Is Glenn being poisoned?

October 11, 2010

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PAT: Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere for Glenn who isn’t here because he's, of course, being tested for, as you know, Rumsfeld Plague.

STU: (Laughing).

PAT: And all we can do is pray at this point. When you've been infected with Rumsfeld Plague, I don't know that there's any chance of survival.

STU: No. I would say no. Obviously

PAT: You would say no?

STU: Donald Rumsfeld began targeting Glenn Beck.

PAT: He knows how to kill.

STU: Yeah. I mean, he's run wars, Pat. And he started targeting him apparently in the Eighties.

PAT: I think 1981, if I'm not mistaken, yeah.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: Well, according to this, according to this conspiracy website and it is a con I mean, everything on it is like total conspiracy.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: And every anybody who doesn't believe in this conspiracy is part of it.

STU: Of course.

PAT: So if you don't believe, for instance, that Rumsfeld and Cheney and Bush brought down the twin towers, you're part of the coverup. If you don't believe it.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: Because the evidence is conclusive. We all know steel doesn't melt. Nobody knows how it's manufactured apparently. Because it doesn't melt.

STU: No. No, definitely not.

PAT: Steel just is, right? It's not molten.

STU: You farm for it. You farm for steel.

PAT: You farm for steel, thank you. And so when you dig it up and you find this hardened thing that you can build buildings with, it can't melt. And it can't weaken apparently.

STU: No, no.

PAT: And so even though, you know, some discredited people like, for instance, Popular Mechanics have totally debunked this thing years and years ago with all the scientific evidence.

STU: Well

PAT: They're part of the CIA. They're part of the CIA.

STU: James Meigs is a CIA agent, the guys who was the editor of Popular Mechanics who we've had on the show many times to disprove ridiculous conspiracy theories. And, you know, he's obviously in on it just like everybody. Just like we are right now, Pat.

PAT: Of course he is. We are right now. The fact that we're talking about it will probably pop up on this website.

STU: Probably will.

PAT: They're see, they continue to be part of the problem! Their conspiracy, the deception continues! Uh huh, uh huh.

STU: So awesome.

PAT: So listen to this. Here's one of the paragraphs from this insightful article on this website: Glenn Beck may not know it of course he does now because they've released that and that's why we're in Salt Lake to be tested for it. Glenn Beck may not know it, but it is almost just certain.

STU: Almost certain.

PAT: Almost certain he is another victim of Rumsfeld Plague. And if I've seen one I've seen, well, one. On September 29th, the New York Times published a long article about Beck: His Mormonism forbids coffee but he consumes a lot of Diet Coke and chocolate, writes Mark Leibovich. Well, okay, so there's the key, right? That's the key.

STU: Yeah, you might want to the beginning of understanding whether this is true or not might start with that.

PAT: Yes.

STU: That the evidence is one sentence in a New York Times article.

PAT: I love that about him.

STU: Not saying how much he drinks.

PAT: No.

STU: Just that he consumes a lot of.

PAT: A lot.

STU: It's not really that much of, at least not compared to me. He has a diet he has a couple of Diet Cokes a day. Usually not even.

PAT: Maybe.

STU: It's usually Coke Zero. The evil Aspartame is the villain here in this story.

PAT: Yes, it's the sugar substitute Aspartame which is the starting point of Diet Coke, apparently 1982, right?

STU: Yeah.

PAT: And that, and we can trace that back apparently to, yes, the evil Donald Rumsfeld.

STU: Donald Rumsfeld, mmm hmmm.

PAT: Who is head of G.D. Searle Pharmaceuticals.

STU: Uh oh, that sounds evil.

PAT: Who apparently, he decided to market a poison to the nation. Here's a safety tip to Donald Rumsfeld. It's never a good idea to kill your clients.

STU: No.

PAT: Okay? Your customers, you want them alive to consume the product you're putting out.

STU: And yeah.

PAT: So it doesn't make a lot of sense to poison the people who are buying your stuff because then they will be dead and they won't buy your stuff anymore, you know?

STU: Yeah, and he's done a terrible job trying to poison people as hundreds of millions of people consume this every day. And the reason it's a new story that Glenn is having certain symptoms is because not that many people have them. It's because it's the reason that doctors can't immediately identify it is because they've never seen it before. It's one of those things

PAT: Unbelievable.

