Michele Bachmann hates kids?

October 14, 2010

The Glenn Beck Program

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GLENN: Now, we have some audio here. I want to play Joy Behar apparently on The View said this about Michelle Bachmann.

BEHAR: So, while Tea Party favorite Carl Paladino is making a lot of noise with his anti gay comments, many on the right have been noticeably silent. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann sidestepped the question this morning on Today but it seems strange that a woman, even on the right as far as she is, wouldn't say something about equal rights. So, where are Michelle Bachmann and the other so called mama grizzlies on this on the other social issues? Joining me, what is up with her? Why doesn't she open her mouth?

VOICE: Bachmann?

BEHAR: Yeah, Bachmann.

VOICE: I don't know that it's you know, a Congresswoman's job to defend a candidate. I think she can she can endorse if she like, she can comment, but's not obligated. I think it's up to pundits to say what's what and, you know, someone like me, a conservative pundit, I am absolutely not defending a Carl Paladino. Someone like Ann Coulter wants too. That's perfectly within her purview, but I don't leave it to Michelle Bachmann to get up there and say yea or nay to every kind of candidate, you know, gaffe.

BEHAR: Don't you think she should have said something, though?

VOICE: Absolutely. I think it is a human imperative to weigh in, especially when it's someone in your party, when it's somebody that is conveying messages about your party, especially when one of the messages, because she's one of these women on the right who's running and suggesting that this is the year of the woman, that in itself is sort of a socially progressive impulse about including more people and here's this comment that's very much about excluding people and she's not she's not weighing in.

BEHAR: Do you think it shows the true colors of these mama grizzlies so called? I mean, that's against a Federal program to help poor kids get health insurance, Michelle Bachmann. She's no mama grizzly. She's against children. Who is she

PAT: She's against children, which is why she's had 23 foster kids, five of her own.

GLENN: Michelle Bachmann, why do you hate children so much?

Congressman Michele Bachmann

BACHMANN: Geez, Glenn, thanks for that wonderful question. I appreciate it. We love children! What can I say? My husband and I have five biologicals, we've been blessed to have 23 great foster kids. So, I am the old woman that lives in the shoe.

GLENN: Okay. Well, so, you obviously don't hate children. Let me rephrase it. I wasn't aware, apparently, that you, you know, care so much about children but you have so many. Why do you hate the planet so much?

BACHMANN: You know, what's funny to me is how the left describes loving children. They believe that if truly government should be the one to rear your children, not the parents, and the more that government can take over various functions of rearing children, that in their mind is being pro child. In my mind, I want to empower people to be able to make their own decisions. So, if we want to have a mom or the dad stay home to take care of the children or educate their children themselves or put them in an alternative to public schools, people should have that choice and that is considered anti child to the left.

PAT: They love children so much they would like to have them aborted right up until the time of birth, too. That's a beautiful kind of love right there, but Michelle

GLENN: It depends, unless you're Peter Singer, which you can abort up to two years of age. Michelle

BACHMANN: That's right.

GLENN: I think the real question here is not about how you hate children, about why you hate the planet so much, but why there isn't a Bachmann/Christie, Christie/Bachmann ticket for 2010.

PAT: That's the bigger issue.

GLENN: That is the bigger issue.

BACHMANN: But, see, you have to have the campaign manager. That's the prerequisite.

GLENN: Okay.

PAT: Is that all it will take? We can make that happen.

GLENN: If that's all it takes, okay.

BACHMANN: If you're volunteering me, I'm volunteering you.

GLENN: Okay. I will I'll campaign. I'm put yard signs out. Okay.

BACHMANN: Okay. Wow. Then we win for sure.

PAT: I don't think you can run, though, until you address a Congresswoman from Minnesota must address a controversial statement from a gubernatorial candidate in New York. I don't understand why you haven't been all over that, Michelle!

GLENN: I live in the next state over from New York, and I don't even pay attention to this race. What was the controversial statement that he made? He's damn near nuts. He's still better than Cuomo, but he's nuts.

PAT: Yeah. I support Lazzio

BACHMANN: What they were very upset is they had I was on the Today Show with Meredith Vierra.

PAT: And she's always so fair.

BACHMANN: And that's all she was worried about was my opinion on statements that were made by the Republican governor candidate and I refused to go there because, quite frankly, that is not what people are interested in in the country right now. They want to know will this candidate bankrupt the country or not. That's really what they're worried about and will they uphold the Constitution or not. That's why when we go back, if I'm lucky enough to win my election and go back, I'm already planning to have weekly classes on the Constitution and bring some of the best minds in the country. Can you imagine if one of our Supreme Court justices, a Roberts or an Alito or a Thomas or a Scalia comes in and teaches members of Congress about our declaration, the Bill of Rights, about the Constitution

GLENN: Michelle, how how sad is it that we that you have to hold a class in Congress for people who are swearing to uphold it? They should know what it is before they swear they're going to uphold it!

