RADIONovember 06, 2023

Leftists go after BIRD NAMES for being ... RACIST?!

To the Left, EVERYTHING is racist ... including bird names, apparently. Glenn and Stu review an announcement from the American Ornithological Society that it's changing the names of around 80 bird species that are either named after people or have somehow been deemed offensive. Then, they break down why this is utterly ridiculous in every way possible.

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GLENN: Oh, man.

Is everything racist?

STU: It's time for another episode of everything is racist!
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GLENN: We're going to pantoverse now. As we are looking at ornithology.

STU: Yes! It's very important, Glenn. I hope you know that a lot of the familiar names you know, from birding. I know you're a big birder. Big birder. People don't know that.

GLENN: I'm not a big birder. I don't know anyone who is a big birder.

STU: Oh, huge birder.

GLENN: I eat birds.

STU: That's why you're looking for them. It's a little bit differently than the typical birder. You do it a little bit differently.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: But you will have to say goodbye to some very familiar bird names. Like, I mean, say it with me. Anna's hummingbird.

GLENN: Anna's hummingbird. Anna's hummingbird.

STU: Gambel's quail.

GLENN: Gambel's quail.

STU: Lewis's woodpecker.

GLENN: Lewis's woodpecker. That one sounds like we shouldn't talk about it.
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What is that? That's Lewis's woodpecker. Stop playing with that.

STU: Just leave him alone.

Bullock's oriole. How many times have you been like, oh, look. It's Bullock's oriole right over there?

GLENN: I usually just say it's an Oriole. But when it's Bullock's oriole, it rubs me wrong. It rubs me wrong.

STU: It does.

Well, apparently this will go away. Because of the American Ornithological Society, how they viewed to change the English names of all bird species, currently named after people.

Along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary. Now --

GLENN: Okay. Okay. Hang on just a second. To whom? The birds? The watchers?

STU: No, the birds don't care. It's apparently about human beings, as they discuss in the article.

GLENN: Okay. So is this happening all over the world, in every language? Any other society that has named a bird?

STU: There's only one society that matters.

And it's the American Ornithological Society, which is a word I've said many, many times. Not just starting yesterday.

GLENN: You remember.

STU: Yes.

Now, there have also been bird names named after Native American tribes. Because that's also offensive, like the Washington Redskins. That was offensive, had to get rid of it.

Even though about 90 percent of the people in the tribe approved of it. That didn't matter. This move comes as a part of a broader effort to diversify birding, and make it more welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds.

GLENN: You know what, I have to tell you, because you know me.

I'm one with the hood.

And I'm down with my peeps in the hood.

And we're listening to --

STU: Lizzo?

GLENN: Lizzo.

And she's like, where is --

STU: Where my phone?

GLENN: Where my phone in and I say to myself, Lizzo, have you thought of perhaps bird watching?

STU: Birding. Let's call it the appropriate term.

GLENN: I'm in the hood.

STU: This is a slang term for birding. I got it.

GLENN: And she says, where the hell my phone. And I said, you don't need one. You just go out with all the stuff you might get from the ornithology society. And you just go watch them birds.

And she said to me, and this is a quote. Birding is too racist. And I said, I'm with you. I'm with you on that.

But can you explain?

And she said, huh. I don't think I have to, you to, Glenn. And I said, damn right.

STU: That's right. I remember, you told me about that conversation. With contemporaneous notes backing that up, if anyone wants to see it. So this is very common actually. There's a lot of people just sitting around and saying, you know, I would love to get into birding. But I find the name Louis' woodpecker to be a little offensive.

GLENN: Can we use something else besides?

STU: No. Because there's never been an African-American.

GLENN: A hole in the side of a barn. And now I have to replace that whole --

STU: With Louis' woodpecker?

GLENN: No. Because Louis put a hole in the barn.

STU: It's a large bird.

GLENN: Is it?

Let's stop.

STU: Louis had a big bird.

And a lot of people talk about it.

GLENN: Let's move on.

STU: But, you know, are there a lot of people that go through this process?

Because there's never been an African-American name with the last name Louis. That's never occurred. Certainly throughout history.