STU: where they are going in and they are trying to figure it out because it's not every third person walking in and saying they have Diet Coke disease. But I guess this is what happens when you go to 9/11 conspiracy theorists for your health information.

PAT: I guess so. You know, and look. I'm not trying to disparage anybody who believes in organic my wife is a big believer right now. She is on a huge natural/organic kick. And it is ruining my life.

STU: Yeah, mmm hmmm.

PAT: I mean, we are here and she was with us for the weekend and so we were in the store picking up a few things, and I wanted to get some gum and I throw it down on the counter, you know, to buy it. She picks it up and immediately goes to the back, "That right there, right there, saccharin." Puts it back in the rack.

STU: Saccharin's awesome.

PAT: So? I've had intravenous feedings of saccharin before. I'm on a saccharin drip. I don't care, put it back! "No, look at this. Look at this, season. Saccharin and blue Number 5 plus yellow Number 4." And?

STU: Oh, my.

PAT: So! I've had souffles of blue and yellow Number 5 and 4. I don't care! Oh, so I know

STU: You are

PAT: People get on those kicks, you know?

STU: Yeah. You are remarkably well adjusted for I did not know that your home life was this way.

PAT: Yeah, she's wrecked my life with it.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: She really has. I can't even buy gum anymore. We've got to go to Whole Foods for natural gum.

STU: You know, and I

PAT: I didn't even know there was natural gum. We've got natural toothpaste now. You know, I mentioned on Friday or Glenn did, mentioned the conversation I think that she found out that apparently there's some evidence that Alzheimer's involves aluminum, people with Alzheimer's disease have a high aluminum content. "You know where that comes from."

STU: Uh oh.

PAT: Well, no. Where? "Deodorant." What? I can't use deodorant anymore?

STU: No, please.

PAT: Are you serious?

STU: I demand you continue to use deodorant, Pat.

PAT: I know. So now we're shopping for natural deodorant without aluminum.

STU: Yeah, I think but there's no benefit from soda.

PAT: No.

STU: Soda's not a beneficially nutritional beverage. It's just really, really good.

PAT: You don't have to have it.

STU: But I mean, I'll be honest about it. If you want to have an idiotic conspiracy about where the president was born or where there's ridiculous fake prison camps or about a talking owl that tells all the presidents what to do, do whatever you want. But leave my diet soda alone.

PAT: I know.

STU: It is a gift.

PAT: I know.

STU: directly from God. I accept it in that way. I believe we're still in the Bible. We're still in the Bible here.

PAT: Still in the Bible here.

STU: Still in the Bible here, to quote Jeremiah Wright: I believe it is proof of intelligent design and

PAT: Now, what part of the Bible are you in just so I can

STU: We're in the good and plenty, good and plenty clause.

PAT: Good and plenty clause that's in the Bible.

STU: It's in the back of Leviticus somewhere. Just find it. But I mean, it's one of those things, they come out, there's so much scientific evidence that says this Aspartame stuff is nonsense.

PAT: Really?

STU: It goes from every huge scientific group. And I mean, it's not you know, consensus does not mean anything. People get things wrong all the time. I understand that. But you've got, you know, the here we go, here's a bunch of them. FDA. FDA has not determined any consistent patterns of symptoms that can be attributed to use of Aspartame. Here's The Lancet: One research revealed over 6,000 websites that mentioned Aspartame. Virtually all of the information offered is anecdotal from anonymous sources and is scientifically implausible. FDA again:

PAT: Wow.

STU: Analysis of the National Cancer Institute's public database on cancer incidence in the United States, the SEER program, does not support an association between the use of Aspartame and the increased incidence in brain tumors. MIT: Even large doses of the high intensity sweetener Aspartame, also known as NutraSweet, has no adverse effect on study subjects' health and wellbeing. How about this one? This is one of my favorite ones from the Lancet because opponents of Aspartame, people that attack it all the time, say that it creates methanol in the body and I don't even want to phenylalanine? I'm going to go with phenylalanine. You know how you look at the can, it always says phenyl I don't even know how to pronounce it, but you know what I'm talking about. It says it on every label that has well, you drink regular soda, but every label that has diet soda always says that. Now they are saying that a can of diet soda will yield about 20 milligrams of methanol. They admit that. This is where this comes from, Pat, and we're all going to die from because of it. The only problem is because an equivalent volume of fruit juice produces twice as much and an alcoholic beverage from three to five times as much. The other chemical they are talking about

PAT: Oh, wow.

