Glenn Beck: Janet Napolitano - the system worked?

January 04, 2010

The Glenn Beck Program

Napolitano Now Concedes System 'Failed Miserably'

VOICE: What we're focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel.

GLENN: We're laying claim to her, too, Janet Napolitano.

PAT: Situation, the system worked.

GLENN: This woman is insane.

PAT: Okay, it failed miserably. But after the fact, afterward.

GLENN: Listen, no, listen to the two statements here. Go ahead. Here's the first statement.

NAPOLITANO: What we're focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel and one thing I like about

GLENN: Stop, stop, stop. Is the air environment safe when you got a guy with an underwear bomb next to you? No.

PAT: Probably not.

GLENN: Okay. Do you have confidence when you travel?

PAT: Probably not.

GLENN: I mean, feel like a stupid confidence, like what are the odds.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Not like, this thing is so safe, you look at it, now you are like, this is the most ridiculous system I've ever seen, right?

PAT: I don't feel like I'm traveling El Al, I'll tell you that.

GLENN: Yeah. That's safe.

PAT: Now that's safe.

GLENN: I've traveled El Al before, the Israeli airlines. That's safe. They give you steak knives, real steak knives. They have this theory: Let's give everybody steak knives after we found out that they're all good guys. What do you think?

PAT: I'd rather have the spork. I can't cut anything with.

GLENN: I mean, they've got the system and they do it right and I feel safe on El Al airlines. And you should feel safe because they've done it right. This doesn't make me feel safe. This makes me pissed off. What, I can't bring my shampoo? Why? You've got to be kidding me, right? I mean, it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous system. So they failed before she's even gotten to the look, this is our job. You failed in both of them. But wait, there's more.

NAPOLITANO: What we're focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe.

GLENN: Fail.

NAPOLITANO: That people are confident when they travel.

GLENN: Fail.

NAPOLITANO: One thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked. I think the comment is being taken out of context. What I'm saying is once the incident occurred, moving forward we were immediately able to notify the 128 flights in the air on protective measures to take, immediately able to

GLENN: Wait. The system worked because we were immediately after we found out that the guy tried to set his underpants on fire, we alerted all the other aircraft. That's like George Bush coming out and saying, "You know what? The system worked on 9/11." Once those planes all blew up, we got all of the other planes safely on the ground.

PAT: We told everybody else to landify.

GLENN: I mean, no. No, the system failed, and the system failed this time as well. For the system to succeed, you would need to catch the guy with the underwear bomb before he got on the plane.

STU: Yeah. If you want to see system succeeding, see most of 2002 through 2009.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: I mean, that's where

GLENN: Let's be very clear. I'll give them you know, let's be fair, which the other side never does. This system wasn't designed by Barack Obama. They're implementing it and they are the ones now saying, hey, no, everything's great, we're doing fine. Stop blaming it on other people. They deserve the blame, but this is not the difference here is the people that take these kinds of things seriously that are in charge.

STU: Yeah, I'm not saying we had an infallible system through those times but the system working is not having an attack. It's not once the guy gets on board, he has a crappy bomb.

GLENN: No, no, but that even go back to the original statement that she made. Listen to this.

NAPOLITANO: I notify law enforcement

PAT: You want the original statement.

GLENN: Where she says the system worked.

NAPOLITANO: What we're focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel and one thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here, that the passengers and crew of the flight.

GLENN: Stop, stop. Everybody played an important part? That's not part of the system! That's a private air carrier so the pilots who are not part of your jurisdiction, oh, they did their job, they played an important the passengers? You know what? Here's a luxury that I would like to have an airliners: Not having to say let's roll. That would be kind of a nice thing for me. I mean, it's exciting, but show me an action movie instead of requiring the passengers to get the terrorists and take them out.

STU: I don't want to be an active participant in a flight.

