RADIOApril 25, 2022

Bill O’Reilly gives the missing context to his AIRPORT RANT

Bill O’Reilly admits he never should have used ‘bad language’ during his altercation with a JetBlue employee earlier this week after his flight was delayed 5 hours: ‘Whenever you do that, you lose.’ But he tells Glenn that his overall anger in response to the situation was still justified and ‘righteous.’ Why? Because it wasn’t just O’Reilly’s flight that had such difficulties taking off. Rather, he says, JetBlue cancelled or delayed 76 PERCENT of all flights that day thanks to pilot and staff shortages. Several other airlines are having similar difficulties, O'Reilly says, and Biden’s Department of Transportation isn’t doing ANYTHING to fix the issue. Even worse? The ‘corrupt corporate media,’ O’Reilly says, won’t cover the story either. In this clip, he explains why…

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Okay. Well. All right. That one even makes sense. In some strange way. So, Bill, let's talk about the mask mandates going away.

BILL: Okay. That's not the biggest story of the week.

GLENN: Okay. Well, I want to start there.

BILL: Yeah. So you can go wherever you want, it's your show. You're a successful guy. All right. Mask mandates. So this is -- this is my question.

And I am an inquisitive, simple man. So Joe Biden comes out. The president -- and he's asked. What do you think about the mask? People wear a mask. And he said, it should be up to them, remember that. It should be up to them.

And then, 24 hours later, the Justice Department, under his orders, appeals, spending millions and millions of taxpayer dollars, the federal judge's ruling, knocking out the mask mandates on public transportation. So I'm saying. A simple man. Wait a minute. If Biden just said, it should be up to the person, that is optional, why is he spending tens of millions of dollars, appealing this ruling?

Any of you guys have an answer to that?

GLENN: No. But it leads me to another question on this. And that is, is that what you were mad about, when you were at the airport?

BILL: I knew you were just trying to get there, Beck. I just knew.

It's a facade.

GLENN: Yeah. Okay.

BILL: Okay. Get a pen and a pad. Here it is: 7:00 a.m. flight. JFK Turks and Caicos. Airtime, three hours, 15 minutes. Supposed to arrive at around 10:20 in the islands.

GLENN: Hang on just a second. You had -- I think you had the sympathy of the American people. Turks and Caicos. Yes, you did.

BILL: Okay. I was just trying to go on a little vacation. A little break. All I want. Paid my money. All right. You have to get to the airport, two hours ahead, for international flights. But you have to be there at 5:00.

GLENN: Yeah.

BILL: Okay. I arrived a little bit late, but not too much. All right. I'm trying to be a good guy. Good consumer.

I walk through the security. Try to get in. You know, they put me against the wall. You know, all that. But I finally arrive at the gate. And it says, on time

JetBlue on time.

Yes. Yes. Five hours later, no! No!

And so I'm sitting there, about 100 people, and they -- they know me. And they have people coming up with kids. What's going on? Can you find out what's going on?

Because the JetBlue gate people. Wouldn't tell anybody. They kept moving the flight back and back and back and back. All right. Finally after three hours and 20 minutes, I get up.

All right? And I walk over, to inquire. I said, can I speak to the supervisor. The supervisor comes out. Said, look, these three hours and 20 minutes. We have to know, are you going to take off, or not?

Meanwhile, Delta, flying the same route, takes off on time. Okay?

So JetBlue is under the weather. I said, no, no, no, no. There's no weather. It's nice here. It's nice in the Turks and Caicos. And your competition took off at 11 o'clock. All right? It flew the route. So, anyway, the guy gets -- in my humble opinion, he gives me an attitude. And then it degenerated from there. I say, I was wrong, using bad language, and I used a little bad language. Not a lot. But a little. But whenever you do that, you lose. Even if your anger is righteous, as mine was. Righteous anger. Everybody else there. I thought there was going to be a riot at one point. Now, I had immediately my staff research JetBlue for that day. April 3rd. Okay?

76 percent of their flights were either canceled or delayed.

76 percent.

So I did a little bit more investigating. You know why the plane didn't take off? They didn't have a pilot. So word got back to them, that there was -- O'Reilly is a little teed off. They call a pilot at home, in New York, he gets in the car, it's his day off. He drives in. He shows up, five hours, 15 minutes late, and he tells the people, they dragged me in on my day off. That's what he said.

Okay? Now, most of the -- it's now seven hours. Five-hour 15 minute delay, and you're there two hours ahead of time. Finally, the thing takes off. I do even more research. I find out, that on their whole system, they can't -- they don't have enough pilots or flight crews to put the planes in the air. Yet they still schedule the flights, Beck.

And I think everybody in the country, and this isn't just happening at JetBlue. It's happening at Alaska airways and others. And the Boston Globe, the only one doing an exposé, because there's a big hub there, at Boston, at Logan.

And Tuesday of this week, more than 50 percent of this week, even after all of this. More than 50 percent of JetBlue flights were either canceled or delayed. Do you get the feeling that this is out of control?

Let's take it a step further. Who is in charge of JetBlue? The department of transportation. Who is the Secretary of Transportation?

Might that be Pete Buttigieg? Is he still on maternity leave? I don't know.

Okay. I don't know. There's not an airport near South Bend of any note. The department of transportation today, could fine JetBlue amazing amount of money.

But Buttigieg doesn't do jack. And this has been going on for months. And do you hear, I'm a little righteous angry now. I'm getting a little --

GLENN: I know. I know. I brought that poor guy out. I'll bring him out in a minute.

BILL: Yeah. Okay. Sure. This is not about me. This is about broadly inducement. Millions and millions of Americans are paying their money to these airlines, with the expectation, they're going to get to where they want to go.

College kids. Families on spring break. Easter breaks. Stranded for sometimes days.

And nobody in the Biden administration is doing anything about it. Nobody.

I have contacted the Easter bunny, to tell the president, you got to solve this thing. That's what happened.

GLENN: You know, when -- you sucked all the fun out of my questioning. You really did.

BILL: I knew it. I had legitimate righteous anger. So does everybody else.

GLENN: Thanks for wrecking it for me. All right. Back with Bill O'Reilly in just a second.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.