STU: is one can of a diet soft drink will give you about 100 milligrams of it. 300 milligrams you will get from an egg. You will get 500 milligrams from a glass of milk. That's five times as much. And nine times as much from a large hamburger. So I mean, it's this stuff

PAT: So typical.

STU: You just have to just ignore all the evidence and, you know, and assign every single symptom from everything you don't understand to, you know, diet soda.

PAT: Rumsfeld Plague.

STU: Rumsfeld Plague.

PAT: Rumsfeld Plague. I love the name of it, too.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: Because it's so sinister and it's so, you know, evil Bush administration and his cronies. I mean, it's what is you know, the thing, the problem is with all of these carcinogens, all these cancer causing agents is in high doses you can die from almost anything up to and including water.

STU: Yes.

PAT: We have seen that in the past where a woman drinks so much water during a radio contest, she drowned and died. Her body literally drowned from water. I mean, so if you do things in ridiculous extremes, bad things will happen.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: You do things in moderation, you're probably going to be okay.

STU: Yeah. And I will say that I mean, because I don't drink soda in moderation, Pat. I drink it in high, high access.

PAT: You're going to die.

STU: So when you hear people on the radio saying, well, they don't believe that; they are just saying that. I am betting my life that I am right on this. I have bet my entire life on the fact that I am right about Aspartame and NutraSweet and Splenda and all the other fancy things that are a miracle, a miracle ingredient that have saved me.

PAT: Splenda, man.

STU: I love that.

PAT: Splenda, oh, I love it, too, but that stuff I've got to say there might be a, you know, there might be an issue.

STU: There is no issue with Splenda.

PAT: There is no issue with it? All right.

STU: It's a literal miracle ingredient.

PAT: All right.

STU: That has saved millions of lives. I will testify to it. Well, think about this now.

PAT: All right.

STU: They always talk about, you know, if you have it in ultra extreme doses, you might have a slight increase in, you know, X, you know, symptom or disease or whatever. But I mean, when you're having something that, you know, you know what I would be doing if I wasn't drinking diet soda? Drinking regular soda. And you know what would happen? I'd probably have diabetes and I'd weigh 1500 pounds more than I already do, which is already not impressive. You know, and it's like you go through this. This is American Council on Science and Health: In fact, Aspartame, known as NutraSweet and Equal, is safe. Aspartame is one of the most thoroughly tested substances in the U.S. food supply.

PAT: Wow.

STU: Numerous authorities including the Food and Drug Administration, the Joint Expert on Committee on Food Additives, the FAO, W.H.O., the European community and the American Medical Association have concluded that Aspartame is a safe product except for with people who already have a rare genetic condition.

PAT: Okay.

STU: So maybe Glenn has that rare genetic condition that he would have to have from birth to be affected by this.

PAT: Let me ask a question, Stu.

STU: But I'm going to go ahead and say that steel doesn't melt.

PAT: Let me ask you a question. How much did Donald Rumsfeld pay you to say all of that? How much! How much!

A decade later and are you ready for the big one?

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Exactly ten years ago this week, all of our lives changed. On Tuesday, our attention - rightly so - was focused on what happened seventeen years ago this week on 9/11. But just seven years later, on September 15th, Lehman Brothers collapsed kicking off the 2008 financial crisis. New York City, again, was ground zero for another tragedy. The shock wave reverberated all across the globe.

The question today, after a decade of trying to fix the economy, is… could this happen again? Well it depends on who you talk to. Some people say that the record amounts of global and corporate debt will trigger the next crash. Some say that a global currency crisis is about to explode, and that will be the cause. Others fear protectionism and tariffs. To be honest, all of these things could trigger the next crash. Each scenario has the potential to make what happened in 2008 seem like a slight bump in the road. Imagine if all of these scenarios happened at the same time. What if all of the dominoes fall in sequence? It would be a catastrophe beyond anything the world has ever experienced.

But there is a new scenario that experts are even more worried about, and it's something I didn't even realize was being seriously considered. Yesterday, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, who provide clearing and settlement for financial markets here in the U.S., released a report outlining their number one fear and cause for the next big financial crisis: Cyber warfare.