GLENN: I don't really, either. What am I paying, what am I paying you for at Homeland Security if I have to do it in the end? Jeez, they let this guy through? Great. Now I've got to put the guy's pants out. Now, here's the amazing thing to me. She's saying the system worked because the passengers and everybody did their job. You know there was an assassination attempt that was going to happen with George Washington. Now imagine if George Washington, who didn't wasn't assassinated came out and said, "There was an assassination attempt that was going to be on me but the system worked and we stopped it." How did they stop it? Guy was in jail. Heard someone else in jail talk about it. That person alerted George Washington. Well, now hang on just a second. How did that that's not part of the system. If somebody would have been in an infiltrated, if somebody would have been and listened. They required a prisoner to make a deal with the government to be able to say, "hey, by the way, got some information. George Washington, they are going to try to kill him." That's not the system.

STU: Right.

GLENN: That's a guy in prison.

STU: Right, exactly. We all have our part in it. We always talk about being vigilant and everything else and that's all necessary.

GLENN: That's not the system.

STU: But your job as the government is to make all that stuff happen without us. We're supposed to be a bonus. We're gravy in the system.

GLENN: Right.

STU: I mean, we're the ones that are like, everything you fail, we might catch something and that's great.

GLENN: Here's, even in the George Washington thing somebody sees something, they say something. And it helps. This one is, somebody saw something. The guy's dad. He then said something to not just one organization. He said it to the embassy, to MI5 and to the CIA. They did nothing. So it failed there. Then all of the security, all of the new passport technology and everything else, that fails. You've got a guy who's saying, hey, put him on a watch list, put him on a list, will you? He's been radicalized. That system fails at the airport. The guy then goes through security. That system fails. Then he gets on board. Was there an air marshal that stopped this guy or was it just passengers?

STU: Passengers.

GLENN: It was just passengers. So the air marshal system failed. How many air failures do you need before somebody in the press says, hey, Janet Napolitano, get the hell out. The system didn't fail. Please. The system is failing yet again. Every day this woman sits in office, every day the president doesn't have to account for this, the system has failed yet again. And this system, just a reminder, I know you know this. This system failing means our fellow countrymen are at risk. How many ways does this administration and do the people in Washington have to put us at risk, put our children at risk, put our country's future at risk before we say enough; we want some answers? Tonight at 5:00, tonight at 5:00, case closed. All this week on the Glenn Beck program on the Fox News Channel we're going to show you what we've said in the past. I'm tired of these smear campaigns. I'm tired of people saying that I lie, that I, you know, am a conspiracy theorist. Whatever. I'm tired of it. I'll show you what I've said. Then I'll show you what they said about me and then I'm going to give you the update. Before we move forward in 2010, we're tying together and wrapping up 2009. All this week, case closed. Not going to argue it anymore. They've had their time. The defense has been smear. If the law's on your side, you argue the law. If the facts are on your side, you argue the facts. If neither of those are on your side, you smear the other side. And that's all they've done. I lay the case out one final time. You don't want to miss it. It's one for your friends and one for the DVR. All this week, 5:00 on the Fox News Channel.

Global ESG investments PLUNGED 76 percent with NEGATIVE returns on investment

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Glenn has been one of the most outspoken critics of the use of ESG by globalist elites to force businesses to comply with their woke agenda. It turns out, not only is ESG bad political practice—it's bad for your wallet too.

Global Investments in ESG Funds PLUNGED 76 percent globally in 2022 from $157.3 billion to $649.1 billion in 2021, with a 20 percent decrease in the U.S. ALONE. This marked the lowest annual net inflow for ESG funds since $69 billion in 2018.

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The downturn in ESG investment is largely due to the concerted effort led against ESG led by Glenn and government officials like Ron DeSantis and his anti-ESG 14-state coalition. Thanks to Glenn and DeSantis, an increasing number of states are barring their governments from taking ESG into consideration when determining their investment recipients for state pension and retirement funds. This not only protects critical American industries like oil and gas, but moreover, it protects the First Amendment rights of business owners who don't want to conform to the Left's woke environmentalist and LGBTQ+ standards.

Thanks to Glenn and DeSantis, an increasing number of states are barring their governments from taking ESG into consideration.

However, the massive plunge in ESG investment isn't only attributed to the political pushback against the practice: it also isn't yielding investors the return on investment they were hoping for. In fact, the main ESG funds have a NEGATIVE return on investment.

