RADIOOctober 26, 2022

Glenn: How can John Fetterman’s staff LIVE WITH THEMSELVES?!

It’s clear — to anybody with eyes — that John Fetterman currently does not have the ability to serve effectively as Pennsylvania’s next Senator, Glenn says. And the Democrat candidate’s debate with Dr. Oz last night proved it. In fact, Glenn says the debate was ‘DISGUSTING,’ because no one on Fetterman’s staff stopped it before he embarrassed himself on live television: ‘How can that staff live with themselves?’ In this clip, Glenn and Stu dissect the debate and what Pennsylvania voters SURELY must be thinking after it…

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Did anybody feel like they needed to take a shower, after the debate last night? It was so uncomfortable and so -- it was almost inhumane.

STU: Disgusting.

GLENN: It was disgusting. It really was. Suboptimal, if you're a politician. Disgusting, if you're a human being.

I -- it is -- it is clear Fetterman does not have the ability to be able to -- can you -- I mean, what is he going to do? You think he's going to go around and talk to senators and make a good case for his point of view? He is nothing, but a place holder, to be told what to vote on. Not somebody who is being brought in for his intellectual capabilities. He's just a vote. He's a puppet. And it -- and it was disgusting how -- how that staff can live with themselves, is beyond me. How do you -- how do you put a guy -- you don't walk out -- when you see this guy, operating at that level, you don't say, come on, guys. This is just -- this is just wrong. This is just wrong. This is the best candidate in all of Pennsylvania. Really?

STU: The entire campaign staff, should have walked out. Should have walked out and resigned weeks ago. If he insisted on going through with this. You know, from a political standpoint, under no circumstances, should they have agreed to this debate. They should have come up with some excuse.

We're not going to debate Dr. Oz. He lives in New Jersey.

We'll never find him in one of his mansions. He's having too much crudités. Whatever you wanted to say, to avoid this night happening, you needed to say, if you wanted your candidate to win. But that ignores the moral consequence of what they've done.

They put a man, embarrassed him in front of the entire country. They allowed this guy, to go up on stage. Which obviously. Obviously, anyone with eyes, could have told you, that that should not have occurred. They should not have put him out there. They should have months ago, said, look, we were really hoping for the best.

We were hoping, he could recover from this. The doctor said there was a chance. It didn't happen. We needed to change candidates, and put somebody else in.

GLENN: You know what is really bad? The media is still covering.

They're saying that this guy can recover, from these strokes.

More than he is. That's not true. The media is lying to you. Ask any doctor, or anyone who has ever had a stroke in their family. You have about six months to improve. Wherever you are, at the end of that six months, is pretty much where you'll be. You might make a little progress here or there. But nothing that is remarkable.

That's where you are. So this is who this guy is going to be. At his best!

This is who the guy is going to be. And really? You think that's appropriate to send him, into a deliberative body, at this time, in our nation?

It's reprehensible.

STU: Glenn, you and I have watched some of the biggest debates, over the past 20 years. Some of which, Republicans have done really well.

They've -- I remember, watching them, and being -- you know, celebratory. Like this was incredible. Wow.

I really wanted Dr. Oz to win that debate last night. I did not feel good about watching it at all. It was disturbing to watch.

GLENN: Oh, I almost turned it off.

STU: Yeah. It was hard.

GLENN: It was so hard to watch.

I wanted Dr. Oz to win. And I think he clearly did.

STU: Clearly.

GLENN: But to watch. This was a wounded animal.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And the moderators did everything they could, to cover -- cut his time. You know, okay. Well, hang on just a second. Well, I want to ask you again.

Well, you didn't answer the question. I mean --

STU: It tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party.

GLENN: Let me just play a couple of cuts, in case you missed it. Here's Fetterman. This is his opening statement.

Cut one.

VOICE: What qualifies you to be a U.S. senator?

You have 60 seconds.

VOICE: Hi. Good night, everybody. I'm running to serve Pennsylvania. He's running to use Pennsylvania.

GLENN: Hello, got a night, everybody.

STU: And that was him saying good night to the campaign.

GLENN: You can say, okay. All right.

STU: You could say, maybe he meant good evening.

It's weird, because they keep telling us, he will just stumble over word. That's not what we saw last night. Yes, we saw a lot of that, I should be clear. But there were times that he could not grasp concepts.

GLENN: Here he is, calling out -- being called out on his fracking stance. Listen to this.

STU: Yeah. This is a great example.

VOICE: I absolutely support fracking. In fact, I live across the street from a steel mill, and they're going to frack, create their own energy, in order to make them more competitive. And I support that. Living closer to anybody else in Pennsylvania, for fracking to myself. I believe that we need independence with energy.

And I believe that I've walked that line my entire career. I believe Democrats --

GLENN: Mr. Fetterman, I do have a specific question. Which you can continue on this topic.

But you have made two conflicting statements regarding fracking.

In a 2018 interview, you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. I never have. But earlier this month. You told an interviewer, quote, I support fracking. I support the energy independence, that we should have here in the United States.