And they aren't the only ones worried. A few months ago, the government published a similar report drawing the same conclusions. These findings came from the Financial Stability Oversight Council, chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury.

This isn't some kooky hair brained conspiracy theory. Both the government and private business thinks that a cyber attack will be the root cause of a global crash. This is huge. How is this information not being reported on all over the country this week?

The reports detail how a nation state cyber attack will begin by targeting what's called a "systemically important financial institution." These are banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan, or the bank formerly known as Lehman Brothers. But they can also be giant hedge funds or insurance companies… like AIG. The Lehman Brothers collapse was the first shot of the 2008 crash, and experts are now saying that something similar will happen during the next one… the big one.

This isn't some kooky hair brained conspiracy theory.

A hostile country like China, Russia, or even North Korea, would trigger a run on one or multiple systemically important institutions. From there, the global system would begin to unravel just as it did before. But this time, it would happen as global and corporate debt are at record levels, as a global currency crisis is brewing and with a trade war escalating between the two largest economies in the world.

Technology is changing the world like never before. Some of it will be amazing and spectacular, but some of it will be horrifying and destructive.

Uhmm, no Mr. Gosling — it was an American acheivement

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Well, the Postmodern Outrage phrase for this week is: "The Western world is evil because _____."

All right. Let's just shuffle the Outrage deck here. The answer is: "Trump." Ah. Not that one again—there sure are a lot of Trump cards in this deck. Here, let me shuffle again. Here we go. This one just says "Flags."

Last week the movie "First Man" premiered. It's about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing. If you were to close your eyes, and I say "moon landing," odds are I can guess what images will come to mind. The American flag on the surface of the Moon. We've all seen that footage countless times. Landing on the Moon was no doubt a remarkable human achievement. It's also, inarguably, an American achievement. To say otherwise would be a denial of history.

The movie "First Man" entirely omitted that moment. Which is just as much about artistic laziness as it is about historical importance—they could've done so much with that moment, from a creative perspective. Oh well. It's a movie. We should know what to expect from Hollywood by now. Shrug. Move on. Let the Left find something to be outraged about. It never stops there, though, not anymore.

Ryan Gosling made it clear that the omission of the planting of the flag was intentional because the moon landing was less an American accomplishment than a human accomplishment and that Neil Armstrong didn't see himself as an American hero.

Marco Rubio chimed in: "This is total lunacy. And a disservice at a time when our people need reminders of what we can achieve when we work together. The American people paid for that mission on rockets built by Americans, with American technology & carrying American astronauts. It wasn't a UN mission."

There's a reason there aren't any Italian flags, Brazilian flags, Ugandan flags, or Pakistani flags on the Moon. It's foolish to ignore that while, yes, the Moon landing was a human achievement, it was also the result of a distinctively American time in history. A film about the life of Socrates wouldn't ignore that he was Greek, or remove his nationality, "for the sake of universality." It's a matter of historical accuracy. But there's also the subtle political nonsense lurking behind it all.

There's a reason there aren't any Italian flags, Brazilian flags, Ugandan flags, or Pakistani flags on the Moon.

The movie's director Damien Chazelle made the following statement:

"To address the question of whether this was a political statement, the answer is no. … This film is about one of the most extraordinary accomplishments not only in American history but in human history." Fair enough.

It's hard to imagine that the director is not making a political statement. Here's a preview of his political beliefs as represented on Twitter: "We're living a historic moment. Things don't often come this clear-cut. Anyone in a position of power who stays silent is complicit."

Here's another one: "The Trump administration is openly endorsing Nazism and white supremacy. It's that simple."

"That the epic moral failure we're witnessing now will inspire a new activism. Might be naive. But in the meantime, I'm gonna try to do whatever I can. I gotta believe every little bit helps. Spread the word. Donate to @BLMNational , to @ACLU , to the @NAACP, to @PPact , to @swingleft. And call on the GOP as passionately as possible: impeach this loathsome misogynist racist."

It's fair to say that we can guess where he stands politically. I'd guess that if he were making a movie about Che Guevara, he'd gladly jam it with adoring images of Marxism.

He added that the focus of the film is Neil Armstrong, who is known—more than anything in his existence—as the man who planted the American flag. So that explanation is also a little hard to believe.