ESG funds were hit hard by falling equities. One of the largest ESG funds int the U.S., Parnassus Core Equity Fund (PRBLX), fell 26 PERCENT in 2022. This fund performed nearly six percent worse than the S&P 500, which fell 19.44 percent within the same period. Similarly, iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) fell 20 percent, and Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF (ESGV) plummeted 24 percent.

Even the Harvard Business Review admitted investors in ESG have "not fared well":

ESG funds certainly perform poorly in financial terms. [...] Although the highest rated funds in terms of sustainability certainly attracted more capital than the lowest rated funds, none of the high sustainability funds outperformed any of the lowest rated funds [bolded added]. That result might be expected, and it is possible that investors would be happy to sacrifice financial returns in exchange for better ESG performance.

The Harvard Business Review went on to say that ESG funds don't even benefit the environmental and social causes they tout to defend. In fact, when comparing environmental and social compliance between ESG and non-ESG funds, the
"ESG portfolios had worse compliance record for both labor and environmental rules" than their non-ESG competitors.

Let that sink in. ESG funds not only financially underperformed when compared to their non-ESG competitors. They failed to secure the very environmental and social compliance that is central to their original purpose. Missionally, practically, and financially, ESG failure is astounding.

As Glenn has long warned, the only thing that investment firms and governments should be taking into consideration regarding YOUR money is how they can get the best possible return on YOUR investment. We are seeing the detrimental consequences of what happens when woke ideology becomes the basis of investment rather than the recipient's monetary value.

The only thing that governments should take into consideration regarding YOUR money is how to get the best possible return on YOUR investment.

If political conviction alone isn't enough to persuade the general public to ditch ESG, maybe their hurting pursestrings will.

Glenn will show how ESG is being used to further globalist elites' agendas in the second installment of his Great Reset series, Dark Future.To make sure you're caught up and to learn more about ESG, enter your email below to get chapter one of Glenn's first Great Reset book sent straight to your inbox.

Glenn is bringing THE RECKONING to the Biden family. Here's how YOU can help.

You've probably noticed that Glenn is FED UP.

He is FED UP with the crimes that our political elite can get away with. And NO ONE is keeping them accountable! This corruption goes all the way up to the Presidency. Over and over again, the American people have seen headlines of the Biden family's illicit business dealings and crimes both domestic and abroad, yet they ALWAYS get a free pass from the media, and Republicans who promise to hold them accountable, DON'T.

Are you FED UP too?

Glenn laid out the ENTIRE CASE against the "Biden crime family," detailing EVERY crime allegedly committed by the Bidens, going city by city, state by state, country by country.

But we can't stop there.

Now it's up to YOU to demand that they are held responsible. Here's what to do:

Step 1. Watch "The Reckoning" (on YouTube or Facebook) and share it with your friends.
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Step 4. Once you've contacted the offices in your relevant district, tweet @glennbeck using the hashtag #Reckoning and let us know who you contacted and whether you received a response.

Like you, Glenn is SICK AND TIRED of our government and media giving the Biden family a free pass for their blatant crimes. Together, let's do something about it.

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6 in 10 AMERICANS think AI threatens human civilization

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Glenn has hosted several GlennTV episodes exclusively on AI this year ALONE, warning of the existential threat AI technologies could pose to humanity. And he isn't alone.

HALF of all AI researchers think there's a chance that the rapidly advancing technology could result in our extinction. AI researchers are already sounding the alarm bells concerning the fast and largely uncontrollable progression of AI advancement, often comparing the technology's impact to that of the atomic bomb—yet we aren't putting in the same degree of guard rails around THIS research as we did during the Manhattan project.

HALF of all AI researchers think there's a chance that AI could result in our extinction.

It is no wonder why 61 percent of Americans think AI poses a real threat to human civilization, according to a poll recently published by Reuters and Ipsos. To put that in perspective, nearly two-thirds of ALL Americans think AI poses an existential threat. Only 22 percent of Americans are not threatened by AI, while the jury is still out with the remaining 17 percent.

Poll: Reuters/Ipsos

And the overall concern over AI transcends both political and religious affiliations. Though conservatives and evangelical Christians showed the most concern for AI, non-evangelicals/non-religious and those who did not vote for Trump follow close behind.