So, Mr. Fetterman, please explain your changing position, 60 seconds.

VOICE: I've always supported fracking.

STU: That's not even the worst part of that.

GLENN: No, no, no. So they ask him. Here it is. Cut three.

VOICE: I do want to clarify something. You're saying tonight, that you support fracking, that you've always supported fracking, but there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. So how do you square the two?

GLENN: This is the fourth attempt.

VOICE: Oh. I -- I do support fracking. And I don't -- I don't -- I support fracking, and I stand, and I do support fracking.

STU: I mean, I -- breathless watching that. That's maybe the single worst moment in any debate, I've ever seen in my life. And, Glenn, that has nothing to do with auditory processing.

GLENN: No.

STU: That is a man who cannot come up with, I changed my mind. I don't remember that interview. Maybe I was misquoted. I don't know what the -- the context of that comment was, but I've always supported fracking. Anything other than just repeating yourself, multiple times over. Stopping. Reversing yourself. And then saying it again.

That is not -- that has nothing -- that's brain function. Anyone would know, to say something that would justify that comment. There are things, right?

Look, I had a change of heart on this. In 2018, I was a little skeptical. And I've changed my mind. In 2018, I don't know what that interview is. I don't remember what that interview is at all. I don't know what that quote is, I will have to look it up, after the debate. There's 100 things you can say in that moment to get out of it, he can't come up with one of them.

GLENN: So it is not brain function. It is not brain function. As a father of a daughter, who has strokes, Mary can tell you everything you need to know about the Federal Reserve. Okay? She can tell you you need to know about money printing. Everything else. Because she's asked me about it.

STU: Sure.

GLENN: She processes things much differently. Language. So it takes her -- when I taught her, you know, about the fed, it took me three days to find the way to explain it to her, until she got it. Then she gets it.

And then she's got to translate it. And she'll say several times. I'm looking for the word. It's not -- no. It's not -- it's not.

And she'll get very frustrated. Because she -- she can see it in her head. But she cannot spit it out.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: She can't do it. But that doesn't mean, that you should serve in the Senate. This is a senior statesman.

Okay? This is the guy, who has to make the case, to his people in his state, why he voted a certain way.

If he can't make the case, on the floor, back home, on television, what good -- I mean this nicely. What good is he?

STU: As a senator.

GLENN: He is only a vote. That's all he is.

He is not somebody who can persuade people. Or explain things.

Nothing. That is a big part of the job. You know, if you had a president, who just could not communicate at all, for some reason.

STU: What a crazy scenario. Explain this. It sounds too foreign. To understand.

GLENN: Right. But he could not communicate at all. But he was fully lucid. He would not make a good president. Because he has to be able to communicate.

STU: Right. It's a crucial part of the job.

GLENN: It's a crucial part.

STU: And I make the Biden joke.

But to be clear. And I, again, think Joe Biden is a terrible, terrible president.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: And he really does have these issues that we've talked about over these years. But when you watch a 20-minute speech from Joe Biden. What you'll see, is 13 or 14 minutes of basic coherence. You will see a significant piece of time, where Joe Biden is communicating somewhat okay.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: You will understand what he means. You can understand what he's going for. And then Biden has his couple of moments there, that are terrible.

And he loses where he's going. And he just stops, and says, come on, man. Whatever. We've talked about it 100 times.

Joe Biden is light years away -- or ahead of where John Fetterman is. Fetterman was the entire time, like that.

GLENN: So here's the question: When someone can't explain themselves, from confusion or whatever, it leads to really bad things.

For instance, let me play what the president just said this week, about the bailout for student loans. Listen to this.

BIDEN: You probably are aware, I just signed a law that was challenged by my Republican laws. The same people that look at PPP loans for up to close -- in some cases, five, $600,000. They have no problem with that. The individuals in Congress, got those. But what we've provided for.

If you go to school. If you qualify for a Pell grant. You qualify for 2000 -- I mean, excuse me.

You qualify for $20,000 in debt forgiveness. Secondly, if you don't have one of those loans, you just get 10,000 written off. It's passed. I got it passed by a voter too.

GLENN: Stop. He didn't get that passed. It wasn't passed by a vote or two.

STU: Called it a law.

GLENN: Yeah. It's not a law. It was an executive order. So, is he lying? Is he confused? Or is he being told something, that isn't true?

Is he being told, no, Mr. President, you have the right to do that. You don't remember?

They passed that law. It was close. But you won it by a couple of votes. All of those are possible.

He may be being lied to. And just used, as a puppet. He may be confused, at that moment. Or he may be lying. We should know which one.

STU: There's not another possibility though. It's one of those three. All of them are terrible.

GLENN: It's one of those.

STU: But honestly, we've come to the point, where my standards are so low. I'm cheering for the lying.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: That is where we are with this country, with this leadership.

GLENN: You're not going to fix a country, if you're cheering for the lying option. You're just not.

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.

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.