Stewart gets owned, hits Glenn

January 15, 2010

The Glenn Beck Program

Jon Stewart reverted back to his old bread and butter last night: making fun of cable news hosts.

GLENN: Jon Stewart last night making fun of me, calling me -- connecting me to Hannibal Lecter and Clarice is Sarah Palin. Nobody can figure out why I had -- you know, why I put us there at the Statue of Liberty.

Pat: (Laughter.) No. I think Stewart did. I think he --

Glenn: Can you play that back?

Pat: I can play some of it.

Glenn: Play some of it, before it gets dicey.

Pat: It gets dicey pretty quickly.

Glenn: Yeah. It's cable news. So --

Pat: Here we go.

(Audio:)

Stewart: -- Fox News. The first day there she sat down with Bill O'Reilly, went very well. The next day was a visit to perhaps Fox's next biggest star, Glenn Beck. I wonder if Glenn Beck has lost any perspective on the relative importance of this moment.

Glenn: We have a full hour with former Governor Alaska Sarah Palin. She's now a Fox contributor and this is the first time that we have actually sat in the same room and looked eyeball to eyeball with each other and I picked this spot because of that statue and what it means.

Stewart: She's from Alaska. She's not an immigrant. I get it. The only appropriate spot for an meeting of this import is in the shadow of Lady Liberty. I guess they would have done the interview on the lap of the Lincoln Memorial.

(Audio concluded.)

Pat: I think that's about as far as we can go.

Glenn: That's as far as we can go there.

Pat: It's funny, because they show the two of you on the lap of Lincoln.

Glenn: Right. Is that available? Can you rent that?

Pat: Well, Stewart goes on to say --

Glenn: I know. I know. I know. I know. It wasn't about the interview. It was about trying to find trust. Do you trust her? Do you trust anybody anymore? What do you trust? The only thing that really Americans look at anymore is Abe Lincoln and the Statue of Liberty and they're, like, I trust that.

Pat: Uh-huh.

Glenn: They don't trust any of our other symbols.

Stu: It's good to see him falling back on just bashing cable news personalities after he got schooled by John Yoo a couple of days ago. Did you guys see that?

Glenn: No, huh-uh.

John Yoo vs John Stewart

Stu: Yeah. You know, the guy who basically wrote the, you know, the legal justifications for the water boarding of terrorists which saved, you know, how many lives. Of course, that's crazy talk to Jon Stewart and he had John Yoo on. Well, I think it would be -- I would love to hear you talk to him about it. He has got a book out and it's -- I don't know if he's doing the rounds or whatever, but, you know, talking to him about that and Jon, a tad out of his league in that conversation.

Glenn: Do you have any of it ready?

Stu: Just a tad. I don't know any of it ready, but I can get for the next break.

Glenn: Yeah. See if you can get it for the break. I would love to hear that.

Stu: Because it's the typical, like, How can you justify terror? And then he gives you 75 different ways that it's happened, you know, whether it's torture or not and where you draw those lines and he goes through the entire thing.

Glenn: See if you can find the audio for me. See if you can find the audio. We'll play it at the -- after the next break.

Pat: You know, we've been talking all week, we've been following this British list of the 100 most influential conservatives all week from

Glenn: And it doesn't make any sense because a lot of them are not even conservatives.

Pat: Most of them, probably, aren't conservatives.

Glenn: David Brooks is on this list.

Pat: But we were thinking -- yeah. And Lindsey Graham. I mean, you've got a whole bunch of pseudo conservatives who really don't belong together. You've got a bunch of progressives.

Glenn: You have -- if you take out the idea of progressive and you don't think that that is a problem, then you have a lot of these Republicans that claim they're conservative but they're not. They're progressives.

Pat: So, today -- I mean, all week long we thought, okay, maybe you would be 180, somewhere in there, because they've released 20 a day.

Glenn: Yeah, yeah.

Pat: All week long.

Glenn: Yeah.

Pat: You weren't there. You weren't in --

Glenn: Just give the number.

Pat: 60. All right. You just want the number? No. 6.

Glenn: Give me the --

Pat: No. 6.

Glenn: Who was in the top 10?

Pat: No. 1, of course, you would think Rush. They didn't. They chose Dick Cheney. No. 2 was Rush.

Glenn: Hang on a second. Is that the deal, most influential?

Pat: Yeah. Top conservatives. Yeah. Most influential conservatives.

Glenn: I don't think he is.

Stu: He's been out a lot, though, this past year and he's --

Glenn: He is one that --

Pat: He was in the top 10.

Glenn: He's one of them and he's one that I get to listen to and I'm, like, Okay. Where were you? Where were you?

Pat: Yeah.

Stu: He's been speaking a lot of truth over the past year, I would say.

Pat: But No. 1 over Rush? Would you put him there? I wouldn't.

Stu: No. Maybe not, but he also was the vice-president of the United States. You get some stature for that.

Glenn: There is a lot of -- I read a couple of days ago -- and I'm trying to figure out this list on how they -- because I saw -- I don't remember. It must have been Lindsey Graham I saw on this list and I thought, How do they get on the list? It is -- also part of it is influence and years of influence. So, if you're --

Pat: Okay. Well, he fits those criteria.