GLENN: Well, Joe.

STU: Carroll. You know, I don't know. There's been some.

But you would think --

GLENN: The one who wrote Alice in Wonderland.

STU: That one. Yeah, whoever that one was.

So biologist Erica Nole says, she was recently visiting some salt marshes. Now, I know you have a time share near a salt marsh that you visit often.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I get all my salt there.

STU: She saw a common bird there called Wilson's snipe. As you know, there's never been an African-American with the last name Wilson. They don't -- that never occurred.

GLENN: Flip.

STU: Russell. So which -- this bird has a long bill and engages in dramatic displays such as flying in high circles, which produces a whistling sound as air flows over specialized feathers. Very good execution. You are a birder. I can tell.

GLENN: That's the Wilson snipe.

STU: Which I actually this is a pretty cool name.

GLENN: Snipe! Snipe!

STU: But it doesn't say Wilson. It just says snipe.

GLENN: Snipe.

STU: And this biologist says, quote, and I thought, what a terrible name. I mean, Wilson was the father of modern ornithology.

GLENN: But.

STU: But this bird has so many other evocative characteristics. I mean, all --

GLENN: You know, when I think of the guy who founded modern ornithology. When I think of him, I think, that damn Wilson.

That damn Wilson. His name is everywhere. Everywhere.

STU: What color was Wilson with Tom Hanks?

White. The ball was white. Remember that.

GLENN: I got it.

STU: Okay. So that's the typical craziness.

Number one, they're calling the bird names racist. And acting like some Hispanic person is like, I can't. I would never go into birding now.

I've always wanted to bird. But the name Louis!

I may not bird now.

GLENN: Snipe!

STU: Beautiful bird. A little annoying if it's around your house. But a beautiful bird.

So you have that part.

GLENN: I have a whole nest of them.

STU: Yeah. Secondary part of this, which is ridiculous. They're not just targeting. I guess there are people who have named birds. Who also were in the 1980s. And made racial remarks. Or did something terrible.

I don't know. But they're not just targeting those people.

GLENN: I mean, if it's like Sherman's N-word. I get it. I get it.

STU: You would understand that. You would understand the name change with that one.

And like, it's hard. We understand how this process works. We might think it's stupid. Erasing history.

But like, this has happened all across the country, at this point. They're tearing down statues of freaking Ben Franklin.

GLENN: These guys are not. They're not necessarily bad guys. Wilson is not a bad guy.

STU: Right. They're not targeting only people who have done things that could be deemed offensive by modern sensibilities.

GLENN: Does Tom -- Tom's blue jay.

STU: Tom's blue jay.

GLENN: Tom was a badass guy. He knocked over a few of the Southland corporation's best 7-Elevens back in the '40s.

STU: There you go. That's a whole 'nother story. But they're targeting anyone, any name. If you're named after a person, they're getting rid of it. Even if you're the best person in the world.

GLENN: Not all around the world. Just American.

STU: Just the American ornithology society.

GLENN: And that's crazy.

That's baseline crazy. There's another level of crazy with this story.

And here it comes. The president Colleen Handle says, that was the first I ever really recognized or heard a name was offensive.

She says, at that point in time, concerns about injustice, weren't an acceptable reason for changing bird names. But it really started to change, in 2020.

GLENN: Snipe!

STU: When police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.

GLENN: Wait. That's when the birders said enough of this.

STU: Enough the Wilson snipe.

And the Louis' woodpecker. Because George Floyd has been killed in Minneapolis.

Now, you might say, well, what the hell does that have to do with anything.

This is a totally different story.

GLENN: No. I might say, produce one birder that said that.

Produce just one that said that.

STU: But the issue was that it was not really George Floyd's murder.

GLENN: Oh, it wasn't?

STU: Because on that same day. You may remember. You may forget. This was the exact same day as George Floyd's murder.

GLENN: Same day. Same day. Remember this.

STU: A white woman, in Central Park.

GLENN: In Central Park.

STU: Called the police on a black birder.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

STU: Named Christian Cooper.

GLENN: So he was a birder.

He was a guy who was in the bushes watching, maybe looking for Louis' woodpecker.