BACHMANN: Well, but don't you think that it's a good idea to do it because

GLENN: Oh, I think it's a great ad idea.

BACHMANN: Because just like if you're a major league football player, baseball player, you continually practice. So, you have to continually hone your schools and let's face it, we have a lot of fabulous people who are coming in who will really shake up Congress, probably for the first time in our lifetimes. So, why not give them the tools that they need to make these arguments on the floor, in committee, with their constituents back home, so they can truly know what it is that is the foundational building blocks of our great country?

GLENN: Michelle, I'm just I'm trying to get onto the server of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. I'm trying to I just made a $10,000 donation to the chamber.

BACHMANN: Good for you. Oh, bless you.

GLENN: My dad was a member and I've asked you the servers are down at the chamber. I want to make this the biggest fundraising day for the Chamber of Commerce in its history and I still can't get on the site. I don't agree with everything the chamber does. I think the chamber's on the wrong side of a lot of issues, but when you are targeted and you know this you and I and the chamber, we're some of the most targeted people in Washington

BACHMANN: That's right. You're right. You're right about that. So far in my race Bill Clinton and Joe Biden have come in. Now speaker Pelosi and President Obama are both scheduled to come into my state.

GLENN: Is that help you raise money and get people to vote? Is that

BACHMANN: I think it's on the other side.

GLENN: Really? They I think they may be mistaken on that one. I think that might

BACHMANN: They're sending in every big Howitzer they have in the country to come into my state because they you know, I'm their target. I'm if you're running, you would be their target.

GLENN: Right. So, if they so, what I want to ask you is, there are people that won't agree with everything that you say. There are people that don't agree with everything that I say and there are and I don't agree with everything the chamber says, but when you see the forces that have alined with each other on the left, we're talking radical revolutionaries, you can talk to me about the border and disagree on the border, but that doesn't mean the violent overthrow of the United States government. Do you agree with me that we have to make allies with good, decent, honest people that we disagree with or we're not going to be able to win? And I don't mean win the election. I mean save the republic.

BACHAMANN: That's exactly right. And I think one of the best stories is the book The Miracle At Philadelphia. It talks about how we actually have the compromises to get the Constitution and these men were not all like minded but they figured out they had to work together to fashion this document to move the nation forward and we need to do that going forward. I agree with you. I don't agree with every position with the chamber, either, but they're being falsely, outrageously, hippocratically maligned. Remember it was President Obama when he was running for President who his team disabled his software for his donations so that any donation under $200 couldn't be tracked and he refused to appoint enough people to be a quorum on the committee that would do the review because his campaign was out of compliance. I don't know that he still has appointed enough people to have a quorum. This is a scandalous story and so now he's projecting that same kind of action onto the chamber. It's scandalously outrageous.

GLENN: All right. Michelle Bachmann, best of luck to you. You keep going. I know you're facing an uphill battle, but you are really, truly I can count them on one hand, people in Washington that I trust with the future of my children and the republic. You are one of those people and I and God bless you and we pray for you every night, Michelle. You keep going and I want to just make it clear before she hangs up, she did make the announcement that as long as I'm a campaign manager, she and Chris Christie will run for President and vice president of the United States in 2012. You heard it here first and I'm glad I could help make that happen. Michelle? Go ahead.

BACHMANN: It is a humbling honor. Thank you so much, Glenn.

GLENN: You're welcome. Go back to hating children now. Congresswoman Michele Bachman.

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Glenn was CENSORED by Facebook's independent fact-checkers yesterday. Here's the scoop.

This week on the Glenn Beck radio program, Glenn and Stu discussed Tucker Carlson's commentary on the newly released Jan 6 Capitol footage, specifically, the curious case of Ray Epps, the man who admitted to inciting the Capitol breach in a text message to his nephew and was let off Scott-free. There is speculation that he could be an F.B.I. plant in the crowd. Regardless of whether or not Ray Epps is an F.B.I. plant, isn't it the right of the American people to ask questions, especially about issues as consequential to our country as Jan 6?

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Are YOUR taxpayer dollars funding these 15 ESG-FRIENDLY states? Find out HERE.

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This week, we published a list of the top 14 states FIGHTING against ESG. Now, we are giving you the top 15 ESG-friendly states who are using YOUR taxpayer money to invest in leftist corporations.