Glenn: He fits that because he's been around forever.

Pat: No. 2, Rush. No. 3, Matt Drudge who has a lot of influence.

Glenn: At lot of influence.

Pat: No. 4, Sarah Palin, who clearly has --

Glenn: A lot of influence.

Pat: A lot of influence. No. 5, Robert Gates, just the Defense Secretary of the United States of America. No. 6, Glenn Beck, Fox News presenter.

Glenn: How stupid is that?

Stu: One of these things just doesn't belong.

Glenn: What do they write?

Pat: Let's see. The fastest-rising star of cable television, Beck delivers monologs that veer from doom-saying to tears, jokes, and rapid-fire analysis of Obama Land, suspect connections, hidden beliefs, and dark plots. His subjects include the threat of fascism, communism, terrorism, Wall Street fat cats, Mexico's collapse. How often have we talked about Mexico's collapse?

Glenn: I talked about it early on.

Pat: The decline of religion and power of the liberal media. All this is united by the theme of impending doom and the fear that the ordinary American is being forgotten. Well, that's accurate.

Glenn: I think all of that is accurate.

Pat: It's working spectacularly. Since switching from CNN's Headline News to Fox, Beck has soared up the ratings chart with his 5:00 p.m. show, capturing an average 2 million viewers -- I think it's much higher than that now, isn't it? --

Glenn: Yeah.

Pat: -- an unprecedented number at that hour. His talk show rates third in the country. There have been five best-selling books. A recovering alcoholic, drug addict, he has also cried more than any other presenter in memory. What is that presenter thing?

Glenn: I hate that.

Pat: Often welling up at the thought of what will happen to the United States. I'm sorry. I just love my country, and I fear for it, he once wept. His opposition to big government and Obama has seen him adopted by many of the tea party movement as their figurehead. There has been talk of a presidential bid, which will do his ratings no harm. "I consider myself a libertarian. I'm a conservative but every day that goes by, I'm fighting for individual rights," explained Beck who describes his show as a fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. That's it. No. 7, this is interesting. Roger Ailes. He placed ahead of his British -- Roger Ailes.

Glenn: I think that would be a misunderstanding.

Pat: Yeah.

Glenn: Seeing that Roger is the guy who hired me and keeps me on the air.

Pat: Yeah.

Glenn: So --

Pat: Yeah.

Glenn: Really, he's probably more influential.

Pat: No. 8, just the head of U.S. central command, David Petraeus. No. 9, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. That seems a little high for Paul Ryan. I mean --

Glenn: Tell me about Paul Ryan. Wisconsin?

Pat: Yes. He has it all, according to this article, including time on his side. He entered Congress at the tender age of 28. Doesn't turn 40 until next year. Just because he's -- none of these guys -- none of these Republicans --

Glenn: I don't want a guy who got in at 28 and is now 40 and is still in Congress.

Pat: Where do you want him to be?

Glenn: Maybe running a business.

Pat: Okay. Well, that's -- yes. Term limits would be a good thing at this point.

Glenn: Doing his own gig.

Pat: Sure, sure. And then No. 10 I wholeheartedly disagree with because, again, it's not a conservative, Tim Pawlenty. No. 11, Mitt Romney. No. 12, George W. Bush, only former President of the United States. John Roberts was 13th. Haley Barbour, Mississippi, was 14th, followed by Eric Cantor, McCain, Mike Pence, Bob McDonald.

Glenn: If you look at this list of conservatives and you count the number of progressives on this list you see -- progressives or people who ignored the progressives, for instance, Dick Cheney ignored the progressives, you know, and just went along with them, if you look at that list, there are a lot of enemies within the gates of the conservative movement. I can't -- I started writing the speech for CPAC last night. I sent a little bit to you guys. Did you read it? Did you see it?

Pat: I saw it. I haven't read it.

Glenn: Did you read it or see it?

Stu: I did see the e-mail, but I have not read it yet.

Glenn: Thanks, guys. That's big.

Stu: Nothing else to do. I was so bored. I was, like, What can I do today, and then I saw your e-mail and I was, like, Oh, this is 40 pages of a speech a month from now. Let me read it now.

Glenn: Don't do that.

Pat: Right, right.

Glenn: I think that it's time to clean house. I think it's time to clean house and I think it's -- I'm tired of playing, not the ugly stepchild. I mean, we're not even the stepchild. We're the enemy that's outside of the house. Conservatives are the majority, the vast majority, and somehow or the other, we've allowed yourselves to be painted as something different than that and we've been painted that with the help of the progressives in the Republican party. Look at -- what do you think Lindsey Graham is doing? Look what he's doing. He is painting within the framework of the party, he is framing people with real values and belief of the of Constitution and the founders. He's in the party, painting those people as an extremists.

Graham: I'm clueless. I'm clueless.

Glenn: There may be more to that statement, but we'll just agree with it and move on, because --

Graham: I'm clueless.

Glenn: Yes, Lindsey --

Graham: I'm clueless.

Glenn: -- you are.

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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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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Stewart gets owned, hits Glenn

Global ESG investments PLUNGED 76 percent with NEGATIVE returns on investment

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

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

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

6 in 10 AMERICANS think AI threatens human civilization

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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.”

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