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Glenn Beck: NPR chimes in on 8/28

August 26, 2010
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GLENN: What does the front page of Drudge say right now?

PAT: It says Beck has a dream, rally set, rally set, Sharpton looms.

GLENN: You know it's never good when you get a phone call and somebody says, better check the front page headline of Drudge, above the fold. And it has your name in it. You know, it's never a good thing, but this one actually I think kind of is. It is a relatively fair, and I say relatively because it's, you know, we understand it's the Washington Post. It's relatively fair story on me, I think. I read it last night about 1:00 a.m. and then there's another one on NPR that I think is worth pointing out. So let's just explore here on what exactly the Drudge Report is showing America on what's being written.

STU: Yeah, you can, actually if you go to the Drudge Report right now, you can see a picture, which, there's not too many pictures out there of the event as of yet. You can see the sign and everything else, everything's set up.

GLENN: You know, may I ‑‑ saying that there's not very many pictures, et cetera, et cetera, let me show you this. This is coming from the NPR article: Stoking ‑‑ let's see. His words, his credentials for hosting a rally on the anniversary and location of one of the most memorable civil rights events are shoddy at exist, nonexistent at worst. Stoking even more suspicions is how secretive Beck is being. Little is known about the event except that there will be speeches by Beck and Palin, and attendees are prohibited from bringing signs. The fear, of course, is that it will turn into a pit of hatred.

STU: (Laughing). Really? A pit of hatred? Wow.

GLENN: A pit of hatred.

PAT: Is that like the pit of despair from Princess Bride? It's the pit of despair. Anyway ‑‑

STU: (Laughing).

GLENN: Yeah, a pit of hatred. But there may be a glimmer of hope, writes NPR. On May 28th Beck devoted more than a half hour of his Fox program to celebrating the overlooked historical contributions of forgotten African‑American heroes. Yes, more than a half hour. We've dedicated three hours to that. That's not ‑‑ those are three total hours. That's not cobbling things together. We've probably done ‑‑ I bet we've done seven hours in the last year.

STU: Yeah, not to mention additional material on Insider Extreme that you've done on the same topic.

GLENN: Yeah. With the assistance of David Barton, a Christian historian, and Lucas Morel, political professor and author of Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role, blah, blah‑blah, Beck highlighted the accomplishments of black men like Prince Whipple and James Armistead, former slaves who fought alongside general Lafayette and General Washington in the American Revolution. I'm so tired of people saying that it was just white people who founded America, said Beck to a small mixed audience. The audience is always the same size. We have 50 chairs in the studio.

STU: (Laughing).

PAT: It's not like that day you just made sure there were going to be like ten.

GLENN: Yeah, there wasn't a lot of people that would show up. There's only 50 chairs. No, why are we intentionally leaving peoples out? If one could get past the host and the co‑host's final points, liberals try to keep black founders out of history books in order to better play the victim card ‑‑ no, no, no. Not so the African‑American plays the victory card ‑‑ victim card. So those who want power can play the victim card. The segment was actually quite touching and certainly not what we've come to expect from a Glenn Beck show.

May I just ask a question? Why not? Why don't you expect that?

STU: You're doing founders Friday. Every Friday you've been doing these things looking back at history in this way.

GLENN: Yes. Try this one. A month and a half later when Shirley Sherrod was fired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture after video footage edited her out to make her look like racist and it hit the Internet, Beck broke form yet again. While the White House, USDA and NAACP backpedalled, egg on their faces from their condemnations of Sherrod, Beck complained the NAACP didn't watch the whole video? This woman deserves her job back. Chalk it up to Beck looking for an easy shot at the NAACP.

No, no, no, here's an idea. Why don't we chalk it up to being honorable? Why don't we chalk it up to actually having character? Judge a man by the content of his character. Why don't we chalk it up to doing the right thing, not just trying to take out anybody for any reason because they're an enemy.

STU: Yeah, this isn't you breaking form. This is them not knowing as much about your form as they think they do. And that's a big difference. They just think they have you defined so perfectly, every time they ‑‑

GLENN: They have no idea. Have you noticed that no one is writing about honor? No one is writing a story about the lack of honor in this country? No one is writing any story, no one's writing any story about God. I guarantee you the only stories that will come out after what is happening will be taking the message apart about God. No one will say, well, you know what? Well, that actually kind of made sense. Wow, that ‑‑ you know, look at what ‑‑ maybe we should look into what's happened to our churches, what's happened to our God, what's happened to our faith, who's pitting everybody against each other in faith. Nobody will do that. Nobody will do that. They cannot get their arms around the fact that this is just about honor and God. They can't do it. It's got to be something else.

The story that's on the front page of the Drudge Report talks about how the Republicans are running. They're running from me.

STU: Well, yeah. I mean, at the very least they are being agnostic about the event, and that's fine. I mean, it's not a Republican/Democrat event.