Glenn has long warned of the dangers of ESG on American industry, and this list proves the risk. Already, multiple states on this list have divested their funds from gun manufacturers because they don't comply with their leftist agenda. Moreover, the businesses in these states who don't want to integrate left-leaning environmental, gender, and diversity standards into their business won't have any hope of investment from their government.

However, several of the states are considering ESG legislation RIGHT NOW, so there is still time to act. Glenn encouraged his audience to send THIS Utah bill to their governor's desk to protect reliable American industry. If your state is still deliberating integrating ESG standards into their investment strategy, ACT NOW. If they have already integrated ESG practices, you still have the power to fight back. Find out if YOUR state is considering ESG or already adopted ESG investment below.

Oregon

The Oregon state treasury announced that as a "fiduciary," it will engage ESG monitoring as a factor in its investment strategy:

Acting as a fiduciary, Treasury monitors and manages risks as a prudent global investor, engages as a responsible shareholder, and advocates for investor-friendly practices and regulations, such as improved identification and disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks.

In summary, that means if you are an Oregon resident, the state is using YOUR taxpayer dollars to fund liberal environmental and social agendas.

Connecticut

Connecticut's treasurer, Erick Russell, published the state's "Investment Policy for the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds" (CRPTF). The plan integrates ESG monitoring as an core value in the state's investment strategy for retirement plans:

The CRPTF supports the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in the investment decision making process, given that such factors can impact both risk and return over the long term. In most cases, the CRPTF will vote FOR shareholder resolutions that request companies to disclose non-proprietary information related to ESG issues.

If you are a Connecticut resident, how do you feel about YOUR government using retirement funds and taxpayer dollars to fund woke ESG causes?

Maryland

Like Connecticut, Maryland's "State Retirement and Pension System" uses ESG as a core investment value for their states' pension and retirement plans. In fact they have an entire ESG committee dedicated to the task.

You can read the 2022 ESG report for yourself HERE.

Maine

Maine's government also has a special branch dedicated to ESG considerations in YOUR retirement plans. The Maine PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) states:

The primary duty of MainePERS is to serve as good fiduciaries to our members. This requires considering sustainability as a vital component of successful long-term investing. We have compiled this Environmental, Social and Governance Report to outline how these factors impact our investment decisions.

Investment's main purpose should be securing the biggest return on investment--that is what investment should be about... right? At least you would hope so if someone else is managing YOUR money. Yet, this consideration takes a back seat if it comes into conflict with the state's liberal ESG standards.

California

It comes at no surprise that California is one of the original leaders in pro-ESG policy. In 2022, California's Senate passed the first bill in the U.S. requiring all companies statewide generating more than $1 billion in revenue to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The bill's author, state Senator Wiener, said:

Corporate transparency and accountability are critically important when it comes to addressing our climate crisis. Corporate emissions are a huge contributor to climate change, but frankly, we don’t yet know the scope of the problem. That’s why we need to act quickly and decisively to ensure corporations are reporting their emissions. This is a landmark bill, and today’s vote is a big step forward for California’s fight against climate change.

This bill has been incorporated into a three-bill package being considered by the California state legislature RIGHT NOW. The addition of the other two bills will give California's government the power to use YOUR retirement funds to invest in ESG-friendly businesses, like Connecticut, Maryland, and Maine.

New Jersey

New Jersey's State Investment Council announced that it would be integrating ESG into its investment practices in 2018. The Council stated:

The policy recognizes that material ESG factors are an important component of a comprehensive investment management strategy, and an analysis of these factors should be applied by the Division in connection with the investment and evaluation of the Pension Fund's assets.

If you have a state pension fund in New Jersey, then your money is being used to fund left-leaning corporations.

New York

New York's state retirement fund published a report stating:

ESG factors are a key component of the Fund’s analysis of both short- and long-term financial risks and opportunities.

That means your taxpayer dollars are funding ESG practices. New York also divested its pension funds from gun manufacturers. Unless you are a liberal-leaning business that complies with the Left's woke environmental and social standards, you will not get public investment from your state's retirement fund.

New Mexico

New Mexico's State Investment Council, which is a part of the State Investment Office, adopted ESG standards in their investment practices in 2021. Among their ESG considerations for investment include: resource conservation, climate change, sustainability, gender diversity, equity & inclusion, and others. In other words, unless your business in New Mexico complies with these leftist standards, you won't get any investment from your government. Moreover, if you are paying into New Mexico's pension program, you are FUNDING these leftist businesses.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts' Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIMB) unanimously voted to recommend to the full board that pension fund managers vote against companies that:

Failed to align their business plans with the goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement, and/or that have failed to establish a plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

In addition to climate change, Massachusetts has utilized the force of its state pension fund to demand that companies adopt leftist gender and inclusion standards in order to receive funding, becoming one of the most outspoken ESG proponents.

