RADIOFebruary 06, 2024

Biden's Amazon BOOK BAN and 13 MORE times the Left accused the Right of doing what THEY’RE doing

Rep. Jim Jordan has revealed an alleged attempt by the White House to pressure Amazon into censoring books that didn't fit its COVID-19 agenda. And yet, the Biden administration has had the gall to accuse the Right of "banning books" (aka removing inappropriate books from children's libraries). Glenn reviews this and 13 more times the Left has accused the Right of doing exactly what it has been doing.

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: In today's Glenn Beck morning newsletter, which is free at GlennBeck.com. You will find these stories. And I will touch on these. Just the headlines. And then we will go back to them.

Jim Jordan chose Amazon files, federal censorship efforts to digitally burn books.

Effective G.O.P. attorney generals face politicized ethics charges. Democrats trying to strip all opponents of representation, in court.

Biden's DOJ continues to abuse the face act.

Completely unjustified medical journal retracts major studies critical of the abortion pill, ahead of the Supreme Court clash.
Montana parents face arrest after refusing to go along with daughter's sex change.

Virginia Democrats trying to pass a bill, to make bipartisan election oversight, a hate crime.

Let me -- let me start with this.

Stu, look up the definition of fascism, for me, will you?

People, when they hear fascists. They think concentration camps.

And that usually is the way they end.

Because you have to have -- you know, you have to get rid of the political people that disagree with you.

Because unless you're in a free state, you can't have people who disagree with you, speaking out.

Okay?

That's the definition. That's the first definition of freedom, is being able to speak your mind.

Well, you can't do that.

And it starts with intimidation.

It starts with suggestion. Then intimidation. And then shove and shoot.

So you have to have these concentration camps. But that's not -- that's not in the definition, if I'm not mistaken of fascism, Stu.

STU: Give you the dictionary definition. A political philosophy, movement or regime, that exalts nation and often race, above the individual.

It's just so --

GLENN: Say it again. Say it again.

STU: Exalts nation and often race, above the individual.

Gee, who is doing that right now?

Tell me who is elevating race above the individual right now?

Tell me. Tell me with a straight face, that is the right. It is insanity to believe that. It's insanity. Every single person on the left is constantly telling us, that the skin color is the most important thing about you.

We're -- it's constantly told to us, that it's defining your entire life.

Your skin color tells you whether you're oppressed or not. Or whether you're a good person or you're not.

And we're the ones somehow.

It's so amazing how this happened. But it is a philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race, above the individual, and that stands for a centralized autocratic government, headed by a dictator, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

I don't know. Which party is about to lose their candidate from being on the ballot at all.

Which one is that?

A suppression of opposition.

Oh, my gosh. I -- you're never going to get to any of your points if you don't turn off my microphone.

GLENN: Yeah. I know. I think this is fine.

It's incredible. And it doesn't include, the biggest part of the actual mechanics of fascism, which is public/private partnerships.

Businesses are allowed to be businesses, unlike in -- in communism.

They're allowed to be private businesses.

Unless you disagree with the state. Then they'll intimidate you.

And eventually, just take you out.

Somebody else will get your business.

And you're gone.

Public/private partnership.

Okay. Now, I just -- I -- I want to drill into your head, whatever they say that we're doing, they're doing.

Okay. Good example. They just -- they call us fascists.

Could you read that one more time, Stu.

STU: Sure. A political philosophy, movement, or regime, that exalts nation and often race above the individual. That stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by dictator. Severe, economic, and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

GLENN: Okay. You can see why they have to stand on nationalism.

Okay? When we say, we're proud to be Americans, and we hold America high in our esteem, it's not at the expense of the individual. In fact, it's because of the -- the defense of the individual.

We're nationalistic. Okay. Paragraph everything that the Constitution says. Everything that at least that I believe. And I think the vast majority of people, that are -- that claim to be conservative.

That truly are conservative. It's because of the Declaration of Independence.

The Constitution. And the Bill of Rights. Which is all about the individual. They're about collective salvation. So if you're not a collectivist society. Or you're not pushing for collectivism.

You can't be a communist or a fascist.

You can't! So everything they say we're up to, they're doing.

And, I mean, just, they said Donald Trump was just killing us overseas. And none of our allies had any respect for us. Well, I think I can check that one. They say that we're nothing, but religious zealots, that would force our religion on children in schools. Who is doing that?

We're asking for school choice, so the individual can choose if they want that or not.

They're -- they've come up with this new woke crap. And LGBTQ, which is a religion!

A religion requires excommunication, if you don't go along with the high priests.

They demand that you stick to the dogma.

There is no questioning of it. Which one has the religion that they're putting in schools?