Then, Neil Armstrong's sons chimed on: "This story is human and it is universal. Of course, it celebrates an America achievement. It also celebrates an achievement "for all mankind," as it says on the plaque Neil and Buzz left on the moon. It is a story about an ordinary man who makes profound sacrifices and suffers through intense loss in order to achieve the impossible. … We do not feel this movie is anti-American in the slightest. Quite the opposite. But don't take our word for it. We'd encourage everyone to go see this remarkable film and see for themselves."

Fair enough. And, there is something to this. We run the risk of committing the same Outrage as the Left. But at the same time, it's not good to completely surrender to anti-American, anti-Western propaganda. We need to be able to call it out when we see it.

As I mention in Addiction to Outrage: "If we are to save our way of life, we must find our way back to what brought us all together in the first place. It is vital to understand that the Constitution didn't grant us these rights, it simply recognized, acknowledged, and codified their existence as a means to ensure everyone understood the government did not have the power or authority to deprive us of those things."

Their goal, which is distinctively Postmodern, is to strip all things of meaning. God, gender, nationality.

So much of Postmodernism resembles Circle 0 of Dante's Inferno, home to the Neutrals, those who never chose good or evil during life, who are so pathetic that they're waiting outside the gates of Hell for all eternity. They chase a "whirling banner" that can never contain meaning, disdainful of rules and order, and devoted to annihilation. Their goal, which is distinctively Postmodern, is to strip all things of meaning. God, gender, nationality.

Like the Postmodernists, the Neutrals have no regard for history. Neutrals stand beneath a blank flag. A flag is meant to be unique; it is an object emblematic "of allegiance and of loyalty." A flag, like the people and culture it symbolizes, has to stand for something.

There is no Postmodernism flag. It's a movement that actively avoids anything that would belong on a flag. To postmodernists, flags represent systemic oppression or outdated norms or corny solidarity. As such, postmodernism attacks the structures of society and reality. It seeks to obliterate all authority, at all costs, using lies and faked outrage.

Former FDNY firefighter tells the story behind iconic moment following 9/11 attacks

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Bob Beckwith, the retired New York City firefighter who stood with President George W. Bush as he gave his famous "bullhorn speech" at Ground Zero, became one of the best-known faces of American resilience and patriotism in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Bob joined Glenn Beck on Tuesday's show to share his remarkable story.

Watch the video below to see a clip from today's program.

UNHINGED: Maxine Waters denies threatening Trump supporters, then brags she does it ‘all the time’

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Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters ramped up her hatred toward President Donald Trump on Saturday during an acceptance speech for an award from the Stonewall Young Democrats in Los Angeles. [Read more on this here.]

On Tuesday's "Glenn Beck Radio Program," Glenn and the guys reacted to the California Democrat's bizarre speech, in which she claimed that she's "going to get" President Trump. She also renewed her call for supporters to heckle members of the Trump administration.

“There are those who said we lacked civility when I got up and talked about the President's Cabinet, and I said if you see them anywhere, if you see them at a restaurant, if you see them in a department store, even at a gasoline station, just tell them you're not welcome here or anywhere," Waters said.

“This was pretty bad," said Pat Gray of Waters' speech, noting that she went on to call Trump “the lying president" over his claim that she threatened his supporters.

“I did not threaten his constituents, his supporters," Waters said. “I do that all the time, but I didn't do it that time."

Glenn pointed out that the Red Hen, the Lexington, Virginia, restaurant that booted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, as well as the entire town of Lexington are facing terrible financial hardship after the restaurant's owner followed Waters' advice of just telling them "you're not welcome here or anywhere."

“They're begging for visitors to come to the town," Glenn added. “Nobody's coming to them and they are a big tourist town and nobody's coming. They're dying on the vine."

Watch the clip below for more.

This article provided courtesy of TheBlaze.

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This isn't some kooky hair brained conspiracy theory.

Uhmm, no Mr. Gosling — it was an American acheivement

There's a reason there aren't any Italian flags, Brazilian flags, Ugandan flags, or Pakistani flags on the Moon.

Their goal, which is distinctively Postmodern, is to strip all things of meaning. God, gender, nationality.

Former FDNY firefighter tells the story behind iconic moment following 9/11 attacks

UNHINGED: Maxine Waters denies threatening Trump supporters, then brags she does it ‘all the time’