the person who's like, man ‑‑

PAT: I love Mitt Romney.

GLENN: Okay, no, I take that back. I've met Ann Romney.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: And she loves him.

GLENN: And she loves him.

PAT: She admits that?

GLENN: She loves ‑‑ she admits it.

PAT: Because I haven't even heard her say it.

GLENN: She's going to vote for him. Got it. I don't know anybody who is the passionate Mitt Romney person.

PAT: I don't, either.

GLENN: So why do you ‑‑

STU: We're not talking ‑‑

GLENN: The passionate one here is the Newt Gingrich supporters that go crazy.

PAT: Who completely dismiss everything we've said about everything he has said about himself.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: But the same thing on Romney, I don't get it.

GLENN: Tell me where it's unfair to quote a man. Don't you understand what you're saying? The people who are saying this, you're saying the same thing George Soros says. When I quote George Soros ‑‑

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: They're just being mean to him. No, I'm quoting him.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: I'm playing the audio ‑‑

PAT: You're bashing him.

GLENN: ‑‑ of Barack Obama. "You're just bashing him." I'm playing his audio. Wait, what point is it not true? You loved it! You loved it when I did it to the progressives on the left. But when we start talked about the progressives on the right, it's strange how the media, the right media doesn't like that. How the ‑‑ how the Republicans don't like that. All of a sudden, "Oh, no, no, no, no. Shhh." Look, you either believe in principles or you don't. Now, I happen to be a very big anti‑progressive guy. I think there are people who say they're progressive, "You know, look, I'm progressive." We had Adam Carolla on. I gave him the same ‑‑ I gave him ‑‑ give him the same benefit of the doubt, and maybe I'm wrong, as I do with Newt Gingrich ‑‑ or I mean with Mitt Romney. I'd like to ask Mitt Romney about his progressivism, but he never accepts our invitation. Why do you think that's happening?

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Colorado counselor fights back after faith declared “illegal”

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck joins Megyn Kelly LIVE — One night ONLY in Fort Worth!

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What our response to Israel reveals about us

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I have been honored to receive the Defender of Israel Award from Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The Jerusalem Post recently named me one of the strongest Christian voices in support of Israel.

And yet, my support is not blind loyalty. It’s not a rubber stamp for any government or policy. I support Israel because I believe it is my duty — first as a Christian, but even if I weren’t a believer, I would still support her as a man of reason, morality, and common sense.

Because faith isn’t required to understand this: Israel’s existence is not just about one nation’s survival — it is about the survival of Western civilization itself.

It is a lone beacon of shared values in the Middle East. It is a bulwark standing against radical Islam — the same evil that seeks to dismantle our own nation from within.

And my support is not rooted in politics. It is rooted in something simpler and older than politics: a people’s moral and historical right to their homeland, and their right to live in peace.

Israel has that right — and the right to defend herself against those who openly, repeatedly vow her destruction.

Let’s make it personal: if someone told me again and again that they wanted to kill me and my entire family — and then acted on that threat — would I not defend myself? Wouldn’t you? If Hamas were Canada, and we were Israel, and they did to us what Hamas has done to them, there wouldn’t be a single building left standing north of our border. That’s not a question of morality.

That’s just the truth. All people — every people — have a God-given right to protect themselves. And Israel is doing exactly that.

My support for Israel’s right to finish the fight against Hamas comes after eighty years of rejected peace offers and failed two-state solutions. Hamas has never hidden its mission — the eradication of Israel. That’s not a political disagreement.

That’s not a land dispute. That is an annihilationist ideology. And while I do not believe this is America’s war to fight, I do believe — with every fiber of my being — that it is Israel’s right, and moral duty, to defend her people.

Criticism of military tactics is fair. That’s not antisemitism. But denying Israel’s right to exist, or excusing — even celebrating — the barbarity of Hamas? That’s something far darker.

We saw it on October 7th — the face of evil itself. Women and children slaughtered. Babies burned alive. Innocent people raped and dragged through the streets. And now, to see our own fellow citizens march in defense of that evil… that is nothing short of a moral collapse.

If the chants in our streets were, “Hamas, return the hostages — Israel, stop the bombing,” we could have a conversation.

But that’s not what we hear.

What we hear is open sympathy for genocidal hatred. And that is a chasm — not just from decency, but from humanity itself. And here lies the danger: that same hatred is taking root here — in Dearborn, in London, in Paris — not as horror, but as heroism. If we are not vigilant, the enemy Israel faces today will be the enemy the free world faces tomorrow.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about truth. It’s about the courage to call evil by its name and to say “Never again” — and mean it.

And you don’t have to open a Bible to understand this. But if you do — if you are a believer — then this issue cuts even deeper. Because the question becomes: what did God promise, and does He keep His word?

He told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” He promised to make Abraham the father of many nations and to give him “the whole land of Canaan.” And though Abraham had other sons, God reaffirmed that promise through Isaac. And then again through Isaac’s son, Jacob — Israel — saying: “The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you and to your descendants after you.”

That’s an everlasting promise.

And from those descendants came a child — born in Bethlehem — who claimed to be the Savior of the world. Jesus never rejected His title as “son of David,” the great King of Israel.

He said plainly that He came “for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And when He returns, Scripture says He will return as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” And where do you think He will go? Back to His homeland — Israel.

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And what will He find when He gets there? His brothers — or his brothers’ enemies? Will the roads where He once walked be preserved? Or will they lie in rubble, as Gaza does today? If what He finds looks like the aftermath of October 7th, then tell me — what will be my defense as a Christian?

Some Christians argue that God’s promises to Israel have been transferred exclusively to the Church. I don’t believe that. But even if you do, then ask yourself this: if we’ve inherited the promises, do we not also inherit the land? Can we claim the birthright and then, like Esau, treat it as worthless when the world tries to steal it?

So, when terrorists come to slaughter Israelis simply for living in the land promised to Abraham, will we stand by? Or will we step forward — into the line of fire — and say,

“Take me instead”?

Because this is not just about Israel’s right to exist.

It’s about whether we still know the difference between good and evil.

It’s about whether we still have the courage to stand where God stands.

And if we cannot — if we will not — then maybe the question isn’t whether Israel will survive. Maybe the question is whether we will.