STU: She called the police, claiming he was threatening her. Less than a month later, the group called...

GLENN: The group called.

STU: The name is so good. Less than a month later, a group called Bird Names for Birds.
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Bird Names for Birds. I've got to join this organization.

GLENN: Wow! I want -- can you look it up, Sara, real quick. Just look up for their mission statement.

What is their mission statement?

Imagine going door to door, trying to get people to go into -- we represent the Bird Names for Birds Club. Okay.

STU: Yeah. Okay. So Bird Names For Birds. They come through. They write to the American Orinthological Society and say, hey! George Floyd was killed.

This birder was -- the police were called by a white woman on this black birder. Therefore, we should get rid of Wilson's name from Wilson's Snipe. That's basically how this conversation went.

Now, the problem with this story, if you remember, it was called the Central Park Karen story. This was the story.

And the main issue with this part of it is the story has been utterly and completely debunked.

At the --

GLENN: There was no blackbirder.

STU: Not utterly and completely.

But the blackbirder did exist. Is a human being. But there's a lot of details you haven't heard about it.

Should we go into those?

GLENN: Yeah. I would like to go into the detail.

Give me a minute to just get over. Snipe!

Let me get past that.

STU: Majestic.

GLENN: That was actually the bird. That wasn't me doing that. That's how close my --

STU: You did the call. That's how --

GLENN: I know. Shut up.

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STU: So if you remember how this story went down, here's -- here's a couple of headlines. A black man bird watching in Central Park, asked a white woman to leash her dog. She called the police.

Amy Cooper was her name.

She was charged in Central Park false report against a blackbird watcher.

GLENN: Is that an actual crime? Is that the crime she was charged with?

STU: A false police report, yeah.

GLENN: Oh. But not against a blackbird watcher.

STU: Well, that's a separate crime.

It's like a hate crime.

There's false reports. Against blackbirders.

GLENN: And that's bad.

STU: So let me give you the -- the footage of this incident.

Because you'll remember it, when you hear it.

This is Amy Cooper.

Being very frantic. And, I mean, she's hysterical this clip.

Of course, the blackbirder was in the right.

Here is Amy Cooper. This is from the day George Floyd died.
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VOICE: Please don't come close to me.

VOICE: Sir, I'm asking you to stop.

VOICE: Please don't come close to me. Please call the cops. Please call the cops.

VOICE: I'm going to tell them you're threatening my life.

VOICE: Please tell them whatever you like.

VOICE: I'm sorry. There's a man. I'm looking at him. He's recording me, threatening me and my dog.

There is an African-American man, I'm in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog. I'm being threatened by a man. Please send the cops immediately.

I'm in Central Park. I don't know.

VOICE: Thank you.

STU: Okay. Now, she's very concerned.

GLENN: She's very hysterical. He seems like he's under control, and a nice guy.

STU: Calm guy.

GLENN: It's two New Yorkers that are just probably a little nuts.

STU: There are -- to take you back to this moment in all seriousness. New York City around May 2020, were pretty freaking nuts. People were afraid to go outside. This is like the very beginning of COVID. And we can all look back at some of the hysteria then, with the -- certainly noticing how ridiculous that was.

GLENN: Oh, that's probably why she, in her twisted New York way. Said, he's threatening my life. Because she said, don't come closer to me.

And he's wearing a mask.

STU: Well, that could be that.

Remember too, she also had health problems. She was predisposed to being more effective to COVID. She had barely had gone outside. She was a terrified person.

And A lot of people in New York at that point were very terrified.

Some of them remain to this day.

GLENN: They still are.

STU: But what happened to her afterward?

She was a white woman called police on blackbird watcher has been fired.

They took her dog from her.

GLENN: They took her dog?

STU: They took her dog.

And she actually went into hiding.

Left the country. And went into hiding after this.

So let's just say for a minute, she is a racist, and she did this.

You wouldn't necessarily think you would have to leave the country.

She was being threatened by people. She was terrified by everybody.

It was very, very bad for her.

When we come back on the other side. I want to give you the actual perspective of what occurred in this incidence.

Because nobody knows. Everybody watched it that way. The media covered it the way I just described.