GLENN: I love this that somehow or another ‑‑ did you get the impression that they were saying the Republicans are just lying about not knowing or ‑‑ because they don't know. Nobody knows.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Nobody knows ‑‑ my own staff doesn't know. You know what I'm worried about? I'm worried about somebody ‑‑ everybody has been briefed on their part on what they do and what the parameters are, everybody on stage, but nobody knows the whole picture. So I'm afraid that somebody could get on and say something that is out of whack. I was thinking last night, I've got to have a meeting before we go on stage with everybody to make sure they really, truly understand. Now, I'm being told that everybody does, but I haven't talked to anybody personally who's on stage, and nobody knows the whole picture. So now, why would all of a sudden the Republicans know?

STU: Because you have a phone call every morning with all Republicans and they tell you what to say. You forgot about that.

GLENN: No, that's George Stephanopoulos, the people at ABC and the people in the media with the Obama administration.

STU: Well, yeah, but this is ‑‑ this is typical of what's going on is they are trying to define this event by typical sort of political measures, where they are now trying to ‑‑ Washington Post story which is linked to the front page of Drudge now is talking about how this rally will be a measure of the tea party strength. And while ‑‑ you know, look. Our listeners or a lot of people who are involved in the tea party, understandable. But it's not ‑‑ this is not what this event is about.

GLENN: This isn't a tea party rally.

PAT: Yeah, they also say that it will ‑‑ one of the unanswered questions is whether it will help or hurt Republicans in November.

GLENN: I don't really care.

PAT: Nobody's even talking about that. We're not talking about that.

GLENN: Look who keeps trying to make this a partisan event.

STU: It's not us.

PAT: The press.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: The media.

GLENN: They keep trying to make this a partisan event. I got news for you. If you are coming and you are like, I'm in the GOP and I can't wait because this is gonna really be great for the election, you're going to be sadly disappointed. You're going to be unbelievably disappointed because it isn't about the elections in November, has nothing to do with it. In fact, the whole point of this is unless we restore honor, the elections are meaningless! It doesn't matter! You can change them all from Ds to all Rs and then back again, and we've been doing this for a long time, R, D, R, D, R, D, it makes no difference. We have to change ourselves and then the political landscape will change from that. What do you want to be? What is your dream? What is your dream? Where do you go from here? We're at the end of the road of living it the way we have. So now what is our choice? They've got to make it about politics.

And it kills me. This is going to show the strength of the tea party? How exactly?

Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias: America doesn't do GREAT things by fighting amongst ourselves

This week on the Glenn Beck Podcast, Glenn spoke with Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias about his new book, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger."

Matthew and Glenn agree that, while conservatives and liberals may disagree on a lot, we're not as far apart as some make it seem. If we truly want America to continue doing great things, we must spend less time fighting amongst ourselves.

Watch a clip from the full interview with Matthew Yglesias below:


Find the full podcast on Glenn's YouTube channel or on Blaze Media's podcast network.

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'A convenient boogeyman for misinformation artists': Why is the New York Times defending George Soros?

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On the "Glenn Beck Radio Program" Tuesday, Glenn discussed the details of a recent New York Times article that claims left-wing billionaire financier George Soros "has become a convenient boogeyman for misinformation artists who have falsely claimed that he funds spontaneous Black Lives Matter protests as well as antifa, the decentralized and largely online, far-left activist network that opposes President Trump."

The Times article followed last week's bizarre Fox News segment in which former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared to be censored for criticizing Soros (read more here). The article also labeled Glenn a "conspiracy theorist" for his tweet supporting Gingrich.

Watch the video clip below for details:


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'Color Revolution': The Obama Admin's plan UPEND America—and it's all happening NOW

The former ambassador to Russia under the Obama Administration, Michael McFaul, came up with "7 Pillars of Color Revolution," a list of seven steps needed to incite the type of revolution used to upend Eastern European countries like Ukraine and Georgia in the past two decades. On his TV special this week, Glenn Beck broke down the seven steps and showed how they're happening right now in America.

Here are McFaul's seven steps:

1. Semi-autocratic regime (not fully autocratic) – provides opportunity to call incumbent leader "fascist"

2. Appearance of unpopular president or incumbent leader

3. United and organized opposition – Antifa, BLM

4. Effective system to convince the public (well before the election) of voter fraud

5. Compliant media to push voter fraud narrative

6. Political opposition organization able to mobilize "thousands to millions in the streets"

7. Division among military and police


Glenn explained each "pillar," offering examples and evidence of how the Obama administration laid out the plan for an Eastern European style revolution in order to completely upend the American system.

Last month, McFaul made a obvious attempt to downplay his "color revolutions" plan with the following tweet:

Two weeks later, he appeared to celebrate step seven of his plan in this now-deleted tweet:



As Glenn explains in this clip, the Obama administration's "7 Pillars of Color Revolution" are all playing out – just weeks before President Donald Trump takes on Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the November election.

Watch the video clip below to hear more from Glenn:


Watch the full special "CIVIL WAR: The Way America Could End in 2020" here.

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Modern eugenics: Will Christians fight this deadly movement?

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Last month, without much fanfare, a new research paper disclosed that 94 percent of Belgian physicians support the killing of new-born babies after birth if they are diagnosed with a disability.