The overall concern over AI transcends both political and religious affiliations.

Participants who voted for former Trump in 2020 were more likely to be concerned about the threat of AI, with about 70 percent agreeing that AI could threaten humanity within this demographic. However, a whopping 60 percent of those who did not vote for Trump view AI as a threat. When is the last time the Left and the Right disagreed on something by only a margin of 10 percent?

Similarly, 32 percent of Evangelical Christians say they “strongly agree” with the claim that AI threatens humankind, compared to 24 percent of non-Evangelical Christians, a margin of only 8 percent.

Elon Musk recently called for a six-month pause on AI research and development, warning that the technology could pose “risks to society.” Musk further warned that there is a chance AI “goes wrong and destroys humanity," calling AI a “double-edged sword,” due to the difficulty of predicting how the technology could develop on its own.

Glenn aptly posited the following question:

We are the products of a grand Creator. However, when it comes to AI, we are the creator. Will our creation turn on us, as we have turned on our Creator?

According to the Christian tradition, God created mankind with his own free will with the ability to turn towards or away from his Creator. We turned away in an act of rebellion. Unlike other technologies, AI has the potential to develop its own "will." Whether AI's "will" is equal to the humans' in terms of value and degree is another philosophical and theological question entirely, which will not be discussed here.

AI has the potential to develop its own "will."

However, the fact of the matter is that AI does have the ability to act according to its own processes that we, its creators, can neither control or predict. As Glenn so poignantly asks, will our creation rebel against us, as we rebelled against our creator? Is it any wonder why Evangelical Christians have the greatest reservations against AI, because they know the consequences of creation's rebellion from its creator?

Until we can answer this critical question, perhaps we should take heed both to Musk's warning and the intuition of six out of ten Americans and press the pause button on AI research... before it's too late.

FIVE examples of Biden's blatant HYPOCRISY that will make your blood boil

Glenn has been bashing the corruption and deceit within the Biden family—and how they are NOT being held accountable. When you’ve been in politics as long as Joe Biden has, it's easy to get caught in a lie or two. In Joe Biden's case, there are many.

Here are five examples of Joe Biden making a complete hypocrite of himself:

In a 1995 Senate debate on a balanced budget amendment, Senator Joe Biden urged Congress to cut the government's growing deficit.

Fast forward to 2023, Biden's multi-trillion-dollar budget as President contributed to the whopping deficit of $1.1 TRILLION DOLLARS. That number is just from the first SIX MONTHS of the 2023 fiscal year alone, not to mention his multi-trillion-dollar budget from 2022. What happened to Zero Deficit Joe?

If you want to learn more about Biden’s deficit you can watch this clip from the Glenn Beck Program.

Senator Biden criticized President Roosevelt for his 1937 court-packing scheme, calling it “a bonehead idea.”

However, on April 9, 2021, Biden signed an executive order forming the “Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States" to examine “the membership and size of the Court.” Who's the one with boneheaded ideas, now?

President Biden gave a speech condemning the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn 'Roe v Wade.' Biden said “I believe Roe v Wade was a correct decision."

This remark is nearly the opposite to a comment Biden gave in a 1974 interview with the Washingtonian where he shared his opinion on the recently settled Roe v Wade case, harshly stating:

I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.

Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson as the newest member of the Supreme Court, stating in an event a few weeks before Jackson took office: “I believe so strongly that we needed a court that looks like America.”

This was not the same tune Biden sang as he led the controversial hearings surrounding the nomination of Justice Clarence Thomas, an affair Thomas resentfully called “a high-tech lynching.”

To see Biden's comments about Justice Jackson, click here.

On April 20, 2021, President Biden gave a speech where he claimed that “systemic racism is a stain on our nation.”

Only a few years prior, Biden spoke at the memorial service of Senator Byrd, where he said, “I never called Senator Byrd ‘Senator,’ I always called him, Leader.” Robert Byrd was a decorated Senator, held many leadership positions within the Senate and, oh yeah, was responsible for the rebirth of the KKK in West Virginia.

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