Racist white Karen, going after this black guy for absolutely no reason.

And she -- she -- good. She got fired. Good, they took her dog. Good, she's out of the country. She's a terrible human being in every way.

GLENN: Yeah. I don't agree with that. I'm glad maybe she's out of the country. But for entirely different reasons.

STU: Really?

GLENN: Yeah. Gee, we lost another New Yorker, who was walking their dog in the park. And was all freaked out about going inside. Oh.

But I would like her to move away in happy terms. Like, I really don't like it here. People make too much. Sense.

STU: Well, that's true. As far as I know, she's not even a member of bird names for birds.

GLENN: Oh, no. I have it pulled up here. I'll look.

STU: Oh, you do? Can I join?

GLENN: Well, I was just looking at the background. Concerns about the honorific common bird names is not new. But this movement seeks to change those names.

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Thank God. Thank God these names are going away.

GLENN: So they're very upset about Bachman's sparrow, was the first one they bring. Yeah, Bachman.

STU: Really? What did Bachman do?

GLENN: Bachman was bad. Just, well, Bachman, I believe that's probably Jewish.

STU: Oh.

GLENN: And the Jewish Zionists, they control all of the bird names.

STU: I've been hearing that a lot on college campuses.

That's interesting you bring that up.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

Has THIS Islamist organization BROKEN state laws for YEARS?!

A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...

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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.

You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.

Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.

Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.

Why didn't it survive?

They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.

And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.

It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.

We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.

There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.

They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.

Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.

They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.

Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.

Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!

I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.

So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.

Okay?

22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.

In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.

How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?

You think somebody would figure that out?

In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!

This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.

It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.

And this is not political rhetoric.

Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.

And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!

The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.

CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.

Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.

Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.

Wow!

That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?

It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!

Now, here's where the stakes rise.

Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.

Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.

Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.

So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.

Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.

This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.

Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.

And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

How long have we been saying this?

But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.

So what happens next?

First of all, the reports have to hold up.

Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!

State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

All of them need to take action!

The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.

Anything coming from overseas.

Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.

DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.

Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.

I'm not against it.

Investigate.

Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?

It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

Why aren't you saying anything about this?

Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.

This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.

But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!

That's called a fourth branch of government!

That's how a fourth branch goes.

By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!

This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

They must abide by the laws.

No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.

Nobody holds accountable.

We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.

If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.

And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!

I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.

The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?

Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.

Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!

Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.

As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

One standard for everyone or no standard at all!

And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

Glenn Beck WARNS Democrats Will Return with VENGEANCE in 2026 | Glenn TV | Ep 473

America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts ‪@deaceshow‬ and ‪@lizwheeler‬ along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.

Trump Just SHATTERED the “Expert Class” - And the Deep State is in Total Panic

For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.

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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.

And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.

Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.

Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?

So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.

VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.

And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.

VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.

GLENN: Okay.

Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.

We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?

They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.

She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?

Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?

Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.

Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.

Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?

Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.

Should we listen to those guys?

Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.

But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!

And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.

So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!

And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?

Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.

Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.

You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?

Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.

In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.

Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."

He's like, I have no idea who he was.

Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.

The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.

And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.

Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!

Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.

Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!

There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.

No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?

And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.

Because that just -- what does it do?

It just sets up a fourth branch of government.

EXPLAINED: Why the Warner-Netflix/Paramount Merger is DANGEROUS for All of Us

The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.

And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.

No one should have that much power.

I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.

We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.

Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.

National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.

Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.

TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.

CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.

New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.

Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.

And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!

We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.

They're big enough he has

What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?

They said the banks are too big to fail.

Too big to fail.

Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.

So if they fall, then everything falls.

Right?

That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?

We made them bigger!

We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!

And started taking on the local banks.

And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!

What is wrong with us?

Seriously, we're not this stupid.

We're not this stupid.

I think we're just this comfortable.

We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.

Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.

Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.

Make it more global.

No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?

The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.

The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.

And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.

But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!

We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.

We can do it.

It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.

I don't know about you, I don't like being this.

Up to the edge, you know what I mean?

I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.

But we don't have that anymore.

Everything has to be done right.

And we have to pay attention.

And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.

Dream big, think small.