They say that we're going to have a dictator. Well, public/private partnerships. Silencing opposition. Environmental and social regulations. Medical tyranny. We've got that.

The right is just in bed with big business.

Really? Name the corporation that stands by the right, and -- and waives that flag. Name the corporation.

It certainly isn't Coors. In bed with big business.

That we don't really care about the lives of the poor, and the immigrant.

And yet, with what they're doing, the immigrant is being used and built by the drug cartels. The women are being raped.

Every day, sold into slavery. We don't care?

Don't care about the poor. Really?

Is your definition of caring for the poor, what's happening in LA? What's happening in San Francisco?

Because I think, you don't care for the poor. We're going to make -- you know, they just want to -- they're going to throw you back in chains to the African-American.

Who is doing that?

I just want to overthrow the government. You know, those people on the right. They have no respect for the Constitution. They want to overthrow our system of government. You can't even name our system of government. You keep calling it a ten months. It's a republic.

Well, they just want chaos in the streets. We do.

You were the one with -- what was it? CHAZ in Seattle. You were the one that was trying to get rid of all of the police. And reimagine how we're going to take care of people in the streets. We're the ones that want chaos in the streets.

They don't care about national security. You've had 10 million people coming across-the-board. We all know they're terrorists.

Yeah. But they don't really care. I mean, you know, they -- they're terrorists themselves, you know.

Well, really. Well, I guess if that's true, which it absolutely isn't. At least we're not farming it off to Hamas, and Hezbollah, and Iran.

You support terrorists. You support the terrorists on the streets here in America. They're just going to take away your choice. My body, my choice.

Really? Unless it's anything other than an abortion. You know, they just want to make sure that white people get the jobs.

Well, you've lowered the standard at the FCC. I'm sorry. The FAA. Lowered the standard at the FAA to the point to where if you are "Happy", black, trans, whatever the flavor of the month is, they don't have to have the same test scores even. They don't even have to test and have the same amount of competence, to be an air traffic controller if they're not white. I don't think that's a good idea. Which one is hiring just solely on race?

Now, here's the -- here's the last one. We're Nazis. In Florida, they've been banning books.

Really?

Really?

We know that's not true. We know that came from the left. But, again, if we know that the left accuses us of things that they are doing. Let me give you this. Jim Jordan yesterday, revealed internal documents, revealed the sub -- sorry, the sub -- the subpoena of Amazon, highlighting the Biden administration's efforts to address propaganda and misinformation in books, for the online retailer.

Okay. Wait a minute.

They say, that I'm responsible for misinformation and propaganda.

I will correct anything that I get wrong.

You show me where I'm wrong, I will correct it.

It's not a matter of opinion. It has to be a matter of fact.

Show me where I'm wrong.

They don't. They can't.

I -- I am not for the banning of any voices.

I want to make sure that everybody -- those who disagree with me. They should have a space in society. And should be heard. None of this digital ghetto stuff.

They say, we're burning books, or we're banning books.

And yet, now we have the documents. The effort. Reminiscent of the Twitter file.

It starts with an email, in 2021. From a White House official. Seeking the opportunity to discuss the high levels of propaganda, and misinformation and disinformation. Of Amazon.

Now, why were they so upset with Amazon.

Well, because Amazon believed retailers are different than social media communities.

And provided their customers with access to a variety of viewpoints. For the Biden administration. Letting Americans, actually, read the other side, is unacceptable.

This is a country, that despises Naziism.

And yet, you can buy Mein Kampf. You can't in Germany. Here you can. You can buy Mein Kampf. You can read Mein Kampf out in the open. It doesn't make you a Nazi. It makes you someone who wants to understand what happened back then. What was this guy even saying?

Without even being able to read the insane ramblings. You have no idea what he was even really talking about.

You have no idea, you can be duped into anything.

You can be duped, that, you know what, the Germans really didn't know. Yes, they did.

It's in Mein Kampf!

But here, we can't argue about science anymore.

You can't have those books on sale online on Amazon. So after the meeting, one staffer asked, is the Biden administration asking us to remove books. Or just concerned about the search results in order, or both?

Amazon, after the meeting, moved not to promote books questioning the vaccine. So you're not going to find it.

Wow. Who is censoring? Who is burning books?

Who is silencing people. And the left will just say, well, that's just because it was about the vaccine. Oh, okay.

So if you're right, then you're okay with censorship.

Because I'm not. I'm not cool with that. I really would love to hear the other side. And how, you know, The Great Reset. And all of the things that are coming out from Klaus Schwab.

ESG. Everything else. How that's not true.

I would like to read those things. I have read those things.

Why are you so afraid, of someone else?

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

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.

Transcript

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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.