A shocking revelation indeed that did not receive the attention it demanded. Consider this along with parents who believe that if their unborn babies are pre-diagnosed with a disability, they would choose to abort their child. Upwards of 70 percent of mothers whose children are given a prenatal disability diagnosis, such as Down Syndrome, abort to avoid the possibility of being burdened with caring for a disabled child.

This disdain for the disabled hits close to home for me. In 1997, my family received a letter from Michael Schiavo, the husband of my sister, Terri Schiavo, informing us that he intended to petition a court to withdraw Terri's feeding tube.

For those who do not remember, in 1990, at the age of 26, Terri experienced a still-unexplained collapse while at home with Michael, who subsequently became her legal guardian. Terri required only love and care, food and water via feeding tube since she had difficulty swallowing as a result of her brain injury. Nonetheless, Michael's petition was successful, and Terri's life was intentionally ended in 2005 by depriving her of food and water, causing her to die from dehydration and starvation. It took almost two excruciating weeks.

Prior to my sister's predicament, the biases that existed towards persons with disabilities had been invisible to me. Since then, I have come to learn the dark history of deadly discrimination towards persons with disabilities.

Indeed, some 20 years prior to Germany's T4 eugenics movement, where upwards of 200,000 German citizens were targeted and killed because of their physical or mental disability, the United States was experiencing its own eugenics movement.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas documented some of this history in his concurring opinion in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., Justice Thomas describes how eugenics became part of the academic curriculum being taught in upwards of 400 American universities and colleges.

It was not solely race that was the target of the U.S. eugenics movement. Eugenicists also targeted the institutionalized due to incurable illness, the physically and cognitively disabled, the elderly, and those with medical dependency.

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade, which wiped out pro-life laws in nearly every state and opened the floodgates to abortion throughout the entirety of pregnancy. Since then, 60 million children have been killed. Abortion as we know it today has become a vehicle for a modern-day eugenics program.

Since the Catholic Church was established, the Truth of Christ was the greatest shield against these types of attacks on the human person and the best weapon in the fight for equality and justice. Tragically, however, for several decades, the Church has been infiltrated by modernist clergy, creating disorder and confusion among the laity, perverting the teachings of the Church and pushing a reckless supposed “social justice" agenda.

My family witnessed this firsthand during Terri's case. Church teaching is clear: it is our moral obligation to provide care for the cognitively disabled like Terri. However, Bishop Robert Lynch, who was the bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, during Terri's case, offered no support and was derelict in his duties during the fight for Terri's life.

Bishop Lynch had an obligation to use his position to protect Terri from the people trying to kill her and to uphold Church teaching. Indeed, it was not only the silence of Bishop Lynch but that of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which also remained silent despite my family's pleas for help, that contributed to Terri being needlessly starved and dehydrated to death.

My family's experience, sadly, has turned out to be more of the rule than the exception. Consider what happened to Michael Hickson. Hickson was a 36-year-old, brain-injured person admitted to a Texas hospital after contracting COVID-19. Incredibly—and against the wishes of Michael's wife—the hospital decided not to treat Michael because they arbitrarily decided that his “quality of life" was “unacceptably low" due to his pre-existing disability. Michael died within a week once the decision not to treat him was imposed upon him despite the efforts of his wife to obtain basic care for her husband.

During my sister's case and our advocacy work with patients and their families, it would have been helpful to have a unified voice coming from our clergy consistently supporting the lives of our medically vulnerable. We desperately need to see faithful Catholic pastoral witness that confounds the expectations of the elite by pointing to Jesus Christ and the moral law.

A Church that appears more concerned with baptizing the latest social and political movements is a Church that may appear to be “relevant," but one that may also find itself swallowed up by the preoccupations of our time.

As Catholics, we know all too well the reluctance of priests to preach on issues of abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and other pro-life issues. We have heard that the Church cannot risk becoming too political.

At the same time, some within the Church are now openly supporting Black Lives Matter, an organization that openly declares itself hostile to the family, to moral norms as taught by the Church, and whose founders embrace the deadly ideology of Marxism.

For example, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, knelt in prayer with a cardboard sign asserting his support for this ideology.

Recently, during an online liturgy of the mass, Fr. Kenneth Boller at The Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York, led the congregation with what appears to sound like questions affirming the BLM agenda. Moreover, while reading these questions, pictures of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, assumed victims of racial injustice, were placed on the altar of St. Francis Xavier Church, a place typically reserved for Saints of the Catholic Church.

Contrast these two stories with what happened in the Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana, where Rev. Theodore Rothrock of St. Elizabeth Seton Church fell victim to the ire of Bishop Timothy Doherty. Fr. Rothrock used strong language in his weekly church bulletin criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and its organizers. Consequently, Bishop Doherty suspended Fr. Rothrock from public ministry.

In 1972, Pope Pius VI said, “The smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God." It seems that too many of our clergy today are enjoying the smell.

I encourage all who are concerned about the human right to life and about Christ-centered reforms in our culture and our Church to raise your voices for pastoral leadership in every area of our shared lives as Christian people.

Bobby Schindler is a Senior Fellow with Americans United for Life, Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, and President of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network.