Nevada

In 2022, Nevada's treasurer announced that his $49 billion portfolio—taxpayer dollars, mind you—will divest from all businesses that sell assault-style weapons. What other industries will they choose to divest from in the future if they don't comply with their leftist standards?

Rhode Island

Rhode Island, like California and New York, divested its state pension funds from publicly traded gun companies. The state also uses state retirement and pension funds to invest in ESG-friendly companies.

Vermont

Vermont's Teasurer’s Office and the Vermont Pension Investment Committee (VPIC) announced that they "consider financial factors and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in their investment decisions." They also hold companies to the climate standards put forth in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Washington

Seattle, one of the nation's most left-leaning cities, announced that its City Employees Retirement System will be taking ESG into consideration when choosing their investments. This comes as no surprise from a city in a state that is mandating "100% clean energy by 2040" and holding its first "greenhouse gas allowance auction."

Colorado

Colorado is considering a bill RIGHT NOW that would require Colorado's Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) to factor the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals into its investment decisions. If it passes, it would affect one out of every ten Colorado residents who contribute to the PERA fund.

Delaware

Delaware has been pushing state ESG policy since 2018. The state Senate passed a bill that enables the government—again, using the same justification as a "fiduciary"—to invest using ESG as a consideration. The state also passed a certification process in 2018. Though "voluntary," these certificates are used by the government to identify sustainable businesses. So if you don't have a certificate, you can kiss goodbye to the possibility of state investment.

Have YOU had an abortion and regretted it? Glenn wants to hear YOUR story!

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Glenn just bought the ENTIRE Roe v. Wade archive from Linda Coffee, the original lawyer behind the landmark abortion case. As a pro-life activist, Glenn doesn't want the lives of the 60 million+ babies who died between Roe v. Wade in 1973 and the Dobbs decision in 2022 to go unforgotten. He purchased the archive so that it wouldn't be treated as a relic of abortion in someone else's collection, but rather as a historical reminder to never sacrifice human life for the sake of freedom EVER again.

But there are two parties in abortion that need to be protected: the baby AND the mother. Glenn wants to honor the mothers who regret their abortions just as much as the babies who lost their lives to the procedure. If YOU had an abortion and regret it, or if you were planning on having an abortion and decided not to, Glenn wants to hear from YOU and honor your story.

If you feel inclined, write your story down on paper, send it to the below P.O. box, and Glenn will include it in his historical vault surrounding the history of abortion. If you would be comfortable with us sharing your story, please sign your name. If you would like to remain anonymous, you can leave your name off of the story. We ask that you include your phone number so that can verify you as a source.

Glenn bought the ENTIRE Roe v. Wade archive from Linda Coffee. Here's WHY... and a sneak peek.

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Linda Coffee, the Dallas lawyer who first launched the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v.Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, decided to sell all of the case documents, from the first papers filed at the Texas District Court to the quill pens given to her during her argument before the Supreme Court. She said that she wanted to "inspire" the next generation of pro-choice activists in light of the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling that overturned her landmark case. Coffee's lesbian partner Rebecca Hartt said:

We don’t know who’s going to end up acquiring it, but hopefully it will motivate some of the people to get into law or politics or whatever, because it needs to be challenged.

Coffee and Hartt couldn't have imagined who would end up buying the documents: Glenn Beck.

Glenn said the following upon acquiring the documents:

They [Coffee and Hartt] have passed [the documents] to a generation who perhaps is less focused on the so-called "human right" to kill and more on the human responsibility to care, love, and protect both the mother and child.

Glenn has long been an ardent supporters of the pro-life movement—standing up for pro-life Americans under attack from the Left, promoting organizations such as Pre-Born on his radio program, and interviewing pro-life activists to name a few examples. So why did he purchase the documents from the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion?

Glenn and his wife, Tania, said the following:

The real price of these documents were the lives of at least 60 million children [...] If we can use this to help expose this culture of death and Moloch worship, any monetary price we could personally pay would be worth it.

Instead of being purchased by a left-wing activist who would have heralded the documents as a sort of relic, Glenn wanted to make sure they were purchased by someone who would treat them as they are: the signed death sentence of 60 million children in our country from 1973 to 2022.

Now, Glenn is giving YOU access to the documents so that you can learn about the history of this case—and how to make sure that it is never repeated in the future. The slide show below contains 48 images of the 150 documents that went into Roe v. Wade.

The two quill pens given to Linda Coffee, by the Supreme Court, an honor given to lawyers who argue cases before the nation's highest court.

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